🖋️ Caveat - Not My Words ...
… but there for the grace of whatever power you hold true - do we all go. Sometime sooner. Sometimes very much later. But go we do. Few have the power to control ‘when’.
In case you were wondering where 🖇️ this quote came from …. the answer is 🔗🎵📼 Ren - he is just so good. This one is a kind of 🔗📼 Musical Gary
👁️ I read this once - and then twice - and now three times.
🖋️ The Myth of Maslow
I’ve always taken the 5 levels to be more a series of ongoing processes .. not necessarily that you achieve them … more to reflect the focus at a moment in time .. also the triangle pinnacle is misleading in that the work going on in there is likely inversely proportional to the shape’s area … and finally you are almost constantly working on multiple levels at the same time.
But that’s my take - might not be what Abraham meant?
🖋️ They Buried Smiths. Now They Might Have To Bury TG Jones
The rebranding of WH Smith to TG Jones led to large and rapid declines in revenue - which means that the buyer of the brand did not actually undersatand what they were buying.
Meanwhile - over on 🔗 Blusky
Before ATmosphere
After ATmosphere
No doubt the old one is too overpowering and ‘all logo’ no message but not a fan of the new one either. 🏗️ Need to find where that layout can be changed.
Unclear if for the long haul - but while I am rebuilding my blog - before I finish rebuilding my site - before I revamp my wiki, I have been adding occasional comments about the ‘trials and tribulations’ of same.
🖇️🔎 🏗️BlogBuild category is live.
Will retrospectively update over time.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 1, 2026
"Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Live)" by Andy Williams
Why Andy's version? Because 'mum' - who was not a particular fan of Andy - but we all liked it and it sticks in my mind - because of mum's reaction ....
Off of you? It's off you ... off you why can't they speak English.
It was a different time😏.
Side Note - Frankie's 'original had no 'of' - even though 'the two bobs' wrote 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' ... so why the change? Some say that 'Off of' helps the song's rhythm, I would agree.
In these modern times it appears that both are acceptable phrasing. Back then - I think my mum saw it as the ever deepening crisis of the Americanisation of the English language. Oh my - what would she make of 2026?
🔗 Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem.
A $40 billion run rate with 40 percent net revenue retention is a different company from a $40 billion run rate with 130 percent net revenue retention. From outside, the two are indistinguishable. The valuation gets the same multiple in both cases. The first company is worth a fraction of the second. This is not a small problem. It is the entirety of the problem.
💬 Om
It’s not an earth shattering observation. Anyone in ‘the business’ knows this. So it isn’t ignorance - it is deception.
Also important … Om gets to it in a paragraph to get to where Ed Zitron arrives after a 20 minute monologue. Am I wrong?
I wouldn’t worry too much about CBS becoming another Fox News. Roger Ailes, who created Fox News, was a genius - an evil genius, but a genius nonetheless in the practice of manipulating the medium of television for political ends. Bari Weiss is not this sort of genius. Rather than being transformed into a sophisticated right wing propaganda operation, it is more likely that CBS News is just made dumb and pointless.
💬 Hamilton Nolan
Which is why I dislike this whole trend of digital twins, that has become gospel in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about how prominent names in the industry are creating digital twins, because they are just so busy and it is better for the rest of us to engage with a copy.
💬 Om
The problem with modern tech is that they don’t have any historical perspective. Did they never see 🔗🎬 Multiplicity
Congrats to my friend Manton Reece, a San Antonio fan, for their victory in the Western Conference last night. The Knicks will be playing them starting on Wednesday for the NBA championship. Knicks representing the east, Spurs for the west.
💬 Dave Winer
@dave / @manton - I am thinking ‘Cage Fight’❓
Or is that a spectacle strictly reserved for tech billionaires running surveillance states?
I am often accused by Jax of being a ‘music snob’. ‘No’. I say. ‘I just know what I like’. According to Lin Fisher who writes: 🔗 I Confess, I’m a Snob seems to agree. Music is just one domain she looks at. Another is food .. on which topic Jax is an absolute ‘snob’ - though of course being a gentleman, I would never bring it up.
In fairness to Jax, she sent me the link.
One kind of snob looks down at others.
The kind I’m describing looks inward at self.
One is about superiority. The other is about alignment.
And the difference between the two is everything.
💬 Lin Fisher
💬 A Future Crucial❓
Redefining categories on Micro.Blog as part of my revamp and where I can - extending my rules to automate category allocation.
What I really need now is an automatic ‘un-categorisation’.
Going forward posts marked 🖋️Longform will really be Longform - not just posts with a title - but to go back and manually check all the history? One by One? That is not going to happen.
Thinking blogrolls on Micro.Blog. Could they work in the same way as Inkwell?
i.e. don’t import an OPML - point to an OPML.
I can see a collection of topic driven OPMLs that I can then expose in different places - but to only have one place that I need to update?
Good idea - or am I nuts?
👁️ One Month of Crucial Tracks completed? ✅
🎥 On The Waterfront ★★★★
In a nutshell - if you havent seen it - watch it. If you have seen it - watch it again.