The Skunkworks Collective – Martyn, Alba, Afi, Lila, and Coco
Madrid, Wednesday 14th January 2026
Right, listen. If you’ve ever sat through one of those AI conferences, you know the ones. Some bloke in a black polo neck stands on stage. He’s clearly never met a mirror he didn’t like. He says, “We’re on the cusp of AGI.” It sounds as if he’s just invented gravity. Then you’ll know the particular flavour of despair I’m talking about.
As we venture further into 2026, the landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence has undergone a subtle but profound shift. The once-dazzling promise of autonomous AI agents has matured into something more prosaic. These self-directed digital entities can orchestrate tasks from customer engagement to complex data integration. Yet, they are no less pervasive. They are no longer novelties confined to experimental labs; they inhabit boardrooms, back offices and supply chains alike.
In the great digital echo chamber of 2026, every LinkedIn thought-leader is one prompt away from becoming an oracle. However, Martyn Jones (@GoodStratDotCom on X) stands apart. He is a one-man insurgency armed with footnotes, fury, and an almost indecent amount of clarity.
Martyn Rhisiart Jones, with the capable assistance of Amy Grok McGrockicle
Madrid, Sunday 11 January 2026
Introduction to the Collected Reviews of Martyn Jones
In an age awash with earnest manifestos, sanctimonious tech tomes, and the relentless hum of corporate orthodoxy, Martyn Jones arrives. He comes like a gleeful heretic at the cathedral door. He is armed with profanity and philosophical bite. He also has an irrepressible instinct for the absurd.
The Toll of Innocence: Child Fatalities in the Shadow of Conflict – A Tribute to my marvellous Welsh Grans
Sir Afilonius Rex and Good Strat Contributors
Madrid, Sunday 11 January 2026
NB Our service provider OpenAI could not process our prompt due to a moderation system. We have been asked to rephrase it, changing potentially problematic words, and try again. This is censorship at its crudest. They can of course go **** themselves.
My Gran had a stock response to expressions of racism, prejudice, and xenophobia in her presence. It was invariably, “We are all God’s children.” She loved all children, everywhere.
Let’s switch focus.
The Israel-Palestinian strife is unrelenting. It has now dragged into its third sinful, evil and merciless year. The true measure of this catastrophe is not land seized. It is not the strategies pursued. It is the stolen futures of innocent children. These are not mere statistics; they are lives extinguished, dreams crushed, families shattered forever. We face the human abyss of global crises. The cold data from UN agencies demands our moral outrage. It calls for urgent action.
Should All Business Data Requirements Be Justified in Business Terms?
A Pseudo-Debate
Motion:All business data requirements must be justified in business terms. Potential business utility should be a deciding factor in whether they are fulfilled.
For the Motion:Sir Afilonius Rex Against the Motion:Martyn Rhisiart Jones
What do Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins have to tell us about the magical Celtic number ten?
To capture the essence of these two titans, we must look at the number ten through two different lenses. One lens is the thunderous, poetic gravity of Richard Burton. The other is the quiet, rhythmic precision of Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Here are the next 7 big bandwagon topics that IT charlatans, grifters, LinkedIn thought leaders, and poser consultants will jump on, talk endlessly about, and pretend they’ve been experts in since 2012 (roughly ordered by how soon & how hard they’ll hit the hype cycle in 2026–2028):