Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Paywalled - but if you have Apple News - there is 🔗 this
Ticketmaster - for it is they that own ‘Moshtix’ now have in THEIR system MY full and legal name that ‘must match’ the name I used to book my tickets, my phone number, my email, which city and country and zip code I live in - all of which was ‘needed’ as I booked tickets for a concert. Quite why they needed all that is unclear - because even the ID ‘enshitification’ stuff is their ‘information grab’ doesn’t solve the problem of scalping - they are just forcing data out of people - the bad guys have ways round it.
This all came to mind as I read 🔗 this from Don Marti - after he read this from Doc Searls.
Doc is a personal story - the key one to read is Don’s where he summarises surveillance ‘myths and the reality’.
I particularly liked this one …
surveillance myth: small businesses want social media advertising
reality: they wanted social networking and got switched over. Policy changes that limit surveillance will make independent businesses better off.
.. but the others are just as important.
Which is all currently high in my mind - because I am reviewing a new app that someone has recommended to me - and on their web site they write ( I paraphrase and add bold)
… a B2B marketing company that helps businesses find and close high-value customers faster by identifying which companies are most likely to buy before they raise their hand. They use AI and data signals to spot early intent, then deliver targeted ads and personalised outreach to decision-makers at those companies. Their model blends analytics, account-based marketing and sales activation to reduce waste and boost conversion.
I wonder how they do all that if they aren’t into surveillance … which as you know - I am not a big fan of … back to Don
surveillance myth: content is fungible, targeting algorithms are uniquely valuable.
reality: expert brands such as King Arthur Baking and Tieman Tire have product and service knowledge that differentiates them, and that the company can keep and build on.
The problem with that reality is that it takes time - and most people want the shortcut.
… whilst 🔗 talking about broken escalators - I wonder when this will be fixed … 10 days and counting so far.
🔗 NZ firm Vantaset sets sights on UK, US law enforcement agencies
.. enjoy.
Particularly interesting to see that despite running a very VERY NZ centric campaign over the past month - the interest from UK, Germany and Australia has all exceeded local interest - at least based on the analytics on the web site.
A true reminder that no matter how local you think you are trying to be - the fact is that we live in a global world.
It’s also interesting to see how those countries are more interested in exploring organisational performance and productivity from a long time Kiwi company than Kiwi organisations themselves seem to be. #Thinking
Jax and I took a little tiki tour of our ' ‘hood favourites ’ on Saturday - including an extended session in my ‘favourite of the favourites’ … The Tinted Rose … who have extended their range of available 🔗 Lady H Gins.
🔗 My latest newsletter explores the eternal debate .. ‘Maths - discovered or invented?’
But it’s not only about that … it’s an introduction to a follow up issue where I will be exploring ‘Pattern Breaking’.
(Except it isn’t my ‘latest’ - just another post I discovered on my test blog!
I was delighted to be joined on the People First podcast by Ramsey Avery who is the Production Designer for the Amazon series - Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power.
Wonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
🔗🎙️ Ramsey Avery - The Lord Of The Rings - The Rings Of Power
Discovered on my test blog from a year ago. (Clearly a space I don’t use a lot!)
There really is a site for everything - though a very incomplete list …
Reinvention Summit:the end of equilibrium.
Words from my friend Stuart Maister - over in the UK …
The idea of transformation is dead. That’s because it assumes you go from one equlibrium state to another through a change process. But the theme of the Reinvention Summit in Dublin was that there is no equlibrium, only permanent change. So continual reinvention replaces transformation as a process.
I was taken with Stuart’s conclusion …
My big idea to this is simple: it is critical to have strategic clarity so that you adapt, change and transform your activities within a clear and well defined mission.
… because that’s what my friends at 🔗 Vantaset talk about.
Come to think of it - a lot of people talk about it - the real challenge is pulling it off.
It is that that makes Vantaset truly revolutionary. because they do exactly that for business after business. Organisation after organisation.