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I was delighted to be joined on the People First podcast by Ramsey Avery who is the Production Designer for the Amazon series - Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power.
Wonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
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It’s funny how ‘xx is the new oil’ keeps cropping up … this one is kind of related - but focussed not specifically on data - but rather, The ‘Attention Economy’ ….
“For the better part of the past century, the most important commodity has been oil. Wars have been fought over it — Pearl Harbor was a preemptive strike to secure Japanese access to Indonesian oil — and it elevated desert tribes to the ranks of the wealthiest cohorts in history. But the sun has passed midday on oil’s supremacy. We’ve moved from an oil economy to an attention economy.
We used to refer to an information economy. But economies are defined by scarcity, not abundance (scarcity = value), and in an age of information abundance, what’s scarce? A: Attention. The scale of the world’s largest companies, the wealth of its richest people, and the power of governments are all rooted in the extraction, monetization, and custody of attention.”
Some other phrasing that caught my eye and mind …
“If Facebook is Exxon and Netflix Shell, TikTok is fracking king Chesapeake Energy, the rule-breaking insurgent armed with novel extraction methods that threaten the established order.”
“everyone is trying to outTik the Tok”
“MrBeast … most popular video (is) a real-life reenactment of Squid Game, which cost $3.5 million to produce (the cost of an episode of Mad Men). It received 300 million views.”
You can read the whole Scott Galloway piece here.
attention economy scott galloway Technology archive.pf.businessJohn is a Board Level Executive with extensive international experience in software and technology in the European and U.S. markets. He consults and advises on all elements of business with a specific focus on Digital Transformation through customer-facing disciplines and revenue growth strategies.
His international best-seller (For Business Leaders Slapped In The Face By A World They Thought They Knew) was well received by thought leaders like Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm and Zone To Win), who recommend reading his book to help you navigate a world of constant change.
John successfully led global multi-disciplinary teams that have built and taken to market software solutions that have added $100s of millions of dollars to revenue.
Equally effective in mature established companies and fast-growth ‘start-up’ environments, his experience ranges from leading international marketing and sales teams for giants such as Citi and Oracle to managing technology companies, startups and consultancies.
John held key roles at GEC, Raytheon, Oracle and CitiCorp, and customers included BT, Rolls Royce, Nestle, Chiron, HP, J and J, and AmGen. His most recent position was CEO of a global public company with offices throughout the world, headquartered in the San Francisco, Bay Area, USA. He now serves on and works with corporate boards.
John’s passion for people and leading teams to success through sales, marketing and operations are the areas where he brings the most value.
“Global experience is valuable, but if you don’t understand your people and their contribution, success will always remain out of reach”.
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If you are a business leader struggling to deliver on your mission, John can help.
Bottom line, Revenue, Profit, RoI, Costs … they are all connected. John wants to support you to unpack the details and help your business reach its full potential by growing revenue, taking your product to market, team leadership or advising.
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Or - let’s just have a conversation.
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No - not the 🎶 pop group - they were ‘NSYNC’ … just an acknowledgement of how nice it is to find like minded travelers on the journey.
The quote below found here
“We need to resist the narratives that are frequently served to us by corporations that sell these technologies, that these models of the future are dependent upon the particular technologies that they’re selling, that it’s always some future that is just around the corner that we have to buy into, when in fact the future is already here.”
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There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output.
My mind explodes when I see the ‘image’ results.
I think ‘meh’ - so far - when I see the ‘written’ results.
I am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?
For more background, you might enjoy this from The Verge;
How independent writers are turning to AI
Note - all of the words you read on peoplefirst.business are not created - or even suggested - but any AI tool. (Can you tell?). 😂
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Cory Doctorow
Why none of my books are available on Audible is a ‘spoken essay’ from Cory which will eventually be the only entry he has in the Audible library.
Take a listen to find out why.
The link takes you to a page on his Craphound site, or go directly to the podcast
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I am sitting in New Zealand writing this. It started as an idea in my head and was typed into a local file on my computer. I copied it to Wordpress (my blog hosting software of choice) and saved a draft to my People First server.
The words were then sitting on a server in Iowa, USA.
From this point on, as I edit the draft, I am in New Zealand, the words I am editing are in Iowa - where am I working?
By the time you read this post, I will have published and anybody in the world can read it.
Example, a visitor in Kenya pulls up this web site in their browser and these words are ‘automagically’ read in Kenya.
Where is ‘the work’ done?
I ask because once you know where the work was done, you should have an idea on where you should be taxed and arguably where you should be licensed to work.
This conversation doesn’t seem to be a major part of public discourse, because the scenario is an edge case. But for how much longer?
New York has a law that says anybody working IN NEW YORK pays New York Taxes and from that emerges things like the NY, NJ and CT tri-state tax agreement.
“Like all states with broad-based income taxes, New York has asserted the right to tax nonresident income earned within its borders. But unlike most other jurisdictions with significant cross-border commuter flows—such as Illinois and Indiana or Virginia and Maryland—New York has never given nonresidents a tax pass in the form of ‘reciprocity’ with their home states.”
But if my servers are in Iowa, my customers are in Europe, my bank account is in California and I only live in New York, should I pay New York taxes?
I write more about where we work in this week’s newsletter.
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