💬 John Philpin

🔗 Expert Generalists

We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.

💬 Martin Fowler

Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.

Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.

It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …

I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.

🔗 App Review: Current

@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.

Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.

Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.

🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks

If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.

💬 Ben Werdmuller

I would go further.

It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.

I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,

Anyone who has ideas … LMK.

I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,

Anyone who has ideas … LMK.

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A spectacular event to look forward to (my take) - or “artsy navel gazing on his part?” (the take of a friend of mine who is also a fan.)

If I were to look at the feeds of the people I follow - we are all

• concerned about the fuck up we call Tяump
• playing around with AI
• ‘finishing’ a lot of books and/or watching movies

and ‘Nobody’ seems that bothered about The Winter Olympics

All sounds about right to me.

🔗 The Long and the Short of it …

🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom

Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.

😂😂