Our Web Properties
More of a status check than information, but it kind of makes sense to record here - and periodically update.
People First has 9 domains that get used for different initiatives.
'Broadcast' Sites
Newsletter @ PeopleFirst.news
Podcasts @ PeopleFirst.fm
Blog @ PeopleFirst.vision
Network @ PeopleFirst.network
Business @ PeopleFirst.business
Not Yet Live - and so for now, all should resolve to PeopleFirst.business
- PeopleFirst.pub - it will be the book site.
- PeopleFirst.systems - the structures, framworks, models that allow you to use People First thinking.
- PeopleFirst.video - when we move into video - this is where it will be.
- PeopleFirst.community - it will map the fabric across the internet.
The People First Community
Community mind you ... not Network - is a yet to be developed space/application that will serve to provide a fabric that wraps so many people, organizations, books, papers, applications etc. My observation is that in any initiative you find parallel organizations that seem to relate and compete and yet essentially are discussing the same topic. Think 'not-for-profits' fighting each other for the same funding to solve the same problem.
People First is not the only organization in this space - so in one sense we are another node on the network. No argument. BUT. What [peoplefirst.community](https://peoplefirst.community) will do is provide a network map of anybody and everybody related to and working with the challenges we are identifying.
No need to click through by the way - nothing there - yet - move along. It for the moment remains the vision.
DigLife and Generative Identity
Once such organization, lead by Philip Sheldrake is The DigLife Collective - of which yours truly is a founder member. Their observation says it all;
COOPERATING AT GLOBAL SCALE IS HUMANITY'S PRIMARY CHALLENGE
DigLife Collective
DigLife has in turn recently spawned another initiative that explores Generative Identity. It's new thinking that I wanted to capture now. It's an important message. To me the first time that I am aware of the world of technology that in talking about identity, they are not just talking about the 'ID' - but also starting to think of the 'entity' of Identity.
For those keeping track, you will recall that it is a significant stone in the People First canon.
Whenever we contemplate human dignity and well-being, social inclusion and equity, economics, education, democratic process, peace and justice, whenever we contemplate many of the sustainable development goals and corresponding targets, we inevitably contemplate the question of human identity in the digital age.
Anyone who has worked on projects in areas such as these will vouch that questions of identity are integral to their research, their analyses, and their designs.
The term generative identity is used to refer to research and thinking and designs that prioritise psychological, sociological, and ecological health in their approach to digital identity. The interdisciplinary working group on generative identity exists to encourage such work and, by corollary, to highlight the innate dangers of approaches to digital identity that do not qualify as generative.
https://generative-identity.org/about-generative-identity/
Funny, just today, I published the weekly newsletter referencing a quote from Douglas Adams. There must be something in the ether. Over on the DigLife site, I found this image of dolphins.
Good podcast from @danielpunkass and @manton reviewing the Apple event .. wondering if we know whether HomePod requires a wired power connection or if they contain a battery that gets charged?
🚧 Navigation
Some Useful Tips To Navigate The Articles
The RSS feed is here.
Article Navigation
Like any good WordPress blog, searching by category is of course possible. We have also work hard to only have a single category per article.
We then refine the indexing of the article with free form tags.
We have also introduced a second layer of article - which is 'post type' ... using this filter you can find posts, asides, videos etc
Combine the two look for
- category = work
- post kind = video
Hit 'filter' and back comes the list of all posts that contain 'videos' categorized as 'work'.
And then, of course, you have search!
I think books are specific things. Simply writing a doc, creating a pdf, putting it on your web site and calling it an ebook is not right. I am producing a few such collections right now and they are definitely not ebooks!
In fact avoid ‘e-anything’
Ideas
- digibook
- digitaldownload
Something like that
New Zealand Election 2020 results: Jacinda Ardern claims landslide victory
Unprecedented is the missing word.
Gives hope that things can change in other upcoming elections.
The Journey
People First has been a winding journey for the last four years. Most recently, I find it has been coming together in my mind very clearly and with that clarity I have been encouraged to talk about what is going on in a more open manner. The interesting thing is that as I have become more open about what I am doing, more questions are being asked.
A year ago, asking someone to sign up for the newsletter resulted in them either signing up for the newsletter - or not. No questions. No debate.
Today, I still have the newsletter , added a podcast, the book is coming out shortly and now we are beginning to create community - the questions are beginning to flow.
I still don’t understand. What is the mission/goal of the group(s)?
a newsletter reader
and
What would you say, in three or so sentences, is the hard objective of People First? Not the vague, all singing all dancing "unleashing human potential" nor the activity based "bringing like minds together" etc. What are you (and other participants) trying to tangibly accomplish? This isn't rhetorical. I am just trying to understand what will change/improve at the coal face as a result of your combined efforts.
a newsletter reader
This post is not to answer the questions ... yet. I touched on it in this weeks newsletter - and was specific about that, but here’s the good news. One takeaway for the recurring question is that people are sitting up, listening, they are interested ... which from where I sit is all good news.
As one reader wrote ...
I believe you are on the verge of an overnight success!!!
I hope he's right!
By my calculation, my substacks are a 5-minute read.
To subscribe takes 10 seconds.
California Republicans placed illegal drop boxes … I wonder if anyone will be held to account … much less face consequences?
My Convocast with @AndySylvester intersected with my People First podcast this week … so I used the same recording for both.
Andy asked me - should people learn to code?
This was my take …
What’s yours?
This … I like … a lot … Thankyou @manton
People First Is Not Political
Though it might well be political.
I am writing this post, which is extracted from an email I had cause to write this week when someone questioned a stance I had taken in a newsletter that Pink Floyd was a punk band.
I know - right?
To quote the writer ...
"And Pink Floyd a punk band, WTF!!???)"
an email correspondent
I often take a contrary stance on things to elicit a response. But when I take that stance, it isn't uninformed, just different. So 'Pink Floyd is a punk band' had the desired effect, it elicited response - but no logical argument back, just a preconceived notion that they are a rock/progressive band - which cant possibly be punk. Me - I still say YES. I mean if Malcolm McLaren can produce an album that fuses opera and R&B has he lost his punk? Rigid classification just doesn’t work - I think that also goes some way to explaining how databases have transitioned over time from hierarchical to relational to graph. But back to Punk Floyd.
A Collection of Links you might enjoy - if not - read on
- MTO 21.2: Cohen, Expansive Form in “Dogs”
- Pink Floyd’d Animals pulls no political punches 40 years later
- There is actually a punk band called Punk Floyd
- Punk Floyd : Were Pink Floyd one of the biggest influences on punk?
The point of it all being that if Punk is only about the music / style / genre … then no, Pink Floyd is not a Punk Band
BUT
If Punk is all about anti-establishment commentary and political action - then absolutely yes, they are ... and Roger Waters specifically is the original punk.
Have you seen his Mexico concert?
The desire of the article and a lot of what I write is to take a non obvious stance to make people sit up and either respond "right, I never thought about it that way" or "the guys talking crap” … and I look forward to that debate … always seeking to learn.
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.)
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.