“Always remember when you meet someone for the first time you are not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative” Why #interviews don’t work from @AdamMGrant in the The New York Times @AdamMGrant lnkd.in/eUVb78r

“Loch Lomond” in Foxborough. Quite a sight. #WorldCup

“Flower of Scotland” here in Foxborough. #WorldCup

Even with World Cup induced next level tiredness I’m dipping in to @HungLee’s Recruiting Brainfood. It’s the Morocco 🇲🇦 of Missives on #Talent #HR #AI Get on it 👇

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…

Another great week of @HungLee’s Recruiting Brainfood #HR #HRTech#AI Get on it Here 👇

Watching this fella develop into the jockey that he has become has been one of the great pleasures of the last few years. That ride on Thundering On would have had Lester, Eddery et al purring. He is a credit to his family that are just as committed to him as he is to his craft.

What an interview this is!! Pure passion and visceral joy. From foaling her himself to being with her all the way to the winners enclosure. Magic, magic stuff. Congrats, Ronan. 🙌

Another great week of @hunglee’s Recruiting Brainfood In 3 years we’ll look back at the AI slop and say what a waste of time eh 🤷‍♂️

Another great week of @HungLee’s #RecruitingBrainfood the AI 🤖 & layoff death spiral continues When will it stop 🤷‍♂️ Get on it here 👇

Lively start to the game for Troy Parrott at Feyenoord 😅 His goal after a few seconds was ruled out for offside, only to score for a second time inside the first minute moments later 🔥

Can’t believe that happened. James J Braddock is named after a boxer, was ridden by a boxer in DBM and scrapped like one today. All credit to @JosephOBrien2 for buying him so well, letting an eejit like me buy into him and doing such a brilliant job training him. What a game. 🙌

Get on the 500th episode of @hunglee’s Recruiting Brainfood 👇

It’s the 500th episode of @HungLee’s Recruiting Brainfood. It’s not hyperbole to say Hung’s weekly missive has become a staple for tens of thousands of readers every Sunday. Well done my friend 💪 check out today’s episode heavy on AI 🤖 👇 recruitingbrainfood.substack… @HungLee

Average workers in Ireland pay more tax than in any of the other English-speaking countries in the OECD.

A great week of Recruiting Brainfood from @HungLee 👇

Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.

Europe dominates the list of richest countries. The US ranks as 16th while the UK is not even in the top 20. This is a new ranking which measures, not just GDP, but how wealth concretely translates into the daily life of the ordinary citizen. GDP per capita is generally a terrible metric, as it assumes national output is evenly shared across the population.

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own. (Link in the comment)

AI can cost more than human workers now trib.al/izHVL9D

The sub 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken in London Sabastian Sawe: 1:59:30 Yomif Kejelcha: 1:59:41 4:34/mile for 26.2 miles... insane