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Author Archives: Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Censoring Mister Jones

20 Tuesday Oct 2026

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The Top 7 Vapourware Hallucinations For Next Year

19 Monday Oct 2026

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The Top 7 Vapourware Hallucinations For Next Year

By Barnaby Marrs-BarSelf-Certified Futurist | Bestselling Author of 47 E-Books Nobody Read | Former Columnist for “Forbes Contributor Network” (Anyone with $20) | Keynote Hallucinator | Chief Buzzword Officer | Global Thought-Distorter | 10M+ Purchased Bots | AI Prophet & Future Snake-Oil Evangelist

The Knackeridge Cottage, Bellender Common, October 19, 2026

Thanks for consuming my weekly dose of aggregated press releases masquerading as profound insight. Here at ClinkOut and across various unvetted blog platforms, I regularly regurgitate whatever basic tech PR agencies throw into my inbox.

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Tokenmaxxing for Jesus

10 Saturday Oct 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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“Tokenmaxxing”: The Dangerous New Corporate Brain-Rot Businesses Need to Abort Immediately

By Barnaby Muck

Mantra-Spouting Futurist | Bestselling Pamphleteer of 23 Inane Tomes | Columnist for ‘The Financial Farce’ | Foppish Boardroom Advisor | Global Tech Snake-Oil Salesman | 5M+ Brainwashed Followers

Hello, you tragic, suit-wearing middle-management drones! Thank you for wasting a precious slice of your fleeting mortality reading my latest drivel, Tokenmaxxing: The Dangerous New Corporate Brain-Rot Businesses Need to Abort Immediately. Here on JobStalker and at The Financial Farce, I regularly spew unsolicited platitudes about management and technology trends with the supreme confidence of a man who has never done an honest day’s work in his life.

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La revuelta por la vivienda en España: el audaz enfrentamiento de Sánchez con la derecha

30 Wednesday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Three suited leaders discuss plans against a dramatic city skyline marked by cranes and storm clouds.

La arriesgada apuesta de Sánchez: Por qué la crisis de la vivienda en España podría destrozar a la oposición

Por Martyn Rhisiart Jones, nuestro corresponsal político sénior

Si quieres entender por qué la política española parece estar constantemente al borde del colapso, pasea por cualquier barrio residencial de Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Santiago de Compostela o Málaga. En lo alto de las avenidas arboladas, cuelgan pancartas escritas a mano de las barandillas de los balcones: «Casas para vivir, no para invertir».

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Spain’s Housing Revolt: Sánchez’s Daring Showdown With the Right

30 Wednesday Sep 2026

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Three suited men conversing on a rooftop overlooking a city under construction
Three suited leaders discuss plans against a dramatic city skyline marked by cranes and storm clouds.

Sánchez’s High-Stakes Gamble: Why Spain’s Housing Crisis Could Shatter the Opposition

By Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Our Senior Political Correspondent, European Desk

If you want to understand why Spanish politics feels so persistently on the verge of a nervous breakdown, wander through any residential district in Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, or Málaga. High above the tree-lined avenues, handwritten banners hang limp from balcony railings: “Casas para vivir, no para invertir” (Homes to live in, not to invest in).

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How Green Was My Data?

29 Tuesday Sep 2026

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People gather across a countryside setting while digital connections link them to a shared cloud network.

How Green Was My Data? The Invisible Environmental Cost of Our Digital Addiction

There was a time, not so long ago, when those of us working at the bleeding edge of the technology industry operated under a simple, unspoken rule of thumb: never, under any circumstances, switch off your computer.

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Why Smart Leaders Trust Both Data Analytics and Gut Instinct

28 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in data architecture, Data Supply Framework

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Ask Martyn, Strategy

Reading the Data Omens: Why Modern Business Needs Analytics and Intuition

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People gather across a countryside setting while digital connections link them to a shared cloud network.

For centuries, human beings looked to the skies, the flight of birds, or the sudden appearance of a black cat to divine what lay ahead. In folklore, ignoring a portent was a recipe for ruin. Today, modern enterprises look down at dashboard metrics rather than up at the clouds—yet the fundamental search for foresight remains unchanged.

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Blame the Data!

27 Sunday Sep 2026

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If in Doubt, Blame ‘Data Quality’

Author: Martyn Rhisiart Jones – Date published: 27th September 2026

Web site: martyn.es – Facebook: Good Strat – LinkedIn Group: The Big Data Contrarians

It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to build, what grand architectural strategy you’ve pitched to the board, or whether you even know what you’re doing in the first place. When a project implodes, there is one universal, infallible get-out-of-jail-free card: blame the quality of the data.

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Toy Drones, Roomba Tanks and the Farce of Planet Zog’s War Tech

25 Friday Sep 2026

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Author: Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Published: 20th September 2026

Oza-Cesuras, Spain

How Toy Helicopters, Roomba Tanks, and Glorified Spreadsheets Are Saving the Army of Planet Zog By Barnaby Mugg, Professional Hot-Air Vendor and Thought-Leader Extraordinary

Summary

The High Command of Planet Zog’s Armed Forces is embarking on another dazzlingly expensive rebranding exercise. Having watched too many viral clips from Eastern European mud fields, the Ministry of Mild Inconvenience is pivoting hard toward self-flying plastic gadgets, RC lawnmowers, and algorithmic magic tricks.

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How Slough Systems Is Bringing Magic Buzzword Generators To The Factory Floor

23 Wednesday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in All Data

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A glowing cyberpunk circuit network weaves through a dense mechanical landscape.

How Slough Systems Is Bringing Magic Buzzword Generators To The Factory Floor

Nigel Ponsonby-Smyth

📖 Internationally Self-Proclaimed #ThoughtLord 🎤 #KeynoteBabbler 🤖 #Futurist💻 #Synergy, #Tech & #Grift Advisor

September 23, 2026

Thank you for reading my latest piece of unadulterated marketing waffle, How Slough Systems Is Bringing Magic Buzzword Generators To The Factory Floor. Here at LinkedIn and at The Daily Express, I regularly spew boilerplate buzzwords about management trends I barely understand.

To read my future drivel, simply join my echo chamber by clicking ‘Follow’. Feel free to bombard me via Twitter, MySpace, CB Radio, or subscribe to my other LinkedIn newsletters: AI & Fantasy Tech Trends | The Buzzword Revolution | The Future of Being Made Redundant.

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Data Mesh vs. Reality: Transformations That Work

21 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in data hub, Data Lake, data management, data mesh

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“Tired of chasing data silver bullets? It’s time to stop worshipping the hype, dismantle the buzzwords, and build data architectures that actually work.”

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Transform Your Leadership with Good Leader, Bad Leader

21 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain., Leadership 7s

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Book cover titled 'Good Leader Bad Leader' by Martyn Jones, featuring bold typography divided diagonally with contrasting colours, accompanied by the tagline 'The difference and why it counts'.

Step Out of the Management Trap

ARE YOU LEADING OR JUST HOLDING THE TITLE?

  • Why do brilliant teams fail under toxic bosses?
  • What turns a promising executive into a organizational disaster?
  • How do you build authority that survives crisis and uncertainty?
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Transform Your Leadership Style with ‘Good Leader, Bad Leader’

21 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain., Leadership 7s

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Book cover titled 'Good Leader Bad Leader' by Martyn Jones, featuring bold typography divided diagonally with contrasting colours, accompanied by the tagline 'The difference and why it counts'.

Step Out of the Management Trap

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Understanding Good vs Bad Leadership

21 Monday Sep 2026

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Book cover titled 'Good Leader Bad Leader' by Martyn Jones, featuring bold typography divided diagonally with contrasting colours, accompanied by the tagline 'The difference and why it counts'.

Step Out of the Management Trap

Leadership books are everywhere, yet real leadership has never felt rarer. In Good Leader, Bad Leader, veteran strategist and sharp-eyed commentator Martyn Jones cuts through the sanitized corporate clichés to deliver an electrifying, unvarnished look at what actually drives executive success—and what triggers disastrous failure.

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Unlocking Business Value in Enterprise Analytics

21 Monday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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A futuristic king-like figure commands an advanced AI system named Polymatch AI in a high-tech data center.

Investing millions in enterprise data is easy. Delivering real business value isn’t.

Why do so many modern analytics initiatives struggle to move the needle despite rising budgets and increasingly complex tech stacks?

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Laughing at Tech Hype: A Survival Manual for Data Professionals

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Architecture, data, governance, information, Management

El Jueves y la Puta Mili
El Jueves y la Puta Mili

Laughing@Data.Com (often discussed alongside The 2030 Data Agenda essays and writings) is a satirical and polemical book by veteran data architect and consultant Martyn Rhisiart Jones.

Part memoir, part industry autopsy, and part manifesto, the book takes a witty and sharp look at the absurdity of the IT and enterprise data world. Rather than being another standard tech guide, it functions as a survival manual for anyone dealing with corporate tech hype cycles.

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Book Review: Revealing Wealth by Martyn Richard Jones – A Tech Solution to Tax Evasion

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Book cover for 'Revealing Wealth' by Martyn Jones and Afilonius Rex, focused on combating global tax evasion using data, political will, and technology.

Meta-Meta Description: Discover how data architecture, data meshes, and entity resolution can end offshore tax evasion in Martyn Jones’s fascinating, educational, entertaining and informative book, Revealing Wealth.

Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue is lost to offshore accounts, shell companies, and opaque trusts. While investigative leaks like the Panama Papers periodically expose illicit financial flows, enterprise data architect Martyn Richard Jones argues that relying on whistleblowers is not enough.

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Unmasking Trillions: How Data Architecture Can Solve Global Tax Evasion

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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A glowing central network connects distributed data platforms through colorful digital pathways.

Unmasking Trillions: How Data Architecture Can Solve Global Tax Evasion

Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue vanishes into thin air—funnelled through a labyrinth of shell companies, hidden bank accounts, and anonymous trusts. In 2016, the world watched in awe as the Panama Papers leaked 11.5 million financial documents, exposing the secretive offshore holdings of world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. But while investigative journalists rely on luck and whistleblowers to expose these scandals, data architect Martyn Rhisiart Jones offers a permanent solution in his book, Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology.

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Revealing Hidden Wealth through Data Solutions

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in books

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book review, books, Books with influence

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Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology is a book by enterprise data architect and consultant Martyn Richard Jones.

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The Essential Digital Plumbing Behind AI Success

04 Friday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Why The Synthetic Intelligence Panic Is Actually A Plumbing Problem

Barnaby Mince

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📖 Internationally Unavoidable #OpinionHauler 🎤 #KeynoteMegaphone 🤖 #Delusionist 💻 #Synergy & #BuzzwordTherapist

Professional Reflections

Darlings, thank you for glancing at my latest brain-dump. Here on ProfessionalBrag and The Daily Wealth, I share insights about corporate fads. To absorb more of my radiance, click ‘Surrender’. Additionally, goodstrat guides how I present ideas in my digital echo chamber via Chirper, FaceTome, InstaGlam, and newsletters.

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The Great Intellectual Property Swindle Unveiled

26 Wednesday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain., Information Supply Framework

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fraud in intellectual property

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Patent documents, architectural blueprints, keys, and a circuit board symbolize ACME’s integrated technology development.

The Great Intellectual Property Swindle: How Chimerica Stole the Internet (And Sold It Back To Us as a Subscription)

Barnaby Smug-Pratt

📖 Internationally Ignored Author 🎤 Keynote Smug-Monger 🤖 Delusional Futurist 💻 LinkedIn Content-Pumper

Thank you for taking five seconds out of your rapidly declining life span to read my latest piece of regurgitated PR drivel: The Global Patent Power Shift. Here on LinkedIn, I regularly publish 800-word corporate press releases cleverly disguised as “visionary thought leadership.”

To read my future drivel… and trust me, there is an endless supply… simply click ‘Follow’, subscribe to my 14 useless newsletters, or buy my latest book, AI Strategy: How to Fire Your Staff and Blame an Algorithm.

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Podcast Episode: Building A Data Logistics Hub

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Architecture, data architecture, Data governance, data hub, data management, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing

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Ask Martyn, EDH, EDW, enterprise data hub, enterprise data warehousing

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Glowing data pathways weave through a multi-level logistics hub filled with servers and operators.

Pip: If you have ever looked at your organisation’s data landscape and thought “this resembles a motorway junction designed by someone who hates drivers,” then Martyn Jones has a blueprint with your name on it.

Mara: This episode follows a series of posts introducing the Data Logistics Hub — covering what the concept is, why the pain points are real, how strategy and architecture hold it together, and what the actual components look like in practice.

Pip: Let’s start with the foundations — what the hub is and why it exists.

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Podcast Episode: DATA WORLD: The Truth About Data Lakehouses: Hype vs. Reality – 2026/01/18

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in agile@scale, All Data

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Ask Martyn, data lakehouse unmasked, data warehouse unchained

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A modern waterfront campus comes alive beneath a glowing sunset over the lake.

Pip: Good strategy, they say, means knowing when the pitch is real and when it’s a brochure with ambitions. Martyn Jones has been stress-testing that distinction — and today we’re looking at what happens when data architecture meets vendor enthusiasm.

Mara: This episode covers one substantial territory: data lakehouses — the claim, the reality, and the gap between them that organisations are quietly discovering in production.

Pip: Let’s get into it.

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Podcast Episode: Data Mesh Under Fire

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in data architecture, Data governance, data hub, Data Lake, data management, data mesh, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, deep learning

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Ask Martyn, data mesh, the bizarre world of data mesh

Pip: Good Strategy Rebellion — where the sacred cows of enterprise tech get a proper going-over. Today we’re deep in the data wars, asking whether the industry’s favourite architectural revolution is actually a revolution, or just the same old chaos in a new lanyard.

Mara: Martyn Jones has been writing about exactly that — covering the case against Data Mesh, what it means for how organisations actually govern and use their data, and why the rational data warehouse keeps refusing to stay dead.

Pip: Let’s start with the bonfire.

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  • Censoring Mister JonesOctober 20, 2026
    Is Martyn Rhisiart Jones being censored on social media?
  • The Top 7 Vapourware Hallucinations For Next YearOctober 19, 2026
    The Top 7 Vapourware Hallucinations For Next Year By Barnaby Marrs-BarSelf-Certified Futurist | Bestselling Author of 47 E-Books Nobody Read | Former Columnist for “Forbes Contributor Network” (Anyone with $20) | Keynote Hallucinator | Chief Buzzword Officer | Global Thought-Distorter | 10M+ Purchased Bots | AI Prophet & Future Snake-Oil Evangelist The Knackeridge Cottage, Bellender …

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  • Tokenmaxxing for JesusOctober 10, 2026
    “Tokenmaxxing”: The Dangerous New Corporate Brain-Rot Businesses Need to Abort Immediately By Barnaby Muck Mantra-Spouting Futurist | Bestselling Pamphleteer of 23 Inane Tomes | Columnist for ‘The Financial Farce’ | Foppish Boardroom Advisor | Global Tech Snake-Oil Salesman | 5M+ Brainwashed Followers Hello, you tragic, suit-wearing middle-management drones! Thank you for wasting a precious slice …

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  • La revuelta por la vivienda en España: el audaz enfrentamiento de Sánchez con la derechaSeptember 30, 2026
    La arriesgada apuesta de Sánchez: Por qué la crisis de la vivienda en España podría destrozar a la oposición Por Martyn Rhisiart Jones, nuestro corresponsal político sénior Si quieres entender por qué la política española parece estar constantemente al borde del colapso, pasea por cualquier barrio residencial de Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Santiago de Compostela o Málaga. …

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    Spain’s Housing Revolt: Sánchez’s Daring Showdown With the RightSeptember 30, 2026
    Sánchez’s High-Stakes Gamble: Why Spain’s Housing Crisis Could Shatter the Opposition By Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Our Senior Political Correspondent, European Desk If you want to understand why Spanish politics feels so persistently on the verge of a nervous breakdown, wander through any residential district in Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, or Málaga. High above the …

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    How Green Was My Data?September 29, 2026
    The digital era has led to an exponential increase in data generation, often disregarded for its environmental impact. Despite celebrating technological advances, we overlook the significant energy consumption required to support our online activities. As we confront a climate crisis, it's vital to question the sustainability of our data practices and recognise their true ecological cost.

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