🖋️ 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.
Somethings Never Change
A post, including a video, from John Gushe 4 years ago - and every bit as relevant today ... filed in the "if you operated in the real world like you do in the online world" bucket.
Paper53 Is A Stunning Piece Of Software In The Right Hands
The art that is possible with something as seemingly simple as Paper53 is really extraordinary.
It's Hillary Goddamn Clinton
It opens with
I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so I can fix this fucking country for you. And all you little bitches need to do is get off your asses one goddamn day in November.
... and then it gets better. Absolutely brilliant piece.
Uber Hoodwinks Regulators Again
Cheap settlement to sort it out this week - wonder what the demand will be next week
The records Uber and Lyft are touting have been hard-won, expensive and occasionally bumpy. To reach the truce, Uber paid $350,000 into a trust to settle charges by the Philadelphia Parking Authority that the company had been operating in the city without regulation. To meet demand this week, both companies offered some drivers guaranteed minimum pay at peak times — $21 to $27 an hour for Uber after drivers in Cleveland complained of low earnings,4 $20 for Lyft — and neither company would say if they’re turning a profit. Riders had to wait an hour or more for an Uber from the convention on Monday night. And road disruptions have made the companies’ sometimes optimistic wait-time estimates particularly unreliable.
Idiots - So Many Idiots
It never ceases to amaze me that people are so stupid that they have to be protected my this kind of warning. NEVER!
Bulgarian state railway company BDZ is urging players of Pokemon GO to keep off the railway tracks.
Hello
Posting from my iPad - and simultaneously using IFTTT to drop my posts into DayOne - which (BTW) is rather a neat app for journaling.
'T' In Mediation Helps Keep Balance
Just realized that having some 't' in the middle of a 'mediation' will result in 'meditation'.
Larry Just Used Oracle To Pay Himself $3.5 Billion
Oracle just bought a company Larry Ellison mostly owns, entitling him to $3.5 billion in cash - #STUNNED
well - actually not. Is anyone?
Laszlo Bock Moves On ....
This is big news …. be interesting to see what he does next.
A lot of unemployment evolves from information asymmetry, meaning I have a taxonomy of skills and abilities that are hard to articulate, and resumes don’t do a good job of capturing them. Employers have a set of jobs, but are terrible at both articulating what they need, and actually filtering candidates.
If you can somehow bridge that information gap, and better match people with jobs, in the short term you can get a lot of people jobs that don’t have them. But in the medium term, you can do really interesting things. If you’re a welder in Detroit, we can say you should go to nursing school and move to Atlanta, and this is the program you should go to, because this nursing school is correlated with people getting jobs. And Atlanta has the most growth in that area.
It’s very interesting stuff. But that’s all a little in the future.
BB Shows How It Is Done
It is extraordinary to listen to this. But then when you watch it and realize for half the song he is changing a string on his guitar - no beat missed ... well, I sit in awe.
The Vision Of Central Park
I like this analogy.
Comparing the growth and infrastructure of New York to The Internet.
And The Winner Of 'The Most Popular Product Of All Time' Is ....
Apple took about 2,450 days to sell the first 500 million iPhones and only 836 days to sell the second 500 million iPhones. That’s some growth curve.
Of course - Apple is doomed to fail. This was a poignant reminder ...
A billion iPhones in 9 years, built on a foundation of constant doubt. That’s one hell of a thing.
Jobs? What Jobs?
Apple's secondary manufacturer, Pegatron, is following in the footsteps of Foxconn and beginning to automate its factories — and cutting back on new hires as a result, according to the company's chairman.
Remember how Trump talks about 'bringing back the jobs' .... even the jobs we can't do in this country wont be coming back - the jobs we could do were automated a loooong time ago,
Anyone can now print out all TSA master keys
Since the hackers didn't have a photo of the last key, they bought as many Safe Skies locks as possible, took them apart and examined their innards. Anyone with access to a 3D printer can now reproduce all eight keys.
seriously - imagine if their 'partners in crime' had the back door 'keys' to all of our online security.
#IncompetenceWritLarge.
