🖇️ HUB
Links to posts and pages that are within the philpin.com domains
🖇️ Should We Cry For Argentina? … my latest newsletter if you are interested. A bit different to my usual newsletter themes.
I was thinking of posting a quick response analysis of 🖇️ this post from yesterday - but not yet.
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mahatma Gandhi
17th Feb, 2025: Turns out this one is a fake quote. 🖇️ This is the correct attribution.
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.
Fresh into the feed today - Doc on the difference between 🔗 Blocking Tracking and Blocking Ads
Its amazing how after all this time they are still conflated (I think mainly because it suits the advertisers dialogue- and ‘ad blockers’ rolls off the tongue better than ‘tracker blockers’)
🖇️ Re this - fixed. It seems that I am definitely am all over the place on movie watching.
🎥 Ferry 2, 2024 - ★★★
I watched the series and then I watched [🖇️ the first movie](https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/ferry.html) and then I watched this second movie .. and I dunno - I keep watching them - but they don't get better. But somehow I am drawn in. No explanation.
🖇️ How to Achieve Immortality - Ted Gioia
In ancient times, you attained immortality by doing great deeds. Today you attain immortality by getting blood transfusions from teenagers, and freezing your body for later revival. Needless to say, there’s a huge difference between these two strategies.
Too True Ted. Too True.
Seeking Alpha .Reporting …
Security officials in the U.K. have demanded that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) create a so-called ‘back door’ which would enable them to retrieve all the content any Apple user globally has uploaded to the cloud, The Washington Post reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
The U.S. tech giant is likely to stop providing encrypted storage in Britain, rather than break its security pledge it made to its users everywhere, the report added.
… not sure how easy this might be technically - but 🖇️ there might precedent
? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant
💬 Dave Winer
Yesterday .. (If you’re feeling stressed) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? 🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song
Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.
BUT
It is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?
🎵 I know - who cares - its just a …
There are an increasing number of posts featuring this thinking …
🔗🎙️Trump’s Mafia World Order - Alastair Campbell
🖇️ I think Rushkoff said it best.
📸 This 🖇️ probably was.
We’re nearly into February - so the ‘Holiday lights’ at 🖇️ john.philpin.com have been uninstalled - and it is no longer snowing. #LifeMovesOn
I have something I call my public journal. Some might call it a blog. I used to call it a ‘Lifestream’, but the name doesn’t really matter. Does it? 🖇️ It’s here.
‘It’ is a chronological record of thoughts I have had over the years. (The Philpin domain moved to its 26th year - this year and the oldest post that I have yet found turned 21 (I keep hoping that I will rediscover the first 5 years somewhere.) Hope is good. Right?
There are gaps of days with nothing … not that I didn’t have a thought or two, I just didn’t record that thought on the ‘stream’, sometimes not even in the journal that sits in a ‘private’ corner of the words stored as 1s and 0s on my computer.
There are also some days where you can see 20 or 30 separate posts … and that doesn’t include the ‘extended thoughts’ … that are also recorded there.
If it wasn’t there, would the world change? No.
My life - all ‘three score years and ten’ (plus or minus) of it - is but a blip in the matrix, much less these words.
Which is to say that it was quick. Relative I suppose. But it was.
With two actions, I was 🖇️ gone and then 🖇️ not gone.
To tell the tale.
The tale is incomplete - until the future joins it. There is no past. But past is incomplete without future.
Oh - and of course I wasn’t truly gone. Just from this node.
A Reminder About ‘Content’
… because it’s getting worse.
A strategic thinker wouldn’t call it content.
Sorry - no idea who wrote that - not me - but definitely on pace with my thinking - which you will know that 🖇️🔍 I have written about this many times over the years.
To save the click through - in a nutshell …
As long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using low cost, homogenous, non-descript words like ‘content’ to describe our work, our soul, our passion, our beliefs then our work will continue to be viewed as ‘free - to - cheap - to - low - cost’, as ‘homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’. Moreover, we then only have ourselves to blame and the resultant payment for your art, your thinking, your ideas, will continue to race to the bottom.
💬 John Philpin
And
It is not in the interests of any creator to allow that, so why allow their interests to define how we think?
💬 John Philpin
And
Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word. Which is why ‘content’ has no value. It is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the buyers of our sweat, labour, thought and time to keep their price down. But our costs are not kept down. So our net earnings suffer. And they are suffering badly. And it has to start with you - the creator, because it isn’t in the interests of buyers to change their behaviour and vocabulary - ‘they’ want great work at no cost.
💬 John Philpin
So. What you going to do about it?
🔗 The Case for the Executive Chair
I annotated this in the middle of 2024 with the intention to share, it’s pretty damming.
Only one or two directors on the typical 11-member board say they understand industry economics and how the company makes money. Two or three say they have little or no understanding.
Exactly in line with my observations - failure to understand leads to a focus on history, compliance and not losing - because they don’t even understand how to grow and win.
🖇️ You might not be surprised to learn that I have a fix. It’s called The Business Equation
🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’
the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.
🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.
As always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now?
🎥 The Two Popes, 2019 - ★★★★½ 🖇️
I’ve clearly got something about Popes‼️
To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down in New Zealand, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).
(I wrote this in response to a newsletter on Substack suggesting that despite being one of those CEO types, he’s not doing a great job as PM. My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he was what good as a CEO!)
(Another old post that didn’t make it into the ether until now)
🔗 Om on content, it’s as if I wrote it - not with the natural flow of Om - but definitely 🖇️🔎 the subject matter.