🔗 Just in from Scott Brinker

I’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)

Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ

Meanwhile - one of my ‘graphics under development’ .. this one talking about ‘forgetting’ the 4Ps and start thinking 4Es - that I most recently talked about 🖇️ here.

Bottom line - we keep talking about change - radical change - and yet for some reason - our thinking is not radical - witness that we keep building ‘systems of experience’ on ‘systems of record’ infrastructure.

… and we wonder why it’s not working?

🔗 How far back in time can you understand English?

F A S C I N A T I N G

(Later - as was my misspelling until fixed)

🔗 Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica

… another public service.

🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs

What fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.

“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.

🔗 Apple’s strategy is actually genius if you think about it …

Horace replays a post from 3 years ago.

One question - intentional or accidental?

🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich

To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.

💬 Andy Ihnatko

In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includees the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.

🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.

To just choose one from the post …

• Oh, your USB devices stopped working? Huh. Isn’t that strange? Seeing as your Mac is under-performing – for some odd reason that Software Update has no knowledge of, honestly – perhaps this period of limited productivity would be a good time to install that System Software Update that’s been loitering in the Notifications tray, like an untipped bellhop?

💬 Andy Ihnatko

🔗 Ryan Barrett

It’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.

Not choosing any particular VC over any other - but you know who I am talking about. Right❓

🔗 Terry Godier on his new … | Alan Jacobs

(and I have that disabled in NetNewsWire anyway). 

Thank you. I get complaints about bad tech - valid.

It is also time to start complaining about how bad people are in even understanding the tech that they spend so much money on. Notifications is one - but the list could be pretty endless …

One that keeps pushing through on my feeds …

On ’Notion’ it was easy - why can’t Craft ….

… because this is Craft - not Notion. Pretty simple really.

🔗 Enough is enough | Thought Shrapnel … is where I found this ..