What Do Brainfooders Think?

It looks like my campaign to diffuse Keep What You Kill concept into the brainfood community still needs a bit of work 🤣. I’m delighted to see the I Don’t Know cohort be as high as 37% - in political terms, this is the size of the vote I need to be competing for! Thanks to all who voted, make sure you scroll to the end of the newsletter to vote on this week’s poll.

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep339 - Annual Report 2025 C-Level Hiring, Friday 17th Oct, 2pm BSTI think I’ve mis-titled this episode because content wise its going to be great - what the state of C-level hiring according to ESIX, the world’s leading corporate exec search community. I’ll be doing this from Nashville and speaking with the one and only Simon Mullins. Register here - and see you there!

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The Brainfood

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1. The State of AI Report 2025Nathan Benaich’s State of AI Report has become the Mary Meeker of AI - a ridiculously dense ppt that goes into (almost) every nook and cranny of the landscape when it comes to AI. It’s not only a fabulous piece of work, but also one which is concentrates the source material for anyone who wants to do a deeper dive. Massive credit to Nathan for the open policy too - data, live survey response, download w/o reg wall - what more can you ask for? Essential reading for everyone here. NB: lot of people will be hitting the online version, you can download the PDF here and read offline