Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet
333 slides. Nuff said.
Uber CEO Shielded From Stock Drop by Options Repricing
I mean you got to look after numero uno …
Full results of the Conservative leadership election - round 1
Well that was quick … if predictable … round one only leaves old white males in the running for the Tory leadership.
Wow - friggin ‘wow’ ….
”And the software giant is not backing down: It says the only people who can use ad blockers following the change will be Google’s enterprise users.
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MacBook Pro problem costing $10k turned out to be a $0 fix
No peaking, totally black screen, TOTALLY .. could you have saved the time and money?
I don’t THINK I have posted this - but if so apologies for the repetition.
[Uber under the microscope.])americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/u…)
Is the idea of thinking about people’s values, identity, behavior, engagement, relationships … as a ‘stack’ reasonable or misguided?
🎵 A lot of people sharing this today
Only reason I am sharing it is so I can tag it with ‘justgoodmusic’ … the category I am playing around with to feed Just Good Music … so far things are getting through - but not consistently.
”After Russia’s three major business newspapers all published identical front pages in protest, the government said the charges against journalist Ivan Golunov were being dropped.”
BuzzFeed
It can be done - imagine all the mainstream media in the US coming together like this.
Humanity
Newsletter Three from People First just launched. The theme for this week's edition is 'Humanity’ including me spotting this in a clothing store recently. I didn’t buy it - but I sure was tempted, as I ready myself for October’s IIW. (more)
Language - One Of The Eight Pillars
It's funny how things work out sometimes. Since the beginning, 'language' has been a core pillar of People First. I've written about it from time to time, but was not intending to get into the meat for a while. Then - after last week's newsletter, I received an email that resonated in so many ways, that this week's newsletter morphed into riff on .... Language.
And then this morning, I was just browsing through some of my draft posts deciding what to publish next - and up pops this from Hugh Macleod and Gaping Void.
In other words, successful CEOS tend to 'get' the culture idea that language is the foundation of culture.
Hugh Macleod
Talk about the universe working in mysterious ways. Needless to say, we agree.
Now we just need to ensure that the corporates don’t takeover the language of culture as they have changed our day to day language, with their militaristic business jargon.
The Anti-CEO Playbook
I am not usually slow in attacking the nature of business, but not sure the 'Anti-CEO' playbook is exactly the right angle here. That said Hamid Ulukaya's points are excellent. How he built Chobani is a fascinating story. And at one point I was very much reminded me of a couple of People First tenets.
