Oh!
A psychological evaluation after the fact.
Again.
One day somebody will cotton on to prevention.
The Four Natural Forces Applied To Business
I used the 4 natural forces model in my 📚recent book as an analogy for the 4 forces of humanity.
And then I read that 🔗 Fermilab has found a discrepancy with the mass of the W boson.
“The current 'standard model' of particle physics describes four fundamental forces. Three of those — electromagnetism, gravity and the strong nuclear force — push or pull things, broadly speaking. The fourth force — the weak nuclear force — doesn't really push or pull anything. Instead it makes one type of particle transform into another type of particle. In doing so we get the force responsible for radiation, and it's the force that drives nuclear fusion in the sun. So it's quite important.”
I’ll say it’s important. Now I will have to revisit some of the thinking in the book!
“Each of us are, in fact, the star of nothing that matters.”
💬 Dave Winer
Remember when Jack made an NFT out of his first tweet?
🔗 NFT collector gets $280 top bid for the Jack Dorsey tweet NFT he bought for $2.9 million last year
💣 💣💣 💣💣💣 💣💣💣💣
Elon Musk’s not-so-secret weapon: An army of Twitter bots.
Who knows the truth - but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Truth In That
On my phone I do have a few social network apps installed, but all alerts are off and all the apps are hidden from the home pages … on my iPad I don’t even have them installed.
Wow … now there’s something for the ‘today I learned’ bucket …
Guy Kawasaki and Marc Benioff In Conversation
Guy Kawasaki was probably for first person in the business world with the title ‘Evangelist’ and coincidentally an old neighbour of mine.
Marc and I worked with each other back in my Oracle days.
This podcast has Guy interviewing Marc talking of his trajectory from 19 year old college kid to CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
While it might SEEM to be yet another Silicon Valley story - this one is presented through the lens of what makes Marc different to the average SV success story … which is his humanity and desire to give back. He’s doing it in spades around San Francisco. But elswhere aswell.
He’s also very big into meditation.
“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”
💬 Margaret Mead
First phase of the newsletter design is now in the can.
The Famine of 1932-33
I was talking to a long time friend of mine last night. She is of Ukrainian descent.
I knew about Stalin’s ‘Great Famine’, but did not know how much of this act of aggression occurred in Ukraine.
🔗 Ukraine - The famine of 1932–33 (Holodomor)
“Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians.”
Get off Twitter if you want to see your friends’ posts.
If proof is needed - this post will be routed to Twitter where it will languish and mostly not be seen by my friends - because most of my friends don’t go to Twitter to read what I am saying.
“The struggle is never between good and evil, it is between the preferable and detestable.
💬 Raymond Aron