Reminded of this here

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Seems like we don't need to make robots - we just need to turn people into automons ... 

Today, it's a technology company. Every step Bill takes, every mile he drives, is tracked. His truck is a rolling computer. From the time he punches in in the morning until he gets back to base at night, the company is watching. The company is also constantly thinking, and strategizing about even the most minute decisions and choices. UPS wants to figure out how Bill can do his job a little bit faster, a little more efficiently, right down to which pocket he uses to hold his pen.

In other words, you can almost see the Warriors as a metaphor for the way the tech industry improves, but also unexpectedly risks ruining, pretty much everything it touches.

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Marvellous Stuff

Blair, frustrated by the repeated delays in the production of the report, has been meeting his allies to discuss his response, but is not planning to make any speech or intervention before publication on 6 July.

... how about the truth Tony ?

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Too many people are data-driven - if it is all about the data - you will be replaced.

Data-first vs data-second.

Another way to frame this is 'data-driven' vs 'data-informed'. Data-driven investors ask questions about data first, while data-informed or data-second investors look at the data, but it is second to their intuition and common sense. Wikipedia has definitions for data-based (or data-driven) vs data-informed decision making as it applies to education. I believe data-informed to be a much better approach. In doing a bit of research, I stumbled on this gem – a couple years ago, a test showed that combination AI and human 'data-informed' chess players regularly beat the pure data-driven players. Andrew Chen made a nice post about how data-driven decision making can lead to local maximums and weak decision making. I choose to modify the labels to data-first vs data-second because the data acts as either a first or second pass filter.
In the VC world, data-second investors will always beat data-first investors. 

Santana IV and Bruce Soord's new solo - tucking in now. And most excellent, particularly Bruce's.

"He had gained notoriety among the city’s hippie community when he and a biker buddy, Hairy Henry Kot, came across a candlelight march on Haight Street, turned their bikes around, and led the parade. The police stopped the procession, and Kot was arrested for letting a woman from the group stand up on his 'buddy seat."

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Awesome .....

'Finding Superheroes' .. the latest in my weekly series at Biz Catalyst is trending. That's two weeks in a row .... FYI - this was last weeks.

Musical Exploration - the link is at the bottom of JP's post.

Can’t wait to read mainstream media’s take on the Verizon Strike … here is one non mainstream media’s view …

‘The company could have done this two months ago,’ said network tech Pat Fahy of IBEW Local 827 in New Jersey. ‘They could have done it [when the contract expired] in August and we would have taken it.'
Instead, he said, ‘they forced us to work without a contract for eight months and to be on strike for almost two months. Many of us have resentment two miles long.'

and if this

Though this strike was the fourth or fifth for many Verizon workers' nearly all have been with the company for over 15 years' it was the first time since 1989 that the company cut strikers' health insurance.

doesn’t make you wonder about the craziness of US healthcare … then what does? In short - if you go on strike - we will cut your health insurance. Where else in the world can that even happen - much less does happen ?

I talked about my passion for maps in a recent 'Pour Vous' post on my web site. Remember when you were in meetings - and the 'winner' was the one who had the marker ? Turns out there is another race - who owns 'the map'.

Fascinating comparison of Google Maps versus Apple Maps.

Seperately of course - there is the whole other issue around how global maps need to reflect the truth [PDF] - not the perspective of the cartographer. An obvious example is that of Kashmir, which is but one of hundreds of border debates raging around the world.

Another post from my partners in crime over at This Is Enchant.

If you don’t like Mark snooping around in your stuff they point out ...

Too personal? Switch off!
Finally, coming back around the microphone and Facebook’s listening capabilities, if you are not happy about Facebook’s tactics and want to stop Facebook accessing to your microphone, you can switch it off. See the following steps:

Good advice - but have you ever noticed that depite switching it off, the settings 'don't stick'? Well they do actually - it is just that Facebook keeps messing around with privacy settign as at the backend - and when they do - guess what? The defaults are restored and Facebook's defaults are 'reset to snoop'.

Glad I am not there.