⭐️ Videos
You don’t often see BoJo on his back foot. He’s still not looking in tip-top condition - but I have a feeling Keir is going to do a better job at holding him to account than the previous incumbent.
Wall Street. Main Street.
It used to be Wall Street and Main Street.
Now it's Wall Street versus Main Street.
When you read all the analysis, what can I add, other than connecting the articles to a story that highlights the challenges society faces through this pandemic. The stories are new, the underlying themes are not. I have been talking about them for a couple of years. What is new is that they are getting broader attention. Amplification.
Now we need to do something about it. Before we fall back into the ‘normal’. Or worse - accept a ‘new’ normal, because that is ‘just the way it is’.
Not much else to say is there?
”As an American, I should be VERY insulted by this… if it weren’t true.”
one of the comments on
He’s Irish - I take no responsibility.
When should you rotate your phone to landscape to make a video?
Stumbled across this … and though his words flowed - never once did he wave a cane @bradenslen - surprising really. Would have been very appropriate.
Introducing one of my best friends in the world. Sorry the video is small post some cropping. Hope to fix that.
PS - Everything you hear is Randall, live at that moment. No backing dubs or overlays - other than his loop box.
Original video by David Wiltsie
🚧 Data Is Being Used To Screw Us
This popped into a thread that I am part of ...
A thread that caused 'Friend of People First' - Adrian Gropper to write;
A talk that argues that most of the big data is being used to screw us and mentions data trusts as a possible solution. Data trusts are an immature concept but worth considering because it's one approach to decentralizing governance. Until we figure out data governance principles that are transparent and contextual to specific communities we should limit data aggregation by default and focus on personal agents and other fiduciaries.
Adrian Gropper
It is interesting because on that very same day I received these words from another 'Friend of People First' and occasional colleague Daniel Szuc after he received my newsletter declaring Data is Energy.
Energy is energy.
Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong
Climate is a result of energy misused.
Environment is the outcome.
What are the impacts on our environment today, inside people and in the outside environment people live in?
What contributes to the health or toxicity of the environment?
Data, understood deeply, should be used to contribute to the healthy environment ... yet ... how is it being used today?
The answer, of course, is exactly what Adrian expressed above.
It is being used to screw us.
Ian Grigg On Identity
I think that is the opportunity and in five years time we'll know whether we got the mega-corporations holding my identity or whether we managed to take it back.
Ian Grigg - October 2015.
The five years are just about up and I think if the 'megacorps' have not won - they are about to. Is it too late?
Three years ago he wrote: Identity is an edge protocol, and not a nodal protocol. (pdf)
Fuck You. Pay Me.
Imagine, turning around to a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor and telling them that they weren't going to be paid.
Dear Lawyer
I listened to your advice - but I am not going to use it - so I don’t owe you.
Wrote no one ever.
So why does that happen to designers, creators, writers et al?
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.)
Not yet watched it - but I know I will - and if the book is any indicator - should be VERY good.
It is extraordinary not just how bad hold music is - but also the actual sound quality.
This from CGP Grey and reflects my experiences with so many call centers.
From a standing start, never leaving a room and spending less than $1,000 he launched a ‘fake product’ that garnered coverage from the global media in just seven days.
FASCINATING. Imagine what you could do with this kind of thinking and a real product.
Mesmerizing - whether you like / use pencils … or not.
How Faber Castell make pencils.
(I used to use their slide rules - but pencils - never - but that might be changing now).