Whenever you come to a fork in the path, take it.
~Yogi Berra
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Trust is rising up like a whale breaking surface for air. I see it everywhere at the core of all that is good and worth doing. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got trust swing. It's not an accident that I use dance and jazz to talk about trust.
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Terry ElliottWhat Duke says. I just substitute trust for swing. Trust is the swing. Without it there ain't no swing. And by the way, that's Johnny Hodges with that sweet sax solo. I trust his swing.
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Terry ElliottAnd if that ain't enough swing for you, trust this: https://youtu.be/Eco4z98nIQY
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Is the public library obsolete? A lot of powerful forces in society seem to think so. In recent years, declines in the circulation of bound books in some parts of the country have led prominent critics to argue that libraries are no longer serving…
Terry ElliottLibraries are my lodestone.The first thing I do when I move into a new town is to get a library card. They are our most successful example of a socialist institution and were considered a core democratic institution by Ben Franklin. Core 2 democracy.
When the private equity raiders who took over Toys R Us, saddled it up with debt, extracted $200,000,000 and then crashed it, they took the employee severance fund with them, but that wasn't the final indignity the titans of finance inflicted on…
Terry ElliottWhen the bottom line is the only line, you would be a fool to trust corporations. Amoral, inhuman citizens. If that doesn't appall, then read the cavalier care the private equity raiders who took down Toy R Us did with employee data.Amoral sacks of shit.
Last year I wrote a post — cities & the future of work — as an introduction to my session with the Prime Minister's Office of Finland. I have been invited back to Helsinki this year to further discuss some issues around reforming the…
Terry ElliottJarche asks the hardest question: how can trust be built? It is probably more important than attention in the networked organization. Yet people don't expect to have to nurture it, to grow it. Why is that? Trust must be distributed. Hand to hand to hand.
Print this story From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out…
Terry ElliottAnd has been for a very long time. Best Huffpost piece in a very long time. So go long form and get woke.
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Terry ElliottNitty gritty typographics on one sheet. Plus, useful rules of the typographic road with quotes and use cases. Yes. Bookmark the fire out of it.
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