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Just in time for World Cup 2026, built a little website to show fixtures in your local time, a simulator based on ELO ratings, travel data & vibes, and fill your own bracket that you can share. It also has heaps of interesting stats.
Check it out: 👉 wc26.one
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It's so tiresome watching people who’ve spent decades in design mock those who still care enough about their craft to do things with their own hands, at their own pace, and on their own terms.
I couldn't give a damn whether they use AI. What I find utterly tasteless is the smugness and borderline contempt toward anyone who still finds meaning in the process rather than merely the output.
What I can't wrap my head around is how someone spends twenty years cultivating a craft only to arrive at a place where efficiency is all that matters to you, and you ridicule others for taking pride in the work itself. Where is the integrity, the passion, the creative spirit?
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AI brings us back to the old school web flash days, which was honestly the reason I got into design.
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"Design is a young person's game."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
At 20, it seemed like a confirmation.
Today, at 33, the words make me feel a little anxious.
Not because I'm old, but because we work in an industry obsessed with innovation: new tools, new trends, new frameworks every week.
I see designers mastering software released yesterday morning.
Fast, hungry, and technically formidable.
Honestly, a little intimidating.
So I find myself wondering if I'll actually be able to keep up, or if I'll quietly become 'obsolete'.
But then I look at the real work.
The work of clients and their requests and needs.
The work they pay me for.
Clients don't hire me to open the latest Figma plugin and produce 10 variations overnight.
They need someone who already knows which 9 to discard and saves them time and weeks of indecision.
This doesn't mean you stop learning.
Curiosity still matters, and it's what keeps you in the game.
I'm saying that knowing what to cut is part of the job.
And it usually takes years to get there.
This looks awesome and very promising. Will give it a try.
ScreensDesign MCP is live.
Your agent can now search data from 2,600+ top iOS apps: onboarding, paywalls, pricing, post-paywall and more.
Ask things like:
“Give me five app ideas based on recently launched subscription apps that make 50k+”
“Compare the paywalls of the top meditation apps”
“Show me streak mechanics that aren’t Duolingo clones.”
It works with any agent.
We also launched "Ask" directly on ScreensDesign, so you can try all of this without connecting anything.
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I went to bed mad and woke up madder.
The last 30 minutes were tactical cowardice in the extreme from a manager who was explicitly hired not to do that.
This time was meant to be different for England. Not least because in Thomas Tuchel, the FA had paid the money to recruit the best manager at this World Cup.
Someone who would be able to plan and engineer a way through this tournament, taking advantage of the physical edge of a squad of Premier League players.
Instead it ended the same way it always does, with England offering nothing in attack, retreating and retreating and retreating until they were overwhelmed.
The only difference was that this time England chose their own destruction.
📝 @JackPittBrooke ⬇️
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"England had Argentina EXACTLY where they should have wanted them." 😔
@Tim_Vickery says Thomas Tuchel's substitutions were to blame for their defeat to Argentina 💔
#BBCFootball #FIFAWorldCup #ENGARG
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Mikel Oyazarbal absolutely striped that penalty. No stutter, no shuffle, no nonsense.
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🗣️ I wrote this last year on Michael Sansoni, our new Director of Data who joined us in July 2025…
It’s worth reading again just to get an idea of what other things are influencing our decisions in the transfer market.
“The difference between Brighton's £122 million profit and United's £1 billion spending spree? One club knew what the numbers meant. Now United finally has someone who can read them.”
🇾🇪 From Mercedes to Manchester: How Michael Sansoni is Revolutionising United's Data Strategy 🧵
In the high-stakes world of modern football, the difference between success and failure increasingly comes down to what happens away from the pitch. For United, a club that has spent over £1 billion on transfers since 2017 with diminishing returns, the appointment of Michael Sansoni as Director of Data in July 2025 represents a huge shift in how one of the world's most famous clubs approaches the beautiful game.
🔴 From Mercedes to Manchester
Sansoni arrives at Old Trafford after 11 years with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, where he served as Senior Performance Simulation Engineer (Trackside) during eight World Championships. His journey from trackside engineering to football boardrooms might seem unusual, but it reflects a growing trend of clubs seeking expertise from industries where data analytics has already proven transformative.
Sansoni joined Mercedes in 2014 as the team began its dominant run in F1's hybrid era, working his way up from simulation roles to become Lewis Hamilton's Performance Engineer from 2023 to early 2025. In Formula 1, success is measured in milliseconds, with engineers tracking everything from brake disc temperatures through corners to tire degradation lap by lap. This precision-driven environment is exactly what Manchester United hopes to replicate.
⚪️ The Data Deficit
To understand the significance of Sansoni's appointment, one must first grasp just how far Manchester United had fallen behind in the data revolution. In December 2024, Sir Jim Ratcliffe didn't mince words when describing the club's data analysis capabilities, stating: "It doesn't really exist here. We're still in the last century on data analysis. There's immense amount of useful data that we can get from data analysis and we're in the 'very poor' bracket with data analysis here".
This stark assessment came during a period when United's recruitment had become a byword for wastefulness and poor judgment. The £86 million signing of winger Antony stood as a particularly painful example of how the club's traditional scouting methods had failed in the modern era.
Sansoni replaces Dominic Jordan, who exited the club in summer 2024 after just over two years in the role, having been tasked with building up United's data department more or less from scratch when he arrived in March 2022. Jordan had assembled a small team including specialists in machine learning, decision science, and data operations, but the department lacked the resources and integration needed to compete with the Premier League's data-savvy clubs.
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Another example of @FabrizioRomano reporting a Man City signing in pounds while reporting a Man United signing in euros.
Both are transfers between English clubs, so why the inconsistency? The only thing it changes is how the fee looks at first glance.
This kind of slippery, weasel-worded reporting is exactly why people question his credibility. If you’re going to report transfer fees, at least apply the same standard to every club instead of constantly shifting like a paid mouth-piece.
