Must be some kind of event starting up!
Survey time.
Your fuel tank is half full … is it time to find a garage and fill up … or do you just keep going because the other half tank got you this far?
Reminded of a conversation a few years ago - someone asking why would they throw their shoes over ‘street wires’.
‘They’ don’t was the reply.
Behold! The ultimate oxymoron.
Let's End Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Let's End Ageism - A Ted Talk
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Lot's more to say on this, and will. Some of the points I touched on in Tuesday's Newsletter.
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
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Korean Invention of the Printing Press 200 Years Before Gutenberg
”This piece is a good reminder that the spread of technology (and culture) depends on more than just how useful it is.”
Is it? Or is it that we in the West are schooled that Western history is world history?
Ditch The Binary
“Look at gender. We used to think of it as a binary, male or female, and now we understand it's a spectrum. It is high time to ditch the old-young binary, too.”
Ashton Applewhite
Says it all really. Ageism is alive and well. In fact the same day, Paul Krugman wrote a piece on the job market that I totally disagreed with - so of course I had to write something.
You can read the whole of Issue Number 7 here.
”But that’s because as usual, we measure and comment on the wrong things. ‘Everybody’ having a job is not the point (if a large chunk of the workforce is excluded from the count of ‘everybody’). It is everybody (not just 25 to 54-year-olds) having one job, that is paid fairly, so doesn’t need to work a second job to make ends meet. That is what we should be looking at.
John Philpin
and I conclude
”So yes, ‘fully employed’ America, where you aren’t counted in the last ten years of your working life, and those that are counted are working double jobs to make ends meet, while others are self-declaring early retirement because they can’t get a job. Life is just dandy … no?
Krugman Should Comment On The Complete Picture
Paul Krugman writing in the NYT today.
There was a message in the latest jobs report that is consistent with what these reports have been telling us for at least the past year or two. Namely, the workers are alright.
Paul Krugman
Well who am I to disagree with Paul Krugman?
John Philpin - that's who. And I completely disagree.
As always, its what's not being said that matters. The elephant [efn_note]elephants?[/efn_note] in the room cannot be ignored, and I am disappointed that someone like Krugman should waste his time on this kind of 'opinion'. Yes, we have 'great' employment figures. But that’s because as usual, we measure and comment on the wrong things. 'Everybody' having a job is not the point (if a large chunk of the workforce is excluded from the count of 'everybody'). It is everybody (not just 25 to 54-year-olds) having one job, that is paid fairly, so doesn’t need to work a second job to make ends meet. That is what we should be looking at.
After reading this week’s People First Newsletter - ‘Ditch The Binary’ … I got this email;
”Great piece to wake up with my coffee as we stand on the precipice of what we hope is not personal obsolescence with regards to any and all of life’s topics.”
Badge Boys, Badge Boys, Whatchu Gonna Do?
I wonder how long he had the headline / title in mind … before getting the story 🤓
Thirty Four Percent - and that is something to crow about. I have some ideas, all part of People First.
Two related articles in this mornings SF Chronicle.
SF homeless population rose 30% since 2017
What does London lack that SF has in abundance?
Conclude as you will.
Part Four is Next Week.
T is For Terminate - Part Three of a Four Part Series on Data at BizCatalyst360
A is For Articulate - Part Two of a Four Part Series on Data at BizCatalyst360
D is For Dangerous - Part One of a Four Part Series on Data at BizCatalyst360
Donald Trump: we will no longer deal with the British ambassador
Hope for the British yet.
And all of this over saying secretly what so many people say out loud.
Wrong. Very Wrong.
Startups are now offering people “passive income” for their personal data. These companies claim to empower consumers to profit from personal data. But actually, they entrench an attention economy where cash-strapped consumers trade personal privacy for quick cash — much like the plasma-for-cash biz. Data exchanges broker the sale of personal data between the people who generate it and the large companies hungry for it. One,
The HustleStreamr , connects real-time personal data with companies via subscription. Another, UBDI (Universal Basic Data Income), buys personal data and sells “insights” to companies. At first glance, it’s tempting … If my toaster and my watch are already collecting data, I might as well get paid for it, right?
My Take
Wrong. And they know it. Read more here. No most discussion needed, but if you want to - I'm ready.