PeopleFirst
Why “coding” is the wrong word.
Filing in the People First ‘corporate speak adopted by people without thinking’ bucket.
On a recent podcast, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley said that Retailers want help in driving people to their stores.
This needed to be called out.
Nice little contribution to the Instagram world today … of course a lot more meaning behind the thinking can be found at People First
Missed this at the time
Fiverr acquires ClearVoice to double down on content marketing
… but if that is not the clearest indicator of this People First Tenet - then I do not know what is.
Want to improve older Americans’ lives? Try giving them free Lyft rides
All good - but why (member of the shareholder economy) Lyft ?
The ‘sharing economy’ should be about us all sharing.
Anyone can give a free lift to anyone else, they just don’t typically think about it.
Play, Passion, Purpose
Needless to say those three words grabbed my attention immediately. And then when he said ...
The culture of schooling is radically at odds with the culture of learning that produces innovators.
Tony Wagner
I was hooked.
Very good Ted Talk - just one gripe ...
He just about opens the talk with
I came to understand, that there's a set of core competencies every young person must be well on their way to mastery before he or she finished high school.
- critical thinking and problem solving
- collaboration across networks and leading by influence
- agility and adaptability
- initiative and entropenorialism
- effective oral and written communication
- accessing and analyzing information
- curiosity and imagination
Tony Wagner
i.e. if you have left school, sorry - we taught you all wrong as to how to succeed in the life in front of you.
What he should have said was
I came to understand, that there's a set of core competencies every person must master.
I know he doesn't mean it and I guess it is about education - but the implication is that you have left school then 'we taught you all wrong'.
Keeping that in mind ... well worth a watch.
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!
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?
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!
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.”