Tag Archives: Tech Satire

Adopt These Top 5 Business Trends for 2026 or Else

08 Monday Dec 2025

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The Christmas Special Editorial Team

Madrid, 8th December 2025

Imagine the stage is almost completely dark. One spotlight, maybe two. Our favourite standup philosopher stands perfectly still for eight full seconds. He just breathes through his nose. It’s like a man who’s just found a half-eaten kebab in his coat pocket from 2009. Then, very slowly, he begins.

Thank you… thank you for coming… to our Good Strat and LinkedIn dog and pony show.

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Why Old-School Logic is Key for AI Reliability

06 Saturday Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Sir Afilonius Rex, Lile de Alba and our agentic intelligent actor, Selina Savant.

Spain, 6th December 2025.

The Logic Layer: Why Old-School Rules Are the New Guardrails for Generative AI

A hybrid renaissance is quietly rewriting the future of trustworthy artificial intelligence. The great folks here at Good Strat humbly champion this movement. In the fevered race to build ever-larger language models, a counterintuitive truth has begun to emerge from the labs. Surprisingly, sometimes the best way to make AI smarter is to shackle it with centuries-old logic. Modus ponens is that dusty Latin phrase from Aristotelian syllogism (“if P then Q; P, therefore Q”). It is enjoying an unexpected second act. It has become one of the most promising tools for keeping generative AI honest. It helps make AI coherent and, dare one say, responsible.

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STRAIGHT TALK: The Tech Industry Has Become a Vending Machine for Bullshit

04 Thursday Dec 2025

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The Tech Industry’s Illusion of Innovation

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Oza-Cesuras, 4th December 2025

There’s a moment in every hype cycle when reality taps the industry on the shoulder and whispers, “This isn‘t working.“ And every time that moment arrives, tech responds with the grace of a cornered raccoon.

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STRAIGHT TALK: Bullshit Your Way in AI: The Joys of Grifting the Algorithmic Age

27 Monday Oct 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

27th October 2025

Galicia, Spain, European Union

Every age has its prophets. The Victorians had their mesmerists, the 1990s had their dot-com futurists, the 2000s had our wacky and dishonest Big Data clowns, and we — lucky us — have our AI influencers, the brave souls who can turn a prompt into a keynote, a hallucination into a business model, and a buzzword into a lifestyle.

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AI Will Make You Unstoppable

26 Sunday Oct 2025

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Barnice Mucko, Sir Afilonius Rex, Klammy Hans Sauerbraten.

“AI will make you unstoppable” voice — intentionally sycophantic and self-serious…

💫 How Generative AI Can Make You the Best Version of Yourself (Yes, Even There)

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Amazingly Attractive AI Obscenity

26 Sunday Oct 2025

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By Barnice Blaar, Gretel Grumbleguts and Nifan Farc.

🚀 The Generative AI Revolution: The Future Is Unreal — Literally!

Every so often, a technology comes along that completely reshapes how we work, create, and imagine. Just a few years ago, “artificial intelligence” sounded like something out of a sci-fi movie. Today, Generative AI isn’t just a buzzword — it’s the most transformative force of our time.

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The Awkward Squad: Questioning Conventional Wisdom

14 Wednesday 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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Debunking Common Myths About Data

14 Wednesday May 2025

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Martyn Richard Jones, Galicia, 14th May 2025.

I’m feeling generous, so I would like to introduce you to my top eight list of foolish things that people say about data.

I think that data does have a role to play in some businesses. I also believe that some of the basic distributed file store and text search technologies used in data can be usefully employed, in non-traditional indexing, counting and correlation. However, there is an awful lot of nonsense said and written about data.

So, onwards and upwards.

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Lassie Does Data

14 Wednesday May 2025

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Martyn Richard Jones, Galicia, 14th May 2025.

https://www.amazon.es/Celtic-Domination-significant-influencers-English-ebook/dp/B0FBT7DFNL

Lassie Does Data

Remember that old story about Lassie, the Yorkshire collie dog?

And, how Lassie would run across the Scottish highlands, lowlands and Yorkshire moors.

Aww, wasn’t she so cute?

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Curious AI Quotes

14 Wednesday May 2025

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Curious AI Quotes

Martyn Richard Jones, Galicia, 14 May 2025

Amid artificial intelligence’s clamour, the discourse ranges from the delightfully absurd to the soberingly wise. Here are some of the most outlandish and refreshingly grounded reflections on AI from voices across the spectrum.

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Big Data and the 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Catalan Sheepdog – Remastering for 2026

06 Monday Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remaster 2026

Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.

Last week, we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.

He’d been with us for years.

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Data Disasters: Lessons from Widget and Wodget’s Failures – Remaster 2026

23 Tuesday Sep 2014

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It’s 9:45 on a cold and wintry Monday morning; crowds of people are huddled around the water fountains as gossip spreads throughout the building like wildfire. There has been a multiple data pile up in the Widget and Wodget data centre, there are a few casualties but no reported fatalities. No one knows what quite is going on, as shadowy rumour hints at flying pigs, rebellious ducks and rolling heads.

It was to be a big day for Widget and Wodget, “your neighbourhood’s favourite Prime Brokers”, it was billed as the Senior Mega Monday to end all Mega Mondays. A mega coup for the hallowed financial institution of W&W; today would be the day that would herald in the culmination of two major IPOs and one multi-billion global M&A deal signed off, as well as the launch of a raft of CDOs.

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Why IT Must Speak the Language of Business – Remaster 2026

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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Extract taken from the draft work-in-progress provisionally titled Assess! Choose! Act! Data Warehousing and Strategy by Martyn Jones, Chief Strategist at Cambriano Energy.

For more than 34 years I have been trying to convince IT organisations that it is not in their best interests to play Santa Claus, especially when it comes to strategy and data management.

Peace. Tranquility. Mastery.
Peace. Tranquility. Mastery.

I have tried – again and again, to make people pay attention to this advice, because I think that acting upon this take-away in an intelligent manner is absolutely central for the success of IT, for the benefit of business, and ultimately for the effective realization of Information Management; whether that is Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Decision Support, Data Analytics, Big Data or MDM.

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