As tempting as it is to cut store budgets and then blame the retail industry for a brand’s demise, it’s kind of a furphy. Retail isn’t dead because people still love to shop.

I was a little alarmed last year when I was chatting to an IT security consultant and he denied that AI code is written by a human. He went on to assure me that AI codes and algorithms were far too long and complicated to be written by a person. I countered that unless these mega-sums grow on trees, then odds-on a human made it.

I remember years ago Ben posted a note that work is all about turning up, solving today’s problems, then doing it again tomorrow. The take-out I took away was that we need to adjust our mindset to expect that daily problems are just par for the course.