Three Stories That Pissed Me Off This Week
A couple of the things that piss me off in the world are manipulation and outright greed.
As you know I am a huge fan of tribes, communities and collaborations.
Somewhere in a Stephen Covey book about ten years ago I read a line about about being interconnected and interdependent - it was what I had always - and I mean always - been hacking to evangelize to people.
That is a fucking dangerous word "evangelize" and immediately makes me think of Catholic Ships arriving on a beach in North Africa to save people. Or Self appointed ministers of religion jumping out their Silver Mercedes car and running up the aisle of their church to loud applause while people throw money.
Then there are politicians, in the UK that could be Natalie Bennett, David Cameron or Jeremy Corbyn - I am sure there are a few more - who are evangelical. Of course leading a political party requires a dose of ego and evangelism.
Convincing business vs the JFDI business.
Eggs and Diversity
I was playing golf with my mate Lisa and I was expecting to pick up some hot tech and sharing economy tips. Instead I heard about diversity and how this influences the economy and society. As you can imagine my head hurt, I thought I knew everything and here was an angle I had not read about.
Well, I probably had but was to dumb to spot it.
Lisa babes! I Luurve diversity - I am all about diversity! I read about it in a Stephen Covey book and totally agree!
Green Surge
A few weeks later I was one of those people tweeting the #greensurge hashtag like it was going out of fashion and then wondering how the media was making out the Conservative party had a landslide victory when really it was the crappest winning margin in 150 years.
Then after Azcal was found drowned in a beach and I was tweeting #refugeeswelcome and #babybernie was shouting abuse at David Cameron outside Number 10.
Which leads me to these three pieces of content.
Hawkins Pecha Kucha on labels and diversity got my blood boiling and not just the picture of her as a young lady. When Ann was the female manager of a print factory and employed one other apprentice girl she was breaking new ground, it seems dumb that her role was so exceptional - even more dumb we still need to talk about it today.
