5 points if you remember a game called Zoom Schwartz and Profigliano
Double points if you played it.
Triple if you ever won.
And I bow to you deeply if you can remember the rules without clicking on the link.
In This Cold Place
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'In This Cold Place - With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | June 19, 2017 |
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A second video that hits you to the bone.
Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'Are You Lost In The World Like Me'? With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | October 18, 2016 |
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Its a couple of years since this was released - but still relevant today - and definitely relevant to People First, so capturing it in the archives.
Just To Remind Us All …
People First
‘We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
Oh - for pete’s sake … this from the article … ‘all’ suffering … give me a break.
It seems an appropriate day for an Englishman in America to share these videos from 5 years ago …
… and then the apology.
Have a great one everybody!
”As a drug addict I was afflicted with a belief…
If everyone did as I wished, and the world functioned as I felt it should, I would be happy
Two serious flaws with my belief!
My friend Ed Kressy
Challenge of Work
Our sixth newsletter explores the value of a person to a corporation.
In understanding how organizations search for ‘talent’ these days, candidates know that their first two or three hurdles will have nothing to do with people and everything to do with machines and as a result valuable time is spent in tuning their resume and cover letter with SEO like terms, so that they bubble to the top.
Do you find that as sad, bad and depressing as I do?
- It’s like outsourcing your customer support team to a call center, full of untrained people … oh wait!
- I mean it’s like putting junior people into sales training on their inside sales team … oh wait!
- I mean it’s like putting a temp on your front desk, so that anyone who comes into your offices is greeted by someone who knows nothing about your organization …
Read the whole of the 6th issue here.
Why We Need a People First AI Strategy
… Wharton, no less. Filed away to keep coming back to.
So annoying. I am becoming as pedantic as my Dad over this stuff!
Ad-blocking doesn’t work if you advertise without tracking.
Yet another example of blindly adopting corporate speak that allows the conversation to be modified to suit an agenda.
We are blocking TRACKING
A big shout of thanks to @JustGoodMusic contributors
@Cassinato @hollyhoneychurch @BestofTimes @jacob @joejenett @rnv @simonwoods @stefp @vanessa @Zak
who have so far contributed 34 posts (after you take out the ‘admin’ stuff.)
So good to see it moving along.
Brett Tapstra mentioned something called TableFlip in one of his recent posts, so of course, and … I am only 3 days into the trial but I will be buying it. Very slick and cool little app if you want an easy way to manage markdown tables.
MarsEdit feature request please @danielpunkass
When viewing pages and posts you can sort by any of the columns you have selected. Would not just be cool but very useful to be able to filter - so as you ONLY see say ‘drafts’.
Added bonus… have the search only work on what the filter exposes - so i can filter all blogs except (say) micro.blog and search for term ‘marsedit’ and only the posts in micro.blog with mars edit would show up.
Vocabulary
... a building block of Language, one of the Tenets of People First. We are developing and sharing a new vocabulary that continues to evolve in the course of
We use this vocabulary to shift the topics and change the conversation about how we put People First in the work we do and the way we live.
| THEN | AND NOW |
|---|---|
| The Future of Work | The Present Of Work |
| Work Life Balance | Pay Purpose Play |
| Gig Economy | Portfolio Lifestyle |
| Customer Experience | Employee Experience |
| Talent Acquisition | Working with People |
| CRM | VRM |
| B2B | Me2B |
| Competition | Cooperation |
| Me | Us |
| Exclusive | Inclusive |
| Hierarchical | Networked |
| Tightly Managed | Loosely Coupled |
| Winner Takes All | Winner Contributes |
| Tomorrow | Today |
| Continual Change | Continuous Change |
| Corporations | People |
BizCatalyst are releasing a four part series on data that I submitted.
To be clear … as I said in the first article
”(the) four-part series is non-technical, hopefully fun, definitely not definitive and absolutely a work in progress.
The Value Of People
There's some fucking guy, scientist or something. Real sick bastard. Says he measured out the remains, the cremated remains of a dead man. Measured out the, uh, minerals left behind, you know? The iron phosphates, the ... whatever it is we're made up of. Says he added it all up to the cost of $4.40.
$4.40. Burnt down man's worth less than a fucking Big Mac.
Michael Grey played by Liam Cunningham in The Numbers Station
I caught The Numbers Station over the weekend, and that is the opening dialogue. It resonated. I know nought of the truth - but it does seem about right.
After last week's newsletter, and the responses, I have thought about it more and more. How we as a society spend so much ... too much ... time reducing anything ... everything ... to a value based on the component parts.
We know that the click bait mongers of the internet write stuff like this - to save you the click through it’s all about adding together the cost of the sum of the parts of an iPhone - and thus by extrapolation conclude that Apple is - as we might say in England ... '
No - this is not a defence of Apple - but to ask a question.
Isn't this exactly what businesses do every day week, month and year to people. You earn a salary or wage based on what they consider is your worth to them while they rent you for the 40, 50, 60 hours each week that you are in their service?
But it's worse. The value is not just for the sum of your component parts, but actually for the sum of your component parts that they think they need, and everything else is ignored. Your component parts are what they have defined are needed to do the job that they have defined needs to be done. Everything else is of zero value.
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.)