Every construction project has a punch list of to-be-done items.  Since we’ve been at this for a dozen years, and have a rather long list of development works in progress on our wiki,  now seems like a good time and place to list what still needs to be done, but from the individual’s point of view. In other words, things they need but don’t have yet.

So  here is a  punch list of those things, in the form of a static page rather than a post such as this one. There is also a shortcut to the punch list in the menu above.

For the record, here’s that list as it stands today:

  1. Make companies agree to our terms, rather than the other way around.
  2. Have real relationships with companies, based on open standards and code, rather than relationships trapped inside corporate silos, each with their own very different ways of managing customer relationships (CRM), “delivering” a “customer experience” (aka CX), leading us on a “journey” or having us “join the conversation.”
  3. Standardizing the ways we relate to the service sides of companies, both for requesting service and for exchanging useful data in the course of owning a product or renting a service, so market intelligence flows both ways, and the “customer journey” becomes a virtuous cycle.
  4. Control our own self-sovereign identities, and give others what little they need to know about us on an as-needed basis.
  5. Get rid of logins and passwords.
  6. Change our personal details (surname, phone number, email or home address) in the records of all the organizations we deal with, in one move.
  7. Pay what we want, where we want, for whatever we want, in our own ways.
  8. Call for service or support in one simple and straightforward way of our own, rather than in as many ways as there are 800 numbers to call and numbers to punch into a phone before we wait on hold while bad music plays.
  9. Express loyalty in our own ways, which are genuine rather than coerced.
  10. Have an Internet of MY Things, which each of us controls for ourselves, and in which every thing we own has its own cloud, which we control as well.
  11. Own and control all our health and fitness records, and how others use them.
  12. Have wallets of our own, rather than only those provided by platforms.
  13. Have shopping carts of our own, which we can take from store to store and site to site online, rather than being tied to ones provided only by the stores themselves.
  14. Have personal devices of our own (such as this one) that aren’t cells in a corporate silo, or suction cups on corporate tentacles. (Alas, that’s what we still have with all Apple iOS phones and tablets, and all Android devices with embedded Google apps.)
  15. Remake education around the power we all have to teach ourselves and lean from each other, making optional at most the formal educational systems built more for maintaining bell curves than liberating the inherent genius of every student.

Please help us improve and correct it.

[The photo is from this collection.]