🔗 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.
🔗 🎙️You Must Answer The Questions About Feet
I might have posted this link before, but I keep sending it to people. It ties back to 🖇️🎙️my own podcast about Agents - nearly two years ago now. Still an issue - and will be for a long time yet.
🔗 Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
I don’t now - what you going to do?
🔗 New study says Black drivers ticketed at 3x the rate of white drivers.
Kevin Drum just keeps these nuggets flowing daily - multiples of time.
🔗 Donald Trump’s contempt for the military, quote by quote
A good(? - not sure that is the right word) list from Kevin Drum.
Eye opening.
Intuit FAIL - And All Because Of A Failure To Communicate!
‘Storm in a teacup ‘or fallout not yet settled?
At the very least the story reflects poorly on Intuit’s head of communications who clearly doesn’t understand how communication works in 2024.
And yes I have listened to the whole podcast. The guy clearly doesn’t even understand journalism!
🔗📼 What we’ve got here is failure to communicate
🔗 Intuit’s PR Team Has Seemingly Never Heard of the Streisand Effect
Good post from John @Gruber today - and not wrong. But I think there’s more.
🔗 This is Rick Heineman’s LinkedIN Profile
- 1.144 followers on LinkedIN
- He seems to have NEVER posted - despite being at Intuit for 7 1/2 years
If you are ‘THE’ dude for communications at a place like Intuit - you should understand how social works. The data on his profile suggests he doesn’t. For all I know he might be a Rock Star over on TikTok - haven’t bothered to look - but for Intuit - surely this is a place to have a presence?
He wouldn’t even need to do it himself. He has ‘people’ for goodness sake.
All I know is that IF you are in corporate communications for any enterprise - you need to be at least socially aware. ideally ‘active’ - whatever that means. . If that company is B2C (and I think Intuit is) - then double down on this.
He got promoted just 6 months ago. Maybe he was trying to make a name for himself.
He clearly has.
Just joined a Discord and was asked to ‘introduce myself’. This is what I said …
I have lived at the intersection of ‘people empowerment through technology transformation’ for most of my career.
Problem - most of those people were INSIDE corporations and if you were on the outside - forget about it - you were a user, a ‘target’ and there was one objective … ‘maximize our share of your wallet’!
25 years ago a group of us asked if a Corporation can have a ‘CRM’ - why can’t a Person have a VRM (Vendor Relationship Manager) .. the question remains unanswered and definitely not implemented.
About ten years ago, I started focussed writing and podcasting about ‘People First’ and been doing it ever since.
I have this feeling that Task driven Agent AIs might be the first opportunity to start solving these very real problems.
Finally - I am NOT a coder - fascinated by it - but I know my skills.
My job is to understand what is being produced and explain it to others in terms that THEY can understand and unpack the relevance.
The constant push by ‘Industry’ and as a result - ‘Academia’ to specialize, specialize, specialize has resulted in way too many specialized specialists and very few ‘cloud hoppers’.
Cloud Hopping has always been a differentiator.
In the past We might have thought that expertise is only domain.
Real expertise has always been about synthesis.
I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
- 3 inputs [I] : people, capital and tangible assets
- 2 outputs [0] : products and services
The rest is just context.
Occasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:
After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment—especially this week!
I don’t sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;
- A hotel room not sold on Monday night can’t be sold Tuesday.
- John can’t sell this week’s sponsorship next week.
- If I don’t bill today I can’t catch up tomorrow.
I’ll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, I’m just letting this lie.
🔗 You are the center of concentric circles, Mark Dykeman
It’s another one of those Dunbar posts, the concentric circles are so random that I was reduced to asking ChatGPT ..
“What is the difference between a friend, good friends, best friends and close friends?
A less than satisfactory answer, though it did seem to agree with me (and the author) that a ‘Best Friend’ is closer than a ‘Close Friend’. Other than that? Yeah - no.
And the numbers
- 5 close/best friends
- 10 more best / close friends
- 35 more good friends
Why did he bother writing the piece? Why have I bothered commenting on it?
📚 A Story
Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been circulating the socials - so of course - I did a little bit of triangulation. It looks legit.
The Story
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying
“please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote:
“my travels have changed me.”
The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Embrace change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.
🎵🖇️ 18 - 1975 - Pete Wingfield.
🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track - this one from Paul Hardcastle.
Sometimes time goes slow.
Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why 🎵 🔗 TIL Why
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
💬 Nicolas Klein
🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly. I didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.