🔗 The Biggest Industry in Every State, Mapped

Makes for an interesting read .. and then I saw that Real Estate was the biggest industry in California .. and I thought wait .. there’s tech, entertainment, aerospace, agriculture .. real estate out performs them all?

And then I read …

This is largely because the Bureau of Economic Analysis treats homeowners as landlords renting to themselves, and includes the rental value in GDP. If economists did not include this value, a jump in the homeownership rate would cause GDP to drop.

Talk about measuring the wrong things!

🔗 TOSDR

I have read and agree to the Terms" is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.

via The mighty Doc Searls via David Reed via Hacker News

🔗 Transformation? Enough Already..

The corporate obsession with transformation is outdated - and continues to fail. Decades of data show most efforts don’t work, so rather than chasing grand, one-time overhauls, organisations must embrace continuous adaptation: flexible structures, people-first strategies, and real-time responses to shifting markets and needs. Change isn’t a ‘one-and-done’ project, it’s a lifetime commitment. Stop transforming. Start adapting. That’s the edge. That’s survival.

Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps

… and it’s about to disappear.

🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED

Paywalled - but if you have Apple News - there is 🔗 this

… whilst 🔗 talking about broken escalators - I wonder when this will be fixed … 10 days and counting so far.

🔗 Indie Culture Is Great - But What’s Coming Next is Better

.. Ted

🔗 NZ firm Vantaset sets sights on UK, US law enforcement agencies

.. enjoy.

Particularly interesting to see that despite running a very VERY NZ centric campaign over the past month - the interest from UK, Germany and Australia has all exceeded local interest - at least based on the analytics on the web site.

A true reminder that no matter how local you think you are trying to be - the fact is that we live in a global world.

It’s also interesting to see how those countries are more interested in exploring organisational performance and productivity from a long time Kiwi company than Kiwi organisations themselves seem to be. #Thinking

🔗 My latest newsletter explores the eternal debate .. ‘Maths - discovered or invented?’

But it’s not only about that … it’s an introduction to a follow up issue where I will be exploring ‘Pattern Breaking’.

(Except it isn’t my ‘latest’ - just another post I discovered on my test blog!

There really is a site for everything - though a very incomplete list …

🔗 Check Your Decaf

Reinvention Summit:the end of equilibrium.

Words from my friend Stuart Maister - over in the UK …

The idea of transformation is dead. That’s because it assumes you go from one equlibrium state to another through a change process. But the theme of the Reinvention Summit in Dublin was that there is no equlibrium, only permanent change. So continual reinvention replaces transformation as a process.

🔗Read the whole post here.

I was taken with Stuart’s conclusion …

My big idea to this is simple: it is critical to have strategic clarity so that you adapt, change and transform your activities within a clear and well defined mission.

… because that’s what my friends at 🔗 Vantaset talk about.

Come to think of it - a lot of people talk about it - the real challenge is pulling it off.

It is that that makes Vantaset truly revolutionary. because they do exactly that for business after business. Organisation after organisation.

🔗 More to come on this …

🔗 “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream.

🔗📹 a day of celebration … one of the better summaries of NoKings Day .. and on Facebook of all places.