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Bredemarket Social Focus, March 29, 2026

After a month, I expanded things a bit.

Bredemarket is focusing on the channels that matter:

As of March 29

And no, the unsubscribable Instagram is not in my current mix.

On Ex-Evangelists

Many companies, Bredemarket included, have benefited from the efforts of evangelists. But don’t take those efforts for granted.

I recently said good-bye to a former Bredemarket evangelist who became silent and indifferent over time. I positively thanked them for their past support, carefully avoiding the topic of why and how that support ended.

(Maybe I should have asked, but I doubt I would have received an answer.)

And I remain thankful for the Bredemarket evangelists who are still there.

An Abundance of Data is the New Oxygen…Maybe

I previously wrote about how clean data is the new oxygen (stealing a phrase from someone else), but sometimes more data is better. Sometimes.

Let me use the fingerprint example. If you have a single fingerprint from one person, you have data that you can use to match against a person’s tenprint record.

Grok.

But if you have two fingerprints, then you have twice as much data for the match. And Mister Math tells us that ten fingerprints yields much more data.

Now there are cases where you don’t have all ten search prints. Perhaps you’re taking latent prints from a crime scene and the suspect didn’t carefully leave all ten prints. Or you’re using contactless fingerprint capture and for some reason didn’t get the full tenprint record. But if you can get all ten fingerprints for search, then your match accuracy increases.

But is an abundance of data better?

Only if it’s clean.

If finger numbers are misclassified, or if fingerprints from multiple people are mixed in the same individual record, or if the minutiae are not marked correctly, then the dirty data messes up your process.

Which is why the quality of data in a fingerprint database is important.

And if you need to talk about your fingerprint product’s quality assurance measures, Bredemarket can help. Book a free meeting with me to discuss your needs.

Declutter and Focus

2025 has been a year of declutterring and focusing.

The declutterring is the hardest. I may still love that long sleeve shirt with holes in the right elbow. (Why always the right elbow? I’m left handed.) But it’s no longer good for me, and I should have gotten rid of it years ago.

Whether it’s a former friend—a great person who went silent and indifferent—or a newsletter from a company that rejected my 2023 job application and only contacted me afterwards because GDPR required it—the time has come to simplify and focus.

Now just a few hundred LinkedIn newsletters and email subscriptions to go.

And to see where I can focus now.

Exit

How do you know if you’re overcommitted?

If you exit those commitments with no adverse effects.

I recently surveyed my private group memberships on one social media platform, to see how many groups had devolved into silence and indifference.

I counted 12 such groups, and exited 10.

With no adverse effects.

Exit.