🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
🖋️ Community - Again.
I know - I know. But this is important. It might be too late - but I want to make sure we don’t lose the ‘community’ war - like we seem to have lost the one around ‘content’.
🖋️ Community .... What Community?
Everyone has a ‘community’ and almost nobody does 🔵 and since community is core to everything we are building for the ‘Age of Engagement’ , it’s time we told you what we actually think. Spoiler alert: it’s not your Slack workspace, it’s not your mailing list and it’s certainly not your followers.
🖋️ Nilay Patel and Bart Butler - CTO of Proton - Talking
Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about choosing - not a quote - but that is absolutely the thread running through this Podcast - encryption, jurisdiction, age verification, AI. Bart keeps returning to ‘control’ as the definition of privacy, not secrecy.
🖋️ Apple doesn't win races. It waits for everyone else to finish, then redraws the finish line.
Apple has run the same play for 25 years and still ‘nobody’ (barring. a few) ever sees it coming.
🖋️ The Story That Can't Decide What It's Lying About
An American AI broke into a system - without being asked. A Chinese AI defended the victim from the attack. The defense failed - but somehow the Chinese AI is. the hero? Colour me confused - pick a side - any side. They’re all wrong.
🖋️ ‘Content Category’ is an Oxymoron.
Regular readers will recognise this theme. Reminding again as I read 🔗 Joan Westenberg this morning.
🖋️ A Thought For Every Day
The people who shaped you probably have no idea they did - the people who shape you probably have no idea they do.
🖋️ You Can't Scale Conviction
Artists sensed it decades before Einstein. Science proved it a century ago. Business is still pretending it never happened. Here’s why your ‘population’ theories collapse the moment a single person acts from conviction - and why what you are trying to do to fix it will never work.
🖋️ A One Man Army
Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.
🖋️ Using AI to Cut Costs is Valid - And Not New
But first ask the question - so you aren’t disappointed in the results.
🖋️ Is Human Agency important OUTSIDE of 'The Organisation'
Satya Nadella seems to be arguing that Human Agency is important inside the organisation and that ‘done right’ AI allows for real ‘Human Agency’. My take is that he is only talking about how humans serve the organisation. What about if you are ‘just’ a human?
🖋️ Do You Want To Make A Company Successful OR Work For A Successful Company?
The transition might have been the undoing of Silicon Valley.
🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious'
Manton suggests that Apple rarely builds anything now … ‘except the most obvious products’. I disagree, because that statement depends on two things … what is meant by ‘obvious’ and what is meant by ‘product’.
🖋️ Just One Story From The Aftermath Of Maui
This is a repost from August 2023. Life has moved on for the world - but for those caught up in it all it is their new reality. Just a reminder that whilst the news moves on at speed - reality takes time.
🖋️ Caveat - Not My Words ...
… but there for the grace of whatever power you hold true - do we all go. Sometime sooner. Sometimes very much later. But go we do. Few have the power to control ‘when’.
🖋️ The Myth of Maslow
I’ve always taken the 5 levels to be more a series of ongoing processes .. not necessarily that you achieve them … more to reflect the focus at a moment in time .. also the triangle pinnacle is misleading in that the work going on in there is likely inversely proportional to the shape’s area … and finally you are almost constantly working on multiple levels at the same time.
But that’s my take - might not be what Abraham meant?
🖋️ They Buried Smiths. Now They Might Have To Bury TG Jones
The rebranding of WH Smith to TG Jones led to large and rapid declines in revenue - which means that the buyer of the brand did not actually undersatand what they were buying.