VideoCallsThatSell

It's Summer 2023. I still encounter salespeople telling me that video calling is passé. Revelling in their truth that zooming has faded from view. Much delight they can revert to their ways of 2019. Not everyone can be helped. And when you understand the indisputable insight of adoption pulls, you

'The reproduction of art cannot replicate its aura' I adore this concept. Since discovering it earlier in the century, I've cited it plenty. It emanates from Walter Benjamin, circa 1935. But that's not what (or who) is important here. The title of the essay containing the above wisdom is though

I sought out the music of Olivia Dean after seeing her ebullient all-too-brief interview from the Glastonbury Sunday. A bit mono-mellow, sadly not my thang. Yet her dialogue approach certainly is. A number of aspects struck me. Not least of which was how she maintained levels of bubbly interest despite

"A survey of 350 multinational companies that together employ around 10 million staff globally found that 50pc are planning to reduce their office footprint. Most are looking to cut between 10pc and 20pc of space." How The Telegraph reported a recent survey by London-headquartered property brokers, Knight Frank. Findings supported

Less than a working generation ago, we'd sit in meeting rooms with a strange device permanently stationed in the middle of the table. Its design aesthetic often resembling a 70s sci-fi movie birdseye view of an Atlantis lair. Squashed. With rounded tentacles circling outwards. Keypad and mini-screen protruding from one

Above is the online dailymail graphics team linegraph of Zoom's share price over the past 42 months. It accompanies current revenue stall at around $4½bn and profit growth deceleration down to maybe ~3pc. I think I can just about make out a trader tell of the 'head and shoulders'.

There was no source attributed underneath this image's appearance on London broadsheet The Telegraph recently. Nor could Google Lens provide one. Which is a shame, 'cos it's a cracker. I embed/link to it above as for pretty much all video calls I run, I myself, and suggest of those

Remember when personal computers made us so efficient we only had to work one day a week? AI will be like that. — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 16, 2023 This tweet above is one of legion recalibrations on the measure of AI. Many such satire tends to riff on the Solow