For all those of us attempting to get paid for value by people who wouldn’t get value if it smacked them between the eyes.
Now THERE’s a fact!
”There are more licensed boats using Britain’s canals than at the height of the industrial revolution,”
Guinness World Records is on a slippery slope
”Common sense suggests that Guinness is not a substance likely to be of help in the global ranking of gradients in built-up areas."
Davi Mitchell
“The times absolutely call for a tough approach. You have to face a bully – and that is what Trump is – with a strong response. You can’t run away from him, you can’t squirm, you have to take the bully head on.”
Julián Castro
The coming mass extinction of Fortune 500 companies.
Of course the new replacement Fortune 500 companies employ ‘orders of magnitude’ less people.
Meanwhile there are 100% more people in the working population and GDP has grown 40 fold.
For 42 of the 90 days to ‘Hard Brexit’ the UK Governemnt are going to be on ‘Summer recess’.
Can you imagine a business with a looming life changing deadline on the horizon allowing anyone to go on vacation … much less close the place for nearly 50% of the remaining time?
🎵 Is it just me that has Boris The Spider running through his head on constant repeat?
🕷
”If DoorDash guaranteed a worker $7 for a delivery and a customer did not tip, DoorDash would directly pay the worker $7. If the customer tipped $3 via the app, DoorDash would directly pay the worker only $4, then add on the $3 tip so that the worker would still get only $7.
As I am modifying People-First and readying it for a new offer - I had to check .. which is it?
Ebook
EBook
ebook
eBook
e-book
e-Book
E-book
E-Book
I have made my call - think email, website et al.
Just wondering what you all think?
Without aligning incentives, we can’t kill fake news or save journalism
The inimitable Doc Searls
Beto O’Rourke Doesn’t Have A Base
Nate Silver reporting on why Beto is only polling at 3%
How to watch live broadcast TV on your Apple TV without cable/
Interesting …. anyone done it?
Personally I am stunned that in this day and age someone even thought this was right - much less implemented it!
London officials ban segregated play areas in future housing developments
… and now we need a law to stop it. Oi!
Is anyone else seeing OSx create multiple document folders on iCloud … I now have
‘Documents’ and
‘Documents 2’ through ‘Documents 6’
My production machine is still chatting to Documents, the beta is defaulting to ‘Documents 2’
It's 5 0'Clock
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Up every morning just to keep a job,
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,
While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).
but it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No-one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a five o’clock me inside my clothes,
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,
Location Location Location
SF Chronicle: Silicon Valley’s costliest city adds fine-dining spot
The restaurant is in Redwood City, next door to Atherton, which is indeed an expensive ‘hood, but is a town not a city.
Other than that … carry on!
🚧 Platform Failure
Sadly, this wasn’t what I thought this was going to be about.
A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail
"Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. Five of the six most valuable firms in the world are built around these types of platforms. However, a study of 252 platform companies showed that 209 of them failed. The most common mistakes into four categories:
(1) mispricing on one side of the market,
(2) failure to develop trust with users and partners,
(3) prematurely dismissing the competition, and
(4) entering too late.
Researchers have extensively studied pricing decisions, yet managers still get them wrong. A platform often requires underwriting one side of the market to encourage the other side to participate. But knowing which side should get charged and which side should get subsidized may be the single most important strategic decision for any platform."
Kyle Westaway
Interesting what each of us takes away when we read articles. The quote above is from Kyle Westaway - and indeed nothing wrong with his takeaway. But there is more - and even the HBR article doesn’t really get down to it.
Talking of content blockers - I am currently blocked from viewing one my own posts by a content blocker
