💬 Quotes
Trust
CX in the age of privacy and trust, part 3: Can we rebuild trust?
Tim Walters
Fits nicely into something I read recently from Union Square Ventures .... Trust is offence (trust gaps create opportunities for startups) as well as defence (trust is a moat).
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
💬 Voltaire
… reminded of this in today’s Stowe Boyd newsletter, which in turn reminded me … (now don’t judge) … but boy - do I have some questions !
A wealth of wise words and wisdom in quote form.
”In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
💬 Andy Warhol
I’ve just done the calculations. It will take around 225,000 years of 15 minute fame slices to work through the entire population of the planet.
Now I know why the days seem so long.
“The user experience angle only matters when the buyer of a product is also the user..”
Ben Thompson
In January 2020, not a single CEO, government leader, politician or consultant let alone futurist, futurologist, sociologist, FoW expert, forecaster, strategy planner or pollster … wrote or talked about what we should do 6 months later when the world was in the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu, suffering the deepest financial depression in nearly a hundred years with a global #BLM movement provoking civil unrest that threatens the global power structure that has been in place for centuries.
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
💬 Oscar Wilde
… we clearly no longer have a ‘thoroughly modern intellect’.
”That we allow Nuclear Weapons to exist in a world controlled by deranged sociopaths is, in itself, a deranged arrangement."
💬 Roger Waters
With Twitter’s new voice tweet feature, I’d like a simple way to post a voice message to RSS … I have lots of working code for dealing with feeds …. let’s make podcasts super easy for the people.
💬 Dave Winer
Thinking about what @manton has done on Micro.blog
”Keep this story in mind the next time the FBI and DOJ start barking about their being trustworthy with the secret keys to encryption backdoors they want built."
💬 John Gruber
“5-Track warbles sweeter than lost’n’lonely Neil Young during ON THE BEACH, almost as self-satirizing as the very Reverend Roky Erickson and … appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States’ next phase.”
💬 Julian Cope 🎵
💬 Juan Cole
… just as we in turn are all dreaming of a regime change.
This country was built on unconscious racism. We have to consciously decide to take it into another direction.
💬 David Frier
(🔗 Source)
I don’t often disagree with Frier, but;
… the country was built on unconscious racism …
Really? Unconscious?
Being blind and ignoring it is not unconscious.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
“In 1965, Robert Novak wrote a book called ‘The Agony of the GOP, 1964’ - about Goldwater’s takeover of the Republican Party. That resulted in an immediate electoral disaster, but without long-term damage to the Republicans. 2016 may have been the reverse.”
💬 Arnold Kling
”With Trump, there is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume the worst is yet to come.”
💬 George Will