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Nobody Should Adopt Social Distancing.
Now 'Physical Distancing', That's Different. Definitely Do That.
đïž Travels Without Charlie - Episode 1 - Kevin
It’s a series of stories that are part of People First. The growing set is here, while the story about Kevin is here.
I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I have enjoyed meeting the people that tell me their stories.
The 2 trillion package is in … the market rebound is steeper than the Covid-19 curve and unemployment claims jumped from ~280k to ~3.28million.
That should be enough to tell you where the US focus is.
Not People
This weekâs People First newsletter tells a great positive story that in these turbulent times - you might enjoy. (Bonus - it is not about Covid-19)
Louis Daguerre and Daguerreotypes
I asked a question about this image in this newsletter.
More to come, but to recognize here that it was a stretch ... First Person ... People First!
People First!
People First!
Why would it be any different?
Why People First? Itâs a question that I am often asked. Why not? If not people, then what should be first?
The questions being asked by mainstream media are primarily about how markets and business will recover - few ask how people will recover.
đŹ John Philpin
This past week, I have been reminded ⊠over and over again ⊠that âPeople Firstâ might seem logical - but it is not how this world is, or gets reported.
We Live In A Viral World.
There's A Perfect Storm On The Horizon
We Live In A Viral World. and There’s A Perfect Storm On The Horizon.
This weekâs newsletter from People First.
Garbage Language
We need to stop it.
âWeâre waiting on specs for the San Francisco installation. Can you parallel-path two versions?â
Good grief ... I think Molly Young is channelling me.
... at the very bottom, customer service. Which, by the way, has been rechristened âcustomer supportâ or âcustomer experienceâ at most companies â as though the word service might remind the college graduates recruited for these roles that they will in fact spend their days pacifying irritable consumers over phone, chat, text, and email.Â
As you know - Language is one of the People First pillars.
I have no reason to write more on this article - it only becomes a block to you reading it yourself.
đ§ Data Is Being Used To Screw Us
This popped into a thread that I am part of ...
A thread that caused 'Friend of People First' - Adrian Gropper to write;
A talk that argues that most of the big data is being used to screw us and mentions data trusts as a possible solution. Data trusts are an immature concept but worth considering because it's one approach to decentralizing governance. Until we figure out data governance principles that are transparent and contextual to specific communities we should limit data aggregation by default and focus on personal agents and other fiduciaries.
Adrian Gropper
It is interesting because on that very same day I received these words from another 'Friend of People First' and occasional colleague Daniel Szuc after he received my newsletter declaring Data is Energy.
Energy is energy.
Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong
Climate is a result of energy misused.
Environment is the outcome.
What are the impacts on our environment today, inside people and in the outside environment people live in?
What contributes to the health or toxicity of the environment?
Data, understood deeply, should be used to contribute to the healthy environment ... yet ... how is it being used today?
The answer, of course, is exactly what Adrian expressed above.
It is being used to screw us.
Ian Grigg On Identity
I think that is the opportunity and in five years time we'll know whether we got the mega-corporations holding my identity or whether we managed to take it back.
Ian Grigg - October 2015.
The five years are just about up and I think if the 'megacorps' have not won - they are about to. Is it too late?
Three years ago he wrote: Identity is an edge protocol, and not a nodal protocol. (pdf)
Fuck You. Pay Me.
Imagine, turning around to a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor and telling them that they weren't going to be paid.
Dear Lawyer
I listened to your advice - but I am not going to use it - so I donât owe you.
Wrote no one ever.
So why does that happen to designers, creators, writers et al?
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. Itâs a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the âother domainâ ⊠all of them.)
Technology?
O.M.G. Technology!
We live in the thrall of technology. âShiny Thingsâ, that deliver 'squirrelâ interruptions into our daily lives. Nothing wrong with that, with all the usual caveats that we read about. BUT âŠ
â OMG - Technology ⊠all
Owned
Managed and
Governed
Not by you - but by the very companies that 'sold' you the âbill of goodsâ to begin with. â
John Philpin
âMen have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.â
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince