Sometimes, just sometimes, in the midst of all the spam comes a note that seems scarily relevant.

Kay Butcher wrote to me today, advertising a brand of dietary pills. Her opening line?

How many times did you get unhappy after noticing you keep ordering pizza after pizza?

Having coined the phrase “late nights, cold pizza” a few years ago to characterise the last-minute, under-resourced nature of so many proposal teams,* I’m pleased to hear that the solution is but a pill away. So much easier than finding the right senior sponsor, and building the case to have proposals taken more seriously….

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* Working with a team in Bangalore a few years back, BJ and I were amazed to find that this really is a universal diagnosis, as the Domino’s scooter pulled up at reception with our nourishment!