by JAK | Dec 6, 2023 | culture
I was reminded of the how important socialising is in business. Having a coffee is shorthand for getting a heads up and expanding your network, informal data gathering – knowledge sharing and the like. In other not unrelated news after a lifetime of coffee...
by JAK | Nov 13, 2023 | culture, music
Someone posted this clip today. Just imagine a few places stopping to share in this song. I learned how to play this song many years ago and I was in an orchestra for 5 years. The song itself (the Beethoven version) dates from 1824 but had actually been around as a...
by JAK | Oct 15, 2023 | development, general business
What is the problem you/ (we) are trying to solve perfectly describes much of my work over the last decade or two. An example from the real world struck me last time I went to get a WOF for my car. The testing people said that the headlights were murky / foggy and...
by JAK | May 27, 2023 | culture
One of the recurring themes on discussions about the risks associated with AI is that the sheer quantity of AI sourced content will be overwhelming and logistically difficult to check for accuracy and efficacy. This gives risk to the risk of misinformation. The scale...
by JAK | May 16, 2023 | culture, music
Until recently I thought everyone had the same experience of music just different tastes and that explains why some music hits and some just doesn’t. Turns out some of us have more intense responses to music and I’m one of those so called music tragics. To...
by JAK | May 12, 2023 | big ideas, crmthinking, culture
To even the most casual reader it seems like every day there is a news story about some wonderful thing that AI is doing for us or perhaps doing to us and we should be very wary because this is a bad thing and so on. The need to have a story angle for much of the...
by JAK | Jan 19, 2023 | culture, music
All of the music I have aspired to and liked on a long term basis has been from singer / songwriters .That probably says more about me than it does about them but I still have a life long curiosity about creating and making sense of the worlds that we all live in.The...
by JAK | Dec 9, 2022 | culture, News
Like many of the long term twits I am watching with some mixed emotions at what is going on over at Twitter right now. I joined quite early in 2008? That time after only a few days I deleted my account because there were very few other users and the idea of writing a...
by JAK | Sep 8, 2020 | general business, WordPress
Is your WordPress website performing as it should? With more online business and online traffic generally it may be time for a re-think about how your site works and which elements might need attention. Ask us to do a Planning review. Is your security good? Do you...
by JAK | Aug 30, 2020 | culture
As unprecedented as Covid-19 is we have all been here before. This is not the first time the human population has faced off against a pandemic. The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 was started because some local merchants wanted shiny new cloth. They broke the...
