#Davos Day 1 Excellent summary of what to expect, where to listen, what to read and of course what to do while keeping one curious ~ or nervous ~ eye on a certain inauguration. https://lnkd.in/euxtyFpv? Follow the discussions online: https://lnkd.in/eYu25RF9 SEMAFOR World Economic Forum
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Netflix just opened the Pandora's box. We can't consume our way out of this. If there's a movie to watch, make it this one. Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy. Coming live on the 20th of November. A week before the Black Friday. Don't feed the beast. REFUSE -> REDUCE -> REUSE -> REPAIR -> RECYCLE And remember: this is not about your reusable coffee cup. Every industry needs to stop putting it on the consumer. Stop making it our responsibility. Make it yours. Agree? 👉 Hit follow to learn more ♻ Repost to make some friggin' waves
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"Hope is our imagined, better reality. It is not a cheap coping mechanism. Hope is an illogical faith in what is currently the unreal, the impossible. We do not simply want enchantment; we cannot survive without it." Brian Collins Design can change the world, if only we'd let it. #design https://lnkd.in/dkY83dn
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The world will have to change its ways to survive. Oliver Jeffers, the writer and artist, suggests a way, or rather two ~ "Two things I think everyone can start to do right away is; regarding food – to buy local and buy in season. Regarding fashion – to buy for life and repair rather than discard. As the CEO of Patagonia said, try to think of yourself as an owner of clothes rather than a consumer." Oliver Jeffers Studio #betterworld #change
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We can educate all the girls on the planet, the boys who want to will still be able to, in the best case scenario, chain them, barefoot, to the stove. All kids need an education. All need to be able to read and write. All need to be able to treat animals with kindness ~ the rest will follow. This post was meant to be about climate and education and how more education could lead to less climate change. But something similar to the boys and girls conundrum seems to be happening here too. "Harnessing the power of education could empower vulnerable communities to adapt to the worst impacts of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, and improve resilience to potential threats." Indeed. On the one hand you've got the right honourable NGOs and think tanks whispering sweet nothings about education's magical greening powers for the 40 million poor (in the regular sense of the word) kids in some of the world's most desperate countries. And to some extent its true: the more you learn about dying bees and disappearing forests and beaching whales and biblical storms, the more you might care about what you do with your plastic water bottle and black carrier bag ~ no banyan tree, of the few that are left, would dare be seen without them in Karachi at least. But then these kids will look around them. At the mountains of plastic, at the rivers of clothes, at the toxic gashes that were once burial sites and the huge herds of cattle that graze where ancient trees once towered. And they'll look at the right honourable ones and say, could you please 'consume' a little less and stop sending us all your trash? Meanwhile, militaries account for 5.5% of total annual global carbon emissions - more than civilian aviation and shipping (5%) combined. And in Oklahoma, where 43% of Republicans support climate change education, the Republican platform has this to say: “We oppose the teaching of the theory of anthropogenic global warming without providing equal time for instruction in the complex systems of geo-physics [sic] that cause observable climate change, such as solar variations, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions.” Studies of American teachers and textbooks shows that teachers' opinions around climate change largely align with their politics and that coverage of climate change fell during the 2010s. I'm shocked. Trying to solve the climate problem with education in countries wracked and wrecked by poverty and war, by being the world's punching bag, and being used as it's trash can, seems like a do-goody kinda mean thing to do ~ like giving donuts and a lecture on healthy eating to a diabetic beggar. Change begins at home. Globally, locally and personally. And if we want to make the world a better place, we'll need to look after our girls and our boys. Links in comments. #climatechange #education
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From a few billion dollars at its peak, 23andMe is now worth around $200m. It had been on a mission to transform healthcare but seems to have done little more than offer interesting quirks of personal history and connect people with unintended consequences. Perhaps it was ahead of its time and future generations comfortable with having digital twins living in the metaverse - or their governments - will figure out how to use its genetic database purposefully. Although it gave a pair of identical twins unidentical genetic histories which feels slightly concerning along with the other concerns Nicholas Thompson notes in his interesting tech video below. The reason I share this, aside from purely altruistic reasons, is that it was interesting news apropos the list of top 20 emerging UK startups LinkedIn I saw this morning: https://lnkd.in/euUgP5tk The list isn't based on the company product or profitability or revenue growth. It's based on 'employee growth, jobseeker interest, engagement within the company and its employees; and how well these startups have pulled talent from Top Companies.' Curiouser and curiouser 🤔 This is LinkedIn's eighth annual startups list. What I'd like to see is how the startups that made the previous lists are doing. Hopefully well, but still, inquiring minds ... #startups
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The most interesting thing in tech: the genetics company 23&Me is in dire financial straits. Here’s why the business didn’t work and why you should be concerned about the privacy implications if you ever took one of the tests.
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Is there a difference between a customer, a consumer and a client? We like the way Tim Berry puts it, "It really doesn’t matter if you call your customers 'customers', as long as you always treat them like clients.” Marketing doesn't do that anymore. It's meant to be all about the customer and building long-term relationships and feelings that evoke warmth, trust, affection, excitement. Instead it's all about the numbers. And the ads and the marketing and the branding all feels the same. That's not to say numbers or data isn't or can't be useful. It's just that when it comes to marketing, it answers the wrong questions, mainly because the right ones are hard to answer. For those, you have to go with your gut. Frankly, says Tom Goodwin, we've become 'obsessed with efficiency, trivialities, and technology, and lost sight of the inefficiency, magic, empathy, and patience.' We market obsessively, follow the KPIs creating storage-gobbling power points and spreadsheets. Everyone pores over them asking inane questions to dynamically inform their agile marketing strategies ... and wonders why nothing seems to be working. "We need to lighten up and return to using our ideas, imagination and creativity." And use the overwhelming amounts of data we now have to look at wider patterns, bigger pictures, to see what's round the bend not in the rearview. What makes a brand a brand? Read Tom Goodwin's interview with Radu Dandu here: https://lnkd.in/gGVDnyx More on clients vs customers vs consumers: https://lnkd.in/e25gvAja Brandingmag #brands #marketing #kpis #marketing
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Never the twain shall meet finds new meaning in Paul Graham's essay on founders and managers, in turn inspired by a talk given by #airbnb's Brian Chesky. When his startup looked like it might fail, Brian tuned out his managers and tuned back into his inner founder, with a little help from #stevejobs. And therein lies the alleged answer to the question, 'why do so many #startups fail?' When founders switch to #managermode or delegate too much to managers who've never been founders, they end up breaking things, sometimes slowly but mostly fastly. Details on what exactly founder mode is are still being ironed out but for now it's a bit like trying to describe the p-word that'll get us banned on linkedin. You know it when you see it. Are you a #founder? Do you agree with Paul and Brian? What has your experience been? Link in comments.