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Twelve years ago - 🔗📼🎵 I was there. Love you man.
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.
She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”
Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.
Back downstairs I came.
“Still not there,” I reported.
“Good grief, do I need to go?”
“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”
She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”
Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.
MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome
🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS
🖋️ If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?
Don’t click through if you are easily offended. Then again - if you are easily offended stop listening to POTUS
🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.
👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts
📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.
The whole piece is so funny - but I have set it to start at the point where Kevin is talking about a problem that I guarantee has affected you dear reader.
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
.. another one I have seen before an never shared - who knew that Jack Black had this voice inside of him?
El Estepario Siberiano has been popping into my feed for well over a year - and every time I am blown away - but until now never shared him here.
Fixed.
🔗📼🎵 This could be my BEST video TO DATE. - YouTube
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🔗📼🎵 MY STORY - HOW I MADE 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. - YouTube
🔗📼🎵 The forgotten band that changed British rock music.
In all honesty - not a great video - but just happy to see The Strawbs being talked about.
Not a cover - totally original - and brilliant as Ren often is.
Cover 2
Loved Tears for Fears - Bluegrass not so much - BUT there is some superb Bluegrass work that leaks through to my appreciative ears.
Like this one.
📼🔗🎵 Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022) - YouTube
Cover 1
Loved Yes - never a big fan of Asia - despite Asia often being made up of people I love … like Wetton, Howe, Palmer and Downes for example and Fanfare is one of my favourite ELP tracks.
(BTW - nothing like ELPs and IMHO a massive improvement.)
🔗📼🎵I keep playing this - or at least different versions of it - but this one mainly.
Coherence Is The New Moat
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And then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened💬 Holland Dozier and Holland (‘H-D-H’ to their friends.)
If you have been following along (and if not - why not?) since the early days of People First, my work in Structured Thought and more recently, the consolidation into PHI⑊PIN then this is for you.
If you haven’t - it is - maybe even more so - still - for you.
Finally. It happened. Sometimes you think that you might just be ‘🔗🎵 blowing in the wind’ - until one day it changes and you think ‘maybe not’.
Today is one such day - because whilst spinning through this morning’s ‘thought review’ - 6 articles caught my eye1 that all connected. With each other, with me and with Structured Thought.
Six Voices. One Message.
Paolo Valdemarin | Laid out the job of what I call an ‘Engagement Platform’ by externalising your operating model so AI can translate between contexts while maintaining a single understanding.
Ben Thompson | Microsoft chose ‘coherence over scale’ by prioritising its own product suite. Why? Because maintaining a coherent vision across a portfolio matters more than maximising any single dimension.
Joan Westenberg | Solo operators using Structured Thought beat out large organisations because coherence compounds while incoherence fragments.
Christopher Lochhead | Execution is automated, knowledge is commoditised and real value has moved ‘upstream’ to problem framing. Which is exactly the point of ‘avoiding solving the wrong problem really well’ as my friend John Caswell has it and indeed, provides a ‘why’ of Structured Thought.
Geoffrey Moore | Agentic AI needs to be deployed atop proven, reliable structures with guardrails built in, not improvised on the fly.
Om Malik | The ‘announcement economy’ is a world of velocity and noise. Coherence matters precisely because everything else is optimised for attention rather than truth. I called it the ‘noise economy’ when I wrote about this last September in a piece called ‘Sound of Silence’.
The Convergence
You might think that these are isolated observations. They are not. Nor are they unique (other than they all appeared in my feed this morning). Bottom line - they are all describing the same shift. A shift that is unspoken - but at the heart of Structured Thought.
Competitive advantage is no longer scale, speed, or even access to AI. It’s coherence - the degree to which every decision, every output, every interaction derives from the same underlying model of reality.
In large organisations, this is nearly impossible. Different departments operate from different mental models and information fragments at every handoff. AI amplifies the disagreement rather than resolving it. But a small team with explicit structure working with a clear operating model, documented constraints, decision rationale, voice guidelines can scale without fragmenting and AI becomes a tool for executing within that coherence, not a way to hope disparate teams accidentally align. This is what structured thought actually means in practice: externalising your logic so thoroughly that it can guide people, process and systems.
Paolo Valdemarin: 🔗 AI as a communication tool
Ben Thompson: 🔗 Microsoft and Software Survival
Joan Westenberg : 🔗 The Coherence Premium
Om Malik : 🔗 The Announcement Economy
Chris Lockhead: 🔗 The Value of Your Value (LinkedIN)
Geoffrey Moore : 🔗 When will Agentic AI Cross The Chasm (LinkedIN)
Why❓
Because it bloody is - 🔗📼 It’s Raining - AGAIN