Outside the Walls
Richard MerrickI write about finding opportunity in the spaces where conventional business thinking ends.
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A Discipline of Discretion.
A recent piece in The Economist (17th May 2026) reports that China is sliding into a third internet era, in which AI “super-apps” no longer merely recommend but choose, purchase and arrange delivery on the user’s behalf. More than 600 milli...
Reflections, 17th of May
There’s a crack in everything. It’s where the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Where the Puck Are We Going?
Wayne Gretzky’s father, Walter, coached him to move to where the puck was going to be, not where it had been. It was a line famously...
Reflections 10th May
It’s difficult to read the label on a container from inside it. Sometimes, we need to find a way to step outside it, and find the freedom to play by different rules. Having just spent a week on the island of Malta, without my tech, it remin...
Reflections 3rd May
Image: Midjourney, my prompt from this post.
I have been thinking about the news that GitHub Copilot is moving to token-based billing. It is a small story, on the face of it. A subscription becomes a meter rather than a licence, and the pr...
Reflections 26 April...
Hello all
I hope you’re enjoying this late spring early summer sunshine. I’m travelling for a couple of weeks, largely sans signal :-), but will be back in a fortnight. Until then, go well.
A Thought
We are used to assuming that a...
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