🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Fun graphic.
My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.
Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯
🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Fun graphic.
My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.
Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯
Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Truth From Ted - not that one.
🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet
Not to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.
There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.
💬 Dave Winer
🔗 Dead Center | Futility Closet
In a shooting match, Andryusha, Volodya, and Borya each fired 6 shots, and each totaled 71 points. Andryusha’s first 2 shots earned him 22 points, and Volodya’s first shot earned 3 points.
Click through for the actual puzzle - one that had me for a minute building a pretty complex table of scores. And then I solved it in 2 seconds. NO tables needed.
via Mathew Ingram
Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.
Surprised they never became a movie series.
🔗 The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
But the overwhelming majority of Apple users — especially iPhone users — just let their devices update automatically. They might like iOS 26’s changes, they might dislike them, or they might not care or even notice. But they just let their software updates happen automatically — and they will form the entirety of their opinions regarding iOS 26 after it’s running on their iPhones.
💬 John Gruber
Have to say I need to adjust my feeds that seem to be swamped with how bad xxx26 is. Talk about ‘first world problems’.
🔗 Setapp ignored (rejected?) an app for not using AI
… is not something I expected to read today - triangulation needed.