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		<title>Only the Educated Are Free</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signal Minus Noise]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do right now, in the middle of an AI transition that nobody fully understands, is learn aggressively. Not just how to login and use AI tools, or writing prompts for an Large Language Model to create something for you. Only the educated are free. Epictetus, Discourses Learn the underlying logic [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fonly-the-educated-are-free%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Donly-the-educated-are-free&amp;action_name=Only%20the%20Educated%20Are%20Free&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The limitation isn’t the AI models</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 05:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The models are ready, but the workforce isn&#8217;t. Deloitte&#8217;s State of AI 2026 report says the share of companies with 40% or more of their AI projects in production is set to double in six months. But the same report flags an &#8220;AI skills gap&#8221; as the biggest barrier to making it real. That means [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fthe-limitation-isnt-the-ai-models%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dthe-limitation-isnt-the-ai-models&amp;action_name=The%20limitation%20isn%26%238217%3Bt%20the%20AI%20models&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MEDDIC into the Dark Funnel – Part 3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Buyers Research Independently Decoding the hidden decision process Introduction Part 2 identified MEDDIC’s breakdown as structural. The three shifts in how buyers behave: information democratization, committee expansion, and the emergence of the dark funnel, dismantled the assumptions the framework was built on. Identifying what broke is only part of the problem. The more pressing question [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-3%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-3&amp;action_name=MEDDIC%20into%20the%20Dark%20Funnel%20%26%238211%3B%20Part%203&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Musical Job Chairs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A compelling post about an unfortunate situation. To be honest, the word &#8216;unfortunate&#8217; isn&#8217;t the right word and doesn&#8217;t do justice.If AI lives up to the hype and expectations&#8230; and for those of us working with the tools every day&#8230; there is no reason to think it won&#8217;t. The next 3-5 years are going to [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fai-musical-job-chairs%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dai-musical-job-chairs&amp;action_name=AI%20Musical%20Job%20Chairs&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EFF Dumps Musk’s X</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll never forgive Musk for ruining Twitter&#8230; Nothing is perfect. But Twitter was the best social media platform of them all.Reddit may be the pulse of the Internet. But Twitter was the world&#8217;s central nervous system. If something was happening in the world, you went to Twitter first because you knew there was someone on [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Feff-dumps-musks-x%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Deff-dumps-musks-x&amp;action_name=EFF%20Dumps%20Musk%26%238217%3Bs%20X&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MEDDIC into the Dark Funnel – Part 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Information democratization, committee expansion, and the emergence of the Dark Funnel did not expose flaws in MEDDIC’s logic. They invalidated the assumptions supporting it.<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-2%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-2&amp;action_name=MEDDIC%20into%20the%20Dark%20Funnel%20%26%238211%3B%20Part%202&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rhinoceros in Church</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Kunstmuseum Magdeburg monastery has a white rhino.<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Frhinoceros-in-church%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Drhinoceros-in-church&amp;action_name=Rhinoceros%20in%20Church&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MEDDIC into the Dark Funnel – Part 1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDDIC Sales Methodology A strategy built for a different era Introduction Enterprise sales has never been more complex or more consequential. For sales and marketing professionals who have watched carefully qualified deals stall, go dark, or evaporate without explanation, the frustration is familiar. Pipeline reviews reveal promising numbers but results tell a different story. This [&#8230;]<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-1%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dmeddic-into-the-dark-funnel-part-1&amp;action_name=MEDDIC%20into%20the%20Dark%20Funnel%20%26%238211%3B%20Part%201&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It finally happened …</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone actually replied to me, “I know, Mondays, right?” #monday<img src="//charlesbartlett.net/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Fit-finally-happened%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dit-finally-happened&amp;action_name=It%20finally%20happened%20%E2%80%A6&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fcharlesbartlett.net%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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