The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.

Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.

What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.

Public systems should not require use of private services.

#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy

The most true and terrible ‘one-sentence horror story’ goes like this:

We can get used to anything.

A lot of leadership teams spend time creating mission, vision and values statements which are ignored almost as soon as they’re created.

What I’ve found more durable is being clear on what problems you are solving, why the problem is important and how you’ll do it. Strategy.