I wonder why Scott doesn’t do RSS - but he does do a Newsletter.

BTW - if you flip ME you get WE

Who knew?


🎵 At 24, Barry Godber painted the design for the album cover of

In the Court of the Crimson King

He died from a heart attack shortly after the album was released.


🎛️ A Snicklecast: Dongles

Now that’s a handy dongle.


WeWTF … I wish I’d thought of that one.





Not the new oil, water, soil … it just IS - and a very important ‘IS’ - think of it as energy - it was Nikola Tesla that said “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣If energy, frequency, and vibration are good enough to find the secrets of the universe, then they can certainly help us find the secrets of data.


Couldn’t have said it better myself!


It just is … that’s what the price has dropped through the floor.


Missed this at the time

Fiverr acquires ClearVoice to double down on content marketing

… but if that is not the clearest indicator of this People First Tenet - then I do not know what is.


”Dear John, Wanted to gauge your interest in taking Outlook – the tool your sales people have to use morning, noon and night – and turn it into an automatic sales pipeline management system?”

Dear Barry, I don’t have to use - it. I haven’t since the start of the millennium


Just became a‘Square’

Part of their welcome:

”so please consider leaving us your postal address here”

Is it only me that finds it ironic that What3Words wants your postal address to send you stuff - not your ‘3 words’?



The Pain Of Boiling An Ocean

Sometimes the task in front of me seems to be so large and never-ending that I get despondent. And then I read something like this and I just tell myself to shut up and get on with it.

John Steinbeck

I wouldn't normally link to something like this - at least not on this blog - but this morning I also happened to catch Rob Long's Martini Shot Podcast ... a 'shot' in the arm over a few minutes. It's the one dated August 21st that I want you to listen to. Sage advice and not far off from what I was writing about in this week's newsletter and then seeing this ... well 'put up or shut up' as they say.

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”If property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds?”

[John Perry Barlow](https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=dltr)




Employee Experience and Motivation

At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors

I mean none - 100% owned by Taso Du Val and I assume none by all the rest on this page.

As Toptal’s Chief Executive Officer, Taso manages Toptal’s core team of hundreds of team members distributed throughout the world, with a focus on innovation. Since Toptal was founded in 2010, Taso has led it to become the largest high-skilled, on-demand talent network in the world. Taso serves on the board of multiple organizations, advising on talent strategy and innovation for Fortune 100s and nonprofits. Taso has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Oxford on talent management and entrepreneurship.

Toptal's Web Site

Anyway, what he does and how he runs his business is - well - his business. But it got me to wondering ... what he is advising those other companies to do when it comes to employee engagement? Employee motivation?

From where I sit, these words resonate;

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Questionnaire

It a little more political than the usual People First fayre - but the fact is everything ... everything ... is becoming political in these times. So, why not.

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