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The People First Instagram Account needs some love and attention … of course anything over there is already available Here or Here … but Instagram people are people too!
Data, one of the People First Pillars, is this weekâs topic that links through to my 4-part series recently published by BizCatalyst360.
On Blocking Ads
To be strictly accurate - we should be talking about Blocking Trackers
... I came across this article (note if you are using an 'ad blocker' ... then guess what - they tell you that you have an 'ad blocker' on .... actually I don't use an 'ad blocker' - I use a 'tracking blocker'.
That aside, I thought I would extract some pertinent quotes from the piece and add my comments. The piece appeared in Adage and was written by Jason Jercinovic - and so all the quotes below I attribute to him.
Havas is a pretty good agency that has produced some great campaigns for Air New Zealand, Global Mental Health and Canal+ - so I kind of feel that they (should at least) know what they are doing. I'll go further. They do - but it is clear that they remain bought into the narrative of 'poor us - we have to do this [efn_note]Use Ad Trackers[/efn_note] for it to work'. They don't.
So - let's get too it ...
and no one can blame the advertising industry for rapidly adopting them.
I can!
On Aging
I’m very much a Darwinian. This means I must ask myself questions like ‘How come all surviving cultures until modern time have been based on religion?’ and I draw the conclusion that religion has somehow helped people and civilizations to survive.
In the same way I ask ‘how come all sexually reproducing forms of life age (unlike e.g. amoebas, or yeast)?’ and its the same conclusion - in different words now: ‘if there has ever been a sexually reproducing species that did not age, they have not survived to tell the story’. Have there existed such failed species, then? I’m suggesting that its likely, because (unless I’m misinformed) aging is a ‘feature’.
Around the age of 45 the human body ’switches on’ aging, or rather, it switches off the function that keeps us young. Much of the research today is (unless I’m misinformed) about how to keep the stay-young-function ON.
To be provocative - the ambition to stop aging can be seen as disrespectful of the wisdom of Darwinian nature and it has a slant toward man-made creationism.
It’s not going to end well, in each case.
David Nordfors
It struck me as so very right - little to argue with, so recording for posterity!
RelBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be.
Oscar Wilde
Related Links
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - the book is on this list.
Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?
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. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
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A New Look At Data
Celebrating my 4 part series on data, it is designed to be;
“Non-technical, hopefully fun, definitely not definitive and absolutely a work in progress.”
John Philpin
Because if you don’t understand what it is and how it is being used against you, then you are in for a shock …
The upside of sharing personal data … a really interesting post from fellow IIW and Me2B member Johannes Ernst - and fits in well to my pipes to platforms to protocols thinking. Some in the IIW community seem hesitant about it … but to me it definitely resonated. Thoughts?
It's 5 0'Clock
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Up every morning just to keep a job,
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,
While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).
but it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No-one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a five o’clock me inside my clothes,
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,
🚧 Platform Failure
Sadly, this wasn’t what I thought this was going to be about.
A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail
"Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. Five of the six most valuable firms in the world are built around these types of platforms. However, a study of 252 platform companies showed that 209 of them failed. The most common mistakes into four categories:
(1) mispricing on one side of the market,
(2) failure to develop trust with users and partners,
(3) prematurely dismissing the competition, and
(4) entering too late.
Researchers have extensively studied pricing decisions, yet managers still get them wrong. A platform often requires underwriting one side of the market to encourage the other side to participate. But knowing which side should get charged and which side should get subsidized may be the single most important strategic decision for any platform."
Kyle Westaway
Interesting what each of us takes away when we read articles. The quote above is from Kyle Westaway - and indeed nothing wrong with his takeaway. But there is more - and even the HBR article doesn’t really get down to it.
Newsletter Number Eight : Work-Life balance - it solves the wrong problem really well.⣠â£â£â£â£â£â£ â£â£â£You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/work-li… ⣠â£â£â£â£â£â£ â£â£â£#newsletter #peoplefirst â£#worklifebalance ⣠â£â£
Newsletter Number Seven : Ditch The Binary - why are people either âoldâ or âyoungâ and why when most of us get âoldâ are we told to retire - unless you are the Rolling Stones of course â¦â£ â£â£â£â£â£â£ â£â£â£You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/ditch-t… ⣠â£â£ â£â£â£#newsletter #peoplefirst â£#ageism ⣠â£â£â£â£ â£
Newsletter Number Six : The Challenge Of Work - exploring the real value of YOU to who you work for.⣠â£â£â£â£â£â£ â£â£â£You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/the-cha… ⣠â£â£â£â£â£â£ â£â£â£#newsletter #peoplefirst â£#futureofwork ⣠â£â£
