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Re: Silver Linings

johndodds — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:12:28 -0000

I share your wish but fear that, even now, that gratitude is not evenly distributed.

Re: Silver Linings

johndodds — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:11:07 -0000

Here in Brexitland, it's rightly spawned a discussion around how critical the supposedly unskilled jobs are and what that means for visa policy. You'd have thought people would have been aware of that before.

Re: Uncanny Valley

johndodds — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:09:39 -0000

I'm in complete agreement. Nobody is indispensible and dismissing something as locker room talk is moral cowardice.

Re: Gen Z Has Made ‘Social Currency’ a Must-Have for Brands

johndodds — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:09:50 -0000

What AI was used in any of the examples you cited?

Re: Streaks

johndodds — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:02:21 -0000

There used to be so many more streaks. We were lucky to have them then and are lucky to have the very few that abide.

Re: Mobile Ticketing

johndodds — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:27:24 -0000

Also interesting to note the extent to which it's not changed the life of all those people standing in line.

Re: Seven to Ten Years

johndodds — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 06:27:33 -0000

Maybe it's because neither of you are looking to flip your investments but rather are interested in real sustainable businesses solving real problems.

Re: Another week/weekend in LA

johndodds — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:19:58 -0000

I like that Kusama piece. Her last two London shows have been a tad disappointing though that might have something to do with my having been introduced to her by a huge and sensational retrospective at Tate Modern in 2012.

Re: Japanese Moving Company

johndodds — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:12:36 -0000

Wonderful service - may I ask how much it would have cost you if they had charged you the regular price? And what happens to all the packaging - I guess they re-use their special packaging materials, but what about the boxes and the wall coverings? How much is one-use and then garbage?

Re: Vaccinations

johndodds — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 16:31:00 -0000

Many readers probably know this but the Wakefield study that started all this anti-vaccination stuff was predicated on a correlation derived from dependent probabilities that Wakefield wrongly asserted were independent.

Re: Video Of The Week: Brad Burnham on This Week In Startups

johndodds — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:18:56 -0000

Amazing clarity of thought, not to mention the best single sentence explanation of crypto I've ever heard. A pleasure and an education.

Re: Financial Literacy

johndodds — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:19:00 -0000

Agree completely. There is a similar movement in the UK, but I think we need to deal with numeracy first.

Re: Priorities and Triage

johndodds — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:21:40 -0000

I love your friend's response.

Made me wonder if you could develop a phrase like "It's a triage no from me" that gets the message across as briefly without you feeling curt?

Obviously this is exactly the wrong time for you to have to think about that, but I mention it for your future consideration. Above all, stay healthy.

Re: Last day of the trip, last day in London

johndodds — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:12:45 -0000

Now I appear to be stalking you. Was at the Serpentine only yesterday. Baking hot. Liked the Abts, the Christo less so. Seems small, though clearly it isn't. Will check out Palomar.

Re: A few days in London

johndodds — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:03:23 -0000

I dined at Kiln just the other week and completely agree about the glass noodles and larb. Heard rumours that there was a downstairs, but couldn't work out where it was and thus never witnessed anyone descending.

Re: Last day, a morning in Detroit

johndodds — Fri, 25 May 2018 07:58:59 -0000

A great series of posts about a city I've never visited. Thank you. Did you encounter any of the urban gardeners and artist quarters that I recall being touted as the future of the city's regeneration some years ago?

Re: Video Of The Week: Kevin Slavin on “Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves”

johndodds — Sun, 06 May 2018 13:24:22 -0000

Always been a big fan of Kevin - lovely guy and a really interesting thinker and do-er.

Re: Are Football Fans Irrational?

johndodds — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:53 -0000

If "It is also possible that fans systematically over-estimate the
probability of their team winning and never revise or learn from
experience" then isn't it also possible that they over or underestimate their happiness when asked?

Re: Pitch Deck Alternatives

johndodds — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:41:51 -0000

Amen to that - even though I rarely participate here (or on my own blog) these days.

Re: KFC’s Snapchat frenzy

johndodds — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 05:26:15 -0000

A 24% uplift in in-app sales. Forgive me for being doubtful whether that translates into a big number.

Re: The Gig Is Up

johndodds — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:05:14 -0000

I hope that's true. This needs to become a systemic shift and not be looked back on as a blip. Too many offenders are in denial and, I fear, will remain that way.

Re: TedxNYIT

johndodds — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:51:31 -0000

Excellent.

Re: Why we’re dropping the term “content marketing”

johndodds — Fri, 19 May 2017 05:00:34 -0000

"if you focus on publishing great content, you’ll actually need to do minimal marketing to attract people to your product" - well yes and no. Everything a company does is marketing. Publishing great content is marketing. Always has been, always will be. Promotion is only one of the Ps of marketing and it's taken a long time for tech businesses to learn this. That's not a criticism, there are a hell of a lot of CMOs across the world who have never learned that.

Re: Google Firestarters 23 - The Future Strategist/Planner - Only Dead Fish

johndodds — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:21:41 -0000

Rats. How did this pass me by?

Re: Planning For Next Year

johndodds — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:49:10 -0000

Baffled that such a good post got so few comments.