Friday’s Finds

Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“Abundance of books makes men less studious” – Hieronimo Squarciafico c. 1481. [Technology changes but people don’t]

Henry Mintzberg said, “It is the conceit of every generation to believe things are chaos in their world, while the past was linear & calm.” @tom_peters

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche via @surreallyno

“Comparisons to the industrial revolution are correct. The problem is when people don’t realise we are the horse this time.” @fraserspeirs

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Every fortnight I collate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I post the best as Friday’s Finds. Here are the best of 2014.

“The nature of work is changing. People’s relationship with work is changing. The changes to society will be vast.” – @gapingvoid

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, & eventually degenerates into a racket.” —Eric Hoffer – via @tom_peters

“Again, while enlightened animal trainers are recognizing the danger of a purely behavioral / Skinner approach, VC’s [venture capitalists] are funding it for humans.” – @SeriousPony

“Humans require the difficult and messy social routing protocol of trust.” – Valdis Krebs @orgnet – via @voinonen

“The Industrial era was based on the principle that an organisation produces, not the individuals, so the workers cannot produce without an organisation.” – @EskoKilpi

“How do we evaluate teachers? We never speak of this. It is irrelevant in our country. Instead, we discuss, ‘How can we help them?’” – Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish Educator, via @PascalVenier

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“as soon as a company has a Chief Innovation Officer you know that company has a problem” – Tim Cook – via @BrunoGebarski

@C4LPT – “You don’t get “big data” in workplace learning – only “little data”. But beware – it is usually incomplete.“

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@doctorow – “Once you admit that luck was crucial to your success, you have to confront the terrifying possibility that your luck may run out someday.”

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“Power always thinks it has a great soul & vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams” via @JusticeWillett

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@morgenpaul – “Psst … Your people are not your greatest asset; they’re not yours and they’re not assets. Let’s treat them like people.”

Will robots make our lives better or worse? – via @gideonro

So the question is not whether robots and computers will make human labour in the goods, high-tech services, and information-producing sectors infinitely more productive. They will. What really matters is whether the jobs outside of the robot-computer economy – jobs involving people’s mouths, smiles, and minds – remain valuable and in high demand.

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“We don’t see something until we have the right metaphor to let us perceive it.” – Thomas Kuhn – via @tobiasmeyer

“Humans require the difficult and messy social routing protocol of trust.” – Valdis Krebs @orgnet – via @voinonen

“What if sucessful projects having a plan is just survivior bias?” – @drunkcod

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Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@ayeletb: “I want to live in a world of possibilities and experiments; not a cookie cutter world, unless I am baking.“

“If you want to do something new, you have to stop doing something old. – Peter Drucker” – HT @reuvengorsht

@alanwbrown: “The cluetrain changed my life … seriously! So very interesting reading RT @johngoode: Is IoT waiting for Cluetrain?”

Cluetrain states: The Market is the Conversation. Could that be reversed? The Conversation is the Market? If so, Cluetrain is what IoT is waiting for:

1. Individuals, Cities, Infrastructure and local authorities produce (and later, sell) IoT data.

2. Google, Amazon, Intel or similar builds a Meaning Engine: an IoT ingest warehouse. It publishes API’s for consuming data (for which it pays) and produces insight (which it sells).

I have no doubt the lawyers will do quite well from privacy, safeguarding and ownership matters.

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