📺 I just finished watching 🔗 Shining Girls. Most excellent and no idea how I have not seen this before given that it dates back to 2022.
★★★★
I heard it on Lockhead’s ‘Category Pirates’.
Knowledge is a Commodity - Wisdom is not.
💬 Ray Wang
One of the many reasons why PHI⑊PIN and the Systems of Engagement we build for The Age of Experience uses the DIKIWI framework.
The podcast typically works for me - depending on the guest. But they just disappeared down the ‘what the socialists don’t get’ rabbit hole and just totally lost me - so I switched them off. I might try it again later.
Another Johnism from the past that leans into this story.
Knowledge is a Commodity - Wisdom is not.
💬 Ray Wang
One of the many reasons why PHI⑊PIN and the Systems of Engagement we build for The Age of Experience uses the DIKIWI framework.
The Internet has none of those evil things. All of them are layers above. To reinvent the Internet at this point is like to reinvent the Earth. Not a good idea. But reinventing, or turning inside out the assholes that have fucked it up is a good idea.
💬 Doc Searls
Business is still trying to prove Newton works everywhere.
For 300 years, Newton’s rules worked perfectly. Then Einstein broke physics in half. Your marketing systems just hit the same wall.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who led the 7th Cavalry, lost his entire command to Lakota warriors after falling on them unexpectedly in their own territory. The only army survivor of the battle was a horse, Comanche, who became the 7th Cavalry’s mascot, trotted out draped in ceremonial black for years after the event itself.
💬 Heather Cox Richardson
I watched 🎥 Little Big Man at the time. (In case you are wondering - ★★★★) - but it just occurred to me that at that point the film was about history from 94 years prior.
Today that would be equivalent to watching a movie about an historical event in 1932. Choices would include;
- the lowest point in the Great Depression when unemployment was 25% and millions lost their life savings.
- the election of Roosevelt.
- the beginning of the end of prohibition.
- hoover forcibly 🔗📼 emptying vet camps
They all seem a lot closer to present time than Little Big Man did in 1970.
Getting older or history rhyming at a faster pace?
🔗 Learning first AI-d - William Gallagher
So let me focus on that specific thing of new writers being left behind. Forgive me, this is quite a technical point: if you get AI to do your writing for you, why the fuck should I use you? Commission you? Publish you?
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I mean it. There is nothing you can do with AI that cannot be done by absolutely every single person else on the planet. So you are demonstrating to me that you are entirely worthless.
Me - sometime between 2016 and 2019. Same principle.
If a nameless wonk on the end of a wire without your qualifications can replace you - it’s on you.
🖋️ You Can't Scale Conviction
Artists sensed it decades before Einstein. Science proved it a century ago. Business is still pretending it never happened. Here’s why your ‘population’ theories collapse the moment a single person acts from conviction - and why what you are trying to do to fix it will never work.
Like us all, truly sad to read of Om’s passing so early in his life. I have read a lot of writing about him since then. Matt’s is the one that shines.
I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together … I can’t wait for the beautiful collision of his tech / journalism / Indian party planner / pen / coffee / shoes / photography circles, and probably some niches I couldn’t even imagine.
💬 Matt Mullenweg
🔗 Establishment Democrats are promising “war”
Establishment Democrats are promising “war” on incoming progressives and Democratic socialists. When they said “vote blue no matter who,” they were lying. So-called centrist Democrats are more loyal to the establishment than they are to their constituents. These establishment sellouts are willing to work with the Grandpa Puddingbrains and his fascist supporters to protect their oligarch masters.
💬 Mitch Wagner
.. and come Christmas the Dems will wonder why they lost.
🔗 No, jailbreaking your phone isn’t.
Apple — which now advocates criminalizing jailbreaking — was “literally founded on theft," writes Cory Doctorow.
💬 Mitch Wagner
There are many unused accounts in Micro.blog. Some people just didn’t get around to blogging, and some potential spammers who created accounts but couldn’t post. We plan to slowly delete these old accounts to make things faster for active users.
@manton - personally I see this as a really good idea. Particularly if it enhances speed fr the current community. Wondering how this sits with your declaration that:
This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.
I am presuming no posts = no blog = delete?
🔗 Ranked: America’s Best-Selling Albums Ever
I have questions.
- The Wall outsold Dark Side in America? Apparently - yes.
- Dark Side not even on the list - despite by anything I look up - it should be somewhere around ‘Rumours’.
- Dark Side globally sits around 4th or 5th on reported AND certified lists.
- Should ‘greatest hits’ albums be included?
.. and so much more
👁️ Unintended Consequences
Saturday night’s match in Kansas City should be a showdown for second place in the group and automatic qualification to the knockout rounds, except the catch is that it may be more beneficial for Austria or Algeria to finish in third. Eight of 12 third-place teams in group play advance to the knockout stage. And the Round of 32 draw potentially appears more favorable for a third-place qualifier from Group J than for its runner-up.
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👁️ Tomorrow will be my 60th ‘Crucial Post’. The day after will be 2 months. The intention is to stop the ‘daily’ on one of those two dates - I just wanted to get an initial foundation in place and then fall back to an ‘as and when’ cadence. 60 Days - or 2 Months. Which will it be❓
Crucial Track 🎵 June 28, 2026
"Prove It" by Television
They did.
Reminded of Tom today when I read that his collection of 4.000 vinyls were being sold at auction.
📺 Watched 🔗 I Will Find You. Said it before, say it again - Harlan does bad, good and great shows based on his books. This one easily sits in a ‘3’ and at times hit ‘4’. All the usual twists and turns - including the big one at the end. Like he does.
★★★ in the end.
The Boston Consulting Group Isn’t Wrong
Organizations must shift their mindset from assuming predictability in their systems to embracing and designing for human unpredictability.