Kent Martinson’s Post

👉1-Minute Tip: Stop what you're doing, take a deep breath, and remember one experience outside of work that makes you feel good. #mindfulnessatwork #personaldevelopment #motivation #mindfulness #inspiration #selfhelp

Your work is what you do, not who you are. ✨ Instead of saying, “I am a coach or I am a Salesforce Consultant,” I get to say “I support my clients as a coach/consultant.” There’s a significant difference in the details. Being able to separate my identity as my work was one of the biggest challenges for me years ago, but so worth it to have my mental health and harmony as my priority now over my job, which allows me to show up even better these days. 💕 #mindset #success #boundaries #empowerment

This rings so true, but it depends on the context of the economic context of the times. In eras of business bundling (such as the SaaS era we are entering), yeah you sure do not want to use languages and metaphors of wars. In the era of unbundling (such as the SaaS era we are just coming out of), then this simply yields sameness and tameness. An unbundling era spells a proliferation of solutions that are all the Same and provide similarly tame elements. In such a landscape, you sure do want to be as differentiated as possible. This is because if two solutions are exactly the same, then one was not needed in the first place. The interesting thing is that as we enter the era of Software bundling on the macro scale, the cloud is being unbundled at the same time. At least that’s what many disruptors are trying to do. In a funny twist of fate, the metaphor, actually the Mobility of war is what Humane has used to launch their AI Pin in direct action against the current dominant mobile ecosystems. They are saying there is no chance for co-existence between their wearable pin and mobile phones. This is of course a colossal failure of strategy, because mobile devices represent the distributed edge computing nodes in stark contrast to the cloud servers. Therefore, they are actually being bundled with every other edge computing infrastructure and distribution compared to the opposite trend of unbundling in the cloud. Thus, Humane trying to isolate themselves from this global edge distribution is simply a folly of not reading the larger market trends.