Crucial Track 🎵 June 7, 2026

"Everybody's Hustlin" by Heads, Hands and Feet

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The Third Lee - Albert.

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 6, 2026

"I'd Love to Change the World (1971)" by Ten Years After

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Prompt: A song from college or early adulthood.

Today's offer happens to fit the prompt - so why not .. one of the other 'Lees'.

🔗 Another Alvin

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👁️ … 🤯😬 … more to come.


Crucial Track 🎵 June 5, 2026

"Andmoreagain" by Love

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WEIRD - I wrote this most yesterday - and posted it - yet nowhere to be found. So here we go again.

Back in 'my day' there were three 'Lees' - Albert, Alvin and Arthur. This music is from Arthur, the image below is one of the others.

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👁️ The good news is that my drafts count continues to go down. A few weeks ago just shy of 300 - today below 60. And yes - I know that people keep thousands of drafts in that world - but I am not one of those. To me it is the first stage of any text that will pass through any number of workflows. If it is in Drafts - it’s in my ‘inbox’ and needs to be dealt with. Like the next one.


Google Sucks

🔗 Daring Fireball: Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?

🔗 Daring Fireball: Google’s Gemini Mac App Is Native, in a Distinctly Google Way, But Annoyingly Presumptuous

I experienced this about 9 months ago - cant recall how I fixed it - but Google was definitely not on my ‘things to check’ list


👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.


🔗 The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses

Using a Meta platform to find people to hack a Meta device so you can surreptitiously record strangers. So perfectly Meta.

💬 John Gruber


🔗 Transparency and trust

Part of the problem is that we measure what’s easy, not what’s relevant. And part of the problem is that we have trouble explaining trust, while it’s easy to pursue ever more transparency.

💬 Seth Godin


🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious'

Manton suggests that Apple rarely builds anything now … ‘except the most obvious products’. I disagree, because that statement depends on two things … what is meant by ‘obvious’ and what is meant by ‘product’.