Ged Carroll

Jensen Huang + more stuff

Majordomo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:22:00 +0000

Great interview with Jensen Huang Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia was interviewed by Axios. In the wide ranging interview he is advocating for open LLM models. He thinks that the benefits of closed models ties in with the benefits of scale and convenience from cloud computing infrastructure. Jensen Huang also talks about […]

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Consumer grievance: a marketers atlas

renaissance chambara aka Ged Carroll — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:11:31 +0000

Writing about consumer grievance came from a couple of things. I was watching a lecture by professor Robert Reich at Stanford and it reminded me of Edelman‘s 2025 Trust Barometer report ‘Trust and the Crisis of Grievance‘. Edelman’s annual report is a barometer, a global snapshot of who and what consumers trust. As long as […]

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Moral licensing

renaissance chambara aka Ged Carroll — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:50:49 +0000

I was thinking a lot about consumption when I came across the psychological concept of moral licensing. Doing something that is thought of as a good behaviour boosts the self image, leading to a sense of justification in a more indulgent behaviour later on. It explains incongruity in human behaviours. One example that immediately came […]

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June 2026 newsletter, issue 35 the ‘jump-and-jive’ edition

renaissance chambara aka Ged Carroll — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:12:20 +0000

June 2026 introduction – (35) Welcome to the 35th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘jump-and-jive’. The phrase feels like an anachronism. It likely came from 1930s and 1940s African American culture. A portmanteau of ‘jump blues’ music and high-energy ‘jive’ dance style of the era. Jive was also used […]

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May 2026 newsletter – issue 34 the ”ask for more” edition

renaissance chambara aka Ged Carroll — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:28:26 +0000

May 2026 introduction – (34) Welcome to the 34th edition of my newsletter. This issue sees me writing this from my parent’s home in the North West of England. It’s also part of the reason why this has been published later than usual. The change of pace in Granadaland in comparison to London was noteworthy. […]

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