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Leland LeCuyer
Of two minds, in contradiction with myself...
Location: Danville, VA
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2013-05-16 21:07:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
The New York Times reported Thursday that President Obama frequently fantasizes to close aides about “going Bulworth,” a reference to the 1998 movie in which Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty, drops all pretense and begins saying exactly what he thinks. So I asked a number of ex-Obama aides and political consultants what the president would say if he went Bulworth?
2013-05-16 18:37:37 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)
Teach Your Children Well – Or How to Invent a Job
From +Clay Forsberg:
In his speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told attendees,”When we got out of college we had to find a job. When our kids get out of college they will have to invent a job.” But how can students develop their job-creating, innovation-oriented talents if our education system remains centered on knowing and applying information instead of teaching creative, big-picture thinking?
2013-05-15 09:02:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Social Media: The New Resumé
Those looking to be hired face an uphill battle for recognition, the precursor to selection and employment. In the old days prior to social networks, resumés functioned as an advertisement of your talent and aptitude. Today, however, recruiters tend to rely more upon your social networking signal as a more accurate predictor of the future performance of a candidate.
Although this article focuses on Twitter, it's message applies equally to all social media venues. It is worth noting that Google+ tends to amplify those aspects of engagement that recruiters find positive. Perhaps, over time, simply being more active on G+ than on a more limited social platform might be viewed as an indicator of employability.
One last observation: for those of you like me who no longer are seeking to work for anyone else, we too must court potential clients a... more »
2013-05-02 10:46:59 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)
Six Degrees of Separation: Distinguishing Lies from Statistics
My friend +David Amerland has recently written quite often about the challenges and opportunities congruent with "big data." The amount of information that modern human beings need digest daily is, frankly, overwhelming; a fact that typically leads to multiple undesirable outcomes, including disorientation, frustration, deception, despair, and poor decisions. Yet, ironically, at the same time, this overwhelming flood of knowledge holds the prospect of lifting our boats while propelling us towards distant shores. If only we could attain mastery over the torrent. If only...
Computers, that deus ex machina of intellectual work, provide us with a useful tool through which data might be sifted, filtered, organized and otherwise sliced and diced. But, ultimately, all the knowledge in the world remains inert, mute, ... more »
2013-04-22 17:23:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
A Marxist View of Automation
As it was a generation ago, automation has become a political issue; one Peter Frase, my colleague at Jacobin, has been discussing for some time. Frase has developed a “post-work” argument for understanding the politics of automation. In the short term, the new machines benefit capitalists, who can lay off their expensive, unnecessary workers to fend for themselves in the labor market. But, in the longer view, automation also raises the specter of a world without work, or one with a lot less of it, where there isn’t much for human workers to do. If we didn’t have capitalists sucking up surplus value as profit, we could use that surplus on social welfare to meet people’s needs. Meanwhile, whatever work remains could be split up, so we’d have shorter working days and more time for the things that really matter to us.
2013-04-14 18:59:30 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)
I give you a promise, you give me toil, sweat and tears
Brazenly stolen from a comment made today by +Ernie Whiteside on one of my posts:
Employers don't actually have anything of value to give to employees. Employees provide labor, which has value, in exchange for what we call money. Money, is the credit now for payment in the future. The payment for the labor isn't actually made until the employee gets a bag of groceries or tops off the gas tank. The employer never actually provides the payment, others provide that. I'm sure that this line of thinking is novel so I will leave it open for more discussion as to what the employer actually provides in exchange for the labor, who gives and who takes, and whether or not one of the partners in the exchange enjoys an unfair advantage that might be properly regarded as the power of extortion or if one of the partners is ... more »
2013-04-14 16:57:14 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
Sustainability
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ~ Prof. A. Bartlett
A 7% growth rate doubles the original number over a ten year period – fact < the exponential function in action…
2013-04-14 13:37:34 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
I'm an American.
I work in Japan -- for an outsource company.
Yes... of course I notice the irony.
The sad thing is that they do the same thing to their own people.
I've worked in companies where there would be like 120+ people in an area who are contract workers... all Japanese. Then there would be like 12 managers or so who are managers or so and are the only employees in the room.
So, I remember one fellow who was just brilliant. He stepped up to lend a hand to me on a project a couple of times. I mean he was brilliant.. over the moon level.
Well, he, like many, were on 3 month contracts that could be renewed for another 3 month contract.
6 months into the project... right after he pull rabbits from places rabbits ought not be... they just ended his contact.
The company was like: We wont need you until somethin... more »
2013-04-14 10:58:49 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
Japan, Abenomics, Currency and Trust
Fascinating meditation by Chris Martenson on Japan's social experiment where, the author claims, the Bank of Japan is intentionally trying to reduce the trust the Japanese people have in their own currency, the Yen, as a store of value.
A few choice excerpts:
If enough people decide that holding money is a losing proposition, they will favor consumption instead. The way to get people to favor things instead of money is to debase their confidence in money. So people’s trust in money has to be targeted, and this is, indeed, the BoJ’s target.
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So the basic plan that the BoJ has put into motion is to ruin local faith in the yen. It is actively targeting trust, a necessary component of any fiat-based currency, under the twin theories that it knows what it is doing and will know when to stop.
The problems are that I... more »
2013-04-14 10:57:02 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)
Japan, Abenomics, Currency and Trust
Fascinating meditation by Chris Martenson on Japan's social experiment where, the author claims, the Bank of Japan is intentionally trying to reduce the trust the Japanese people have in their own currency, the Yen, as a store of value.
A few choice excerpts:
If enough people decide that holding money is a losing proposition, they will favor consumption instead. The way to get people to favor things instead of money is to debase their confidence in money. So people’s trust in money has to be targeted, and this is, indeed, the BoJ’s target.
...
So the basic plan that the BoJ has put into motion is to ruin local faith in the yen. It is actively targeting trust, a necessary component of any fiat-based currency, under the twin theories that it knows what it is doing and will know when to stop.
The problems are that I... more »
2013-04-11 13:33:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
CSR: Changing Business from the Inside Out by +Tim Mohin
I haven't read Mohin's book myself, but +Raz Godelnik gives it his enthusiastic endorsement. Here are a few passages from his book review in Triple Pundit:
There are many great books that discuss every possible element of CSR and sustainability, but this is the first one I am familiar with that is written from the perspective of a CSR practitioner.
Therefore, instead of theories, academic models and case studies, in Mohin’s book we get to learn about the real world of CSR, which is very different from the theoretical world of CSR.
This is a comprehensive guide for CSR management, exploring in detail all the important issues that should be on a CSR practitioner’s agenda. Still, the book’s main value is not just in its comprehensive outlook on CSR, but in the context it provides of a complex corpora... more »
2013-04-10 12:18:17 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Although you appear in earthly form
,
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
- Rumi
cc: http://tinyurl.com/bv44a8j
2013-04-09 09:43:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
Craft and Vision 1 & 2 – Free Photography Books
These PDF books, edited by David duChemin, are magnificent works of art that explore the craft of thinking visually. Even if you are not a photographer — especially if you are not a photographer — these meditations on light and composition will open your eyes to a whole new way of looking at the world. This gift is priceless. Literally.
2013-04-07 19:07:59 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
Peter Drucker and the Post-Capitalist Society
Today I'm speed-reading Peter Drucker's 1994 book, Post-Capitalist Society. The linked article below offers an overview of Drucker's book, which predates the rise of social networking but largely anticipated it. Here's a few tidbits from Drucker's opening chapter:
Instead of capitalists and proletarians, the classes of post-capitalist society are knowledge workers and service workers.
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The social challenge of the post-capitalist society will, however, be the dignity of the second class in post-capitalist society: the service workers.
However, all is not wine and roses, even for the knowledge elite. As Charles Hugh Smith concludes the executive summary to the paywall concealed portion of his article: Just producing more highly educated workers does not create a demand for those workers’ s... more »
2013-04-07 11:33:34 (3 comments, 8 reshares, 11 +1s)
When Actual Work Gets Done
Note the 11 pm time-point: when +David Amerland has just finished his 13th espresso (and the caffeine injection finally kicks in!).
From +Bruno Oliveira via +Chris Barry
2013-04-06 12:09:10 (22 comments, 12 reshares, 20 +1s)
GLOBAL Wealth Distribution
Most of the recent focus on extreme wealth inequality has focused on the United States. But how is wealth distributed around the entire planet?
2013-04-05 17:46:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
Doing Business in China? – Better Be Good!
I haven't fully processed for myself the implications of this report by David Wolf in Foreign Policy magazine about the hazards of foreign firms doing business within China. But when I read the following statements, I knew conversation about this article belonged in the Good Business community.
One unwritten clause attached to every business license granted to large foreign firms in China is that they are expected to set an example of a higher level of corporate behavior than local firms.
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An exasperated young Chinese executive blurted in frustration to her foreign bosses: "Don't you realize? What the Chinese people want from foreign companies is to show Chinese firms how to behave." Technology and capital are not all foreign firms are expected to bring to China: Their standards of corporate citizenship and c... more »
2013-04-04 11:44:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
You are too young to understand this...
Another instance of well-intended legislation taken to absurd lengths: an expansive interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) would literally make it a crime for many kids to read the news online.
Even if the vast majority of these cases are never prosecuted, as Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals noted, “Ubiquitous, seldom-prosecuted crimes invite arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” To which Dave Maass and Trevor Timm, the authors of the attached report, add this chilling conclusion: Instead of pursuing only suspects of actual crimes, it opens the door for prosecutors to go after people because the government doesn’t like them.
2013-04-04 01:09:01 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)
Whatever Happened to that 15 Hour Workweek?
Aristotle knew of insatiability only as a personal vice; he had no inkling of the collective, politically orchestrated insatiability that we call economic growth. The civilization of “always more” would have struck him as moral and political madness.
And, beyond a certain point, it is also economic madness. This is not just or mainly because we will soon enough run up against the natural limits to growth. It is because we cannot go on for much longer economizing on labor faster than we can find new uses for it. That road leads to a division of society into a minority of producers, professionals, supervisors, and financial speculators on one side, and a majority of drones and unemployables on the other.
2013-04-04 01:07:29 (5 comments, 9 reshares, 5 +1s)
Whatever Happened to that 15 Hour Workweek?
Aristotle knew of insatiability only as a personal vice; he had no inkling of the collective, politically orchestrated insatiability that we call economic growth. The civilization of “always more” would have struck him as moral and political madness.
And, beyond a certain point, it is also economic madness. This is not just or mainly because we will soon enough run up against the natural limits to growth. It is because we cannot go on for much longer economizing on labor faster than we can find new uses for it. That road leads to a division of society into a minority of producers, professionals, supervisors, and financial speculators on one side, and a majority of drones and unemployables on the other.
2013-04-03 17:06:34 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Language, Technology and Society
In an essay about, in part memes, perhaps it is worth noting that if Evgeny Morozov were somehow, miraculously, transubstantiated into a meme, he would look an awful lot like Grumpy Cat. Just less cute.
Morozov, it seems, always has just woken up on the wrong side of the bed. The butt of his wrath this time is one Tim O'Reilly. O'Reilly, according to Morozov, isn't just your run-o'-the-mill tech publisher, nor even your run-o'-the-mill Silicon Valley libertarian entrepreneur, nor even your run-o'-the-mill con artist, though Morozov does manage to accuse him of all these misdemeanors as well; no what Tim O'Reilly really, truly, actually is guilty of is being a master propagandist, a remarkably able and effective manipulator of words, who reshapes the English language to suit his not-so-obvious and certainly not... more »
2013-04-03 12:46:50 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Ireland, Boycott, and Optional Mortgage Payments
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. In this utterly captivating review of Irish history, Matt Williams in this Quartz essay, tells the tale of the response of Irish tenants to a particularly vile English landlord named Charles Boycott, and how this historical precedent shapes not only the English language today or the reluctance of Irish courts recently to finalize foreclosures, but how this nugget of history just might evolve into blood-soaked ground upon which the global battle between flesh-and-blood people and the artificial personages that lord over them will be fought.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
h/t Edmund Burke, William Faulkner and, ironically, Charles Boycott
2013-04-02 16:30:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
We must set aside the myth that play and work are two separate things. Play should be our greatest work
2013-03-29 13:28:26 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)
Wealth and Power: The Case of The Missing Chinese Billionaire
In the west, wealth means power. Who owns congress. Certainly not We the People. But in China the dynamic is reversed. Wealth requires political patronage.
2013-03-29 12:32:31 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
Is Business About Connecting People?
Joe Nandhakumar, professor of information systems at Warwick Business School, claims that mobile social networking, far from interfering with the business of business, is business itself. If you take connectivity away from knowledge workers, they become completely unable to work.
As much as I would like to agree with Professor Nandhakumar, I fear he may be generalizing just a wee bit. Certainly there are employees and jobs which benefit from intense and continuous social engagement. Yet there are others which will not.
In the long run, I think Nandhakumar is correct. Business is a social activity. It does not take place in a vacuum. The factory-floor model of efficiency is quickly giving way to the public bazaar model or the artist's studio model, both of which thrive on engagement and boldness rather than repetition and co... more »
2013-03-28 20:33:15 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
I never saw it this way before now but do these people really want to define families such that adoptive families are second-class, that the ability to procreate is a token that elevates you to some preferred status? Are they really arguing that the love between an adoptive parent and adopted child is not as good as that between biological parents and children?
What next, an obligation or requirement to produce children, based on the value and status of procreation? That's always been part of the immigration debate, that the white majority was losing majority status, and that Steps Must Be Taken. It's all very confusing — white colonists take over a continent, driving the natives off their land, all according to Divine Providence, but now the same ambition and fertility on the part of non-white/non-European Americans is threatening the status quo.
Are families based on c... more »
2013-03-28 12:19:31 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
One Click — You're Connected
As great as G+ may be, it never allows you to bridge the space-time continuum to connect with online friends in exactly this way.
h/t +Philip Elmer-DeWitt
2013-03-27 20:32:42 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 20 +1s)
Focus on my work?? Hahahahaha! Yeah, right! ;-)
Source: http://goo.gl/BJNZL
2013-03-26 20:37:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
Nutritious and Delicious: Grading Agribusiness.
+Raz Godelnik wrote up this notice about the findings of the 2013 Global Access to Nutrition Index. Few of the corporate agribusiness firms examined achieved a passing grade. All fall far short of their mission to provide healthy and tasty victuals to the public in rich or in poor countries.
So is the bar too high or do food and beverage companies just operate poorly when it comes to nutrition? It’s up to stakeholders to decide. Now that they finally have the tools to assess food and beverage companies, they will be the ones to determine if this report will join the list of important reports that no one pays attention to or be a change agent in this industry.
2013-03-26 13:27:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)
The Fox and the Henhouse
Two days ago +Alex Diaz and +Adam Johnson joined me in a conversation about corporate social responsibility (http://goo.gl/cfdWY) here. This morning I discovered an article examining whether CEOs ought be permitted to chair the board of directors; which makes a fine follow-up.
2013-03-26 12:52:10 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
The Fox and the Henhouse
Corporations are powerful institutions. But rarely responsible institutions. In this timid article published by the Financial Times, Andrew Hill squeaks that maybe, just maybe, it would be better if the positions of CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors were not held by the same individual.
Frankly I don't know if this subtle change would make a whit of difference, even though I'm prepared to admit it does take a microscopic step in the right direction.
What is needed is genuine accountability. Jailtime for executives of malfeasant companies. Dissolution of firms which do not abide social norms.
As it stands today, the fox is the only protector guarding the henhouse. This must change, otherwise our goose is cooked.
2013-03-25 19:32:55 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
Why so many jobs are crappy
The problem is not the jobs. It's us. Most humans are simply not the kind of people a boss would want to hire.
2013-03-23 16:25:44 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
For All Those Dropped Calls
Maybe someday you won't have to worry about cracking the screen when you drop your iPhone. Apple has just received a patent for inventing a mechanism that turns the face of a falling phone away from impact.
Will we ever see this cat-like reflex built into an iPhone? Probably not. Because the mechanism would add weight and bulk to the handset, two things Apple has religiously strived to excommunicate from its mobile devices. More likely: an iPhone that purrs.
#caturday #iphone
2013-03-23 14:52:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
+David Amerland on the Three Criteria Used by Semantic Search
Trust
Reputation
Authority
2013-03-23 01:09:48 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
CSR and Values
+Alex Diaz posted this a couple of hours ago. Alex hasn't joined this community — yet — but his analysis fits right in with our discussions here.
Customer service by itself is never enough. It must be delivered out of values expressing the corporate DNA.
2013-03-22 14:37:05 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)
Contingency Plan – The Freelance Economy
The wide open spaces of the American west loom large across the American psyche. Americans cling fervently to the myth of the rugged individualist, of a man who possesses the audacity of spirit and the strength of character to overcome every obstacle and defeat any adversary that stands in the way of his taking possession of his God-given homestead. And it matters not a whit that the west has been enclosed for over a century now, our ambitions to claim our share has in no way been quenched nor squelched.
Those forty acres have long been parceled and fenced and ringed with "No Trespassing" signs. The mules to till these barren lands were long ago shot. And buried.
So too, increasingly, the jobs which once replaced the land as the way to "make a living" have become enclosed inside glass corporate c... more »
2013-03-22 12:41:07 (83 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)
Wagging the Dog – The Long Financial Tale
Yesterday @primeeconomics circulated on Twitter this pretty picture of private sector debt in the UK. Notice that household debt, which I presume include mortgages, credit card, educational and automobile scheduled payments, total just under 100% of annual GDP of the kingdom. Similarly, commercial debt adds up to just over 100%. But notice the nice sweet frosting topping this biscuit: financial sector debt, which I won't presume to understand in the least, weighs in at over 240% of annual GDP. 240%!!!
Doesn't it seem the least bit peculiar that the sector of the economy that is supposed to serve the men and women and companies who actually produce the woolens or stock the shelves or bake the biscuits has become so grotesquely fat? How is the economy ever going to recover when so much of the wealth is lost to unfettered s... more »
2013-03-20 09:18:47 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)
Yes, Virginia, you can legally resell books. Again.
Every now and then the U.S. Supreme Court gets something right. Generalized, this ruling could prove important on many fronts, particularly because it provides a well-understood mechanism for reuse of things you have purchased but no longer use: resale. Keeping things out of landfills is always a good idea. Being able to make money doing so is a powerful incentive.
I wonder whether this ruling will have any effect on e-books? There's a rumor floating about that Apple is considering inaugurating a resale service on iTunes. Could Google or Amazon be far behind?
cc +Adam Johnson; h/t +Electronic Frontier Foundation
2013-03-19 11:56:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Pity the "Poor" European Banker
They might work less, as Gina Chon suggests, or they may decide to pick up and emigrate to the U.S.A. where everyone else except bankers and financiers have had their pay capped. For forty years.
2013-03-17 13:06:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Debate, But Verify
Ordinarily, I'm in favor of philosophical reflection too. But philosophical debates far too often stray across the boundary into fantasy. 'Tis best to ground one's argument with evidence lest it fly off into cookooland.
Chris Dillow stumbles and mumbles his way towards providing actual empirical evidence that liberal values are preferred by real people over authoritarian dictates — an observation that has become all that much more valuable given the recent tendency amongst liberal democracies ranging from the United States, the United Kingdom and even Canada, yes Canada, oh Canada, towards increased repression of dissent. One only needed to observe the army of police cordoning Zuccotti Park and the festive protestors during the height of Occupy Wall Street to see and hear "this is what a police state looks like." Or the rush to remove first p... more »
2013-03-15 10:09:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Open Badges 1.0
+Kimberly Hayworth has just published a post about Open Badges 1.0, which I think this community might find relevant.
The concept is to offer "badges" to students who have completed online courses, detailing what skills were taught in the course. This weaker form of certification may then be used by job seekers as part of their resumé as well as by employers seeking to discern whether a prospective employer has the skills requisite for the position.
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