Where COVID-19 is Rising and Falling Around the World.
Would love to see this same chart comp with NY seperated from RoA … that downward curve is causing complacency, remove NY and it’s a different story.
Americans highly resistant to participating in a contact tracing program. - which will lead to more problems … but what if you could contact trace without losing privacy?
Seperately be interesting to know how many ardent Facebook fans object to contact tracing.
The Car Is Staging a Comeback, Spurring Oil’s Recovery.
It’s staging a comeback because people going back to work are safer in their personal bubble on wheels than on public transit.
New Rules for our times.
For any take away / to-go food I will either pick it up myself or have the restaurant deliver it using their preferred delivery channel.
When I eat out, I don’t pay the taxi and have them pay the restaurant .. why is this different?
Two Minutes and Thirty Eight Seconds of Truth and Honesty
… who can’t relate in these times?
Who will iron out the irony of a non iron suit for ‘Iron Man’.
Currency is Trust At Scale
It’s a good way of putting it … probably because it is.
How Skype lost its crown to Zoom.
Remember Yammer? Skype went the same direction.
You don’t often see BoJo on his back foot. He’s still not looking in tip-top condition - but I have a feeling Keir is going to do a better job at holding him to account than the previous incumbent.
Why the Unemployment Rate Isn’t Tanking the Stock Market
… as I have written before, Wall Street is nothing to do with Main Street.
What I still don’t understand is why they bother reporting the markets on national news. I mean why does it matter to us?
Scott Galloway thinks he has identified the ‘fourth great unlock’. Me I’m not exactly with him on number three - let alone his new discovery.
What do you think?
Dana Blankenhorn describes the cloud. It has a silver lining - but the silver might be ‘fools silver’ … my very own mixed metaphor ….
Why climate change is a pandemic in slow motion (and what that can teach us)
The Correspondent’s Rob Wijnberg draws parallels between Climate Change and COVID. The similarities highlight the challenges.
The business problems only customers can solve.
Doc Searls putting a new spin on his old message. Nothing has changed in 21 years … and counting. I keep hearing the corporate words, I rarely see the corporate action.
Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths. It’s the media’s job not to play along.
… umm yup - but then again - why change what they’ve been doing for the past four years - I mean it has worked so well.
A High Tech Dystopia - coming to a city near you!
[Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia](https theintercept.com 2020 05 08 andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine) … including Eric from Google (who has now left)
Google owns Sidewalk who were doing something similar in Toronto … but, well that was cancelled just two days ago
So, now what? Oh this;
“The tech companies to which Schmidt has deep ties, and which populate the influential advisory boards he chairs, have all repositioned themselves as benevolent protectors of public health and munificent champions of “everyday hero” essential workers (many of whom, like delivery drivers, would lose their jobs if these companies get their way). Less than two weeks into New York state’s lockdown, Schmidt wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that both set the new tone and made clear that Silicon Valley had every intention of leveraging the crisis for a permanent transformation.
“We feel this way not because we want Trump to lose in November, but because we don’t want people to die unnecessarily. (But as a good friend of ours pointed out recently, not wanting people to die now does seems to be a partisan stance.)”
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