My User Manual

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Hi I’m Ian and I’m referred to by ‘he/him’ pronouns

Here is my user manual, as first discovered in Cassie Robinson.‘s blog post and written about in my new years resolutions for 2020. Everything is work in progress and I may move this to a page instead of a blog entry.

Last updated on 5/2/2023

Now moved here – https://cubicgarden.com/user-manual/

Author: Ianforrester

Senior firestarter at BBC R&D, emergent technology expert and serial social geek event organiser. Can be found at cubicgarden@mas.to, cubicgarden@twit.social and cubicgarden@blacktwitter.io

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  1. Seeing New year 2020 in from my windows in central ManchesterThe 2010’s are over and its now the 2020’s… Happy New Year all…
    As we enter the next decade, I’ve been thinking about what things I certainly want to bring forward. At the same time while writing Other things to know about me in my user manual, I used a cluetrain rule number 7.

    “Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy”
    ― Cluetrain Manifesto

    I think quotes are a useful to convey some meaning in to the future. Something which may be useful when looking into the 2020’s.

    “Sometimes I forget that my world is not the mainstream (yet)” ― Eric Nehrlich

    “We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
    “Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.”
    ― Sherry Turkle

    “ Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.”
    “People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell

    “Do the unexpected. Find the others”
    ― Timothy Leary

    “In the future that the surveillance capitalism prepares for us, my will and yours threaten the flow of surveillance revenues. Its aim is not to destroy us but simply to author us and to profit from that authorship.”
    ― Shoshana Zuboff

    “When you don’t have to ask for permission innovation thrives.”

    ― Steven Johnson

    “Freedom is about stopping the past.”
    “If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.”
    ― Lawrence Lessig

    You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
    – Steve Jobs

    Despite their good intentions, today’s businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives – to do good and make money simultaneously.
    – Cindy Gallop

    “If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.”
    – Jonathan Zittrain

    “By viewing evolution though a strictly competitive lens, we miss the bigger story of our own social development and have trouble understanding humanity as one big, interconnected team.”
    ― Douglas Rushkoff

    There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
    The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
    – Marshall MuLuhan

    All food for thought, and there are so many more I could add…
    I can’t believe I forgot my favorite of them all

    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete
    – Buckminster Fuller

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