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Black Mirror

7 series since 2011 - and only just getting round to reviewing as I just finished Series 7. In recent series, I felt that whilst some were still good, IMHO a number of episodes lacked real punch. โ€ฆ

Severance

Series 1

๐Ÿ”— No review when I watched the first series in 2022 - but still managed to reference it. And definitely was positive.

Series 2

And โ€ฆ well .. ummm . Everybody was so โ€˜OMGโ€™ .. and best show โ€ฆ

Time To Self Medicate

๐Ÿ”— The Thought

Is Silicon Valley a destination, or just part of the journey?

… and where is it anyway?

… oh and why, despite the best attempts, countries all over the world seem to fall short of replicating it.

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Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold

๐Ÿ”— Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold

I don’t particularly recommend books.

I recommend people.

Mike Maples is one of those people.

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Charity Is Doomed To Fail

๐Ÿ”— Charity Is Doomed To Fail

If you donโ€™t know who Dan Palotta is - you should.

This is a short introduction to him, his ideas and his work and how it ties to something I wrote nearly 10 years ago.

We built ๐Ÿ”— The Future Found with these principles at core.

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Work Life Balance

๐Ÿ”— The Thought

Chris Lockhead dropped a post on LinkedIN regarding retirement.

To me retirement is the macro version of the daily work-life balance.

It solves the wrong problem really well.

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Adolescence

One that seems to have it a global nerve. It seems like EVERYONE is watching it - so of course I had to. Very Good. Two points to make.

โœ… 4 episodes - because no more needed.

โœ… The flow. Each of the โ€ฆ

Reacher

All 3 series have been solid and fun. Not getting better, Not getting worse - but I have to say Alan Ritchson is waaaay better casting than Tommy Cruise for the role.

Series 1 ๐Ÿ’ฏ

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Series 2 ๐Ÿ’ฏ

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Series โ€ฆ

If you havenโ€™t read ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ“š Ollie Hendersonโ€™s Future Work/Life you should. Excellent.

This particular quote reminds me of something that Jason Fried wrote in one of his books ..

New technologies tend to imitate the old until people figure out what theyโ€™re really meant to do. Early websites were brochures. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages. Early TV shows were radio shows with pictures.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Jason Fried

So too work. We โ€˜brokeโ€™ work about 5 years ago - but slowly people (Corporates) are โ€˜fixing itโ€™ (As in making us all go back to our old ways.) This is because they are still looking at work through the lens of the brochure/horseless carriage. It will be a while before we break it again - BUT - it will be broken but only once we have truly unpacked how the new world of work works.

Iโ€™ve got ideas. Iโ€™ve got people. Iโ€™m excited for the future.

๐Ÿ”— The Mediocrity of Modern Google

But here’s the thing about tech – and I’ve been saying this for years – technology’s self-obsolescence is a more effective regulator than any government agency. Google, despite its trillion-dollar market cap and infrastructure advantages, risks becoming the first of the mega-caps to fade into irrelevance as the internet evolves beyond the “10 blue links” paradigm that made it a giant.

Me - never been overly into the land of Google. Yes - I have an account - and of course I have Google Drive - but it is not my โ€˜go toโ€™ - unless I am forced into it because a business I am working with has decided it hates Microsoft and has enabled Google. I do think it is hard to beat their โ€˜office suiteโ€™ - for the collaboration part of it - BUT I would never consider writing a doc or knocking out a spreadsheet on Google if I wasnโ€™t expecting somebody to be collaborating with me.

In my world โ€ฆ

GoogleSheets Airtable

GoogleDocs Craft

GMail AppleMail/Spark mainly running my own domains in some data center

Google Search Perplexity

GDrive iCloud/Dropbox

GooglePhotos et al. Apple

What else do people use Google for - I forget.