X : Do you ever get bored of research?
Me : Nope. I got bored being a CEO, being a CIO, being a VP ... I get bored easily. Research is fun, hard and always interesting. Why?
X : Well, I just wondered what was next?
Me : Oh, more research. It's amazing how little we know.
X : Well, how about building a research team?
Me : Hmmm ... I sense an agenda. But why would I do that?
X : You could do more research.
Me : No, I could replace research with more management and the team would do more research. That doesn't sound fun.
... so instead, I keep a lot of my stuff open and create a community which I help guide towards self management. It enables more research into mapping whilst creating interesting discussion points and minimising my need to do any management or leadership thing, Perfect.
X : But you could build a team.
Me : Why would I want to? I have an entire guild / army of mappers, If I need to do a "research" raid then I can make the shout and create a crew.

70 person research raid to tackle traditional vs next gen ... sorted - swardley.medium.com/how-organisati…
X : That seems very world of warcraft.
Me : One of the finest executive training tools that exists - business2community.com/leadership/wha…
X : I don't understand you.
Me : How do you mean? I'm quite open about what drives me ... happiness. I just need enough "stuff" to be content and I don't need much. Happiness doesn't come from the things you own.
X : But with wealth comes power.
Me : Take a look at Gamestop / WSB
Me : You don't need power and wealth to influence the world, you just need an idea and a community. The idea that you can't change the world without things that you don't have access to is simply a control mechanism, an illusion created by the system. It's simply not true.
X : A research raid?
Me : Yep, 70 people involved, organised into 11 smaller raid groups with me acting as the conduit for information, in total over 200+ meetings, all on zoom - swardley.medium.com/how-organisati… - led to this ->
It was amazing - - however, a couple of things to note

a) This couldn't have been done offline.
b) I used a lot of past experience from World of Warcraft RAIDs to organise this.
c) What that group found, statistically speaking, is through the roof.
... but even more than this, it was a lot of fun to do. This will be my new norm for research.
X : Do you think this is applicable to business?
Me : Swarming of people, leaderless leadership, situational awareness distributed throughout the group ... acting like a raid? Oh yes, that's the point of the work.
X : But will it have impact?
Me : Ask GameStop / WSB.
X : Gamestop was a ponzi scheme.
Me : Err ... no. And, it's not over yet.
X : But the financials of the company don't justify the valuation.
Me : You're thinking money here which is the problem. The collective around WSB isn't acting like your normal hedge fund, there's a wider purpose and intent with its own symbols and rituals.

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1 Jun
X : Why is it more difficult to get a job, if you don't have a job?
Me : Daisy Chains.
X : Eh?
Me : Recruiters like you to have a job, so they can plan to fill your job when they put you in the new role. They create a daisy chain of people where they all shift one role ...
... the recruiters make money on every shift. It has nothing to do with your ability / capability for the role, it's just if you don't have a job then you break the chain and are less attractive to the recruitment company.
X : But I could be the best person.
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X : Surely recruitment is about finding the best person for the role?
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On the subject of which, this is dumb ... what companies thought it was a good idea to start excluding Colorado because of transparency in labour - coloradoexcluded.com
The idea of corporations excluding regions because of local labour laws on transparency in an increasingly remote world is .... short sighted, likley to create a blowback ... maybe we need GameStop/WSB to start shorting companies? (H/T @lucus_patrick for the spot).
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X : Thoughts on Wuhan leak theory?
Me : Not a lot. Seems quite unlikely but as with many things it is unlikely to ever be disproved. Why?
X : Biden investigation.
Me : He has little choice, it's damage limitation against rumours and conspiracy theories.
X : Explain.
Me : Republicans are out spreading rumours that it leaked from Wuhan, that it was gain of function experiments funded under Obama that were illegal in the US. It's one of those crafted rumours which consists of partial truths ...
... if Biden doesn't investigate then the rumour mill will shout "Government cover up" and it will roll on. Of course, the invesitgation itself comes with dangers. If the investigation finds it was unlikley to be Wuhan, the runour mill will also shout "Government cover up" ...
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Driving through Dymchurch ... it seems that any concept of social distancing, masks or in fact COVID itself appears well and truly over for the many thousands of people gathered there.
UK in early stages of third wave - scientist warn - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-573045… ... not good.

PS. Didn't we warn of a third wave back in December - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-552915… ... and I thought we had just come through this? Wouldn't this be the fourth wave?
X : If there is a "third" wave, do you think that the UK will do things differently?
Me : Well ... no. Not unless we start charging those who were pushing to open up with manslaughter. I can't see any other way that attitudes will change.
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X : You talk about leaderless leadership but mapcamp.co.uk has your face all over it?
Me : That'll change shortly. I intend this to be my last Map Camp as a chair, so I'm putting in place structures to allow the community to take over, including a foundation ...
... we have three wonderful co-chairs in @CatSwetel, @coderinheels and @bodamianrapsody ... we have an amazing organising committee ... there will be changes you will see as we get closer to the 13th October.
X : What are you going to do?
Me : I intend to start pulling away from mapping. I've opened up the door enough that others have walked through. There's a growing community ... it's time for me to take a bow, move back to the shadows and find the next thing.
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I read this and think "Former OpenStack supporter with skin in the game over SDN and Kubernetes ignores Jevons' paradox, constraints on underlying components, serverless and speed effects to make a case for cloud repatriation at scale" - not buying it - a16z.com/2021/05/27/cos…
On Jevons' paradox alone, as I've said for a decade ... AWS will be constrained by the speed it can build data centres i.e. it can't drop prices too quickly because that'll force up demand beyond their ability to supply. Eventually they will overcome. Expect prices to tumble.
Getting a handle on expense however is a great point made in the article which is why serverless, billing per function, capital flow inside applications will become and are becoming such critical practices of the future.
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