Am not certain when first got press though suspect was when was 9, and won the Spelling Bee at my school. Which was cool. Was actually competing with my older brother and was so excited to win, but then next thing you know, whoosh!!! These other things and failed at the regional competition which was the next level with an easy word for me to spell. Pressure got to me. Have thought about that for decades.
Is a pattern have wondered over where success rapidly propels me to another level, and then there find things muddled, and am finally ready to end that cycle.
Sure most of my life things have mostly worked out ok, though lately has been so much more of a struggle. But for quite some time, worked out ok. Like back then would keep ending up in the local paper, as my hometown of Tifton just had one, more than once as the years went by where am not sure how many times.
Last big one though was when was 17 and had highest SAT of my graduating high school class. That was my first press interview--with my Mom, am thinking yeah was first interview I think. And would go on to Vanderbilt University on a full academic scholarship. And have reminisced about much before but now am considering recent things.
Like studied to begin a new career in heating and air conditioning and did well there, which was great as had been in a shelter for MONTHS wondering what to do to get back on my feet. Well things really rolled along as ended up getting a scholarship, and then got a car and housing voucher, which meant ended up on local news. Here is a link to an article on local news 13WMAZ. And yeah I totally went to the public library like the news article says. (Please support your local public library.)
Where happened back in November and yeah talked on my other social media and one of my blogs where linked, which means this blog can take its time while I process. Is a good reason to have a bunch of social media, so can get important information out immediately but still follow up later without it seeming like old news. Is fresh here.
Oh yeah, so what impact, like on social media? Um, well on my social media was like it didn't happen, except for one. So was on television across I think all the major networks in central Georgia, USA, with local news. Which included commercials. And my social media public numbers did NOT MOVE from what I noticed.
But web analytics for my Pinterest jstevh actually apparently reacted. But I learned not to talk those numbers. Which is too vague even for me reading later as am re-reading and editing, so...saw a bump in the 45-54 demographic as well as an increase in male percentage. Bump was about a solid 1 percent. Also my global numbers shifted more to the US by around 1 percent. Will admit less than one third of my audience is from the US. That shifted closer to one third, by a bit.
Which is enough, where am thinking should not mess things up. Oh wait, also saw a bump in people interested in men's fashion and vehicles. So guess my suit looked ok, and of course main thing was getting a vehicle gifted to me.
So looks to me like males in the US in my age group, interested in suits and cars gave a bit of a bump there.
And it's like social media can be very, well, weird. But I should note that information here, and maybe did not give too much which would start messing up the numbers. Have done that before and didn't care but now am more like, I should care.
My social media DOES react to me talking over it, but usually not well. I have puzzled about why.
So yeah now have finally been on television where before had print things. And with that feeling of positive pressure better appreciate how I need to roll with it more. Am shifting my attitude this time and this blog is helping me.
Oh yeah, so updates from a post where talked my lack of press where I actually interviewed myself. And it is telling that a nice story I think about me getting a car and housing voucher created that burst! While so much else does not. Is cool. So yeah now have had more local press and have decided to shift from making a sense of success be such a moving target for me.
Should accept each success in its space and simply keep always looking for--more.
Oh for those wondering how does impact all the other? Doesn't really. Still am a meta innovator with a lot of major discovery where apparently there are relevant people who should, who would rather not talk about it.
But who cares. I have the web.
James Harris
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Sunday, December 09, 2018
Contemplating--was wars over distribution?
Like to write that the web solved the information distribution problem. Seems simple enough, as for instance these words will go global--when I post. For now am watching them with interest as they march across the screen. Their reality is local only in the moment, with a transition to globally available but a click away.
But so much was distributed different before, so yes, there were wars, like over how to distribute music and especially popular songs. Wars against innovation that have very much ended, or simply evolved? Yes, I can download much with a buy now, but so much more do I want the opportunity.
But why would anyone stop me?
And what does distribution of information have to do with ride share really?
I think business at best is about producing a socially acceptable product or service and getting to a person or persons who want who repay the favor of the product or service with remuneration.
That is, like you build something cool that people want and they buy it from you.
Or maybe even not cool, but simply useful, but still you need people to actually pay for the thing, for a viable business.
But how do they even know you have it?
There then we get the modern wars over information distribution I think, as I contemplate these ideas and wonder. Am I even close to reality? But how would I know?
And have been focused more lately on the phrase--business trust.
Like I go to some established business and trust that if I can pay, will not only be allowed to buy something I want, but should be treated a certain way, like a good customer. And a customer is someone with the ability to pay, which means person has sufficient money, and should behave, in a socially acceptable way.
Is so much about society. But what is society really? How do we know?
Where quality I think is about lasting, and prefer things that will not only do what I want in the moment, but be there for me down the line. But then I think of food, where is quality with something so ephemeral in a way? I eat it and it is gone. But then again, there are memorable meals when I remember why I will pay more when I can, for better.
Memories can last a lifetime. Quality in life is not about the moment then? But how do we know what will last before it has lasted for us?
Web can have a depth to its information distributed. People can build a history here, there and everywhere that the web reaches and increasingly I do believe reaches a planet.
Yet I can only know so much. Others can know more useful to me, especially about quality of some product or service, but how do I know who I can trust?
Payment intermediaries I like to call those who with expertise can facilitate connecting a person who wants something, who is a good potential customer, with an entity that can provide that something, if yeah, is socially acceptable.
So yeah I think it DOES make sense. Then functionally the web eases the information distribution problem, which means there can be wars with those who were successful in a less efficient process. Where the web can better facilitate business transaction by effectively linking good customers with best business.
Yeah seems simple enough then. Makes sense to me. So then with just a click, goes global.
More information--distributed. But is it knowledge? I like think it was, or what is the point of the effort for me?
James Harris
But so much was distributed different before, so yes, there were wars, like over how to distribute music and especially popular songs. Wars against innovation that have very much ended, or simply evolved? Yes, I can download much with a buy now, but so much more do I want the opportunity.
But why would anyone stop me?
And what does distribution of information have to do with ride share really?
I think business at best is about producing a socially acceptable product or service and getting to a person or persons who want who repay the favor of the product or service with remuneration.
That is, like you build something cool that people want and they buy it from you.
Or maybe even not cool, but simply useful, but still you need people to actually pay for the thing, for a viable business.
But how do they even know you have it?
There then we get the modern wars over information distribution I think, as I contemplate these ideas and wonder. Am I even close to reality? But how would I know?
And have been focused more lately on the phrase--business trust.
Like I go to some established business and trust that if I can pay, will not only be allowed to buy something I want, but should be treated a certain way, like a good customer. And a customer is someone with the ability to pay, which means person has sufficient money, and should behave, in a socially acceptable way.
Is so much about society. But what is society really? How do we know?
Where quality I think is about lasting, and prefer things that will not only do what I want in the moment, but be there for me down the line. But then I think of food, where is quality with something so ephemeral in a way? I eat it and it is gone. But then again, there are memorable meals when I remember why I will pay more when I can, for better.
Memories can last a lifetime. Quality in life is not about the moment then? But how do we know what will last before it has lasted for us?
Web can have a depth to its information distributed. People can build a history here, there and everywhere that the web reaches and increasingly I do believe reaches a planet.
Yet I can only know so much. Others can know more useful to me, especially about quality of some product or service, but how do I know who I can trust?
Payment intermediaries I like to call those who with expertise can facilitate connecting a person who wants something, who is a good potential customer, with an entity that can provide that something, if yeah, is socially acceptable.
So yeah I think it DOES make sense. Then functionally the web eases the information distribution problem, which means there can be wars with those who were successful in a less efficient process. Where the web can better facilitate business transaction by effectively linking good customers with best business.
Yeah seems simple enough then. Makes sense to me. So then with just a click, goes global.
More information--distributed. But is it knowledge? I like think it was, or what is the point of the effort for me?
James Harris
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Learning public folks easier now
Put up LOTS public where have done for decades. And more and more news is showing why is good to try and figure yourself out early, and post like you expect readers--now and in the future.
Some key posts focusing on various things:
Focus on my motivations -- When truth is a pursuit
Focus on how to know folks -- Web depth
Focus on global reality -- What global takes and gives
Learning public folks in the age of the web? Is lots about what each puts out there.
I put out much. More and more when I come across some public person in our times, am looking for that web reality. You can do it, right? So what DO you do in actuality?
Web enabled? Oh yeah. So who takes that opportunity and in what way? Tells much.
James Harris
Some key posts focusing on various things:
Focus on my motivations -- When truth is a pursuit
Focus on how to know folks -- Web depth
Focus on global reality -- What global takes and gives
Learning public folks in the age of the web? Is lots about what each puts out there.
I put out much. More and more when I come across some public person in our times, am looking for that web reality. You can do it, right? So what DO you do in actuality?
Web enabled? Oh yeah. So who takes that opportunity and in what way? Tells much.
James Harris
Saturday, August 04, 2018
Who makes me? Can I make you? Nah.
There is an objective reality to attention in our times have learned is where need to focus. For over a decade searched for mainstream mass marketing type measures where were not there, and did not fully appreciate the audience that made me global in their own way.
Where was pondering recently the role of promotion and marketing and who makes or breaks you out here on the web and reality is--YOU. You make or break with your content as put your best out there and trust other people to be honest with their interest.
For me were questions about who talked my things which remain, and money is just not there, yet. And I think is best thing ever now as pushed me to learn what things really matter and also let me not ask myself--did this particular person or organization make me?
Like I will talk things that feel like are cool and people think are doing great and putting out great content, but cannot make or break any one of them. Just like no one could make or break me.
Can share honestly and trust the audience. And appreciate when others agree.
On any stage in life though YOU have to perform. I don't care who talks you up, or down, when you're in front of that audience is all about what YOU can deliver.
With that said get a kick out of noticing how often can get it right, and notice some person or people who I think can bring it, and then they DO. But yeah is like with myself, no one makes me.
I make myself.
James Harris
Where was pondering recently the role of promotion and marketing and who makes or breaks you out here on the web and reality is--YOU. You make or break with your content as put your best out there and trust other people to be honest with their interest.
For me were questions about who talked my things which remain, and money is just not there, yet. And I think is best thing ever now as pushed me to learn what things really matter and also let me not ask myself--did this particular person or organization make me?
Like I will talk things that feel like are cool and people think are doing great and putting out great content, but cannot make or break any one of them. Just like no one could make or break me.
Can share honestly and trust the audience. And appreciate when others agree.
On any stage in life though YOU have to perform. I don't care who talks you up, or down, when you're in front of that audience is all about what YOU can deliver.
With that said get a kick out of noticing how often can get it right, and notice some person or people who I think can bring it, and then they DO. But yeah is like with myself, no one makes me.
I make myself.
James Harris
Thursday, August 02, 2018
Idea marketplace reality
In our times can get a better sense of product reality and why people pay money for a particular thing than in the past. For instance was surprised when music industry at first refused to sell digital copies of music over the web, as they relied much on its distribution through physical copies, like with CD's. There was a lot of distribution money that went away when people like me could just download a song we liked.
But why would anyone assume I'd just steal the song rather than pay for it?
Some people DID assume that ALL humans are thieves and took Steve Jobs to even let people legally buy and download when he pioneered with iTunes. Today of course it should seem silly to think no one would pay for a digital song regardless of how distributed simply because LOTS of people do.
There was a delusion that physical security which is good is key to profits, as if no human can be trusted not to steal if that is not there. That really messed up lots and slowed web business development tremendously.
Our world is slowly figuring out idea marketplace reality. Web enables much, MUCH more.
(The actual flow of money in general is the easy part.)
Physical products are of course important but now also is the software that can keep them running properly where you can have operating system costs buried in the cost of the device or free like with those that use open source software. The cost of developing the software when free is born by an open source community.
Global community provides the basic framework for the web with open source or nothing else would be working now, but more focus is on the people making money various ways.
The most basic workable model in that it can be broadly replicated globally for an idea transaction is when a consumer comes across an idea product, and pays through an intermediary, who distributes the product over the web, on behalf of an idea producer.
Talk that with: Abstracting the payment intermediary
You might think that the most basic workable model is simply paying the producer direct. But have a ready analogy which will use throughout this post, which is paying for a ride. So paying direct is like if you just go find someone you pay to drive you around. (Good luck with that one.) Rideshare companies are actually simply payment intermediaries.
The point of a payment intermediary is--business trust.
The payment intermediary can determine if a person is a legitimate customer which includes ability to pay and also can include a tendency to behave. And can handle receipt of funds from customers.
While for a potential customer the payment intermediary should also ensure a safe environment as well as reception of the desired good or service--like a safe, comfortable ride to the desired destination.
Oh yeah, also the payment intermediary is an important source of information needed for all parties. Where must be objective as well but why wouldn't be?
Like yeah with rideshare is brilliant to collect ratings for both the driver and the rider.
Dropping of the distribution costs is where you find the HUGE web difference. Like I can write a book, and the cost of distribution of the digital version can be a pittance in comparison to the costs for a physical version.
A complete marketplace of ideas would be a place on the web where potential customers could go to payment intermediaries who would connect them with producers of desired product or service.
Like with a physical marketplace where there is a concentration of goods and services at a physical location for the convenience of customers and businesses.
We just had SOME things that distributed in established marketplaces through physical products where there was natural focus, as started talking music industry and CD's. But the web doesn't care about such things really.
So? Was something information distributed in a physical product before, but now can move across the web freed of its physical carrier.
Web can open things up vastly and yes, include products for sale around things like with music and video, and also go beyond.
When am looking at gaps with the current models on the web, am thinking is with payment intermediaries who can help someone like me with an idea product. Maybe should just create such a company myself, eh?
Covered a lot of ground though. Like say you LOVE driving people around but rideshare companies didn't exist! What could you do?
Maybe you could start some business convincing people to let you drive them.
Oh, or become a taxi driver, right? But what if didn't want to jump through their hoops? Which may be part of why taxi companies have been fighting so hard.
Reality is: most folks are funneled into established systems which can actually be VERY dysfunctional for work.
Web has the potential to vastly disrupt those prior systems by giving more options based simply on ability to do a job.
Is like the business part can be separated, like with a rideshare company as I run that analogy into the ground. But seems so useful! Is readily familiar. So yeah, most of the business part of driving? Rideshare companies handle, so the driver can just, be polite and drive.
James Harris
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But why would anyone assume I'd just steal the song rather than pay for it?
Some people DID assume that ALL humans are thieves and took Steve Jobs to even let people legally buy and download when he pioneered with iTunes. Today of course it should seem silly to think no one would pay for a digital song regardless of how distributed simply because LOTS of people do.
There was a delusion that physical security which is good is key to profits, as if no human can be trusted not to steal if that is not there. That really messed up lots and slowed web business development tremendously.
Our world is slowly figuring out idea marketplace reality. Web enables much, MUCH more.
(The actual flow of money in general is the easy part.)
Physical products are of course important but now also is the software that can keep them running properly where you can have operating system costs buried in the cost of the device or free like with those that use open source software. The cost of developing the software when free is born by an open source community.
Global community provides the basic framework for the web with open source or nothing else would be working now, but more focus is on the people making money various ways.
The most basic workable model in that it can be broadly replicated globally for an idea transaction is when a consumer comes across an idea product, and pays through an intermediary, who distributes the product over the web, on behalf of an idea producer.
Talk that with: Abstracting the payment intermediary
You might think that the most basic workable model is simply paying the producer direct. But have a ready analogy which will use throughout this post, which is paying for a ride. So paying direct is like if you just go find someone you pay to drive you around. (Good luck with that one.) Rideshare companies are actually simply payment intermediaries.
The point of a payment intermediary is--business trust.
The payment intermediary can determine if a person is a legitimate customer which includes ability to pay and also can include a tendency to behave. And can handle receipt of funds from customers.
While for a potential customer the payment intermediary should also ensure a safe environment as well as reception of the desired good or service--like a safe, comfortable ride to the desired destination.
Oh yeah, also the payment intermediary is an important source of information needed for all parties. Where must be objective as well but why wouldn't be?
Like yeah with rideshare is brilliant to collect ratings for both the driver and the rider.
Dropping of the distribution costs is where you find the HUGE web difference. Like I can write a book, and the cost of distribution of the digital version can be a pittance in comparison to the costs for a physical version.
A complete marketplace of ideas would be a place on the web where potential customers could go to payment intermediaries who would connect them with producers of desired product or service.
Like with a physical marketplace where there is a concentration of goods and services at a physical location for the convenience of customers and businesses.
We just had SOME things that distributed in established marketplaces through physical products where there was natural focus, as started talking music industry and CD's. But the web doesn't care about such things really.
So? Was something information distributed in a physical product before, but now can move across the web freed of its physical carrier.
Web can open things up vastly and yes, include products for sale around things like with music and video, and also go beyond.
When am looking at gaps with the current models on the web, am thinking is with payment intermediaries who can help someone like me with an idea product. Maybe should just create such a company myself, eh?
Covered a lot of ground though. Like say you LOVE driving people around but rideshare companies didn't exist! What could you do?
Maybe you could start some business convincing people to let you drive them.
Oh, or become a taxi driver, right? But what if didn't want to jump through their hoops? Which may be part of why taxi companies have been fighting so hard.
Reality is: most folks are funneled into established systems which can actually be VERY dysfunctional for work.
Web has the potential to vastly disrupt those prior systems by giving more options based simply on ability to do a job.
Is like the business part can be separated, like with a rideshare company as I run that analogy into the ground. But seems so useful! Is readily familiar. So yeah, most of the business part of driving? Rideshare companies handle, so the driver can just, be polite and drive.
James Harris
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Want your own copy? Can click here to get a PDF from my public Google Drive.
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