Hende Building, Federation of Master Builders, North West Regional Board President. Award winning building company based in Cheshire 🏡 My own views expressed.
American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield in the unlikely setting of the directors' box at White Hart Lane where she saw Spurs beat Wolves 5-1, October 10th 1959. Mansfield was filming Too Hot To Handle in the UK. She also found time to open the Chiswick Flyover!
Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
We are all busy builders, do us all a favour and stop putting your prices up month after month. Profit before people. Give us all a chance to make some profit and enjoy what we do building 👷🏻♂️🫡 #fmb#bmf#profit#citb
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re continuing to spotlight our new Build Your Own Mental Health Skills Bundle - flexible one-hour virtual sessions designed specifically for busy teams across the building materials sector.
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What’s next 👷🏻♂️ Look after all the local SME builders that are getting battered with higher material costs on a weekly basis. This has to stop 💪🏻 The backbone of the Uk economy is construction, for GOD’s sake help the builders that have made you profit for the last 50 years 👷🏻♂️
The BMF Marketing Forum took place yesterday at the Ibstock i-Studio in London.
It was a great session that brought together marketing professionals from across the building materials sector to discuss challenges and explore what’s next for our industry.
The difference is Michael Carrick has brought with him a very experienced Number two in Steve Holland a well proven coach at the highest level, to go with Jonathen Woodgate and Utd man through and through Jonny Evans. This vital tweak in his management team is the difference 🇾🇪🇾🇪
I want Michael Carrick to get the job.
He has changed the system and improved the players he has inherited.
He plays them to THEIR strengths.
People say it’s Ole all over again but if he had got the players HE wanted he might still be here now.
If that’s old school so be it 🤷🏼♂️
Am I surprised? No. I tried very hard not to get on his back but I hated his style of play, it wasn’t the United way. I actually think we have a good squad but there has been too much square peg in round hole syndrome. I was shocked when he finally reverted to a back four on Boxing Day. I know many who won’t shed a tear. #MUFC #UTFR #GGMU #ManUtd #ManchesterUnited
This is obvious to anybody that knows football or management. You can only work with what you have, being narrow minded is not the answer 3-4-3. Open your eyes and your mind, reap the benefits of CHANGE