Memory, bad reviews and paper hands

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The Purpose Team
July 20, 2022

The Purpose issue #10 🔥🔥

Welcome purpose-driven people and organisations. Get sizzling bitesize ideas, business trends and weird digital stuff - with a skew towards showcasing charities, social enterprises, b-corps and damn good businesses of all shapes and sizes.

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Let the quarter finals commence 👇

In this issue

🏖️ Is your phone affecting your memory?

🔗 Review at your peril

😎 Tweet of the day

🌐 Web 3.0 dictionary series to make you smarter

🌶️ Hot quick takes

🤩 Accounts you should follow

💰 Nothin' goin' on but the rent a new job

Wellness: Your phone might be the enemy

Digtal amnesia sounds like a banging metaverse version an Ibiza superclub. Unfortunately, it just ain't so. (not yet anyway)

We all time spend too much time on our phones - what with messages, alerts, texts, memes, newsletters (ahem). We're all just multi-tasking and using the worlds information to, well inform ourseves and get smarter in the process. Or are we?

Digital Amnesia is a thing, and its growing. Have a look a this report in the Guardian, with tips on how to ensure you don't go all memort affect and leave some memory for our heads, rather than default to the memory available in our pocket.

Find out more here

Review terror: Ever written a review on Glassdoor?

You might want to look away now. Seems anonymous isn't always anonymous. The beauty (and for some employers, the drawback) of review sites like Glassdoor is anonymity. For people who feel compelled to post a review of the boss, the company, their line manager, the comp - and even sometimes, their colleagues.

The ability to keep your true identity hidden has always been perhaps the most powerful facet of the site. After all, you can say pretty much what you like without the concern of being taken to task by unhappy management.

Well that/s what you thought anyway. In the US, it seems pleading the 5th isn't gonna cut it anymore. A new California (where else) court ruling gives us a reminder that this anonymity—whether on Glassdoor or other review sites— isn't guaranteed, not one bit. review at your own risk

More here;

Tweet of the day

The devil's in the detail

Get more here h/t

Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies(i.e me and you)

Look sharp when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/NFTs in your next board meeting. We're on a mission to skill you up

Paper Hands- You'll see this term being used to describe somebody who sold cryptocurrency at pacey clip, once its price starts to fall - usually at a loss from the price they bought in at. Hence paper hands means someone who doesn't really have the stomach for the volatility of the crypto space in the first place, and therefore is NGMI.

How to use: "Joey is NGMI (Not Gonna Make It) he's got paper hands"

As with paper hands, as with life. Know the lingo, know the codes :)

Quick takes, off-the-cuff

⏩ Employees are getting what they want

⏩ Your bad habit, revisited

⏩  Trump border gets trumped by park

Small, purpose-driven organisations you should follow.

Show some love to these small orgs, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from human rights to mental health. Hit them up below to follow;

🚀 @SAYWomen SAY Women offers accommodation and a range of support services to women, aged 16-25, who are survivors of CSA or sexual violence who are facing homelessness.

🚀 @CyclistsvCancer UK Charity since 2005, we give new bikes, adapted trikes and other equipment to kids living with cancer to aid rehabilitation and recovery across the UK.

🚀 @PurpleHouseIRLSupporting families in Ireland with counselling, information and Support

Jobs, we got 'em

Age UK Camden are seeking a Digital Inclusion Support Worker to work closely with our team to facilitate digital access and improve IT skills among older residents in Camden and City of London by providing targeted outreach support to vulnerable older people including those living alone who are known to be more likely to experience social isolation, which has a damaging effect on their mental wellbeing.

Let us know how we're doing, you amazo peeps. What did you think of todays email?

👍 Raining Men

👍👍 Purple Rain

👍👍👍 Rains down in Africa

Hit us up at helloATpurposy.com to say hi, get involved with The Purpose, or just for a genaral chat about where to buy air conditioning units

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