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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.

🚧 Toying with the idea of a new post category on the site - ā€˜Living Pages’.

Then scrapping the ā€˜real’ pages altogether.

In this way, I can keep the pages updated in Drafts and use the excellent plugin from @donnydavis to manage …

Any thoughts as to what might go wrong?

(Just a test … please ignore.)

🚧 šŸ”— Streams of Consciousness Ā· Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer via ā€˜Om’.

More on this, in the comments, soon, like I often do.

🚧 Not sure what the plan is … or even if there is a plan … but I would vote from some more thought into how pages work on Micro Blog. Everything works just fine for a handful, but I am now over 20 and counting. It is starting to get hard to keep track of them with just a list;

  • which pages belong togetherā“
  • nested in the menuā“
  • is it showing on the menu or notā“

My kluge is to use emojis

My Pages

… but emojis in the page title do not consistently show up on the site. See this compared to this for example - and yes - not yet fully consistent with

  1. my page URL naming convention
  2. pages that seek to help in some category promotion

I popped in a couple of posts recently that are part of what I am naming the ‘New Zealand Jigsaw’. This post is one of my ā€˜living posts’ that will serve as the gateway to the full set, once they are all published - and assuming that I can publish faster than I can think of more topics. Introduction A MicroBlog Storm Ardern Resigns - Hashtag After Ardern - Bernard Hickey

🪦 I Died Today.

… not me - someone else.

P O W E R F U L

I will come back to this at some point because I want to say something - but not right now. 🚧

The Stripe co-founders were candid about their failure to predict where the economy was heading. They also said they overspent on things like ā€œcoordination costs.ā€ That’s not a term I’ve heard before, but I suspect it is a reflection of getting too big and too inefficient. šŸ’¬ Jessica Lessin It's a new term to me aswell - BUT recently on LinkedIN there was a meme running around - which used this graphic.

Shoshana Zuboff calls this development The Coup We Are Not Talking About. The subhead of that essay makes the choice clear: We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. Her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, gave us a name for what we’re up against. A bestseller, it is now published in twenty-six languages.

In my book ā€˜For Business Leaders Slapped In The Face By A World They Thought They Knew’, I referenced an organization called 'The Prout Institute'. It came to mind as I watched this relatively unwatched (in the big scheme of things) video. Andrew Pancholi is definitely an interesting man. It's a 2022 video - but predates the invasion of Ukraine, though not the build-up with the result that we have an immediate feedback loop on some aspects of how right or wrong his thinking is.

🚧 I wanted to write this post as a permanent test of applying ā€˜footnotes’ on my blog. Here in the time line it is almost certainly going to look weird if there isn’t a title - but the idea is to improve the reading experience on the site - and then of course explore what it might look like in an RSS feed. Post Posting The footnotes aren’t coming through hyperlinked.