Twitter getting ever more full of folks constructing their own straw mans to throw some rage at, false equivalences to rage at, plus a few samples of media platforming dubious liars. Gold nuggets and humour seeping away.
Engaged a video from a very professional company on how to run effective workshops. Now getting emails from them (3x so far) that keep on misspelling my Christian name. I tell them politely each time but they persist. Hoping a human being reviews their replies after the weekend…
It’s on the old Twitter, but this is surreal: x.com/emollick/sta.... Google's NotebookLM is the current best "wow this is amazing & useful" demo of AI Here I gave it the entire text of my book, it turned it into a podcast, a study guide, FAQ, timeline & quite accurate chat Listen to it. Amazing!
NotebookLM doing Podcasts is the same sort of thing Mark Craddock has been doing recently. But kudos to the person who fed his last credit card statement into it and got a lecture that he spends too much on Uber
I still remember the small clothes shop in Fishponds, Bristol with “Closing down Sale” in big letters daubed across the window. Bored at waiting in the queue to traffic lights two shops up, you could see the small text above it saying “with prices like these, you’d think we were having a…”.
Big head, broken glasses. Asked Glasses Direct if they can repair, but in the meantime ordered a new pair for staring at my computer screen (and iPad Pro)
Bought another copy of Halo Data requested by one of my team. 5-7 days cited as typical on Amazon but order confirmation said end October. Cancelled and ordered on Waterstones, shipped already.
Got asked by one of my direct reports on a Teams call if I was grumpy today. Turns out there was a sign on the wall behind me. Jane says she put it there in May. Just hope none of the folks I interviewed since saw it.
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You should interview Mariana Mazzucato… and/or Stephanie Kelton. It would be a great service if Rachel Reeves listened to either or both rather than the tired old BofE.