🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
Three links from my weekend.
🔗 Will data centers crash the economy? - by Noah Smith
🔗 Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won
🔗 I Drank Every Cocktail - Adam Aaronson - so I don’t have to? Meanie.
🔗 Marketing Flywheel Momentum: Why Every Flywheel Needs A Native Analog & Native Digital Duo - from the Lockhead world.
If you are trying to work out what to really do with Marketing in this modern age - he consistently makes sense. (Not on all - I grant - but on Marketing - yes.)
🔗 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!
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
The corporate obsession with transformation is outdated - and continues to fail.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.
I Am A Patriot
My friend reflects on the enduring impact of the song by Little Steven, expressing a longing for integrity and compassion amid current political turmoil in America.
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
Surveillance - It's Getting Worse.
Surveillance - in the one hand it doesn’t work - on the other hand - everybody thinks it does - and on the third hand - compnaies keep on coming up with more cool aid to demonstrate it. And yes - its AI that’s bringing that third hand in.
… whilst 🔗 talking about broken escalators - I wonder when this will be fixed … 10 days and counting so far.
🔗 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
Jax and I took a little tiki tour of our ' ‘hood favourites ’ on Saturday - including an extended session in my ‘favourite of the favourites’ … The Tinted Rose … who have extended their range of available 🔗 Lady H Gins.
🔗 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!
I was delighted to be joined on the People First podcast by Ramsey Avery who is the Production Designer for the Amazon series - Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power.
Wonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
🔗🎙️ Ramsey Avery - The Lord Of The Rings - The Rings Of Power
Discovered on my test blog from a year ago. (Clearly a space I don’t use a lot!)
There really is a site for everything - though a very incomplete list …
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.
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.