Inequality is the Achilles heel of our market system and it's only amplified by chronically poor leadership and almost no situational awareness. By China showing a different way, the West will simply tear itself apart through strife -
And here we sit in a cesspool of kayfabe with Del Boy as the PM, Rodney as the Chancellor and Marlene in the Home Office, clapping at billionaires for taking joyrides into space and talking about a future in which covid is a permanent part of a society crushed under debt ...
... I love my country, I am a patriot but ... to the people, our values, our memories. We have been severely let down by decades of incompetence in leadership across Government and Business. Cummings was right on this, the Odyssean Education article.
X : You don't approve of Bezos flight?
Me : Eh. Hardly the substance of what I'm talking about. Amazon is focused on industrialisation of space (launchers, ground stations etc) ... that's a world of difference from Branson and his joyrides into space for the wealthy.
X : You agree with Cummings?
Me : I often agree with people on bits but not on others. Cummings is an individual with some talent but no moral compass. He is right to point to our leadership (both in substance and style) as our greatest weakness but his is no Deng Xiaoping.
X : Who is our Deng Xiaoping?
Me : I would steer away from concepts of heroic individuals as leaders ... that is not the future. But if you want to find the best of us, she is probably living on a council estate, as a single parent, holding down two jobs and still helping others.
X : Not the playing fields of Eton?
Me : That is part of our problem. China is tackling the root causes hence the whole education move. Expect much more to come during their ascendancy.
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X : How do you value people?
Me : That's an odd question. People aren't resources.
X : But we talk about them as assets.
Me : Them? Gosh, this all feels uncomfortable.
X : But how would you value?
Me : hmmm ...
... it depends upon what your society values, more "Me" or "We" or a bit of both.
X : Explain.
Me : You have "Me" values such as salary, possessions, knowledge, expertise etc. Then you have"We" values such as giving back to society, enabling others.
X : How can you value then?
Me : If you're thinking assets then people die. So, the "Me" always reduces to zero. However the "We" value can continue for much longer, they can become embedded in the memory of the collective itself through symbols (like statues) or heroes of some story.
Me : Oh. Social stuff will happen, kicking off around 2025-2030 and ongoing to 2040.
X : What stuff?
Me : There are couple of different paths, anyway that's from a time ago.
X : You're not answering.
Me : I know. But we will see soon enough.
X : Still not any clearer. Perhaps put your predictions in escrow?
Me : No interest. I've even removed it from the heatmap and I don't make any claim other than it was a mistake to include it in the first place. On the upside it got me thinking more about culture and society ...
Setting up 365, need to integrate google calendar and ... read only. Are you effing kidding me, this is 2021. Ok, well at least I can have an integrated mailbox ... oh wait, no? I need to create search function or script. Jesus ... this is just a turd.
Oh, I can use Google Workspace Sync for Microsoft Outlook (GWSMO) if I'm a G-Sync user ... I wonder when they forget the bit about focusing on user needs and replaced it with focusing on business needs. Gosh, I wish Amazon did email and calendars. That would actually work.
Sorry G-Suite not G-Sync ... any suggestions on good packages out there which integrate Google / Mac / Outlook together in a sensible way with 2 way sync across multiple devices or is that something which doesn't exist in practical terms?
X : Any thought on how to deal with what is happening with the Conservatives?
Me : First, you need to understand that they are not Conservatives (in a recognisable form). This is Boris' party, so stop calling them Conservatives, call them what they are - Boris' party ...
... they are a complete break from the past. Values of integrity have gone and you can see that from behaviour. All those old rituals, symbols and heroes of the past are meaningless in this context. The values are Boris, the party is Boris, the symbol is Boris, the hero is Boris.
And he has absolute control within that Party, it doesn't matter how loyal (Hancock), what outcomes you achieved (Cummings), your history (Grieve et al) ... the only safety is in closeness and favour of Boris and that means making Boris look good.
The genesis of something new is called an innovation.
Every feature added to a custom built thing is called an innovation.
The creation of a product from what was once custom built is called an innovation.
Every product to utility business model is called an innovation.
...
... all four of those things are wildly different, requiring different skills, different attitudes, different financing, different methods .... they are all however called the same thing.
Innovation
It is a dreadful word. Mostly useless ...
... which is why is so pleasing to see the EU start to consider context, to do a bit of mapping in its recent strategy work.