⭐️ Videos
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
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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).
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.
🚧 Ditch The Binary - Redux
As I finished this short post, I headed out to the 'google-web-net' to see if I could find a suitable and representative image. I was failing unitl I focussed on 'Redux'. The images associated with Redux are highly Redux oriented, with a high degree of focus on their logo. What you might expect, given the name - but this is not about what they do. So I kept looking and discovered this.
It's as if Karin Edgett read my mind. The image was perfect and the words so in tune with my thoughts, that I couldn't resist.
My entry 'let go of everything or anything and breathe' is part of a series of paintings and haiku exploring infinity in it's transformative sense.
Karin Edgett
Back On Topic
Interesting to read this post from Doc Searls today - which also happens to be his birthday.
🎵 Heard part of this on the final episode of Nick Mason’s Sound and Technology podcast.
This is a more complete 6 minutes of the David Bowie interview.
The disbelief and facial expressions of Paxman are priceless.
🎵 Is it just me that has Boris The Spider running through his head on constant repeat?
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It's 5 0'Clock
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Up every morning just to keep a job,
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,
While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).
but it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No-one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a five o’clock me inside my clothes,
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,
Let's End Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Let's End Ageism - A Ted Talk
| Released | August 23, 2017 |
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Lot's more to say on this, and will. Some of the points I touched on in Tuesday's Newsletter.
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
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Considering the ongoing and growing concern that we humans are turning our oceans into plastic, I can’t help wondering if Catalina (Apple’s new MacOS) is some kind of metaphor for it being a ‘rock in an ocean of plastic’?
In This Cold Place
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'In This Cold Place - With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | June 19, 2017 |
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A second video that hits you to the bone.
Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'Are You Lost In The World Like Me'? With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | October 18, 2016 |
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Its a couple of years since this was released - but still relevant today - and definitely relevant to People First, so capturing it in the archives.
Sorry - I can’t recall where I got this from - BUT 🔗📼 for all Escher and Penrose fans a short mesmerising video.
#vimeo
The Anti-CEO Playbook
I am not usually slow in attacking the nature of business, but not sure the 'Anti-CEO' playbook is exactly the right angle here. That said Hamid Ulukaya's points are excellent. How he built Chobani is a fascinating story. And at one point I was very much reminded me of a couple of People First tenets.
