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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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.
✅ 4 episodes - because no more needed.
✅ The flow. Each of the …
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 💯
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If you haven’t read 🔗📚 Ollie Henderson’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 they’re really meant to do. Early websites were brochures. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages. Early TV shows were radio shows with pictures.
💬 Jason Fried
So too work. We ‘broke’ work about 5 years ago - but slowly people (Corporates) are ‘fixing it’ (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.
I’ve got ideas. I’ve got people. I’m excited for the future.
🔗 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 ‘go to’ - 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 ‘office suite’ - for the collaboration part of it - BUT I would never consider writing a doc or knocking out a spreadsheet on Google if I wasn’t expecting somebody to be collaborating with me.
In my world …
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.
It’s a Harlan Coban. It should have been great. It wasn’t. I am increasingly finding that his stuff falls into 2 star or 4 star. This is the former. I didn’t care about the people. The mystery …
Should it be 5 stars?
Probably because it is quite simply an absolute spectacular gem.
🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff. The writer …
Drafted while on my travels a couple of weeks ago …. Finally posting it ….
While there were 60 or so people in the ‘pre approved’ TSA line .. for some strange reason there were maybe 3 of us in the non pre approved line. Plain sailing right? Not so fast.
My computers could stay in the bag .. my shoes could stay on .. but my jacket and belt had to come off. #whatever … oh and empty your pockets. I did. Oh .. and take off your shoes (see earlier instruction). I walked into the scanner … and the alarms went off … bugger … had left my phone in the rear pocket of my jeans.
Off it went to get scanned. Meanwhile I now need to be ‘rescanned’.
I was told to stand to the side so i didn’t block the way. I looked behind me .. nobody there.
Eventually some dude appears and I am manually scanned. In a very rigorous, thorough and intimate way. (Though I was allowed to keep my clothes on and no anal probes were used.) Still nobody in my line .. so I asked .. why not just rescan me with the machine?
Because you fucked up
.. replied the Federal TSA agent.
Right then.
All done and I went over to collect my stuff off the conveyor. All there .. no phone. No people. No bags coming through STILL no phone. Eventually they tell me to go to a different line to get my phone.
####Thankyou …
In the big scheme of things - really - who cares - except ..
All of this in a little airport called Palm Springs. Not NYC. Not DFW. Not SFO. Not LAX .. but Palm Springs. I guess the TSA wannabe disease is spreading.
Imagine how you will be treated in a big airport if you make one step out of line - much less the treatment you are going to receive that is actually being reported (though not that much in the mainstream media).
Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about ‘The People’s OS’. 🔗 Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first …
Restaurant? Or Art?