I’m sure everyone will be delighted to hear I am about to spend 5 days in caravan on the coast where everyone is looking forwards to the evenings where we all go to play bingo.
“What if it’s raining?”
“We can go to the retail park or wookie hole”
My idea of a holiday is somewhere where we don’t cook, don’t clean, have a none moving roof over our head & clean bedding along with warm weather.
I am, you know, kinda in awe of fact that the more I hear from Sunak the more it becomes apparent he is even more disconnected from being able to engage with the public in a normal way
Approximately 40% of the UK are facing panic stations on their month to month or week to week finances. There are “literal heat or eat” conversations going on. Food bank use is soaring.
My dude, “silly” would get you stabbed in this context if you used it.
Building another Twitter probably is not that hard. It’s not overly complex as a platform.
Getting people to brand it, support it and use it is the almost impossible part.
The actually impossible bit is making everyone believe it could make lots of money.
The thing I’ve learned from lots of hard years of doing cool tech stuff in one of the most lucrative sectors is that people fundamentally want technology to be free “just because” and you have to make software for very little, graft hard to meet expectations then build user base
For years you will be told by some clients you are always wrong, even when evidence is to contrary. Clients will excuse their own staff ineptitude as “a bug” & lie about affordability & value of your software
Something that seems to escape lots of people is that the average household income in the UK is actually not that big:
And that when they go all “I’m not rich, it’s nonsense, I work hard for this money” what you are lacking is not hard work, but fucking perspective on just how far ahead you are of others.
And as always, in the weeds of ONS data are some quite horrible aspects to think about with the new levels of inflation:
Poorest People have been struggling for a long time now