Wayne Mansfield The future will belong to those who learn, unlearn and relearn.. The web journey of Wayne Mansfield
Teacher's Aide.
The area that could easily be fixed on the diversity scale is that which currently is the biggest... age! Did you know most systems were designed when the most common death occurred at age 40! Did you notice how old people were that succumbed to covid - 80+ was the most common age.
what happens to people who are "seniors"? They are discarded because that is "the way". This has lead to a new movement called the "Modern elder" group. People old enough to contribute from a place of experience but well enough to pull their weight.
I was reminded of this watching a series of Paul McCartney videos which talked about his age as 76plus... and he is still making hit records and performing [pre-covid] to stadium sized crowds of 50k+
He was asked at 18 what he would bw doing at "the Old age of 20" And he remarked "probably not being a player in a rock and roll band." Yet here he is in 2021, 78 Years old... still being a "singer in a rock and roll band."
Go figure!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #jAB
3. #GST
4. #Ageism
5. #Ashes
6. #Borderwars
7. #3rdJab
8. #McCartney
9. #Terry
10. #Merlot
Do you want to make more $$$ for 2022 than you did in 2021?
Who would have thought that it would last this long? Covid-19 goes on!
Attention is the Game!
What to take from this.
Go where the attention is and post appropiate content for that platform.. currently that is TikTok for all demographics seeking attention - or you could get upset and chase rainbows [ as I have done ], but you should learn from Myspace that was once worth a $1 billlion [ that's what Murdoch paid for it] and is now irrelivant
[ unless you are an idependent music label where it is the place to be ].
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #BorderWars
4. #GST
5. #3rdBooster
6. #QueenLiz
7. #Merlot2022
8. #MasksAgain
9. #Terry
10. #Planning
I remember when I was frustrated at home my mother said, as she pointed " My Roof - my rules, don't like it there is the door!" and I left!
We had a time when there was a thing called empty nest syndrone but it is replaced with boomerange kids.
Nobody wins anymore.. everyone participates!
I often think of my uncle who retired early [62] but lived into his 90's. He was the first person who lived longer than was expected. He told me once: " You can only play golf for so many years " he stopped playing golf when he turned 90!
My situation is that my goals have been achieved but not planning for the future sucks! In another converstaion with a mates dad, I insensitively said... my uncle once said "One of the problems of getting old is that all your friends die"
This is was brought home at his funeral service which was old people but not many! [probably he outlived all of them!]
Most of the things I subscribe to have their price expressed in US dollars... I read with dread that a journalist is cheering that the Australian Dollar could end up at 65c to the dollar That is to I heard Dan sulivan of Strategic Coach say that most of his income is earned in the US and spent in Canada where he has a 26% advantage.... He lives in Toronto but his compnay is headquartered in Chicago..
I was impacted by the first Internet Laws in Australia - The spam Act so when I heard that the Australian Government is Thinking of crimping the styale of BNPL platforms my first thought were "You should keep you noses out of there" [Zip Afterpay etc.] I was reminded of the words of australian Transort pioneer, Reg Ansett who said " You don't have to like the law, you just have to know it!" and again Dan Sullivan saying... "The biggest prospects are in areas where legistaion hasn't caught up yet!"
I was listening to Mike Rowes Podcast and it was talking about the Story behind the Trademeking of the Redneck Riveria by John Rich - Don't hear "no" as an answer. It seems it is how you approach stuff affects the outcome!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Gast
3. #Jab
4. #Gladys
5. #RedneckRiveria
6. #Test
7. #Ashes
8. #Twiggy
9. #Homeless
10. #Giggles
Over the last few days, I have slowly accepted that we are in a similar time to when horses were replce by cars... the major difference is that it is happening quicker. cars replced horses - it took 100 years to reach a time where elecric cars will replace fossil fuel and AI will replace drivers? The last 18 months has seen changes that are happenin at warped speed.. like remote working etc... people preferring to shop online... the death of the CBD and shopping malls and they are being relced by zom and other video enbled computer apps.
Are you ready for the changes?? I wasn't but think I will have to gie in gracefully.
Today's # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #Barnaby
5. #Test
6. #Ashes
7. #Cleo
8. #HomeLess
9. #Giggles
10. #Toddler
The Covid-19 crisis continues to go on... starting in March 2020 it is now December 2021 and if we go "back to normal" it won't be what it was like. I used to do sessions in public around australia and the world which meant I was in planes 2 weeks out of four.... the new way is by zoom meetigs, and when we can there will bw different "in person" meetings... much like radio film and TV co-eisit but will never be what they were - it will be just different.
It has been a strange start to summer in Australia... Last year on the east coast we hade bushfires - this year we have floods. Go figure.
They are talking cricket - if the rain stops - that sounds like the UK?
Anyway, these are strange times!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #AntiVax
5. #TransNonsense
6. #Sabbatical
7. #Minimilism
8. #Lawn
9. #Testcrap
10. #10wickets
I was aked to do something and made a plan and started to put into action - but I didn't tell anyone! anyway, it was assumed that I wasn't oing anything so someone else is doing the situtaion.
As I have mentioned previoulsy I am reading Gary Vayerchucks new book "Twelve and a half" and he asks where you slot in the nearly 8 billion people.
Apparently 820 people where undernourished in 2018 [according to the WHO],40.s million people where modern day salves when they measured that in 2016... 3billion people don't have the internet and 4.5 billion people don't have a fully functioning toilet!
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3, #GST
4. #GaryVBook
5. #Croz
6. #NewCovid
7. #Lockdowns
8. #LiberslCrisis
9. #TestBan
10. #Books
Did you know, books regularly come out of copwright if they are 70 years old or more... all Disney stories were "stolen" from out of copyright books. Great books to read [ out of copyright too ] are those by Claude Hopkins.
Did you notice that really old people succumbed to Covid - people aged 80, 90, and even 100+ My grandmother died at 63 of old age, my mother didn't make it that far, my fther was 75+ and my aunty was nearly 90. People are living longer- in 1880 people in the US had a life expectancy of 39, that changed in 1930 to 58 and is currently 79 with more people living passed 100 than ever before.
I have been listening to the views of Andy Frisella of The MFCEO Project and the REALAF Podcasts. I remember when my son, Matthew, said I should listen [That is word of mouth working] he also said you probably won't like the language [There are lots of the MF word} and Andy sounds perpetually angry. Well I listen with the filter on [I don't hear the MF words] and he sounds less angry the more you agree with him.
Podcast Link "The RealAF"
Link to 75 Hard
Listening to Andy is like watching the news on the ABC and then on Fox and wondering what is the truth. I commend you have a listen and test your beliefs. [ Yes it is challenging ]
Sidenote: I would like to thank Marlene R, who took me to task for poor grammer in the last newsletter - the wrong word used - I used sort rather than sought in the piece about WWE.
If you want to follow my ramblings, you can at the Boy from Margaret River Blog where you can learn, unlearn and relearn.
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #Ageism
5. #OMICRONEStrain
6. #BanninCroz
7. #DiedGulpilil
8. #SmallerwineGlasses
9. #NorthBridgeStabbing
10. #RacistCharles
Last week,I had an issue with the bank... you know "we love you as a customeer but wait for 45 minutes on the phone - I might have waited longer but I gave up!
When I got to my coffee and paper shop [7/11 Morley] my credit card was back where I was talking to the bank [I didn't have it!] and the phone app doesn't work - who knows why, so coffee in hand the lady who servers me said she would put the money in. Disaster averted.
I have a couple of examples where I should have but didn't:
I did the tax for someone very close and a difficult question came up. I asked advice from an accountant friend " Who said - Let sleeping dogs lie." when it cam time to take that advice I squashed the little voice and let the Person lodge a return."
Sometime ago someone close said " you are just an Old, fat, angry" man.
Now I am a little less heavy after losing 20kilos, still od but I am working on the angry bit.
There’s no point in trying to escape change.
Change is difficult and uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid it. It can be forced upon us by unexpected circumstances: an accident, a job loss, an illness or malfunction in a machine we rely on.
If your partner suddenly breaks a leg and you need to abandon your usual activities to take care of them, show them what an adaptable, tolerant and responsible person you are — and change accordingly.
The odd thing is, the older we get, the more we grumble about change, yet so many of us have already faced the greatest change of all: going from independence to dependence, with little or no preparation at all. I suppose it’s because it’s something we don’t want to think about too much, as we’re secretly confident we’ll cope when we have to.
Today's #Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #FifiFeinds
5. #BorderWar
6.. #Tim
7. #Bikies
8. #IdiotsInParliament
9. #WiconsinTerror
10. #CopAnti-Vax
Can you make an NFT? Well, one would assume so given that when Trevor Andrew as Gucci Ghost (pictured below), and he managed to sell it for $3,600.
Much like when buying NFTs, you need to have a wallet set up, and it needs to be stuffed full of cryptocurrency. It's this requirement for money upfront that causes the complications.
The hidden fees can be prohibitively astronomical, with sites charging a 'gas' fee for every sale (the price for the energy it takes to complete the transaction), alongside a fee for selling and buying.
You also need to take into account conversion fees and fluctuations in price depending on the time of day. All this means that the fees can often add up to a lot more than the price you get for selling the NFT.
Whether or not NFTs are here to stay, for the moment they are making some people money and they're creating new possibilities for digital art. I would, however, advise caution and careful consideration of which platforms to use.
If you want to get creating, make sure you've got one of the newest and most powerful computers or tablets!
Todays # Tags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #Tim $Dickhead
5. #subsidyShame
6. #Vax
7. #WisconsinTerror
8. #BorderWars
9. #IdiotsInParliament
10. #Terry
According to Gary V there are only two ways to dominate a sical media platform - be first [ or amongst the first of your niche ] or the best [ for established networks.
I remember being one of the first people to have a twitter account.... engagement was high and results were great... Twitter works differently now!
Gary V says you should be always looking for the new thing... in 2019 he was talkng about instagram and Tictok... but he said you have to be prepared when something stops working... like Periscope and clubhouse...
Todays # Hashtags.
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #Tim
5. #DickHeads
6. #CricketShame
7. #Vax
8. #DieselSubsidyShame
9. #Protests
10. # CopAnti-Vax
Fast forward to November 2021: It is announced that paine is resigning as Captain because he was caught sexting while married with a female colleague in 2017 - so it has been covered up for 4 years!!
I remeber thinking the internet would take forever to gain traction - I gave a talk on the web early on and about 50% through the talk I was met by blank stares... nobody new what I was talking about - it was 1990 and we were talking about modems, smart phones being Nokias, and fax marketing etc.... the same expressions meet me when I talk about Web 3.0 and the platform it is built on - Blockchain and NFT's - only this time the change will be swift... you won't be able to deny the changes - they will come anyway.
For example, I thought petrol cars would last forever but who would have predicted General Motors actually stopping to market cars where they had sterring wheels on the English side of the car [ Riht hand drive] - that's in Australia, New zealand, South Africa and India. Now many comanies, including GM, are only going to make electric cars from 2030 - gee that is soon [just around the corner].
The change from Horses to Cars took a while but the change from fossil fueled cars to electric vehicles will be much quicker... there might even be a new push towards Australian manufactured cars - Heck, the pollies are already talking about that.
World trade will be done differently soon... supply chains have broken down - I heard they were established as a offset to the cold war... America shipped its jobs to China etc... those jobswill come back as two things take hold - higher wages and broken supply chains. The jobs will be different as Robots driven by ai will replace laburers producing goods but service jobs will explode so our education system will need to change for those jobs.
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #AGEISM
5. #POOLDEATH
6. #WCE
7. #VAX
8. #107YearsYoung
9. #William
10. #73Yearslate
And the Cities Hearts often called the cbd'd will be chalenged as people work from home or decentralised spaces.
There is a simple question for you: Will you be ready!
