… am I wrong? If so, how? Would love to hear your thoughts.
Dear Apple - you know how you said that in the new version of Keynote you had
“Improved performance while collaborating on presentations.”
… yeah, well why the hell can’t I still add styles while in collaboration mode?
Good Grief!
I am on a bit of a roll with ‘Corporate Speak’ at the moment, so …
Listening in on three dudes talking.
”Oh yeah - I think we sunset that product.”
It’s a product people. You killed it, discontinued it, stopped making it , withdrew support …
Say it like it is!
🔇 Sound.Philpin.Com finally sorted for all ‘Sounds Philpin’.
Including filtering of Podcasts, Microcasts and Snickelcasts.
The Working Day Is Done
No, not Cyndi ... Neil.
They say that life imitates art. In this particular
When the working day is through
Neil Hannon - Divine Comedy
And you're waiting in the rain
For another overdue
Overcrowded railway train
And the movie poster screams
"It's the best film ever seen!"
But it's all a different world
To which you have never been
And you're bored out of your mind
So you keep yourself amused
Reading the Financial Times
Of the fellow next to you
Then something in you snaps
And you shout with all your lungs
"We give and get nothing back!"
When the working day is done."
Unfair - possibly, but Hannon / Divine Comedy has a history of social observation. In this particular case and entire double album on Office Politics. Wont it be grand when we no longer have to deal with them?
Corporate Speak
I have a problem with ‘Corporate Speak’. Putting aside how ‘we the people’ seem to adopt corporate speak as part of our conversation - how else does ‘content’ become part of our day to day vocabulary? (Although that is an entirely different topic.)
Here’s the thing … the same organisations that use phrases like;
‘Share of Wallet’
‘Attacking and Targeting a Market’ (that’s you and me folks) and breaking down those
‘Adoption Barriers’
‘Taking the hill’
‘Users’ not ‘People’
And have something called a ‘War Room’ !!! - you know the place where Marketing meet to plan how to extract out last cent. Anyway these organisations are exactly the same organisations that say things like
‘Your Passion Is Our Satisfaction’,
‘Pleasing People Is Our Motto’ and
‘A Customer Is Always Right’.
Which language do you believe reflects the true nature of the corporation?
Me? I think what is said behind closed doors more often reflects the truth. What is broadcast in public is what they think we want to hear. It’s politics, not business, but isn’t that what happened to Mitt Romney?
This week’s newsletter explores corporate language and asks why have people just blindly adopted it without question? It doesn’t serve us - only the corporation.
If you read my words in other places, you might have seen this before. If you continue to read me, you will see it again -
”Art that inspires art inspiring art. Examining and questioning the same thing. We are more than a number, we are more than what we expose, we are more than what we want, even allow, others to see. We are, each and every one of us; individual and unique and different. We eschew categorization. We do not fit predictable patterns. Why allow corporations, enterprises, governments, marketers, advertisers to see us in that way?
Sign in with Apple is Apple fighting for user privacy, even if users don’t care.
Agree. Thankfully there are people and companies that still do what is right - even though we don’t know it.
If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives.
You mean they don’t already?
”Even in fusty old Britain, the Cabinet Office has already considered using Facebook logins as a means for people to access social security benefits, make council tax payments and get a driver’s licence. Why would it not then think about what we may yet know as Librafication?
John Harris
Sometimes I just shake myself and wonder what runs through politicians minds.
A Facebook global currency … what could possibly go wrong?
Beto asks me for money more than the rest of the democratic contenders added together.
If he needs money that bad, then he’s not for me.
Then again - he never has been.
He won’t win the nomination and we have simultaneously weakened our chances to win a Senate seat.
My latest newsletter just dropped and explores ‘corporate speak’, which emerged after I received an email from an old friend and colleague sent after reading last weeks newsletter.
Don’t forget to subscribe. Don’t forget to read and comment on the data series.
For all you photographer / ‘journallers' out there … I’ve always liked Blurb - looks like they have taken it up a notch.
People: Leo
"In Italy I was a photographer. In Rome."
“A pretty place to photograph.”
"Well, not so much, my job was a police photographer. When someone died, I took the photographs. I was very busy. Ten years .. every day … click click click … more death. Depressing. Soul ‘killing’’. I couldn’t make a life out of death."
So different city, different country, different job?
"Yes. But same girl!"
"She said to me one day that she is coming here. To England. It seemed a good idea. Time for change."
You didn’t want to do something in photography? Maybe scenery, weddings, commercial … put your skills to a different use?
"No."
"My girl friend she is always changing. Me too. I wanted change. But Only one change. Change. Stop."
So you have been here for ten years.
"Yes. And will be for another ten. My girlfriend she has had 15 jobs in the same time. Sometimes working 50 miles away. Always changing. Always chasing. But never arriving."
"Me? I’ve arrived."
Any journey is a series of events and one of those events is the destination. [efn_note] I was reminded of this story when I was sharing a bottle of wine with a friend recently. The wine was 'own label' - and on that label was a line ... that he assured me was his, I haven't found it anywhere else so let me attribute accordingly. [/efn_note]
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.)
Time For A Better Capitalism
When Henry Blodget writes an opinion piece about the inequality in modern America ... concluding with
"It's time for a more balanced approach"
Henry Blodget
Then I guess it must be time!
On the click through– a good read, some informative images, and the fact that the whole things is sitting in the LinkedIN silo shouldn’t put you off. In particular he writes;
... the problem with the profit-maximization obsession is that it hurts the economy.
Henry Blodget
I have to say - I agree.
It's pretty simple really .. and a central theme of mine. In fact, I go further. It's bad for society.
The 'graphic story' I have in the works shows why. Don't worry - it won't be as complex as the Mueller one.
People: Alfie
How about you? I asked.
"Me? More brothers and sisters than most and none of them talk to me and the missus."
That must be hard.
Not really. It runs in the family. My parents hardly ever talked.
"You can't choose your family, but you sure can choose your friends".
My Dad [efn_note]A long time ago[/efn_note]
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.)
Oh Well. Onwards.
Taxi tycoon John Griffin voices concerns about morality of Boris Johnson - the leadership favorite
On questioning the morals of a potential leader, I think the UK has the edge over the US.
Of course he is a ‘cab tycoon’ - not a ‘taxi tycoon’ - @Guardian - please note.