This is good framing and wording: “Reexamine your ecosystem and identify where ‘buy’ delivers scale and where selective ‘build’ unlocks advantage.”
🔗 Build Vs. Buy: Regaining Control To Deliver Digital Workplace Value
Posts in "links"
Survey on what people value for sponsorint B2B conferences
“What drives investment in third-party events: High-quality lead generation (67%) Credibility through association with analysts or peers (63%) Expansion into new accounts or buying centers (47%)”
🔗 Why B2B marketers are doubling down on events in 2026
Good parties
For when you want to be that accountant or in the first Ghostbusters.
🔗 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
Larry's AI
Larry’s pitch for a full-stack, private cloud AI platform. And, here, you can see someone trying to explain more.
🔗 Ellison’s AI vision for Oracle - robot surgeons meet enterprise data reality
Vector stores and art style
Good, brief explanation of how vector searches work. And it’s in the art history and criticism domain.
🔗 The Index and the Vector
Plot Unfolding Machine v9
For solo role playing people. After Mythic, PUM is the most fleshed out system. It has a different style and philosophy of play that I can never put my finger on.
🔗 Plot Unfolding Machine PDF V9 Release!
It's the people
A little too ad hominem, but feels right from a critical stance: ”All my misgivings about AI really are to do with the fact that it’s owned by a group of people that I don’t trust at all. I don’t trust their taste, I don’t trust their morals, and I don’t trust their politics, and that’s a problem for me—that the whole technology is in the hands of the wrong people.
Make the users awesome
“I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome.”
🔗 Make the user awesome
Where's the good AI stuff?
“If these tools are so great, where is the explosion of AI created stuff in the world?” // Followed by a yes-and style rebuttal.
🔗 Mike Judge asks good questions about AI shovelware
"rust out," the new "burn out"
The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience, and in working with my clients, a simple way to uncover your unique talents is to notice your energy.