We are all a skill set of Venn diagrams, not slots or cogs. Work where you overlap and create connections — not fit/slot in. https://xitter.cf/t.co/0sixbU6BrC
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If you know what needs doing, get a specialist. If you're still trying to find out the golden path to achieve your mission, get a generalist. Generalists have a broader vision of how the dots might be connected.
#generalist #freelancer #strategy
In 1988-9 at Birmingham Poly, my course had a typography lecturer called Jenny, who forced us to select a random typeface from a hat and then reset a menu in that font using one type size.
It's felt, at times, like I've been doing that brief ever since.
hey @O2 — I bought a sim from you on one of your offers. I've heard nothing in 8 days, so I rang up today and I was given the weakest of reasons why this hasn't been fulfilled.
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"Tonight is a very, very devastating body blow."
@RoryStewartUK reflects on how he could have gotten his election prediction so wrong.
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My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova
The cult of positivity, despite the facts, risks, and disastrous consequences, often for other people, is rewarded when money is cheap and a curse when it's not.
Just saying.
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News frequency shapes news coverage
How a 24/7 news culture hides some of the greatest economic advances
In How economics explains the world
Has anyone else hired a car from @Hertz in Bordeaux or experienced any problems?
Muse: There's nothing wrong with capitalism per se; it's the capitalists who take capitalism (the making of money at all costs) one stage further, and another and so on. The compound effect of capitalists practising capitalism without boundaries is the problem with capitalism.
If you're in digital research, content or design, amongst many other roles, and the company you work for won't pay the minor fees for an AI account of your choosing, then that's probably a sign.
A lot of technologists are inspired or directly aim for ideas that Science Fiction presents them — but equally, they seem to ignore all of the predictable and resulting downsides.
This is masked as 'progress'
My working music, which doesn't interrupt but soothes the thinking process, is Einaudi at the Steve Jobs Theatre.
youtube.com/watch?v=NXD-WJYt…
Does the Chancellor and the Prime Minister leave Downing Street like it's an episode of The Apprentice now?
The Apple presentation style at WWDC has become somewhat akin to the worst TED speaker wannabees. I note that I can't play the video back at x1.25.
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The Digital Mirror of Narcissus | @TimandraHarknes
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