🖋️ 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.
🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? Or maybe the emperor has bought new clothes.
🖋️ Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
🖋️ Inventing the modern world while pretending not to ...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for the modern world. Or did it?
🖋️ Zingo Zingo - What you going to do-e-o
Zingo had the idea six to ten years too early. Timing, infrastructure, incumbents and a government willing to let you operate matters more than being first. A lesson for us all.
🖋️ You Don't Get Your Teeth Back
Sartre warned us about procrastination. He was talking about the human condition - but it equally applies to how organizations move, how people engage, and why waiting for ‘perfect’ means you never move. And by then, your bite has gone.
🖋️ I think it might be who you hang out with
Brit here - and though Björk does not sit at the top of my favourite artists - she certainly is no where near the bottom and I do not recall that particular refrain ever being that common - which might explain her Wikipedia entry.
🖋️ Peter Kafka and Roger Lynch - Talking
A Podcast and Transcript: Roger Lynch reveals that Condé Nast’s survival isn’t about scale or content volume, but about brand authority and direct audience relationships, he suggests that when Google search collapses and AI platforms commodify content, only publishers with deep trust and “taste” that machines can’t replicate will make it.
🖋️ Forgive or not to forgive. That is the question.
Rabbiting on about ‘forgiveness’. When is it time? Should we?
🖋️ If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?
Don’t click through if you are easily offended. Then again - if you are easily offended stop listening to POTUS
🖋️ They say 'Home' is where you 'Hang Your Hat'
… but is it? When someone asks me ‘where I am from’ … I try to understand the question that is really being asked, because the context reveals many different answers.
🖋️ The Missing Half of a Daily Planner
Finalist failed to stick first time around - but this time we have more time.
🖋️ 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.
🖋️ SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.
Waiheke rersidents and visitors enjoy the ability to site along Oneroa beach thanks to one person’s initiative to create casual seating for beachgoers.
🖋️ Software As A Sandwich
From an orginal idea of Andrew Mayfield . When he first mentioned it in a conversation, my mind took a turn. Finally I am at the first (of many I hope) iterations. Let me know your thoughts.
🖋️ It's Fractal
Reflections on fractal communications - a very old idea - and its cropping up again as I am developing a very new idea - and even I hadn’t connected the dots.
Similar Thinking. Different Thoughts.
The post opens with a position on SaaS platforms moving towards context-as-a-service (CaaS) from Scott Brinker. I question marketing strategies for the ;age of experience’ - built on outdated systems from the ‘age of reason’. (Not to mention that Caas is to my mind up an entirely different pole.)
My Wiki is Really Coming Together
Significant progress made on my Structured Thought Wiki thanks to Claude - transforming it from numerous stubs into a more complete site with 193 pages, aided by Claude’s contributions in both content and design.
You (Should) Say Goodbye - I (Definitely) Say Hello
A short (ish) reminder of the ongoing and necessary shift from old marketing principles that evolved when the vendor was in charge to new principles - which focus on engagement and experience - because the customer is now in charge.
I Agree With ‘The Call’. I Totally Disagree With What That Means
As a regular reader of Scott’s newsletter, I opened this one in eager anticipation because he seemed to be making the same observations as I have been over the last couple of years … but I was wrong.