Jon Billingham 🇺🇦

I just live by the ABC's: Adventurous, Brave, Creative!

[Commuter @commuterny]

Erling Haaland’s perspective on feeling tired:

[Tharries @TharriesYT]

in light of recent events...

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

How wonderful is this?!

[Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwho]

"May I Introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith" 🥹💙

OTD in 2006, Elisabeth Sladen returned to the role of Sarah Jane Smith in 'School Reunion' - where she met David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. For this iconic scene, we have dug out the rushes from the #DoctorWho archive to show you an exclusive new look at how this scene looked from the opposite camera. #behindthescenes #SchoolReunion

[Cashflow King @cashflow_king94]

The UK has one of the best investment accounts in the world. And hardly anyone knows it.

A Stocks and Shares ISA.
£20,000 per year. Every year. Tax-free.
No capital gains tax when you sell.
No dividend tax on income.
No tax on interest.
Nothing.

Most countries don't have anything like this. Americans pay tax on every single gain. Australians. Canadians. Germans. The French.
They'd kill for what we have.

And yet most people in the UK don't even know ISAs exist. Or they think it's just a savings account paying 4%.
The average person contributes less than half their annual ISA allowance. That's thousands of pounds of tax-free investing going unused. Every single year.

£20k invested annually at 10% growth for 20 years = £1.27 million.
Tax-free.

No other country lets you do this.
We literally have a cheat code for building wealth and most people don't use it.

Are you even using yours at all?

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

Brilliant! Just shows how few people actually make an effort to understand...

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

This is a fascinating listen for those who remember it... There's probably lessons for us all in it...

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Nick Leeson, @TheNickLeeson, lost £862M and brought down Barings Bank. In this interview:
- How a £10K loss spiralled
- Why the bank kept backing him
- Lessons from prison
- What he learned about life

Link to full episode in 🧵

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

@RupertLowe10 https://t.co/kQ7pKQzRgT

[Paul Mason @TempusDrums]

“But I don’t fuckin’ WANT guitar lessons...”

Ricky Gervais nails it. 😏😆👌🏻

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Hard truth.

[Rayan @RayanAhmad74]

In 1939, the world's largest army invaded a nation of 3.7 million people.

The attackers had 450,000 troops, thousands of tanks, and complete air superiority

Against just 33,000 defenders.

Here's how the desperate few turned this 3-day invasion into a 105-day bloodbath: 🧵

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

Clever advert... I mean I think the financial system is only a small part of the problem but still...

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

If everything is fine, then don’t change anything at all.

But when the financial system isn’t working for so many people in the UK, it needs to be updated.

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

One of the most important issues people aren't really talking about...

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

NEW EPISODE DROPPED...

AI safety advocate @MaxWinga joins me to break down the reckless billionaire AI race, the path to superintelligence, and why humanity may only have 5 years left.

Watch – https://t.co/iVzmJff3qD
Links to full episode in 🧵

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

The average cost of private medical care in the U.K. is £79.59.

How much do people spend on Sky, Netflix, Spotify etc…?

Most people can afford private medical and should take it out. Brilliant service, privately run and fast access and delivery.

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

@TheCyberdevil @FylerWrites No stranger than Romana looking like Princess Astra...

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Two dudes in 2003, unaware they were making a legendary song

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

I'm no scientist, but this doesn't sound like a good idea to me!

https://t.co/HGWGF4cOMT

[Jon Billingham 🇺🇦 @jon_bill]

Game changer not just in Crypto but for the whole of the financial market?
https://t.co/9NPacPew91

[The Peter McCormack Show @mccormack_show]

No energy, no housing, no growth—Britain’s future is looking grim. But this didn’t just happen, it was a choice. The UK is drowning in debt, overtaxed, and refusing to build. We’ve chosen decline—when do we start choosing growth?

[Robert Peston @Peston]

It will take ten years for Britain’s armed forces and defence capability to become match fit, to make them a “credible deterrent”, so much have they been hollowed out over the past 25 years.

That is the central devastating conclusion of the unpublished Strategic Defence Review commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer.

The better news is that it is wholly practical and possible to rehabilitate Britain’s military deterrent. But it requires much more investment and spending, coupled with an industrial policy that brings back to these shores cutting edge technology development, manufacturing capacity and jobs.

The report is finished. It is wholly unclear why it has not been published or when it will be. I’ve asked relevant people and they shrug.

One potential cost of publishing is it will demonstrate how painfully stretched our armed forces would be if deployed to Ukraine as part of Starmer’s “coalition of the willing” to police a future peace deal.

Such is the shortage of personnel, ammunition and hardware that deployment to Ukraine would make it almost impossible for the UK military to engage in any other theatre of conflict at the same time. So there are risks to the UK of putting its military eggs into the Ukraine basket, as it were.

I am told that a version of the Joint Rapid Reaction Force - combining elements of navy, RAF and army - would be deployed to Ukraine, with personnel rotating.

The Strategic Defence Review recommends the UK develop and own more of its own core military technology, and reduce dependence on the US. It came to this view long before Trump switched off support for Ukraine’s military and proved himself an unreliable partner to Europe

[BRITISH HODL ❤️‍🔥🐂❤️‍🔥 @BritishHodl]

What does @saylor know?

If this isn't the question at the top of your mind, keeping you up at night, making you panic, wonder whether you have enough Bitcoin - you're lost.

Because - Saylor knows something we don't. And information is an advantage. The good news with Bitcoin is - you can see it in the market action.

You don't exactly know what the information is - but you know there is information and you can see the direction it's making players move.

And Saylor has ran through $21bn of ATM in 3 months. Instead of 2 years.

So I ask you - what does Michael Saylor know?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨STUDY: REDHEADS AREN'T JUST RARE — THEY'RE WIRED DIFFERENTLY

Oxford scientists confirm what 2% of the population already knew: redheads are built different.

Their MC1R gene doesn't just give them striking looks — it rewires their entire sensory system.

From higher pain tolerance to heightened pleasure sensitivity, the "ginger gene" is nature's performance enhancer.

They handle 25% more pain than others, and report a 41% higher rate of... satisfaction.

Maybe blondes don't have more fun after all.

Source: NY Post