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The Global Grift: The Industrialisation of Technical Fraud - Surf's Up

To neutralise the "industrial-scale rot" of global hiring, your vetting process must shift from a posture of trust but verify to one of hostile interrogation. The goal is to break the "proxy" (where a different person speaks or codes) and the "emulator" (where the candidate uses AI or pre-written scripts).

The GoodStrat Strategy Team, London Tuesday 17th March 2026 To neutralise the “industrial-scale rot” of global hiring, your vetting process

BANDOXA DREAMING: A Literary Journey

Bandoxa: A Whimsical Memoir of Celtic Journeys - Book Review

Ultimately, Bandoxa is a triumph of the human spirit, a Celtic odyssey that, in Wilde's words, reminds us that "to live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." De Tours lives vividly, inviting us to join his parade of memories, myths, and mirth. Read it, then read it again, different every time, as promised. A gem of a memoir, brimming with insight and irreverence.

Martyn de Tours’s memoir, “Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey,” blends personal anecdotes with poetic reflections, traversing Welsh and Galician cult

Bandoxa by Martyn de Tours: A Masterclass in Literary Exploration - Book Review

To delve deeper into the idiosyncratic architecture of Bandoxa is to engage with what the New Yorker might call a "cartography of the soul," or what the TLS might more dryly label a "monograph on the instability of the self." Martyn de Tours has not simply written a book; he has curated a museum of his own obsolescence and subsequent rebirth. It is a work that demands we look at the "thresholds" of our own lives with the same squint-eyed suspicion one might reserve for a suspicious character in a Berlin train station.

In “Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey,” Martyn de Tours crafts a reflective exploration of identity, weaving personal history with broader cultural

Bandoxa: A Journey Through Mist and Memory - Book Review

There are travel books that catalogue places, and there are those rarer works that explore the geography of the mind. Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey belongs firmly to the latter tradition. It is a book that wanders across landscapes, languages, histories, and memories, with the reflective restlessness that has characterised the finest travel writing for more than two centuries.

“Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey” by Martyn de Tours delves into the intertwining landscapes of memory and place. This reflective travelogue embra

Global Lost-World Grifters

The Global Grift: The Industrialisation of Technical Fraud - Surveying The Estate

The digital gold rush has ended not in a utopia of global connectivity, but in a sprawling, multi-jurisdictional wasteland of institutionalised deception. As remote work dismantled the physical perimeter of the office, it simultaneously liquidated the last vestiges of vetting. We are currently witnessing the "Great Dilution", an era where the global supply of IT talent is being systematically poisoned by industrial-scale charlatanry.

The GoodStrat Strategy Team, London Tuesday 17th March 2026 The Global Grift: The Industrialisation of Technical Fraud – The digital gold ru

The Global Grift: The Industrialisation of Technical Fraud - Surveying The Estate

To neutralise the "industrial-scale rot" of global hiring, your vetting process must shift from a posture of trust but verify to one of hostile interrogation. The goal is to break the "proxy" (where a different person speaks or codes) and the "emulator" (where the candidate uses AI or pre-written scripts).

The GoodStrat Strategy Team, London Tuesday 17th March 2026 To neutralise the “industrial-scale rot” of global hiring, your vetting process

Revealing Wealth: A Data-Driven Crusade Against Tax Evasion

In an era when wealth inequality feels like an intractable virus, Martyn Jones’s Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology arrives as a potent antidote – or at least a blueprint for one. Published in 2025, this ambitious tome blends technical savvy with moral urgency, proposing a global “World Asset Register” (WAR) to unmask hidden fortunes. Jones, a data architecture veteran once hailed as one of the world’s top information experts, teams up with his alter ego, Afilonius Rex – a pseudonym for a collective of contrarian thinkers – to argue that technology can pierce the veil of offshore secrecy. But as Gillian Tett might observe, drawing from her anthropological lens on finance, this isn’t just about algorithms and databases; it’s about the cultural rituals of power, where the ultra-rich perform elaborate dances to evade civic duty, leaving the rest of us footing the bill.

Martyn Jones’s “Revealing Wealth” proposes a global “World Asset Register” to combat tax evasion, utilising data and technology. The book cr

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Digital Assault

Trump's Digital Assault: How the Far-Right Weaponises Social Media to Wage War on Europe and Democracy

This isn't alarmism; it's urgency. The far-right's digital war on reason, amplified by Trump's assaults, risks irreversible democratic decay. But synthesis offers hope: by combining critiques of algorithmic bias, manipulative tactics, and imperial overreach, we build resilience. Europe and the world must act, snuff the vermin, restore rigour, and reaffirm democracy. The alternative? A fractured future where outrage reigns, and alliances crumble.

Trump’s Digital Assault: How the Far-Right Weaponises Social Media to Wage War on Europe and Democracy By Elena Vasquez The Guardian Angle,

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Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management

F*CK DATA MESH is a salty, effervescent, and "possibly a health risk" read for those who have spent too many Fridays staring at a broken dashboard. Jones writes with the "poetic restraint" of a Welshman who has seen the "Upside Down World" where ignorance is as valid as facts.

For the executive, this book is a reminder that there is no magical "unicorn stack". The future of data isn't in another diagram; it's in the hands of those who demand context, consistency, and coherence over "chaos dressed in designer jargon".

As Jones concludes, in a world of "Jira-drunk lunatics," the most radical thing you can do is build a system that actually serves people.

Martyn Jones’s book, F*CK DATA MESH, critiques the data industry’s obsession with novelty and trends like data mesh. He argues that while or

Crash Data Mesh

Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management

F*CK DATA MESH is a salty, effervescent, and "possibly a health risk" read for those who have spent too many Fridays staring at a broken dashboard. Jones writes with the "poetic restraint" of a Welshman who has seen the "Upside Down World" where ignorance is as valid as facts.

For the executive, this book is a reminder that there is no magical "unicorn stack". The future of data isn't in another diagram; it's in the hands of those who demand context, consistency, and coherence over "chaos dressed in designer jargon".

As Jones concludes, in a world of "Jira-drunk lunatics," the most radical thing you can do is build a system that actually serves people.

Martyn Jones’s book, F*CK DATA MESH, critiques the data industry’s obsession with novelty and trends like data mesh. He argues that while or

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In Martyn Bey’s debut novel, Come In Pink, narrated by the flamboyant Lloyd Jones, readers navigate a vibrant blend of camp, existential mus

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Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design - Remastered and Revisited - 2026/01/27

Seven years have passed since that fiery Brussels rant in May 2019. I channeled Bob Hoffman's spirit to declare Agile at Scale the next level of IT bullshit. It was immature and ill-conceived. I found it supercilious and not truly agile. It became a communication killer and was cult-like in its intolerance of criticism. Now, it's time for a clear-eyed look back. I argued it mangled history. It ignored proven practices. It complicated everything unnecessarily. It abused jargon to obscure meaning. It turned criticism into heresy. Was I just venting, or did the evidence vindicate the scepticism?

Martyn Rhisiart Jones Bruxelles, 28th May 2019 To begin at the beginning To paraphrase the great Bob Hoffman. Just when you feared that Agil

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What Every CEO Needs to Know About Big Data - Revisited - 2026/01/26

Nearly a decade has passed since I fired off that blunt, CEO-targeted memo in the mid-2010s. This timeframe was during the 2015–2017 era, based on the style and references. I declared Big Data to be mostly "cultivated babble, bluster and bullshit." I warned executives: Treat the hype with suspicion. Tie vendor pay to real ROI. Focus on core operational data via data warehousing rather than chasing unstructured social media noise. Always ask "to what ends?" I highlighted the IT industry's vested interests in promoting ineffective solutions. I emphasized the need for verification over blind trust. I also cautioned against conflicts of interest in internal projects.

The content outlines key points CEOs should understand about Big Data, emphasizing its often misleading nature. It argues that Big Data lack

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The article discusses how traditional logic rules are revitalizing generative AI, promoting trust and coherence. It highlights the emergence

Why Old-School Logic is Key for AI Reliability

Why Old-School Logic is Key for AI Reliability The Logic Layer: Why Old-School Rules Are the New Guardrails for Generative AI https://goodstrat.com/2025/12/06/why-old-school-logic-is-key-for-ai-reliability/

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CONSIDER THIS: DATA AS A MIRROR OF HUMANITY

Martyn Rhisiart Jones A Coruña, 12th November 2025 CONSIDER THIS: DATA AS A MIRROR OF HUMANITY Friends, Roman, Countryfolk! In an age where

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CONSIDER THIS: DATA AS A MIRROR OF HUMANITY

Martyn Rhisiart Jones A Coruña, 12th November 2025 CONSIDER THIS: DATA AS A MIRROR OF HUMANITY Friends, Roman, Countryfolk! In an age where

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