docsearls #peoplefirst #humanbeings #humans
douglasrushkoff #universalaccess #quotes #peoplefirst
#peoplefirst #thinking #future #pipes #platforms #protocols
#peoplefirst #thinking #future #pipes #platforms #protocols
A #blastfromthepast remembering the #future ⣠â£â£ ⣠#Me2B #peoplefirst #iiw
Data, one of the People First Pillars, is this weekâs topic that links through to my 4-part series recently published by BizCatalyst360.
On Blocking Ads
To be strictly accurate - we should be talking about Blocking Trackers
... I came across this article (note if you are using an 'ad blocker' ... then guess what - they tell you that you have an 'ad blocker' on .... actually I don't use an 'ad blocker' - I use a 'tracking blocker'.
That aside, I thought I would extract some pertinent quotes from the piece and add my comments. The piece appeared in Adage and was written by Jason Jercinovic - and so all the quotes below I attribute to him.
Havas is a pretty good agency that has produced some great campaigns for Air New Zealand, Global Mental Health and Canal+ - so I kind of feel that they (should at least) know what they are doing. I'll go further. They do - but it is clear that they remain bought into the narrative of 'poor us - we have to do this [efn_note]Use Ad Trackers[/efn_note] for it to work'. They don't.
So - let's get too it ...
and no one can blame the advertising industry for rapidly adopting them.
I can!
On Aging
I’m very much a Darwinian. This means I must ask myself questions like ‘How come all surviving cultures until modern time have been based on religion?’ and I draw the conclusion that religion has somehow helped people and civilizations to survive.
In the same way I ask ‘how come all sexually reproducing forms of life age (unlike e.g. amoebas, or yeast)?’ and its the same conclusion - in different words now: ‘if there has ever been a sexually reproducing species that did not age, they have not survived to tell the story’. Have there existed such failed species, then? I’m suggesting that its likely, because (unless I’m misinformed) aging is a ‘feature’.
Around the age of 45 the human body ’switches on’ aging, or rather, it switches off the function that keeps us young. Much of the research today is (unless I’m misinformed) about how to keep the stay-young-function ON.
To be provocative - the ambition to stop aging can be seen as disrespectful of the wisdom of Darwinian nature and it has a slant toward man-made creationism.
It’s not going to end well, in each case.
David Nordfors
It struck me as so very right - little to argue with, so recording for posterity!
RelBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be.
Oscar Wilde
Related Links
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - the book is on this list.
Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?
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.)
A New Look At Data
Celebrating my 4 part series on data, it is designed to be;
“Non-technical, hopefully fun, definitely not definitive and absolutely a work in progress.”
John Philpin
Because if you don’t understand what it is and how it is being used against you, then you are in for a shock …
Sometimes DayONE is so annoying … let’s see what happens to this!
🎵 Ok - more to come tomorrow/over the weekend but just discovered a new band out of Seattle called Kilcid - who in turn were telling me about a Welsh band called Super Furry Animals .. pumped.
It’s an obvious scam when you think about it (though I hadn’t before) and clearly demonstrates the returns possible and the ingenuity of people.
The upside of sharing personal data … a really interesting post from fellow IIW and Me2B member Johannes Ernst - and fits in well to my pipes to platforms to protocols thinking. Some in the IIW community seem hesitant about it … but to me it definitely resonated. Thoughts?
Ok - hell has frozen over - I just read an opening to a post ….
”No one starts out as a master orator like Lincoln or Gary Vaynerchuk ….
Back soon - just popping over to the knife drawer.
🎵 Your Taste in Music Can Reveal How Smart You Are.
Yeah - clever - but like so many of these things - the data source is biased.
BMW to charge annual fee for Apple’s CarPlay.
I agree with that last bit that he wrote.
Is anyone else seeing Pages, Keynote and Numbers crap-out under the Mac Catalina Public Beta?
Equifax owes you a lot more, but here’s how to get $125 from this week’s settlement
$125 … no company will ever be incented to change their behavior at this rate.