The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.
💬 Parker Molloy
🔗 The four pillars of modern media
A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter [£] made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
>The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.
Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.
🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential.
👍🏼💡❓
🪦 RIP Barney - you gave ‘em hell - so I’ll assume you are heading to the other place. Deserved.
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for the modern world. Or did it?
"Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Continuing yesterday's 'theme' .. another 'one hit wonder' - same kind of time - same kind of sound and definitely my jam - then and now. It's just that this one is from the other side of the Atlantic. View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
Zingo had the idea six to ten years too early. Timing, infrastructure, incumbents and a government willing to let you operate matters more than being first. A lesson for us all.
Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take 🔗🎵 Russ Conway - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain.
🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden
a meeting _without_biscuits.
💬 The UK's Civil Service
😂 Perfect - only the British.
BUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.
Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?"
💬 Carroll Bryant
It’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.
Sartre warned us about procrastination. He was talking about the human condition - but it equally applies to how organizations move, how people engage, and why waiting for ‘perfect’ means you never move. And by then, your bite has gone.