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Faisal Mahmood

Mentor for UK service business owners (£100k–£5m), and for IT and other professionals ready to start their own thing. Award-winning. Host, PBN Peterborough.

Systems and AI that give you your time back. Co-founder, Medialogix. 23 years in tech.

06/11/2026

Sony has just brought back its Walkman headphones from 1979.

Same little frame. Same retro look.

The only real change? The plug. The old headphone jack is out, USB-C is in, with a mic on the cable.

I never had these. Mine was a MiniDisc player. That's it in the photo.

I've been telling people for years it was a Sony. I dug it out this morning. It's a Sharp.

It got me thinking. Plenty of things don't need replacing. They just need connecting to the way we do things now.

Same goes for business, if I'm honest. Most of what works just needs a new plug.

So, go on. Walkman, Discman or MiniDisc: what did you have? 🎧

Link in the comments.

05/11/2026

Tuesday night at the Holiday Inn, Thorpe Wood. Here are the photos, taken by Dan Mold 📸

Julie Hogbin - Book Mentor spoke at Progressive Business Network Peterborough on how a book makes you the go-to name in your field.

Thirty years as a coach, mentor and business consultant. A table full of her own books. And a room full of people who suddenly wanted to write one.

The line I took home: when you publish a book in the UK, you're meant to send a copy to the British Library. Nobody will chase you if you don't. But why wouldn't you?

My favourite part is always the bit before the talk. Our VIP members stand up and say who they are and who they'd like to meet. Then everyone gets talking.

Thank you, Julie. And thank you to everyone who came and made the room what it was.

Next month, it's my turn.

Tuesday 1 December, same venue. My talk is called Don't Miss It Twice. I'll show you what AI is doing every day in my own business, then build something live for someone in the room.

Doors 5.30pm, I'm on at 6.15pm, networking until 8pm.

No AI knowledge needed. The first five tickets for first-time attendees are £5.

Who are you bringing?

Link in the comments.

05/11/2026

On Monday, supermarkets in six European countries found their freezers warming up. Some had been set to 50°C, remotely.

Nobody broke in. The freezer controls were connected to the internet, and that was enough. Shops in Ireland, Belgium, Sweden and elsewhere ended up throwing food away.

Everything in my house is connected too, including the oven. So it got me thinking.

Heating controls, CCTV, the doorbell, the thermostat. Each one is a little computer, and each one needs looking after.

Three quick questions for home or work:

1) Do you know everything that's connected to the internet?
2) Have the default passwords been changed?
3) Who keeps them updated?

How many connected things do you think are in your house?

Link in the comments.

02/11/2026

Tomorrow night, 40 chairs go out at the Holiday Inn, Thorpe Wood.

30 of them already have a name on them.

It’s our Progressive Business Network Peterborough evening, and Julie Hogbin is talking about how writing a book makes you the go-to name in your field.

You don’t need to have written a word. Most of the room hasn’t.

It’s business owners, entrepreneurs and like-minded people. Good conversation, a good speaker, and nobody pitching at you over the coffee.

Doors 5.30pm. Julie’s on from 6.15pm.

10 seats left. If it’s your first time, there are still a few £10 tickets.

Who’s coming? Drop a 👋 so I know to look out for you.

Link in the comments.

01/11/2026

Sunday, 1 November. Two months left of the year.

Before the week starts, a small question.

Not "what have I got on this week?"

But "what do I actually want from it, and why?"

That's the third step of what I call the Bright Matter Method. Intention.

When you know what you want, you start noticing the things that fit.

And it gets a lot easier to say no to the things that don't.

So here's something small for tonight.

Write one sentence: "This week, I want…"

Then add: "Because…"

Pop it somewhere you'll see it on Monday morning.

What's your "because" for this week?

31/10/2026

In the early years of Medialogix, I tried to do everything myself.

All I wanted was to make as much money as possible, so I could do the things I love. Instead, the business took more of my time, and my family got less of it.

More money didn't buy that time back. Handing the jobs over did.

Today my team does a lot of the work, AI does the laborious bits, and my Fridays are pretty much free. Also some members of my team take Fridays off thanks to changes we made as work / life balance is important in terms of culture in the workplace I want to create.

Handing over most of my technical role to 4 new people meant the job was done by people who were better than me and focussed on very specific tasks. The customer got a better service, a better product and faster results.

But there's one thing I've never handed over. I always make sure I know how the processes work. And the systems.

Here's the thing. You can hand over the doing and still keep the knowing.

What's the one job you'd hand over first?

30/10/2026

Sunday morning, the clocks went back.

Pretty much everything in my house is connected to the internet. Even the Neff oven and the hob.

Every one of them changed itself.

Except the microwave. Still living in summer time.

That's it in the photo, an hour ahead of the oven underneath.

I read a list this week of everything you still have to change by hand. Microwaves, ovens, older heating timers, and the dashboard clock in a lot of older cars.

Two minutes each. But only if you remember.

And the old heating timer is the one that bites. A cold house on Monday morning because nobody got round to it.

The gadgets that sorted themselves out are the ones I never even thought about. That's the kind of tech I like.

So, be honest. Which clock in your house is still an hour out? 😄

Link in the comments.

29/10/2026

Five days until our next Progressive Business Network Peterborough evening.

This one's a bit personal, because I'm writing a book. Slowly. The book is being very patient with me.

On Tuesday, Julie Hogbin is talking about how a book makes you the go-to name in your field.

Julie has spent more than 30 years as a leadership and management consultant and business mentor, and she's written several books herself.

Tuesday 3 November, Holiday Inn, Thorpe Wood. Doors 5.30pm.

It's a room of business owners, entrepreneurs and like-minded people, and you don't need to have written a word.

30 of 40 seats are booked. The £5 tickets have gone, but there are four £10 tickets left for first-time attendees.

Have you ever thought about writing a book? Yes, no, or "one day"?

Link in the comments.

Photo: Dan Mold

27/10/2026

One week to go, Peterborough 👋

Next Tuesday, 3 November, Progressive Business Network is back at the Holiday Inn, Thorpe Wood.

Julie Hogbin is talking about how writing a book can make you the go-to name in your field.

We’ve got 10 seats left out of 40.

Never been before? There are 4 first-timer tickets left at £10. Once they’ve gone, it’s £30.

Doors open at 5.30pm, networking runs until 8pm, and you can park at the hotel.

Coming on your own? Don’t worry. Most people do, and I’ll introduce you to a few friendly faces.

Quick question: who’s one person you’d love to bring along? Tag them below 👇

Link in the comments.

27/10/2026

Quick one. Do you know where your photos actually are?

Not on your phone. The real copies.

On Saturday, Amazon was due to unplug part of its own cloud for a few hours.

Its European cloud, cut off from the rest of its network, to prove it can carry on by itself.

Big organisations and governments care a lot about this now. Where their files are kept, whose rules apply, and who can get at them.

I've spent 23 years at Medialogix helping organisations look after their photos, videos and documents. The NHS, the police, the FT.

And here's the thing.

The question that matters most isn't where your files are.

It's whether you could get them all back if you wanted to leave.

Most of us know which drawer the spare keys are in. Far fewer know where the family photos are really kept.

Have you ever tried to download everything from an old account? How did it go?

Link in the comments.

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