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With the merest hint of irony Andrew Jacobs suggests that what many organisations really want are not better leaders, but better followers: Developing trust with insincere people Learning to believe anything/everything someone says Being inspired by uninspirational people Being passionate in an uncommitted environment Understanding mixed messages Working with indecisive people Taking blame with confidence Appreciating the learning points of the excessive workload Giving up ideas for the credit of others Working without praise Being manipulated with appreciation The recent years of UK politics would suggest that there are many faces we see on our screens every day who want the same :-)

Continuing the experiment in using the social network as a filter

Building on earlier experiments in organising information sources based on degree of social connection.

Every year Jane Hart runs a survey of learning tools Here’s my entry for 2019: Drafts Incredibly versatile tool for creating and re-purposing text on iOS devices. Custom actions written in JavaScript allow me to push, pull and manipulate text pretty much as I need. A core part of my personal / professional learning. This post created in Drafts. Hugo Earlier this year I migrated my blog from WordPress to Hugo and I’m extremely happy with the result.

Noting down a few interesting uses/modes of blogging that have caught my eye this week For Dave Winer pretty much every form of writing text is an outline - as a result he has created some interesting tools, the ubiquitous glue of RSS, and a distinctive blogging style. By contrast Michelle Ockers mixes a blog with “Daily Dispatches” (a similar show-your-work concept to the Notes here), but really stands out for her use of video, including on her introduction

Several commentators, dismayed at the recent antics of the Brexit party MEPs, have been tweeting variants of a quote from Josef Goebbels in the Nazi paper Der Angriff 1 : We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us.

I have just finished reading Cultural Dementia by Prof. David Andress. The book both places current populism (in the UK, USA and France) in an historical context, and highlights the distorted and partial view of national history peddled by such as the Trumpists, the Front National, and the Brexit Party and their allies.. In Andress’s own words: “The demands of contemporary ‘populist’ movements make manifest a vision of the past that is the opposite of a coherent history.

Everything you need to know about Twitter in one Tweet: Somebody tweeted something that could be interpreted in a range of ways. Some people took offence. Some people then took offence that someone had taken offence. Some then snarkilly tweeted other stuff. Semantic games and nonsense ahoy It’s not a good look on any side. — Simon Smith (@smithsmm) June 15, 2019 via @smithsmm

As I am doing a fair bit of content pruning and editing as part of the transfer from WordPress to Hugo I’ll keep this post updated with what has changed: tagging done back to 2014, plus a few earlier posts have deleted all the auto-generated linklog posts which came from del.icio.us have added a link to my public shared bookmarks on Diigo to my about page

Part 5 of Moving from WordPress to Hugo