# connor (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover connor. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thursday, August 20](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/thursday-august-20) _2026-08-20 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Full moon paddle at Blowing Rock; September for Songwriters in Boone; Identifying wildflowers at N.C. Arboretum; Fleetwood Mac by candlelight ## [The $40 Junk Drawer Illusion (And Why Travelers Pack It Too)](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/the-40-junk-drawer-illusion-and-why) _2026-08-19 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ We lug our worst habits across oceans, terrified of a "someday" that never arrives. Here is how to finally drop the weight. ## [Wednesday, August 19](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/wednesday-august-19) _2026-08-19 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Edisto Shag Festival; Explore sustainable growing in Summerville; Claremont: keep the West’s flame burning; Marsh Paint-a-long; Sea turtle nests at Edisto Beach ## [Kindling. Chapter 15: Colleen and Connor](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-15-scott-and-connor) _2026-08-18 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ The Orme School, Arizona – October, 1982 ## [Tuesday, August 18](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/tuesday-august-18) _2026-08-18 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — 'Forecasts of Fools'; Learn foraging at Hagood Mills site; S.C. Irish Patriots; Connor: don't blame it on Covid; Westminster to host apple festival; Wobblers at Honea Path ## [Monday, August 17](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/monday-august-17) _2026-08-17 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Music on Main in Spartanburg; Chester Transportation Museum; Editorial: the perils of political infighting; Camden's Folklore & Legends tour; Claremont: Woke 2.0 is worse ## [Weekend, August 15-16](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/weekend-august-15-16) _2026-08-14 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — 'Will that dog hunt?'; Barnwell: small county with big influence; Carolina Rambler; 18th century colonial cooking; Reminiscing: near the shadows of Kilimanjaro ## [Friday, August 14](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/friday-august-14) _2026-08-14 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Lighthouse 5K at Nags Head; Meet author Suisan Zerenda; Learn oil painting with Ember Estridge; Michael Kirshtein fishing humor; Unlocking Cultural Treasures ## [Better, not bitter](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/better-not-bitter) _2026-08-13 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ The R4R Podcast with Paulina Young ## [Kindling. Chapter 14: Ari](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-14-ari) _2026-08-13 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Prague, Czech Republic– August 2025 ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eVMkvzzQ7DnL) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Thursday, August 13](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/thursday-august-13) _2026-08-13 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Rafting the Little Pigeon River; Hot pepper festival at Mills River Brewing; South Carolina Wildlife Federation photo contest; Rent's run ends at Flat Rock Playhouse ## [5 Words Go A Long Way](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/5-words-go-a-long-way) _2026-08-12 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ "This is when we die," I said. ## [Wednesday, August 12](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/wednesday-august-12) _2026-08-12 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Appalachian music at Magnolia Plantation; August marks 500 years since Spanish exploration; Farmers Market and Food Truck Jam at Island of Palms; Saltwater fishing trends ## [Kindling. Chapter 13: George](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-13-george) _2026-08-11 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Los Angeles, CA – August 2025 ## [Tuesday, August 11](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/tuesday-august-11) _2026-08-11 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Importance of voting Tuesday, Aug. 11; Connor: DSA gender bending; Gene Watson comes to Newberry; Sounds of the Summer in Fountain Inn; Greenville breakfast tour ## [Monday, August 10](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/monday-august-10) _2026-08-10 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Center of Philanthropy; Carolina High School football kickoff; Claremont: war on far-left terrorism; Paint Pour coaster workshop; History at Rose Hill Plantation in Union ## [Measuring What You Build: The CEER Methodology for Salesforce Customisation](https://conrjac.uk/posts/salesforce-ceer-customisation-methodology/) _2026-08-10 · Connor Jackson_ Ask most Salesforce teams how customised their org is and you will get a shrug, or a guess pulled from whoever has been there longest. “Pretty custom, I think.” “We’ve got a lot of Apex.” Nobody actually knows, because nobody is measuring it. That is the gap the CEER methodology was built to close, and it deserves to be far better known than it is. What CEER actually… ## [Weekend, August 8-9](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/weekend-august-8-9) _2026-08-07 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas - Mark Sanford for Senate; Camden Archives & Museum; Charleston has new squash team; Edgr Allan Poe speakeasy; Columbia Museum of Art; A Million Martins at Lake Murray ## [Friday, August 7](https://charlestonmercury.substack.com/p/friday-august-7) _2026-08-07 · MKelley · Carolina Digital Daily_ Connecting the Carolinas — Tour Cape Romain lighthouse; Meet mystery writer Karen Slaughter; Explore Bellamy Mansion; See Lowcountry wildlife at Santee Coastal Reserve; Reggae at Flor Nights Live ## [What every parent needs to hear](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/what-every-parent-needs-to-hear) _2026-08-06 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ Normally we try and source our guests from the R4R community… but when it feels right, we look abroad… and when I came across Andrew Logan’s Instagram page about four months ago, there was something about him. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/08RoAQygUlLE) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Kindling. Chapter 12: Dave and Grazia](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-12-dave-and-grazia) _2026-08-06 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Tampa, Florida – December 2023 ## [I'm giving it all away today](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/nomad-life-is-free-today) _2026-08-05 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Get your free e-copy of Nomad Life in its new 2nd edition today ## [Kindling. Chapter 11: Grazia](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-11-grazia) _2026-08-04 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Tampa, Florida – December 2023 ## [The Tokenomics Trap: Why Cheaper AI Is Making Enterprise AI More Expensive](https://conrjac.uk/posts/ai-tokenomics-trap/) _2026-08-04 · Connor Jackson_ Every few weeks another headline lands about token prices falling off a cliff. A new model matches last year’s frontier performance at a tenth of the cost. Input tokens that cost dollars in 2021 now cost cents. On paper, AI keeps getting cheaper. So why do so many enterprise AI budgets keep blowing up mid-year? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, prompted by a BBC piece on the… ## [A broken record](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/a-broken-record) _2026-07-30 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ Why I keep harping on about storytelling ## [Kindling. Chapter 10: Dave](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/kindling-chapter-10-dave) _2026-07-30 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Tampa, Florida – Summer 2023 ## [Kindling. Chapter 9: Scott and Kelly](https://eatwalklearn.substack.com/p/chapter-9) _2026-07-29 · Chris Englert (EatWalkLearn) · Nomad Life, Full-Time Travel by EatWalkLearn_ Bucharest, Romania — August 2025, One Day Earlier ## [Time heals all wounds... kind of](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/time-heals-all-wounds-kind-of) _2026-07-23 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ Last night, I was asked to share my story at the local footy club. ## [Leaning into fear](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/darwin) _2026-07-16 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ Sometimes pushing where it hurts is what's needed. ## [Your Story | New Merch](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/your-story) _2026-07-09 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ A blueprint for others and a uniform for our community ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VIR1CaM7GL8J) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [What If Canberra Became an Outlier?](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/what-if-canberra-became-an-outlier) _2026-07-02 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ The data is suggesting it already might be. ## [The Best AI Prompting Framework Isn't RISPO — Here's What Actually Works](https://conrjac.uk/posts/ai-prompting-guide-framework/) _2026-07-02 · Connor Jackson_ If you’ve been searching for “the RISPO prompting framework,” you’re not alone — and you’re also not going to find much. There’s no canonical documentation for it anywhere: not in Anthropic’s, OpenAI’s, or Google’s official prompting guides, not in the academic prompt-engineering literature, and not on any of the sites that catalogue these… ## [The AI Upsell Trap: Why SaaS Vendors Need to Learn What Interoperability Means](https://conrjac.uk/posts/saas-ai-vendor-lockin/) _2026-06-26 · Connor Jackson_ Every major SaaS vendor has rebranded itself as an AI company in the past eighteen months. Salesforce has Agentforce. ServiceNow has Now Assist. Microsoft has Copilot threaded through every product it sells. SAP has Joule. The pitch is roughly identical regardless of the logo: bring your data and your workflows onto our platform, let our AI act on them, and watch productivity soar. What they are… ## [Contact](https://conrjac.uk/contact/) _2026-06-25 · Connor Jackson_ Get in touch with Connor Jackson — Enterprise Architect, blogger, and technology strategist. ## [AI and Mental Health](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/ai-and-mental-health) _2026-06-25 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ The R4R Podcast with Yash Varma ## [AI | Mental Health | Yash Varma](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/ai-mental-health-yash-varma-655) _2026-06-25 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ Yash Varma is a high performance coach, founder of Empress Capital — one of Australia's first AI-focused venture capital firms — and an early investor in Anthropic. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210833249/c0a4c8e58f8abe56dbee31a3aaabf156.mp3) ## [We're moving...](https://runningforresilience.substack.com/p/were-moving) _2026-06-23 · Running for Resilience · The R4R Rag_ After nearly 5 years... it's time for some change. ## [Salesforce's Mandatory MFA Changes: What Organisations Need to Do Now](https://conrjac.uk/posts/salesforce-mfa-2026/) _2026-06-23 · Connor Jackson_ Salesforce is tightening its authentication requirements across all products in 2026. For many organisations this will mean mandatory enforcement of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for every human user, with Salesforce itself flipping the switch if admins have not acted. If your org is not ready, users will be blocked at login. This post covers what is changing, why it matters more than ever,… ## [The Hidden Invoice: Understanding AI Token Costs](https://conrjac.uk/posts/ai-token-consumption/) _2026-06-21 · Connor Jackson_ Every time you call an LLM API, a small meter ticks. Most developers notice it first on a surprise bill — a prototype that felt free suddenly costs real money in production. Tokens are the unit of that meter, and understanding them is now a basic engineering literacy. What you’re actually paying for A token is roughly four characters of English text. A prompt that says “Summarise this… ## [Archives](https://conrjac.uk/archives/) _2026-06-03 · Connor Jackson_ ## [Search](https://conrjac.uk/search/) _2026-06-03 · Connor Jackson_ ## [About](https://conrjac.uk/about/) _2026-06-03 · Connor Jackson_ Connor Jackson — Enterprise Architect in Cambridgeshire, working in UK financial services. Writing about enterprise architecture, Salesforce, AI, and technology strategy. ## [Stop Writing Comments Your Version Control Already Knows](https://conrjac.uk/posts/apex-code-comments/) _2026-03-17 · Connor Jackson_ Open almost any Salesforce org that has been around for a few years and you will find code that starts something like this: /\*\* \* AccountService.cls \* Author: Sarah Mitchell \* Created: 14/02/2019 \* Last Modified By: James Okafor \* Last Modified Date: 03/11/2023 \* Version: 2.4 \* Description: Service class for Account operations \*/ It looks professional. It looks thorough. It is almost entirely…