Specifically, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and The United States
🔗 Kevin Drum linking to the cheapest and most expensive places to live.
In New Zealand there is a lot of …
The Intersection of Politics, Business, Culture and YOU.
🔗 From DEI to dei - Gapingvoid
Real change requires a change in mindsets and deep seated beliefs. And you only change that through culture.
🔗 The Curse of Easy Money - Gapingvoid
Soon you have a two-speed society: those riding the wave, and everyone else paying inflated prices with deflated opportunities.
Thank you Roger
The words throughout the 4 part ‘series’ courtesy of Roger Waters - so fitting to end this post with one of his.
Picture a courthouse with no fucking laws
Picture a cathouse with no fucking whores
Picture a shithouse with no fucking drains
Picture a leader with no fucking brains
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🔗 📼 This one is AI - but MESMERIZING (Sorry - Facebook)
🔗 The Case for the Executive Chair
I annotated this in the middle of 2024 with the intention to share, it’s pretty damming.
Only one or two directors on the typical 11-member board say they understand industry economics and how the company makes money. Two or three say they have little or no understanding.
Exactly in line with my observations - failure to understand leads to a focus on history, compliance and not losing - because they don’t even understand how to grow and win.
🖇️ You might not be surprised to learn that I have a fix. It’s called The Business Equation
🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’
the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.
🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.
As always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now?
Which reminds me.
When you engage with your LLM of choice, do you say ‘good morning’, ‘thankyou’, ‘please’ … all that nicety stuff?
Bonus question .. regardless of your answer have you tried doing it the other way?
Do the results seem better or worse?