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The constant push by ‘Industry’ and as a result - ‘Academia’ to specialize, specialize, specialize has resulted in way too many specialized specialists and very few โcloud hoppersโ.
Cloud Hopping has always been a differentiator.
In the past We might have thought that expertise is only domain.
Real expertise has always been about synthesis.
I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
- 3 inputs [I] : people, capital and tangible assets
- 2 outputs [0] : products and services
The rest is just context.
Occasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:
After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the momentโespecially this week!
I donโt sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;
- A hotel room not sold on Monday night canโt be sold Tuesday.
- John canโt sell this weekโs sponsorship next week.
- If I donโt bill today I can’t catch up tomorrow.
Iโll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, Iโm just letting this lie.
๐148/366 Talking about ‘series’ .. as we are in the process of closing out ‘May’ - I finally got round to updating my ๐๏ธ ๐ 366 series
๐142/366 A Bucket Of Slop
I am well aware that despite my years long campaign to stop people from describing their words, articles, photographs, thinking … beliefs, soul โฆ Intellectual Property even โฆ โcontentโ โฆ they continue toโฆ unabated.
๐ ๐๏ธ It drives me nuts.
But I am not giving up โฆ

That said - there are people that โget itโ. (Though I will freely admit that we are also in the minority there!)
Meanwhile the ‘bot farms that have been delivering the real content (sic) to our uncurated feeds and inboxes have been gearing up for the AI revolution - and indeed as reported in many places are already shaping our ‘thinking’. (I use the word loosely.)
Imagine then my delight to read that ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.

Sidebar - if you don’t know what a ‘bucket of slop’ is - ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.
Perfect.
Slop is also a name given to what is left at the bottom after any of the remotely useful homogenized content that has been stored in a silo has been removed.
The trick now is going to be how readers will be able to spot the slop - given that they already have difficulties separating content from any kind of value.
Read the whole piece …
๐ Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
… and hat tip to John Gruber who referenced this post on Daring Fireball.
๐ Meanwhile, over in Finland, they do have an idea or two.
I have referenced ๐ ๐๏ธ The UNDaunted on this blog a few times. On a call this morning - and we are going live in two weeks . Letting a few friends and family in early. If you are into Social Impact - you are going to love The UNDaunted. Hit me up in whatever way makes sense to learn more.
I just worked out how to add captions to my images on my blog like๐๏ธ here for example.
I adjusted my TextExpander template for future ๐๏ธ ๐ 366 posts.
I need to decide if I should go back and fix all the posts published in 366 thus far?
What’s the name of that psychological problem again?
It has taken a couple of days (and gos), but I am beginning to get my new series settled in. Still some tweaks to go - and there is a BIG fix needed on the site around syndication - but nearly there.
๐ Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review โ so many red flags ignored for so long.
From demeaning sexual remarks on radio to offering his assistant naked to Jimmy Savile, every disturbing detail of this cogent documentary makes it mind-boggling that these alleged abuses have taken so long to surface.
Exactly.
I am no fan of Brand โฆ as I have ๐๏ธ ๐ previously touched on โฆ so this comes as no surprise. Of course, I have no idea of the truth and we donโt yet know the story โฆ but where thereโs smoke etc etc.
๐ Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
Part of an occasional series focused on the ๐งถ thinking and methods. of ๐งถ People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
Part of an occasional series focused on the ๐งถ thinking and methods. of ๐งถ People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
Part of an occasional series focused on the ๐งถ thinking and methods. of ๐งถ People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
5th Session of ๐๏ธ ๐The Readers Republic starts in 25 minutes โฆ live conversation with a few of us across 3 continents who like to read books โฆ let me know if youโd like to join us .. Iโll send you the zoom link.
I promise that I didn’t plan it this way but the last three meetings of ๐๏ธ ๐The Readers Republic differ in length by only 14 seconds.
๐Great Meeting Of ๐๏ธ ๐The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
๐ ๐๏ธ ๐The Readers Republic Invite was just sent out for May 15th/16th - let me know if you didn’t receive it.
๐ Just looking out ahead and realized that I still need to come up with my two books for the next meeting of ๐๏ธ ๐The Readers Republic.