The Pain Of Boiling An Ocean
Sometimes the task in front of me seems to be so large and never
I wouldn't normally link to something like this - at least not on this blog - but this morning I also happened to catch Rob Long's Martini Shot Podcast ... a 'shot' in the arm over a few minutes. It's the one dated August 21st that I want you to listen to. Sage advice and not far off from what I was writing about in this week's newsletter and then seeing this ... well 'put up or shut up' as they say.
”If property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds?”
[John Perry Barlow](https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=dltr)
Trump campaign seeks to mobilize women in 2020 battleground states.
Oh, you bet they’ll be mobilized.
Playful BMX Video Full of Rube Goldberg-esque Street Tricks
Via Kottke - so you know its good.
Employee Experience and Motivation
At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors
I mean none - 100% owned by Taso Du Val and I assume none by all the rest on this page.
As Toptal’s Chief Executive Officer, Taso manages Toptal’s core team of hundreds of team members distributed throughout the world, with a focus on innovation. Since Toptal was founded in 2010, Taso has led it to become the largest high-skilled, on-demand talent network in the world. Taso serves on the board of multiple organizations, advising on talent strategy and innovation for Fortune 100s and nonprofits. Taso has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Oxford on talent management and entrepreneurship.
Toptal's Web Site
Anyway, what he does and how he runs his business is - well - his business. But it got me to wondering ... what he is advising those other companies to do when it comes to employee engagement? Employee motivation?
From where I sit, these words resonate;
Questionnaire
It a little more political than the usual People First fayre - but the fact is everything ... everything ... is becoming political in these times. So, why not.
Want to improve older Americans’ lives? Try giving them free Lyft rides
All good - but why (member of the shareholder economy) Lyft ?
The ‘sharing economy’ should be about us all sharing.
Anyone can give a free lift to anyone else, they just don’t typically think about it.
Online Shopping is perfect when buying ‘homogeneity’ .. a long way from it working when buying ‘heterogeneity’.
Sometimes you have to wonder about value delivered …. $6 per month to create, edit and use an email signature … seriously?
”If it’s an online class, “You can pay somebody in another country to take that course for you. If you do an easy online search for ‘take my online class,’ you see sites where someone can log in, take the class and you can get the credit for it,”
via my buddy Louis
Dear DISKWARRIOR - it’s years since we last talked. And then yesterday I was wondering how DO I sort out this problem. Up you popped in my mind. You told me I needed to upgrade. I did. You did the analysis. You fixed it.
Thankyou for saving that 3 TB of data.
🎵 Been a little lax in keeping up recently - but @justgoodmusic is still cranking out posts thanks to @Cassinato - anyone else want to be a contributor
🎵 Watch Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sing Shakespeare via Eric Alper .
Apple Card and rejecting arbitration - just follow the instructions and in a minute you are done - seamless - no questions - no fuss - no muss.
So many people go on treks to get to ‘know’ themselves… hopefully they aren’t amongst the
”Two per cent of Brits don’t know whether they’ve lived in London before.”
And a raft of other things that we really should know.
Would you know if you have ever in your life surfed?
'Fitting In' Might Be All Bullshit
It’s easy enough to carry a Legal and General umbrella in a sea of ‘bankers black umbrellas’, it’s a very different proposition to take a more meaningful stand against the status quo.
Sorry - don’t believe it
Police thwarted six mass shootings and white supremacist attacks since El Paso