The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions-but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from “I should do this” to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you’re not just accomplishing more-you’re operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and outer life are in a constant, tight, conversation.
💬 Derek Sivers
… via 🔗 Swiss Miss via 🔗 Instagram
🎥 I touched on this in an 🖇️ earlier post. 🔗 Outcome … Yeah … Nah Nah Nah.
I have tried it. Final effort was earlier tonight. Sorry Keanu … ★
Earlier I wrote 🖇️ this - after reading 🔗 this from Alex Hyett who in turn referenced 🔗 this from Brennan Day. It all came after seeing a post in my feeds from 🔗 Ton Zylstra
💡**I was Inspired. **
If you are keeping up, you will know that I have been wrestling with Web Mentions off and on for nigh on 8❓years.
Q - can that really be right?
A - apparently yes according to Mars Edit ….
As of today - no longer. I am ready and able to receive web mentions.
Now - a little like Alex - I need proof - so here I am.
I’m also just a guy, standing in front of the internet, asking it to show him.
🔗 Setting up webmentions | Alex Hyett
I have tried this so many times and something always seems to go wrong.
That said, Alex has inspired me … 🫰🏼 And who knows - this might be the test he has been looking for?
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.
🔗 ‘China’s Apple’ is in free-fall – Asymco
Selling cars, eh? 19% phone unit sales drop contributed to the story but cars are a disaster. A phone maker selling cars is a bad idea. Almost as bad as a car maker building robots.
Who could he be talking about?
🎵 Only the Good Die Young
The Crucial Track for June 26, 2026 || Remembers ‘Om Malik - today he moved on to where or whatever the next realm is.
🪦 RIP Om. I didn’t know. Why would I? Your wisdom will live on.
“The president’s like a box of chocolates,” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican, said Wednesday. “You never know what you’re going to get.”
He’s probably thinking about Forest Gump.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 25, 2026
"Constant Craving" by k.d. lang
I actually don't - but it is still an important song in my canon.
Ben writes:
🔗 Signs you’re a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
Collectively, the justice department argued that these convictions are proof that anti-fascists are terrorists, which should also give us pause. The precedent here is obviously very dangerous for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy in America.
And in turn cross links to ‘The Grauniad’
🔗 The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
“Your CIA was good at this,” Dmytro said. “You bastards knew how to use sex.”
🔗 The AI Conversation CEOs Are Not Having Out Loud.
The topic was AI. But the real conversation was leadership.
💬 Brian Solis
The myth that CEOs ‘know’ is exactly that.
The bad ones play into that myth.
The good ones build trusted teams around them.
Same can be said for Presidents.
👁️ That moment when you open a blog post and you need to look up 4 words just in the first sentence.
The name I use for one of my test accounts is “Shouting Loudly.”
.. and he goes on to write that he can’t recall where it came from.
I regularly use ’Thinking Aloud’ and ’Thinking Allowed’.
.. me too.
👁️ There’s a ‘light tech’ writer out there that I used to follow but eventually stopped because the style and topics got so annoying. This morning a number of people seemed to be referencing one of his posts so I went to look. #JustAsAnnoying. It’s probably me. I know it’s me.
🔗 Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal
McGucken delves specifically into the study of the fourth dimension, drawing on Einstein’s 1922 book The Meaning of Relativity, in which the renowned scientist illustrated a “light cone” that represented “the deep, physical relationship between space, time, and the velocity of light,” McGucken says. This almost hourglass-like shape, with two cones that meet at their tips, forms the basis of Spacetime Light Cone Sculptures dx4/dt=ic.
According to a nearby plaque, the city claims this is the narrowest street in the world (though this claim has been disputed). It is, though, the narrowest street in Britain.
Another US/UK ‘differality’.
If that street was in the US it would be dubbed something to do with
blah blah blah … ‘Capital Of The World’
And nobody would bat an eyelid - let alone question it.
🔗 23,000-Square-Foot Clasping Arms Celebrate Community Resilience in Minneapolis — Colossal
WOW. Just WOW. More on the site.
🖋️ A One Man Army
Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.