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 …

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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,

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🚧 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.

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Newsletter Number Eight : Work-Life balance - it solves the wrong problem really well.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/work-li… ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst ⁣#worklifebalance ⁣ ⁣⁣

Newsletter Number Seven : Ditch The Binary - why are people either ’old’ or ‘young’ and why when most of us get ‘old’ are we told to retire - unless you are the Rolling Stones of course …⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/ditch-t… ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst ⁣#ageism ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

Newsletter Number Six : The Challenge Of Work - exploring the real value of YOU to who you work for.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/the-cha… ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst ⁣#futureofwork ⁣ ⁣⁣

… says the ‘voice of the corporate. But is it really? Have you heard what they say about us behind closed doors?⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣This is Newsletter Number Five : ‘Corporate Speak’⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/all-els… ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst ⁣#language #corporate ⁣ ⁣

Newsletter Number Five : Do Corporations really believe that people are their greatest assets?⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/all-els… ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣The newsletter includes links back to work by Om, Hamdi, Harold …

Newsletter Number Three : Humanity⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/people-… ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst #humantohuman #me2b #h2h ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣This particular shirt has a story all by itself - more to come on that.

Newsletter Number Two : Supply and Demand - were looking at it all wrong.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/people-… ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst #supplychain #marketplace

Time to start talking about my newsletter. This was the first issue - just an introduction.⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣You can read it here : johnphilpin.substack.com/p/people-… ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣#newsletter #peoplefirst

Work-Life Balance Solves The Wrong Problem Really Well … this weeks newsletter from People First.

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Work-Life Balance

Trading my time for the pay I get (up!)
Living on money that I ain't made yet (up!)
Gotta keep goin' gotta make my way (up!) 
But I live for the end of the day (up!)

The Vogues

Written in 1965 - and nothing has changed. This newsletter introduced you to the 4P model of People First ... Pay, Purpose, Play and Passion.

With a more open, enlightened recruiting process there is so much more that people could do in any company if they were given the chance. The answer is to stop job filling and start fulfilling.

You can read the whole of Issue Number 8 here.

Strategies for Resistance. A visual documentary of subvertising, an essay against the ad-man. … it’s a KickStarter - and right in line with People First thinking.

Needless to say - I made a pledge!

📚 Advertising Shits in Your Head

Strategies for Resistance. A visual documentary of subvertising, an essay against the ad-man.

Excuse the language - but that is the name of the book. The link takes you to their kick-starter.

Funny. Been thinking of doing a kick starter for my book, but I am too busy writing to spend another chunk of time thinking about what the campaign would look like.

Needless to say I have done my pledge - it is such a People First topic that I couldn't resist and as an extra message, the campaign deadline is my birthday. The ether was in alignment!

My thanks to John Wunderlich for the heads up.

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.

NO. I do not want to see ‘Chief Experience Officers’ … but I do like where he’s headed.

Facebook is trying to make the word “private” meaningless.

“But what his presentation elided was the fact that Facebook does not need to see the content of what people are saying in order to advertise to them. The metadata — who, or what (as in a business), you’re talking to, and even where you are or what time the conversation is taking place as it comes together with other pieces of information — provides more than enough information to make a very educated guess about what you’re interested in, to the point that knowing specifically what you are saying adds almost nothing.”

Paraphrasing someone - Doc Searls I think.

”To suggest that by adding up the total set of known and unknown data about an individual provides an understanding of that person is akin to suggesting that by adding up the components that make up a car means you understand the car.

A selection of questions about data that run across two pages in one of my notebooks.

Does the sum of my data describe me?

If it doesn’t why do businesses think it does?

Is ‘my data’ really mine .. do I own it?

When did I give permission for my data to be used by others?