I find the new doo hickey at the bottom of the new iPhone screen to be very useful for moving around the screens I have.
Dear History Channel
I am not blocking your ads - I am blocking your tracking. If you stopped tracking me and just served me ads - I wouldn’t even be able to block you!
Don’t worry - I’ve gone somewhere else - your information isn’t that unique.
🎶🎶 In anticipation of the December release of Blackfield’s 6th … revisiting the catalogue … 🎼 … ‘Dissolving with the night‘ … anyone else hear Moondog being channeled? 🎵🎵
What Drives Us
StoweBoyd
Interesting read, questioning the relevance of Maslow in this new century. I think he is onto something.
It's a couple of months old now - but sharing for posterity.
”This isn’t the first app to embrace its steep learning curve and require users to aspire to priesthood. But it’s a dynamite app that’s irresistible for exactly such users, so I can’t question the model."
words found on the drafts bulletin board - and I couldn’t agree more.
The Day One widget on iOS seems to have got me back DayOne-ing
Trust
CX in the age of privacy and trust, part 3: Can we rebuild trust?
Tim Walters
Fits nicely into something I read recently from Union Square Ventures .... Trust is offence (trust gaps create opportunities for startups) as well as defence (trust is a moat).
Today I Learned
There are some 560 Indian tribes in the USA.
238 tribes operate 474 gaming facilities in 28 states = 329 tribes (58 percent) with no gaming operations.
Of the 474 gaming facilities, few make the ‘big bucks’.
So no, Indian Nations are not doing ‘alright’.
Anybody using element?
Been looking at paid for Zapier as an alternative to free IFTTT - and then my decision just got either harder or easier - IFTTT just changed al the rules !!!
OnMail - yet another email service comes online … remember all the pundits that declared …
”email is dead”…
… as they switched on whatever the app ‘du jour' was?
I think they called it too soon.
Skills
Soft skills ... wooly, fluffy, comfortable ... not like ' real, hard, proper skills are they?
Soft skills, bendy, malleable, unmeasurable ... nothing like ' real, hard, proper skills ...
.. and yet
I often talk about vocabulary and language .... here's another one ... because if you list all the skills that people are highlighting as important in the future - it's close identical to the soft skill list.
My advice ... get into that cuddly warm blanket and embrace those soft skills -- you can always learn the other skills as and when you need them ... despite the name ... they're not that hard.
Character
I was really taken by these words that came in an email from one of my newsletter readers. Capturing it for posterity ... because it is important.
Character may be something you are born with and largely in place by age 5 but surely it is something that is developed and refined in many ways through a thousand experiences in both good and bad directions. Right?
Since a zillion years ago I have ALWAYS subscribed to "hire character, teach skills". It has never let me down and the boneheaded moves I have made here and there were when I deviated from this.
The Future of Work
First, there are many possible futures - it is not yet clear what the future is, so we should be asking what is ...
A Future of Work?
Second, what the hell is ‘work’ - why do we care about it?
If you ask most people if all their creature comforts were taken care of - would they continue to do what they are doing? More than likely they will answer ’no’ - the question then is what is ...
The/A Future of Income?
Third, the future is already here, so let's call it
The Present of Work
…. and by the 'Present of Work' - your life, labour, time to do your work is not a gift, not a present. You should be paid fairly and equitably for your contribution.
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.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Technology
Technology is one of the eight pillars of People First ... with a single, solitary 'stone’, a mighty 'Sarsen' reaching to the sky that is that pillar.
Technology ... OMG ... Technology
- Owned
- Managed
- Governed
... not by you - by others.
Dear Apple
You release a new OS, add a new feature that allows you to see all your screens on a single page and allow us to hide some of those screens if we so choose.
But you don’t offer a way to reorder my screens?
Seriously?
I am available for consulting engagements!
Greg Orme is a business director at The London Business School and his latest book ‘The Human Edge’ won The Business Book Awards Best Business Book for 2020.
He came on to the People First podcast and shared his findings, hope you enjoy.