5 Things 12.09.25

New format continues - thoughts on the concept of empathy and 5 interesting things for you to take away

5 Things

From Gideon Barker, founder of Customer IQ. View the newsletter archive.

I definitely chose the wrong week to go back to Twitter.

I know we, as people, like to disagree and put our views across (my brief experience of BlueSky was that it was just far too nice and polite).

But - as I am sure you know or can imagine - it’s just horrible on there right now. Every tweet and reply just gets more and more escalated. I feel like X needs to come with a health warning.

  1. Fancy a webinar on ‘creative strategy in the AI era’? Being run next week by Marketing Week - more details here

  1. For just £1,099 you can learn to master the art of sci-fi storytelling near Crewe. What an offer! More details here via NewScientist tours

  1. Want to understand how AI image generation works in very simple terms? Isn’t this the kind of thing that Friday afternoons are for? Of course - so check out this Every article

  1. Anyone SW-based and near to Longleat might like the ‘Icons of the Sky’ event this weekend. Details here. Highlighted by the brilliant new magazine and listings site from nearfield

  1. Has NASA found a planet, 41 light years from Earth which has an atmosphere and a ‘habitable zone’. Yes! Don’t tell Elon but read more here via The Conversation