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Itโ€™s Vince Vaughan so of course I checked it out. Not his best, formulaic - think Iโ€™ve seen the story a few times before - but cute nonetheless.

Itโ€™s Vince Vaughan so of course I checked it out. Not his best, formulaic - think Iโ€™ve seen the story a few times before - but cute nonetheless.

Poking Wordland โ€ฆ

Reminder to self.

This is routing to Philpin.com which is currently flagged as an AI experiment. This is not an AI experiment.

Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.

Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.

๐Ÿ”—Itโ€™s not the colour of the pill that counts

Happened to be talking about Asimov to a friend of mine the other day. We both had read ‘everything’ he had written - and certainly for me I know that will not be true, but definitely I hit the 45 to 50 books range - I can still picture them on my my book shelf in my teenage bedroom.

BUT - we both agreed that the reading was a long time ago - and not sure if they would stand the test of time - based on writing quality (?) Not sure that is the right term.

So interesting to see this today …

among Isaac Asimov’s many faults, his total lack of interest in characters meant some deft footwork by the writers of the Foundation television series.

๐Ÿ’ฌ William Gallagher

Yes - that is probably it. I donโ€™t recall him being an ‘emotional’ writer, which as a teen I didn’t miss. It was the ideas that I was after.

A Public Policy Framework

๐Ÿ”— The Thought

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

  • how well we had done - not well.

  • how well we could do - hard - but not impossible

  • 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

๐Ÿ”— The Thought

Contentย is a non differentiated, horrible, generic, cheap, replaceable kind of word.

Content is stored in silos - with grains and other commodities.

Content has minimalย value.

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Black Mirror

7 series since 2011 - and only just getting round to reviewing as I just finished Series 7. In recent series, I felt that whilst some were still good, IMHO a number of episodes lacked real punch. โ€ฆ

Severance

Series 1

๐Ÿ”— No review when I watched the first series in 2022 - but still managed to reference it. And definitely was positive.

Series 2

And โ€ฆ well .. ummm . Everybody was so โ€˜OMGโ€™ .. and best show โ€ฆ