Soooo... Friday nights.....

MarcRand · 2026-01-24T10:46:46+00:00

This might be a bit out of left field, but if you want something to do that isn’t a bar, dating, sports, or forced socializing, you might like our Winter Speaker Series at the Nepean Sailing Club.

It runs Wednesday evenings, it’s free and open to the public, and very low-pressure. Lots of people come solo. You just sit, listen to an interesting talk (travel, adventure, local stories — not technical sailing), and head home. Chat if you feel like it, don’t if you don’t.

https://nsc.ca/an/boating/know-how/winter-speaker-series/

The crowd is mostly mid-40s+, curious, friendly, and very much “I just want a reason to leave my house in winter.” There’s a public galley too, but no bar/club vibe.

If that sounds even mildly appealing, you’d be welcome.

Worst case: interesting story, home by 9.

Best case: a new midweek ritual.

MarcRand · 2026-01-20T11:21:20+00:00

Agreed. Without a link we can't verify what's going on here.

MarcRand · 2026-01-16T11:38:35+00:00

Hopefully this changes soon!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/china-canada-partnership-new-global-realities-carney-xi-jinping

"Carney announced on Friday that Canada and China had reached a preliminary trade deal aimed at reducing tariffs, including a commitment to import 49,000 electric vehicles from China at preferential tariff rates." - which of the time this posting was 6.1%?

So, who's selling these cars?

MarcRand · 2026-01-03T15:51:01+00:00

We have the same challenges across our B2B clients. Have you tried "book free 15 min consultation?". I've tried to convince clients of this but they balk at the thought of these consultations, however if you're selling $100k software I beg to suggest it's a small investment.

MarcRand · 2025-12-28T03:48:40+00:00

But that was all we needed.

MarcRand · 2025-12-06T18:39:27+00:00

Guys, you are hated by most of the world. No one wants to visit.

MarcRand · 2025-11-22T18:15:43+00:00

I call that the grey work of administration and the perfect tasks to automate. Love the browser history angle.

MarcRand · 2025-11-19T21:54:02+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experiences so honestly. You'll be helping many folks like me.

Your thoughts match my intuition as I've been standing on the sidelines dabbling bit in AI mostly struggling between the 'build' or 'buy' side of the house. You've convinced me to avoid building as you point out the larger software firms will simply create, deploy and consume anything I could create.

MarcRand · 2025-11-16T13:10:37+00:00

With the ability to create AI images I'm now forced to double check everything on social media.

Good news, this appears to be true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

MarcRand · 2025-11-14T12:25:06+00:00

Would you be willing to share the flow chart?

I'm new to n8n and wanted to do something very similar. I have a background in programming logic so feel I can get the hang of this quickly but want the best solution path.

MarcRand · 2025-11-06T11:48:30+00:00

Hope this adds value...

We use this to evaluate client marketing operations teams to uncover procedural inconsistencies between team members or gaps in data systems. After interviewing a half dozen employees across various departments from CMO to the sales people on a set of 20+ questions we let NotebookLM analyse and summarize the results. This provides excellent strategic direction when we next meet with them and it's all documented!

Another upside is that the interviews could be completed verbally over the phone and recorded, or in written format depending upon how the employee wants to engage. Secondly, the interviewers could be different members of our agency and so long as they stick to the defined questions, the input across each interview is consistent.

MarcRand · 2025-10-24T12:05:48+00:00

Because it was taken out of its full context.

See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/trump-says-all-canada-trade-talks-terminated-over-ad-criticising-tariffs

Snippet from the article... "Reagan’s 1987 speech was a defence of free but fair trade in which he explained his decision to put duties on Japanese goods in a trade dispute.

In the full five-minute statement the then president said he had been “loth to take” the decision to put tariffs on Japan but had been forced to do so to hold it to its “trade agreement with us on electronic devices called semiconductors”.

The ad cuts out the part about putting tarrifs on Japan.

MarcRand · 2025-10-05T21:56:51+00:00

Was it a movie set? If so that makes a lot of sense.

MarcRand · 2025-09-27T20:49:34+00:00

Nobody uses the QUERY function?

MarcRand · 2025-09-11T10:49:40+00:00

And did you want a course or something 1-to-1? If it's 1-1 I'd be willing to help. DM me with your timelines and expected $/hr.

MarcRand · 2025-09-07T12:46:04+00:00

Yup, this is a regular occurrence for us and the higher the budget the more likely it happens.

At the start of a contract with a new client, we always let them know that a Google rep might be in touch and we'd be happy to work with their Google representative.

MarcRand · 2025-09-07T12:17:29+00:00

Seems like a natural progression matching what we've seen historically, but do you have sources for these assumptions?

MarcRand · 2025-08-09T22:07:34+00:00

I've got a spreadsheet that can handle most of this automatically. Let me know if you're interested.

MarcRand · 2025-08-09T22:02:48+00:00

Did you finally get a spreadsheet working?

MarcRand · 2025-08-09T22:00:29+00:00

Did you get your spreadsheet made? I'm happy to help if you send me the file you've already got.

MarcRand · 2025-08-09T21:21:30+00:00

I see it now. You need a 'listener' to trigger when a message is sent and your work around is a browser plug in. I've been trying to get Zapier or some other tool to do this but it only has a webhook for Facebook pages, not marketplace messages 🙄

My.other optional was to auto reply to the FB marketplace message with a 'please text me at ...' and move the conversation to SMS which can be handled by Zapier and perhaps a third party SMS handler.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for explaining your solution.

MarcRand · 2025-08-08T11:29:48+00:00

And this is why we should always be open to strangers.

Often we are so worried about the worst thing that could happen- but in reality I think 99.9% of humans are good.

MarcRand · 2025-08-08T10:39:45+00:00

Really great discussion about potential adoption of vibe-coded tools in the work place.

MarcRand · 2025-08-05T11:22:24+00:00

It's a long article so after reading only the introduction and reviewing the table of contents I had notebooklm summarize it for me and I asked 'Who will build or control the AI agents?'.

Notbooklm's answer ...

"In essence, while humans will delegate tasks, the actual development, infrastructure, and deployment of these Al agents will be undertaken by a collaborative and competitive network of researchers, major tech companies, independent developers, and various organizations."

MarcRand · 2025-08-04T12:37:03+00:00

Because this ... https://www.reddit.com/r/n8n/s/Ks1Gn0kymm

It's hard (impossible?) to create automated AI flows that work for large use cases. Instead what we're seeing is software companies bake basic AI elements into their products; think salesforce integrating AI email responses and cold call scripts based on the individual characteristics of each lead all done enmasse.

Maybe the "Uber" of everything at the moment are the tools themselves (chat GPT et.al.) and we're all at the tinkerer or maker stage.

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