⭐️ Videos
Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century
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The sewage problem was a new one to me.
🎶🎵Mesmerising (links to video)
To remind - many of us have this capability sitting in our pocket - likely unused!
🎵🎶 Dream Theater has a new album coming out - launch track just dropped.
Stunning
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow with Yuval Noah Harari
It’s an hour long but … it’s Harari .. click the link if you can’t see the video embed below.
Genesis - Get ‘Em Out By Friday - The Lyrics
Arguably more relevant today than when it was released in 1972.
Is America Great?
Dave Winer over on Scripting …
“I am an American, nothing is going to change that, but if you asked me do I feel this is the greatest country ever, I’d say that’s an idea we have to purge from our minds, the US is the opposite, it’s a fat, lazy, spoiled, ridiculous excuse for a country. If we want to amount to anything we need to take a 180 degree turn now.”
Channeling Jeff Daniels / Will McEvoy 8 years later?
“Markets: After a bumpy Thursday when investors questioned economic growth prospects, stocks rebounded on Friday to close at all-time highs.”
Trading up: one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house.
Talking of sequels- nothing like an original idea
I always disliked Cummings - but he seems to be doing a ‘Bolton’ attack on BoJoyoutube.com/watch) (BBC : YouTube)
… so now I am not sure I know which side I am on.
Noam makes some very good points
… and the US gets so pissed off when other countries try to shape the US narrative.
‘Kill the bill’: Hundreds in UK protest against new crime law.
No social distancing there then 🤷♀️
But it’s important. BoJo needs to go if he doesn’t understand why this is wrong.
War - What Is It Good For?
Absolutely Nothing! Say it again.
Simon Sinek talking about what game theory teaches us about war.
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
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
American Business
It's an old one that I rediscovered in the archives. Time to publish.
It just seemed right, timely and very 'People Firsty'.
Describing The Cynefin Framework
I first referenced the Cynefin Framework and published this link on my old Beyond Bridges - now decommissioned - site on June 18th - 2017. Needless to say, though the site is going away, the articles are already archived and dropped safely on my 'words site'
It seemed important, right and relevant to reference it here as I build the archives of frameworks and models relevant to People First.
For sense-making - not categorization.
Finding Your Life's Purpose
Of course it is. But the bigger question is what is your purpose?
Imagine my delight to stumble across this Ted Talk ... 'How to know your life's purpose in 5 minutes.' Finally!
Adam sets the scene pretty quickly. You just need to ask yourself 5 questions and 'Bob's your Uncle'.
5 Questions To Answer Your Purpose
- who you were
- what do you do
- who do they do it for
- what those people want or need
- what they get out of it - how they changed as a result
Simple. Right?
It's so simple that he takes the entire audience on a journey of him asking - and them answering - those 5 questions, by shouting them out.
The answer to question 1 - after a little prompting - was loud.
Question 2, still pretty good.
After that it all falls apart. By the time you get to the answer to number 5, well it's not that you could hear a pin drop - but you kind of get the feeling that the audience is sorry for him.
Why?
I think it’s because the questions are easy. You've read them so many times before. The answers, not so much.
To be clear, the purpose of this article is not to state the 'bleeding obvious', but rather to highlight that if you are struggling with that definition. It's ok ...
We all are!
The Edge Is Where It's At
As we move computing power to the edge, this talk resonates even more. Two - that's two conversations just yesterday that I had where we talked about bringing the power of computing to your pocket.
Think about it - we glibly talk about the 'supercomputer in our pocket' - and we use it to 'like' Facebook posts, send messages and whatever else it is you do - but hardly supercomputer activity.
Conversation one, no need to explore in detail, but I loved the sentiment of the thinking of the company ...
We want to move analytics to the people not their data to the corporation.
Jim Hewitt
... right up my street. As I have always said ....
I don’t think it will be this year, but Jim will be guesting on the podcast. It's going to be a great conversation.
Conversation two, I can't say too much about, suffice to say that the work being done is moving the power of a Cray (for those that don’t know - the Cray literally is a Supercomputer) into your house! Get your head around that for a minute.
I am reminded of (what I thought was an old bumper sticker, but turns out is a real quote.
What Are We Going To Do About The Rich?
I came across the Pet Shop Boys track 'What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? It seemed to be very People Firsty in nature.
Apart from the recurring refrain "What are we gonna do about the rich?" we do have other words;
They say democracy is simply very bad for business
While deploring student protests in the middle of Hong Kong
They insist that people have to work on zero contracts everywhere
So profit margins grow and shares are very strong
But one group that they never take to task
And one question that they never seem to ask
Is...They're buyin' football clubs today with absolute impunity
And so much of the media to give themselves the power
To destroy the very notion and the feeling of community
While poisoning the public discourse hour by hour
But although it never seems to make it into Hansard
The question at some point must still be answered
Oh...They're avoiding paying taxes
Pet Shop Boys
While the welfare state collapses
Their extravagance and arrogance
Their lack of tact to balance this
Their lawyers and their attitude
The scale of their ingratitude
They only give to charity
For maximum publicity
The Lincoln Project is more famous for it’s advertising … but this is a ‘micro-movie’ that they put out on July 30th.
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Quite startling.
It’s just tooooooo good - click on this link if you can’t see the embed below.
All of Silverman’s takes have been funny - but in this one she out does herself!