💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.


👁️ Personally I’m against vertical drinking. But who am I to tell others how they should drink? Particularly those that have been sat down at a desk all day and are looking to stand vertically for a bit. What a load of swaddle. (sic)

Meanwhile - a picture of Paul Swaddle vertically drinking.


🔗 FileRouter is out – Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days)

…. 🔗 From Brett’s Post

.. and a couple of days later - yes - yes it is:

BUT

… and all power to him - but that isn’t quite what I thought he meant. What do you think.?

Why would I need to wait for SetApp to have if it is already in the App Store?


👁️ Just for Bluesky now - so don’t get excited - yet.

⏰ A few minutes later

OK, now - IF you are on Bluesk and you are reading this - now might be the time to get excited.

Of course if you aren’t seeing this on Bluesky - then you are none the wiser.



War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

💬 Thomas Mann

… via John Naughton.


🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.

💬 John Gruber


🔗 ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG…) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.

💬 John Gruber



🔗 Throbsday – Doc Searls Weblog

AI writing is AutoTune for the human kind.

💬 Doc Searls


The Apple Vision Pro is a failed dead/dud product

💬 Too many people - who should know better.

🖇️ Such as Wired back in 2023 - which I always rail against if I have a spare moment.

This is why …

🔗 Apple Vision Pro in Surgery: Asymco



🔗 Micro.blog News -

@manton - seeing this makes me think that the whole page that manages ‘sources’ in the world of ‘aggregate’ and ‘syndicate’ could be managed in a much better way. I am probably (again) an edge case - but for me it is a confusing cacophony that I have to recalibrate my brain for every time I go 🔗 here.

If you are thinking about it at all - would be happy to summarise my thoughts for you. No point in doing that if you aren’t 😉.


Been a Sangeet follower for years - but don’t often share his wisdom. Not sure why. BUT - here’s an exception - one of those posts that connects disparate area of personal interest. Enjoy.

🔗 Scarcity and strategy - Misreading AI the way Hollywood misread streaming


💬 Events compound in unfathomable ways.


👁️ OH - wait …. hello ‘me’ 👋🏼


just talking to myself - but confirmed it does. I tried Dave's app earlier - wriging there - routes to my blog - which syndicated to BlueSky - amongst others - and safely arrived. As did a reply from Masto - back in.

Was wondering if RSC was going to behave the same way - and it did - full round trip confirmed. Well 'full' is foing some heavy lifting there - more testing needed - but need to work out first what I am testing for :-)


😂 Talking of the creative application of maps …


If you live in Clacton

Make Your Vote Count


This post started over in DaveLand ... got federated to my accounts via Micro.Blog (thanks @manton) to which I replied and now sharing that reply from Ricardo's 'RSC' (Really Simple Conversation) .. the world always was wacky .. it's now getting easier to be wacky .. and potentially generate ECHOES of ECHOES of Echoes of echoes of ech ...