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Happy new year everyone! The boys are back and making plans for fun events this year. Marijn hates the fact that Steve is now higher up the CommunityDays speaker board list than Marijn. They reminisce about past events and eventually get on topic: AI doesn't care if your sites are pretty. So how much work do you need to put in to make SharePoint "pretty" for AI (AKA readable)? So what is the ratio for human eyeballs vs AI? The boys finish off with a superb Danish whisky, Skippers Glow, kindly donated by friend-of-the-podcast Kasper Larsen.

It all started with this post from Daniel Anderson:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielando_sharepoint-in-2026-activity-7410921384069017600-m52B/

The boys discover Jura and their wheel to describe the full range of whiskies. They compare it with different SharePoint elements, techniques and ingredients to put in the cauldron and to make new potions!

Marijn makes a total arse of himself at a whisky tasting. Because why not. The boys are talking about undiscovered gems in SharePoint,which they uncover in an old-school method.

This time, the boys are not alone! Anouck Fierens, co-host of the FusionTalk podcast is joining them for a dada-dram! The talk of tonight? How, and what people think. About technology, automation, communication and change.

The boys talk about Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke. In short: the 5s methodology.
After Marijn's session on Marie Kondo, this is another methodology to clean up your content.
Whiskies come out, and boy..these are something else! 

The boys are at Collabdays Zagreb and talking to Frane Borozan and Danijel Cizek, from Syskit. They are enjoying some Croatian whisky (well, some of them...) and talking governance, AI and life in the beautiful city of Zagreb.

Marijn for once, does something useful (in Steve's house).A new Modern Workplace workshop arises, so that means the boys will be live workshopping (aka pisstaking) around it. Marijn tells his Copilot horror stories. The boys end with such a unique whisky that only 1 bottle exists.

Marijn talks about his new session that is delivering in Helsinki and Oslo. That one is about finding a methodology to handle data, and Marijn chooses the Marie Kondo method. Initially, Steve can't stop laughing about it, but he is won over when Marijn says the magic word (which is not whisky). The whisky is a sherry finished Islay bomb.

"You never listen to me", might be the start of a old fashioned shoot out in the wild wild west. Thankfully, the boys are much more civilized (so they say) and talk about the Frontier Firm. They end with a Kavalan, that has been on the shelve for ages and finally gets opened.

Links to the material:
2025: The year the Frontier Firm is born
https://buckleyplanet.com/2025/08/how-to-become-a-frontier-firm

The boys had it with M365. Done. Dusted. But what are alternatives? If you want to use spreadsheets, run an intranet or collaborate, what are the real serious contenders? Let's find out, and have a great Irish whisky (yes, without an e!!).