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Unseen Data Messages: The Knitting Code of War

17 Wed Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones and Lila de Alba

Oza-Cesuras, Europe 17th December 2025

When Yarn Learned to Speak

The soldiers never noticed her.

She sat where women had always sat. She was by the window and by the road. She was near the iron veins of the railway. Her hands were busy, her gaze soft. The love was in her eyes. The slow music of needles clicked and clacked like rain on Bethesda slate. In Wales, they would have called it cynefin, the comfort of the known. In Galicia, the way things have always been done. Magical, mysterious and mindful

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12 Data Wishes for a Smarter 2026

13 Sat Dec 2025

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Martyn Richard Jones

Our man in Spain.

A Coruña, 13th December 2025

A Dozen Data Wishes for Christmas 2025 — and a Sharper, Smarter New Year

As 2025 winds down, the tinsel comes out. It’s tempting to imagine a quieter, saner digital ecosystem on the horizon. Call it festive optimism or a data professional’s annual catharsis. Here are twelve wishes for 2026. They are equal parts hard-edged realism, FT Weekend reflection, and Wired-grade futurism.

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Goodstrat.com: Your Digital War Room for Strategy

10 Wed Dec 2025

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The Oracle of Delphi and Editorial Team

Spain, 10th December 2025

Defining Goodstrat.com: A Strategist’s Digital War Room

In the sprawling digital bazaar of 2025 and the impending and interesting 2026, where every second-domain site peddles AI hype, data fakehouse, data mess or crypto snake oil, goodstrat.com stands out as a refreshingly unapologetic intellectual fortress.

It’s not a glossy corporate brochure. It is not a paywalled newsletter farm. It’s the online HQ of Martyn Richard Jones. He is a grizzled data, information and knowledge architect and self-styled “Data Shouterer-in-Chief.” He’s been dissecting the guts of information systems since the dial-up era.

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2026 Data Trends: Navigating the Future of Data Management

10 Wed Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Somewhere in Spain, 10th December 2025

Oh, brilliant. Gather round, comrades. It’s time for another installment of “Tech Executives Discover That Computers Need Electricity.” This time, they’ve dressed it up in a shiny frock and called it “2026 Data Trends.” Christ almighty, where do we even start?

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The Awkward Squad: Questioning Conventional Wisdom

14 Wed May 2025

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Full-Private Number-One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to the Colours.

Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

I am a sceptic, part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.

  • The awkward squad consists of people who ask questions and who won’t stop asking until they arrive at the crux of the matter.
  • The awkward squad won’t take bullshit for an answer.
  • The awkward squad are unquestioningly not pre-programmed to follow specific paths.
  • The awkward squad will speak truth to power.
  • The awkward squad will question everything.

Such as, “What the hell is that all about?”

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The Case for a Global Wealth Registry: Transparency Matters

23 Wed Apr 2025

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Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, 22nd April 2025 – Buy Revealing Wealth

Introduction

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

Warren Buffett[1]

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The Role of Statisticians in the Age of Data Science

17 Thu Apr 2025

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Did data and AI kill the statistician?

Without a grounding in statistics, a Data Scientist is a Data Lab Assistant.

Martyn Jones

Hold this thought: There are big lies, damn big lies and data science with an AI chaser.

Statistics is a science, and some would argue that it is one of the oldest sciences.

Statistics can be traced back to the days of Augustus Caesar. He was a statesman, military leader, and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Some set its provenance even earlier.

Indeed, suppose we accept that censuses are a part of statistics. In that case, we can trace history back to the Chinese Han Dynasty (2 AD). We can also consider the Egyptians (2,500 BC) and the Babylonians (4,000 BC).

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Martyn Jones – Author

08 Tue Apr 2025

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Hold up, folks! You’re going to love these! They are amazing, beautiful, classy, dazzling and eminently readable. And that’s an absolute understatement of Mel Brook’s proportions.

As a writer, I have several works to my name. This post highlights some of these works. It also offers a quick link to the Amazon platform, where you can get your editions.

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