My partner asked me how I was doing on the phone. She remarked how I was managing with the changes well and I mentioned a quote I heard recently.
I won’t/can’t take credit but it speaks volume about right now… The quote came from the head of R&D which he was reminded of via the chief scientist.
“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Seeing New year 2020 in from my windows in central Manchester
The 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
I wrote a blog about neurodiversity after Kate included me in a tweet about a mother and daughter talking on the listening project. My blogs are shared into Facebook and Marie added a comment, which was simply a picture.
That picture (same as above) spoke volumes. After looking it up, I found the source.
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
This is something I absolutely subscribe to. You only have to ask friends about my dotted past and look at some of the friends I get up to shenanigans with. I never seeked to fit in or follow other people’s limited constructs of what I should or not do; and to be fair I’ve never been very apologetic about it. Of course it’s not all tea and honey, but it’s just the way I am. Said on the eve of getting undressed on TV.
