🔗 Daring Fireball: X, the Platform of Free Speech
Definitely looking forward to Gil’s ‘🔗 The Nerd Reich’.
👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓
It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
💬 Me
🔗 2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe) – chiefmartec
🖇️ This has been getting silly for years - it would be so much more interesting if rather than an increasingly difficult image to read it was a dynamic data base that is actually useful.
🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers
The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)
A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
💬 Nilay Patel
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I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
💬 Nilay Patel
🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude
I have a name. Phin Argofy.
💬 Phin Argofy
.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.
In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?
His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.
The name? Different story for another time.
When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.
Still got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.
This post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)
Once notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.
💬 Slaven - he of Finalist
Time will tell.
"Woke Up This Morning" by A3
I watched the occasional Sopranos back in the day. But somehow it never stuck. Unlike the theme which has been in my Just Good Songs playlist since I discovered playlists. Such a powerful song. Never tire of it. Here’s to the next 29 years.
Consider the source. Life isn’t what it used to be.
Who knows what the truth is in the ‘he said she said’ war of words - but how sad is it that I even have to write that.
Yes of course we never really know - except today we do.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Google Owns a Big Chunk of Anthropic
You know who you are. We were talking just today about this. Well - not this - but it all connects. Like always. Follow the money. Like always.