AbenezerMamo

I have limited context here but I’m siding with Apple on this one. The ability to have grant and deny access to device data v.s. power is key. Especially in a world with growing number of 3rd party hardware extensions to devices, if helps to know that something is Apple certified. I’m not sure how this works on Android yet.

The relationship isn’t the same as a phone case for instance. Thorough I would be worried if it occupied the lightning port and forced me to use USB variant to charge the actual case. In some sense, I do see that as the strategy behind some of the recent mag based accessories.

That aside, I do see NFC as one area where this becomes a gray area. Do we advocate for less wasteful wires and accept the power throughput loss of -ductive (I forget which one :P) charging?

More important is the loss of autonomy in NFC where a singular input / output interface is now replaced with whatever is within the vicinity or range of the device (usually the top or back)

I’m not sure what direction consumer technology will take us but I do hope there are people actively keeping up with the standards and what they mean for security, privacy, and choice; seeing as how they’re essential to user autonomy.

Lastly: you obtain autonomy - gaining and losing implies a binary state; where obtaining implies a relinquishing gradient- loosening of what should start as an iron grip.

Ummm can’t help but feel like your comment started off a little tone deaf? Yikes.

Didn’t know much about the dude but reading about Holocracy was definitely a huge impact on my career and leadership / org principles. Damn. Rest In Peace. Wow. Wow. Wow. Didn’t think to connect it to the guy but it’s probably only Valve and Zapppos that actually cared enough to push it on the org design front. Legends.

What a wonderful comment. Thanks.

The employment/housing/financing impact is too real, too deep, and too damn important. Change. A change gonna come.

Failture on all sides and too costly to ignore.

Savage

This is great!!

Definitely agree! League of Legends and TF2/CS:GO stand out as games that have a huge community that builds a lot of analytics tools for in-game activity data. Most times, the community tools are way more feature rich and comprehensive than game dev tools. Definitely a lot to learn from games

I relate to your struggle and on the bright side, getting better at this does give you and your thoughts more autonomy.

Sorry, I don’t have a solution for you. However, I can share what I feel contributes to the barrier that exists between you, change, and change management. In jazz, being a good collaborator is often referred to as “having big ears”. It’s necessary for players to tune their style to match that of others and selflessly create space for others to do that realllly sweet sounding solo that’s so grooovy!

What’s the point? If you want to make change, focus on changing the environment so it nurtures the uncomfort of evolving change to take effect without trying to control it like an orchestra. Ken from Google Ventures has some good writing on this to check out.

To truly listen, you have to relinquish the desire to think about how you’ll respond or the thing from 30 seconds ago. How do you do that? Idk, lmk if you figure it out. It’s hard — and it requires practice.

Proactively changing your behavior to be receptive to others will lead to your inevitable growth into “leadership” or “influence”. The best leaders are the ones who listen best. It starts with you.

Airtable & Mindmap

Is “props” a pun? If it is...I appreciate it * snap