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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Will we treat AI agents like employees?" Puh-leeze. We barely treat employees as employees. If and when agents work, they'll instantly become automation.

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Pet peeve: prerecorded webcasts that pretend to be live, and then double-down by pretending to take live questions. It's not hard folks—why lie to your customers and prospects?!

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#Analytics! "The writing was on the wall—if only they could decipher it."

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm generally a curious person, and lots of ideas pop into my head, and it's been a lifelong frustration that I couldn't really talk through them with anyone. l love that ChatGPT is an excellent discussion partner, as long as you push to get opposing views. I feel smarter now!

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Monday morning is like?... (demo video from new Luma AI Ray 2)

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I bought my daughter some nice-quality watercolors for her birthday. I thought I’d take the old ones for a spin—it’s been a while since I attempted a watercolor urban sketch.

Watercolor and pen sketch of roofs of Paris

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Seems like a good time to re-up this sustainability cartoon of mine... It makes me so furious when people say we "can't afford" climate mitigation. Now we have to pay for all the damage AND the mitigation at the same time...

A businessman sits at a desk, with a burning skyline behind him, saying "But profits are up!"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I swear I've seen the same "look! the system knows what is going on and helps me proactively optimize my business" demo every year for the last 30+ years...

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’m slightly surprised to find I’m looking forward to the coming year. I think limiting news and social media recently has helped!

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

And the holidays begin! Having fun at the Grand Palais ice rink, Europe’s biggest, apparently. 🙂

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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 18/12/2024

Importance of trustworthy carbon accounting ❗️ Regs: New regulations demand rigorous reporting 📊 Internal: Carbon accounting drives operational efficiency and decarbonisation 🖥️ Tech: AI & integrated systems enhance data accuracy ✋ Trust: Reliable data builds investor & customer trust bit.ly/3VGQxQQ

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Tom Raftery.com - Why Your Business Can’t Afford to Ignore Trustworthy Carbon Accounting

As sustainability becomes critical for businesses, accurate carbon accounting is essential to meet regulatory demands and customer expectations. Organizations must adopt new technologies, engage su…

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New research on return-to-work policies led by the University of Pittsburgh: "Taken together, our findings suggest that firms lose their best talent after RTO mandates and face significant difficulties replacing them" www.itpro.com/business/bus...

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Considering an RTO mandate? Think again if you want to keep your best talent – ‘brain drain’ is causing havoc for companies pushing staff back into the office, with women and senior staff most likely ...

Research suggests turnover increases at firms that impose RTO mandates

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'm a proud European. But this is painful -- a comparison of big US vs EU companies created in the last 50 years (SAP is slightly older). open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Graphic showing Public From-Scratch US and EU Companies Less than 50 Years Old with $10B+ Market Cap (the US is huge compared to the EU)

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Stack ranking is where you define a % of people that have to be designed as low performers. It turns out to be a great way to drive dysfunctional behavior, as people undermine each other to make sure that they’re not the lowest on the list, or avoid joining high-performance teams.

A cartoon of a man shouting “stack ranking” vs a woman shouting “shared success”

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Time to work on my personal development goals for next year!

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Even though I'm a presenter, I don't really get the point of presentations any more. Isn't it easier and faster to get that via a document? I just caught up with three video sessions I'd missed, and thanks to the transcripts I skipped the boring parts & got what I needed in a fraction of the time...

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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 11/12/2024

Percentage of people who say they trust climate scientists by country

Chart of percentage of people who trust climate scientists, by country

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Provide unbearable levels of sophistication" by Anthropic Claude and @emollick.bsky.social . Insisting that this isn't creative, because it's the result of an algorithm, seems like a losing battle to me. (And yes the 7th arrondissement of Paris is unbearably sophisticated 😀 ) lnkd.in/eHhD6k3W

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm an innovation evangelist 😀...

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Saul Steinberg Christmas Card for the Museum of Modern Art 1949

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Out of all the cartoons I’ve created, my favorites are always the most cynical ones… is there any aspect of technology transformation that leaders get more wrong than this? #changemanagement #cartoon

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

In 1916, cartoonist Rube Goldberg nailed it. Destructive jerks get space in our faces just because somebody thinks they have money. It's the ultimate punchline of the DFT years: They thought he had money.

A millionaire, about to step into his limousine, turns to a waiting group of reporters and says "The war is awful."

"That's the most startling remark made since another noted millionaire said 'It looks like rain,'" says one alert newshound.

"He probably is in close touch with all the monarchs of Europe."

"Rush down to the paper and tell the editor to get out a special edition."

Reporters crowd around, photographers stand on each other's shoulders to get a picture.

Caption: When a famous person mumbles something foolish, he is quoted all over the world.

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My instagram feed is doing a pretty good job of targeted Xmas ads! #analytics

Ad for an ugly red sweater that says “that wasn’t very data-driven of you”

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In times of turmoil, France has a strong tradition of revolutionary innovation: Introducing Smart Execution 2.0! [The power of AI for some things is honestly mind-blowing—the image and marketing blurb from ChatGPT is just *perfect*] timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12... #humor #parody #billionaires

A fake ad for an internet-connected guillotine called "Smart Execution 2.0"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Am I *really* the only person that saw Pantone's color of the year for 2025 ("Mocha Mousse"), and immediately thought it captured a different aspect of next year's prospects?!

A pile of manure based on Pantone's color of the year...

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Small Beats Big! If you’re using AI to solve a specific business need, as part of a business process, and you have the right data grounding framework (if you don’t, then there’s no point in going further!), then a smaller, faster, cheaper model will likely be a better fit. #ai #sapbtp

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Love this graphic! 🥲 From today's Economist: www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Analytics Torture the data until you get results!

A cartoon of the word "Data" tied to a chair, being threatened by a man holding a drill and a knife. "If you don't reveal some insights soon, I'm going to be forced to slice, dice, and drill!"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Morning run along Birmingham’s beautiful canals #ukisugconnect2024

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is why many employees don't admit to using #AI in the workplace: they don't think they'll like the answer to this question!

A cartoon: a businessman saying to his boss "I've automated my job with AI -- what's my reward?"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm looking forward to moderating SAP BTP AI Partner Forum in Paris tomorrow, en Franglais! More details and agenda here: events.sap.com/fr/sapbtppar... What's going to happen when projects leaders and AI agents start disagreeing about who's leading the project?! 😂 #sapbtp #ai

A cartoon of a consultant and an AI agent robot arguing about who is in charge of a project, and whether it should be human-focused, or AI-optimized.

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Working on my presentations for #UKISUGConnect2024 next week. I get the special honor (sorry, "honour"—can't forget my roots) of presenting the "hangover keynote" on Tuesday morning ("SUGFest on the slopes" is on Monday night 😜). I hope to see you there! #ukisug #ai #sap #sapbtp

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Food for thought: Musk is now 119 billion dollars wealthier than he was a year ago. That's >13 million dollars an hour, every hour for a whole year, 170x the median yearly wage in the US.

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Suffering from some Monday morning Weltschmerz ("a deep, melancholic feeling of disillusionment or sorrow caused by the perceived inadequacy of the world to fulfill one's desires or expectations"), I asked ChatGPT to illustrate "ignorance is bliss". Now I just need to find a good book!

A cartoon illustration of "Ignorance is bliss"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

@kellblog.bsky.social's top tips for successful startup strategy -- as always, an interesting read. (I always knew he'd end up being a professor, but of course he managed to do it in a most-optimal way and get well-paid for it 😀) kellblog.com/2024/11/24/f...

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Balderton Launched 10-24 Five Success Principles for Startup Founders^J Dave Kellogg.pdf

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The future is… telling AI what to do, or being told what to do by AI. More of my #AI cartoons, some of them even mildly amusing, I’m told, here: timoelliott.com/blog/cartoon...

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I asked ChatGPT's reasoning model to compare Tesla's fatality rates vs the average and estimate the excess death toll in the US (maybe because they trusted Tesla's self-driving too much?—marketing can kill you!). The answer was 38 people. Calculations here: chatgpt.com/share/67404e... #ai

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ChatGPT - Tesla Fatality Excess Estimate

Shared via ChatGPT

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sustainability: the darkness at the end of the tunnel as climate targets "deader than a doornail" 😥 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #sustainability

Cartoon, illustration of "the darkness at the end of the tunnel"

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Timo Elliott @timoelliott.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's snowing in Paris. It doesn't quite look like this 😀 (see the hidden message?)

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