Paul Mackenzie Ross
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I recently heard a criticism of someone for being “reactive” in their digital marketing role. Tonight I want to stand up for them and offer my wholehearted support because I am 100% behind them being reactive in their role. What is Being Reactive? There are a couple of definitions of the adjective reactive: showing a… Read more
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A few years ago I saw a clip of American Navy Seal Admiral William McRaven saying “make your bed” as part of an address to an audience at the University of Texas in 2014. You can watch the particular snippet here, but the gist of the “make your bed” part of his speech was: You… Read more
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As a long-standing member of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, I have mixed feelings about the JD Wetherspoons brand. But ultimately, if I had to pick a side, I’d have to say that I am a fan and I will speak in defence of Wetherspoons. Wetherspoons: The Bad First, let’s take a look at… Read more
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Every weekday morning at 07:50, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a short slot called “Thought for the day”. You might expect it to be just that – a thought for the day for you to ponder on, for everyone by everyone. But no. The speakers, in their 3 minute monologue, provide us all with their words… Read more
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If you look around the internet and conversations you may have had about your mortgage going up in recent years, one theme has been common – Liz Truss drove the mortgage rates up. The counter to this has been that inflation has been high, base rates have had to counter this, mortgage rates were already… Read more
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The introduction of ChatGPT as probably the first widespread publicly available generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool has been both a blessing and a curse. Firstly, OpenAI triggered an AI “arms race” with Google soon after releasing Bard, and Microsoft, with their huge investment in OpenAI unleashed Copilot. Since then, virtually everything we use in the… Read more
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I’m very lucky. I earn more than the average wage. And yet as a single parent I’ve been struggling in this cost of living crisis. But it’s not about me, it’s about all of us. Every single person form the “middle class” and downwards. We’ve all been having a hard time – surviving not thriving.… Read more
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Chatting to a friend over the weekend she said she had shares in BT. I asked how much she was making in dividends; 74 pence she said. She’d inherited her BT shares from her mother who had them as a former British Telecom employee. That was a funny conversation. Making just 74p isn’t going to… Read more
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dehumanisation noun The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. “the consequences of systematic dehumanization of one racial group in a society can be horrific” I was looking at LinkedIn this morning. I don’t spend so much time on social media these days because it can be a bit of rabbit warren.… Read more
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TLDR; Generative AI has massively increased the amount of content on the web. Some people have exploited this opportunity to contribute to the sheer volume of content. Others have promoted these exploits, further increasing the reach of these methods. It’s 2008 repeating itself, when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the internet a “cesspool” Google… Read more