Tag: Love and Happiness

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Burying the survivors

A flight leaves Heathrow at 13:00 on route to Paris, on the way it experiences fatal engine failure and crashes in the Channel. The flight carries 120 passengers 20 in first class.

How many survivors will be buried on the French side and how many in the English side?

 Question the question

It’s interesting to observe how people communicate differently on personal matters depending on the device and method.  There are so many factors that impact the sender’s mental state and tone of the message (personal or work device, signed or unsigned, the speed of transport (instant or slow), public or perceived private.

Formal and personal – hard copy letter.  Shows the sender put in some thought and invested some resources (print, paper, envelope, postage and time costs) before sending and serves as hardcore historical evidence.

Formal and less personal –

email unsigned from a personal mobile device

email unsigned from work or business device

Email digitally signed on mobile device

Email from workstation

Email from laptop

Email from browsers

Many end-users actually see this as cold and heartless as “no one” emails about personal stuff anymore.

Informal and very personal

Instant messaging

WhatsApp

iMessage

VOIP phone calls

The method of choice for a vast amount of people. The user tends to speak from the heart whether angry, sad or happy.  Data is sent with no regard of security levels and assumptive privacy.

Consequences can be catastrophic or a euphoric high.

  • I Love you by email = Low euphoria
  • I Love you by Instant messaging = High euphoria
  • I Love you by letter = High euphoria

Choose your method wisely

 

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Re-boot

After such as long break over the Christmas holidays, I’m reluctant to get back into work, work, work.

Anyhow, got a brand new hard copy diary and had already lined up my goals and dreams for 2018.

Stayed healthy in 2017

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I need a hero

Star Wars Spoiler alert: Almost a year after real actor Carrie Fisher died, I treated myself to a solo cinema run to see The Last Jedi.  This production was a real salute to the original and it’s poignant to think that all the main heroes are now all gone, Leia, Luke and Solo.

I love the little touches that feature Leia original distress hologram and Han Solo’s dice.

I left the movie with a wonderful glowing feeling that went back to my childhood but knowing that I must move on. Nostalgia is great but it can tie you down, a theme that was repeated again and again in the movie.

So, 2018 will be my year of not looking back and like Yoda says “The greatest teacher failure is.” 

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™- Ready for Part 2
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80% chance of Critical damage

With all the mass marketing, social media message avalanches and inflated travel prices at this time of year there won’t be many people considering the new fresh pages of January in their diaries.

This is great if you’re looking to book flights for Valentine’s Day or working on a Summer holiday but tough to have that kind of conversation in general population.

I’m much more comfortable with the early planning and strategy stages.  Consequently, my Winter stage is going fine so far mainly because I considered it whilst chilling on the beach.

80% change of critical damage if I don’t plan.

No SAD feelings,  10mg Lecithin today

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Spent an offline weekend in Chorley, a lovely small town in Northern England.  It was my first trip and I kinda treated it like a reconnaissance mission as I positively want to come back next Summer.

Our trip took us through Manchester Piccadilly but I wasn’t really impressive, maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner.  We did, however, discover an absolutely brilliant hidden local gem called Gents Pie Shop which sold homemade quality Northern Pies, Butties and cakes.

Trying to find the perfect Life formula

The Mince Pie made its way back to Vienna but I scuffed the Butty and Tata Pie in-between London and Gatwick.

10mg Lecithin

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Day 3 of 5 | PS4 Offline…Talent management

A top-down look at Game Streaming is fascinating.

Why watch streamers anyway?  Well, as a veteran gamer it’s always good to watch gamers do things I don’t have the time or talent to do.  Right now, my PS4 is off-line and boxed up so naturally, I’ll just watch my favourite streamers.

Gamers voice and talent

The layer of talent management is a brilliant niche offering streamers services like event management, sponsorship negations, channel staffing, PR, career management, legal and finance.

This is a true recognition of the massive variety of streamers representing an actual legitimate career path and free channel of expression.  An interesting detailed article appeared in The New Yorker this week featuring Online Performers Group…….Read the full article here

According to Twitch.TV FAQs there are 17,000 Partners globally, so this is still very much something the Marketing people have not figured out how to truly monetise.

I’m guessing Streamer fall into 
these broad categories

Skill-based
Variety
Casual
Full-time
Sponsored
Fan-based
Broadcaster
Journalist 
...the list goes on

Seems to me the market is still trying to figure out the ‘Path of a Streamer’ but when a free-flowing arena gets formalised the community just morphs into something else.

Remember when you could say anything on mainstream social media channels?