Read - a long time ago - 📚The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. I recall it as a great read, but I couldn’t truly commit to that - it was a different time. BUT - I often reference it - so it clearly had impact. Would certainly ‘give it a whirl’.

The Catch Up continues. Read 🔗📚Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

📚Read Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr - and then keep re reading parts of it and finding more quotes for Readwise.

Zingo Zingo - What you going to do-e-o

Zingo had the idea six to ten years too early. Timing, infrastructure, incumbents and a government willing to let you operate matters more than being first. A lesson for us all.

🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog

Successful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.

Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S

🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.

Mark Bernstein: The Bullet That Missed

This clever confection is a mystery about murderers who don’t kill people and murders that mysteriously do not occur.

Me? Can’t go wrong with 📚 Richard Osman.

It’s been a while since I read him .. when I did .. absolutely loved .. as did many others .. and certainly not lacking in literary skills and abilities .. sold lots AND great plaudits from his peers - and yet today we hear nothing. Why don’t we see more of 📚 J.P. Donleavy❓

🔗 The Joy of Neo-noir

Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.

Surprised they never became a movie series.

Another 📚book added to my pile - apparently Karl Weick, argued that when it comes to models, it is more important to be useful than perfect.

Strike me that he’s riffing on George’s quote.

Another From Seth

🔗 The Sorting

But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards.

Really great analogy - and IMHO - infinitely superior to the Pluribus analogy - at least my takeaway of same - although that is a different post.

That said - it would be so much easier if Seth not only came checked the story’s author - but maybe added a link?

So you don’t have to dive down the rabbit hole ..

🔗📚 The book (Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth) .. that contains the short story