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David Merfield at Blot Rocks
.. there I said it. So happy with my new 🔗 Blot powered Obsidian Wiki - now in the menu of my 🖇️ Public Journal
What David Merfield built is very impressive and the Obsidian integration is stunning.
My wiki is based on the Forty template with extended CSS and functionality like 🔗 this page all built in collaboration with Claude.
Looking to now add an image gallery
Have I taken away a programmers job? No - without Claude I just wouldn’t have done it.
Next job moving a raft of material out of various archives and folders into the Obsidian vault.
Just rewatched: Red Notice 🎬
This was publisehd in 2017 - and I am sure I saw something this pst week that announced essentially the same things as ‘news’. Ofc ourse I cant find it - but when I do - will come back here and add it.
🖇️ Reuters Reporting Ten Year Old News As Something New. // 💬 John Philpin
Haven’t done one of these in a while - but have to say i started it - and it just flowed out - so publish and be dammed is what I say.
… in a situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into The shrink [BAD Business] wherever you are, just walk in say “[BAD business], You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant. You “support election deniers, I’m out”.
And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and They won’t take him pay attention.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, They may think they’re both ???? nuts and they won’t take pay attention to either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in Singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business you support election deniers, I’m out” and walking out. They may think it’s an Organisation.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business - you support election deniers, I’m out” and Walking out.
And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.
🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia
GREAT READ
I think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch.
A Public Policy Framework

Another doc prompted by something on LinkedIN - this one around a twenty year old doc called ‘Public Policy Framework for the New Zealand Innovation System’
I was curious as to
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how well we had done - not well.
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how well we could do - hard - but not impossible
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how much the analysis connected to my own experiences and thinking - a lot
While down here, I bang on this a lot - as do others. It never seems to take hold. For whatever reason(s).
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Stop Calling It Content

Content is a non differentiated, horrible, generic, cheap, replaceable kind of word.
Content is stored in silos - with grains and other commodities.
Content has minimal value.
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Time To Self Medicate

Is Silicon Valley a destination, or just part of the journey?
… and where is it anyway?
… oh and why, despite the best attempts, countries all over the world seem to fall short of replicating it.
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Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold

🔗 Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold
I don’t particularly recommend books.
I recommend people.
Mike Maples is one of those people.
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Charity Is Doomed To Fail

If you don’t know who Dan Palotta is - you should.
This is a short introduction to him, his ideas and his work and how it ties to something I wrote nearly 10 years ago.
We built 🔗 The Future Found with these principles at core.
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Work Life Balance

Chris Lockhead dropped a post on LinkedIN regarding retirement.
To me retirement is the macro version of the daily work-life balance.
It solves the wrong problem really well.
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Today was the 🖇️ 80th quote in the ‘Inspired By People’ series and as I intimated 🖇️in this comment, I have no hesitation in bringing it to an end. Such was the demand. 🥳
Feel free to scroll through and be inspired.











































































It’s going to be a (very) slow move - but decided to move all pages hosted on Micro Blog to Craft.
As I move them will delete the page and add the old page URL to my redirects.
COUGH
When I did that first one - found a lot of redirects that I know are broken - so maybe I will fix those first.
Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
- they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
- they block out women’s voices
- they block out foreign accents
- they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
- they need hearing aids more than me.
It’s a repost of one of mine.
Inspired to finally for out my Feedland space today after reading @Dave ’s 🔗 doc
Simple instructions and it ‘just worked’ - so much to the point that I am happy to link to it from my 🖇️ Blog Navigation.

The link takes you to my 🔗 news feed which is a ‘river of news’ driven by my 🔗 subscriptions - early days yet but it’s a start.
The impetus was that Dave was also talking elsewhere about adding BlueSky feeds to the list. I tried it out - and added a couple of my own. I didn’t use the handy dandy ‘sub’ short cut that Dave demonstrated.

Would be great if I could edit the title - maybe you can, but not found out how yet.
// @andysylvester - because I know you are tracking this stuff.
I am very much liking the location / check in feature on the micro.social app. It has given me some ideas that are not so much about ‘checkins’ - but are related to ‘location’. Thank you.
There is an odd issue though @manton @gregmorris - any thoughts?
🖇️ In this post I noticed that the image used in the post is duplicated with two different file names in the media library.
The post itself uses the second image - so where has the first image come from and why?
Pretty sure this is happening because of the micro.social app - since this behaviour is also on the other post which came via micro.social using location.
The Tinted Rose 📍
Talking of excellent beverages … The Tinted Rose is just down the road from PPO. Smaller, more subtle. Beer choice not extensive - but great cocktails and an excellent wine list.

Hotel Ponsonby 📍
Stunning building known locally as The Ponsonby Post Office .. which is what it was - before its recent transition to The Ponsonby Hotel - which is called that by nobody. Through those hallowed doors can be found excellent beverages from the ‘Hops’ family.
