FeedCity: John PHI⑊PIN

Me - eight years ago./

The Gig Economy Is Task Driven.

The Future Of Work Is Not.

Continuing To Iterate My Thoughts On Human Value for Inktober.

JohnPhilpin john.philpin.com/2019/10/30/the-gig-economy.html

Remember the gig economy kids?

The Gig Economy Is Task Driven - The Future Of Work Is Not.

AI is taking over the gig economy. Humans who aren’t ‘task driven’ have to work out how we fit it in.

Should be the other way round. The AI should be trying to work out how it fits in.

Instead at every turn I feel I’m being ‘mansplained’ to by the tech bros and their machines.

// oh wait …

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

🔗 Rethinking Organizational Design.

Needs more than a rethink, but part of my ‘drum band’

AKA

‘The Age of Reason’ is over - let’s move on to ‘The Age of Engagement’.

… not by replacing tech stacks with other stuff - but applying new and better thinking about how we use the ones we’ve got.

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

🔗 English Is a Shitty Programming Language With No Compiler

Can’t argue with that.

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

🔗 The Fossil Present – Doc Searls Weblog\

Links To:

🔗 The End of the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

🔗 Why Companion Intelligence — Liam Broza

🔗 World Wide Whiteboard – Doc Searls Weblog

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

🔗 A Typography Geek Pointed Out Something About The Space Shuttle Discovery And Now I Can’t Unsee It - The Autopian Here’s a funny thing - now there’s a funny thing 💬 Frankie Howard .. found via @gruber (TOH: Jason Snell). Nowhere in the article or in JG’s short post is th...

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

From: 🔗 🦍 Mitchellaneous #198: Memes and other found media | Mitch’s Blog

Had to particularly share this one - because … me just yesterday

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

The folks at Readwise have just released their book reader, store and app. Nice job.

Not sure why - or how - yet - but to me it would make sense to integrate Micro.Blog books .. like they did at launch with Kindle and Goodreads.

John PHI⑊PIN
00:15

When @manton first published the social spec plugin - I installed - it didn’t immediately work - moved on and forgot all about it. Seeing a shower of related posts this morning, reminded me to go check. I did - and I can’t see anything set wrong - after all - the set up see...

John PHI⑊PIN
22:15

🪦 Safe travels Patrick. Not good bye - more au revoir.

John PHI⑊PIN
22:15

Back in late September @gruber wrote 🔗 this …

If you purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model, you may be entitled to compensation.

I just tried the link provided : 🔗 https://www.smartphoneaisettlement.com/ which works … but the link on the site to make the claim 🔗 https://aplsconnect.com/smartphoneaisettlement/ does not. Anyone else seeing this?

John PHI⑊PIN
04:06

👁️ Legal experts, including some in Alaska, said the actions described in the article are not illegal but do amount to a dirty trick.

No idea of the truth one way or the other … but in this climate … a dirty trick?

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 23:39

I watched 🎥 Jack Ryan: Ghost War and guess what? Jack saved the world. Again! I know - right❓Putting aside my inner cynic - I’d still give it ★★★. 🖇️ Review Ratings

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 23:39

👁️ Ever noticed how when you are showing people something on your screen and they start pointing - and even touching your screen. If that happens to me the person is severely reprimanded. It comes to mind seeing today’s announcements.

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 23:39

🔗 Utah Court Says Woman Can Sue Herself – Lowering the Bar

No. Not a conundrum … just greed in action.

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 23:39

Finally got round to watching 🎥 Game Night - it delivered on expectations - most defintely ★★★. 🖇️ Review Ratings

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 23:39

It got hammered by the critics and was pretty much a box office flop - but they are wrong. 🎥 The Alto Knights was everything I expected and more. De Niro, of course was great - and in this one - ‘twice’ as great as usual. More thoughts in the comments when I get round to it. 🖇️ Review Ratings

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

🔗 bigundo.org

That’s ‘undo’ - not undies …

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

🔗 Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition

Stunning - if very sad - photography.

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

🔗 Steve Blank Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine …

Not wrong - BUT as he points out just a couple of paragraphs later;

Elon Musk personally ordered the restrictions …. This wasn’t an articulated U.S. foreign policy nor was it an announced act of the U.S. government. From news accounts it appears to have been a personal decision of an American CEO acting unilaterally.

So why phrase the opening paragraph like that?

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

🔗 Be careful what you wish for.

It might be the complex, fickle and unpredictable problems that allow the professional to thrive.

… maybe even humans.

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

Take a deep breath.

Click on : 🔗 The Climb · Dream Again USA

Ask yourself how much longer this can go on.

John PHI⑊PIN
28 Oct 21:36

🔗🎵 Kate Bush’s Deal With God: The Story of “Running Up That Hill.”

Neat article and if you like that song some great embedded videos of her various versions.

John PHI⑊PIN
26 Oct 20:39

No he didn’t.

John PHI⑊PIN
26 Oct 03:42

👁️ It’s been a weekend. My ‘week’ started at 5pm on Friday. Its now Monday at 3:25pm

John PHI⑊PIN
23 Oct 23:03

👁️ I feel like a man possessed this morning

John PHI⑊PIN
22 Oct 20:09

🔗 How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything

Yes it is - and yet great as it is - and flexible as it is - it does teach us that everything has a place and that there is a place for everything … which I am not sure is a good lesson.

It has a sense that ‘all’ is preordained.

John PHI⑊PIN
22 Oct 20:09

I’d just finished building a dashboard that does what I want. Then I read this.

She is not wrong, but continue I will;

learning a lot

and what I built

reveals where best to focus, because it is based on what I want - not what I have.

Some things just aren’t being captured.

Onto phase two.

John PHI⑊PIN
22 Oct 20:09

💬 via John Naughton

John PHI⑊PIN
22 Oct 20:09

I keep on hearing that there is no bubble. And as one wag pointed out bubbles don’t only pop - sometimes they slowly deflate. Either way - bubble or no bubble - this is the problem. If you don’t look under the hood - you might be lulled into a sense of false security.

John PHI⑊PIN
22 Oct 20:09

🔗 The man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

🖇️ Not this man .. who has literally walked around the world.

I think ‘cheese guy’ is more figuratively speaking.

Îs ‘speaking’ the right word?