It’s very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.

💬 Dave Winer

So do I, but there’s a problem with slaves …

  • can they really be trusted.
  • they don’t feel the passion.
  • they don’t feel the problem.
  • hell - they don’t even understand the problem.

🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?

Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”

💬 Futility Closet

expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.

💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,


When Can You Swear?

Leon reposted this 🔗 Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - because personally I had never heard of ‘walloper’ … Brit here with a ‘lifetime’ in the USA and 6 years .. so far … across the Tasman.

But then he moved on.

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People will be more important in the future, not less.

💬 Mark Zuckerberg

Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t believe him think he knows what that really means.

Now - Not Important

Zuck Now

Zuck In The Future








































John Now

John In The Future

The Future - Very Important


🔗 Rhoneisms

To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.

💬 Patrick Rhone

Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.


💬 👁️🏢 People First - All Else Follows.


🔗 On wintering.

Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.

💬 Joan Westenberg

Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.


🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias

Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.

💬 Matthew Yglesias

🖇️ It all connects to sandwiches.


💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?


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a quote from Fahrenheit 451