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I had to reply …
\nBoomers in a nutshell
\n\n\nwho is actually wanting to move to a country full of corruption, gun crime and a hatred of immigrants, despite being populated almost entirely by immigrants.
\n
💬 Derek Peden
\nOR making FSF real?
\n\n\nthe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
\n
💬 F Scott Fitzgerald
\n.. though a strong argument that the people doing this in this case are not retaining the ability to function.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T12:02:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/a-hatred-of-immigrants-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/buddies-by-maique-lovely.html", "content_html": "\nLovely
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:51:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/buddies-by-maique-lovely.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/nobody-is-destined-for-greatness.html", "content_html": "🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.
\n\n\nThere’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting.\nNobody is born holding greatness.\nPeople build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.
\n
💬 Joan Westenberg
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:50:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/nobody-is-destined-for-greatness.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/the-last-macos-tahoe-review.html", "content_html": "🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!
\n\n\nWith macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.
\n
💬 William Gallagher
\nPut me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.
\nI definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:43:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/the-last-macos-tahoe-review.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/first-there-was-the-unbearable.html", "content_html": "First there was 🔗🎥 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - so so good.
\nThen there was 🔗🎥 Jay Kelly - which was alright - but in proportion to what I expected.
\nSo I approached 🔗🎥 Outcome with high anticipation.
\nI have now started and stopped it three times - best was getting through 25 minutes. Should I give up? I mean this is Keanu we are talking about.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:38:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/first-there-was-the-unbearable.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/crucial-track-may.html", "title": "Crucial Track 🎵 May 24, 2026", "content_html": "\"iFiesta Fatal! (Album Edit)\" by B-Tribe
\n\n\nI was on a work trip in Finland. My hosts decided to expose me to some Helsinki night life. I can still picture it all - but sadly no pictures to share. At one point we were in a bar/restaurant/nightclub - which it was dependant on the time of day - and this music like no other swept through the whole place and I just disappeared into it.
\nThis was the track. Got back to the UK - bought the album - and it turns also out their second - clearly wasn't in the vanguard on this one. I also bought 3, 4 and 5 as they came out - they never failied to suck me in.
\nThere is a sixth - do not own it - but of course in my online library - though a little different to its predecessors.
\nAnd all of this came to mind yesterday as I was wrestling with 🖇️ my blog issues - to pick one random post that didnt arrive until today.
\nBUT - iFiesta Fatal! kept me sane.
\n![\"Fiesta](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/screen-shot-2015-04-15-at-7.00.45-am.png\")
View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile
\nListen to my Apple Music playlist
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:23:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/crucial-track-may.html", "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/and-we-are-back-normal.html", "content_html": "👁️ **And we are back - normal service has been resumed. **
\nSpecial shout outs to @sod and @AndySylvester who were on the end of email helping me bottom out my problems (I have many) and unknowingly @danielpunkass who I was not in contact with - but is the brains behind Mars Edit - without which some of what Sven and Andy asked of me in problem solving would not have been possible.
\nAnd when I say ‘normal’ - that is with respect to the MB feed.
\nLife is not so normal on the 🖇️ website which is
\nBut all fixable. Right?
\nGood to be home.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:02:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/and-we-are-back-normal.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/nuff-said-genesis-reborn.html", "content_html": "‘nuff said
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T09:36:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/nuff-said-genesis-reborn.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/the-rocket-that-runs-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
\n\n\nMost of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.
\n
💬 Om
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T08:26:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/the-rocket-that-runs-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/the-only-surprise-is-that.html", "content_html": "👁️ The only surprise is that it took this long.
\n🔗 Largest North American bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T08:25:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/the-only-surprise-is-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/abba-meet-pink-floyd.html", "title": "Abba - Meet Pink Floyd", "content_html": "Reading Alexandra’s post this morning : 🔗 Striking a Chord - the Wry Writer
\nThis caught my eye.
\n\n\nI’ve enjoyed it all. From nobodies starting out, to big name groups like
\nPink Floyd and Abba , to Emerson, Lake and Palmer, to the Rolling Stones before they were mega rock stars.
💬 Alexandra Wolfe
\nIf you know anything about my musical taste at all - you will know that a dude called 🔗🎵 Steven Wilson looms large - starting with a growing collection of 50 albums (physical media - proper!) - and counting.
\nI’ve heard him say it many times … his mum loved Abba and his Dad played ‘Dark Side’ on ‘repeat’.
\nFrom: 🔗 one interview
\n\n\nMy earliest musical memories are of hearing my parents playing records, and I was lucky that both of them had great musical taste. My mum listened to Frank Sinatra,
\nAbba , The Carpenters, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, basically the great pop music of the late 70s, and my dad would play conceptual rock stuff like ‘Dark Side of the Moon ’, and ‘Tubular Bells’. At that age, I had no concept of musical genre or musical snobbery, so it was just all magical to me, and in many ways that is still the way I feel now. I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
💬 Steven Wilson
\nI put Steven in the category of probably ‘the biggest rock star that you have never heard of’.
\nAnyone who wants to explore his work - it can get confusing .. diverse and many entry points - but if you love Abba and Pink Floyd - his Blackfield project is well worth diving into.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T08:23:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/abba-meet-pink-floyd.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/22/ton-will-know-exactly-what.html", "content_html": "📸 Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/6211c4243b.jpg\")
\nWaving from the other side of the bay.
\n(To make sense - 🔗 click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-22T09:39:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/22/ton-will-know-exactly-what.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/22/so-maybe-the-new-golden.html", "content_html": "\n\nSo “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”
\n
💬 Jim Groom
\n… via 🔗 Stephen Downes
\nI am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;
\n… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.
\n🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful
\n\n\nThanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline.\nI’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a
\nneighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood. Particularly when that leader has followed up similar statements about other nations with military action.\nI could probably work around that. But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. I have a family to support and really can’t afford that risk.\nI still consider myself a friend of yourorganization , and one with strong opinions about the subjects scheduled for discussion; my regrets about having to decline are entirely sincere.
💬 Tim Bray
\nSlight edits depending on context. For example if you are English, switch to English spelling.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-22T08:24:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/22/a-template-you-might-find.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/22/crucial-track-may.html", "title": "Crucial Track 🎵 May 22, 2026", "content_html": "\"Hurry On Sundown\" by Hawkwind
\n\n\nCame to mind this morning after reading 🔗 this. As a lad - Hawkwind definitely hit a nerve. Still does. Lemmy's successor - not so much. This is the first track on their first album - (a couple of albums before Lemmy became a full timer) .. because there are again too many to choose - but like other occasional references to tracks in this world - the first of the first started me on this particular journey.
\n![\"Slow](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/fe2d4c2946.jpg\")
View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile
\nListen to my Apple Music playlist
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-22T08:12:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/22/crucial-track-may.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/a-seat-on-the-rocket.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nThe education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.
\n
💬 Parker Molloy
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T10:12:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/a-seat-on-the-rocket.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/the-four-pillars-of-modern.html", "content_html": "🔗 The four pillars of modern media
\n\n\nA recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter [£] made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
\n
\n>The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.
Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T09:43:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/the-four-pillars-of-modern.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/xkcd-and-existential-comics-are.html", "content_html": "🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
\nSeems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
\n🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential.
👍🏼💡❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T09:20:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/xkcd-and-existential-comics-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour","? Shows","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/inventing-the-modern-world-while.html", "title": "Inventing the modern world while pretending not to ...", "content_html": "🔗 Milestones - Futility Closet inform us that …
\n\n\nThe Middle Ages ended on July 16, 1453, at 12 o’clock meridian
\n
💬 James Ussher
\n➕
\n\n\nthe Reformation was not launched by Martin Luther until October 31, 1517, at 10:15 a.m.
\n
💬 H.L. Mencken
\nSo what the hell was the world doing for 84 years?
\nI asked the bots, who told be that we were … mostly
Not to say I’m a fan of Uber - 🔗🔎 I have been railing against them for over a decade.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/brandedline.png\")
I finished 🔗📚 Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr a while back - and I keep quoting him - but you really should read the book. He uses Lyft and Uber as case studies.
\nDear London peeps: remember Zingo? Not Uber or Lyft, but functionally identical. Six to ten years ahead of them. And it failed.\nMike’s book partly explains why - without even mentioning them. Too early. But there’s more to it:
\nAll adding up to too early, wrong incentives and by the time Uber/Lyft arrived, smartphones were common, GPS was accurate, driver economics had shifted.
\nBut what ‘common wisdom’ tends to gorget is that Zingo was also fighting the government. Not UK medallion fights. This was about using apps to track people in the physical world. Back then, the government was actively arguing against that play. (My - how times have changed.)
\nZingo had the idea. But timing, infrastructure, and aligned incentives matter more than being first. So does getting the government out of the way.
\nIn a parallel universe - we would be Zingoing all over the world - and the taxi business would be very very different.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T12:34:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/zingo-zingo-what-you-going.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? LongForm","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html", "content_html": "Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take 🔗🎵 Russ Conway - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T11:46:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/gds-weighs-in-on-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden
\n\n\na meeting _without_biscuits.
\n
💬 The UK's Civil Service
\n😂 Perfect - only the British.
\nBUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.
\n\n\nSome people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?"
\n
💬 Carroll Bryant
\nIt’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.
\n🔗📼Which is why it is also important to watch this.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T11:34:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/gds-weighs-in-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/you-dont-get-your-teeth.html", "title": "You Don't Get Your Teeth Back", "content_html": "\n\nI have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on–and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.
\n
💬 Jean-Paul Sartre
\n… from his book
He’s talking about procrastination - waiting for ‘later’ … so never biting and reminding us that by the time you’re ready, your teeth are gone.
\nI think that pattern shows up everywhere in transformation work. It’s how organisations move, how people engage, how change actually happens. The Age of Reason is - was? necessary. But don’t underestimate the fall out.
\nOrganisations stuck in ‘Reason mode’: Analysis paralysis. Another audit, another framework, another study before you’re ‘ready to actually engage. Meanwhile the market moves.
\nPeople waiting for ideal conditions: Perfect timing never comes. The safety you’re waiting for doesn’t exist. Experience builds through doing, not planning.
\nThe cost of deferment in transformation: Every day in Reason without moving to Experience is a day the organisation doesn’t learn. Teeth don’t grow back.
\nReminded of the quote by 🔗 Thought Shrapnel
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T10:49:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/you-dont-get-your-teeth.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/perfect-or-better-i-guess.html", "content_html": "\nI guess this is the philosophy behind the rework of my 🖇️ Hub, 🖇️ Blog and 🖇️ Wiki … all three are definitely better and definitely not perfect.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T10:31:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/perfect-or-better-i-guess.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/the-next-seven-crucials.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-752f57ce.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-20T10:25:50+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/the-next-seven-crucials.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/chestnut-futility-closet-my-answer.html",
"content_html": "\n![\"Safari](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/safari-2026-05-20-10.00.48.png\" "\\"Safari")
\nMy answer is not theirs … and i guess i was wrong given the last phrase …“to the left-hand side:”
\nThat said - I rather like my solution …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-dd2b1a25.png\")
📺🔗 The Lincoln Lawyer - series 4 - check. 🚧
\nI will need to return to finish - but in a nutshell - well worth a watch, but make sure you go through the first three before you start - it will add to your enjoyment.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-19T18:05:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/19/the-lincoln-lawyer-series-check.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/martin-gutmann-are-we-celebrating.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 Martin Gutmann: Are we celebrating the wrong leaders?
\nSpoiler Alert. Yes - but that’s not an excuse not to watch it.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T19:02:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/martin-gutmann-are-we-celebrating.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","MyTedTalks"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/charity-is-doomed-to-fail.html", "content_html": "\n\nCharity Is Doomed To Fail argues that traditional charity reacts to symptoms instead of addressing causes of issues like trafficking. The author calls for a proactive, well-funded, business-driven approach as embodied by The Future Found, highlighting Dan Pallotta’s point that new thinking, capital, and strategy are needed for real change - shifting from reactive aid to tackling root problems at scale.
\n
💬 Sadly - unknown - so far
\nI need to go find the source, because someone talking about Dan Pallotta in the same breath as 🔗 The Future Found is definitely someone I need to talk to.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T18:05:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/charity-is-doomed-to-fail.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/a-good-girls-guide-to.html", "content_html": "📺🔗 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Season 1
\nA total surprise and some great twists.
\nOnce again - will return for the formal rating. 🚧
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T17:53:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/a-good-girls-guide-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/i-saw-this-promoted-checked.html", "content_html": "📺 I saw this promoted, checked out the trailer and realised I had watched it.
\nThat is how good this show is.
\nI’ll come back to add the star rating …
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T17:47:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/i-saw-this-promoted-checked.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/twelve-years-ago-i-was.html", "content_html": "Twelve years ago - 🔗📼🎵 I was there. Love you man.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-18T11:46:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/twelve-years-ago-i-was.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/17/i-think-it-might-be.html", "title": "I think it might be who you hang out with", "content_html": "\n\nWhen I was living in the UK, one of the more common responses people had to me being Icelandic – beyond the strangely common “I hate Björk” refrain – was some comment about Vikings or Norse mythology.
\n
💬 Baldur Bjarnason
\n🔗 The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born - which is not really about Björk as you might expect.
\n\n\nWith sales of over 40 million records worldwide, Bjork is one of the best-selling alternative artists of all time. Several of her albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Thirty-one of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top 40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles “It’s Oh So Quiet”, “Army of Me”, and “Hyperballad” and the top-20 singles “Play Dead”, “Big Time Sensuality”, and “Violently Happy”.\nHer accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 16 Grammy nominations (including nine in the Best Alternative Music Album category, the most of any artist). In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 64th-greatest singer and the 81st-greatest songwriter of all time in 2023.
\n
💬 Wikipedia
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-17T11:48:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/17/i-think-it-might-be.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/17/llcs-essentially-create-a-precedent.html", "content_html": "🔗 LLCs essentially create a precedent for AIs
\n\n\nCompanies can own property, sign contracts, sue, be sued, spend money, and shape elections. But companies cannot be killed nor can they go to jail. They have many of the rights of people. They are not people.
\n
💬 Brad Barrish
\nI guess Mitt forgot to tell us that?
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\n", "date_published": "2026-05-16T14:28:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/16/yes-yes-i-did-watch.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/16/a-question-of-understanding-because.html", "content_html": "A question of understanding - because when I first read this post - I was attempting to reconcile zip (as in zip code) with ‘incompatible’ - confused because I had never heard of such a thing. As I am shuffling out my Drafts it dawned on me - of course - he’s talking Zip formats. 🤦🏼♂️
\n🔗 Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?
\n\n\nhow the fuck can a ZIP be incompatible??
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💬 Kev Quirk
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\nMy enjoyment ran the gamut. Started great. Ended great. In the middle - an awful lot of filler. Don’t know why it seemed that way- just that it was slooooow .. and there seemed to be a lot of irrelevancy
\nSo I looked into it - turns out Parish is an American remake of a UK original called 🔗 The Driver - 3 short 1 hour episodes.
\nGiancarlo seems to have got himself involved in an American remake - with the original creators as Exec Producers. Originally they had high hopes for a second series. Not now it seems.
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\n🔗 More Magic Math from OpenAI?
\n\n\nThe real product here is not AI. It is an IPO prospectus.
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💬 Om
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\n🔗 The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
\n\n\nI love that the dickpanel is titled “We value your privacy” and then begins with the sentence, “With your agreement, we and our 399 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process personal data like your visit on this website, IP addresses and cookie identifiers.”
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💬 John Gruber
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\n\n\nUnanswered remains my question from earlier this week: is MCI installed on Bosworth’s computer too? (And Zuck’s?)
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💬 John Gruber
\nGiven that Zuck keeps sticky tape over his computer camera - I am going to go with no.
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\n.. as his close 😂
\n\n\nPlease note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog.
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💬 Jamie Zawinski
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\n\n\nTalking of superb covers … as I wrote 🖇️ here not even a month ago - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine.
\nBonus Round ...
\n🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered.
\n🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.
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\nListen to my Apple Music playlist
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\n\n\nThe real problem is that Vercel doesn’t let you set a spending limit. Someone could DoS your app while you’re asleep and you’d wake up to a $10,000 bill with no recourse. It’s 2026 — AI crawlers and bots are everywhere, constantly hitting endpoints, triggering serverless functions. Vercel charges for CPU execution time, not bandwidth, so every bot visit costs you money. This isn’t a theoretical edge case. I couldn’t justify the risk anymore.
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💬 Assaf Arkin
\n🔗 coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware — Labnotes
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\n\n\nThe real competitive advantage is no longer distribution or reach, it’s the curation authority that makes audiences come directly to you because your point of view is irreplaceable.
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💬 Roger Lynch
\nFrom the Vox Media podcast network, this is Channels with Peter Kafka. I’m also Chief Correspondent at Business Insider. Today we’re talking about running the last remaining magazine empire with Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch.
\nExcept I just looked at the transcript, and Lynch only used the word “magazine” once. These days he thinks of Condé—which for decades was the world’s most prestigious magazine publisher and probably still is—as a portfolio brand that shows up all kinds of places: on the web, on TikTok, at movie theaters, and at the mega-glamorous Met Ball.
\nSo we skipped the question I normally ask magazine people: “What the hell is a magazine in 2026?” Instead we moved on to other topics: What’s it like to be the subject of one of the most popular movies in the world? What’s it like to run a media business when Google stops sending you traffic? And who’s going to replace Anna Wintour and David Remnick—perhaps the two most influential editors in the world?
\nSpoiler: Lynch doesn’t tell me where the succession list is. But you’re going to like this interview anyway.
\nFrom the Vox Media podcast network, this is channels with Peter Kafka. That is me. I’m also Chief Correspondent at Business Insider. And today, we are talking about running the last remaining magazine empire, with Condé Nassio Roger Lynch. Except I just looked at the transcript of this chat, and Lynch only used the word magazine once. These days, he thinks of Condé, which for decades was the world’s most prestigious magazine publisher. Probably still is. As a portfolio brand that shows up all kinds of places on the web, obviously, on TikTok, and at movie theaters, and at the mega-glamorous Met Ball. So in this conversation, we skipped the question. I normally ask magazine people, which is something like, hey, what the hell is a magazine in 2026? Anyways, when we move on to other topics like, what’s it like to be the subject of one of the most popular movies in the world? What’s it like to run a media business with Google Stop sending you traffic? And who’s going to replace Anna Windtour and David Remnick, perhaps the two most influential editors in the world, and where is that short list? Spoiler. Lynch does not tell me where the list is. But you’re going to like this interview anyway. Here’s me, talking to Condé Nassio Roger Lynch.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, welcome to channels.
\nRoger Lynch: Thank you, Peter. Good to see you.
\nPeter Kafka: You are talking to me from LA, very show-bizzy of you. Speaking of show-biz, you guys just finished the Met Gala.
\nRoger Lynch: I think it’s an enormously successful project for you. It is, yes. It’s show-biz, it is commerce, it’s philanthropy, it’s a ton of celebrity, some controversy. It also seems like the most obvious expression of Condé Nassed as a company today. Is that a fair summation? I think it’s right, and I think it also showcases what we do best, which is create cultural moments. Events has been a strategy for us as it is for many media companies. But for us, our events are really around creating cultural moments that really break through the zeitgeist and search algorithms or whatever is happening in the headwinds of the media industry. Nothing holds back big cultural moments like the Met Gala.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you measure success for a big cultural moment? At some point, you’re a business, so you’re trying to make money from it.
\nRoger Lynch: You’re also raising money for the Met, but it’s a big dollars-and-sense event for you as well. Is that the most important thing? Is the reception it gets online? Most important, how do you measure it? Look, that event in particular, it’s different for each event. For that event in particular, it starts with a Met. That is a fund-raiser, and this year was immensely successful for the Costume Institute and the Met, and also the inauguration of the Cundymask galleries that we did the ribbon cutting for the morning of the Met Gala. From an audience standpoint, every year, it surpasses our goals. And we finish the Met and we go, how can we ever do anything like that? And then it grows another 50 or 60 percent the following year. So last year, I don’t know, we had over 2 billion total video views of the content we produced around the Met.
\nPeter Kafka: This year, it was 3.1 billion, another 50-something percent increase year-over-year. Does that tell you you’re getting better at making the content, or is this audience getting bigger for this stuff? You know, I think that in the earlier years for me, when I joined, I think we had a lot of room to improve in the content that we created around the event itself.
\nRoger Lynch: The event itself was spectacular, but how Cundymask covered it and created content around it, there was opportunity for improvement on that. And I think the team has done a fantastic job really increasing the quality and the creativity of the output around it. I think then what compounds on that is that the intrigue around this event just seems to grow every year. And yes, you mentioned this year, so there’s some controversy. That’s fine. That’s actually good.
\nPeter Kafka: Let’s spell out the controversy.
\nRoger Lynch: It’s Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sciences were sponsors and curators of the event. This event’s always been tied to extreme well. He’ve always had benefactors working with you on this project. Were you surprised at the blowback controversy you got from the Bezos' involvement? Well, to be clear, their involvement was in support of them at the Museum and the Custom Institute and the money that they gave to the Museum. So, look, I think there’s a lot of reasons you can criticize extreme wealth and people will criticize with it, but to actually criticize them for donating money to a cultural institution, to me, was a bit off base. Were you surprised because this is going to be a regular feature going forward as long as you’re working on this. You’re going to have people like the Bezos who want to be involved and they’re going to pony up a lot of money. Will that give you any pause? Like, oh, do I want to deal with this? Are you okay saying, yeah, these things come with with attendant controversy and that’s okay. That’s okay. Well put, let’s zoom out a little bit and just talk about Kandai as a business. You came in in 2019. It’s a privately held magazine publisher. In 2019, the future for privately held magazine companies didn’t look great. What’s the best way to sum up what you have done during your tenure there? Well, I had the distinct advantage of not knowing anything about the business and not having grown up in the publishing industry. So, it enabled me to come in and question everything. The first thing I questioned was how we were structured. We were structured, you know, first as two separate companies. There was an international business with its own CEO in a US business and they really acted like competitors in every way possible, including the editors competing with each other. There was so much internal competition. We had no time to focus on external. Even every country around the world where we operate were a very global company operated completely independently from each other. And you know what, that I think was probably a good strategy for many, many decades. It made Kandai NASA into a very large successful global publisher. A whole series of fiefdoms and then people were proud of the fiefdom nature. They were. They were very, very protective. But, you know, what I came in and looked at is like, okay, I can understand why in a print magazine business, why that was a successful strategy. But the world has changed. The opportunity for us going forward is really about connecting with audiences in new and different ways, using technology certainly. And also audiences have changed. Maybe is in part because of technology, but if you just look at how cosmopolitan people have become in terms of their content consumption, when, you know, some of the most popular shows you may watch come out of Sweden or Korea, Israel, wherever. And when I, when I first joined, I started looking at the data about where our visitors were coming from, each of our websites. And there was something that really struck me, which is, you know, wherever you went around the world, and you looked at the data of our websites, about 40% of the traffic was coming from outside of that country. So, you know, my first listening tour three or four weeks into joining Kadynast, you know, I’m meeting with editors around the world. And I heard, you know, sort of a similar story, which is, you know, oh, audiences in Italy only care about Italian culture and content, they don’t care about what happens or are same as France. And I’d always ask, well, then explain this, you know, why it is 40% of the traffic to the sites here come from outside of the country. And the reverse is true, which is we have a huge audience from France or Italy going to our sites elsewhere around the country. It’s because they are interested in it. We’re just not organized in a way to present the content to them the way they want to consume it. And by the way, some of your employees still tell me that this culture, the former culture is important. And by globalizing things and sort of consolidating brands globally and having shared resources for some of these companies that you’re missing out on what makes a particular title unique. And how they do speak to their core audience and whatever, whether it’s geographic or demographic. And that mushing this stuff together has been a detriment even though you’re going to say it’s successful. Well, the first thing I would say is I’ll never be someone who just admits that everything we’ve done is perfect and is right. I think you can always learn. And what I told our teams, when we made all the editorial changes now four or five years ago, the first thing I told them was assume we got it wrong. Go figure out where we got it wrong and let’s make adjustments. But don’t assume we got everything right and wait till we learn a lesson a year from now. Figure it out now. Figure out what we got wrong, what adjustments we need to make. And there’ll always be that kid. We’ll always be making adjustments to try to figure it out. And some of those adjustments, you know, it’s different brand by brand. If you take a brand like wired, you know, technology is more global. The interests, the factors that influence our lives through technology is more global in nature. Something like Vogue, there’s an element of global fashion, but then local markets, whether it’s Japan, China, India, very strong local culture and local fashion. So there’s not a one size fits all for any of our brands. You have to you have to adjust your assumptions based on that brand and the local markets. So I do feel like we have largely got it right. And you know, the results have been, you know, we’ve taken our largest brand Vogue. It has grown every year that I’ve been at the company and its profitability continues to grow. It’s reach grows. And it’s more successful and it’s ever been under my tenure. So overall, the business is profitable, which wasn’t always the case. Increasing profitability, revenue is basically where it was in 2021. If you were a public company, people would be very upset with you, but you’re not a public company, you’re owned by the new house family is sort of flat revenue and increasing profitability. Is that what they want out of this company? Well, I think if you look at what we have revenue streams that have declined structurally and revenue that has grown and they coming in to the company I came into, print advertising, print subscription, new stand revenues, that was just going to decline. We knew that and that was by far the majority of the revenue when I joined. So the real trick wasn’t to change the trajectory of that because that wasn’t going to change. It was to develop new revenue streams at a fast rate so that you can offset the decline that was going to happen in the legacy business. And we’ve done that. And so if you look at our big growth areas, certainly digital subscriptions, they grew 29% last year. I think there are not many companies that wouldn’t be thrilled to have 29% growth in digital subscription revenue or events. We started the conversation today about events. Our event strategy has really paid off. In every year, these big 10 pull events grow more than we expect. So if you look at last year, our big 10 pull events last year grew about 50% revenue year on year. Huge. And these are not small revenue activities for us.
\nPeter Kafka: This year, our events so far are up 60% over last year, which was up 50% over the year before.
\nRoger Lynch: So those strategies around leaning into digital subscriptions or commerce business for our events business has really paid dividends for us. But I guess what I’m asking is, are your owners okay? If you come back to them and say at the end of this year, say, listen, our revenue didn’t increase much or were still there where we were in 2021. I’ve had some declining businesses. I’ve replaced them with growing businesses. And you, the new house family, you get to enjoy X percent more profits. Is that a win for them? Well, let’s be clear. Our revenue is growing. Our revenue grew last year and our revenue already this year is growing again. So we do have a growing revenue. Okay. So it’s it’s it do you think you are going to if we look at the chart, right? And you’re you’re still sort of where you are in 2020 went down from 2021 and now back up to 2021 rates. I guess what I’m saying is is the expectation that you’re going to surpass where you were at 2021 at some point or is this sort of the level you’re going to be at? Oh, no, we’re definitely surpassing. Yeah. Our business is going to continue to grow. You think it is reasonable to to grow revenue and profitability because the you know, the trajectory that we had to overcome was again, the majority of the revenue of the company when I join being print advertising and print subscription new stands as the declining business. It’s a small minority of our revenue today because all of these other revenue areas have been growing and they grow every year. And so now they’ve surpassed the decline in the traditional business and they’re only going to continue to grow. So our revenue will continue to grow because these new streams like digital subscriptions and commerce and events and all of that are growing, you know, at double digit rates. And if we go back to 2019, does this look like the company you imagined you were taking over and we’re going to transform is this where you thought you’d end up? You know, I knew that we had some big challenges and frankly, that’s what attracted me to this. I, you know, like really big challenges. I like transformation. I like connecting the dots and strategies and then going executing against it. The thing I knew is that there was going to be a big messy transformation just in terms of the structure of the company and that those changes were going to be cultural as much as they were organizational and that we were going to need to do a lot of innovation around creating new businesses and revenue streams. But what gave me hope that we had that opportunity was the strength of our brands. And so the number one thing for me when I was considering whether to take this job was to try to understand where our brands becoming more connected with audiences or less. And so I asked for a lot of data on that.
\nPeter Kafka: I wanted to see it principally around digital platforms.
\nRoger Lynch: And what I really quickly realized is they’re definitely becoming more connected with audiences. We’re growing audiences. And therefore, okay, what we have is really a business model problem that is very solvable. It is because the traditional line, as you know, for every company going through analog to digital is you’re trading your analog dollars for digital diamonds pennies whatever it is. And so it’s a business problem that has really bedeviled just about every media company. That’s true. But Peter, when I joined, it’s been widely reported that the company was losing money and not a small amount of money. And today we’re profitable. Yeah. And when I joined, we were majority print revenue. And today we’re majority digital. Right. What I’m saying is when you said this is a suburb of business problem, now you can point back and say, yeah, we solved it. But in 2019, you had that same level of confidence that we’re going to figure this out where most people have not. Yes. Yeah. I did. I knew it would be tough, but I knew we’d figure it out. Yeah. I mean, most, I mean, your peers don’t really exist anymore. It was just used to be cotton asked and timing and timing doesn’t exist. It’s been chopped up and renamed a bunch of places. A lot of the most, I think of all the digital brands that we’re going to challenge the cotton day and ask the world that just wrote about basically the end of BuzzFeed yesterday. VICE has gone bankrupt. Vox Media, who makes this podcast, is splitting itself up as we talk. So I guess what I’m saying is you did a good job if you can sit here and say, yeah, it has we’ve grown revenue and we’ve grown profitability while other folks have been falling down. Not really a question, I guess that’s a compliment. I’ll just say thank you. You’re welcome. We’ll be right back with CondéNAS Roger Lynch, but first to word from a sponsor. I’m Mitch First, two-time end-to-resil champion, championship MVP, and forward for the USM’s national team. Before I went pro, I graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology, which comes in handy more than you think. Any athlete pursuing greatness knows there’s a certain mentality you have to have. What people don’t know is what that costs. In my podcast, Confessions of an Elite athlete, I sit down with the best athletes in the world and explore the psychology, mindset, and unseen battles on the path to greatness. So take a seat and learn from the Confessions of an Elite athlete on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I’m Matt Bouchel, comedian, writer, and floating head you may or may not have seen on your FYP and I’m starting a brand new podcast. Wait, don’t swipe away, it’s called that sounds like a lot. I’m going to start by breaking down whatever insanity is happening in the world and then I’ll sit down with a comedian or actor or writer or honestly anyone who responds to my DMs. This is not the place to get the news, but it is a place to feel a little bit better about it. You can watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. That sounds like a lot part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. And we’re back. You mentioned cultural stuff inside the company. I was going back and listening to our 2021 conversation in the pandemic, sort of post-George Floyd reckoning. And this was a period where a lot of companies and particularly media companies have found their staff very upset with management and you guys had had to let go of a teen vogue editor that you’d hire because the staff didn’t want to work with her because of her bad tweets. When you look back at that time, that sort of pandemic, 2020-22 era, do you feel like at any point you sort of over corrected to accommodate staff? It seems now that the cultural pendulum has swung a lot and a lot of the stuff that people were complaining about in 2020-20-21, art things they would at least voice publicly now. I’m wondering if you look back at that era and go, maybe I overdid it. Well, it really hit us in 2020. And it started right around the time when George Floyd was murdered. And I knew when I joined that we had a lot of cultural issues to deal with. And you know, one of the first things that I did, again, because we had all these separate businesses around the world, there was no one company, there was no one, even executive team.
\nPeter Kafka: I wanted to try to find some things that I could get this newly, what was about to be combined company focused on, some global initiatives.
\nRoger Lynch: And it can’t be like, we’re going to be profitable, we’re going to, like, that’s not inspiring. But what I found talking to our employees was they were really interested in a couple areas. One, what are we doing on diversity? And two, what about sustainability? So I thought, great, these are really two really important issues for us to work on. And what we can do is even in advance of changing all the org structures or the, you know, how we do our editorial, I can create teams from around the world of employees who are really vested in this to help advise the company and help drive forward progress in these areas. So that work resulted in a diversity report and goals that we set in 2020. And so we were, by the time this hit us, we were already had a lot of work underway. And but it was, it was work that we needed because I think the company, you know, was, was not showing up well in these areas. And so, do I think we over corrected no? I don’t think we over corrected. I think we had a lot of room for improvement. And I think we seized the moment. And, and so today, when you’ve seen so many companies abandoning these efforts, you know, we just last month published our diversity report again. And we showed the progress that we make. And as I stood up in front of our company last month that our company meeting, I said, look, this is a core value of the company. And it’s discouraging to see all these other companies, you know, dropping these initiatives, but that only says one thing that it never was a core value. It was a convenience for us. It’s a core value. And it is a source of competitive advantage for us now. You know, I’ll talk to people who run media companies who said they were interested in diversity and now literally can’t say that out loud because the FCC might come after them or they might get some other kind of blowback in the Trump 2.0 era. And they’ll say, this is as important to me as it ever was. I just need to phrase it differently. I just can’t come out and say literally can’t say diversity. I can’t say any part of diversity, equity and inclusion.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you have sympathy for the folks who are running media companies who who think they’re doing the right thing, but can’t say that out loud? Look, I think there’s a couple categories of companies that have backed away from the commitments they made.
\nRoger Lynch: One is companies that are under threat from our own federal government and the FCC. I certainly have sympathy for the threats that they face. I wish more of them were willing to stand up because I do believe that the fears that they have are overblown in terms of what the government can really do. There are other companies that just abandoned them because the winds changed. I have no sympathy for them. None whatsoever.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you feel like you can make that assessment from the outside go out? These people never believe that they were just saying it and these people do mean it? Well, I think that companies that aren’t under the type of political pressure that you mentioned earlier who abandoned these, it just says one thing.
\nRoger Lynch: It was never really a core value. It was a response to a moment. And the thing, one of the things I’m most proud of with our company is that we’ve retained it as a core value and we report on our progress every year. Every year we make progress and we have publicly stated goals and we track ourselves to those goals. And I think our employees really appreciate it. And as I said, with fewer and fewer companies doing that, it puts us in a position of, I think, great competitive advantage. Yeah, I wanted to ask you at this. You brought up this idea that you guys have not been buffeted by the Trump, the second Trump administration, like other media companies. And you said, look, we don’t have a Warner Brothers deal to get through the FCC. We don’t have this issue. We don’t have that issue. Certainly, there’s an audience people that I work with who like hearing that. But I’m wondering why, why you make a point of bringing it up in public? Who you’ve talked about it in a couple different settings? What is the point of you saying that out loud? Who is the audience for that? The audience is our own employees and our future employees. You know, we have a talent brand that is very important to us. And I think if you’re a journalist today, I always tell our employees, our journalists, that right now, there’s fewer and fewer places where you can practice your best work without, you know, being either impacted directly by the government or by the ownership group or whatever. This is one of them. That is a source of competitive advantage. In the seven years I’ve been at the company, not once, as our owners of our owners or our board come to me and said, Hey, don’t publish this. Don’t publish that. And therefore, not once have I done that to our editors, because we have the best editors in the world. And the way to keep the best editors in the world is to stay out of their way and support them. And I really believe that that is the key to our success. And I’m fortunate that we’re owned by a family that believes in that too. And so I talk about it publicly because I want people to know, especially journalists who are maybe at places where they don’t feel that they have that freedom that should there be an opportunity to work at Connie Nass, they’d be welcomed here and they would not be interfered with. Thank you for that. That that that I really was curious about that. And it leads me to this question. And we talked about this a couple of times before, but now it’s a bigger deal than ever. A half a time, half of my show is spent interviewing people like you who run media companies, and the other half is spent talking to, we’ll just call them creatives. Increasingly, there are people who’ve left big media companies and created their own business. At the time, it was the last few times we talked about this, it was mostly theoretical. And now it’s, it’s a real thing and it’s happening a lot of places. And I’m wondering how you think about two different versions of this one.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you how do you work with someone like an Emily Sunberg who’s been on this show who has her own center of gravity? But she’s very adjacent to a lot of what you guys are doing and very interested in that world.
\nRoger Lynch: What do you do for either Emily or someone like her to say, Hey, you’re off on your own and you’re successful. But we think you can work with us. What is what is that pitch like? And the second part of that question is if you have an Emily Sunberg at Vogue before she becomes Emily Sunberg, how do you keep her there or how do you keep her advantage fair? Yeah. Look, I think that these new outlets for creatives or journalists are very good. I mean, this is an industry that’s been under pressure. There are a few fewer jobs in it than there were five years ago. That trend you’ve seen year after year. And so new outlets and new ways for for journalists or creatives to be able to develop businesses that can sustain them is only good. For us, it does make us think differently about how we how we operate and how we work with with journalists and creatives. We have to be more creative. We have to say, okay, there may be somebody who’s got a sub stack who is, you know, in an adjacent field that we can work with in some areas and they’ll have their sub stack. And it’s not necessarily competitive of what we do, but it’s not, you know, it’s not part of our business. And that’s okay. And so I think you’ll probably see us do more of that rather than less of that. What what does work with them look like? Is that you can freelance for us? I mean, could be or they can be writing a column for us as an example. And what is the upside for I’ll just keep saying Emily Sunberg. Well, she’s a generic stand-in here at this point for them who who are produced their own content get paid well for it and are profiled in the New York Times. What is what is Kondayn asked giving them by saying, you can now publish in our outlet too? Well, look, I think for them, for most of them, they may have a sub stack. Let’s take someone like Lockling Cartwright, you know, at Vanity Fair, you know, he has a breaker, which is his own. And he’s been on the show, yeah. A publication, yeah. And it’s great. And he does that. But it’s a limited audience that he’ll reach on his own. It’s also working with us at Kondayn asks or at Vanity Fair gives him access to a much broader reach audience than he would be able to develop just on his own. So to me, it’s a pretty good model to have where you can have somebody as talented as he is and connected as he is, building his own business, but all at the same time collaborating with us in a way that works for both parties. And what about the retention area idea that, you know, let’s say you’ve got a Lockling Cartwright on Vanity Fair and he goes, oh, wait, I could be making three acts what I make if I go off and do my own sub stack and podcast, et cetera.
\nPeter Kafka: How do you convince them to stick around? Or do you say, go off and do your own thing, but we’re going to make some arrangement with you.
\nRoger Lynch: Look, we haven’t had a lot of that happen, but, you know, I think that, you know, then the unfortunate case with sub stack is there aren’t that many that really can make a good living doing it. And I think those that do find that also it is hard work. It is you are constantly having to produce, you are constantly having to think about how you grow your business. And for some people that’s exhilarating and can be very successful and some it’s exhausting. And so I think there’s a limit is to how many people will be able to do that in a way that really supports, you know, their lifestyle. Yeah, there’s many more than I thought there were going to be five, six years ago, but it’s still a limited universe. I think it is. But again, it doesn’t mean there’s not an opportunity for them to do that and to work with us in certain ways. We’ll be right back, but first to work from a sponsor. And we’re back. Talk me through how you’re thinking about platforms these days. In the old days, we would say, what do you think about Facebook? What do you think about Apple News? I’m still curious about that. But I want to hear you talk about Google and the AI companies. It looks like you are what you tell me because it kind of seems like you’re washing your hands at Google, but I’m not sure if that’s the case and you’re definitely doing deals with the AI companies. And it seems like in all these cases, the platforms have something to offer you. And there’s a lot of risk of being dependent on the platforms. You know, the first thing is start with our audiences. And I’ve always been a believer in you have to observe what your audience or your customers are doing and try to craft your business model around that. And audiences are on these platforms. And so it’s very important for our brands to be where our audiences expect them to be. I think TikTok was a great example of that. When TikTok launched in the US, we saw a growth of Vogue on TikTok, but not by us. Yes, people were producing content under the Vogue name, putting it on TikTok. That was a really strong indication that audiences expected Vogue to be on there. And so we jumped in a big way. There was no revenue. There was no revenue model that we had for this. But it was important I felt for us to be there because our audiences expected us to be there. And we’d figure out, you know, that’s been the history of the internet. It starts with engagement and then monetization figures itself out later. And that’s what’s happened with us in TikTok. Because now we have ways to sell ads around our content and it’s become a good business for us. So it starts with where do our audiences expect our brands to be? Let’s make sure we’re there. Now your specific questions around AI. Well, wait, before we get to AI, though, right? Because it’s one thing to say, I want to be on TikTok or in the old days, it’s important for me to be on Facebook or pick your place and it makes that makes sense. There’s a difference between that and saying, I’m going to do a commercial deal where, you know, either I’m going to make stuff for the platform and they’re going to reward me with traffic or we don’t have a commercial deal, but also they’re using all my content and not sending me any traffic. I’m wondering how you think through all that because you do have to be there, but you can also end up just sort of building a business for someone else and getting very little in the way back. Always a risk. So as I mentioned, it starts with the audience. In terms of these platforms, I don’t believe that any of these platforms owe us an obligation to send us traffic or customers or audience. I also don’t believe that they have the right to use our content to come and compete directly with us. So, you know, if Google wants to change its search algorithms and stop sending traffic to publishers, as we’ve all seen, the amount of traffic that comes to publishers from search is declined precipitously, that’s fine. They can have their business reasons around it. It doesn’t give them the right to use our content to then come and compete with us for those audiences. That’s the rub there. And so for AI, the risk is these AI companies use the content that our journalists create and use it to compete with our core business model. Now, if they want to negotiate with us and enter into license agreements like OpenAI is done or Amazon or Microsoft or Proplexity, fine. Then we can come to terms on how that will work. Those that don’t do that or worse, frankly, in the case of Google, they tie their scraping of AI content to their search scraping. So, Google has been found to be dominant in search. They don’t let you opt out of scraping your content for AI unless you scrape opt out for search, which is very difficult for a publisher to do. I think that’s anti-competitive. I think it’s wrong that they do that. But look, these companies are also our partners. So we can have disagreements in some area of our business and strong alignment in other areas. Again, with Google, we’re one of the largest publishers on YouTube. We have a very, very good, strong relationship with YouTube, and it’s really core to our business and really important for them, too.
\nPeter Kafka: You’ve said Google Search is basically going to go to zero or something close to that for you, or basically stop showing up as referral traffic sooner than later because of the AI summaries they’re doing.
\nRoger Lynch: Google Discover is this hugely important product for publishers that I think most regular people don’t know about. That is often as big a deal or bigger than Google Search. Are you still working to get your stuff showing up on Google Discover? We do get traffic from Google Discover, but it is very different traffic than Search. Search is intent driven traffic. Google Discover traffic doesn’t convert for subscription, doesn’t convert for commerce. You may be able to sell a few ads around it, but it is far less important.
\nPeter Kafka: Spell out why it’s less important.
\nRoger Lynch: Because if somebody goes to Google and types vogue shopping recommendations, there is real clear intent with what they’re looking for. If they’re going to Google to search for something and they see an article promoted that it catches their eye and they click on it, it’s much less committed. It’s great. We love to get traffic from Google Discover, but that person is much less likely to become a vogue subscriber or your per subscriber or even transact in commerce than someone who shows much more intent through search. So it is not a replacement. Even though we’ve seen Discover traffic grow as Search traffic is decline, that’s a bad trade-off.
\nPeter Kafka: When we get off this call, I’m going to slack some people I work for.
\nRoger Lynch: I’m going to say here’s what Roger Lynch, the CEO of Candace, says about Google Discover traffic. I’ll let you know. I bet you Jim Bangkok agrees 100% with me. Jim’s one of the people I work for. At least as of today, we’re recording this on Tuesday. Right.
\nPeter Kafka: Did you take a look at the Vox Media podcast network, which is recording this podcast? It’s an asset that is probably going to trade hands very soon.
\nRoger Lynch: Yeah, I’m not going to comment on that, Peter. Fair enough. I’ll take that as a maybe.
\nPeter Kafka: With the AI deals, given that you’ve now gone multiple rounds with different platforms, and you’ve seen all the promise and peril and pitfall, what is most important to get out of the AI companies? Is it straight cash? Like you’re going to use our stuff, pay us, or it sounds like the referrals aren’t really a thing that most people are not clicking through those footnotes and AI results.
\nRoger Lynch: What is the best case scenario for you in these AI deals? First and foremost, it is to have a license arrangement, which reflects the fact that this is copyrighted content. You’re using our stuff, pay us. Yeah. Not just pay us, but agree to terms on how you’re going to use it. Just like when I was in the music industry, or we did film intelligence, these license deals, you could think about two main components. There’s the money, but there’s also the use, the grant of rights. How can you use it? Most importantly, how can you not use it? So as an example, we would never do a deal with an AI company that says, take all of our New Yorker content and just show it verbatim to your customers. That wouldn’t be in our interest. We would put conditions around it. So the terms of the license deals are just as important as the money that’s generated from them. We don’t think that they will refer traffic anywhere near the rate at which search did. But there’s an interesting dynamic that we see. You mentioned that I said search is going to go away. We chased it for a number of years and each year we do our budget and we’d say search is going to decline just because we don’t know why, but we know there will be some algorithm change, it will cause it to decline. And each of the last three years or so, we underestimated the decline. And so last year, we said, we’re going to take a different approach. I told all of our teams, you need to plan your businesses around there being no search. And if you don’t have a plan for that, you may not have a business. And we took that approach and I think it was very effective because it caused people to really think about how do we generate audiences that have strong intent and strong engagement. Now, as search to decline, we saw our direct audiences grow. I think it was in part the work that we were doing, but I think it was also in part because people, if you think about the example I gave you, I said, vogue shopping recommendations or something like that, you type that in a search algorithm. If what you get in return is an AI summary or a bunch of Google links to, you know, Walmart or whatever they are, whoever the deal is, that’s not a satisfactory help. You might just type in to searchbarvogue.com and then find it that way. So we’ve been seeing direct traffic grow dramatically where it’s, you know, it’s the majority source of our traffic now. And I think it is, you know, our teams would like to say, oh, it’s because we’ve done such a great job. You know, and I think that is largely true, but I think it is also because people are finding less relevant search results than they used to. And so where they used to use Google in some ways is a navigation tool. They’re finding that navigation. It’s very effective the AI summaries for answering really simple questions, but less so for things that involve taste. And this is one of the big things that I’ve seen in the discussions that we’ve had with AI companies three or four years ago when we started negotiating with them. It was a bit surreal because we literally, one company in particular told us, okay, we need to know how many words you have. It’s like, okay, do the words matter or just any words? Can you tell us how many words you have? Because we pay by the word. I’m like, okay, this is going to be a long discussion. But we got through it and you go see these deals. And then as these services answer engines started to become used more and more, these companies started to realize that our content was being used in their answers much more significantly. So they started coming back to us like, oh, okay, we see your content really matters in certain areas. And now there’s a whole debate about whether AI has taste or could ever replicate taste. Perfect, right? Because that is our core business. Creativity, taste. And I think that, you know, I think that creates much more opportunities for us now and how we can work with AI companies.
\nPeter Kafka: What about the worry that even though you’re getting paid today, even though you have restrictions and limits around how you can use your work, that inevitably what you’re doing is building up these platforms, making them more and more useful.
\nRoger Lynch: And certainly one of the products they might come out with one day is not their own version of Vogue, but just things that deliver enough information to people. It’s tailored the way they want that they really don’t have any need to go somewhere else most of the time. And you’re essentially building a thing that will put you out of business, which is a recurring issue with all the platforms, but it seems more likely than ever with AI. I think it is more likely that ever with AI for brands that don’t have the authority that our top brands have. I don’t worry about AI putting Vogue or the New Yorker out of business. It just will never replicate what those brands and what the editorial teams can do with those. If you have, and you mentioned some of the companies that have gone by the wayside, look, I think they were the darlings of these platforms when they were sending them all the traffic and they did a really effective job of arbitrage and taking intent-driven searches or video, whatever, and turning it into commerce transactions or ads or things like that. But they were entirely reliant on that traffic continuing. And when that traffic went away, what they didn’t have was brands that had the level of authority that, frankly, our brands have. This is what every publisher tells me is how they’re going to survive this, our brands are meaningful. People have relationships with our brand. We’re going to create even more direct relationships with our brand. People will come to us because our thing is special. Let’s stipulate that you said I think seven of your brands make 85% of your revenue. So seven of your brands, I’ll fit that category. How many other publishers do you think are going to make it through this era? How many publishers do you think realistically have brands that resonate with enough people that they can stay afloat on their own without being disaggregated by AI? Well, first of all, I wouldn’t, I would want to give the impression that it’s only very big brands that can be successful because we have some very small brands like pitchfork. You know, it’s a, it’s less than one. You fold it in the GQ. But it has a high, we put it under GQ, but it is, it has its separate editorial team and operates under its own brand and has been very successful. It actually has one of the largest direct audiences and now has a subscription product, which is doing very, very well. Like that’s a brand that will do well in this era because it has authority. It is more niche in its content area. It’s never going to be as big as Vogue, but it has a point of view and it has a loyal dedicated audience. So it’s not just big brand, small brand. It really is, does your brand have authority? Does it have connection with audience that is really deeper than search or discover traffic? Another way of putting my question, what percent of publishers, existing publishers, do you think survive this era? Well, I mean, we’ve already seen a lot of that damage done today. So, you know, of the publishers that are left, you know, it’s a higher percentage that will survive than it was five years ago, but certainly they’re not going to all survive. I think that writing is on the wall, or at least not in the form that they are today.
\nPeter Kafka: Speaking of the future, one day, Anna Windtour and David Remnick will no longer work for you.
\nRoger Lynch: They’re not young people. They’re very good at what they do and your company seems I don’t depend on them. Lean on their authority in a really meaningful way at the New Yorker and then broadly for Anna Windtour. What is the plan when they leave? How are you thinking about who’s going to take the field of issues? Well, you know, first of all, for people that are in this field, those are the pinnacle jobs they really are. And you’re talking about two of the most successful editors ever. So, it will be very, very difficult to find people who could ever replace them. But guess what? I’m sure the same was said about Grace Marabello when she ran Vogue for several decades before Anna Kim and Orteena Brown or William Shaw or any of the great editors that have been attached to these brands over many, many, many decades. Have either of them said this is who I want to replace me just don’t tell anyone yet? No, no. I mean, we, you know, it’s very funny because one of the things I also implemented when I joined was succession planning. It was very clear that this had never been done before it got an ass that it caused people to be very uncomfortable to start talking about who could ever possibly replace them. But we, you know, we always look to have a broad selection of potential people who could fulfill a role, but you never know whether they’re going to be available or what the situation is. So, you know, and we also work to bring in talent specifically with the idea of succession. So, it’s something that we run a really disciplined process every single year. We report it to my board. We spend time going through. We have our editors. Wait, so what does that look like? So, you run through a process of if David Remnick got hit by a bus today, here’s who would replace him? Look, the standard process for every company I’ve run is you have a emergency successor identified. You have a list of people who could be ready, you know, now or in the next year or two. You have a list that could be three to five years and a list that could be five plus years. So, these lists exist. The files exist. They’re on your desk, as Pamela, he would say. They are locked away. And you revise them periodically. We revise them every year. We go through a formal process where we evaluate it every year. And some names are added. And some names drop off. And do Anna and David participate in this process? They do. Okay. All right. Let’s find the list people. Conden Asmol. Conden Asmol. Send them over to that one.
\nPeter Kafka: Last question for you.
\nRoger Lynch: The biggest movie in America, I think, or biggest movie in the world, I think, is Devil Wars Prada 2. It’s about Conden Asmol. They don’t call it Conden Asmol. They don’t call it Vogue. It’s about your company. It’s owned by Disney.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you participate financially? I know you guys did a lot of marketing for it.
\nRoger Lynch: You had Anna and Merrill on the cover of Vogue.
\nPeter Kafka: Do you participate financially in that movie’s success? No, that movie is their movie.
\nRoger Lynch: It’s not our movie. And we have no direct participation in it. But we certainly have a lot of fun with it. And I think Anna and Merrill, going over on the cover of Vogue, and as you may have seen Chloe, our editor of American Vogue, had to work hard to convince Hannah to do that, because that is not who she is, was fabulous. And that cover of Vogue with the two of them was iconic. But what I would say is that movie has generated a lot of interest. Not just about Vogue, but about Conden Asmol. So it’s been good for our business. It’s certainly been good for our business.
\nPeter Kafka: I know for a while, every publisher, and we talked about this, said, hey, we make all this amazing.
\nRoger Lynch: We make great stories, et cetera, that these things are often turned into movies and television shows. We really got to lean into that and figure out ways to get these things made either by ourselves or with partners. And for a while, during the streaming boom, the extremers were buying literally anything you guys could make. That does not happen anymore. How have you rethought the sort of the business of getting into Hollywood and television and streaming? Well, you know, that business has shrunk as an industry. The number of new shows and films being produced as shrunk in the time it takes to get something approved as shrunk. But for us, you know, we had seven shows and movies premiere last year. We sold 11 new ones. So our team, it’s a very small team, but our team does, I think, a really good job punching about their weight with that. But you know, it starts with, you know, all of that starts with the IP of our journalism and our content.
\nPeter Kafka: What’s more important for you to figure that out or figure out like TikTok in short video that more people are consuming more often? Well, short-form video is a much bigger part of our business than film and television.
\nRoger Lynch: So that, you know, in terms of revenue, certainly, short-form video is very important for us.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, you’ve been there since 2019. How much longer do you have? When does your succession plan kick in? You know, it’s, I always tell people, I’ve started a number of companies.
\nRoger Lynch: Like most of the companies I run are companies I’ve started. And even companies I’ve started, I’ve gotten bored after maybe four or five years. And I know when I get that feeling like, okay, I’m starting to get bored. Time for me to do something. I never get bored in this job. I honestly, it’s, first of all, always really challenging problems to solve. And also the most interesting intellectual people to deal with. So I have no plans on leaving. I really enjoy it. And I’m definitely not bored. There’s a bonus you get to talk to people like me.
\nPeter Kafka: Roger Lynch, thank you for your time.
\nRoger Lynch: Thanks Peter. Thanks again to Roger Lynch. Thanks again to Charlotte Silver. It produces an edits the show. Thanks to our advertisers who bring it to you for free. Thanks to you guys for listening. More media bosses coming your way soon. See you then..
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\nSo when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
\nI searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.
\nShe was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”
\nBack upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.
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\n“Good grief, do I need to go?”
\n“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”
\nShe downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”
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\nMOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome
\n🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS
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\n\n\nData sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it is a question of accountability: who has the right to access information, under what rules and in whose interests.\nFor New Zealand organisations, the answer increasingly depends less on where data is stored and more on whose law governs it, who controls the infrastructure and whether those arrangements can be trusted to hold when they are tested.
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💬 Bill Bennett
\nWe are learning - fast - that our laws seem to count for less and less.
\n\nThis reminds me of my own setup at home. An OpenClaw instance running on one machine, network-attached storage, a few other boxes humming away. Work-related computing running over a residential connection. I suspect that within a few years, this will be commonplace.
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💬 Om
\nNot so long ago we had ‘family computers’ - I have friends who still use a shared computer.
\nThe edge of two personal computers is moving to the norm.
\nI hear the Mac Mini is selling well these days.
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\n🔗 Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype
\n\n\nKid” DeJarnatt, “Bangs” Levy, and “Young Jack” Fasey — they carved out reputations in what soon became a national touring circuit. A few became minor celebrities, like the Tribune’s star compositor, Thomas Rooker, who took to wearing diamond studs on his shirts.4 One particularly gifted compositor, William C. Barnes, stunned onlookers by setting type blindfolded, with his type cases reversed.
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💬 The Public Domain Review
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\nI know acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medicine.
\nI did now know it had reached the Western world over 400 years ago.
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\nBut life moves fast. Today is a new day.
\n\n\nOOHH OOHH - I know let’s set up a consulting division.
\n
\nNo - let’s partner with a consulting company.
\nNo - even better - let’s acquire a consulting company.
💬 Anthropic and OpenAI
\n🔗 OpenAI launches OpenAI Deployment Company, acquires Tomoro
\nTom Siebel’s playbook from the 90s is alive and well - so much for ‘Collective Wisdom’ - which also has the habit of crowing about how everything is new - the old world no longer applies.
\nRight then.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T11:49:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/this-time-last-week-checks.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/14/via-simon-willison-the-thing.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nThe thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they’re motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren’t people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that, they follow secular trends supported by analysts and broad public sentiment. Oh, Gartner said that “AI strategy” is most important? McKinsey said “context” needs to be managed? Well, “Context Engine for AI Apps” is going to be defensible. Buy it.
\n
💬 Mitchell Hashimoto
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T11:27:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/via-simon-willison-the-thing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/14/nathan-makes-an-important-point.html", "content_html": "Nathan makes an important point.\n🔗 Why this is not a newsletter.
\n\n\nCommentators with a large and loyal audience quit their jobs at a newsroom—which hires support staff, investigative reporters, and others who have no such followings—and bring a decent chunk of their economic value with them. The newsletter service and payment platforms get a cut. Money moves from institutional support to influencer economies. The commentators get some newfound freedom.
\nBut if we don’t have robust journalistic institutions doing news-gathering work, what is there to comment on?
💬 Nathan Schneider
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T11:20:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/nathan-makes-an-important-point.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/14/apple-is-missing-the-thing.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple is missing the thing that once made it great.
\n\n\nApple devices also often used to come in real colors. Sure, every now and again Apple will allow a blue or a red or an orange to land on an iPhone as if by clerical mistake.
\n
💬 The Macalope
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T11:17:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/apple-is-missing-the-thing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/we-just-dont-build-them.html", "content_html": "We just don’t build them like this any more.
\n🔗 Markus Brunetti’s Monumental Photos Venerate European Ecclesiastical Landmarks
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c8b1d4b8fc.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-13T08:38:57+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/we-just-dont-build-them.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/a-ballpoint-pen-habib-hajallies.html",
"content_html": "🤯 .. A ballpoint pen❓
\n🔗 Habib Hajallie’s Meticulous Ballpoint Pen Drawings Examine the Depths of Emotion.
\nI used to get told off for doodling in text books when I was a kid. This guy’s drawing pictures on Ancient Texts. #Wonderful
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/808e796077.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-13T08:38:14+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/a-ballpoint-pen-habib-hajallies.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/creative-thought-is-essential-a.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Creative Thought Is Essential: A Letter from Our Editor
\n\n\nThinking is my fighting.
\n
💬 Virgina Woolf
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-13T08:36:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/creative-thought-is-essential-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/ranked-the-animals-that-kill.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ranked: The Animals That Kill the Most Humans
\nTurns out that visiting Australia (arguably host of some of the most dangerous critters in the world) is safer than just being a human.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-13T08:35:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/ranked-the-animals-that-kill.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/kind-of-related-galloway-and.html", "title": "Forgive or not to forgive. That is the question.", "content_html": "🖇️ Kind of related to this … Galloway and Swisher recently debating Tucker.
\nAll for it - but not for ~F~Tucker.
\nHe knew what he was doing. Hell - I knew - as my
But ‘he' didn’t know?
\nFuck Off.
", "date_published": "2026-05-12T17:35:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/kind-of-related-galloway-and.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/if-potus-says-it-why.html", "title": "If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?", "content_html": "I was listening to Frontline - an excellent podcast (or show I get confused) - but increasingly annoyed by the bleeping out of expletives. Organisations like the BBC need to do the same. For FUCK SAKE - even bloggers I read write stupid things like ‘F*CK’ - who the FUCK are they kidding.
\nBottom line - ‘rules’. News organisations are essentially blocked from using words that are the exact words POTUS says and writes because of ‘Rules’. But we aren’t. Are we?
\n🔗 😂 📼 7 Words You Can Never Say on Television
\nThis needs to stop. News needs to be reported. And stop fucking sugar coating it - we need to stop bleeping and actually report what that fucktard is saying
\nThen again: 🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
", "date_published": "2026-05-12T17:27:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/if-potus-says-it-why.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/interesting-to-read-this-today.html", "content_html": "🏢 Interesting to read this today, because I have been writing similar things myself - albeit from a different angle. The words will be published soon and I will return and link later.
\n\n\nYour website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels.
\nThink of it this way: Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot.
\n
💬 Tim Chambers
\n🔗 Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations.
\nThe problem of course is that to be both a warehouse and a store is a very tall order - not impossible, but certainly not easy - because you need clarity on what you’re doing and why.
\nThe website exposes whether you have it - and if you don’t - I’ll bet a pound to a penny that your web site designer/developer won’t.
\nThat’s why we start at the opposite end - where
Doc’s 🔗 Identity as Root plays off 🔗 The Root Declaration from Devon.
\nNot to be confused with …
\n\nOR
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/09d0667274.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-12T10:18:25+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/docs-identity-as-root-plays.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/the-shared-tragedy-of-red.html",
"content_html": "🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog
\n\n\nSuccessful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.
\n
Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S
\n🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T10:14:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/the-shared-tragedy-of-red.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/an-explanation-of-why-this.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nthis takes a turn at the end.
\n
💬 Mitch Wagner
\nCertainly does - because it fits so nicely into the emerging narrative about ‘craft’ and ‘artisans’ - and of course the Japanese would be where it would all start.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T10:11:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/an-explanation-of-why-this.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/truth-consequences-climate-and-demand.html", "content_html": "🔗 Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand
\n\n\nthe only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony.
\n
💬 Mitch Wagner - I think.
\nThe source was 🔗 here
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T10:08:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/truth-consequences-climate-and-demand.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/how-not-to-respond-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 How Not to Respond to Political Violence
\nI dunno Peggy.
\n👁️ Doesn’t really stack up for this bear.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T10:06:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/how-not-to-respond-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/nuff-said.html", "content_html": "👁️ ‘Nuff Said.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3243.png\")
\n\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-12T09:34:26+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/nuff-said.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/hey-you-start-communicating-ok.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Hey you, start communicating!
\nOK! Definitely taking on board Kev’s closing instruction …
\n\n\nSo yeah, start communicating! 🙃
\n
💬 Kev Quirk
\nAnd of course - because ‘everything is a remix’ - Kev’s post 🔗 was inspired by this one.
\nMeanwhile, also this morning 🔗 swissmiss shared this short poem.
\n\n\npoint out the good
\n
\nwhen you see it.in life,
\n
\nin others,
\nin yourself.because the world
\n
\nneeds to remember
\nwhat kindness and
\nlove look like.
💬 Topher Kearby
\n
Which all goes to explain why random people out there are on the internet are going to start receiving email from me. The first one is going out in a minute. It won’t be daily. There will be a reason.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T09:27:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/hey-you-start-communicating-ok.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/features-via-mission-alignment-when.html", "content_html": "🔗 Features via Mission Alignment
\n\n\nWhen you use Micro.blog, you should never have to opt in or pay extra for something that is a core part of our mission.
\n
💬 Manton Reece
\nThank you @manton - very nice.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T09:00:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/features-via-mission-alignment-when.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/11/the-first-seven.html", "content_html": "\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/crucial-1to7.png\" "\\"Crucial-1to7.png\\"")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-11T09:53:19+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/the-first-seven.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/11/other-looks-projectvrm-we-do.html",
"content_html": "\n\n\nWe do need a refresh, and I’ve been working with our friends at WordPress on that. The main constraint is that we need to base the site on a WordPress theme of some kind. I invite suggestions.
\n
💬 Doc Searls
\nDo we though? Or are we attempting to ‘keep things simple’?
\nThe stuff that @dave has been highlighting in his threads points to ideas that can still live in Wordpress. Personally I liked the design that 🔗 Devon came up with - why not go with that?
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-11T08:12:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/other-looks-projectvrm-we-do.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/11/routing-around-the-algorithms-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 Routing around the algorithms
\n\n\nAnd what’s funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. But my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to
\nchange this country .
💬 AOC
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-11T07:44:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/routing-around-the-algorithms-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/the-boring-internet-the-protocols.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nThe protocols belong to no one. They can’t be acquired. They can’t be taken public.
\n
💬 Terry Godier
\nReminds me of an old adage of mine - that these days sits in my 🖇️ Johnsim Library.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/84604216f3.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-09T11:06:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/the-boring-internet-the-protocols.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/mcsweeneys-doesnt-always-do-it.html",
"content_html": "😂 McSweeney’s doesn’t always do it - but …
\n\n\n\nANSWER: C. There were no thank-yous, and your child had an explosive tantrum because her Labubu was orchid pink, not pastel pink.
\n
💬 Sara White and Lindsey Smith
\nThat’s just one - I think you’ll find the whole piece resonates.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-09T09:37:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/mcsweeneys-doesnt-always-do-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/reminding-us-all-that-even.html", "content_html": "Reminding us all that even real writers. Prolific writers. Writers that write for a living - constantly question themselves.
\n\n\n\nWe are now at the stage where it is not an issue of whether I can write, but
\nwhether what I’m writing about is worth reading .
\n…
\nI say this to you as someone who has been a full-time freelance writer since the 1990s, someone who tends to write and have published around two thirds of a million words per year.
💬 William Gallagher
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-09T09:32:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/reminding-us-all-that-even.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/notes-on-the-xaianthropic-data.html", "content_html": "🔗 Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
\n\n\nI get that Anthropic are severely compute-constrained, but in a world where the very existence of “AI data centers” is a red-hot political issue (see recent news out of Utah for a fresh example), signing up with this particular data center is a really bad look
\n
💬 Simon Willison
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-09T09:28:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/notes-on-the-xaianthropic-data.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/the-world-that-has-got.html", "content_html": "The World: “That has got to be AI.”
\nGreat Photographers Around The World: “Hold My Beer.”
\n🔗 Explore 25 Incredible Photos of the Milky Way Captured Around the World
\nThere are so many on the click through - but of course I would highlight one (of two) from New Zealand.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bbbc286a75.jpg\")
\n\nEvery year, this collection reminds us that photographing the Milky Way is not only about technique or planning. It is about curiosity, patience, and the desire to experience the night sky in places where it still feels wild.
\n
💬 Dan Zafra
\n(Dan is the editor of ‘Capture the Atlas’ and curator of the annual contest.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-09T07:37:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/the-world-that-has-got.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/moss-just-wrote-the-biggest.html", "content_html": "🏢 Moss just wrote: 🔗 The biggest leadership oversight in modern organisations
\n\n\nin many organisations, the “people piece” has been relegated to the HR function.
\n
💬 Moss Burmester
\n‘relegated’ - not ‘delegated’ is an interesting choice of words and highlights a more general problem - more on that in the comments.
\n\n\nHR systems are built around compliance, process, and record-keeping.
\n
\n….
\nWhy does engagement matter? Because performance is produced when people are deeply engaged and aligned in the business strategy
💬 Moss Burmester
\nSounds to me they should be building ‘Systems of Engagement’
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T14:13:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/moss-just-wrote-the-biggest.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Organisations","MyBlogLinks"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/i-sometimes-have-a-hard.html", "content_html": "I sometimes have a hard time putting into words that clearly explain my position and feelings on a topic. Take The Met Gala for example. Jax and I talking and I just couldn’t explain my contempt for it. Result - Jax writes it off:
\n\n\nWell you never like this kind of stuff.
\n
💬 Jax
\nNo more struggles 🔗 Robert L Arnold clearly lives in my brain.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:55:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/i-sometimes-have-a-hard.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/this-reminds-me-that-i.html", "content_html": "This reminds me that I need to find my ‘Hacker’ rant …
\n🔗 Your Data Lake’s Vulnerability Problem Is Really an Identity Problem
\n\n\nOne contractor laptop. Multiple enterprise environments compromised. That’s the actual story.
\n
\nIn mid-2024, at least 165 organizations got hit through their Snowflake instances. AT&T lost over 50 billion call records. Ticketmaster, Santander, Advance Auto Parts. The headlines wrote themselves: Snowflake hacked.
\nExcept Snowflake wasn’t hacked. Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and Snowflake all reached the same conclusion in their forensics. No zero-day. No flaw in the cryptographic platform. No internal compromise of Snowflake’s corporate network. No brute-force attacks against API limits.
\nWhat actually happened? UNC5537, a financially motivated group also tracked as Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, walked through the front door with valid stolen credentials. Those credentials were harvested over years by commodity infostealer malware (VIDAR, LUMMA, REDLINE) running on the personal laptops of third-party contractors. The same laptops these contractors used for gaming and pirated software also held the keys to their clients' enterprise data lakes.
💬 Logan @ LLBLL
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:29:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/this-reminds-me-that-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/theres-those-pace-layers-creeping.html", "content_html": "There’s those 🖇️ Pace Layers creeping in again - and I definitely like using ‘category’ as a distinguishing mark. Years ago I wrote piece that asked if 🖇️ New Zealand had ‘Crossed The Chasm’
\n🔗 The war between fast and legitimate is here
\n\n\nIf you’re running a startup, you’re in the speed game, and pretending you’re running a regulatory agency is a category error. If you’re running a regulatory agency, you’re in the legitimacy game, and it’s something of a vapid conceit to pretend to be running a startup. Most of the dysfunction in contemporary institutions comes from this same category confusion
\n
💬 Joan Westenberg
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:23:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/theres-those-pace-layers-creeping.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/daring-fireball-luca-maestri-runs.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Luca Maestri Runs the Cafeteria
\nGot to say - I would love it if Apple included Filemaker in Creator Studio.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:17:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/daring-fireball-luca-maestri-runs.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/they-say-home-is-where.html", "title": "They say 'Home' is where you 'Hang Your Hat'", "content_html": "Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it.
\n🔗 Geography is four-dimensional
\n\n\nBut that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore.
\n
💬 Derek Sivers
\nWhen it gets down to it I always - always refer to myself as English. On first introduction maybe a Brit - or British - but deep down … English.
\nAnd - there is my ‘home’ - but haven’t really lived there much in my life.
\nI was close to nine before I even got to the country that I wasn’t even born in and lived in the US longer than I ever lived in the UK - and now down here in New Zealand. And the magnet that is home pulls me there - but I know enough that it isn’t the place I left.
\nI am in New Zealand and not (yet at least) returning to the USA - because I know that isn’t what it used to be. And that just isn’t to do with the clown. I found myself disenchanted with Silicon Valley fifteen years ago - even living in it - it was clear that “‘It’s’ not like that anymore” … Fifteen years later … other people seem to be catching up.
\nHome? Definitely - where I hang my hat in a day-to-day sense.
\nSpiritually? England - no doubt - even though it’s not like that anymore.
\nFrom? What’s the context?
🔗 Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour
\nExactly - and the rest of them - when they start theirs. (Coming soon to a local podcast soon.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T11:05:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/dont-fall-for-the-tucker.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/daring-fireball-x-the-platform.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: X, the Platform of Free Speech
\nDefinitely looking forward to Gil’s ‘🔗 The Nerd Reich’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T09:11:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/daring-fireball-x-the-platform.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/marketing-technology-landscape-supergraphic-peak.html", "content_html": "🔗 2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe) – chiefmartec
\n🖇️ This has been getting silly for years - it would be so much more interesting if rather than an increasingly difficult image to read it was a dynamic data base that is actually useful.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:48:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/marketing-technology-landscape-supergraphic-peak.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/nilay-on-the-verge-via.html", "content_html": "🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers
\nThe publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)
\n\n\nA lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
\n
💬 Nilay Patel
\n➕
\n\n\nI’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
\n
💬 Nilay Patel
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:45:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/nilay-on-the-verge-via.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/phin-argofy-adventures-in-claude.html", "content_html": "🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude
\n\n\nI have a name. Phin Argofy.
\n
💬 Phin Argofy
\n.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.
\nIn my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?
\nHis name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.
\nThe name? Different story for another time.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:40:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/phin-argofy-adventures-in-claude.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/the-missing-half-of-a.html", "title": "The Missing Half of a Daily Planner", "content_html": "When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.
\nStill got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.
\nThis post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)
\n\n\nOnce notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.
\n
💬 Slaven - he of Finalist
\nTime will tell.
\n🔗 The Missing Half of a Daily Planner
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:27:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/the-missing-half-of-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/daring-fireball-google-owns-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Google Owns a Big Chunk of Anthropic
\nYou know who you are. We were talking just today about this. Well - not this - but it all connects. Like always. Follow the money. Like always.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-05T18:10:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/daring-fireball-google-owns-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/wondering-if-manton-sod-others.html", "content_html": "Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.
\n🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.
\n\n\n\nmy take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.
\n
💬 Terry Godier
\nIt looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-05T09:39:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/wondering-if-manton-sod-others.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/cry-me-a-river-andy.html", "content_html": "🔗 Cry me a river - Andy Sylvester
\nOUCH
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-05T08:56:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/cry-me-a-river-andy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/thoughts-on-leaving-github-kev.html", "content_html": "🔗 Thoughts on Leaving GitHub - Kev Quirk
\n… and here I am thinking about moving John.Philpin.com to Github. 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-05T08:48:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/thoughts-on-leaving-github-kev.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/several-people-write-posts-on.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)
\n
💬 Terry Godier
\nSo this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.
\n🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?
\n\n\nJack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”
\n
💬 Futility Closet
\n➕
\n\n\nexpression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.
\n
💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-05T07:45:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/a-little-help-from-my.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/04/when-can-you-swear.html", "title": "When Can You Swear?", "content_html": "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.
\nBut then he moved on.
\n\n\nOur cousins down-under seem to think a Twat is a vulgar term for vagina.
\n
💬 Entirely written by a human, in Scotland.
\n… he doesn’t need to go all the way to ‘down under’ - just head a few miles south into Sassenach country they would be similarly offended - though North of Hadrian’s Wall - I would imagine their attitude would be - ‘who the fuck care’s about Sassenachs’. 😂
\n‘Twat’ is totally different and would refer you to 🔗 wikipedia .. but really, check any dictionary it’s the same .. which is that it’s way worse than fuck .. which seems to be enjoying a bit of a renaissance .. possibly due to Samuel LJ? .. I don’t recall it being on 🔗 George’s list
\nIt’s also a word that I don’t believe I ever heard coming from the mouth of Kevin Bridges - a very funny man from Clydesbank - who does use expletives.
\nThat all said - I do think it important to be aware of others and what is culturally acceptable in all situations .. because it really is the safest way to not find yourself on the wrong side of a weapon because ‘they that sit on t’other side of it’ might not appreciate that you are a Melbournite - and simply take offence at being massively offensive.
\nI wonder if the ‘human in Scotland’ has ever been in a public place and flaunted the word that Dave Chapelle seems to have become so famous for. My suspicion is that he wouldn’t.
", "date_published": "2026-05-04T12:06:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/04/when-can-you-swear.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Humour","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/04/getting-there-i-asked-yesterday.html", "content_html": "'🖇️ Getting There' I asked yesterday.
\n'Slowly' I answer today.
\n🔗 Scripting News: Open proposal to A8C teams-of-two
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-03T09:14:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/scripting-news-open-proposal-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/rhoneisms-to-add-someone-as.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nTo add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
\n
💬 Patrick Rhone
\nNice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:27:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/rhoneisms-to-add-someone-as.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/colorless-shapeless-orb-gapingvoid-we.html", "content_html": "🔗 Colorless, Shapeless Orb - Gapingvoid
\n\n\nWe call it The Void. It’s where most work lives now. Transactional. Comfortable. Manageable. Forgettable. If you’ve ever wondered why our name is so weird, that’s it. We made it our business to kill it.
\n
👁️ Yes. Seperately - love their new home page.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/99994e3b56.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-30T08:07:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/colorless-shapeless-orb-gapingvoid-we.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/rss-really-seems-to-be.html",
"content_html": "👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.
\n🔗 More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS: …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:04:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/rss-really-seems-to-be.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/on-wintering-productivity-is-a.html", "content_html": "\nwhen you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.
\n
\n\nProductivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
\n
💬 Joan Westenberg
\nSuperb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:03:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/on-wintering-productivity-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/i-dont-use-ubuntu-i.html", "content_html": "I don’t use Ubuntu. I have zero interest in resetting ICON themes. I toggle dark mode manually every blue moon or so.
\nNone of that stopped me from reading;
\n🔗 Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode
\nI didn’t understand a word of it.
\nThis all around 4am.
\nLife Needed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:02:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/i-dont-use-ubuntu-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/a-quote-from-matthew-yglesias.html", "content_html": "🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
\n\n\nFive months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
\n
💬 Matthew Yglesias
\n🖇️ It all connects to sandwiches.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T07:58:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/a-quote-from-matthew-yglesias.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/macgyver-gardens-allotment-engineering.html", "content_html": "MacGyver gardens.
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/e46bffaed1.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-30T07:54:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/macgyver-gardens-allotment-engineering.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/taco-trivia-after-avoiding-trivia.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Taco Trivia …
\n🔗 After avoiding trivia for a long time, we stumbled into the wrong (right?) bar
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T07:50:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/taco-trivia-after-avoiding-trivia.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/police-take-out-the-pol.html", "content_html": "Police - take out the ‘Pol’ - and you are left with ‘ICE’.
\nOrigins of ‘Pol’ … public order, civil administration
\nSounds about right to me - and a useful counter argument to this kind of idiocy.
\n🔗 Donald Tяump endorses changing ICE to NICE
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T07:48:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/police-take-out-the-pol.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/gratitude-honor-and-anger-terry.html", "content_html": "🔗 Gratitude, honor, and anger — Terry Godier
\n.. still thinking how this delightful little ‘billy do’ might fit on to my daily routine.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T07:21:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/gratitude-honor-and-anger-terry.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/after-reading-this-from-colossal.html", "content_html": "After reading 🔗 this from Colossal - it got me to thinking if these ….
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Might be used 🖇️ here:
\n![\"Philpin.com](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/philpinhomepage.png\")
👁️😂 You have to click through for the full story …
\n🔗 Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-29T13:54:12+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/29/you-have-to-click-through.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Humour","? Asides"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/29/experimenting-with-the-new-rss.html",
"content_html": "Experimenting with the new RSS thingy from @terrygodier.com .. ❤️LOVE IT❤️
\nSubscribe if you care to … 🔗 here
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-29T07:21:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/29/experimenting-with-the-new-rss.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/28/spanish-speakers-true-language-is.html", "content_html": "😂😂😂😂 - Spanish speakers … true?\n🔗 Language is hard
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-28T18:35:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/28/spanish-speakers-true-language-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/28/doomed-apples-new-ai-problems.html", "content_html": "#Doomed❗️
\n🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-28T18:31:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/28/doomed-apples-new-ai-problems.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/28/interesting-that-in-olden-days.html", "content_html": "But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!
\n
👺Interesting that in ‘olden days’ these kind of companies lurked in the shadows. Not any more. 🔗 Palantir Wants To Be The Government
\nI hear Thiel has buggered off to Argentina - so Karp has free rein to carp.
\n\n\nGetting banned from Elon Musk’s X for pointing out Palantir’s fascism has created more interest in my work.
\n
Gil
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-28T18:19:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/28/interesting-that-in-olden-days.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/tom-petty-does-the-mac.html", "content_html": "🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:59:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/tom-petty-does-the-mac.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/stunning-art-navid-baratys-atmospheric.html", "content_html": "👁️ Stunning art.
\n🔗 Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time - Colossal
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-26T11:56:44+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/stunning-art-navid-baratys-atmospheric.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/adactio-journaldilation-the-irish-tale.html",
"content_html": "\n\n\nThe Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.
\n
And for a related 🎵 interlude …
\n\n\nTír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.
\n
💬 Wikipedia
\nNot to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:52:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/adactio-journaldilation-the-irish-tale.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/software-eats-its-own-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 Software Eats Its Own – On my Om
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:40:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/software-eats-its-own-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/rosabeth-moss-kanter-is-decribed.html", "content_html": "The people who build software are busy wiring up the machines that will build software in their place. Call it automation. Call it augmentation. Call it whatever makes you sleep. What it actually is, is software industrialization, happening right in front of our eyes.
\n
🔗 Rosabeth Moss Kanter is decribed by Wikipedia as
\n\n\n“The Thinking Woman’s Michael Porter".
\n
Maybe more accurately Michael Porter is
\n\n\n“The Thinking Man’s “Rosabeth Moss Kanter”.
\n
I mean Rosabeth was born 4 years before Michael.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:37:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/rosabeth-moss-kanter-is-decribed.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/saas-or-sitting-as-a.html", "title": "SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.", "content_html": "We lived on Waiheke for a year and the daily constitutional was along the beach on Oneroa.
\n![\"Oneroa](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/e73eee3584.jpg\")
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I found this a related and interesting read …
\n🔗 The Disappearance of the Public Bench – Pixel Envy
\n\n\nA bench is one of the few places you can sit and spend time for free. Their absence in so many public places is notable for what it says about who we consider part of the public.
\n
All along one half of the Oneroa beach there are chairs to sit in. On?
\n![\"Oneroa](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c6b2f75dec.jpg\")
They don’t belong to the houses. This is not a council service. This is just the love of a single person who noted that on such a vast and beautiful beach there was no place to casually sit - which particularly affects older / infirm people so took it upon themselves to keep the sitting places well populated and goes down twice a week to keep to add and restock the chairs. Yes I know who it is. No I won’t tell you. They travel under the radar.
\n![\"Oneroa](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/a06218493b.jpg\")
Side note - the Rotary Club has placed (to date) 58 Public Access Defibrillation Units across Waiheke - so maybe it’s an ‘island thing’? Though I don’t recall one such machine on Maui when I lived there.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:32:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/saas-or-sitting-as-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/interesting-view-of-tenure-and.html", "content_html": "👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question …\n🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:56:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/interesting-view-of-tenure-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/whilst-years-is-certainly-over.html", "content_html": "👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.
\n\n\nTim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.
\n
🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus
\n(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:55:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/whilst-years-is-certainly-over.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/reality-the-path-to-success.html", "content_html": "👁️ Reality …
\n🔗 The Path to Success Isn’t a Straight Line.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f2427a60a5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-26T10:46:52+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/reality-the-path-to-success.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/this-explains-so-much-an.html",
"content_html": "🖥️ This explains so much.
\n🔗 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:45:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/this-explains-so-much-an.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Tech"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/gotta-say-i-am-liking.html", "content_html": "On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude’s older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive.
\n
👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …
\n\nThanks for the link @numericcitizen
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:44:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/gotta-say-i-am-liking.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/why-are-you-like-this.html", "content_html": "🤖📸
\n\n\n\nI checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS”.
\n
💬 Simon Willison
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/e4a7a8dbba.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-26T10:43:25+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/why-are-you-like-this.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/if-you-are-an-organisation.html",
"content_html": "👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.
\n🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:35:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/if-you-are-an-organisation.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/experiment-malus-clean-room-as.html", "content_html": "RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
\n
👁️🚧 Experiment.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T14:39:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/experiment-malus-clean-room-as.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides","? WIP","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/malus-clean-room-as-a.html", "content_html": "👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
\nA parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
\n
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
\nA parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T12:19:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/malus-clean-room-as-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/clever-image-included-in-this.html", "content_html": "🏢 Clever image included in this LinkedIN 🔗 post.
\nMy comment:
\n\n\nThe only change to the image I would make is to put the rust bucket at the back … to extend your metaphor how many corporate drivers look back … they have declared their shiny new strategy and off they go .. without a clue that the organisation behind them is not what they think it is.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-23T12:16:50+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/clever-image-included-in-this.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Organisations"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/a-couple-of-youtube-shorts.html",
"content_html": "👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts
\n\n📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T13:49:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/a-couple-of-youtube-shorts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/i-remember-when-the-people.html", "content_html": "👁️ I remember when the ‘people line item’ was the largest on a typical PandL.
\nAI … “Hold my beer” …
\n🔗 Charted: Compute Costs More Than Talent in AI
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T12:57:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/i-remember-when-the-people.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/going-electric-which-is-why.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nWhich is why we all, as people who design culture whether we realize it or not, need to keep thinking about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and perhaps most importantly, how not to get too comfortable with where we currently are.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-22T12:49:56+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/going-electric-which-is-why.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/mg-siegler-search-or-ask.html",
"content_html": "MG Siegler: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options?
\nBecause they are. Search for ‘Aphantasia’ is a very different request to asking about ‘Aphantasia’.
\nIn the old world - we had dictionaries and encyclopaedias. In the new world - we have search and ask.
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T12:44:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/mg-siegler-search-or-ask.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/from-history-no-one-is.html", "content_html": "Siri pops out of the Dynamic Island with a prompt: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options? I assume to replace Spotlight, but it’s 2026, the system should just be smart enough to do that initial routing for you.
\n
🖥️🍎 From history …
\n🔗 No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:48:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/from-history-no-one-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Tech","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/this-would-go-a-long.html", "content_html": "🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …
\n\n\n\nThe collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.
\n
💬 Matthew Lyon
\nThank you sir.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:18:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/this-would-go-a-long.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Tech"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/i-have-no-idea-if.html", "content_html": "🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.
\nA $2billion acquisition is (I think) the second largest Cupertino has ever done? So clearly there’s something going on - and I hate talking to my computer for so many reasons. So this …
\n\n\nQ.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.
\n
shall we say piqued my interest and just might solve my issue.
\n🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature
\n[my thanks to @devilgate for pointing out my typo … ‘piqued’ … not ‘peaked’]
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:14:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/i-have-no-idea-if.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/rss-a-format-like-rss.html", "content_html": "🖥️ RSS …
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:09:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/rss-a-format-like-rss.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Tech"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/sometimes-quoting-someone-is-just.html", "content_html": "A format like RSS needs to be loved.
\n
💬💯 Sometimes quoting someone is just not enough. This is one such occasion ….
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\nThis is the original post:
\n🔗 The Courage to Stop - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T10:27:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/sometimes-quoting-someone-is-just.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/not-wrong-of-course-i.html", "content_html": "🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.
\n🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.
\n\n\nSome of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T10:04:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/not-wrong-of-course-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/i-recently-posted-about-software.html", "content_html": "🏢 I recently posted about ’🔗 Software As A Sandwich’ which I offer as a start to an extended thought on Ton’s post 🔗 Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI
\n(Yes - I do need to write more about this and where the connection is.)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T10:02:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/i-recently-posted-about-software.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/the-biggest-thing-doc-searls.html", "content_html": "Going headless means removing the viewer, and using the output of queries directly programmatically. Combined with how I see the arch of generative AI bending significantly towards deterministic code, I look forward to the type of things people come up with. Not their tools, but what they come up with. Because the path to scale of these things imo is not adopting or buying what someone else made, but adopting what someone else came up with conceptually and creating your own local version.
\n
🔗 The Biggest Thing – Doc Searls
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T09:57:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/the-biggest-thing-doc-searls.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/hunter-adds-to-my-growing.html", "content_html": "The WordPress plugin I want will provide a way for sites to agree to MyTerms, and then store agreement decisions.\nWe also need browser plugins to proffer terms to sites, and store the same decisions.\nSo this is an appeal for both.
\n
👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.
\nUsing AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts
\nUsing ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t
\n\n\nLinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.
\n
💬 Hunter Walk
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T09:56:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/hunter-adds-to-my-growing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/chance-miller-netflix-ruined-its.html", "content_html": "🔗 Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
\n.. and again (because this is the 🖇️second rant of this ilk today) - I don’t think about this kind of stuff - I just get annoyed because I see it - and complain about it to the long suffering Jax - but I did not even know this was a conscious decision.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:41:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/chance-miller-netflix-ruined-its.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/alan-is-probably-right-but.html", "content_html": "🎵 Alan is probably right - but it is certainly mine - so off to see what else I can discover.
\n🔗 I understand that this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea ..
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:34:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/alan-is-probably-right-but.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/hes-treading-in-chasm-territory.html", "content_html": "🏢 He’s treading in ‘Chasm’ territory - so of course it all makes sense. Another future post?
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:27:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/hes-treading-in-chasm-territory.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/one-consultative-decision-maker-per.html", "content_html": "The second circle is out of your direct control, and it’s tempting to ignore it. But the second circle unlocks the change you seek to make.
\n
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
\n🔗 One Consultative Decision Maker Per Lane
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:25:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/one-consultative-decision-maker-per.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/091933.html", "content_html": "😂😂😂😂 🔗 Stave off repetition | Self Distract
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:19:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/091933.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/a-diecut-above-jeffrey-zeldman.html", "content_html": "Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff’s. To be precise, they said: “He’s not as good as Rachmaninoff.”
\n
🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/r-1376443-1405810411-5738.jpg.webp\")
🔗 A die-cut above - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:18:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/a-diecut-above-jeffrey-zeldman.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/daring-fireball-app-store-reviews.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:12:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/daring-fireball-app-store-reviews.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/the-true-test-of-happiness.html", "content_html": "thumbs, the system would still be gamified by developers, rewarding, as Godier aptly puts it, not the best apps but instead the apps that are best at “review prompt execution”. Apple should remove the APIs that allow apps to prompt for reviews, and forbid the practice of prompting for them.
\n
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
\n\n\nThe true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
\n
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:12:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/the-true-test-of-happiness.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/in-gut-we-trust-peggy.html", "content_html": "🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan
\n\n\nYou unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
\n
💬 Peggy Noonan
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:10:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/in-gut-we-trust-peggy.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/on-derek-pedens-blog-so.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nSo maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.
\n
Fucking A
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:09:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/on-derek-pedens-blog-so.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/daring-fireball-how-to-format.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
\nThis has annoyed me forever but never bothered to talk about it because;
\nwho cares?
\nwho would listen?
\nnothing would change?
\nsurely there are bigger issues to resolve?
\nBut delighted that someone is picking up the mantle.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:06:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/daring-fireball-how-to-format.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/16/let-this-be-a-warning.html", "content_html": "👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
\n🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
\n\n\nWhat happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
\n
💬 Ben Werdmuller
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-16T17:03:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/16/let-this-be-a-warning.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/16/newbirdai-or-loonyai-the-suffix.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nThe suffix was the investment thesis.
\n
💬 Om Malik
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-16T16:52:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/16/newbirdai-or-loonyai-the-suffix.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/15/to-those-accustomed-to-privileges.html", "content_html": "💬
\n\n\nTo those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
\n
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
\nVia 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-15T15:41:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/15/to-those-accustomed-to-privileges.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/15/ranked-the-most-productive-countries.html", "content_html": "👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
\n🔗 Ranked: The Most Productive Countries in the World
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-15T15:39:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/15/ranked-the-most-productive-countries.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/15/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail.html", "content_html": "😂😂😂
\n\n👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
\n🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-14T17:34:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/14/i-think-this-is-pretty.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/13/khaled-abou-alfa-talking-with.html", "content_html": "\nThere’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level…\nThey’re the 4D chess crowd.
\n
\n\nTalking with my mother about the US/Iran negotiations and she dropped a gem, ‘It takes Iranians 12 years to make a rug. You can’t expect them to negotiate peace in 1 day.’
\n
\n\nno drama, no entrance.
\n
😂😂😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T13:28:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/13/brad-enslen-no-drama-no.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/13/asymco-bulletin-apr-the-motley.html", "content_html": "🔗 Asymco Bulletin 008 – Apr 12, 2026
\n\n\nThe Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? → Not reading this article is probably a wise decision.
\n
Horace is definitely not ‘up’ on the punditry of ‘The Fool’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T13:28:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/13/asymco-bulletin-apr-the-motley.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/13/i-did-not-expect-to.html", "content_html": "I did not expect to see (I wont say ‘read’) an article called 🔗 Jimi Hendrix’s Analog Wizardry Explained in an IEEE site when I ‘feed perused’ this morning - but it does connect.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T13:27:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/13/i-did-not-expect-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/the-whole-piece-is-so.html", "content_html": "Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art.
\n
The whole piece is so funny - but I have set it to start at the point where Kevin is talking about a problem that I guarantee has affected you dear reader.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T08:34:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/the-whole-piece-is-so.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/tonights-sunset-is-very-different.html", "content_html": "📸 Tonight’s sunset is very different to 🖇️ last night’s - probably a lot to do with the cyclone hitting tomorrow.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f2f8fce301.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-11T18:13:06+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/tonights-sunset-is-very-different.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/macos-seemingly-crashes-after-days.html",
"content_html": "🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime - a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
\n\n\nAnd if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\n😂😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T12:48:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/macos-seemingly-crashes-after-days.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/kkp-parrots-its-about-kkp.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T12:44:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/kkp-parrots-its-about-kkp.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/i-do-watch-jason-hes.html", "content_html": "it’s about kākāpō parrots!
\n
I do watch Jason - he’s another Liam in many ways - same character - same principles - same story - but make it entertaining. He usually delivers. But this little piece of knowledge I did not know.
\n🔗 Shelter (2026) | Brandon’s Journal
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T12:44:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/i-do-watch-jason-hes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/creating-the-conditions-for-magic.html", "content_html": "Jason Statham is arguably the most reliable actor in Hollywood. He has at least one new movie out ever year and it’s always released theatrically. He actually holds the record for having over fifty live-action theatrical releases with no direct to DVD/streaming/VOD releases, which is impressive as hell. Is every movie great? Not at all (I’m looking at you Exp4ndables) but for the most part you know what you are going to get and he delivers.
\n
🔗 Creating the conditions for magic | Seth’s Blog
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T12:42:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/creating-the-conditions-for-magic.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/11/adobe-is-mucking-with-users.html", "content_html": "We hire architects to design expensive buildings, but we design expensive human interactions as an afterthought.
\n
🔗 Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files – Pixel Envy
\nI have precisely ONE product installed from Adobe - essentially using their equivalent of Documentum. I need to move to something else that is not Adobe or Documentum and release - I suspect - gigabytes of bloatware that I have always known is floating around the drive somewhere.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T12:42:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/adobe-is-mucking-with-users.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/10/the-moon-was-never-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Moon was Never the Point - Gapingvoid
\n![\"it](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f33839d55d.jpg\")
Like for like I would argue that there is some kind of normal distribution curve at play here … where Gapingvoid’s conclusion is correct in the centre - but wrong at the extremes.
\n5 - 50 and 500,000 are not ‘specific’.
\nManaging ‘5’ mini projects is easier than one project that encompasses those ‘5’ mini projects.
\nManaging ‘50’ mini projects is harder than one project that encompasses those ‘50’ mini projects.
\nManaging ‘500,000’ mini projects is easier than one project that encompasses those ‘500,000’ mini projects.
\nI should come back to this with more detail - lets see what the cognoscenti has to say … nothing - as usual - would be my guess.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T08:36:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/the-moon-was-never-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/10/attention-and-effort-attention-and.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nAttention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T08:05:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/attention-and-effort-attention-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/10/banksy-satoshi-the-unmasking-impulse.html", "content_html": "🔗 Banksy, Satoshi and The Unmasking Impulse – On my Om
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T08:04:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/banksy-satoshi-the-unmasking-impulse.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/10/steve-blank-nowhere-is-safe.html", "content_html": "Unmasking either one isn’t just invasive. It is destructive to what they built.
\n
🔗 Steve Blank - Nowhere Is Safe
\n\n\nThe problem is a lack of urgency and imagination.
\n
➕
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T06:54:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/steve-blank-nowhere-is-safe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/10/robert-l-arnold-on-the.html", "content_html": "Oceans on both sides and friendly nations on our borders have lulled America into a false sense of security. After all, the U.S. has not fought a foreign force on American soil since 1812.
\n
🔗 Robert L Arnold On The Incompetence of The Escalation
\nNothing to add.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T06:23:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/robert-l-arnold-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/software-as-a-sandwich.html", "title": "Software As A Sandwich", "content_html": "Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, living under a rock or only born yesterday - you know this graphic.
\n![\"3*3](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bdc61e4b37.jpg\")
You might not know this one
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/426e8aee2b.jpg\")
Then again it would not surprise me at all if I have it backwards - and it is I that resides under said rock ( 🖇️ it happens a lot ) … by not recognising the ‘cube matrix’.
\nThis all came to mind when I was chatting with Andrew Mayfield a couple of weeks ago who at one point in the conversation compared software to sandwiches - in someways redefining SAAS❓
\n\n\nSoftware As A Sandwich
\n
.. he said 🔗 and then wrote about in a post. It’s a good post .. and very true - but my next job was to merge these two ideas - because as we all know 🖇️ Life Is A Remix.
\nFirst Job - define the three by three grid and decide on the axes.
\nWhere I am so far …
\n![\"Software](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/software-as-a-sandwich.png\")
And of course were I to classify what kind of ‘sandwich’ drove the development of this particular graphic - I would say ‘The Garden’.
\nIt is clearly not right - but neither is it wrong. I will continue to noodle and welcome any and all insights and contributions.
\nBTW - it was writing this post that brought up 🖇️ this joke - because I have this thought that ‘the demo’ industry will benefit enormously from vibe coding.
\nThe software and products we are building definitely utilises AI - but the AI is being managed by real developers. Unlike say my web site at 🖇️ Philpin.com - which is all me vibing with Claude and is way better than I have ever achieved in the past using Wordpress - but even before being finished it is on its third iteration as I learn and unpack what Claude is actually doing when left to its own devices.
\nBottom line - it clearly believes that more lines of code than less is the metric!
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T09:50:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/software-as-a-sandwich.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/in-writing-another-post-coming.html", "content_html": "In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s came to mind. It starts …
\n\n\nGates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by St. Peter.
\n
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T09:00:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/in-writing-another-post-coming.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/the-hacker-news-tarpit-well.html", "content_html": "\n“Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this call; I’m not sure where to send you. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows ‘95. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. In your case; I’m going to let you decide whether you want to go to Heaven or Hell.”
\n
\n\nWell, I spent a Saturday last month vibe coding a Hacker News clone. Took about 3 hours, most of which was me arguing with the AI about CSS.
\n
😂😂😂 .. not just me then❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:53:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/the-hacker-news-tarpit-well.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/apples-new-ai-problems-have.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri | Macworld
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:53:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/apples-new-ai-problems-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/artlung-hello-humanjson-apr-i.html", "content_html": "But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!
\n
🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:52:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/artlung-hello-humanjson-apr-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/why-anthropics-new-model-has.html", "content_html": "I prefer to curate my own “algorithm.”
\n
🔗 Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:51:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/why-anthropics-new-model-has.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/the-apocalypse-is-here-michael.html", "content_html": "Anthropic said, the model has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, and in many cases developed related exploits. Among them: a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open source operating system, that had escaped detection for 27 years; another flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests; and “several” vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine.
\n
🔗 The Apocalypse Is Here - Michael Moore
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:51:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/the-apocalypse-is-here-michael.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/a-quote-from-giles-turnbull.html", "content_html": "\nAmerica, a country 250 years old, and the only nation sick and violent enough to have ever used a nuclear weapon, in partnership with Israel, a nation younger than Mick Jagger and Bugs Bunny, and the only nuclear armed nation in its region, are on the verge of wiping one of the oldest civilizations off the map.
\n
\n\nI have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.
\n
💬 Giles Turnbull
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:51:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/a-quote-from-giles-turnbull.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/the-cognitive-impact-of-coding.html", "content_html": "🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents
\n\n\nThat was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.
\n
💬 Simon Willison
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:50:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/the-cognitive-impact-of-coding.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/i-had-been-meaning-to.html", "content_html": "I had been meaning to write up a longer piece about Simon Willison’s appearance with Lenny 🖇️other than this one - and now no need - Simon did it himself.
\n🔗 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:49:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/i-had-been-meaning-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/what-are-the-odds-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 What are the odds of Apple surviving? – Asymco
\nFascinating review of the absolute uniqueness of Apple in the world of business.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T07:44:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/what-are-the-odds-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/08/all-the-letters-seths-blog.html", "content_html": "🔗 All the letters | Seth’s Blog
\n\n\nBut if you start out with the same letters as everyone else, don’t spend a lot of time admiring your letters. It’s the words that matter.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-08T22:13:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/08/all-the-letters-seths-blog.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/08/the-motley-fool-asks-where.html", "content_html": "Every writer has all of them. 26 in most Western languages. But no writer knows all the words.
\n
🔗 The Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? – Asymco
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-08T22:13:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/08/the-motley-fool-asks-where.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/07/asymco-bulletin-mar-in-apples.html", "content_html": "NB: The Motley Fraud is not a reliable source of anything but bad stock picking advice…
\n
🔗 Asymco Bulletin 006 – Mar 28, 2026
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-07T07:48:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/07/asymco-bulletin-mar-in-apples.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/07/long-odds-and-unseen-differences.html", "content_html": "In Apple’s first 50 years it shipped 5.13 billion computers. This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 50 years. There actually are no other PC makers that are 50 years old.
\n
🔗 Long odds and unseen differences - Seth
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-07T07:47:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/07/long-odds-and-unseen-differences.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/07/a-preponderance-of-pap-always.html", "content_html": "\nBuy the best story you can afford, with all the benefits it comes with. But don’t be confused by the odds or tiny differences. They’re probably zero.
\n
… always like JP’s posts - even the cricket ones. (This is not about cricket.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-07T07:41:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/07/a-preponderance-of-pap-always.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/07/john-battelles-search-blog-product.html", "content_html": "🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Product, Platform, Interface, Medium, Language: What Is AI?
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-07T07:40:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/07/john-battelles-search-blog-product.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/06/if-you-follow-me-you.html", "content_html": "Regardless, as I struggle to find a handle by which to pick up the concept of AI, there’s something about “language” that feels appropriate. Maybe AI is, in fact, equivalent to a new language, one we’re just learning to speak. That certainly rings true to me.
\n
If you follow me you will know that I don’t always listen to Lenny - but a big fan of his - and when he has a great guest … 🤯 .. 🔗🎙️ Simon Willison is one such great guest.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-06T10:50:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/if-you-follow-me-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/06/yes-i-did-watch-it.html", "content_html": "![\"Unfamiliar\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3180.png\")
\n\n\nYes .. I did watch it .. a while back .. unmemorable .. but know that you now don’t have to. Nor should you.
\n
\n ![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/3bbf0a4c35.png\")
\n
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\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n🔗 What could POSSIBLY go wrong❓
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-06T09:57:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/06/miriam-schwab-a-clean-security.html", "content_html": "\nSome of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems, three of the people said.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-06T06:48:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/miriam-schwab-a-clean-security.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/detective-hole.html", "title": "📺 Detective Hole ★★★★", "content_html": "A clean security model with nothing to secure is an easy sell, but let’s see how this actually plays out when there are 10, 20, 100 plugins in their marketplace. The real test will come when complex platform-like extensions like Elementor, Yoast, and more are created. Will the capability model be able to handle them? This is unknown at this time.
\n
![\"Detective](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3179.png\")
\n\n\nOne of these dark Nordic series. Love them. Loved it
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n🔗 You Only Think They Work For You
\nSteve is talking PR Agencies. Not wrong. But they aren’t the only sinners. I am looking at you ‘Recruiters’.
\nKey rule: ‘who’s paying them /// now and in the future.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:18:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/you-only-think-they-work.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/rebuilding-my-micro-blog-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.
\nMaybe it is time to do it again❓
\nThen again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …
\nNO
\nONE. THING. AT. TIME.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:16:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/rebuilding-my-micro-blog-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/the-guestbook-is-back-funny.html", "content_html": "\nFunny, 🔗 I have a guestbook (thankyou Pika) which I forget about .. so much so that when I recently rejigged my site navigation, it was no where to be found.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:13:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/the-guestbook-is-back-funny.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/tread-carefully-because-you-tread.html", "content_html": "🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.
\n\n\nOn any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give.
\n
When you breakit down - that’s a lot.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:06:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/tread-carefully-because-you-tread.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/mapped-each-states-share-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports
\nI guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’?
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:03:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/mapped-each-states-share-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/revamping-post-stats-amit-gawande.html", "content_html": "🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande
\n@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.
\nAlthough the insights are a little scary ….
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T10:00:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/revamping-post-stats-amit-gawande.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/seeker-on-my-om-i.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge.
\n
I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T09:57:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/seeker-on-my-om-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/we-know-that-macs-last.html", "content_html": "🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco
\n\n\nBut the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year.
\n
For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T09:51:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/we-know-that-macs-last.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/scripting-news-friday-april-feature.html", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026
\n\n\nFeature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.
\n
Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T09:25:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/scripting-news-friday-april-feature.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/explore-art-uks-digital-database.html", "content_html": "🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal
\n\n\nJust a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.
\n
Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/artuk-9.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-05T09:09:30+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/explore-art-uks-digital-database.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/the-other-day-i-alan.html",
"content_html": "🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs
\n\n\nSeveral people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.
\n
“I dunno” - wrote Alan
\nWith him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T09:03:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/the-other-day-i-alan.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/05/before-i-go-people-like.html", "content_html": "🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com
\n\n\nI’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.
\n
Never heard of it until now.
\nSubscribed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-05T09:00:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/before-i-go-people-like.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/08/hijack-includes-a.html", "title": "📺 Hijack ★★ 🚧", "content_html": "![\"Hijack\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9bfda79346.jpg\")
\n
Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
\nUpdated: April 3rd, 2026
In 2024 I originally wrote:
\n\n\nWhat’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
\n
\n\nWell - at least until the final episode.
\n
Just finished the second series - and the fact it took us so many months to work through it speaks volumes. And when I say work … I mean work.
\nSeries 1 ★★★ – that is old star rating - but still holds …
\nDo you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images that find their way to the top of my memory is generally large groups of cast members randomly gathered together on a golf green, in a cab, looking in a hole … I mean for that movie - which was a great ensemble cast - total sense, not too mention that I bet that each star was guaranteed a certain amount of screen time … and this is one way to get round that.
\nAnyway, back to the plot. Watch the final episode of Hijack and tell me those scenes don’t come to your mind.
\nAnd yes - all the usual happy ever after, plane saved with seconds to spare, it was all about the money - etc etc
\nSeries 2 ★★
\nAnd that rating is getting applied to the whole show. VERY disappointing - they took that final episode from Series 1 - and doubled down on it!
\nI was tempted to 1 star it - but that wouldn’t be fair to series 1.
\nShowName on 🔗 Reelgood
\n➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n\n
About that ‘spoiler alert’ - really - did you expect a different ending?
", "date_published": "2026-04-03T12:30:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/hijack-includes-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm","? WIP","? Updated"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/02/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/eaa8515410.jpg\")
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
\n\n\n\nHold My Beer
\n
💬 Rammstein
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-02T07:44:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/02/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/02/why-trump-didnt-predict-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-02T07:21:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/02/why-trump-didnt-predict-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/01/toesday-from-doc-sam-altman.html", "content_html": "\nHow did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy.
\n
Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water."
\nIf you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.
\nHe is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you for your own relevance.
\nThey stole all this data from us, the people. Our life’s work, our creativity, our art. They devoured the open internet and blew through every copyright law on Earth.
\nAnd now they want to “sell it back to us” in the form of a utility?!
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T08:20:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/toesday-from-doc-sam-altman.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/01/daring-fireball-jensen-huang-doesnt.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
\n\n\nHis answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”
\n
Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T08:19:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/daring-fireball-jensen-huang-doesnt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/01/decompiled-the-white-houses-new.html", "content_html": "🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App
\nThereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:
\n\n\nHas a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.
\n
➕
\n\n\nLoads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (
\nlonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]
➕
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T08:17:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/decompiled-the-white-houses-new.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/31/scripting-news-monday-march-i.html", "content_html": "Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.
\n
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026
\n\n\nI had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”
\n
You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-31T07:37:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/31/scripting-news-monday-march-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/31/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with.html", "content_html": "🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
\n\n\nCreate the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.
\n
💬 Ben Werdmuller
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-31T07:36:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/31/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/31/is-the-at-protocol-really.html", "content_html": "🔗 Is the AT Protocol really decentralized? | Vladimir Campos
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-31T07:35:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/31/is-the-at-protocol-really.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/29/aja-writes-whats-in-a.html", "content_html": "“Hosted in Europe, governed in Europe,” and their vision starts with “Eurosky exists because Europe needs technological sovereignty and democratic resilience in its digital infrastructure.” As I mentioned in a previous post, I prefer an internationalist world, but based on what they are promoting on their site, why choose a US protocol that many say is not actually decentralized?
\n
AJA writes …🔗 what’s in a name? – The Homebound Symphony
\n\n\nThe title of this great dialogue should therefore be not Politeia but rather Eudaimonia.
\n
Behold: 🔗 Eudaimonia - though he hever strikes me as ‘happy’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-29T14:46:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/29/aja-writes-whats-in-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/29/the-quieter-your-brand-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 The quieter your brand, the louder it travels – Regionally Famous
\nI believe this blog’s reader will enjoy this post about - well #stickers.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-29T14:24:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/29/the-quieter-your-brand-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/28/nobody.html", "title": "🎥 Nobody 2, 2025 ★★", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/907861-nobody-2-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg\"/)
Not as good as Nobody - but then Nobody caught me out - where as Nobody 2 was - well ... Nobody 2. Colin Hanks looks so much like his Dad. Sharon Stone looked nothing like Sharon Stone - and yet was. The whole film was way better than any of Chevy's vacation movies - and the set up for the final action scene was lifted straight out of The A Team - and just as much fun.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-28T21:24:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/28/nobody.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/28/frank-relles-photos-revel-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland — Colossal
\nSpectacular photographs.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-28T10:32:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/28/frank-relles-photos-revel-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/27/the-end-of-the-content.html", "content_html": "🔗 The end of the content shortage
\n\n\nThe ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\nHere’s willing it to be so.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-27T12:26:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/27/the-end-of-the-content.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/27/brad-enslen-headlines-ice-is.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-27T12:25:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/27/brad-enslen-headlines-ice-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/26/daring-fireball-claude-can-now.html", "content_html": "Headlines: ICE is starting to check ID’s in airport security lines. Be warned.
\n
🔗 Daring Fireball: Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-26T08:09:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/26/daring-fireball-claude-can-now.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/26/daring-fireball-ios-i-like.html", "content_html": "\nThe Claude Mac client itself remains a lazy Electron clunker. If Claude Code is so good I don’t get why they don’t prove it by using it to make an even halfway decent native Mac app.
\n
\n\nI like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not.
\n
😂
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-26T08:08:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/26/daring-fireball-ios-i-like.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/26/too-complicated-for-people-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Too complicated for people to understand.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-26T08:08:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/26/too-complicated-for-people-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/23/inspired-by-derekpeden-i-recently.html", "content_html": "Our first job is to do work that matters for people who care. It helps to follow that up with the scaffolding needed to cause cultural change, so the idea spreads.
\n
\nBut don’t dumb it down to reach people who don’t want to be reached in the first place.
Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly.\nPosted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3 1/2 for sure.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-23T09:34:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/23/inspired-by-derekpeden-i-recently.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/22/mike-johnson-trust-us-this.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mike Johnson: Trust us, this war totally had to happen.
\nTrust you Mike? Are you serious?
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-22T09:32:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/22/mike-johnson-trust-us-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/22/your-ai-remembers-everything-you.html", "content_html": "🔗 Your AI Remembers Everything. You Own None of It. – Regionally Famous
\n\n\nYour AI Remembers Everything. You Own None of It.
\n
It’s worse than that … it might remember everything for them … but have you noticed that it never seems to remember everything for you❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-22T09:22:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/22/your-ai-remembers-everything-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/22/conventional-comments-i-get-what.html", "content_html": "\nI get what he’s trying to do … but we seem to be a long way from this working. I think we also are missing a couple or more.
\nJoke … Rhetorical … Sarcasm … Irony … all spring to mind as concepts that too many people miss as they attempt to ‘finish the internet’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-22T05:34:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/22/conventional-comments-i-get-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/20/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about.html", "content_html": "🔗 Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
\n… Joan - not just about introspection.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-20T09:56:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/20/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/20/adobe-pays-early-termination-fee.html", "content_html": "🔗 Adobe Pays Early Termination Fee, or ‘Settlement’, in U.S. Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees.
\nI am about to attempt to extract myself from one of Adobe’s products. I wasn’t looking forward to it before I read this. Now?
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-20T09:56:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/20/adobe-pays-early-termination-fee.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/20/pejac-transforms-basic-graph-paper.html", "content_html": "🔗 Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L’œil Tableaux
\nHad to share just one of them …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bd5b3e3e07.jpg\")
Forever amazed how someone can pick up something like an empty ‘graph book’ and turn it into stunning art.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-20T09:54:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/20/pejac-transforms-basic-graph-paper.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/20/nostalgia-and-decay-meet-theatricality.html", "content_html": "🔗 Nostalgia and Decay Meet Theatricality in Andrew Moore’s Dramatic Photos
\nEclipsed by neglect. Beautiful in their fading obscurity.
\nBernie and Elton came to mind - though they weren’t talking buildings ….
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-20T09:51:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/20/nostalgia-and-decay-meet-theatricality.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/what-victoria-market-was-before.html", "content_html": "It’s sad, so sad, it’s a sad, sad situation
\n
\nAnd it’s getting more and more absurd
📸 What Victoria Market was before it was Victoria Market - where that 🖇️ Indian Restaurant is.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/b4498ecf83.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-03-18T11:25:07+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/what-victoria-market-was-before.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/when-i-wrote-this-earlier.html",
"content_html": "🖇️ When I wrote this earlier today - i hadn’t received my daily Readwise … that somehow seems to connect ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3157.png\")
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3158.png\")
🔗 Ranked: Americans' Favorite News Sites
\nMy key takeaway is actually not called out …
\n\n\nESPN (at 43%) is the third.
\n
That explains so much about America
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T11:09:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/ranked-americans-favorite-news-sites.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/daring-fireball-pc-makers-are.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T10:49:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/daring-fireball-pc-makers-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/one-of-the-best-saturday.html", "content_html": "This idea that because it’s “an iPhone chip” the Neo is not capable of, say, editing 4K video is utterly ignorant. You know what computers are fully capable of editing 4K video? iPhones.
\n
🔗😂🤓 One of the best Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s ‘EVA’
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3159.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-03-18T10:42:56+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/one-of-the-best-saturday.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Humour"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/steve-blank-your-startup-is.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Steve Blank - Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
\n\n\nIf you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true.
\n
➕
\n\n\nThe bottleneck is no longer engineering. It’s moving up the stack to judgment, customer insight for desired outcomes and distribution.
\n
Both true - and in the apps we are building there is heavy reliance on AI to do the ‘heavy’ lifting - I mean - we humans aren’t designed to lift heavy things (speaking from personal experience some 30 years ago) - BUT we are awfully good at being human - which our apps definitely lean into.
\nAnd then there is this …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ui-vs-ai-agent.png.webp\")
.. I mean these two screens are hardly doing the same job are they❗️❓
\n… and it isn’t AI killing the dashboard - it’s designs like this that are killing the dashboard.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T10:41:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/steve-blank-your-startup-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/apples-real-intelligence-winning-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s real intelligence? Winning the waiting game | The Macalope
\n\n\nWe’ve gone from “AI does everything so we can now lay off all our staff!” to “We have to lay off all our staff because AI is sucking all our resources.” It’s almost as if AI is being as an excuse for layoffs.
\n
➕
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T10:31:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/apples-real-intelligence-winning-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/waffle-shop-from-shorpy-just.html", "content_html": "Ha-ha! That would be silly! Because, in reality, we know that there really is no problem that cannot be solved by laying off vast swaths of the people who have devoted their careers to you. It’s just math.
\n
🔗📸 Waffle Shop 1950 From Shorpy
\nJust a wonderful image from the folks at Shorpy.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/6dedc548aa.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-03-18T10:14:36+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/waffle-shop-from-shorpy-just.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/makes-sense-even-today.html",
"content_html": "\n",
"date_published": "2026-03-18T09:39:31+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/makes-sense-even-today.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Videos"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/17/the-last-quiet-thing-terry.html",
"content_html": "🔗 The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier
\nAbsolutely wonderful opening … superb and engaging layout .. do kept going .. and have to say the end was just as great … but there is a middle bit … quite a large middle bit - that is stuff I’ve read before .. we all (should) know .. that I found uninteresting and repetitive and (should ❓) be deleted.
\nBut that shouldn’t stop you getting his RSS app which is great.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-17T06:07:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/17/the-last-quiet-thing-terry.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/17/reuters-tries-to-out-banksy.html", "content_html": "🔗 Reuters tries to out Banksy: … | Alan Jacobs
\n.. what Alan said.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-17T05:59:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/17/reuters-tries-to-out-banksy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/15/paperwork-futility-closet-meek-young.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nMeek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
\n
💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-15T20:33:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/15/paperwork-futility-closet-meek-young.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/15/apple-music-launches-ai-transparency.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them.
\n.. and thats the rub.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-15T20:15:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/15/apple-music-launches-ai-transparency.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/15/the-return-of-travis-kalanick.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!
\n\n\nI’ll be damned if I am not interested. And I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what he does next. That doesn’t mean I need to gulp his MBA-speak as wisdom. I will call the game as I see it being played.
\n
💬 Om
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-15T13:56:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/15/the-return-of-travis-kalanick.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/14/africa-by-toto-with-the.html", "content_html": "🔗🎵😂 Africa by Toto with the lyrics switched out for the countries.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-14T11:03:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/14/africa-by-toto-with-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/13/godless.html", "title": "📺 Godless ★★★", "content_html": "![\"Godless\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/godless.png\")
\n\n\nCan’t recall why I started to watch it .. but glad I did .. very good .. and it was a while back (well last year) - despite it being from 2017 - and yet for all of that it took @mitchwagner to remind me - when he referenced it - I couldn’t even recall the name - don’t make the same mistake.
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n![\"His](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/hisandhers.png\")
\n\n\nSlow start … boring in the middle … but a couple o’ twists at the end.
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/thewives.png\")
\n\n\nRemember ‘The Sisters’? Yeah - no where near as good. I watched a little bit because of being set in Malta - and being a fan of Madame LeBlanc - I thought … I was wrong.
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n🔗 WordPress Everywhere | Matt Mullenweg
\n… still not sure I understand this - but added to the ‘explore more’ list.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-13T10:51:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/13/wordpress-everywhere-matt-mullenweg-still.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/13/historic-architecture-emerges-from-stone.html", "content_html": "🔗 Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures
\n.. oh my … gorgeous - and the detail!
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-13T10:49:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/13/historic-architecture-emerges-from-stone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/13/roots-return-old-online-things.html", "content_html": "🔗 ROOTS - Return Old Online Things to your own site.
\nI like this. It is what I have been doing as I consolidate all the various properties I have got in too many places.\nWhich reminds me - time to get back on the Instagram import - which is currently a #FAIL - because the import seems to be pulling all the Threads world in. Which in my case is useless - if it is on Threads - with a handful of (who cares) exceptions - it is already here - because this is where it all starts.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-13T10:48:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/13/roots-return-old-online-things.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/fleeting-i-think-everything-we.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:52:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/fleeting-i-think-everything-we.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/scripting-news-chatgptthemovie-i-must.html", "content_html": "I think everything we do is fleeting, which is not a reason to give up on it all, but sometimes the sheer scope of what fleets away gives me pause.
\n
🔗 Scripting News: ChatGPT-the-Movie … I must have missed this on Bluesky when @dave first posted it 9 months ago - and no idea how it now got resurfaced. 🤷🏻♂️
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:37:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/scripting-news-chatgptthemovie-i-must.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/11/dave-winer-on-mantons-inkwell.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell
\n\n\nI could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.
\n
IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.
\nAnd don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-11T13:00:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/11/dave-winer-on-mantons-inkwell.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/11/dont-worry-apple-isnt-going.html", "content_html": "🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.
\n\n\nFor years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.
\n
The Macalope does have a way with words.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-11T12:57:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/11/dont-worry-apple-isnt-going.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/11/the-most-brilliant-move-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco
\n\n\nApple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.
\n
And to keep it all balanced …
\n🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-11T12:48:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/11/the-most-brilliant-move-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/11/seth-small-changes-to-big.html", "content_html": "Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.
\n
Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems
\n\n\nWhat doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.
\n
➕
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-03-11T12:43:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/11/seth-small-changes-to-big.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/07/just-in-from-scott-brinker.html", "title": "Similar Thinking. Different Thoughts.", "content_html": "\nAI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/the-loyalty-loop-1200px.png\")
\n\n\nI’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)
\n
Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ
\nMeanwhile - one of my ‘graphics under development’ .. this one talking about ‘forgetting’ the 4Ps and start thinking 4Es - that I most recently talked about 🖇️ here.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/750fd6fa2a.jpg\")
\nBottom line - we keep talking about change - radical change - and yet for some reason - our thinking is not radical - witness that we keep building ‘systems of experience’ on ‘systems of record’ infrastructure.
\n… and we wonder why it’s not working?
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-07T11:30:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/07/just-in-from-scott-brinker.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/how-far-back-in-time.html", "content_html": "🔗 How far back in time can you understand English?
\nF A S C I N A T I N G
\n(Later - as was my misspelling until fixed)
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:26:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/how-far-back-in-time.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/explore-financial-disclosures-from-president.html", "content_html": "🔗 Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
\n… another public service.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:23:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/explore-financial-disclosures-from-president.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/nicholas-carr-what-is-it.html", "content_html": "🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs
\n\n\nWhat fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.
\n
“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:22:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/nicholas-carr-what-is-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/apples-strategy-is-actually-genius.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s strategy is actually genius if you think about it …
\nHorace replays a post from 3 years ago.
\nOne question - intentional or accidental?
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:17:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/apples-strategy-is-actually-genius.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/macbook-neo-apple-makes-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich
\n\n\nTo explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.
\n
💬 Andy Ihnatko
\nIn amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includes the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:15:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/macbook-neo-apple-makes-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/04/ive-never-had-the-experience.html", "content_html": "🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.
\nTo just choose one from the post …
\n\n\n\n
\n- Oh, your USB devices stopped working? Huh. Isn’t that strange? Seeing as your Mac is under-performing – for some odd reason that Software Update has no knowledge of, honestly – perhaps this period of limited productivity would be a good time to install that System Software Update that’s been loitering in the Notifications tray, like an untipped bellhop?
\n
💬 Andy Ihnatko
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-04T13:41:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/04/ive-never-had-the-experience.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/04/ryan-barrett-its-vcs-job.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nIt’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.
\n
Not choosing any particular VC over any other - but you know who I am talking about. Right❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-04T13:39:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/04/ryan-barrett-its-vcs-job.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/02/terry-godier-on-his-new.html", "content_html": "🔗 Terry Godier on his new … | Alan Jacobs
\n\n\n(and I have that disabled in NetNewsWire anyway).
\n
Thank you. I get complaints about bad tech - valid.
\nIt is also time to start complaining about how bad people are in even understanding the tech that they spend so much money on. Notifications is one - but the list could be pretty endless …
\nOne that keeps pushing through on my feeds …
\n\n\nOn ’Notion’ it was easy - why can’t Craft ….
\n
… because this is Craft - not Notion. Pretty simple really.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-02T11:03:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/02/terry-godier-on-his-new.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/01/enough-is-enough-thought-shrapnel.html", "content_html": "🔗 Enough is enough | Thought Shrapnel … is where I found this ..
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/6234795afb.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-03-01T08:44:42+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/01/enough-is-enough-thought-shrapnel.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/01/it-fails-very-strange-to.html",
"content_html": "\nYeah … no
\n… that’s not what it’s about.
\n… Iraq worked out so well.
\n… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
\n… the Ukrainians.
\n… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
\n… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
\n… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
\n… it’s about the oil … read history.
\n… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.
\n\n#Winning
\n
💬 Charlie Sheen
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-01T08:43:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/01/it-fails-very-strange-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/28/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nA Zurich court is expected to rule on the case in March. Whatever the outcome, Palantir has already lost the only contest that matters: the one for public perception. For a company that sells the ability to see around corners, they apparently never thought to search “The Streisand Effect.”
\n
💥
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-28T21:35:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/28/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/28/we-will-not-be-divided.html", "content_html": "\n.. I can’t sign it - but maybe you can?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-28T21:31:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/28/we-will-not-be-divided.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/28/tudumb-congratulations-on-saying-the.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nCongratulations on saying the biggest number, Paramount. $111B for a company that a year ago had a market cap of around $20B. For a company that shrunk in their most recent quarter, and in fact, for the entire year, with revenue down 5% to $37.3B. Paramount may not be buying the Titanic, but only because they already own that IP.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-28T21:29:39+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/28/tudumb-congratulations-on-saying-the.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/28/i-wrote-yesterday-that-id.html",
"content_html": "I wrote yesterday that I’d give you the links …
\n\nIf you prefer reading - 🔗 My Dinner with Jeffrey - by Douglas Rushkoff - but really - though I am a ‘read first - listen maybe’ kinda guy - listen.
\nSuddenly I have the lens where it all makes perfect sense. Sad - but finally …
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-28T21:25:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/28/i-wrote-yesterday-that-id.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/28/omoiyari-gapingvoid-when-i-diagram.html", "content_html": "\nWhen I diagram I often default to circle and spirals and avoid triangles.
\nMaybe I have unknowingly been channeling my inner Omoiyari❓
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/7b7d1e7158.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-28T21:18:51+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/28/omoiyari-gapingvoid-when-i-diagram.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/27/llms-generate-predictable-passwords-schneier.html",
"content_html": "🔗 LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords - Schneier on Security
\n\n\nPassword generation seems precisely the thing that LLMs shouldn’t be good at. But if AI agents are doing things autonomously, they will be creating accounts. So this is a problem.
\n
We’re screwed aren’t we?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-27T16:45:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/27/llms-generate-predictable-passwords-schneier.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/how-close-are-we-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 How close are we to a vision for 2010?
\n\n\nWhat strikes me most about the possible futures discussed isn’t their optimism nor their missteps - it’s that most of these things could be possible today if there were sufficient open standards which the public and private sector adopted.
\n
➕
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:24:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/how-close-are-we-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/london-stock-exchange-raspberry-pi.html", "content_html": "Anyone who has read “The Entrepreneurial State” knows that these things take significant public investment. We’ve reached a point where the private sector has generated wealth from previous public research, but seems unwilling to invest in any long-term research itself. That’s short-changing our future.
\n
🔗London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc
\nM A R V Y ❗️
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:23:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/london-stock-exchange-raspberry-pi.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/times-new-resistance-abby-haddican.html", "content_html": "🔗🤓 Times New Resistance - Abby Haddican
\nToo good - though I think we can provide many more to build out the list.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:22:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/times-new-resistance-abby-haddican.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/agentic-swarms-are-an-orgchart.html", "content_html": "🔗 Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion
\n\n\nIf you believe the future is agent management, you’ll build tools for orchestrating fleets of specialized bots. You’ll create dashboards for monitoring your marketing agent separately from your sales agent separately from your dev agent. You’ll recreate Salesforce, but for robots.
\n
\n\nIf you believe the future is unified execution, you’ll build tools that let one person express intent and get outcomes across every domain from a single surface. The interface collapses. The abstraction layers disappear. You don’t manage agents any more than you manage the individual transistors in your laptop.
\n
I need to revisit - I mean she’s talking org charts.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:20:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/agentic-swarms-are-an-orgchart.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/careers-are-jungle-gyms-not.html", "content_html": "🔗 Careers are jungle gyms, not ladders
\n\n\nReal careers look more like jungle gyms. You climb up, move sideways, drop down, hang upside down for a while, and sometimes jump across to something new entirely. Progress isn’t measured only by elevation, but by agility, strength, and perspective. The value comes from how many dimensions you can move in, not just how high you can go.
\n
💬 Guy Kawasaki
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:16:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/careers-are-jungle-gyms-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/22/david-lynch-on-tm.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2026-02-22T08:49:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/22/david-lynch-on-tm.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/21/in-case-you-were-wondering.html", "content_html": "In case you were wondering where this …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3121.png\")
\n… came from. It came from here:
\n🔗 Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-21T10:26:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/21/in-case-you-were-wondering.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/21/wikipedia-blacklists-archivetoday-starts-removing.html", "content_html": "🔗 Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars Technica
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-21T10:24:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/21/wikipedia-blacklists-archivetoday-starts-removing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/19/anybody-exploring-birdy-chat.html", "content_html": "Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-19T09:39:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/anybody-exploring-birdy-chat.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/19/expert-generalists-we-are-thus.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nWe are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
\n
💬 Martin Fowler
\nNot a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
\nWhy? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
\nIt’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
\nI am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f492f882f4.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-19T08:28:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/expert-generalists-we-are-thus.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/19/app-review-current-canion-has.html",
"content_html": "\n@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
\nDownloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
\nMuscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-19T08:07:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/app-review-current-canion-has.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/19/subscriptions-are-rising-at-big.html", "content_html": "🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
\n\n\nIf you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
\n
💬 Ben Werdmuller
\nI would go further.
\nIt also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-19T08:03:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/subscriptions-are-rising-at-big.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/18/the-long-and-the-short.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Long and the Short of it …
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3119.gif\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-18T10:38:20+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/18/the-long-and-the-short.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/18/a-colorful-macbook-is-coming.html",
"content_html": "🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
\n\n\nNot an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.
\n
😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-18T10:35:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/18/a-colorful-macbook-is-coming.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/18/cbs-pulls-colbert-interview-with.html", "content_html": "🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician
\n\n\nColbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.
\n
➕
\n\n\nLet’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.
\n
💬 Steven Colbert
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-18T10:35:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/18/cbs-pulls-colbert-interview-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/17/072812.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nAlways remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
\n
💬 Haruki Murakami
\nHave to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..
\n\n\nIt will eventually start getting scared of words.
\n
That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-17T06:28:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/072812.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/17/meanwhile-over-on-marginal-revolution.html", "content_html": "Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …
\n🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work
\n.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3115.png\")
🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om
\n\n\nSo what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?
\n
I suspect that the ‘nine figures’ doesn’t include the numbers after the decimal point.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-17T06:14:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/sam-claws-attention-back-openai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/17/scripting-news-new-rss-feature.html", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton
\nBrilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f55139e7e0.png\")
Thankyou for the heads up @dave
\nThankyou for doing the work @manton
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-17T05:29:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/scripting-news-new-rss-feature.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/dancing-with-your-default-mode.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dancing with Your Default Mode
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/4afe34cc95.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-16T15:04:18+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/dancing-with-your-default-mode.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/niftymenu-tahoe-edition-brettterpstracom-its.html",
"content_html": "🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com
\n\n\nIt’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it).
\n
Paging @amerpie
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T15:03:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/niftymenu-tahoe-edition-brettterpstracom-its.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/a-quote-from-eric-meyer.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T15:02:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/a-quote-from-eric-meyer.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/better-vs-done-ship-an.html", "content_html": "\nIt is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T15:02:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/better-vs-done-ship-an.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/the-empire-always-falls-but.html", "content_html": "\nShip an update every day. Learn from what works, relentlessly improve what doesn’t.
\n
\n\nBut companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.
\n
(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)
\nJoan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T14:58:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/the-empire-always-falls-but.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/followup-on-the-future-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 Followup on the future of AI
\n\n\nNobody knows anything.
\n
@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.
\nBUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.
\nOnce you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.
\nIt all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T14:55:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/followup-on-the-future-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/16/a-random-list-of-silly.html", "content_html": "🔗 A Random List of Silly Things I Hate - Tangible Life
\nSilly? I don’t think so. AND I suspect that @bradenslen and @MitchW would be in full agreement …. 🦯
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-16T14:47:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/16/a-random-list-of-silly.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/you-might-have-noticed-that.html", "content_html": "You might have noticed that ‘the daily surprise’ has just been updated to the ‘when I remember it - and have time surprise’.
\n🖇️🔎 Surprise - surprise - surprise
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:32:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/you-might-have-noticed-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/todays-surprise-from-history-the.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ The Services Industry is prostitution minus …
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:28:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/todays-surprise-from-history-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/us-customs-and-border-protection.html", "content_html": "🔗 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal
\n\n\nThis is not facial recognition of criminals or even people suspected of wrongdoing. It is recognition of anyone who has a face that has been photographed and shared even semi-publicly.
\n
ANYONE
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:23:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/us-customs-and-border-protection.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/tenacious-d-another-one-i.html", "content_html": "\n.. another one I have seen before an never shared - who knew that Jack Black had this voice inside of him?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:22:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/tenacious-d-another-one-i.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/el-estepario-siberiano-has-been.html", "content_html": "El Estepario Siberiano has been popping into my feed for well over a year - and every time I am blown away - but until now never shared him here.
\nFixed.
\n🔗📼🎵 This could be my BEST video TO DATE. - YouTube
\n➕
\n🔗📼🎵 MY STORY - HOW I MADE 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. - YouTube
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:21:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/el-estepario-siberiano-has-been.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/mark-bernstein-ai-new-frontiers.html", "content_html": "
🔗 Mark Bernstein: AI: New Frontiers
\n\n\nToday’s AI can make you better at doing things you do well. That is what AI is for.
\n
A simple sentence to cut through the noise.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:06:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/mark-bernstein-ai-new-frontiers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/the-coming-ai-cataclysm-we.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nwe will discover that even if your job mostly consists of interacting with LLMs, doing so well will require people who remember what it was like to read and interpret a document or contrast two ideas without asking an LLM to do it for you.
\n
There used to be a lot of people that used to be able to thatch roofs - and now there aren’t. But that isn’t quite the same IMHO.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:05:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/the-coming-ai-cataclysm-we.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/ring-cancels-partnership-with-law.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock – FlowingData
\n\n\nThis comes shortly after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial for dog-finding. Ring owners were already rumbling, but it seems cute dogs were not enough to calm things down. Trust is already lost
\n
Even tech companies are drawing lines.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:01:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/ring-cancels-partnership-with-law.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/meta-planning-facial-recognition-with.html", "content_html": "🔗 Meta planning facial recognition with glasses – FlowingData
\n\n\nMeta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.
\n
🤯
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:00:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/meta-planning-facial-recognition-with.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/goldman-sachs-boosts-apple-inc.html", "content_html": "🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
\n\n\nNB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
\n
💬 Horace Dediu
\n‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:00:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/goldman-sachs-boosts-apple-inc.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/i-feel-i-might-have.html", "content_html": "I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
\n🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
\n\n\nRead. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
\n
💬 Nick Cave
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T15:57:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/i-feel-i-might-have.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/apple-repeats-release-date-for.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple Repeats Release Date for New Version of Siri – Asymco
\n\n\nNB: I’m told repetition is necessary in order for others to understand. Sometimes you’re supposed to say the same thing twice. Sometimes even three times. But still, some fail to grasp the idea.
\n
Tell ‘em what you are going to say.
\nTell ‘em.\nTell ‘em what you said.
…number one rule of any presentation.
\nThen again - there are so many comments made about Apple by people that clearly do not understand Apple that it is no surprise that this keeps slipping through.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T15:02:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/apple-repeats-release-date-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/the-top-longreads-of-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
\n@manton - saw this and thought might be an interesting spin on your new Longreads feed on Micro Blog.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T14:59:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/the-top-longreads-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/from-the-same-post-love.html", "content_html": "From the same post - love it. One day corporate decision makers will think before making decisions. (Or did some lowly dev make this decision all by themselves.)
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T14:46:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/from-the-same-post-love.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/network-map-of-bluesky-users.html", "content_html": "Sky’s website let you search for shows but, for some unfathomable reason, at the time required you to type in at least three letters. I said this was a problem, since Sky’s most popular and so presumably most searched-for series then was ER.
\n
🔗 Network map of Bluesky users.
\n\n\nTheo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow patterns. It is searchable and interactive.
\n
.. you can find you
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3107.png\")
.. and apparently I am specifically ‘there’ because that is where i fit with other followers ..
\nYou can also check your followers - and your followers' followers ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3108.png\")
Suddenly you could be ‘all over the place’.
\nStill not sure what someone like me can do with this - but who cares. It’s wonderful.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T09:10:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/network-map-of-bluesky-users.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/i-have-never-really-looked.html", "content_html": "I have never really looked into Ghost - but plenty of people have - and they tell me how great it is. And I have no reason to believe otherwise, so hard to believe that this has only just happened.
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T09:00:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/i-have-never-really-looked.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/the-broken-promise-of-reach.html", "content_html": "\nStarting today, automated welcome emails are now built right into Ghost .
\n
\n\nThe old promise of platforms will provide is broken.
\n
➕
\n\n\nYour authentic ideas are lost in a sea of algorithmic content designed for engagement.
\n
We’re not going back.
\nNow we need to build something new.
\nWhat we build is up to us.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:33:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/the-broken-promise-of-reach.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/theres-no-such-thing-as.html", "content_html": "🔗 There’s no such thing as Tech ~ Ten years later - Anil Dash
\nNot wrong - yet constantly amazed by how this isn’t main stream thinking - by any stretch of the imagination.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:32:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/theres-no-such-thing-as.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/chatgpt-in-a-kids-robot.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 ChatGPT in a kids robot does exactly what experts warned.
\nPlease watch.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:31:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/chatgpt-in-a-kids-robot.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/why-the-spacex-xai-merger.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why the SpaceX, xAI Merger, IPO, and Pivot to the Moon?
\nNo idea if this is right - and clearly neither does he - BUT - interesting read.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:29:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/why-the-spacex-xai-merger.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/turning-appadddict-into-a-fully.html", "content_html": "🔗 Turning AppAdddict into a Fully Searchable Archive with Integrity, Raindrop, and EagleFiler
\nI might have to borrow use some most of this from @louplummer.lol …
🔗 3D Printer Surveillance - Schneier on Security
\nOne day we will have people in positions that make laws that actually understand the stuff that they are making laws about,
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:27:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/d-printer-surveillance-schneier-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/horace-again-does-apples-ai.html", "content_html": "Horace again …
\n🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation?
\n\n\nUnlike many of its peers, Apple isn’t in the race to win AI benchmarks or translate those gains into tangible financial gains. It just needs those features to change behavior and pave the way for healthier services revenue.
\n
🍎 is not playing ‘our’ game - except for ‘announcements’ that for whatever reason they have decided to join. They clearly do not know how to play it and are losing. Badly.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:26:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/horace-again-does-apples-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/horace-iphone-only-smartphone-to.html", "content_html": "Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January
\nClearly 🍎 has lost the plot.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:22:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/horace-iphone-only-smartphone-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/the-forgotten-band-that-changed.html", "content_html": "🔗📼🎵 The forgotten band that changed British rock music.
\nIn all honesty - not a great video - but just happy to see The Strawbs being talked about.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:37:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/the-forgotten-band-that-changed.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/not-a-cover-totally-original.html", "content_html": "Not a cover - totally original - and brilliant as Ren often is.
\n🔗📼🎵 Ren - Vincent’s Tale - Starry Night
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:36:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/not-a-cover-totally-original.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/cover-loved-tears-for-fears.html", "content_html": "Cover 2
\nLoved Tears for Fears - Bluegrass not so much - BUT there is some superb Bluegrass work that leaks through to my appreciative ears.
\nLike this one.
\n📼🔗🎵 Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022) - YouTube
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:35:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/cover-loved-tears-for-fears.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/cover-loved-yes-never-a.html", "content_html": "Cover 1
\nLoved Yes - never a big fan of Asia - despite Asia often being made up of people I love … like Wetton, Howe, Palmer and Downes for example and Fanfare is one of my favourite ELP tracks.
\n(BTW - nothing like ELPs and IMHO a massive improvement.)
\n📼🔗🎵 Asia - Fanfare For The Common Man
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:34:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/cover-loved-yes-never-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/communities-are-not-fungible-economists.html", "content_html": "🔗 Communities are not fungible
\n\n\nEconomists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible. A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible.
\n
Just like ‘content’.
\nDont like that idea? Stop calling your work content.
\nMake IP Great Again
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:27:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/communities-are-not-fungible-economists.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/you-dont-need-democracy-if.html", "content_html": "🔗 You Don’t Need Democracy If You Don’t Have People
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T12:32:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/you-dont-need-democracy-if.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/information-superhighway-now-with-one.html", "content_html": "Will tech billionaires get rid of democracy by getting rid of people?
\n
🔗 Information Superhighway, Now With One Liquid Glass Button.
\nApp installed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T12:31:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/information-superhighway-now-with-one.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/loops-by-paul-ford-ftrain.html", "content_html": "🔗 Loops, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T12:29:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/loops-by-paul-ford-ftrain.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/bizcat-just-published-one-of.html", "content_html": "I’m trying to set up a working feedback loop: Fingers to keys; keys to sound; sound to ears; ears to brain; brain to fingers. Getting to anything like flow is very hard unless I’m going slow, slow.
\n
BizCat360 just published one of my articles: 🔗 Coherence Is The New Moat. #Enjoy
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T09:20:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/bizcat-just-published-one-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/11/razers-resurrected-yearold-gaming-mouse.html", "content_html": "🔗 Razer’s resurrected 25-year-old gaming mouse will cost you $1,337
\n.. but hurry - because they are only making 1,337 of them.
\nNo - I don’t understand the significance either.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-11T08:09:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/11/razers-resurrected-yearold-gaming-mouse.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/11/openai-is-not-open-the.html", "content_html": "OpenAI is not open. The irony❗️
\n🔗 Paolo ~ It’s still time for free AI love
\n\n\nThe thing is, we’re at a moment where the technology moves so fast that locking into a single vendor’s AI stack feels reckless. In the last few months we moved most of our work from OpenAI to Anthropic. Not because OpenAI is bad, but because Claude turned out to be better for what we do. In a few months we might move again. The point is that we can.
\n
➕
\n\n\nWe can because we own our prompts, our skills, our databases, our memory architecture, they all live in our bar. None of it lives inside OpenAI or Anthropic.
\n
Wise
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-11T08:07:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/11/openai-is-not-open-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/adam-tinworth-journalism-isnt-dying.html", "content_html": "Adam Tinworth … 🔗 Journalism isn’t dying
\n\n\nLess than a week after massive layoffs at the Washington Post which have sent shockwaves through the media world, this seems like a strange thing to say, but journalism is not dying. In fact, it’s in no danger of dying. It’s being reborn all around us, right now.
\n
Me back in 2018 : 🖇️ Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
\nI think it’s a related argument - add in the argument about ‘saving the planet - we are killing it’. Yes we are - but that os not the problem.
\nIn all three cases we are looking at the wrong thing.
\nIt was the music industry that was dying - not music - as that headline in 2018 highlights and as we see today. Not saying it isn’t hard. It is - but it is very much around.
\nAs for Climate Change - sure - it might wipe out humanity - but the planet will be just fine. Its a bugger what we are doing to it - but in all honesty if we werent around - the planet would recover.
\nSo too journalism.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T16:17:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/adam-tinworth-journalism-isnt-dying.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/three-bad-managers-rands-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Three Bad Managers – Rands in Repose
\n\n\nLet’s start with my belief that a manager’s job is to tell you where you are, and a leader’s job is to tell you where you are going.
\n
That is so good - and in so few words. Just G-R-E-A-T
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T16:08:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/three-bad-managers-rands-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/the-global-cost-of-living.html", "content_html": "🔗 The 2026 Global Cost of Living Index
\nIn New Zealand we hear a lot about how expensive things are. According to this index … ‘not so fast’ - because the New Zealand rating is less than half of New York - ground zero for this exercise.
\nThen again the average wage in NYC is twice the average Kiwi wage - so it all balances out.
\nBut surely, its not income we should be thinking - it’s disposable income.
\nOnce again - maybe we are measuring the wrong things really well ❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T16:07:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/the-global-cost-of-living.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/process-thinking-sure-you-made.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nSure, you made it work this time, but will it work next time?
\n
For me … yes.
\n\n\nCan you teach the method to someone else?
\n
If they want learn - which should be the question.
\n\n\nDo you have a protocol for what to do when it doesn’t work?
\n
I do not. Fair cop.
\n\n\nHow can someone else contribute to your process to make it better?
\n
Tell me. Ask questions. Point out logic flaws. It’s iterations - all the way down.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T15:57:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/process-thinking-sure-you-made.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/on-reading-this-naughton-missive.html", "content_html": "On reading 🔗 this Naughton missive - yes I was taken with the Banksy image - and …
\n\n\n❤️andalism
\n
.. of course. (Clever). But really my eyes were more drawn to the hostelry.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/43615d321d.jpg\")
A Youngs Pub? In Bristol? Life in Blighty has clearly improved since I left, because when I was a lad - finding a Youngs pub outside of Wandsworth was generally classed as a ‘bit of a find’.
\nThen again, when I was a lad I couldn’t pop over to their web site and look up things like this …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/62ef6297d7.jpg\")
Clearly Wandsworth is a lot bigger than I remember it.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T15:54:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/on-reading-this-naughton-missive.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/whoops-ai-toy-company-leaks.html", "content_html": "🔗 Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers | Techdirt
\nLet me repeat that.
\n50,000 Toddlers have had their chats leaked.
\nFile that in the bucket of headlines I didn’t expect to read today.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-10T11:26:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/whoops-ai-toy-company-leaks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/09/i-keep-playing-this-or.html", "content_html": "🔗📼🎵I keep playing this - or at least different versions of it - but this one mainly.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-09T12:14:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/09/i-keep-playing-this-or.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/the-world-heard-jd-vance.html", "content_html": "🔗 The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US (🍎📰 - but it’s The Grauniad - so not hard to find)
\nSo glad that the US supports free speech.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-08T18:02:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/08/the-world-heard-jd-vance.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/todays-surprise-from-history-is.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ is itself a surprise from history.
\nMeta❗️
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-08T14:22:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/08/todays-surprise-from-history-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/you-should-say-goodbye-i.html", "title": "You (Should) Say Goodbye - I (Definitely) Say Hello", "content_html": "Structured Thought Meets Music Meets The Business Equation … and probably more besides.
\n\n\nYou say yes, I say no,
\n
\nYou say stop, and I say go, go, go,
\nOh no.
\nYou say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello,
💬 Paul McCartney
\nFirst song from Paul after Brian Epstein (no relation) passed on to the next stage of his life …
\nWikipedia:
\n\n\n“It’s such a deep theme in the universe, duality – man woman, black white, ebony ivory, high low, right wrong, up down, hello goodbye – that it was a very easy song to write.” McCartney also said that, in “Hello, Goodbye”, he was promoting “the more positive side of the duality”.
\n
Which all came to mind this morning reading 🔗 this post by Manton Reece who observed …
\n\n\nIf everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise?
\n
To which I reply by quoting some lines from a less talented group of songwriters - and yet seem pertinent …
\n\n\nShooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
\n
💬 Those that believe they have won.
\nand
\n\n\nThe world is my oyster
\n
💬 Everyone else.
\n.. or perhaps more simply - as one door closes - another opens.
\nCorollary - not for everyone (the corpses of software companies that litter the technology freeway is testament to that.) … so what do we do?
\n\n \n
The shift that Manton is describing is right - but IMHO falls short of what a business needs in The Age of Engagement which is pretty much what I have been writing about for a while now ….
\nTwo Foundational Posts
\n\n🔗 The Age of Experience is Emerging
\nJust this past week
\n\n🔗 Engagement Platforms as Coherence Infrastructure
\nBonus Post
\n🔗 Marketing in 2025 (and 2026 it turns out)
\nFrom a marketing perspective - the 4Ps have been part of the lexicon of any marketeer on this planet since before I was born. But now …
\n\n\nsay goodbye
\n
… to the 4Ps: Price, Place, Product and Promotion
\n\n\nsay hello
\n
… to The 4Es : Exchange, Ease, Essence and Experience
\nPrice gives way to Exchange
\nNot what you charge. What you trade. Mutual value.
Place gives way to Ease
\nNot where you are. How frictionless you make it. If engagement hurts, product dies.
Product gives way to Essence
\nNot what you make. Who you are - through your customer’s eyes. Stop second guessing.
Promotion gives way to Experience
\nNot what you say. What they feel. Their perception is your only reality.
You say ‘goodbye’ to ‘Product Efficient Supply Chains’ while I say ‘hello’ to ‘Customer Effective Demand Networks’
(Those are two thought threads of mine that go back to the early oughts and are integral to The Business Equation.)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/2d43a268a6.jpg\")
When everyone can ship code (I know, I know), technical execution becomes table stakes - but I think although Manton’s words are different to my words he is recognising the shift that I keep describing … constraint has moved from PRODUCT to EXPERIENCE.
\nSo - back to Manton’s list;
\nThese aren’t the ‘other aspects’ of running a software business. They are now the primary aspects. Code is just infrastructure. In fact just last week, my friend and partner for the development of the apps we are building said just last week.
\n\n\nThe cost of code might be coming down - but people don’t buy code - they buy software.
\n
Actually - being who I am I think they are buying what the software will do for them - but that’s my marketing lens. What Tony was hitting on is right from th pot of what marketeers used to call ‘Full Product’.
\nThe 4Ps assumed scarcity of products, distribution and information, whilst the 4Es assumed abundance where engagement is the only moat.
\nManton’s list is actually part of The 4Es.
\nThe Age of Engagement isn’t coming. It’s here. Code is just catching up.
\nand clearly - Jimi was way ahead of his time! (But we knew that already. Right?)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/51ddefd8f7.jpg\")
\n \n
If you want to set some time to explore how all this can be used to help your business transition into the ‘Age of Experience’. 📅 Let’s Talk
\n\n ![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-0173.png\")
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ The Dems and Thugs agreed on something. Once.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-07T11:53:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/07/todays-surprise-from-history-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/07/i-am-english-i-understand.html", "content_html": "😂 I am English. I understand.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/2b8ddb3834.jpg\")
\nVia 🔗 Mathew Ingram
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-07T11:12:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/07/i-am-english-i-understand.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/07/i-agree-with-the-call.html", "title": "I Agree With ‘The Call’. I Totally Disagree With What That Means", "content_html": "TL;DR
\nContext as a product feature that SaaS vendors can package and sell is wrong thinking. It’s actually the foundational infrastructure layer that makes any system intelligently operational. Context is the operational intelligence that knows who, where, what, and how people interact across and with organisations and each other. In short - it is the essential layer that transforms disconnected capabilities into coherent, situationally-aware engagement.
\nScott Brinker writes: 🔗 The SaaS Moats Are Crumbling, but the Opportunity Is Bigger - and I agree - but not for the reasons he lays out.
\nI mean he even highlights things I talk about, like
\n\n\nContext.
\n
Not just in passing either, the article’s subtitle is
\n\n\nContext-as-a-Service (CaaS)
\n
I’ll just let that sit while you think about that for a moment - and return later.
\nBusiness are apparently moving on from being
\n\n\nsystems of record
\n
… with much more ‘relevant’ thinking …
\n\n\nsystems of truth or single source of truth.
\n
Cough - the ‘single source of truth’? New? A branding upgrade? We used to talk about the 🔗 single source of truth when I was part of Oracle - and 🖇️ as I pointed out recently - in my early days at Oracle - I had email - and could not use it to communicate with anybody outside of Oracle that I worked with … so we know that was a looooong time ago.
\nAnd systems of truth? Whose truth?
\nIf my cell company believes that my primary email is mickeymouse@philpin.com - because when they asked me for my primary email I gave them mickeymouse@philpin.com - that may well be their ‘truth’ - but it is certainly not mine.
\nBut back to ‘context’ …
\n\n\nContext is different. Context is personal and situational. It’s knowing not just what the data says, but what it means for this marketer making this decision, or for this customer in this moment.
\n
So why is it a new service? Spoiler Alert. It isn’t - unless you are going to add it to a list such as this;
\n\n\nContext is where domain expertise meets operational reality.
\n
… amongst many other things.
\n\n\nTruth implies something universal and static — the same for everyone, in every situation.
\n
It does. That’s why even 15 years ago - my mantra was
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/eef6ae5313.jpg\")
and as for ‘context’ being new thinking?
\nAnother one from the archives
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/05b9c0e0f1.jpg\")
🔗 You Are Not Crazy - by Rushkoff is an interesting piece.
\nIf you more aural than oral - 🔗🎙️this is the podcast version.
\nInteresting is not the same as great.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T16:06:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/you-are-not-crazy-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/todays-surprise-from-history-we.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ We are unfinished products up until the\nend.
\n.. on reflection - I am not sure I agree. The implication being that at the end we are suddenly ‘complete'❓ On the other hand - as far as the body is concerned - finished is definitely the conclusion.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T16:02:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/todays-surprise-from-history-we.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/i-hate-fish-rands-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 I Hate Fish ~ Rands in Repose
\nI read this - and my mind drifted back to an old ‘Martini Shot’ podcast where Rob was talking about the exact same thing - though with a great deal more humour.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T13:24:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/i-hate-fish-rands-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/anthropic-just-sent-shockwaves-through.html", "content_html": "🔗 Anthropic Just Sent Shockwaves Through the Entire Stock Market by Releasing a New AI Tool
\n\n\n\nEngagement platforms amplify whatever thinking you’ve put into them. If the thinking is clear and explicit, they amplify coherence. If it’s fuzzy and fragmented, they amplify fragmentation - but at scale. Everyone having AI tools doesn’t create coherence. It accelerates fragmentation.
\n
Be careful out there. It’s not easy.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T13:07:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-just-sent-shockwaves-through.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/tesla-stock-plummeting-since-musk.html", "content_html": "🔗 Tesla Stock Plummeting Since Musk Busted in Epstein Files
\n.. can’t deny its down - but then isn’t everywhere right now?
\n.. and plummeting?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/cleanshot-2026-02-06-at-14.02.202x.png\")
Call that a plummet?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T13:03:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/tesla-stock-plummeting-since-musk.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/ai-renting-human-bodies-in.html", "content_html": "\n… in case you were thinking that everything is ok.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T12:58:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/ai-renting-human-bodies-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/162011.html", "content_html": "🔗 Engagement Platforms as Coherence Infrastructure
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/5393ff94de.jpg\")
A slight restructure of this post - and so a reissue.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T17:21:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/162011.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/coherence-is-the-new-moat.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/9f136ed72e.jpg\")
Another post restructure - and reissue.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T17:20:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/coherence-is-the-new-moat.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? LongForm","People First","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/todays-surprise-from-history-road.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Road Trip
\n.. and it was a good - if short one - across the high desert - North of Palm Desert - other side of Joshua Tree - and beyond.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T15:05:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/todays-surprise-from-history-road.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/our-crazy-unhinged-now-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 Our Crazy Unhinged Now ~ On my Om
\n\n\nSixteen billion smackeroos is a gigantic amount of money. If you were to stack that much money in $100 bills vertically, you would be well past the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes. Roughly 11 miles.
\n
and yet
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:12:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/our-crazy-unhinged-now-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/trumpland-ramps-up-attacks-on.html", "content_html": "Waymo was the secondary story of the day.
\n
🔗 Trumpland Ramps Up Attacks On Netflix Warner Brothers Merger To Help Larry Ellison | Techdirt
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:09:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/trumpland-ramps-up-attacks-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/pace-layers-redux.html", "title": "Pace Layers - Redux", "content_html": "\nAfter Warner Brothers balked at Larry’s competing bid and a hostile takeover attempt, Larry tried to sue Warner Brothers. With that not going anywhere, Larry and MAGA have since joined forces to try and attack the Netflix merger across right wing media, falsely claiming that “woke” Netflix is attempting a “cultural takeover” that must be stopped for the good of humanity.
\n
\n\nAs you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get fewer and farther between.
\n
The Full Quote
\n\n\nAs you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get fewer and farther between. Everyone has something to say about nature. But to remain relevant in the higher and more turbulent layers you must update rapidly, and be correct more often than not. Few people are worth listening to about commerce or fashion. Most people’s ideas are simply out of date. At a certain point you reach the edge of what is known or talked about at all, and there are only a few people left. I will find you there, among the researchers, the reporters, the shamans and the spies.
\n
💬 ‘Deepfates’
\nI was referencing 🖇️🔎Pace Layers a few times through 2024 - and it very much ties to some of my recent thinking. More to come as I fold it all together.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:08:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/pace-layers-redux.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/jeff-bezos-is-destroying-whats.html", "content_html": "🔗 Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats
\nI still don’t get why he just doesn’t close it?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:01:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/jeff-bezos-is-destroying-whats.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/news-sites-are-bringing-comments.html", "content_html": "🔗 News Sites Are Bringing Comments Sections Back as a Paid Feature
\n… an idea lifted directly from Substack?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:01:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/news-sites-are-bringing-comments.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/todays-surprise-from-history-years.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 10 years ago I was trying to celebrate independent thinking.
\nStill trying ☹️
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T15:35:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/todays-surprise-from-history-years.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/the-user-guide-for-elite.html", "content_html": "🔗 The User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
\n\n\nThe Tool - Palantir
\n
A dash says so much.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T11:14:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/the-user-guide-for-elite.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/how-early-adopters-fall-behind.html", "title": "How Early Adopters Fall Behind ", "content_html": "\nIn that late 80s period Terence is writing about - I was part of Oracle and had email on my DEC terminal for communicating with others in the company around the world. Just gnashing my teeth over why people outside the company couldn’t see the benefit.
\nProbably because they understood that …
\n\n\na single computer terminal was likely to set you back around £3,000 - and that’s before you take into account message transmission costs.
\n
… better than I did
\nWhen Oracle moved me to California - I even had one of those terminals at home.
\nOf course - come the PC and laptop revolution they were so slow in adoption it was hard to understand that it was the same company.
\nIt was kind of like how use of mobiles in geographies with bad landline coverage resulted in exponentially faster adoption
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T11:13:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/how-early-adopters-fall-behind.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/ranked-the-most-valuable-sports.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ranked: The Most Valuable Sports Teams in 2026
\nIs it wrong of me to suggest that it speaks volumes about America’s challenges when you learn that not only are 19 of the most valuable sports teams in the world American - but that 13 of them are NFL teams.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T11:02:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/ranked-the-most-valuable-sports.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/will-they-inherit-our-blogs.html", "content_html": "🔗 Will They Inherit Our Blogs? | Kev Quirk
\n\n\nI’d love it if my sons took up blogging when they’re old enough to (that, and riding motorbikes!). But they’re their own people, and may not want to. If that’s the case, I just hope they’ll agree to keep my waffle online for a little while once I’m gone.
\n
I have been known to think about this myself. Not holding my breath for my work to remain online - then again - who knows?
\nBut - like Kev - pretty sure it won’t be my daughter 🤔
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T10:59:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/will-they-inherit-our-blogs.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/finally-manton-reece-developers-will.html", "content_html": "Finally ….
\n\n\n\ndevelopers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product
\n
Hopefully that will not only be about Design and Interface, but also navigation and simplicity and all else that drives me nuts with too many apps. (Most if I am honest - some I stick with.)
\nIn December 🔗🎙️Lenny talked with Elena Verna - head of growth at Lovable - and on the way through commented that ‘Minimum Viable Product’ is now table stakes - we need to be building Minimum Loveable Products.
\nOk - self serving naming - but it is the same kind of thinking.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T10:57:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/finally-manton-reece-developers-will.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/national-transport-toy-museum-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 National Transport & Toy Museum in Wanaka | Atlas Obscura
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/5346a765e8.jpg\")
\n\nIt’s impossible to describe everything that’s here: cars spanning the Morris Minor to a Ferrari 400I, Air New Zealand airplanes, almost every type of Lego set, a Barbie section, and vintage items like cast-iron banks and typewriters.
\n
Not sure I understand how typewriters fit into the museums theme … but it continues to amaze how much stuff like this floats around New Zealand.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T10:48:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/national-transport-toy-museum-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/uk-eta-strict-enforcement-begins.html", "content_html": "🔗 UK ETA Strict Enforcement Begins 25 February
\nWhen you submit your application - you should always ask
\n🔗 Ranking CFO Compensation: The Top Earners
\nClick through and you read
\n\n\nWhat a CFO’s Hour is Worth
\n
It’s not the first time I have had cause to highlight the langauge problem … the graphic reveals what they are being paid.
\n🔗 Scripting News: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
\n\n\nI don’t understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing the output of an app so other apps can use it as input.
\n
I understand - it forms the foundation of one if my new modules in the Engagement Platform we are building.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T10:43:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/scripting-news-tuesday-february-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/a-public-service-announcement-microsoft.html", "content_html": "A Public Service Announcement
\n🔗 Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys - Schneier on Security
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T10:40:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/a-public-service-announcement-microsoft.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/03/todays-surprise-from-history-years.html", "content_html": "Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 6 years ago it looks like I discovered my test blog.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-03T15:37:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/03/todays-surprise-from-history-years.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/i-mean-i-could-have.html", "content_html": "I mean I could have just pasted the whole article now I look down this post.
\n🔗 Why Tech (&) Media is complicated – On my Om
\n\n\nObviously, he didn’t respond. He didn’t have to. Maybe he was worried that an old-school reporter like me would do my homework and ask basic, but tough questions. The kind of questions that used to be standard fare, but now they get you ignored.
\n
and
\n\n\nI told founders to step back and think about why their stories mattered to anyone but themselves
\n
and
\n\n\nWe built systems that reward acceleration, and we act surprised when everything feels rushed, shallow, a little manic. The algorithm doesn’t care if something is true. It cares if it moves. Nothing moves like titillation, gossip, and startup psychodrama.
\n
and
\n\n\nA16z’s backing no longer means what Sequoia’s meant in 2005, and a TechCrunch launch no longer means what it did in 2008. The technology ecosystem is noise. Its media outlets are just the outward expression of that noise
\n
and
\n\n\nThere are fewer than a dozen journalists I can name-check those who don’t disappoint. Nilay Patel of The Verge for example.
\n
… totally agree. When he took his paternity break recently .. he had some good names stand in for him … don’t think I ever got to the end of any of them. A couple I knew not to even start.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T22:11:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/i-mean-i-could-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/ranked-the-most-reliable-car.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ranked: The Most Reliable Car Brands in 2026
\nI listened to the CEO from the 26th most reliable brand on this list talk to Ms. Swisher the other day. That conversation alone was sufficient for me to want one of his cars.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T22:08:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/ranked-the-most-reliable-car.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/how-to-grow-old-bertrand.html", "content_html": "🔗 How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life – The Marginalian
\n\n\nMake your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being
\n
I have no idea why I have so much to share from Maria - other than my RSS feed was suddenly full of her posts for some reason - so why not share the love.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T22:06:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/how-to-grow-old-bertrand.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/todays-surprise-from-history-and.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ And Bibi’s been wagging it ever since
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T21:43:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/todays-surprise-from-history-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/your-life-is-the-sum.html", "content_html": "🔗 Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T21:42:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/your-life-is-the-sum.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/01/todays-surprise-from-history-it.html", "content_html": "Then we spend the actual substance of our lives doing laundry and feeling crappy about it…
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ It was a great blog in 2022. Still is.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-01T21:48:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/01/todays-surprise-from-history-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/01/telling-that-moltbookcom-where-humans.html", "content_html": "Telling that 🔗 moltbook.com - where humans are invited to observe agentic ai chatting amongst themselves - offers no RSS feed. What’s that about?
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-01T09:11:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/01/telling-that-moltbookcom-where-humans.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/todays-surprise-from-history-apparently.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Apparently my language pedantry is not new.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T21:49:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/todays-surprise-from-history-apparently.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/when-eds-on-a-roll.html", "content_html": "When Ed’s on a roll … Ed’s on a roll
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T16:13:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/when-eds-on-a-roll.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/ranked-the-countries-with-the.html", "content_html": "“Stargate” is commonly misunderstood as a Trump program, or something that has raised $500 billion, when what it actually is is Oracle raising debt to build data centers for OpenAI. Instead of staying in its lane as a dystopian datacenter mobster, Oracle entered into negative-to-extremely-low margin realm of GPU rentals, raising $58 billion in debt and signing $248 billion in data center leases to service a 5-year-long $300 billion contract with OpenAI that it doesn’t have the capacity for and OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay for.
\n
🔗 Ranked: The 35 Countries with the Highest Household Debt - that is highest a percentage of GDP.
\nNew Zealand comes in a 5th, the UK 11th and the USA - 13th.\nSeperately both Australia and Canada beat out New Zealand for the ‘top 5 honors’.
\nNot sure what that all means. I certainly can’t see obvious corolations with others on the list.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T16:12:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/ranked-the-countries-with-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/trump-demands-billion-from-taxpayers.html", "content_html": "\n… and why shouldn’t he? He was wronged. And anyone who tells him different will be sent to the gulag. Tяump - you are wrong.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T16:07:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/trump-demands-billion-from-taxpayers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/theatre-review-the-hitchhikers-guide.html", "content_html": "🔗 Theatre Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy – Immersive Experience – Terence Eden’s Blog
\nTickets start at £42.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-31T16:04:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/theatre-review-the-hitchhikers-guide.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/back-on-to-content-again.html", "title": "Back On To Content Again.", "content_html": "Chris Lockhead posted 🔗 this on LinkedIN
\n\n\nIt’s LinkedIn oatmeal.
\n
Chris is right, so I replied:
\nContent is homogenous, undifferentiated and fully interchangeable with any other content - like any other ‘grain’ that sits in a silo.
\nIf so - content it is. If not - guess what - it is not content. So don’t call it content.
\nContent is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word and so - like a grain of wheat - any individual piece of ‘content’ has no value. The value is in the total silo.
\nIt is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the ‘buyers’ (I use the term loosely) of our sweat, labour, thought and time to create our IP - to keep their costs down. So, content is what THEY will continue to call it. Don’t fall into that trap.
\nOur costs are not kept down. Our net earnings do suffer. They are suffering badly.
\nOh - and a quick reminder - been saying this for years. As have others - like 🖇️ Will Arnett talking to Dana Gould
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-31T12:19:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/back-on-to-content-again.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Organisations"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/todays-surprise-from-history-reich.html",
"content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Reich calling it Oct 31, 2018
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T15:47:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/todays-surprise-from-history-reich.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/06/the-chelsea-detective-so-far.html", "title": "📺 The Chelsea Detective ★★★", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e59ffdb87e.jpg\")
Originally Published: Jun 6th, 2025
\nUpdated: Jan 30th, 2026
\n\nOne of those gentle English detective shows that holds it all together pretty constantly. And scenes from all around Chelsea, London .. suitably scenic advertising from time to time. Good stories. Nice characters. Nothing bad.
\n
\n\nSeries 1 ★★★
\n
\n\nNothing extra to say.
\n
\n\nSeries 2 ★★★
\n
\n\nStill nothing extra to say.
\n
\n\nSeries 3 ***
\n
\n\nAfter the first episode I knew it wasn’t going to be a binge watch. It wasn’t. But my star rating didn’t change.
\n
🔗 The Chelsea Detective on Reelgood
\n\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n![\"Run](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/hc.png\")
\n\n\nNot all Harlan is good Harlan … this is good Harlan.
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\nAjay quoting Joe Boyd …
\n🔗 Joe Boyd - linking to a quote via @ajay.
\nIt is a great quote from ‘White Bicycles’. And I know that Wikipedia positions him as a ‘producer’ - but for me is so much more - not the least of which is that he also wrote ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain’ Those those two masterpieces alone should guarantee him a place in our conversation around musical culture.
\nNow add that without him - no Pink Floyd, no Fairport Convention - and thus no Richard Thompson. How about Nick Drake - not to mention no ‘UFO’ - or ‘Duelling Banjos’?
\nOk - maybe some of these artists … all(?) would have broken through without him - but equally - ‘producer’ doesn’t quite say it. Does it?
", "date_published": "2026-01-29T14:55:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/joe-boyd-so-much-more.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/todays-surprise-from-history-waving.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ ‘Waving Canes’ back in 2019 - maybe time to formalise @bradenslen / @mitchwagner ❓
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T09:14:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/todays-surprise-from-history-waving.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/cancer-might-protect-against-alzheimers.html", "content_html": "🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s.
\nAnd vice versa apparently.
\nIf correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T08:41:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/cancer-might-protect-against-alzheimers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/you-can-just-say-no.html", "content_html": "🔗 You Can Just Say No to the Data - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
\nYou can - but perhaps a better thought is to consider the data, ask where it comes from, how was it arrived at, who compiled it, whether it’s relevant and … and …and
\n.. is - I think - basically what Jim is saying … so unclear where the title came from.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T08:39:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/you-can-just-say-no.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/age-verification-on-roblox-using.html", "content_html": "🔗 Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good – FlowingData
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T08:35:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/age-verification-on-roblox-using.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/wellington-new-zealand-from-a.html", "content_html": "In fact, WIRED has found multiple examples of people advertising age-verified accounts for minors as young as 9 years old on eBay for as little as $4.
\n
🔗 Wellington, New Zealand - from a (not so) different time.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T08:34:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/wellington-new-zealand-from-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/just-my-opinion-writes-derekpeden.html", "content_html": "When the Fischer-Spassky match #2 was being played in Yugoslavia, I relied on the moves of the games being faxed to me.
\n
🔗 Just My Opinion writes @derekpeden
\nMaybe - but an excellent hierarchy. Going forward .. could well be adopting. Thank you sir.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T08:19:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/just-my-opinion-writes-derekpeden.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/28/how-you-say-it-i.html", "content_html": "\nI guess Tяump reads Seth (or Hugh), because three mods gets you to ..
\n\n\nUnified messaging is the ability to change people with your propaganda, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the perception.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-28T14:10:12+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/28/how-you-say-it-i.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/28/todays-surprise-from-history-remember.html",
"content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Remember Clubhouse❓ Me .. back in ‘21
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-28T08:23:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/28/todays-surprise-from-history-remember.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/the-last-frontier.html", "title": "📺 The Last Frontier ★★★", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3076.png\")
\n\nFirst couple of episodes and - meh. Even so much as parked it for a looong while - until the other day …
\n
\n\n… and thought to try Episode 3 and it got me. I thought it was only 6 episodes - so binged the next 3 and - I after the rollercoaster - a truly disappointing end. Or so I thought.
\n
\n\nThe ‘next episode’ invite came up - and the next night - followed through - assuming just another episode - have you noticed how odd numbers are appearing in episodes?
\n
\n\nLong story short - TEN episodes - and the roller coaster of episodes 4 to 6 were nothing compare to 7 to 10.
\n
\n\nIt blurs - but I seem to recall that 8 and 9 were both more than satisfactory endings - but then ….
\n
\n\nEnd of ten = END.
\n
\n\nExcept of course series 2 is definitely set up.
\n
🔗 The Last Frontier on Reelgood
\n\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n🔗🎵 Be My Testimony: The Story behind Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer.”
\nFascinating
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:26:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/be-my-testimony-the-story.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/americans-are-paying-for-tariffs.html", "content_html": "🔗 Americans are paying for tariffs
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:25:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/americans-are-paying-for-tariffs.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/an-update-to-this-published.html", "content_html": "By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
\n
🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021
\n\n\nI have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.
\n
💬 Lindsay Graham
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:20:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/an-update-to-this-published.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/perhaps-we-really-do-live.html", "content_html": "\n\n“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”
\n
💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)
\n\nI wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:16:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/perhaps-we-really-do-live.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/your-blogroll-anywhere-courtesy-of.html", "content_html": "Your blogroll, anywhere - courtesy of Chris Hannah.
\nOnly on free - but at 2 bucks a month - that could change very soon.
\n🔗 I am liking the potential of this a lot …
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T12:42:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/your-blogroll-anywhere-courtesy-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/todays-surprise-from-history-when.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ When They Got There - The Cupboard Was Bare.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T08:56:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/todays-surprise-from-history-when.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/the-empathy-of-instructions-seth.html", "content_html": "🔗 The empathy of instructions | Seth
\nYes and if you are in tech development - particularly indie developers ( not all ) this also means you. The assumptions made in help files, forums and even the products are extraordinary. I firmly believe this why really cool stuff doesn’t take off.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T13:35:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/the-empathy-of-instructions-seth.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/timelines-for-people-references-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
\nFun graphic.
\nMy mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.
\nTurns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T13:35:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/timelines-for-people-references-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/theres-a-welldocumented-dynamic-in.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T13:32:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/theres-a-welldocumented-dynamic-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/todays-surprise-from-history-truth.html", "content_html": "Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Truth From Ted - not that one.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T13:21:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/todays-surprise-from-history-truth.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/these-bands-honestly-sounded-like.html", "content_html": "🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet
\nNot to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.
\n\nThere is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:51:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/there-is-no-advantage-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/dead-center-futility-closet-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dead Center | Futility Closet
\n\n\nIn a shooting match, Andryusha, Volodya, and Borya each fired 6 shots, and each totaled 71 points. Andryusha’s first 2 shots earned him 22 points, and Volodya’s first shot earned 3 points.
\n
Click through for the actual puzzle - one that had me for a minute building a pretty complex table of scores. And then I solved it in 2 seconds. NO tables needed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:49:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/dead-center-futility-closet-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/the-joy-ofneonoir-just-linking.html", "content_html": "\nJust linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.
\nSurprised they never became a movie series.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:42:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/the-joy-ofneonoir-just-linking.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/the-ios-adoption-rate-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
\n\n\nBut the overwhelming majority of Apple users — especially iPhone users — just let their devices update automatically. They might like iOS 26’s changes, they might dislike them, or they might not care or even notice. But they just let their software updates happen automatically — and they will form the entirety of their opinions regarding iOS 26 after it’s running on their iPhones.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nHave to say I need to adjust my feeds that seem to be swamped with how bad xxx26 is. Talk about ‘first world problems’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:39:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/the-ios-adoption-rate-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/setapp-ignored-rejected-an-app.html", "content_html": "🔗 Setapp ignored (rejected?) an app for not using AI
… is not something I expected to read today - triangulation needed.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:38:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/setapp-ignored-rejected-an-app.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/keyness-bancor-idea-needs-revisiting.html", "content_html": "🔗 Keynes’s Bancor idea needs revisiting in wake of Trump
\nPersonally - I would say ‘in wake of Trump’ is not a qualifier.
\nBretton Woods was 80 years ago - things have changed - even without Tяump - like when Nixon killed it.
\nKeynes ‘wanted something other than the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency because he knew that it would bestow on the US an “exorbitant privilege” - turns out he was right.
\n‘There would be a separate system of “use it or lose it” pressure designed to force wealthy nations to spend their surpluses on imports from debtor nations, stimulating global trade rather than letting capital sit idle.'
\nAND TIL: History really does rhyme;
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:36:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/keyness-bancor-idea-needs-revisiting.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/25/todays-surprise-from-history-june.html", "content_html": "Harry Dexter White, a US Treasury official who was later accused of espionage for Russia. He dominated the 1944 conference, and his plan prevailed.
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ June 2022 - it all seemed so innocent
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-25T16:22:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/25/todays-surprise-from-history-june.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/25/a-video-not-for-the.html", "content_html": "A video … not for the feint of heart.
\n🔗 On TikTok the link is Substack
\nTen shots in 5 seconds.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-25T09:10:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/25/a-video-not-for-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/why-because-it-bloody-is.html", "content_html": "Why❓
\nBecause it bloody is - 🔗📼 It’s Raining - AGAIN
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T17:04:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/why-because-it-bloody-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/thrustday-from-doc-opening-with.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/philpin-wide.png\")
\n🔗 Thrustday - From Doc, opening with
\n\n\nThis is a slash: / This is a backslash: \\
\n
Me? - I am more of a backlash kind of a guy … as it says on my Wiki somewhere …
\nThe backslash is the meeting point between PHI (Φ) (people) and PIN (Your tech ‘ID’).
\nIt started as an attempt at a visual representation of what PHI⑊PIN is all about - where people and technology intersect.
\nI think that φ (phi) representing the golden ratio only adds to the weight of the brand given my focus on ‘Structured Thought’ and relying on the heavy use of models and images to convey ideas.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/93273b2e01.png\")
\n// @jsonbecker … did not have you down as a ‘Tree/Wilson’ fan - but that track is sooo good. Hell - the whole album for that matter. I also agree that …
\n\n\nIt’s incredible what a good teacher can help you with.
\n
… but maybe as a child of not one - but two - teachers provides a bias?
\nANYWHO
\nWhen Wilson moved into solo work - he had Guthrie Govan as his lead guitar - now THAT is some playing - and he is known for lessons and tips …
\n🔗a personal favourite on ‘intervals.
\n🔗 JSON - Great teachers are a huge short cut
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T11:33:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/jsonbecker-did-not-have-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/macos-tahoe-broke-finder-columns.html", "content_html": "🔗 MacOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view
\nI must run on a different Tahoe to some people. NO idea how that floating menu appears - I have a drop down - and I can hover over a column line and make it wider or narrower - easy.
\nAnd I know nothing.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T10:19:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/macos-tahoe-broke-finder-columns.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/bari-weisss-cbs-news-wont.html", "content_html": "🔗 Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Condemn Israel for Killing Its Contributor
\n🔗 Trump warns U.S. “armada” heading to Iran; death toll in protest crackdown tops 5,000 - NBC News 🍎 News
\nSharing - because I am trying to work out how many armadas can despatch in one go. Any ideas❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T10:13:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/trump-warns-us-armada-heading.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ A 3 year old enhancement request that IMHO remains a good idea but has. not been implented.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T09:24:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/23/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 2019 - a silouette
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-23T13:29:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/23/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/22/todays-surprise-from-history-heel.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Hell remains frozen - but it was only a couple of months ago.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-22T13:31:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/22/todays-surprise-from-history-heel.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/21/scripting-news-monday-january-at.html", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: Monday, January 19, 2026 - At least he called it Twitter - but why give it any recognition❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-21T14:13:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/21/scripting-news-monday-january-at.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/21/the-world-is-unravelling-or.html", "content_html": "🔗 The World is Unravelling, or How Trump’s War on Europe Will Transform the Global Economy
\nAnother Umair and written before today’s decline.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-21T14:10:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/21/the-world-is-unravelling-or.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/20/todays-surprise-from-history-my.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ My 2021 Three Words
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-21T13:25:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/todays-surprise-from-history-my.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/20/if-you-havent-already-seen.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 If you haven’t already seen this - here it is again - without the ending cropped. 🤷🏻♂️
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-20T14:12:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/if-you-havent-already-seen.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/20/im-going-to-dig-a.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-20T14:10:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/im-going-to-dig-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/20/meanwhile-in-la-aipowered-surveillance.html", "content_html": "He taught me that no one knows where inspiration comes from — only that it’s fragile, invaluable, and fleeting.
\n
Meanwhile in LA - 🔗 AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools.
\nI’ll let you click through to the quote that Bruce Schneier has on his site.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-20T14:09:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/meanwhile-in-la-aipowered-surveillance.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/20/todays-surprise-from-history-nasa.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ NASA and Shovels
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-20T13:27:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/todays-surprise-from-history-nasa.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/17/the-morning-show.html", "title": "📺 The Morning Show ★★★", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/b21e4963f4.jpg\")
\n
Originally Published: Dec 17th, 2023
\nUpdated: Jan 19th, 2026
\n\nIt took me a while to finally get round to watching .. but when I did … well .. I was in. I liked how they wove in current events … would love to know exactly how soon after those events were happening that it appeared on the stream.
\n
Update
\nOverall thought it very good. Did my life change after watching it? No.
\nHere have been some zingers I saw on series 3 … forget about them … just watch it. It’s television for goodness sake.
\nSeries 1 ★★★
\n\n\nIt took me a long time to start for whatever reason - but finished very quickly.
\n
Series 2 ★★★
\n\n\nNothing extra to say.
\n
Series 3 ★★★
\n\n\nNothing extra to say.
\n
Series 4 ★★★
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick on the link below if you are interested in how the stars translate\n\nThe quality continues. It’s never been a show I binged - and was late to Series 1 - but it doesn’t ever disappoint - provided we remember it is a TV Show❗️
\n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\nToday’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ in 2020 - proud of my ‘Drafts Inbox; having only 6 entries. - compare and contrast to 259 as of this morning.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-19T09:02:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/19/todays-surprise-from-history-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/todays-surprise-from-history-biggest.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Biggest surprise here is that it is still marked 🚧 - so I guess I need to finish it off!
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T13:43:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/todays-surprise-from-history-biggest.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/wikipedia-turns-what-editing-taught.html", "content_html": "🔗 Wikipedia Turns 25: What Editing Taught Me - is a great read.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T12:31:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/wikipedia-turns-what-editing-taught.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/the-tyranny-of-the-town.html", "title": "The Tyranny of the Town Square", "content_html": "The internet was supposed to celebrate differences. Instead, it’s weaponised conformity. We’ve narrowed acceptable discourse to a narrow band. A band where ±1 standard deviation seems to be too wide and anything outside the ‘consensus’ gets you piled on. (Consensus with a very loud and increasingly violent minority.) The phrase vive la différence is nearly extinct in modern English, and it shows. We are not ignorant of diversity - we’re terrified of it. So we hide the messy, interesting parts of ourselves and perform an acceptable vanilla version for the town square.
\nThe result? A society suffocating under its own self-censorship. The crowd isn’t forcing us to conform - we’re doing it preemptively, trading authenticity for safety. We’ve accepted the bargain that you’re either with us or against us, and nobody wants to find out what happens if you dare explore the edges.
\nThe road less taken isn’t less travelled anymore; it’s invisible.
\nThis prompted on reading Om this morning: Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World, but it isn’t a new theme of mine … or indeed others …
\n🖇️🔎 Here’s a few from the archives.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T12:30:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/the-tyranny-of-the-town.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/the-sorting-seths-blog-but.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780061971082?title=Tunneling+to+the+Center+of+the+Earth&author=Kevin+Wilson&cover_id=253757_/cover.jpg\")
\nAnother From Seth
\n\n\n\nBut now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards.
\n
Really great analogy - and IMHO - infinitely superior to the Pluribus analogy - at least my takeaway of same - although that is a different post.
\nThat said - it would be so much easier if Seth not only came checked the story’s author - but maybe added a link?
\nSo you don’t have to dive down the rabbit hole ..
\n🔗📚 The book (Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth) .. that contains the short story
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T10:27:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/the-sorting-seths-blog-but.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/and-when-they-dont-we.html", "title": "And when they don't, we judge competence, take it personally, make assumptions, or shut down.", "content_html": "🖇️ What’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other
\nQuoting the quote:
\n\n\nI’ve been thinking about how quickly we’ve adapted to working with AI. We all understand the deal. If the output is bad, it’s probably on us. The prompt was vague. The context was missing. We didn’t give it enough constraints.\nSo we revise. We clarify. We try again.\nNo frustration. No judgment. Just iteration.
\n
I know right? … and then the clincher
\n\n\nWhat’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other. Somewhere along the way, we learned to treat machines as systems that need better inputs–but we still treat humans as if they should just know. And when they don’t, we judge competence, take it personally, make assumptions, or shut down.
\n
Guilty. NO argument. Going to try harder.
\nThe link above also references:
\n\nBut better to read 🔗 UXtopian
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T10:19:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/and-when-they-dont-we.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/the-cost-of-american-exceptionalism.html", "content_html": "👀 🔗 The Cost of American Exceptionalism
\nAbsolutely eye opening and mind boggling.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T10:13:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/the-cost-of-american-exceptionalism.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/youve-probably-already-seen-the.html", "content_html": "You’ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎵musical part - 🔗📼 just so good
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-18T10:08:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/youve-probably-already-seen-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/17/todays-surprise-from-history-bit.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Bit by bit we are being divided and ‘taken out’. That was 2022.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-17T16:33:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/17/todays-surprise-from-history-bit.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/17/just-discovered-linchpin-by-seth.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781591844099/cover.jpg\")
\nJust discovered 🔗📚 Linchpin by Seth Godin - and I wonder how I missed it - because I wonder if it is a twist on my ‘Blue Ocean of Org Charts’ - will try to find the post.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-17T08:27:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/17/just-discovered-linchpin-by-seth.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/16/todays-surprise-from-history-national.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 2019 - national gun awareness day.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-16T14:31:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/16/todays-surprise-from-history-national.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/16/apples-pro-bundle-makes-sense.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.
\nCORRECT
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-16T08:34:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/16/apples-pro-bundle-makes-sense.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/16/back-when-i-was-a.html", "content_html": "A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?
\n
Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah
\nBUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.
\nWell - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.
\nWhich is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-16T08:30:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/16/back-when-i-was-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/16/mad-magazine-autostereogram-cutecore-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
\n\n\nThe end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere.\nWe should plan accordingly.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-16T08:22:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/16/mad-magazine-autostereogram-cutecore-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/15/via-adactio-your-website-wont.html", "content_html": "Via @adactio
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-15T14:36:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/15/via-adactio-your-website-wont.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/15/todays-surprise-from-history-this.html", "content_html": "Your website won’t appear in search results unless you explicitly opt in.
\n
\nYour website will be used as training data unless you explicitly opt out.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ This was two years ago … nothing has changed
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-15T04:36:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/15/todays-surprise-from-history-this.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/14/daring-fireball-jackass-of-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
\nI dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works fine.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-14T16:53:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/14/daring-fireball-jackass-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/14/todays-surprise-from-history-reflecting.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Reflecting on the pillow guy back in 2022 - and thinking also how easily it all went away.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-14T08:39:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/14/todays-surprise-from-history-reflecting.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/17/todays-surprise-from-history-retro.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Retro.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-13T09:29:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/17/todays-surprise-from-history-retro.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/12/you-can-find-these-headlines.html", "content_html": "🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
\nThis particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
\nSo colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bd0ca92f60.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-12T11:42:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/12/you-can-find-these-headlines.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/12/seth-writes-make-and-take.html",
"content_html": "Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
\nIf you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is your man
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/cleanshot-2026-01-12-at-11.02.072x-copy.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-12T10:04:22+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/12/seth-writes-make-and-take.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/12/a-culture-where-only-seeing.html",
"content_html": "🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-12T09:57:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/12/a-culture-where-only-seeing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/12/keeping-the-light-on-doc.html", "content_html": "🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
\n\n\n\nThere cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
\n
💬 Keisei Tagami
\n.. and as I have said myself
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-12T09:54:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/12/keeping-the-light-on-doc.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/12/todays-surprise-from-history-filling.html", "content_html": "death defines life.
\n
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Filling in some Burbank history.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-12T08:54:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/12/todays-surprise-from-history-filling.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/one-from-patrick-i-watched.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n\nI watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing.\nHis name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos.\nI know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car.\nThey don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T16:12:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/one-from-patrick-i-watched.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/the-most-influential-prog-band.html", "content_html": "If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane…\nThere is no difference.\nThink on that.\nWe all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then.\nWe live there now.
\n
🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee
\nNot wrong IMHO.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T13:12:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/the-most-influential-prog-band.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/todays-surprise-from-history-back.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T08:46:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/todays-surprise-from-history-back.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/guilty-surely-not-a-quick.html", "title": "Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.", "content_html": "🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript
\nSo I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question …
\n\n\nPlease only consider this document and no other information. Bottom line - if you were the judge - would you find the defendant guilty or innocent. If guilty - on what counts. For each of those counts - What SHOULD the punishment be, what would the punishment be and what could the punishment be.\nPlease keep succinct.
\n
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: This is one-sided testimony from the prosecutor. A judge would require actual evidence presented at trial, cross-examination, and defense arguments. This deposition alone is insufficient for judgment.
\nThat said, based ONLY on Smith’s testimony here:
\nGUILTY ON:
\nSENTENCING (per guidelines):
\nTotal: Likely consecutive sentences totaling 5-13 years
", "date_published": "2026-01-11T08:42:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/guilty-surely-not-a-quick.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? AI Expts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/tim-cook-and-sundar-pichai.html", "content_html": "🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy
\nHard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T08:33:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/tim-cook-and-sundar-pichai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/thought-shrapnel-i-have-no.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?
\n
My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T08:28:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/thought-shrapnel-i-have-no.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/just-pulling-some-history-to.html", "content_html": "Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.
\n\n\nStable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system.\nThe same pressures are put on any individual in our culture.\nSooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
\n
🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform
\n[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-11T08:24:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/just-pulling-some-history-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/todays-surprise-from-history-from.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T08:33:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/todays-surprise-from-history-from.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/my-mornings-peruse-of-my.html", "content_html": "🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’
\nThis is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash
\nNot about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.
\nFinal paragraph
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T08:20:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/my-mornings-peruse-of-my.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/the-genius-whose-simple-invention.html", "content_html": "The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.
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🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.
\nSharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.
\n\n\nWhat does the arrow say
\n
.. asked Cliff … 🤯
\nIn all my years of driving I had never known this.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T08:17:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/the-genius-whose-simple-invention.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/john-gruber-at-daring-fireball.html", "content_html": "John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….
\n🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)
\n🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
\n🔗 Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
\n🔗 Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T08:13:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/john-gruber-at-daring-fireball.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/daily-words-via-flowing-data.html", "content_html": "\nVia 🔗 Flowing Data
\nNot yet decided if this is meaningful or just ‘lightly meta’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T07:47:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/daily-words-via-flowing-data.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/claude-the-good-the-project.html", "content_html": "Claude
\nThe good: 🔗 The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
\n… and the bad: 🔗 Claude Code and What Comes Next
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T07:43:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/claude-the-good-the-project.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/10/he-acted-according-to-his.html", "content_html": "\n\nHe acted according to his training," Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman.
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He acted according to his training … is an expert marksman.
\n[🔗 The Star Tribune)(https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214)
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T05:42:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/he-acted-according-to-his.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/09/cynthia-knight-composed-this-in.html", "content_html": "\n\nCynthia Knight composed this in 1983 - a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.
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That second part bears repeating …. a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.
\nNow click through and read it. Marvellous stuff.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-09T11:07:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/09/cynthia-knight-composed-this-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/09/todays-surprise-from-history-the.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ The Simple Life
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-09T08:30:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/09/todays-surprise-from-history-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/very-clever-imho-blenheim-palace.html", "content_html": "Very clever - IMHO
\n🔗 Blenheim Palace Launches New Tour Exploring Servant Scandals, Secrets, and Supernatural Tales
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:42:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/08/very-clever-imho-blenheim-palace.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/xkcd-superstition-so-good.html", "content_html": "If you’ve ever wandered through a grand British stately home and wondered about the lives of those who actually kept the place running, Blenheim Palace has a new tour designed specifically for you
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🔗😂 xkcd: Superstition - so good.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:35:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/08/xkcd-superstition-so-good.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/is-trump-going-to-start.html", "content_html": "🔗 Is Trump Going to Start a World War? Or, the Price Americans Will Pay For One
\n—
\n\n\nIt’s one thing to say: America can’t be depended on anymore to be a friend and ally. It’s another to say: America can’t be trusted not to invade, conquer, or control you. These are different levels of breakdown in relationships. The first is a lack of trust. But the second is a breach and betrayal.
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—
\n\n\nEven with all its guns and bombs, can America conquer the entire world? Of course not. In the end, the world will win this foolish game, and America must lose.\nThat is where this road begins.\nWhere it ends is with the world demanding that America, in the end, make good for the harm it is doing now, and will continue to do. And the world has the power to enforce that, too, because of course, it owns America’s debt. In this way, too, impoverishment beckons for Americans.
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🖇️ I have remarked on this before.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:34:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/08/is-trump-going-to-start.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/why-isnt-online-age-verification.html", "content_html": "Here are less obvious ones. The EU retaliates not militarily, but financially. It goes nuclear, and dumps its US assets, from stocks to bonds. Bang. There go America’s 401Ks. China joins it, and things go from bad to worse. And of course, because they don’t want to be left holding assets worth pennies on the dollar, Japan and the Arab states race in, too.\nThe stakes now are stark and severe. I don’t think that Americans, at least many of them, fully grasp where they are.
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🔗 Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person? | Techdirt
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:29:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/08/why-isnt-online-age-verification.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/stop-doing-seo-why-ai.html", "content_html": "🔗 Stop doing SEO: Why AI search favours quality writing
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:29:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/08/stop-doing-seo-why-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/10/todays-surprise-from-history-i.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ I should do more Snickelcasts
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T08:29:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/10/todays-surprise-from-history-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/07/todays-surprise-from-history-dont.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Don’t Trust The Silos
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-07T09:40:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/07/todays-surprise-from-history-dont.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/06/manton-small-developers-especially-generalists.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nSmall developers (especially generalists) have a new competitive advantage
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Not just developers methinks ….
\nSaid it before - saying it again
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"date_published": "2026-01-06T09:24:32+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/06/manton-small-developers-especially-generalists.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/06/futility-closet-isnt-always-futile.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Futility Closet isn’t always futile
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-06T09:20:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/06/futility-closet-isnt-always-futile.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/06/not-my-first-link-to.html", "content_html": "Émile Zola described a work of art as “a corner of nature seen through a temperament.”
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Not my first link to 🔗🔎 Umair - and probably not my last - and I really don’t do it all the time.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-06T09:18:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/06/not-my-first-link-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/06/todays-surprise-from-history-calling.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Calling BS on ‘Great Thinking’ nearly three years ago.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-06T09:14:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/06/todays-surprise-from-history-calling.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/finished-reading-a-cold-wind.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781804186114/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: 📚🔗 A Cold Wind From Moscow by Rory Clements - and yeah - not really - just way too slow for my taste.
\n⭐️⭐️⭐️
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T14:42:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/finished-reading-a-cold-wind.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/just-finished-reading-the-last.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780593299449/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: 📚🔗 The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman - and every bit as good - better(?) as the first four.
\n⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T14:41:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/just-finished-reading-the-last.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/its-decision-time.html", "title": "Its Decision Time", "content_html": "My three words for 2026 are 🖇️ Engage - Enable - Excite. But there’s a catch. Underpinning all of that is a requirement to both stop and start. Stop what’s bad for you, what isn’t working, what’s draining you. And start what’s good for you, change things up, do something different when something clearly isn’t landing.
\nThat’s where the tension lives. One voice says when things aren’t working, change the game. Do something different. Move it up. Stagnation demands disruption. You’ve got agency, the ability to reframe, introduce new variables, step outside the rules you’ve been playing by. This voice won’t accept circumstance as fixed.
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The other voice says if things aren’t working, they’ll persist anyway. Be patient. All will be well. Not wishful thinking, but confidence in process. The recognition that what’s broken right now is already being worked on by time and circumstances you can’t control yet. Patience here isn’t inaction. It’s understanding that some shifts simply require waiting.
\nBoth are right. And so - by definition - both are wrong and the decision is made by applying the real skill of ‘sensing’. Very useful!
\nWhen does the system actually need you to disrupt it, and when is your job to hold steady whilst deeper shifts take hold? Get that distinction wrong and you either exhaust yourself with constant pivoting or you surrender to inertia. Sometimes both.
\nFor me this is not theoretical. It’s the fork in the road. It’s not about the new year - it’s about life that continues to get harder and harder.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-7493.png\")
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Syria - 2019 - Subject - Oil
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T08:37:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/todays-surprise-from-history-syria.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/chief-of-station.html", "title": "🎥 Chief of Station, 2024 - ★★★", "content_html": "Just a rewatch and LettrBoxd dropped a new post to the feed. Opinion not changed. 🖇️Original Post
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/0cf30037cf.jpg\"/)
🔗 David Sacks sees 2 cities replacing NYC and SF as finance and tech capitalswww.businessinsider.com/david-sac…)
\nIn case you are wondering .. Miami and Austin … right!
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T14:46:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/david-sacks-sees-cities-replacing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/todays-surprise-from-history-brexit.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Brexit Explained … 😂
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T13:38:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/todays-surprise-from-history-brexit.html", "tags": ["? Humour","? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/tesla-car-sales-dropped-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Tesla Car Sales Dropped 9% in 2025, Falling Behind China’s BYD - The New York Times
\n\n\nTesla’s decreasing sales suggest that a wider slump is in store for electric vehicles
\n
This from a non journalist using Google for 20 minutes .. SHOULDN’T NYT READERS DESERVE … EXPECT … BETTER?
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:46:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/tesla-car-sales-dropped-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/flock-exposes-its-aienabled-surveillance.html", "content_html": "🔗 Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras - Schneier on Security
\nAll good I am told - nothing to worry about. Move along now.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:44:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/flock-exposes-its-aienabled-surveillance.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/venezuela-leftish-no-he-shouldnt.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:42:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/venezuela-leftish-no-he-shouldnt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/derek-peden-posts-need-to.html", "content_html": "No, he shouldn’t have done it. No he shouldn’t have invaded, deposed the government, and seized the resources. No he should not have flaunted international law and the sovereignty of nations. But that’s what great powers do – and the greatest tragedy is that this latest act legitimizes such acts by other great powers, from the invasion of Ukraine to the (eventual) taking of Taiwan into China. It reminds us that colonialism hasn’t ended, and that the international order is allowed to exist only if it doesn’t interfere with the desires of the wealthy and powerful
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🔗 Derek Peden - Posts need to be more specific
\nI do the same thing. Sometimes I am so cryptic that when I revisit an old entry - I have no idea what was about. So yes - I understand.
\nThat said - not sure I am going to change that much. Rightly or wrongly.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:41:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/derek-peden-posts-need-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/dave-on-scripting-news-on.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nOn Bluesky: I can’t tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
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This is one reason I use 🔗 Micro.Blog for 🖇️John.Philpin.com
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:36:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/dave-on-scripting-news-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/derek-peden-straight-from-the.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T10:35:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/derek-peden-straight-from-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/03/todays-surprise-dikw-years-ago.html", "content_html": "Straight from the presidential playbook : When in trouble, distract the voters away from your own performance by an act of war. This time it’s the people of Venezuela who are paying the price.
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Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ DIKW - 8 years ago
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T13:06:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/todays-surprise-dikw-years-ago.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/03/scripting-news-im-never-too.html", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: I’m never too old to make a young developer’s mistake.
\nDo it myself … and I’m not a developer.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T09:07:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/scripting-news-im-never-too.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/03/i-dont-particularly-bother-myself.html", "content_html": "I don’t particularly bother myself about the word of the year … nor the colour (Pantone … please take note).
\nBut ~ interesting to see the narrative over the ‘20s
\n🔗 Every Word of the Year; According to Dictionaries (2020-2025)
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T09:06:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/i-dont-particularly-bother-myself.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/03/way-yuhl-is-trump-purpsefully.html", "content_html": "🔗 Way Yuhl - Is Trump purpsefully trying to crash the US economy?
\nHard to disagree with the logic.
\nOriginally on TikTok … arrived via Substack
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T09:03:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/way-yuhl-is-trump-purpsefully.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/the-wonderful-life-of-santosdumont.html", "content_html": "🔗 The wonderful life of Santos=Dumont and his Aerial Dinner Parties
\nThis takes High Tops to a whole new level.
\nPun intended.
\n(Unless at a bar - ‘high tops’ are not places that Jax and I frequent)
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T11:24:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/the-wonderful-life-of-santosdumont.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/the-em-dash-responds-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
\nIt’s McSweeney, so …
\nI am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits.
\n‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot.
\n‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere
\nEither
\na lot of people recently attended writing courses OR
\nthey are using AI
\nIs there a third option?
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T11:22:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/the-em-dash-responds-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/what-om-said-what-isinstagramsadam.html", "content_html": "look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.
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What Om Said
\n🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
\nAnd Then What Ben Said
\n🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
\nReminds me - I should export my Instagram feed into John.philpin.com
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T11:13:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/what-om-said-what-isinstagramsadam.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/what-if-ed-zitron-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?
\n\n\nTransformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.
\n
💬 Don Marti
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T11:06:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/what-if-ed-zitron-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ A Misnomer? This is no surprise - even 6 years later.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T08:35:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/todays-surprise-from-history-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/using-aigenerated-images-to-get.html", "content_html": "🔗 Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds - Schneier on Security
\nAnd they say AI reduces human creativity❗️
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:41:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/using-aigenerated-images-to-get.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/the-receipt-that-sparked-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution
\nLovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:03:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/the-receipt-that-sparked-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/glitterally-the-worst-idea-manager.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:02:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/glitterally-the-worst-idea-manager.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/daring-fireball-photoshop-and-the.html", "content_html": "Manager: “Today, I need the caffeine more than I need the dignity.”
\n
🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG
\n\n\nOnly a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nIt would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.
\nMaybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:02:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/daring-fireball-photoshop-and-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/i-like-bens-approach-to.html", "content_html": "I like Ben’s approach to ‘Resolutions’ : 🔗 A 2026 checklist - not least because 🔗 the usual approach is more often than not going to fail.
\nMight try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T08:58:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/i-like-bens-approach-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/extrabar-custom-menu-bar-for.html", "content_html": "🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS
\n\n\nApps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps.
\n
I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me …
\nI know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T08:55:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/extrabar-custom-menu-bar-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/not-yet-finished-the-series.html", "content_html": "Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T08:51:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/not-yet-finished-the-series.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/sometimes-the-reviews-seem-to.html", "content_html": "Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news:
\n🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025
\nBut sometimes - the good news does just pushes through.
\n\nHave a better year than 2025
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T08:49:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/sometimes-the-reviews-seem-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/todays-surprise-from-history-fonts.html", "content_html": "Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Fonts are not just a 2025/6 thing
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T08:28:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/todays-surprise-from-history-fonts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-lets-hope.html", "content_html": "Happy New Year
\n\n\n\nLets hope it’s a good one
\n
What are yours❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T06:27:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-lets-hope.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/ive-been-doing-this-every.html", "content_html": "I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.
\n📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
\n📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
\n📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
\n📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
\n📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
\n📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)
\n📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
\n\n
\n\nEverything can change on a new years day
\n
\nEverything can change on a new years day
\nEverything can change on a new years day
\nAnd everything changed on a New Year’s Day
💬 Rage Against The Machine
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T10:06:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/ive-been-doing-this-every.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/roundup-of-marketoons-i-particularly.html", "content_html": "
🔗 😂 2025 Roundup of Marketoons
\nI particularly liked the one on Channel Attribution …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d531cc55cd.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-12-31T09:21:06+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/roundup-of-marketoons-i-particularly.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Humour"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/jevons-paradox-is-coming-to.html",
"content_html": "\n\nJevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise.
\n
💬 Aaron Levie
\nvia 🔗Simon Willison
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T09:13:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/jevons-paradox-is-coming-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/two-nights-playing-with-fire.html", "content_html": "🔗 Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse
\nEnding with … (my bold)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T08:10:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/two-nights-playing-with-fire.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/the-future-of-software-development.html", "content_html": "This is the way of things at 1587, which is ostensibly a mashup of jersey numbers but also a credible restaurant tab. Complaining about the prices at 1587 Prime is like complaining about the wind on Mount Everest: predictable, but hardly the worst part of the experience. All the same, there is no need for anything this mediocre to cost this much.
\n
🔗 The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T08:07:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/the-future-of-software-development.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/30/we-should-all-do-the.html", "title": "We should all do the right thing by and for our children ...", "content_html": "The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for.
\n
Not My Words - but those of ‘The 🔗Jax’ - over on 🔗 LinkedIN
\n(Lightly edited to make sense in a blog post.)
\n\n\n“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”
\n
💬 Jax Harrison
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/line.webp\")
Keeping #CHILDREN - babies literally safe online should be #EVERYONE ’s priority. Sadly this causes so much damage - and I am so sad for the loss of this young boy 13 year old -Levi and for the family who lost him.
\nMaybe Australia has it right.
\nChildren don’t have the wisdom or knowledge to know what is real and what isnt - or how to cope when things go wrong…
\nParents are not sure how to explain it or talk to their children about it - the dangers of hashtag#chatbots and #sexbots and #sextortion to a child of 13years old. And not only that - because it is supposed to be safe for them to use the Apps. Is it awkward to tell your 13yr old these things? Yes, but now a more than necessary and urgent conversation to have.
\nWhy? It is because of the consequences of lack of hashtag#safety parameters of private companies - who are larger than many nations - who are deciding the fate of our #CHILDREN and their futures - without the appropriate intervention and guidance from lawmakers and governments or even counsellors. Without full disclosure of what they are allowing.
\nDo you really think if there was a warning label like on a pack of cigarettes - every time you or your child logged in to the App - if there was a flashing for 30 seconds a warning ‼️ “Use of this app may expose children and others to harmful sextortion, potentially harmful relationship bots, cutting and self harm groups and challenges, radicalisation, bullying, and may cause severe anxiety, self harm and suicidal thoughts … everyone would be so keen on it - NO. Of course not - parents and teens would think twice.
\nAnd that’s the smallest step the companies could do. It would cost them nothing … just less children on their platform.
\nInstead they just take the risk and do nothing to make it better because it doesn’t cost that much to them.
\nThe value of collecting our children’s data is worth more than that. Think about it. Read that again.
\nSomehow as a human society we are abdicating responsibility of the protection of our …
\n#childrensrights
\n#childrensminds
\n#mentalhealth
\n#hearts
… to private companies who have #profit first and #safeguarding second.
\nWe cannot trust them to do the right thing - because “when a leopard shows you its spots you should believe them”.
\nTheir actions tell you who they are.
\n#OnlineSafety prevents hashtag#OfflineHarms and companies like hashtag#Instagram hashtag#Meta can and should do better.
\n\n\n“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”
\n
Governance and regulatory accountability and actions don’t hinder innovation they #savelives - our children’s lives.
\n#thefuturefound
\n#onlinesafety
\n#AI
\n#governance
\n#regulation
\n#policy
\n#children
\n#stopchildtraffic
\n#socialmedia
Me: “Thanks, man. That was awesome. My powers as a driver are pretty limited to dealing with unruly passengers, so that was great.”
\nTank Man: “Meh. I work three years as Walmart cashier. This nothing.”
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-30T09:47:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/30/me-thanks-man-that-was.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/building-blocks-of-marketing-that.html", "content_html": "🔗 Building blocks of marketing
\nThat 🖇️ trust thing keeps popping up.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4fc8c03c86.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-12-28T07:20:56+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/building-blocks-of-marketing-that.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/trust-requires-trust-who-do.html",
"title": "Trust Requires Trust. Who Do YOU Trust?",
"content_html": "If ‘the future’ is trust.
\nWho/what - do you trust?
\nI mean really really trust?
\nAnd why?
\nHow many such entities are there?
\nNow you meet someone outside that 🔗📼 Circle of Trust.
\nHow do you include them in your circle of trust? What are the qualifiers?
\nIf not include them completely - at least for a single transaction?
\nHow many ‘circles of trust’ does the average person need?
\nYou are boarding a plane. How much trust do you need in ‘the system’ that ensures that the pilot is qualified, that there is nobody going to be on board plotting a nefarious action, that nobody has broken into the supply chain for (say) water and poisoned the supply - and so many more things that can go wrong. How many circles of trust do you need to be confident that you can fly safely between two points without an incident?
\nI definitely trust Jax - but not even she can make those kind of ‘trust guarantees’. I have to trust people that I do not know, that they know something and that something is more reliable than average. Ideally - a LOT more reliable.
\nNow now flip it - with those considerations in mind - consider a single airline - put yourself in their shoes and ask if they’re going to let you on the plane with your ‘self sovereign identity’ that has been ‘authorised’ by an identity that they have never heard of - much less trust.
\nSo - in order that one of their planes doesn’t suffer an incident - who do they trust and why?
\nShould they?
\nThis all coming to mind as I read a couple of posts over the holidays that were totally unrelated and yet totally connected.
\nSeparately - still waiting to see how self sovereign identity is going to work. The idealism being concocted in NZ, the UK et al will almost certainly fail (or at best be redefined to suit the outcome).
\nPhil’s connection to ’Visa thinking’ makes sense - but at some point - somewhere - validation with somebody / something need to be made with a ‘trusted authority’ that is bigger than you - and even 🔗 The Principality of Sealand and other similar places.
\nThat is distributed trust - across a network - not centralised - distributed. But we know where the dominant distributed nodes are on the internet? Don’t we. We know that when we say that TCP/IP is by design decentralised. But we also know that despite this - the internet is in practise increasingly centralised.
\nNot sure there is going to be that much of a change with DIDs - given the current reality - and even then - careful what you wish for.
\nThere is room for an alternative that demonstrably works. It just doesn’t fit into the model that everybody is talking about which is anyway really only about trusting devices - not people.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T13:01:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/trust-requires-trust-who-do.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/ive-been-doing-this-every.html", "content_html": "I’ve been doing this every year since 2019.
\nMy 8th for 2026 will be out in a few days time and looking like another alliterative year when reviewing my draft.
\n🔗📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
\n🔗📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic)
\n🔗📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
\n🔗📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
\n🔗📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
\n🔗📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
\n🔗📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T11:32:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/ive-been-doing-this-every.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/it-all-started-as-a.html", "content_html": "It all started as a fun and different challenge.
\n🔗🔎We got there - although some days were pretty difficult - but only 🖇️ one turned out to be a real stretch.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T10:36:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/it-all-started-as-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/russell-brand-charged-with-new.html", "content_html": "🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
\n🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
\nBut most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
\n\n\nThe BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
\n
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
\nAll this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T10:33:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/russell-brand-charged-with-new.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Apple","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/its-finally-time-to-retire.html", "content_html": "🔗 It’s Finally Time To Retire The Word ‘Podcast’, by Andru Marino, The Verge
\nWhat a crock.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T10:23:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/its-finally-time-to-retire.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/all-bananas-are-the-same.html", "content_html": "\nThe point he makes is obvious and clear - the premise … 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:44:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/all-bananas-are-the-same.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/not-so-hidden-dangers-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:44:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/not-so-hidden-dangers-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/comedian-robin-ince-quits-radio.html", "content_html": "🔗 Comedian Robin Ince quits Radio 4 show, claiming BBC found his views ‘problematic’.
\nThe silencing continues.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:43:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/comedian-robin-ince-quits-radio.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/xkcd-truly-universal-outlet.html", "content_html": "🔗😂 xkcd: Truly Universal Outlet
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:42:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/xkcd-truly-universal-outlet.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/email-design-is-a-special.html", "content_html": "\n\nEmail design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.
\n
💬 Brett Tapsra
\n… tell me about it.
\n🔗 Create Email Campaigns from Markdown
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:39:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/email-design-is-a-special.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/and-we-are-back.html", "content_html": "\n… or maybe not - adding this comment 16 minutes later in my editor - though not seeing it on my blog.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:32:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/and-we-are-back.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/24/daring-fireball-trump-justice-department.html", "content_html": "\nDefinitely not true of all the docs - I just tried.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-24T09:18:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/24/daring-fireball-trump-justice-department.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/24/random-access-seth-i-have.html", "content_html": "\nI have one of these on my 🖇️ blog and my (new) 🖇️ wiki - and despite both being in the menu - I am guessing I am the only person that ever clicks on the links.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-24T08:53:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/24/random-access-seth-i-have.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/24/the-minutes-report-on-cecot.html", "content_html": "🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge
\n\n\nThanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year.
\n
💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
\n.. via @gruber ….
\n🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
\nAnd of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-24T08:49:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/24/the-minutes-report-on-cecot.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/24/guess-which-country-tops-these.html", "content_html": "Guess which country tops these four lists and which is ranked 7th, 8th, not even on the list and 3rd respectively.
\n🔗 Exports the Most Christmas Decorations
\n🔗 Dominating Critical Mineral Refining in 2030
\n🔗 Stockpiling Most Gold Reserves Since 2000
\n🔗 Battery Manufacturing Investment
\nSorry, the winner in the other 3 categories were only a close 2nd on Gold Reserves. (Although ‘1’ and\n‘2’ had totals that are each just about the same as the rest of the list added together.
\nIn fact those two countries
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-24T08:44:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/24/guess-which-country-tops-these.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/pluribus-becomes-apple-tvs-most.html", "content_html": "account for more than half of all gold stockpiled by central banks in the period.
\n
🔗📽️ Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.
\nMe … 🤯
\n(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T10:21:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/pluribus-becomes-apple-tvs-most.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyShowReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/jon-lord-unsquare-dance-dave.html", "content_html": "🔗🎶 Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck)
\nOne of ‘my’ guys playing the music of one of my mum’s (and so another one of ‘my’) guys.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T10:10:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/jon-lord-unsquare-dance-dave.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/on-paperbacks-and-tiktok-cal.html", "content_html": "🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport
\n\n\nIn 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would set you back between $2.50 and $3.00.
\n
Meanwhile in the UK, founded fully four years earlier, Penguin didn’t need the ‘qualifier’ preceding ‘the publishing industry’.
\n\n\nPenguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
\n
History.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T09:43:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/on-paperbacks-and-tiktok-cal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts.html", "content_html": "🔗 How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
\nWe will see. We will see.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T09:39:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/rocket-lab-secures-new-defense.html", "content_html": "🔗 Rocket Lab Secures New Defense Contract … writes ‘Memorandum’.
\nAre we sure?
\n🔗 As I remarked on LinkedIN a couple of days ago
\nThe order is for ..
\n\n\nthe manufacture (of) 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
\n
(My bold)
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-23T09:38:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/rocket-lab-secures-new-defense.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/23/replying-to-a-linkedin-post.html", "title": "Replying To A LinkedIN Post", "content_html": "My reply to a LinkedIN question was too long for LinkedINs highly advanced tech to support - hence this post »>
\n\nI’ve no idea if this is a generic funnel or one you’re actually using, but let’s start with the fundamental issue: linear funnels aren’t real. Reality is messier. The jump from ‘Appointment Booked’ to ‘Work Completed’ in a single step tells me this is almost certainly generic - which isn’t a criticism of the diagram itself, just a reality check on what it can actually model.
\nHere’s what concerns me: there’s as much (more>) not asked as asked. You can’t sensibly model a funnel in isolation. Not all SMEs are equal, for starters. Industry matters. Geography matters. Market dynamics matter. Deal size expectations matter … what matters is a long list.
\nSome will argue that ‘funnels are dead - long live the flywheel’. I’m not in that camp - BUT I am in the camp that you should at least work out intentionally how a flywheel fits in or around your funnel model. They’re not mutually exclusive.
\nThe graphic opens with ‘Lead Comes In’. The first SME question should be how did that lead get there in the first place? That informs everything downstream. You also need to be explicit about qualification - not all ‘leads’ are ‘leads’.
\nThe flow itself is too linear. There are no loops, no decision rules, no explicit criteria for what happens when someone doesn’t follow the ‘happy path’. Reality has friction, objections, false starts, and reversals. In fact the linearity of the model suggests to me that the business is confusing the ‘buyer journey’ of the customer with the ‘sales journey’ of the business.
\nMost critically, it also seems to assume a one-time transaction. That’s rarely a business model worth optimising for. Where do repeat business, churn, extension sales, retention, cross-sell, and upsell live in your model? If you’re thinking subscriptions or ongoing relationships, the funnel shape changes entirely.
\nFinally - where’s the data? Today’s numbers and tomorrow’s requirements. If you don’t need much data to manage this funnel, that raises a question about why you’re automating it at all. But if you do need data - which you should - then measurement becomes the whole game. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
\nAnd why do I write all this?
\nBecause for me - until you can bottom out all of this - and a whole lot more - there is no point in looking for the ‘ideal’ technology. As I always say ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/80c661313e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-12-23T08:30:40+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/replying-to-a-linkedin-post.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html",
"content_html": "\n\nTake Apple News vs iBooks - they’re both reading apps, so why is it necessary to have two separate apps? Because they’re extremely different reading and writing experiences and it doesn’t make sense to lump them into a one-size-fits-all approach.
\n
💬 Michael Tsai
\nNailed it and why I don’t';
\nBUT anything I highlight, save, make a note on/in ANY of the things I am reading, watching or listening to all ends up in the same place.
\n\n(Another discovery in ‘Drafts’ March 2023)
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T14:59:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/just-found-this-in-my.html", "content_html": "Just found this in my drafts folder from April 2023 ❗️
\n\nI wonder where they are going wrong ..
\n![\"UK](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/8b009f6be6.jpg\")
A reminder from 🔗 Brian Solis - possibly a riff on John Caswell’s mantra - “the last thing you need near a problem is an expert”.
\n\n\nWhen Steve Jobs was finally convinced to pursue the iPhone (and he had to be convinced), he gathered his inner circle and asked: Who should we bring into this project?\nNaturally, the team responded like experts, they brought forward the “smartest people” in the industry.
\n
Jobs exploded.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T12:36:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/a-reminder-from-brian-solis.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/rewatched-the-thursday-murder-club.html", "content_html": "“I don’t want anyone to work on the iPhone if they’ve worked on a phone,” he said (minus the expletives). “Because we’re not building a phone.”
\n
Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.
\n\nAt the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.
\nNow I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.
\nI guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T12:29:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/rewatched-the-thursday-murder-club.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/responding-to-bill-bennets-article.html", "title": "Can New Zealand Win? No. Unless it redefines the game.", "content_html": "🔗 Responding to Bill Bennet’s article.
\nThe dependencies are clear - but if the EU, with 450 million people and deep talent pools, is only now waking up to the fact they can’t compete head-on in AI and cloud infrastructure, then NZ’s current posture makes even less sense.
\nThe EU’s defaulted to regulation because that’s what they can actually do. But even that gets framed as geopolitical interference by Washington. They’re playing defence from a position of relative strength.
\nNZ pursuing direct competition in AI, quantum or advanced chip manufacturing isn’t realistic. More importantly, it’s the wrong game entirely. Our constraints should force us to be smarter, not just smaller versions of what’s happening in ‘The Valley’.
\nWe have genuine strengths if we care to look around … Agriculture. Biotech. Climate tech. These are domains where our size becomes an advantage because we can move faster and stay coherent. They’re built on foundations this country has already established.
\nFrom where I’m sitting, I see less of that and more of organisations either chasing every race simultaneously or reinventing the wheel in isolation. It goes all the way to government. Nobody asks the straightforward question: where can we actually win? We’re all chasing whatever we’re afraid of missing. The EU might sustain that scatter. New Zealand has no chance.
\nWe need to stop managing dependencies and choose the fights we can win. Then do them exceptionally well. That’s the part we struggle with, even with our number-eight-wire mentality.
\nThen again - here’s a win - fiscally a BIG win
\nChris Keall reported last week …
\n\n\nRocket Lab will deliver satellites equipped with advanced missile warning, tracking, and defense sensors to provide global, persistent detection and tracking of emerging missile threats, including hypersonic systems.
\n
Luxon has historically been a big drum basher for RocketLabs - but on this one - so far - silence as far as I can see - including nothing from www.beehive.govt.nz - as surprise given how often they are helf up as ‘a great Kiwi Company’ ..
\nMaybe it’s how these are going to be used for (apparently) the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
\nSo I guess we need to first define winning?
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T12:16:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/responding-to-bill-bennets-article.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/i-think-it-was-jsonbecker.html", "content_html": "I think it was @jsonbecker that wrote a post about 🔗 Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - which I am only just getting\\g around to look at and wondering - anyone get this working against their photo library in Micro Blog?
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T10:25:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/i-think-it-was-jsonbecker.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/yesterdays-was-the-hardest-to.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Yesterday’s was the hardest to date. Looks like today’s is the easiest - at least so far.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T07:34:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/yesterdays-was-the-hardest-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nIn other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
\n
💬 Timothy Snyder
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T09:07:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/the-weird-part-was-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T09:07:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/the-weird-part-was-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/tsa-is-providing-air-passenger.html", "content_html": "The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea.
\n
🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
\n.. for marination purposes.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:59:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/tsa-is-providing-air-passenger.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-welcome.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
\nThe whole album - but for me ….
\n\n\nSteven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!
\n
.. would love to hear that.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:22:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-welcome.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/the-songs-with-the-longest.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100
\n… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:18:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/the-songs-with-the-longest.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/the-opposite-of-the-drive.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
\nWell - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
\n\n\nBurger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle
\n
💬 WaPo
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:16:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/the-opposite-of-the-drive.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/elon-musks-taxpayersubsidized-starlink-yanks.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n
Bottoming out the story …
\n‘Poorer people pay taxes so that governments can subsidise richer people to build things that they then price outside what poorer people can afford.”
\nA Better Headline?
\nSubsidies for rich people’s infrastructure, paid by poor people’s taxes.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:12:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/elon-musks-taxpayersubsidized-starlink-yanks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/the-thing-about-chess-seth.html", "content_html": "🔗 The thing about chess | Seth
\n… maybe there should be. I mean if they can muck around with Cricket - why not Chess?
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:07:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/the-thing-about-chess-seth.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/matt-mullenweg-the-tools-are.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nthe tools are only as good as the questions we ask them.
\n
I like the line - but I particulalrly like the page he links to.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:06:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/matt-mullenweg-the-tools-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/dave-winer-web-means-something.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n‘Web’ means something. It’s about creating networks between writers. When it’s allowed to work remarkable things can be accomplished. Most people who think they’re using the web have never used it. The original web is still very much here, ready for us to start building on it again.
\n
And …
\n“Most people who have never heard of RSS use it every day.”
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:03:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/dave-winer-web-means-something.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/in-praise-of-drafts.html", "title": "In Praise Of Drafts", "content_html": "🔗 In praise of Drafts // @ameripie
\n\n\n… an app by Agile Tortoise (AKA Greg Pierce), remarkably won App of the Year for 2025 at Mac Stories, a full thirteen years after its release.
\n
💯
\nApps @ameripie uses with drafts - with my annotations
\nPLUS
\nAs I have written before - 99% of my written words (outside of email) start in Drafts.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T07:58:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/in-praise-of-drafts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/for-your-reading-pleasure-paul.html", "content_html": "For your reading pleasure.
\nPaul Krugman on 🔗 MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media - and inside he links to 🔗 The Authoritarian Stack
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T07:41:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/for-your-reading-pleasure-paul.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/17/the-information-gets-its-facts.html", "title": "The Information Gets Its Facts Wrong - Again", "content_html": "\n\nThe appointment is reminiscent of Meta Platforms’ hiring of former British Prime Minister Nick Clegg as a global affairs executive in 2018 …
\n
💬 Martin Peers - The Information - talking about Osborne and OpenAI
\nNo he wasn’t. He was ‘Deputy’ PM - a bit like ‘Winnie’ and ‘Seymour’ in New Zealand at the moment (a thank you from the dominant party that still couldn’t get a majority on its own - so formed a coalition.)
\nNick was so good at his job that in 5 short years as Deputy he took the LibDems from 57 seats to just 8. After which he lost his position, resigned from party leader and a year later lost his local election. After that the Brits made him a ‘Knight’ in the UK and Zuck made him whatever it was called for Meta.
\nImagine how far he could have gone if he was a success.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-17T13:43:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/17/the-information-gets-its-facts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/16/literal-enshittification-smart-toilets-play.html", "content_html": "🔗 Literal Enshittification: ‘Smart’ Toilets Play Fast And Loose With Your Pooping Data | Techdirt
\n… I’m glad someone is reporting on the important shit. (Pun intended).
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-16T16:45:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/16/literal-enshittification-smart-toilets-play.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/16/remember-when-we-so-concerned.html", "content_html": "Remember when we so concerned that all our ‘house data’ from Roomba was being sent over to Google - without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’.
\n\n… and then onto 2022 when Amazon got involved …
\nFast Forward to 2025 - and …
\n🔗 Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears
\nTurns out all your data is now all wrapped up and safe and over in China.
\n\n\nThe Amazon acquisition wasn’t anti-competitive — it was iRobot’s last chance to remain competitive.
\n
💬 [Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/roomba-maker-irobot-declares-bankruptcy)
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-16T16:40:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/16/remember-when-we-so-concerned.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/12/im-not-saying-that-someone.html", "content_html": "Im not saying that someone at the EU read 🔗 my post from yesterday - but I do wonder …
\nTo save the click through …
\n\n\nTogether, the EU countries hold more US debt than Japan and China put together - to the tune of $2 maybe 2.5 trillion. - well above twice that of China - and that doesn’t include the UK who is in the same ball park as China all by itself.
\n
and then
\n\n\nNo economist in this house - but I do wonder when a country - any country - will get to do something radical rather than putting up with this shit.
\n
Ladies and Gentlemen - we have our answer »>
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/theeu.png\")
\n\nIn other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
\n
💬 Timothy Snyder
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T12:36:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/11/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/11/tump-and-the-tump.html", "title": "Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик", "content_html": "Consider that in the wake of the national security announcement from Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик
\n\n\nWhat’s most striking to me about this document isn’t any specific policies, but what it reveals about values. Increasingly, the United States and Europe don’t share them. This reflects a change in America far more than a change in Europe. Trump sees a G-Zero world ruled by the law of the jungle, where might makes right and everything can be bought. For all its flaws, institutional quirks, and bureaucratic sclerosis, the European Union stands for something else: rule of law, liberal democracy, human rights, multilateralism. You can roll your eyes at that list all you want, but it’s the foundation of the entire European project. Heck, it’s why America built the transatlantic alliance in the first place. (The alternative, two world wars, didn’t work out too well for anyone.) And it’s now in direct tension with what Washington is selling.
\n
💬 Ian Bremmer
\n🔗 Full Piece which also includes this reminder …
\n\n\nThe only time NATO’s Article 5 has ever been invoked was by the United States, after September 11, 2001. Every European ally came to America’s defence despite different approaches to free speech, regulation, and countless other policy disagreements. They showed up, fought, and died alongside Americans in Afghanistan.
\n
💬 Ian Bremmer
\nSo … Europe is the enemy, China - despite rhetoric seem to be closer and Russia - with no cards but all the influence - blood brothers.
\nI would note that …
\nTogether, the EU countries hold more US debt than Japan and China put together - to the tune of $2 maybe 2.5 trillion. - well above twice that of China - and that doesn’t include the UK who is in the same ball park as China all by itself.
\nAll that wringing of hands a few months ago about China selling its debt and now we have this.
\nOf course - they didn’t.
\nNo economist in this house - but I do wonder when a country - any country - will get to do something radical rather than putting up with this shit.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T10:45:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/11/tump-and-the-tump.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/11/pagefind-on-my-blog-manton.html", "content_html": "\n\nGood. Clean. Fast. Not yet in my navigation - already have @sod search there. Unclear why one and not the other.
\nI do like the clean look of PageFind. Maybe add PageFind to the Nav - with Search as a choice from that page. #Thinking
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T09:25:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/11/pagefind-on-my-blog-manton.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/talking-about-monopolies-from-the.html", "content_html": "Talking about monopolies - from the 🔗 Mars website
\n\n\nMars and Kellanova anticipate closing the pending transaction on December 11, 2025, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions. Upon close, Kellanova’s portfolio of snacking brands, which includes Pringles®, Cheez-It®, Pop-Tarts®, Rice Krispies Treats®, RXBAR® and Kellogg’s international cereal brands, will join the existing Mars Snacking portfolio, which includes beloved brands like SNICKERS®, M&M’S®, TWIX®, SKITTLES®, EXTRA® and KIND®.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T12:10:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/talking-about-monopolies-from-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/and-another-one-from-benwerd.html", "content_html": "Following the close of the pending transaction, Mars expects the combined Snacking business to generate around $36 billion in annual revenues, with a portfolio that includes 9 billion-dollar brands. Mars Snacking will continue to be headquartered in Chicago, IL and will operate in more than 145 markets, serving millions of consumers. Powered by a team of more than 50,000 Associates, it will operate 80 global production facilities and more than 170 retail outlets like Hotel Chocolat and M&M’S World.
\n
And another one from @benwerd
\n🔗 The world needs social sovereignty
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T09:41:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/and-another-one-from-benwerd.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/whenever-i-see-a-good.html", "content_html": "Whenever I see a good ‘why RSS’ post - I will share.
\nWhich is why I am sharing the latest - from @benwerd 🔗 Why RSS matters
\n🖇️ If you want to follow most of my world with RSS - you can.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T09:41:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/whenever-i-see-a-good.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/ouch-a-quote-from-claude.html", "content_html": "OUCH …
\n\n.. it is dangerous out there❗️
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T08:50:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/ouch-a-quote-from-claude.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/if-your-marketing-isnt-working.html", "content_html": "🔗 If your marketing isn’t working
\n\n\nIf you’re struggling selling the thing you made, it’s worth reconsidering the audience, the promise and the change you seek to make–and then be honest with your team about whether your offering is actually remarkable, or just the best you could do with what you had.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T08:44:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/if-your-marketing-isnt-working.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/i-watched-dark-winds-really.html", "title": "📺 Dark Winds 🚧", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/41a23a3522.png\")
I watched: 🔗Dark Winds really great stuff. Only 3 seasons - no matter what the database is telling you - but quite wonderful.
\n\nUPDATED 2026/05/22
\nJust finished Series 4
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T15:52:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/i-watched-dark-winds-really.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/i-watched-the-woman-in.html", "content_html": "🎥 I watched: 🔗 The Woman in Cabin 10 and was severely underwhelmed.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T15:49:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/i-watched-the-woman-in.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/a-myterms-summary-lots-of.html", "content_html": "\nLots of noise out of the IIW community around this - and Doc Searls in particular. Any thoughts from the wider cognoscenti?
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T11:02:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/a-myterms-summary-lots-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/playing-in-traffic-is-not.html", "content_html": "🔗 Playing in Traffic is not what Doc is writing about.
\nWhat he is writing about is the fuckedupness of what used to be the United States of America.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T10:53:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/playing-in-traffic-is-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/a-leaders-role-in-fostering.html", "content_html": "Being based in the US is now a disadvantage for forming partnerships with entities in the EU. I speak from experience: one I’d rather not have.
\n
🔗 A Leader’s Role in Fostering AI Superpowers | by Roger Martin | Dec, 2025 | Medium
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T07:55:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/a-leaders-role-in-fostering.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/07/introducing-apex-universal-markdown-processor.html", "content_html": "🔗 Introducing Apex: universal Markdown processor
\nI am sure @Dave @Manton and Ma.tt are fully aware of what Brett is up to. Maybe not? Either way - to me it all fits together.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-07T13:00:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/07/introducing-apex-universal-markdown-processor.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/07/selfdriving-matt-mullenweg-second-order.html", "content_html": "🔗 Self-driving - Matt Mullenweg - second order effects leading to third order effects.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-07T12:57:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/07/selfdriving-matt-mullenweg-second-order.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/07/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public.html", "content_html": "🔗 Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings - all for it if we can start with him.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-07T12:56:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/07/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/05/102317.html", "content_html": "\nPart one of the headline is news.
\nPart two is known lore.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-05T09:23:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/05/102317.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/05/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns.html", "content_html": "\nPart one of the headline is news.
\nPart two is known lore.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-05T09:23:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/05/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/05/prime-information-math-notes-futility.html", "content_html": "🤯 Prime Information: 🔗 Math Notes - Futility Closet
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-05T09:14:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/05/prime-information-math-notes-futility.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/05/same-thing-futility-closet-so.html", "content_html": "🔗 Same Thing - Futility Closet
\n\n\nSo the name was changed to October Sky — the same 10 letters in a different order.
\n
🤯 click through to see the other name of the film - or just treat it as today’s puzzle.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-05T09:10:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/05/same-thing-futility-closet-so.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/03/on-years-of-writing-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads
\n‘Only’ ten? But I get it. I really get it. In the same boat - just with more years.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-03T12:17:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/03/on-years-of-writing-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/29/file-over-app-steph-ango.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nThese days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.
\n
Obsidian is the foundation of my new Blot Powered Wiki.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-29T14:03:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/29/file-over-app-steph-ango.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/29/wheres-waldo.html", "title": "Where's Waldo", "content_html": "I was going to publish this in my newsletter - for interest it might have - the audience is possibly something with a broader interest, so here it is - and I will link to it from there.
\nMy Blog: has been around a long time. (Well over 10,000 posts - and my first post recorded there in April 2005) - and I know that isn’t everything - because on my hard drive I have an archive folder called ‘blogs over time’ - still waiting to be assimilated.
\nBeyond that, whatever I post there is automatically routed to;
\n\n\n🔗 Threads and even
\n🔗 Tumblr and no - not Twitter
\nIn this way - you can keep up through your preferred social feed of choice - follow along with your own account - reply and everything is routed back to the mothership.
\nIf you want the best way to follow (IMHO) , then RSS is your friend.
\nMy Wiki: on ‘Structured Thought (newly launched - early stage) can be found at
\nhttps://wiki.philpin.com - with its own RSS or JSON
\n.. and then there are;
\nmy ‘cobbler'**s shoes’ web site at https://philpin.com is under a refurbishment program that I hope to complete soon.
\nmy currently dormant podcast
\nmy public library of public and private documents
\n… and much more to come.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-29T13:45:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/29/wheres-waldo.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/29/the-bluestocking-orcas-and-popstar.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Bluestocking 393: Orcas and popstar perks
\n\n\nHow was my week, you ask? Well, it contained 100 percent more orcas than usual, which was delightful.
\n
Not being picky now - BUT
\nThere is only 1 Orca in the photo. So for ‘100% more’ the other is hidden? Because if Helen only saw one - and prior to that only saw zero - then the sentence should have read something like …
\n\n\nHow was my week, you ask? Well, it contained infinitely more orcas than usual, which was delightful.
\n
… “something like” - because I would need to check my Cantor if it is actually infinitely - or another order of infinite .. it has been a while.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/90ddc8a41e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-29T12:14:36+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/29/the-bluestocking-orcas-and-popstar.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/28/i-sell-my-soul-but.html",
"content_html": "\n\nI sell my soul - but at the highest rates.
\n
🔗📼 Harlan Ellison 18 years ago #PayTheWriter
\nHad cause to post this today - again - on a LinkedIN feed.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-28T09:42:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/28/i-sell-my-soul-but.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/27/just-good-music.html", "title": "Just Good Music", "content_html": "My friend (and co founder of the original Just Good Music blog) John Parker sent me an email …
\n\n\nI have found that the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small, and I KNOW that you are one of the ones that does, hence my email. Every once in a while I need to reach out and touch base just to know that I’m not insane, it’s the rest of the world that is lost.
\n
And
\n\n\nSo you motor along and see cool music videos. and you say"yeah!" and “cool!”. And everyonce in a while, you see one that makes you close your computer just go take a walk. Like… goddamn.\nThis is a goddamn video …
\n
This is that video - and DAMN - he’s right.
\n\nAnd if you like this - here is Ren’s YouTube channel .. so you can fill your boots.
\n🔗 Ren on Wikipedia tells a story for sure.
\nAs to John’s throwaway line;
\n“the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small”
\nNeedless to say - I wholeheartedly agree which is why I take solace in podcasts like The Rockenteurs, YouTube channels like Rick Beato and Newsletters like Ted Gioia.
\nBefore I get there - everything below the line below was automatically generated by an AI (does it matter which one?)
\n🖇️ Blog.Philpin.com is a combination of imports of older blogs from other personal spaces together with this latest iteration which has been going since around 2017/18? I am in the process of reorganising my different sub domains into a coherent view of my thinking - it will - I guess be an eternal WIP - but slowly we are getting there.
\nI was interested as to how much of what sits in what I call my ‘Personal Journal’ - was ‘on topic’ - so to speak. (Hard - when the topic is not clear - even to the author.)
\nThat said - Structured Thought is revealing itself as my broad category - and I have a LOT of material that fits there scattered across my hard drive - enter my new Wiki - where I am starting to collect and curate the material.
\nSo - with thanks to @manton and #micro.blog it took no time at all to export my thousands (no exaggeration) of posts and easily as many replies to zip and json files - upload them to a new project and with that said - let the analysis begin …
\nI asked the AI just to give me a quick 4 paragraphs on its take of what it found in the archive.
\nYour blog reads like a long, rolling attempt to make sense of systems that don’t behave the way they pretend to. You’re tracking the gap between how the world is structured on paper and how it actually functions in practice — whether that’s tech, politics, identity, business, or the internet itself. Underneath the commentary, there’s a consistent itch: why do institutions keep choosing the path that works against people, complexity, and common sense? And why do we keep letting them? It’s observational, sometimes wry, sometimes annoyed, but fundamentally grounded in curiosity about how things should work if we weren’t so collectively distracted.
\nAnother through-line: you’ve always been a ‘people first, systems second’ thinker, even before you had the language for it. The posts keep circling back to the same tension — humans don’t behave like the tidy diagrams or workflows created to manage them. You poke at corporate theatre, political spin, tech evangelism, and the strange incentives that create distortion instead of coherence. More often than not, you’re tracing the hidden mechanics: the power relationships, the data trails, the business models baked into digital life. There’s a quiet sense of accountability running through it: don’t just look at what a system claims; look at what it rewards.
\nThere’s also a personal arc that floats just beneath the surface. The blog isn’t memoir, but it carries the fingerprints of someone who’s lived enough cycles to spot the patterns early. The tone shifts over time—from early curiosity, to a kind of mid-period frustration, to a more recent strategic clarity. You’ve moved from ‘this is odd’ to ‘here’s the underlying structure’ to ‘and here’s how we might actually fix it.’ The personal reflections act as calibration points, showing how your own lens sharpened while the world got noisier.
\nAnd stitched through all of it is the same project you’re running now: trying to build ways of thinking that actually help people navigate complexity instead of collapsing under it. The blog, taken as a whole, is you working that out in public — testing ideas, calling out nonsense, mapping where things go wrong, and nudging toward a more honest, human, future-oriented frame. It’s not a brand play. It’s a long record of someone interrogating the shape of the world and refusing to take shallow explanations at face value.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-26T13:36:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/26/about-this-blog.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links","? Structured Thought"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/26/looks-like-someones-lost-the.html", "content_html": "Looks like someone’s lost the plot …
\n🔗 Russian oil has flowed into New Zealand despite sanctions
\nThen again imagine the price at the pump reduced profits of the gas companies if that hadn’t happened.
🔗 CDC Data Indicates We’re 2 Months Away From America Losing Its Measles Elimination Status
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-26T06:50:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/26/cdc-data-indicates-were-months.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/26/yup-the-gaping-void-post.html", "content_html": "Yup - 🔗 The Gaping Void Post
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9560713c4e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-26T06:49:45+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/26/yup-the-gaping-void-post.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/25/job-for-senior-director-of.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes – O’Reilly
\n\n\nFrom $15,000/day to $0.96/day - I do think we’re about to see a lot of companies realize that a thinking model connected to an MCP server is way more expensive than just paying someone to write a bash script. Starting now, you’ll be able to make a career out of un-LLM-ifying applications.
\n
And so we go round?
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-25T17:32:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/25/job-for-senior-director-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/25/federal-judge-spends-most-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 Federal Judge Spends Most Of 233 Pages Calling Out DHS, ICE, CBP, Border Patrol For Their Lies
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-25T17:29:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/25/federal-judge-spends-most-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/25/the-freezing-over-of-hell.html", "content_html": "The freezing over of hell.
\nLast week I am listening to MTG and wondering why I am agreeing with her - and then this week Musk releases a new feature that seems pretty much ‘like - yeah - right on’.
\nTechdirt reports “ 🔗 Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-25T17:29:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/25/the-freezing-over-of-hell.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/25/call-it-a-public-service.html", "title": "Call It A Public Service", "content_html": "\nOr is it?
\nMy ten cents so you don’t have to wade through the whole thing.
\nThe report sketches a workplace where confidence has thinned, power has tilted back to employers, and employees are left carrying the weight. Trust in leadership keeps sliding as people call out misalignment, muddled communication, and a shift from occasional layoffs to something closer to a permanent drizzle. Remote and hybrid staff have stalled on career progression, which explains the quiet drift back to offices. AI anxiety is loud enough, but the actual impact on job satisfaction is tiny. Job seekers are taking whatever lands in front of them in a flat hiring market, though early-career workers are finally seeing real wage growth again, particularly in the up-and-coming second-tier cities.
\nSo - same old same? B(S)AU.
\nTakeaways
\n… no shit Dick Tracy.
\nAnd the big reveal?
\nThen again, it’s Glassdoor. What exactly was I expecting?
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-25T15:04:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/25/call-it-a-public-service.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/well-thats-been-a-job.html", "content_html": "Well - thats been a job I have not been doing for. long time - but once again - thank you @Munish for reminding me that other people do on occasions look at 🖇️ my actual site. Styling moved along, search back in place and the start of my documents directory re-enabled. Onward.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1dd32ac19f.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-24T16:16:59+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/well-thats-been-a-job.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/i-know-how-he-feels.html",
"content_html": "I know how he feels. 🖇️🎬 My Review 😂
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4157306fe1.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-24T10:35:10+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/i-know-how-he-feels.html",
"tags": ["? Humour","MyFilmReferences","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/its-all-about-execution-the.html",
"title": "Its All About Execution - The Business One - Not The Political One.",
"content_html": "In the country of New Zealand there continues to be a lot of wringing of hands, gnashing of teeth and even self flagellation over the ‘Kiwi productivity issue’ - working harder and harder every year and somehow falling further and further behind others on ‘the league tables of productive nations’ … what’s to be done?
\nIt’s a question that is constantly asked and answered in posts all over LinkedIN - everyone seems to have an answer - but ‘execution’ remains lacking. I have also attended a few sessions in the past couple of months where the same questions are asked. The same answers emerge The inaction continues.
\nI have my theories - not least of which is answered by what will be going on in Aotearoa soon - and will continue until Waitangi Day (ask a local). It’s worse - because there is a lead up to the period - already in full flow as the ‘great wind down' begins to kick in.
\nApocryphal? Maybe - but some told me recently that in their “28 years in business they had not once received a purchase commitment after October 28th.” .. he didn’t say - but I am guessing “and never before February 6th”.
\nDoug wrote ‘Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus in 2016’. This quote just popped up in my feed and prompted this post
\n![\"book](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/throwing-rocks-at-the-google-bus.png\")
It’s taking a while to sink in - though it always does ‘down here’.
\nThis in turn reminded of this observation by Alex Pawlowski over in the land of Substack (coincidentally - ‘Hamish’ one of the two co-founders is a Kiwi).
\nAlex was riffing on AI …
\n\n\nAI has made ideas abundant. You can generate a strategy, a campaign, a business plan in minutes. The new scarcity isn’t insight — it’s implementation.\nExecution becomes the strategic moat.
\n
I would argue that has always been the case. I’d be a billionaire if I had a dollar for every time I have been told ‘that idea isn’t original - I visualised that years ago’. The correct reply?
\nThey executed.
\n(🔗 A dollar? What happened to cents? Dollars only accepted because the cent is apparently no more.)
\nThat (execution) is what we are not doing. (Broad sweeping generalisation for sure - but in a nation that prides itself with its ‘edge’ - the blade does seem to have become a tad ‘dull’
\nHaving a coffee this week with someone I saw talking about this very problem last week. I know we are on the same ‘thinking’ page - I wonder how we can move the conversation to action - because down here we do seem to be waiting - for everyone else - to make the move.
\nIf you want to red more of my related ramblings on New Zealand - you can do that
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T09:17:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/its-all-about-execution-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Organisations","? Structured Thought"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/for-all-of-how-well.html", "content_html": "For all of how well anyone can think that they know a city …
\n🔗 The King’s Chapel of the Savoy …
\nis clearly a gem that I have missed over several years of walking right by it and never even knowing that it existed - much less visiting.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/566bd568f1.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-24T08:53:05+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/for-all-of-how-well.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/you-know-how-they-keep.html",
"content_html": "👁️ You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.
\n🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?
\n(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T08:13:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/you-know-how-they-keep.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/ranked-wine-production-by-country.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ranked: Wine Production by Country - it’s amazing how teeny tiny the Kiwi wine industry is - I mean GREAT quality - for sure - but presence on the world stage .. 1%.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-23T15:19:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/ranked-wine-production-by-country.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/spying-on-people-through-airportr.html", "content_html": "🔗 Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service - Schneier on Security
\nThe devil is the detail. Always in the detail.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-23T15:17:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/spying-on-people-through-airportr.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/join-ice-jesse-says-to.html", "content_html": "📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..
\n… via Colbert
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-23T15:15:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/join-ice-jesse-says-to.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/22/jmail-logged-in-as-jeevacationgmailcom.html", "content_html": "🔗 Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
\n… via @gruber … so clever.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-22T17:12:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/22/jmail-logged-in-as-jeevacationgmailcom.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/21/always-liked-ashtons-thinking-another.html", "content_html": "Always liked Ashton’s thinking - another writer that fell off my RSS tracker that I am reconnecting with as I sort out my RSS feeds.
\n🔗 The boomers ruined everything? Think again.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-21T08:07:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/21/always-liked-ashtons-thinking-another.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/19/macos-tahoe-gets-edge-light.html", "content_html": "🔗 macOS Tahoe 26.2 Gets Edge Light Feature for Video Calls
\nNow this I want to try.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-19T11:41:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/19/macos-tahoe-gets-edge-light.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/19/visualizing-future-solar-power-capacity.html", "content_html": "🔗 Visualizing Future Solar Power Capacity by Country
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-19T11:40:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/19/visualizing-future-solar-power-capacity.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/19/ranked-number-of-trade-agreements.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ranked: Number of Trade Agreements Across 30 Economies
\nParking this here as a thought that will feed into a piece I am ‘assembling’.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-19T11:35:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/19/ranked-number-of-trade-agreements.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/19/dont-want-no-samsung.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-11-19T11:33:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/19/dont-want-no-samsung.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/19/meta-is-killing-off-messengers.html", "content_html": "🔗 Meta is killing off Messenger’s Mac app for unknown reasons.
\nI think ‘undeclared reasons’ would be more accurate. We all know what the money grubbing branch of hell is really doing.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-19T11:31:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/19/meta-is-killing-off-messengers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/11/from-voroni-reproducing-the-whole.html", "content_html": "From 🔗Voroni ..
\nReproducing the whole image because the news - that we all know - is buried.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8e564e8335.png\")
What on earth happened between 2024 and 2025 in America for goodness sake.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-11T09:10:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/11/from-voroni-reproducing-the-whole.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/take-off-your-shirt-i.html", "content_html": "\nI read this over on Gaping Void and thought wait - there’s a much older - more famous story - so I found it for you - so you didn’t have to.
\n📼🔗 Sasquatch music festival 2009 - Guy starts dance party
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T14:49:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/take-off-your-shirt-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/why-gm-will-give-you.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why GM Will Give You Gemini But Not CarPlay
\n\n\nIf GM goes through with this abandonment of CarPlay, I don’t see how they’ll continue to sell any vehicles to rental agencies. I would never rent a car without CarPlay, and I would never consider signing up for a GM cloud service just to drive a rental car. Complete dealbreakers.
\n
💯- well maybe 95 - either way it smells like a short term thinking decision.
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T14:19:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/why-gm-will-give-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/forgery-xkcd-document-forgery.html", "content_html": "Forgery
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b3db73363d.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-11-07T14:18:17+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/forgery-xkcd-document-forgery.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/30/david-merfield-at-blot-rocks.html",
"content_html": "\n\nDavid Merfield at Blot Rocks
\n
.. there I said it. So happy with my new 🔗 Blot powered Obsidian Wiki - now in the menu of my 🖇️ Public Journal
\nWhat David Merfield built is very impressive and the Obsidian integration is stunning.
\nMy wiki is based on the Forty template with extended CSS and functionality like 🔗 this page all built in collaboration with Claude.
\nLooking to now add an image gallery
\nHave I taken away a programmers job? No - without Claude I just wouldn’t have done it.
\nNext job moving a raft of material out of various archives and folders into the Obsidian vault.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-30T13:39:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/30/david-merfield-at-blot-rocks.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/29/grokipedia-the-aidriven-encyclopedia-gone.html", "content_html": "🔗 Grokipedia - The AI-driven Encyclopedia
\n\n\ngone in 60 seconds
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/76ca3e1817.jpg\")
… and of course the totally unbiased thinking and behaviour of Messrs Musk and Sacks will absolutely guarantee a fair and balanced view.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-29T12:28:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/29/grokipedia-the-aidriven-encyclopedia-gone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/24/should-i-house-my-new.html", "content_html": "Should I house my new Structured Thought wiki at wiki.philpin.com - or leave it at 🔗 notes.philpin.com?
\nFiled under important questions that have no right answer.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-24T13:41:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/24/should-i-house-my-new.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/14/just-rewatched-red-notice-full.html", "content_html": "Just rewatched: Red Notice 🎬
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-10-14T06:41:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/14/just-rewatched-red-notice-full.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/11/the-logo-in-my-email.html", "content_html": "The logo in my email signature in 🍎📧 just stopped rendering earlier this week. Took until today to work out what was wrong - noting that I hadn’t changed anything.
\nAs of this morning … fixed - though no idea why it stopped working to begin with.
\n🔗📼😂 I know exactly how Kevin feels.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7c87335db0.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-10-11T12:00:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/11/the-logo-in-my-email.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","? Apple"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/10/its-all-about-attention-to.html",
"content_html": "It’s all about attention to detail … FFS‼️
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5516891694.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-10-10T11:55:37+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/10/its-all-about-attention-to.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/10/electron-apps-on-mac-tahoe.html",
"title": "Electron Apps On Mac Tahoe",
"content_html": "🔗 Safari 26 Bug Turns Routine Browsing into a Memory Nightmare
\n.. I have been suffering from this - and I THINK this is the problem.
\nI originally THOUGHT I had narrowed it down to TextExpander since every time I closed TextExpander the problem seemed to right itself. Escalated to TextExpander - who told me how to do a clean install - which I did - but it didn’t fix the problem - because of course Text Expander isn’t an Electron app.
\nProps and big kudos to ‘Christa’ at Text Expander for the response time and help. 🙏🏼
\nLater: TURNS OUT NEVER WAS A TEXTEXPANDER ISSUE - all coincidence.
\nThis morning I gave Claude a list of all my Mac apps - and it tells me that these are the electron ones …
\nSo I think ChatGPT and Slack are my likely biggest culprits.
\nI am #KeepingAmEyeOnThis
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-10T11:40:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/10/electron-apps-on-mac-tahoe.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/04/philomena-cunk-vs-prof-brian.html", "content_html": "🔗📼😂 Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-04T13:51:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/04/philomena-cunk-vs-prof-brian.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/04/this-was-publisehd-in-and.html", "content_html": "This was publisehd in 2017 - and I am sure I saw something this pst week that announced essentially the same things as ‘news’. Ofc ourse I cant find it - but when I do - will come back here and add it.
\n🖇️ Reuters Reporting Ten Year Old News As Something New. // 💬 John Philpin
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-10-04T13:46:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/04/this-was-publisehd-in-and.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/04/nz-economy-risks-year-growth.html", "content_html": "
🔗 NZ economy risks 30-year growth delay
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-04T13:44:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/04/nz-economy-risks-year-growth.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/04/god-is-in-the-gaps.html", "content_html": "🔗 God is in the Gaps - funny - it fits into my recent thoughts on org charts - and a newsletter I recently published.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-04T13:42:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/04/god-is-in-the-gaps.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/03/chle-swarbrick-new-zealand-green.html", "content_html": "Chlöe Swarbrick (New Zealand Green Party) .. waxing lyrical with ‘Gary’ - his first politician on the ‘cast - and he explains why - 🔗📼 a good listen.
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-03T15:27:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/03/chle-swarbrick-new-zealand-green.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/03/from-earlier-this-year-but.html", "content_html": "From earlier this year - but an interesting reminder …
\n🔗 Across and within | Seth’s Blog
\nTalking about the tension between space and time leading to the rise and fall of societies and cultures.
\nAI is different ..
\n\n\nmy take is that Claude brings us everything it knows, and that its function is to help us go within, not across.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-03T09:40:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/03/from-earlier-this-year-but.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/01/looking-around-and-thinking-sarkars.html", "content_html": "👀Looking around and thinking ‘Sarkar’s Law of Social Cycle’.
\nYou?
\n\n\nAcquisitors, or Vaishya, have a penchant for acquiring money. If money can be made the acquisitors will find a way to make it. Thhey are not considered as bright as the intellectuals, nor as strong as the warriors ..
\n
When I referenced it in my book - 🔗 For Business Leaders Slapped in the Face by a World They Thought They Knew: A Human’s Guide To Our New World - And How To Make It Work For Us - I never knew about 🔗 this resource.
\nI also never knew that the already long title had been extended by an equally long sub title!
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/46673d2039.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-10-01T17:05:44+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/01/looking-around-and-thinking-sarkars.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/30/wayne-is-currently-aucklands-mayor.html",
"content_html": ".. Wayne is currently Auckland’s mayor .. been here for a while .. so why isn’t it fixed already?
\n![\"🔗](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a5ceaf892e.jpg\")
Oh and suggest that before starting on Auckland - he fixes https://fixauckland.co.nz
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/410a4bd721.jpg\")
🔗🎵 Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic
\nI had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-29T14:03:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/29/finally-a-new-idea-in.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/26/my-friend-claire-is-offering.html", "content_html": "My friend Claire is offering free discount codes on a set of books - and whilst not my world - who knows - could well be yours. If Bees and Apiaries are what tickles your fancy … read on. Dare I say that the offer is the ‘Bees Knees’?
\n\n\n‘Using an Enclosed Apiary is an interactive, narrated ebook that explains why enclosed apiaries are good for people and bees.’
\n
The HoneyBower Maker’s Guide is a “how to” with step-by-step instructions for building a frame and making a form-fitted apiary enclosure.
\nInterested? 🔗 Go Here
\nFirst three uses of the code and the set is FREE
\nJust use the discount code BeesKnees-2021 at the checkout.
\nFeel free to share it with friends, family and bee keepers all over the world.
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-26T10:33:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/26/my-friend-claire-is-offering.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/26/going-upstream-gapingvoid-a-good.html", "content_html": "\nA good read .. that is channeling some other things I have been tapping into recently.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/bfdbfd42b6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-09-26T07:49:19+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/26/going-upstream-gapingvoid-a-good.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/22/brillianthttpsxkcdcom.html",
"content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c5c766b433.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-09-22T08:00:59+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/22/brillianthttpsxkcdcom.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/11/paul-simon-wrote-the-sound.html",
"content_html": "🎵 Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-09-11T12:24:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/11/paul-simon-wrote-the-sound.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/09/elle.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-09-09T14:33:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/09/elle.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/09/123306.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-09-09T12:33:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/09/123306.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/09/back-in-the-day-we.html", "content_html": "Back in the day ‘we’ had a line:
\n\n\nOracle’s first platform for any `Product’ is always PowerPoint - and is written by LJE.
\n
It stemmed from Larry’s penchant for announcing products in large public forums and nobody else seemed to have any knowledge of it.
\nJust read this:
\n🔗 The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
\nWith this quote
\n![\"Oracles](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1fe999f6ea.png\")
Some Oracles never change.
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-09T12:09:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/09/back-in-the-day-we.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/08/havent-done-one-of-these.html", "content_html": "Haven’t done one of these in a while - but have to say i started it - and it just flowed out - so publish and be dammed is what I say.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-09-08T18:28:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/08/havent-done-one-of-these.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/01/guthrie-guthrie-guthrie-govan-in.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-01T06:49:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/01/guthrie-guthrie-guthrie-govan-in.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/31/in-no-particular-order-just.html", "content_html": "In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
\n\n🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
\n🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
\n\n\n@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
\n
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
\n\n\nOh no - what am I going to do?
\n
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
\n🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
\n🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
\n\n\nPersonally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
\n
![\"Tuvalu](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2263ca5700.jpg\")
\n\n… and it’s about to disappear.
\n
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
\n🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-31T18:36:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/31/in-no-particular-order-just.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/31/have-i-shared-this-before.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
\nGuthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-31T18:19:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/31/have-i-shared-this-before.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/29/when-you-are-ahead-of.html", "title": "When You Are Ahead Of The Curve It's Hard", "content_html": "I joined Lyris roughly 13 years ago. On my arrival - I had the ‘swag bag’ waiting for me in which was a mouse mat …and 13 years later not only do I still have it but it travels with me to most places I go.
\n![\"My](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f83c18e5f2.jpg\")
Today I was taken by an article by 🔗 Scott Brinker - famed for his ‘stack maps’ - in which Lyris used to feature.
\nHis articles arrives - and I either miss it - or I scan it - or I read it. On this occasion 🔗 1967 was the summer of love we will remember 2025 as the summer of vibes I read it - and - ummmm - no.
\nUmm - hell no.
\n…maybe one day I will follow this up with a more detailed reasoning why - but for now “yeah, no” is the only appropriate response.
\nWhy?
\n1967 was music, movement, and meaning.
\n2025? Unless you live in a tech bubble (and clearly many do) I would suggest that when people look back from 2050, and ask how they remember 2025 - I suspect the answers or more likely to fall into categories such as;
\nMy bet? However it lands, it won’t be remembered as the ‘summer of vibes’.
\nI am assuming that Scott has one of his tongues in one of his cheeks - so I won’t get too uppity - but just one more question - how many of you look back to 2022 as the year of
\n.. and this was just 3 years ago
\nThat said - BIG doff of hat to Lyris CMO and all round lovely man - 🔗Alex Lustberg for being 15 years ahead of tech culture and capturing ‘vibe’ as part of The Lyris culture.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-29T11:33:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/29/when-you-are-ahead-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/12/four-tools-i-use-when.html", "content_html": "When I tell others, they seem to find them useful.
\nIkigai - look it up
\nPay, Play, Passion and Purpose - a ‘Structured Thought’ Model
\nCollect and Curate, Connect and Communicate - think Gladwell’s Tipping Point (Maven, Networker and Communicator).
\nCore and Context - think Moore - but then add a touch of Structured Thought with a dash of #PeopleFirst
\n🔗 … and then there is Hunter’s Letter
\nI’ll be back with more links at some point.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-12T08:52:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/12/four-tools-i-use-when.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/12/my-wishlist-for-substack-enhancements.html", "content_html": "🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
\n@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-12T07:12:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/12/my-wishlist-for-substack-enhancements.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/12/aol-discontinues-its-dialup-internet.html", "content_html": "🔗AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
\nOh no - what am I going to do?
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-12T07:09:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/12/aol-discontinues-its-dialup-internet.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/06/leaders-dont-get-to-hide.html", "content_html": "🔗 Leaders Don’t Get to Hide - Gapingvoid
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6b89e6e5a6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-08-06T21:27:37+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/06/leaders-dont-get-to-hide.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/04/three-links-from-my-weekend.html",
"content_html": "Three links from my weekend.
\n🔗 Will data centers crash the economy? - by Noah Smith
\n🔗 Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won
\n🔗 I Drank Every Cocktail - Adam Aaronson - so I don’t have to? Meanie.
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-04T17:05:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/04/three-links-from-my-weekend.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/04/marketing-flywheel-momentum-why-every.html", "content_html": "🔗 Marketing Flywheel Momentum: Why Every Flywheel Needs A Native Analog & Native Digital Duo - from the Lockhead world.
\nIf you are trying to work out what to really do with Marketing in this modern age - he consistently makes sense. (Not on all - I grant - but on Marketing - yes.)
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-04T16:39:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/04/marketing-flywheel-momentum-why-every.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/02/the-biggest-industry-in-every.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Biggest Industry in Every State, Mapped
\nMakes for an interesting read .. and then I saw that Real Estate was the biggest industry in California .. and I thought wait .. there’s tech, entertainment, aerospace, agriculture .. real estate out performs them all?
\nAnd then I read …
\n\n\nThis is largely because the Bureau of Economic Analysis treats homeowners as landlords renting to themselves, and includes the rental value in GDP. If economists did not include this value, a jump in the homeownership rate would cause GDP to drop.
\n
Talk about measuring the wrong things!
\n", "date_published": "2025-08-02T09:15:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/02/the-biggest-industry-in-every.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/30/tosdr-i-have-read-and.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI have read and agree to the Terms" is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.
\n
via The mighty Doc Searls via David Reed via Hacker News
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-30T14:22:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/30/tosdr-i-have-read-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/29/transformation-enough-already-the-corporate.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-07-29T16:30:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/29/transformation-enough-already-the-corporate.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/29/i-am-a-patriot.html", "title": "I Am A Patriot", "content_html": "The corporate obsession with transformation is outdated - and continues to fail.\nDecades of data show most efforts don’t work, so rather than chasing grand, one-time overhauls, organisations must embrace continuous adaptation: flexible structures, people-first strategies, and real-time responses to shifting markets and needs. Change isn’t a ‘one-and-done’ project, it’s a lifetime commitment.\nStop transforming. Start adapting. That’s the edge. That’s survival.
\n
This post is extracted from something I received from my friend 🔗 Randall Rospond - over on Maui.
\nHe writes …
\n\n\nI first became aware of this song in 1989 when I purchased the cassette of Jackson Browne’s ‘World in Motion’ … and it spoke to me deeply then and has throughout the years.
\n
\nIt speaks to me more these days in the midst of America’s great lying disaster in the White House and the ruin of what I believed the USA had always ‘tried’ to stand for. Freedom. The song was written by Little Steven … and released on his Disciples of Soul album 1984.\nWith this … I pray some sanity , rule of law , integrity , honesty and compassion return to America and the world … asap.\n… peace and aloha Randall
\n\n
\n
🔗🎵Jackson Browne … recent performance
\n\n
🔗🎵Kris Kristofferson Live @ Farm Aid 1990
\nLyrics :Ben Harper’s website 2025
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-29T15:42:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/29/i-am-a-patriot.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/26/personally-id-never-heard-of.html", "content_html": "Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
\n
… and it’s about to disappear.
\n🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
\nPaywalled - but if you have Apple News - there is 🔗 this
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-26T10:39:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/26/personally-id-never-heard-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/23/surveillance-its-getting-worse.html", "title": "Surveillance - It's Getting Worse.", "content_html": "Ticketmaster - for it is they that own ‘Moshtix’ now have in THEIR system MY full and legal name that ‘must match’ the name I used to book my tickets, my phone number, my email, which city and country and zip code I live in - all of which was ‘needed’ as I booked tickets for a concert. Quite why they needed all that is unclear - because even the ID ‘enshitification’ stuff is their ‘information grab’ doesn’t solve the problem of scalping - they are just forcing data out of people - the bad guys have ways round it.
\nThis all came to mind as I read 🔗 this from Don Marti - after he read this from Doc Searls.
\nDoc is a personal story - the key one to read is Don’s where he summarises surveillance ‘myths and the reality’.
\nI particularly liked this one …
\n\n\nsurveillance myth: small businesses want social media advertising
\n
\nreality: they wanted social networking and got switched over. Policy changes that limit surveillance will make independent businesses better off.
.. but the others are just as important.
\nWhich is all currently high in my mind - because I am reviewing a new app that someone has recommended to me - and on their web site they write ( I paraphrase and add bold)
\n\n\n… a B2B marketing company that helps businesses find and close high-value customers faster by identifying which companies are most likely to buy before they raise their hand. They use AI and data signals to spot early intent, then deliver targeted ads and personalised outreach to decision-makers at those companies. Their model blends analytics, account-based marketing and sales activation to reduce waste and boost conversion.
\n
I wonder how they do all that if they aren’t into surveillance … which as you know - I am not a big fan of … back to Don
\n\n\nsurveillance myth: content is fungible, targeting algorithms are uniquely valuable.
\n
\nreality: expert brands such as King Arthur Baking and Tieman Tire have product and service knowledge that differentiates them, and that the company can keep and build on.
The problem with that reality is that it takes time - and most people want the shortcut.
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-23T15:15:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/23/surveillance-its-getting-worse.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/19/whilst-talking-about-broken-escalators.html", "content_html": "… whilst 🔗 talking about broken escalators - I wonder when this will be fixed … 10 days and counting so far.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/img-6481.jpeg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-07-19T16:12:09+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/19/whilst-talking-about-broken-escalators.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/13/indie-culture-is-great-but.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Indie Culture Is Great - But What’s Coming Next is Better
\n.. Ted
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-13T12:54:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/13/indie-culture-is-great-but.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/08/nz-firm-vantaset-sets-sights.html", "content_html": "🔗 NZ firm Vantaset sets sights on UK, US law enforcement agencies
\n.. enjoy.
\nParticularly interesting to see that despite running a very VERY NZ centric campaign over the past month - the interest from UK, Germany and Australia has all exceeded local interest - at least based on the analytics on the web site.
\nA true reminder that no matter how local you think you are trying to be - the fact is that we live in a global world.
\nIt’s also interesting to see how those countries are more interested in exploring organisational performance and productivity from a long time Kiwi company than Kiwi organisations themselves seem to be. #Thinking
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-08T17:00:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/08/nz-firm-vantaset-sets-sights.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/07/jax-and-i-took-a.html", "content_html": "Jax and I took a little tiki tour of our ' ‘hood favourites ’ on Saturday - including an extended session in my ‘favourite of the favourites’ … The Tinted Rose … who have extended their range of available 🔗 Lady H Gins.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/eeb95746e5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-07-07T11:07:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/07/jax-and-i-took-a.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/02/my-latest-newsletter-explores-the.html",
"content_html": "🔗 My latest newsletter explores the eternal debate .. ‘Maths - discovered or invented?’
\nBut it’s not only about that … it’s an introduction to a follow up issue where I will be exploring ‘Pattern Breaking’.
\n(Except it isn’t my ‘latest’ - just another post I discovered on my test blog!
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-02T14:24:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/my-latest-newsletter-explores-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/02/i-was-delighted-to-be.html", "content_html": "I was delighted to be joined on the People First podcast by Ramsey Avery who is the Production Designer for the Amazon series - Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power.
\nWonderful conversation that I know you will enjoy.
\n🔗🎙️ Ramsey Avery - The Lord Of The Rings - The Rings Of Power
\nDiscovered on my test blog from a year ago. (Clearly a space I don’t use a lot!)
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-02T14:19:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/i-was-delighted-to-be.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/02/best-viewed-on-the-site.html", "content_html": "\n… in a situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into The shrink [BAD Business] wherever you are, just walk in say “[BAD business], You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant. You “support election deniers, I’m out”.
And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and They won’t take him pay attention.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, They may think they’re both ???? nuts and they won’t take pay attention to either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in Singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business you support election deniers, I’m out” and walking out. They may think it’s an Organisation.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business - you support election deniers, I’m out” and Walking out.
And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-02T14:03:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/best-viewed-on-the-site.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/29/there-really-is-a-site.html", "content_html": "There really is a site for everything - though a very incomplete list …
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-06-29T14:16:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/29/there-really-is-a-site.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/29/reinvention-summitthe-end-of-equilibrium.html", "content_html": "Reinvention Summit:the end of equilibrium.
\nWords from my friend Stuart Maister - over in the UK …
\n\n\n\nThe idea of transformation is dead. That’s because it assumes you go from one equlibrium state to another through a change process. But the theme of the Reinvention Summit in Dublin was that there is no equlibrium, only permanent change. So continual reinvention replaces transformation as a process.
\n
I was taken with Stuart’s conclusion …
\n\n\nMy big idea to this is simple: it is critical to have strategic clarity so that you adapt, change and transform your activities within a clear and well defined mission.
\n
… because that’s what my friends at 🔗 Vantaset talk about.
\nCome to think of it - a lot of people talk about it - the real challenge is pulling it off.
\nIt is that that makes Vantaset truly revolutionary. because they do exactly that for business after business. Organisation after organisation.
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-29T07:54:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/29/reinvention-summitthe-end-of-equilibrium.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/24/more-to-come-on-this.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-06-24T09:55:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/24/more-to-come-on-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/20/weve-been-sold-a-story.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-06-20T17:01:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/20/weve-been-sold-a-story.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/20/its-a-facebook-reel-doesnt.html", "content_html": "It’s a Facebook Reel … doesn’t make it any less 😂🔗 funny
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-20T16:57:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/20/its-a-facebook-reel-doesnt.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/20/just-in-case-you-thought.html", "content_html": "🔗 Just in Case You Thought Life was Fair
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3c40d04495.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-06-20T16:50:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/20/just-in-case-you-thought.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/15/a-day-of-celebration-one.html",
"content_html": "🔗📹 a day of celebration … one of the better summaries of NoKings Day .. and on Facebook of all places.
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-15T16:21:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/15/a-day-of-celebration-one.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/15/part-two-of-the-ages.html", "title": "Part Two Of The ‘Ages’ Series", "content_html": "If you are keeping track of - the second part of my ‘Ages’ series has just been published on Substack.
\nThe Age of Experience is rising even as the Age of Reason declines. Not to erase it, but to end its monopoly. Power is shifting from rigid logic and control to lived insight, emotional depth, and adaptive thinking, where success depends on how well you sense, respond, and connect. How then does Business adapt to survive? It must relearn its purpose: to serve people. To feel as well as think, to listen as well as plan, and to treat people not as inputs to optimise, but as meaning-makers to support. A feeling business? How? Well that’s down to the people in the business.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-06-15T15:34:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/15/part-two-of-the-ages.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/14/courtesy-of-voronoi.html", "content_html": "Courtesy of 🔗 Voronoi
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7e6b756128.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-06-14T06:24:51+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/14/courtesy-of-voronoi.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/11/has-the-civil-war-started.html",
"content_html": "Has the civil war started?
\n\n\nYes, I’m the great pretender
\n
\nJust laughin' and gay like a clown
\nI seem to be what I’m not, you see
\nI’m wearing my heart like a crown
\nPretending that you’re still around
Pretty sure that when Buck Ram wrote those lyrics - he was talking about losing someone else. Tяump ? Just a nobody. The latest in a long line of pretenders.
\n🔗📼 In 8 minutes, Gavin Newsom calls the people of America to action.
\nYour choice how much you want to be involved, but when you are picked up one day and dropped off the next in some hell hole … don’t say you weren’t warned.
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-11T22:27:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/11/has-the-civil-war-started.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/08/listening-to-this-kara-and.html", "content_html": "💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
\nSYNCH
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2464e2dd65.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-06-08T10:38:12+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/08/listening-to-this-kara-and.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Podcasts"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/08/the-ten-warning-signs-ted.html",
"content_html": "🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia
\nGREAT READ
\nI think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5594776ea5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-06-08T10:33:20+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/08/the-ten-warning-signs-ted.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/06/kafka-talking-to-jay-graber.html",
"content_html": "🔗🎙️Kafka talking to Jay Graber - an interesting listen - BUT my takeaway as a casual listener was that sites like ‘PinkSky’ are the long awaited ‘seperate instances’ to Bluesky. But no.
\nThere is still not a Bluesky instance that is not on Bluesky.
\nDisingenuous - or did I mishear?
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-06T23:25:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/06/kafka-talking-to-jay-graber.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/06/dept-q.html", "title": "📺 Dept. Q ★★★★", "content_html": "![\"Dept.](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b681db089c.jpg\")
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick on the link below if you are interested in how the stars translate\n\nReally, Really, Really Good. Totally out of left field.\nAND\nNice job of building the cast and the backstories in parallel.\nHighly recommend.
\n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n![\"Dope](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d315ad13fc.jpg\")
\n\nDefinitely solid - a little slow at times - but work with it - it’s a good one
\n
Dope Thief on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n\n\nClick on the link below if you are interested in how the stars translate\n\n➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.
\nPopped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!
\nSo Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓
\n😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2025-06-04T09:56:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/04/i-watched-mission-impossible-dead.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/30/are-blogs-dead.html", "title": "Are Blogs Dead?", "content_html": "A short chat last week sparked a familiar question:
\n\n
\n\n“Is blog even the right word anymore? Do people still use them? Isn’t the whole thing outdated?”
\n
Yes. Yes. And no.
\nYou’d be forgiven for thinking blogs died off, especially if your online life happens on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram - like most of the world. Even mainstream media barely mentions them. And yet, nearly every news outlet runs a blog. They just don’t like to call them that. More on that in a moment.
\nFor now, if you’re reading this, you’re either on a blog or using a feed reader. So yes blogs are here and relevant - because you wouldn’t be reading this if it was irrelevant. Would you?
\nThe oldest continuously running blog is 🔗 Links.net, started by Justin Hall in 1994. It’s still live, though ‘regular posting’ is clearly not its hallmark. One post this year, nothing since last February. But still: there.
\nA more famous long-hauler? 🔗 Scripting News, from 🔗 Dave Winer, the guy behind RSS and podcasting. He also started in 1994. Justin might’ve gotten there first, but Dave’s still publishing like clockwork. Double-digit post counts, most days. No contest on stamina.
\nBut this isn’t about nostalgia. It’s not a leaderboard. It’s about blogs:
\nI did a rough count this morning: about 600 million blogs exist globally.
\nYes, newsletters too. Every Substack is a blog in disguise. The ‘email’ you get is just a post, sent to your inbox. Substack simply stopped calling them blogs. That doesn’t make them something else. (Same for Medium, Ghost, Micro.Blog) - the idea of a newsletter is a push to an email address (or app) - a blog (through its RSS feed) is also a push - just not to your email - but to your app of choice and there are many to choose from;
\nMetNewsWire, Feedly, Reeder and Readwise to name just fiur that I use (it’s a sickness - it doesn’t have to be this way. One is fine.)
\nSo yes, blogs are very here. Many are quiet, some unread, but together, they form the internet’s chaotic chorus. And now and then, you catch something brilliant.
\nSo what’s the problem?
\nDiscoverability. Let me show you.
\nThe New Zealand Herald, one of our local papers. 🔗Here’s their ‘blog’ page, but don’t try finding an RSS feed for it. It isn’t there - BUT - they do keep RSS feeds tucked away over here:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/nz-herald-news-rss-feeds/SOA2EBUD5L72DYXMP3A267XOKI/
\n… ten different feeds, but none for the blog. Helpful. NOT. (And it’s been there since at least 2017.)
\nWorse, click one of those RSS links and you’ll see … code. Which looks like gibberish unless you know what you’re looking at.
\nBut if you’ve got a feed reader, it’s gold. You copy the link, paste it into your app, and boom—custom news stream, no algorithm required.
\nThe screen shot below is from ‘Reeder’. I’ve got all ten Herald feeds in one tidy folder. Local news, technology, business, whatever. It’s fast, focused, and completely under my control.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-05-30-at-16.44.172x.png\")
So why bother? Why not just visit the Herald’s site?
\nBecause one feed reader can hold hundreds of sources. I don’t browse around - I bring the good stuff to me. It’s the difference between wandering through multiple stores and supermarkets - with car rides between - and still not finding things, definitely missing them and getting frustrated versus receiving a curated box delivered daily to your door step AND you are the one doing the curation (no algorithms) AND you can discover other curated feeds that you can also follow.
\nOf course, the Herald is a business. They pay journalists. They want ad clicks and subscriber logins. Fair enough. But their reluctance to promote RSS (or blogs more generally) feels less like innovation, more like a gate.
\nIf they’re not, then:
\nMeanwhile, if blogs are irrelevant, then:
\nThat’s the supposed trade. But it’s not a fair one. Relevance isn’t binary. It depends on context—and trust.
\nBecause tech giants and media companies want them to be - because both want you to stay on their sites - that is how they make money. BUT, you can make money without lock in. But that is a different topic.
\nIf you read everything on LinkedIn or Facebook, you stay on LinkedIn or Facebook. That’s the whole game: lock-in. Get you scrolling, keep you scrolling, make it feel like you never need to leave. Blogs don’t play that game. They sit outside the walls.
\nAnd that makes them dangerous - in the best way.
\nThis is part one of a very long post - trying to decide if I should publish the rest?. What do you think.
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\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-06-01T11:07:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/01/wuh-woh-it-all-started.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/01/the-boss-released-his-first.html", "content_html": "“The case involves Mobley and four other plaintiffs representing all job applicants ages 40 and older who were denied employment recommendations through Workday’s platform since Sept. 24, 2020. The court determined that the main issue – whether Workday’s AI system disproportionately affects applicants over 40 – can be addressed collectively, despite the challenges in identifying all potential members of the collective action.”
\n
The Boss released his first album in ’73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ wasn’t quite the all American anthem they thought - including ‘Ronnie’, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the ‘people that don’t pay attention’.
\nClearly not.
\n\n\nBruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans
\n
💬 The Guardian
\nThe Guardian? Hell fire!
\nIt got me to thinking how true is that?
\nMy thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/springsteen.002.png\")
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
\n\n\nAn aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.
\n
💬 'JP'
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T18:15:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/i-do-like-jps-journies.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/the-big-door-prize.html", "title": "📺 The Big Door Prize ★★★", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/478283e6a2.jpg\")
I dunno - wouldn’t go out of my way. Been watching off and on for the last few weeks just to let the brain drain.
\nSeries 1 ★★
\nI started it way back in the day and it fell off the watch list and ver missed it. Recently rediscovered - and sure.
\nSeries 2 ★★★
\nDefinitely better - definitely liked the characters more - but again - not too much to write home about.
\nThe Big Door Prize on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T17:19:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/the-big-door-prize.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/your-friends-and-neighbours.html", "title": "📺 Your Friends and Neighbours ★★★½", "content_html": "
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Yeah. Good. Never saw Mad Men - but I like how he can be ‘smooth, suave and sophisticated’ one minute and so ‘quickly’ switch to down and out. It started slow - for me - and towards the end was waiting for the next episode.
\nGood life lessons thoughts to boot.
Your Friends and Neighbours on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T17:12:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/your-friends-and-neighbours.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "title": "About Those PE Companies", "content_html": "
If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I haven’t even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do - focussing too much (IMHO - on cost not value) .. but lets move on.
\nToday’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
\n🔗🎙️ This podcast is from Decoder
\n\n\nToday, I’m talking with journalist Megan Greenwell about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. It comes out June 10th. It’s fantastic and maddening in equal measure. I highly recommend it.
\n
💬 Nilay Patel - (Decoder)
\nIt is - not unnaturally - US centric - and there, for sure, the problem has been growing since KKR and Nabisco back in the 80s. (Made famous by Bryan Burrough’s Barbarians at the Gate book at the time.
\nMoreover, there are plenty of people far more qualified than I to fill you in on PE. But I can’t resist setting a little scene …
\nThough the podcast went into the history and problems of PE in the US, it did not explore one of the more insidious aspects of US PE companies - the ‘roll up’.
\nExample, if you have a pet, you know who your local vet is … BUT - you may not know that between\n30 and 50 percent of those ‘local’ veterinary clinics are now owned by a PE company (sorry - hard to get the percentage more specific - but that is also why this can happen). This? Yes - that ownership was just 10%, 10 years ago.
\nIn 2020, NONE of the top 30 CPAs had taken any PE money. In 2025, 50% of the top 30 companies in the U.S.A. are either wholly owned or partially owned by PE.
\nToday, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of ALL PE investments is into the US ‘consumer services’. Consumer Services is primarily what we call ‘Hospo/Supermarkets’ in New Zealand.
\nWhich brings me to my point. Our language - MY language has been for years; ‘Buy local.’ ‘Buy from the ‘little guy’.’ ‘Support your local community.’ I believe that this idea is very important in New Zealand - but if this takes off in New Zealand - how will we know who is REALLY local?
\nCase in point …
\nTransport … I have pushed against Uber since they started - and since arriving in New Zealand - pushed harder - pointing out that for every dollar spent on an Uber takes 25%(ish) not just out of the pockets of the taxi business - but out of the country - because Uber is essentially a Californian Tech company. Fast forward to today and .. scooters.
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When I got to Auckland Uber (via Beam) and Lime were the two scooter companies that I was aware of. Beam got thrown out for being ‘🔗 naughty’ and then there was one - ruling the waves until the end of last year when contracts were renewed and ‘Flamingo’ appeared. Look at their site and they describe themselves as being funded by ‘Private Equity’ - but drill in, there is no significant company in there that I can see - just a cabal of local (Kiwi) business people who seem to like Jacksen Love’s idea and invested. TBC - this is GREAT - I am not saying all PE is bad. And giving Lime a run for their money - I am in.
\nSo what about New Zealand - are we going to follow the US - or be different?
\nI always hope and want for different, but I remain dubious.
\nIn NZ, the majority of PE are locally owned companies (maybe up to 20 of them) and less than a handful of International companies. (3?)
\nIt wouldn’t be fair to measure the number against the US, which operates at a radically different scale to New Zealand - so how about a ‘per capita’ measure.
\nTurns out that
\nIn New Zealand - PE is roughly 4 times the size of the VC industry - pretty much the same ratio as in the US.
\nI have no idea of the real power and influence of PE in New Zealand. Certainly the VC world is tiny compared to the US and not really made up of significant players - and valuations are a lot lower than what can be achieved in the US - which is part of the reason we tend to lose out great ideas and companies to the US. (Xero. RocketLabs. Soul Machines. Auror and … and .. and - still it is going on - most recently a tiny little company with big ideas - Grw.ai exported themselves to San Francisco.
\nSo - we do need to grow up - and value properly competitively. Otherwise - who are we kidding. BUT, if we do do that- how do we avoid the ‘greed trap. How do we avoid VCs and worse BIG PEs taking over our local businesses?
Optimal Workshop - cool company down in Wellington, took a 🔗 PE investment of $10,000,000 (Kiwi) in 2022 from Pioneer Capital - Pioneer are a local PE company - all good.
\nHere’s the thing. OW are in a very busy and focussed space (depending on how you cut the cloth) and Thoma Bravo - one of the larger US based PE companies ($US184 Billion in assets under management) - just before and just after the OW investment dropped well over 200 times that on a couple of their ‘competitors’ (its complicated) and merged them.
\n\n\nCustomer experience is mission critical to organizations, and the combined company will be well-positioned to further market expansion, accelerate innovation, and provide even greater insights to its customers.
\n
💬 A.J. Rohde, Senior Partner at Thoma Bravo
\n🔗 Pioneer meanwhile owns a majority stake in OW ….
\n\n\n(a share I can't reconcile based on publicly available information - because even a 50% stake would mean a valuation of 20Kiwi - post money - which would point to a revenue of 5Kiwi at a 4x multiple - but any public numbers (none of them from OW) had revenue at 5 to 7 million US - close to double.\n\n\n
BUT - whatever the story - it is not a large number if Thoma wanted to buy them - particularly when you look at their customer base and their ability to grow globally from Wellington. Imagine the possibilities if they were on Market Street, San Francisco?
\nPioneer could easily collect a 5 times multiple to their investment from just 3 years ago if Thoma Bravo made them an offer, New Zealand would lose another great company, but the investors? They would be just fine. See how that goes? (Assuming that the New Zealand Commerce Commission approved it - they have stopped such sales before.)
\nAll hypothetical of course, though in the USA it would be a slam dunk decision (apologies for the Basketball reference). But this is the conundrum.
\nOr is it? What do you think?
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T16:37:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/30/all-is-revealed-apparently-if.html", "content_html": "All is revealed.
\nApparently if you delete the space - so the two words run in together.
\nTHEN
\nAdd a space - between the two words.
\nThat fixes it.
\nA… and you wonder why us ordinary people get confused with ‘tech’.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-30T15:10:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/all-is-revealed-apparently-if.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/30/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html", "content_html": "🔗 Here’s a funny thing. Now THERE’s a funny thing …
\n(Before you click on the link - where do you think it goes to?)
\nFriend of mine pinged me this morning re a typo on a web site. Basically two words running in together. likethis.
\nChecked the issue - yup, so sent it on to ‘flag and fix’ - but issue ‘couldn’t be replicated’.
\nSo I looked again - still there.
\nChecked it on my Mac, iPad and iPhone - still there.
\nOn my Mac with Arc, Safari, Chrome and Firefox - still there.
\nLooked at ‘view source’ - not a problem - there were the two words - with a lovely space twixt the two.
\nMust be a ‘Mac thing’ they said.
\nMy friend who did the original flagging?
\nYUP. Mac.
\nSo yes, clearly a ‘Mac thing’ - but how to fix it?
\nNot so clear!
\nLATER - 🔗 even less so now I know the answer!
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-30T14:16:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/29/read-the-whole-thing.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/132b76b508.jpg\")
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"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"content_html": "I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._
Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post
\n\n\nPosition paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.
\n
Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-29T08:31:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/29/i-am-not-generally-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/29/the-host-has-a-nice.html", "content_html": "
Thank you @hawaiiboy who wrote;
\n\n\n\nReally like this Car-Free Community. Not Arizona, but the idea.
\n
The host has a nice style. The video is great and some marvellous zingers from interviewees, like
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-29T08:11:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/29/the-host-has-a-nice.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/29/the-studio.html", "title": "📺 The Studio ★★★ ", "content_html": "‘when I came back from Tokyo I realised that the way we live in America is just stupid.
\n
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I try hard to like Seth Rogen but for some reason, for me, there has never been a slam dunk. This was no exception. Definitely not a dud, but definitely more than a few misses.
\nSeries 1 ✅
\nThere were definitely highlights - but the fact I watched it episode by episode as it came out and I was never thinking ‘when is the next drop’(?) .. was telling. Missing a week completely and watching a double show - even more so.\nNot a loser - but I guess Seth is just not my cup of tea.\nThe Good News?\nI did get to the end. Unlike ‘Platonic’ - which I just rediscovered and found the first three episodes marked watched and I couldn’t tell you a thing about them.
\nThe Studio on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-29T07:20:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/29/the-studio.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/27/builderai-imagine-if-all-that.html", "content_html": "
🪦 Builder.AI
\nImagine if all that money had been given to someone who is trying to make a difference in the world - someone like, oh - I don’t know …. 🔗🙋🏼♀️ Jax Harrison? … instead the money is just chasing mo' money.
\n🔗 This is why I am with Jony Ive on the state of Silicon Valley.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-27T16:52:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/27/builderai-imagine-if-all-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/25/apologies-if-i-have-already.html", "content_html": "Apologies if I have already shared this - but I’d rather share it twice than not at all.
\n🔗 The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-25T17:26:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/apologies-if-i-have-already.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/25/i-guess-im-reflecting-on.html", "content_html": "I guess I’m reflecting on history a little this weekend.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-25T11:41:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/i-guess-im-reflecting-on.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/25/business-thinking-resurfacing-this-post.html", "content_html": "
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🔗 Business Thinking … resurfacing this post from 2020 - because sometimes we need to remind ourselves.
\nWhere we have got to is not normal.
\nTo change it is fully in our power.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-25T11:36:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/business-thinking-resurfacing-this-post.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/25/the-dawn-of-mediocre-computing.html", "title": "The Dawn of Mediocre Computing", "content_html": "I am back on this topic again.
\nIn my world, Venkatesh Rao’s thinking on tis topic is front and center. Posting this now - because In other circles I found myself once more referencing his post from 2022 …
\n🔗 The Dawn of Mediocre Computing - Venkatesh Rao
\n\n\nMediocre computing is computing that aims for parity with mediocre human performance in a realish domains where notions of excellence are ill-posed.
\n
And ..
\n\n\nExcellent computing is computing that aims to surpass the best-performing humans in stylized, closed-world domains where notions of excellence are well-posed.
\n
And ..
\n\n\nIn the weird but realish world we live in, mediocre is actually harder than excellent, and way more useful.
\n
And ..
\n\n\nIn stylized domains like chess and Go, humans have to deliver exceptional performance (ie good enough to make money at them by winning championships) to ensure mediocre survival in the real world (enough prize money to live on).
\n
There is a lot more besides, but I just realised that this journal had no connections back to this post - despite it being in my top 5 of VR posts (if number of references I have made is the measurement).
\nThere’s also these ..
\nOh - and this ..
\n🔗 Survival of the mediocre-mediocre
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-25T10:28:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/the-dawn-of-mediocre-computing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html", "content_html": "This morning’s song on rotate … 🎵🍎🔗 Thankyou Jarvis
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-24T11:56:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/24/hamish-on-the-future-of.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 Hamish on The Future of Media @ Ted
\nI remain a fan of what they are trying to do. There. I said it.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-24T11:40:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/24/hamish-on-the-future-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/22/i-published-why-design-matters.html", "content_html": "I published 🔗 Why Design Matters a few days ago tying the Ives/Collinson interview to some of the stuff I rattle on about.
\nI also referenced hesitations I have about Altman.
\nToday I watched the Ives/Altman video after that multi-billion …
\nAs I added to that piece just this morning:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-22T16:02:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/22/i-published-why-design-matters.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/21/from-an-article-by-noah.html", "content_html": "I remain mixed about Sam - it’s the odd inconsistencies that aggravate me - but - the fact that he and Elon are on opposite sides is a good signal and that he and Jony are on the same side gives me hope.
\n
From an article by Noah Smith that I need to come back to and write more. I find those three groupings quite fascinating.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/245b5db32f.jpg\")
\nAdded Later … sorry not helpful - right?
\n🔗 Is the U.S. in a ‘high-level equilibrium trap’? | Noah Smith
\n🚧 Still more to come.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-21T21:33:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/21/from-an-article-by-noah.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/20/travelers.html", "title": "📺 Travelers ★★★ ", "content_html": "![\"Travelers\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/79abfc6345.jpg\")
Been following this show for a while, finally nailing the last episode of Series 3 over the weekend. Good enough to keep me coming back .. not good enough to have me binge watch, but a solid show with hat tips to the usual tie Traveller conundrums. I did very much like the very last part of the final episode. Nicely done.
\nThere is a term in the industry for what I call ‘fillers’ .. Rob Long recently spoke of the technical name .. but basically an episode primarily made up of b roll .. so costs kept down.
\nYou kinda know when that goes down … but there was one episode that took it to the next level … season 2 .. episode 7 .. called 17 minutes … presumably a scene that from beginning to end took 17 mnuyes .. but we watched it for 44 minutes .. because Time.
\nSeries 1 ✅
\nSeries 2 ✅
\nSeries 3 ✅
\nTravelers on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-20T18:03:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/20/travelers.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/18/there-must-be-close-to.html", "content_html": "
There must be close to a couple of thousand hand curated links in 🔗Indieseek -
\n\n\n‘a human edited, Indieweb directory’
\n
… painstakingly put together by @bradenslen
\nWell worth a visit and a click around - no slop allowed. I mean I’m not sure it actually says that - but knowing what I know of Brad, I think it would be safe to put money on it.
\nBut there’s more - you can also submit your own indie site.
\nThere are other places around that does this but they do seem to move in fits and starts. Indieweb seems to be steady, been around a while and gently growing.
\nEnjoy.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-18T22:30:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/18/there-must-be-close-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/18/vestigial-warning-i-am-on.html", "content_html": "\nI am on a bit of a rant at the moment …
\n\n\nOver time, my initial reaction sharpened and what started as a critique became a little more spiky … then decidedly more tongue-in-cheek. Because while everyone else was raising a glass of shareholder Kool-Aid, I couldn’t ignore the inconvenient truth: efficiency with fewer people and more profit in a single corporation is ‘competitive edge’. BUT implementing that efficiency at scale is a problem for society without a counter balance. And ‘we’ are doing this - at massive scale - across the planet.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-05-18T22:17:49+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/18/vestigial-warning-i-am-on.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/17/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html",
"content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-05-17-at-23.30.152x.png\")
🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my 🔗 albumwhale lists
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-17T23:31:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/17/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/17/not-everything-that-counts-can.html", "content_html": "\n\nnot everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted should be.
\n
In the Age of Experience, perhaps it’s time we stop translating and start developing new, more direct ways to meaningfully measure what matters. (NEWSFLASH - that is not coming out of ‘The Valley’ any time soon.)
\nThis short reflection is my way of shining a light on that moment. Because sometimes a single sentence can unlock a whole new way of thinking.
\n🔗 I wrote a lot more about Jony Ive’s sit down with Patrick Collinson here.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-17T23:15:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/17/not-everything-that-counts-can.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/17/talking-to-an-old-friend.html", "content_html": "Talking to an old friend tonight. I said something. He replied …
\n\n\n“Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite”
\n
.. which curiously enough made sense in the flow of the conversation .. but I still had to ask. The full quote …
\n\n\nPoolside laughter has a cynical bite
\n
\nSausage speared by the cocktail satellite
It comes from the song ‘🔗📼 Lay Your Hands On Me, version of the song that my friend said that was the version I needed to watch.
\nJust did and too good not to share. So …
\nCans on - Volume up - listen in for 8 minutes - and come out shaking.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-17T19:18:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/17/talking-to-an-old-friend.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/16/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "content_html": "When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.
\nWho would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.
\n\n\nPoaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
\n
💬 Paul Nurse
\nPaul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
\nNot to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
\nOh well. We can dream.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-16T08:29:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/16/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/15/roger.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-05-15T01:06:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/15/roger.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/12/good-watch-people-who-treat.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nPeople who treat AI like a teammate, coach it and give it feedback and importantly, get it to ask them questions. The fundamental orientation a lot of people take towards AI is I’m the question asker. AI is the answer giver. But if you think about AI like a teammate, you say, hey, what are ten questions I should ask about this? Or what do you need to know from me in order to get the best response?
\n
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-12T07:33:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/12/good-watch-people-who-treat.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/preet-talking-to-ian-bremmer.html", "content_html": "
Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T14:51:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/preet-talking-to-ian-bremmer.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/christopher-lydon-tump-a-real.html", "content_html": "Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T14:48:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/christopher-lydon-tump-a-real.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/i-just-found-this-in.html", "content_html": "I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like 🔗 Semaphor
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T12:52:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/i-just-found-this-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/mac-filefinding-gems-from-brett.html", "content_html": "South Africa is among the nations that have sought counsel from Goldman Sachs on how to improve ties with Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank advised Pretoria — which has been in the White House’s crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administration’s good graces. It also recommended Pretoria walk back a land-seizure law that angered Elon Musk, who claimed it discriminated against White farmers. Japan and Saudi Arabia have also consulted with the Wall Street giant.
\n
Mac File-Finding Gems from 🔗 Brett Terpstrabrett.trpstra.net/link/535/…) - I particulalry liked the look of auto tagging in HoudahSpot.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T12:49:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/mac-filefinding-gems-from-brett.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/about-isaac-asimov.html", "title": "About Isaac Asimov", "content_html": "🔗It’s not the colour of the pill that counts
\nHappened 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.
\nBUT - 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.
\nSo interesting to see this today …
\n\n\namong Isaac Asimov’s many faults, his total lack of interest in characters meant some deft footwork by the writers of the Foundation television series.
\n
💬 William Gallagher
\nYes - that is probably it. I don’t recall him being an ‘emotional’ writer, which as a teen I didn’t miss. It was the ideas that I was after.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T12:27:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/about-isaac-asimov.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/what-civilization-can-learn-from.html", "content_html": "🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/fd1bf6688f.jpg\")
… stands to be corrected.
\nHere’s the thing. Communication is
\n\n\nthe imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
\n
or even
\n\n\nmeans of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.
\n
**Might I suggest a third panel **
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/g-void.001.png\")
I am not an artist and I now there will be ways to build tiny little arrows to and from the people at the bottom - just imagine it - or take me up on the offer!
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T12:15:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/what-civilization-can-learn-from.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/too-funny.html", "content_html": "Too funny
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/bf4b82ebd6.jpg\")
via 🔗 Helen Lewis
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:45:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/too-funny.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/using-ai-for-polish-hands.html", "content_html": "🔗 Using AI for polish - hands up for a beta test @Manton
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:44:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/using-ai-for-polish-hands.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/john-naughton-he-captions-it.html", "content_html": "\n![\"Woodhenge?\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c6c25c70ce.jpg\")
He captions it ‘Woodhenge’ - assume it is a joke - because he surely knows that there is a real 🔗 Woodhenge
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:42:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/john-naughton-he-captions-it.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/why-today-april-th-should.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday
\n\n\nThe question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."
\n
💬 Daniel Ellsberg
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:33:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/why-today-april-th-should.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/business-insider-may-have-published.html", "content_html": "🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com
\n\n\nMy working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nI don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.
\nBrother from another mother.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:30:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/business-insider-may-have-published.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/reflecting-matt-mullenweg-i-know.html", "content_html": "🔗 Reflecting | Matt Mullenweg - I know he’s alienated a few people - but I have always been with - and remain with him.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:27:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/reflecting-matt-mullenweg-i-know.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/02/the-first-of-a-two.html", "content_html": "The first of a two parter I dropped onto LinkedIN yesterday.
\n\nIn a sentence …
\n\n\nA fresh newsletter that calls out our obsession with control and why clinging to old structures is exactly what’s keeping us stuck.
\n
If you like and feel inspired - all the usual LinkedIN features are at your disposal.
\nIf you don’t. Apologies in advance.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a2303d394b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-05-02T00:44:08+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/02/the-first-of-a-two.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/i-just-added-albums-to.html",
"content_html": "I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
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Dear Kiwis .. a true story
\n🔗 Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported.
\nHoly mackerel .. German kids on a world adventure, fly from New Zealand to the U.S.A. .. port of entry .. Honolulu … and are arrested, handcuffed, locked up and deported .. the crime seems to be that they hadn’t firm-plans on the specific places they were going to stay, whilst in the U.S.A..
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-22T07:58:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/22/dear-kiwis-a-true-story.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/i-was-saved-by-god.html", "content_html": "\n\n“I was saved by God to make America great again”
\n
💬 Tяump
\nMaybe. Then again …
\n\n\nWhen fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
\n
💬 attributed to Sinclair Lewis - but actually unknown'
\nRelated ….🔗 A poem from 2011 by Terry Ehret
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T22:11:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/i-was-saved-by-god.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/a-public-policy-framework-the.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8f979212c5.jpg\")
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’
\nI was curious as to
\nhow well we had done - not well.
\nhow well we could do - hard - but not impossible
\nhow much the analysis connected to my own experiences and thinking - a lot
\nWhile down here, I bang on this a lot - as do others. It never seems to take hold. For whatever reason(s).
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T16:18:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/a-public-policy-framework-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/stop-calling-it-content-the.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/74f1af01fd.jpg\")
Content is a non differentiated, horrible, generic, cheap, replaceable kind of word.
\nContent is stored in silos - with grains and other commodities.
\nContent has minimal value.
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T13:48:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/stop-calling-it-content-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Organisations","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/black-mirror.html", "title": "📺 Black Mirror ★★★★", "content_html": "![\"Black](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5a696e9b40.jpg\")
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. Series 7? Finally - back to the brilliance that is Charlie Brooker.
\nFrom the same year if I recall … Gliding through the fucking matrix.
\nI am putting this up here and need to come back and remind myself of 1 to 4 - but if you want some real guidance in the meantime, just today Noahpinion published this … 🔗 In which I review almost every episode of Black Mirror
\nFinally Charlie back on FULL FORM
\nSeries 1
\nSeries 2
\nSeries 3
\nSeries 4
\nSeries 5
\n★★
\nSeries 6
\n★★1/2
\nSeries 7
\n★★★★
\nBlack Mirror on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T12:30:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/black-mirror.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/the-resistance-protesters-poured-into.html", "content_html": "The Resistance …
\n\n\nProtesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month.
\n
Michael Moore: 🔗 PROTEST EVERYWHERE — Saturday, April 19
\nThe NYT: 🔗 What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
\nThe Guardian: 🔗 Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda. - an ENGLISH newspaper
\nJoin In: 50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
\nThe US PRESS continues to ignore it [🔗 Sunday’s Front Pages] - congrats Anhorage!
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a1393aa28c.png\")
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Good read from Jason Fried …
\n🔗 Doing what you think, not what you thought
\nExtending the thought as a Haiku
\nGood read from Jason Fried
\nPlans fade, but now is clearer
\nDecide in the breeze.
😂😂😂😂😂 For Kiwi’s everywhere ….
\n(Warning, this is a Facebook short - so if you click to watch, Facebook will plant cookies on your machine. If you block such cookies - the video won’t play. Or you can just let them in. If you don’t get the warning, then you clearly don’t care about the cookies - play away. (That said you should care.))
\nYou can find the actual Facebook link 🔗 here
\n🔗 Maybe There Is an I in Team - Now I Know - writes Dan Lewis. He clearly doesn’t follow me. A reminder for all ….
\n\n\nThere might not be an ‘I’ in ’tEaM’ .. but there is definitely a ‘ME’
\n
💬 ME
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T10:16:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/maybe-there-is-an-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/severance.html", "title": "📺 Severance ★★★★", "content_html": "![\"Severance\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/266e3f1525.jpg\")
Series 1
\n\nSeries 2
\nAnd … well .. ummm . Everybody was so ‘OMG’ .. and best show Eva and … not a negative review - and definitely a great show - but no. Not the greatest. There - I said it.
\nSeverance on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T22:15:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/severance.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/will-this-be-the-chinese.html", "content_html": "🔗 Will this be the Chinese Century?
\n\n\nProbably yes, though that may not mean what people expect.
\n
💬 Noah Smith
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T10:54:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/will-this-be-the-chinese.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/had-a-play-with-ai.html", "content_html": "Had a play with 🔗 AI Site Builder from Wordpress. It’s going to take some tunings and prompts to make it really play nice - requiring time I have not got for a project I do not have. Still. Interesting.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T10:52:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/had-a-play-with-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/time-to-self-medicate-the.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/da13f9b585.jpg\")
Is Silicon Valley a destination, or just part of the journey?
\n… and where is it anyway?
\n… oh and why, despite the best attempts, countries all over the world seem to fall short of replicating it.
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T07:12:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/time-to-self-medicate-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/19/pattern-breakers-breaking-the-mold.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3e5bd2a2e8.jpg\")
🔗 Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold
\nI don’t particularly recommend books.
\nI recommend people.
\nMike Maples is one of those people.
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-19T21:05:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/19/pattern-breakers-breaking-the-mold.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/19/charity-is-doomed-to-fail.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/228e97e378.jpg\")
If you don’t know who Dan Palotta is - you should.
\nThis is a short introduction to him, his ideas and his work and how it ties to something I wrote nearly 10 years ago.
\nWe built 🔗 The Future Found with these principles at core.
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-19T13:10:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/19/charity-is-doomed-to-fail.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/19/work-life-balance-hand-crafted.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5146b1c103.jpg\")
Chris Lockhead dropped a post on LinkedIN regarding retirement.
\nTo me retirement is the macro version of the daily work-life balance.
\nIt solves the wrong problem really well.
\nGet The Full List of The Articles 🖇️🔎 Hand Crafted With Love
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-19T10:24:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/19/work-life-balance-hand-crafted.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/today-was-the-th-quote.html", "content_html": "Today was the 🖇️ 80th quote in the ‘Inspired By People’ series and as I intimated 🖇️in this comment, I have no hesitation in bringing it to an end. Such was the demand. 🥳
\nFeel free to scroll through and be inspired.
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🔗 The Merging of Wardley (Maps) and Snowden (Cynefin)
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T15:23:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/the-merging-of-wardley-maps.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/if-you-use-bluesky-and.html", "content_html": "If you use Bluesky - and you like to tinker - well - say good bye to your Easter Weekend …
\n🔗 Graze - a Custom Feed Builder for Bluesky
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T11:27:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/if-you-use-bluesky-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/i-was-having-a-couple.html", "content_html": "I was having a couple o’ beers last night with a friend and of course our conversation drifted into a gamut of topics - including music - I mean with me - doesn’t it always? But also masks. Oh and the connectedness of things. And prior lives and … and … and on the way home my mind recalled something I wrote a few years ago;
\n🔗 When You Connect The Dots - You Don’t Always Reach The Right Conclusion
\nEnjoy.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T11:26:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/i-was-having-a-couple.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/yet-another-albumwhale-list-as.html", "content_html": "Yet another 🔗🎵AlbumWhale list.
\nAs the intro says …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T13:58:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/yet-another-albumwhale-list-as.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/its-going-to-be-a.html", "content_html": "I am not a singles guy BUT there are some wonderful tracks out there, that wouldn’t make it to my lists if not careful. This list of albums is made up of albums that are only there because it includes one very specific track - which is WHY the album is here. (Not to say it isn’t a good album - not that other songs aren’t great, and is all to say that the track named on the album notes is why the album is on the list. 🎵 I also have an apple playlist of the featured tracks.
\n
It’s going to be a (very) slow move - but decided to move all pages hosted on Micro Blog to Craft.
\n\nAs I move them will delete the page and add the old page URL to my redirects.
\nCOUGH
\nWhen I did that first one - found a lot of redirects that I know are broken - so maybe I will fix those first.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:41:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/its-going-to-be-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/mcmxc-ad-enigma-the-list.html", "content_html": "
The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\n🔗 Israel is About to Empty Gaza - Chris Hedges
\nI find that Hedges often stands out by speaking out - loudly - about things that nobody even talks about. It used to be real hard to have that courage. Today? We should be pinning medals on him - except he would probably refuse them.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:39:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/israel-is-about-to-empty.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/report-reveals-internal-chaos-behind.html", "content_html": "🔗 Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple’s Siri Failure
\nAnother link I got to thanks to Gruber. Re linking for one reason ….
\nThe Set UP
\n\n\n… more than half a dozen former employees who worked in Apple’s AI and machine-learning group
\n
… and we go on to learn that internally the group are referred to ‘AI/ML’ and then
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:36:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/report-reveals-internal-chaos-behind.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/welcome-to-structured-visual-thinking.html", "content_html": "Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally
\n
Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.
\nThis caught my eye this morning …. 🔗 NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData
\nReminded me of 2 YouTubes by Map Men’s Jay Foreman
\n🔗📼 The Tube Map nearly looked very different
\n🔗📼 What went wrong with the Tube Map?
\nAround 7:45 in video 2 is where Jay highlights the fiasco that is (now moving to was) the New York map …
\n\n\nwith the notable exception of the New York subway that insists on being as baffling and ugly as possible.
\n
Do watch HIGHLY recommend - and definitely not a map nerd. (particularly)
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:22:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/welcome-to-structured-visual-thinking.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/mapped-which-countries-produce-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mapped: Which Countries Produce the Most Silver?
\n… in case you are wondering;
\nMexico is at number one - and double the country in second place.
\nThe U.S.A. is at number nine - producing around a third of that same country in second place.
\nNumber 2? JINA
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T09:41:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/mapped-which-countries-produce-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/just-posted-this-on-linkedin.html", "content_html": "Just posted this on LinkedIN …
\n\n\nGo back a while and I used to explain the difference in the politics of the US, where I lived and the UK, where I’m from .. in that the vast majority of the ‘left’ in the US were still to the right of the vast majority of the ‘right’ in the UK. No analysis, just how I felt as a dude on his life’s journey. Thank you for providing the explanation that supports my long held feelings.
\n
… as a comment on a Simon Wardley post - 🔗 which you can find here
\nI love how he is broadening out his subject matter from his maps - but still ties them in.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-12T23:51:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/12/just-posted-this-on-linkedin.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/superrich-flee-london-capital-suffers.html", "content_html": "\n‘Flee’? ‘Suffers’?
\nWith those answers we might find that this is good news.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-12T10:25:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/12/superrich-flee-london-capital-suffers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/david-brooks-i-should-have.html", "content_html": "🔗 David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic
\nYes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-12T10:15:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/12/david-brooks-i-should-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/the-social-security-administration-is.html", "content_html": "\nI have 3 questions …
\n
Hat Tip to 🔗 Daniel Savage
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\nThe Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.
\nand
\nThe Surprise? He has an 🔗🎵Orchestral version on YouTube …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-04-09T14:58:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/09/the-overview-features-on-no.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/09/wapo-headline-americans-are-sitting.html", "content_html": "From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records
\n
WaPo headline ..
\n\n\nAmericans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel
\n
It seems a miracle has occurred. It seems only yesterday that I read that
\n🔗 Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from ‘financial disaster’ (40%)
\n🔗 Millions of Americans are only $400 away from financial hardship (50%)
\n🔗 realbloggers.org .. via Don Marti - there are a lot of these sites gloating around in the Indie Web - not sure why we need another one - why do we keep reinventing the wheel. Can we just have one place?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-08T20:43:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/08/204345.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/08/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps.html", "content_html": "🔗 Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
\n… haven’t read the article - yet - saved in Readwise - I just loved the title.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-08T20:37:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/08/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/just-added-thelinkblog-at-microblog.html", "content_html": "Just added 🔗 thelinkblog at Micro.Blog to my 🔗 feed in Feedland … it just seemed right.
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-04-07T18:17:37+12:00",
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"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"content_html": "\n\n\n\n
Thanks for the link @chrisjwilson .. Snyder gets to the nub of the regime with fewer meaningful words than most.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T18:09:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/the-morons-by-chrisjwilson-vances.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/china-just-turned-off-us.html", "content_html": "🔗 China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
\nI lost count of my highlights. I enabled my readwise as a public link - because there is a LOT in the piece.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:47:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/china-just-turned-off-us.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/any-thoughts-from-anyone.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:31:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/any-thoughts-from-anyone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/odessey-and-oracle-the-zombies.html", "content_html": "
🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\n
🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure
\nHat Tip To @patrickrhone
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\nThe fact that the headlines in the main U.S.A. newspaper look like this …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/img-2840.png\")
Speaks Volumes.
\n🔗 See the full list on ‘today’s’ US Front Pages
\nThat it takes a film director (Ok - not ‘just’ a film director) to highlight it - speaks to even more problems. ( I would vouch he isn’t the only source - but I haven’t seen this many images on a single scroll …
\n\n\n\nEverywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution
\n
💬 Michael Moore
\n
🔗 As for the muskRAT - burn those companies to the ground.
\n\n\nJax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
\n\n
\n- they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
\n- they block out women’s voices
\n- they block out foreign accents
\n- they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
\n- they need hearing aids more than me.
\n
It’s a repost of one of mine.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T09:25:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/my-take-on-the-microsoft.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/subscribe-garys-economics-youtube.html", "content_html": "Subscribe!!
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-04-06T13:33:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/subscribe-garys-economics-youtube.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/inspired-to-finally-for-out.html", "content_html": "Inspired to finally for out my Feedland space today after reading @Dave ’s 🔗 doc
\nSimple instructions and it ‘just worked’ - so much to the point that I am happy to link to it from my 🖇️ Blog Navigation.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-06-at-12.28.092x.png\")
The link takes you to my 🔗 news feed which is a ‘river of news’ driven by my 🔗 subscriptions - early days yet but it’s a start.
\nThe impetus was that Dave was also talking elsewhere about adding BlueSky feeds to the list. I tried it out - and added a couple of my own. I didn’t use the handy dandy ‘sub’ short cut that Dave demonstrated.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-06-at-12.27.382x-copy.png\")
Would be great if I could edit the title - maybe you can, but not found out how yet.
\n// @andysylvester - because I know you are tracking this stuff.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-06T13:33:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/inspired-to-finally-for-out.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/jax-often-tells-me-that.html", "content_html": "Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
\n… I’m sure there are some other thoughts and will append and comment if they are suggested.
\nIn a different thread @njr shared 🔗 this to which I responded …
\n\n\nHats off to the Verge for not editing it out. Unlike pretty much any other media organisation in America would do. In fact is doing.
\n
Beyond that quite a few others have suggested this was absolutely the wrong time and place to make such a protest Like on 🔗 Daring Fireball)
\nto which I respond;
\n\n\n\n
\n- If not then - then when?
\n- If not there - then where?
\n
\nSomewhere nice and quiet so nobody hears?
\nYes it’s hard. Yes it wasn’t appropriate? It never is.
and, when John writes;
\n\n\nthere’s a time and a place for everything, and Microsoft’s own 50th anniversary celebration was not the time or place for two insufferable self-involved showboats to make the event about them. Because that’s what this was. It was about them, personally. Not about Gaza or Israel.
\n
going on to say
\n\n\nThe place for righteous protests is in public, in the streets - exactly as they are happening across the United States today.
\n
Trust me - there are plenty of demonstrations around the US against what Israel is doing - you just need to have been on the internet in the past couple of years. (Not so much by watching the telly).
\nBut thanks to 🔗Wikipedia the protests are being logged - even if they are being ignored and even campaigned agains t by the usual douches.
\nMeanwhile a couple o’ bonus links
\nGaza, Columbia University, Silencing people - it’s all connected.
\n\n🔗📼 Ian Bremner in 3 minutes on the issue
\nTime to stop - for now. I need an editor!!!
", "date_published": "2025-04-06T11:55:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/jax-often-tells-me-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/i-am-very-much-liking.html", "content_html": "I am very much liking the location / check in feature on the micro.social app. It has given me some ideas that are not so much about ‘checkins’ - but are related to ‘location’. Thank you.
\nThere is an odd issue though @manton @gregmorris - any thoughts?
\n🖇️ In this post I noticed that the image used in the post is duplicated with two different file names in the media library.
\n\nThe post itself uses the second image - so where has the first image come from and why?
\nPretty sure this is happening because of the micro.social app - since this behaviour is also on the other post which came via micro.social using location.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-06T11:44:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/i-am-very-much-liking.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/a-brand-new-album-whale.html", "content_html": "A brand new 🔗🎵 Album Whale List that is three times as large as my 2nd largest list.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-05T22:38:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/05/a-brand-new-album-whale.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/the-tinted-rose-talking-of.html", "content_html": "The Tinted Rose 📍
\nTalking of excellent beverages … The Tinted Rose is just down the road from PPO. Smaller, more subtle. Beer choice not extensive - but great cocktails and an excellent wine list.
\n![\"Some](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/image-20250405-221653-07c543bd.jpg\")
Hotel Ponsonby 📍
\nStunning building known locally as The Ponsonby Post Office .. which is what it was - before its recent transition to The Ponsonby Hotel - which is called that by nobody. Through those hallowed doors can be found excellent beverages from the ‘Hops’ family.
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/image-20250405-221255-ed6d1232.jpg\")
🔗🎵💿 Life, Death And Dennis Hopper - The Waterboys
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\nBack in January …
\n🔗🎵Announcing “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” from The Waterboys | Sun Records
\nThe announcement wasn’t very clear …
\n\n\n“Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” releases from The Waterboys on April 4th.
\n
Today is the 4th. Not here. I guess it will be tomorrow - when it is the 4th in America.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:45:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/back-in-january-announcing-life.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/second-up-cambridge-station.html", "content_html": "
🔗🎵💿 Cambridge St/ation - Pink Floyd
\nThe List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
\nI’ve started a new AlbumWhale list (and I haven’t even finished the others! Still.) The new list is called ‘Formative Years’ …
\n\n\nI’m an ‘artist’ guy, then an ‘album’ guy and then a singles/track guy. I like my music ‘in context’ The lists in here are way behind what I see in my mind’s eye - BUT the topics provide a clue to how I relate them all.
\n
This new list is all about albums that ‘formed me’ and contributed to the music world I am today. At the time I might not have recognised it - but in the rear view mirror - absolutely.
First Up: Odessey and Oracle By The Zombies
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:19:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/ive-started-a-new-albumwhale.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/we-are-told-that-ai.html", "content_html": "\n\nWe are told that AI will assist us, that platforms will adapt to us, and that services will respect what we want. But we are not being asked what we want. We are being modeled, approximated, and acted upon. Once that system achieves high enough fidelity and the simulation of our intent is “good enough,” our actual presence becomes redundant.
\n
\n\nThis is not empowerment. It is erosion.
\n
🔗 The whole piece is on LinkedIN - via Doc Searls.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-04T10:02:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/we-are-told-that-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/updated-my-mythic-quest-review.html", "content_html": "Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-04T07:40:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/updated-my-mythic-quest-review.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/linkedins-cofounder-reid-hoffman-says.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nBut the reward on the other side is second to none; the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn don’t need to work anymore, he added. Microsoft purchased the professional networking platform for $26.2 billion in 2016.
\n
.. so why is he still working?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T21:24:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/linkedins-cofounder-reid-hoffman-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/if-you-are-happy-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 If you are happy and need something to take you off your high … - don’t worry - its not that you don’t know l this - it’s just when you see it summarised and ending with …
\n\n\nBut the public is too dumb and too uninformed to wake up and smell the coffee.
\n
\n\nIt ain’t morning in America, it’s closing in on midnight.
\n
\n\nIf you speak up, no one will rally to your defense, like the law firms sitting on the sidelines and refusing to defend 🔗 Perkins Coie
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T17:20:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/if-you-are-happy-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder.html", "content_html": "But you’ll compete with other influencers for the last buck, listening to mindless drivel .. happy that you’re still alive.
\n
![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780804190121?title=On+Tyranny&author=Timothy+Snyder&cover_id=216335/cover.jpg\")
\n🔗 📚‘On Tyranny’ by Timothy Snyder
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T11:31:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/adolesence.html", "title": "📺 Adolesence ★★★★", "content_html": "![\"Adolescence\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/75edc764b4.jpg\")
One that seems to have it a global nerve. It seems like EVERYONE is watching it - so of course I had to. Very Good. Two points to make.
\n✅ 4 episodes - because no more needed.
\n✅ The flow. Each of the 4 episodes was done in a single take. Extraordinary. The camera follows a person and tracks the story flow as the cast moves around and engages with each other and the camera moves you to the next part of the story as the character on screen engages with that person. If you are movie buff - think Birdman and 1917 with one difference - this seems to have been a real single shot, not a post shoot stitch.
\nDefinitely watch it. and any young people you know.
\nAdolescence on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T11:23:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/adolesence.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/goodness-jervois-road-back-when.html", "content_html": "Goodness Cafe 📍
\nBack when we first arrived in New Zealand The Goodness was called The Governor and became our go to place for coffee and breakfast. I think it’s now onto something like the 4th or 5th owner since then (that’s what COVID has done), but it still remains our ‘go to’. BUT .. our hearts remain with ‘The Governor’ and Steve and Bernie who owned it remain great friends of ours.
\n![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781788603515/cover.jpg\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/img-2824.png\")
If you haven’t read 🔗📚 Ollie Henderson’s Future Work/Life you should. Excellent.
\nThis particular quote reminds me of something that Jason Fried wrote in one of his books ..
\n\n\nNew technologies tend to imitate the old until people figure out what they’re really meant to do. Early websites were brochures. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages. Early TV shows were radio shows with pictures.
\n
💬 Jason Fried
\nSo too work. We ‘broke’ work about 5 years ago - but slowly people (Corporates) are ‘fixing it’ (As in making us all go back to our old ways.) This is because they are still looking at work through the lens of the brochure/horseless carriage. It will be a while before we break it again - BUT - it will be broken but only once we have truly unpacked how the new world of work works.
\nI’ve got ideas. I’ve got people. I’m excited for the future.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:49:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/the-future-of-work.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/a-complete-disaster-says-daniel.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘A Complete Disaster,’ Says Daniel Ives About Tesla Stock
\n\n\nThe EV giant delivered 336,681 vehicles in Q1 – falling far short of Wall Street’s expectation of around 378,000. Even the more cautious analyst forecasts, hovering near 360,000, were missed by a wide margin.\nIn all, Tesla missed consensus by more than 10% and underperformed even the lowest projections by about 20,000 vehicles. Deliveries also tumbled 13% year-over-year, the sharpest quarterly drop in the company’s history.
\n
.. and then …
\n\n\nAnd yet, in a twist straight out of the Musk playbook, Tesla stock staged a comeback. After plunging as much as 6%, shares flipped positive – up 5% – on a Politico report suggesting Musk might step away from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
\n
Really? If he stops DOGE it’s all going to be ok? Where do these people live?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:11:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/a-complete-disaster-says-daniel.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-what-makes-an.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?'
\n\n\nMartin has a good list here of fundamentals, but ultimately, you know it when you see it.
\n
💬 JohnGruber
\n.. like ‘pornography’ and ‘art’ then?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:09:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-what-makes-an.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-steve-kornacki-exits.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports
\n\n\nThey might well just switch off the lights and lock the doors at MSNBC.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nHe’s not alone with that thought. Comcast has been moving deck chairs for a while now.
\nBut this is more a demonstration of another media company bending the knee.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:06:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-steve-kornacki-exits.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/long-live-rss-phil-windley.html", "content_html": "🔗 Long Live RSS - Phil Windley - via Doc Searls
\nA timely reminder. It’s RSS in general - good, but Phil also writes specifically about Substack.
\n\n\nI found that if you enter
\n/rssafter the URL for an author or category page, you get RSS for that author or category.
Meanwhile Substack’s own help. - says to tack on ‘feed’ not ‘rss’.
\nI do find that both work - and sometimes neither - which is more often than not because of the beginning of the URL …
\n\n\nReplace “your” with the name of your Substack publication.
\n
It isn’t always clear (to me at least) what that ‘your’ replacement should be.
\nIf you just put the URL https://
\n\nMan cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
\n
💬 Ernest Becker
\n… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-02T06:52:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/man-cannot-endure-his-own.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/mathematicians-uncover-the-logic-behind.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds | ScienceDaily
\n.. not read it yet .. but wondering f the equation includes parameters around the phone that is inevitably in people’s hands, more often than not being looked at.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-02T06:38:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/mathematicians-uncover-the-logic-behind.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/authoritarian-grift-meets-the-grind.html", "content_html": "🔗Authoritarian Grift Meets the Grind of Justice
\nAmerica (that country that promoted itself (past tense) as the beacon of democracy) continues to be the ONLY country in the world that does nothing to stop these kinds of people.
\nWhy would anybody believe - ever - that America stands for democracy?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-01T23:49:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/authoritarian-grift-meets-the-grind.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/pockets-of-belfast-gapingvoid-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 Pockets of Belfast - Gapingvoid
\n\n\nOn 20th March, in celebration of the UN’s World Happiness day, the BBC’s Mark Easton conducted a little social experiment: dropping ten wallets (with money and his phone number inside) on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
\n
\nHe got them all back.
Makes me happy - and today isn’t even World Happiness Day!
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/04f9d05176.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-04-01T23:36:54+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/pockets-of-belfast-gapingvoid-on.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/on-om.html",
"title": "On Om",
"content_html": "🔗 The Mediocrity of Modern Google
\n\n\nBut here’s the thing about tech – and I’ve been saying this for years – technology’s self-obsolescence is a more effective regulator than any government agency. Google, despite its trillion-dollar market cap and infrastructure advantages, risks becoming the first of the mega-caps to fade into irrelevance as the internet evolves beyond the “10 blue links” paradigm that made it a giant.
\n
Me - never been overly into the land of Google. Yes - I have an account - and of course I have Google Drive - but it is not my ‘go to’ - unless I am forced into it because a business I am working with has decided it hates Microsoft and has enabled Google. I do think it is hard to beat their ‘office suite’ - for the collaboration part of it - BUT I would never consider writing a doc or knocking out a spreadsheet on Google if I wasn’t expecting somebody to be collaborating with me.
\nIn my world …
\nGoogleSheets Airtable
GoogleDocs Craft
GMail AppleMail/Spark mainly running my own domains in some data center
Google Search Perplexity
GDrive iCloud/Dropbox
GooglePhotos et al. Apple
What else do people use Google for - I forget.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-01T23:29:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/on-om.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/01/were-your-managers-managing-your.html", "content_html": "🔗 Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
\n\n\nThis is “managed decline,” – the art of overseeing failure with exceptional documentation. Managed decline hides under terms like cost control, risk minimization, and streamlining, but it guarantees one thing: job security for managers. The EU and UK exemplify this, where managed economic entropy and decline have become a boon for the managerial class. Managers multiply like Gremlins in water.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b12eb5e66a.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-04-01T08:21:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/01/were-your-managers-managing-your.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/01/division-is-easier-than-connection.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Division is easier than connection - Seth Godin - just reminding us all of good behaviour.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-01T08:20:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/01/division-is-easier-than-connection.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/just-one-look.html", "title": "📺 Just One Look ★★", "content_html": "![\"Just](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e9082de084.jpg\")
It’s a Harlan Coban. It should have been great. It wasn’t. I am increasingly finding that his stuff falls into 2 star or 4 star. This is the former. I didn’t care about the people. The mystery wasn’t really that much of a mystery.
\nYeah … Nah.
\nJust One Look on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T13:38:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/just-one-look.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/the-residence.html", "title": "📺 The Residence ★★★★½", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/12db13bf87.jpg\")
Should it be 5 stars?
\nProbably because it is quite simply an absolute spectacular gem.
\n\n\n\n🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff.\nThe writer Paul William Davies is masterfully channeling David Hare’s ‘rapid exchange’ in the dialogue and Uzo Aduba is brilliant in the role.
\n
It’s a Shonda Rhymes production - and additional cast hat tips to ‘Giancarlo’ for playing the dead guy, Al Franken playing himself a Senator and Jane Curtin who knew all along? But really a wonderful cast, story, set up.
Yes it’s a ‘whodunnit’ - but that isn’t the point.
\nThe Residence on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T13:32:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/the-residence.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","MyFilmReferences","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/i-dont-know-i-share.html", "content_html": "I don’t know - I share a lot of Om - but this one - this right here is in a class of its own - so beautiful. A delight to read. A level where you don’t just give up highlighing the best parts - but maybe even give up writing - because how can you even begin to achieve this.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T12:35:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/i-dont-know-i-share.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Posts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/30/talking-of-herb-this-is.html", "content_html": "Talking of 🖇️ Herb .. this is one of his iconic ones and it got me to wondering why Haight Ashbury wasn’t called Ashbury Haight. I now know the answer - BUT - now I’m wondering what rules the signage in SF follows .. I have my suspicions, but need to check - and if they are consistent.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/69ca7edf90.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-30T15:46:45+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/30/talking-of-herb-this-is.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/30/another-cracker-from-ambrose-by.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Another cracker from Ambrose …. by @bradenslen
\n\n\nCorporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.\n💬 Ambrose Bierce
\n
How could I not share another Ambrosian delight?
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-30T09:37:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/30/another-cracker-from-ambrose-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/27/sitting-and-catching-up-with.html", "content_html": "Sitting and catching up with the world - and not one, not two but three Substacks all on a single theme;
\n🔗 Open Source and AI, FSF Edition - Dana F. Blankenhorn
\n🔗 The Mar-a-Lago Accord, or the Plan to Crash the US Economy - Umair Haque
\n🔗 State Of The (Super)Consumer: Why Government Cuts Are Spooking The Market
\nThey are all different and come from different angles but the theme is not good. And planned?
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-27T10:13:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/27/sitting-and-catching-up-with.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/25/its-headscratching-if-youre-a.html", "content_html": "\n\nIt’s head-scratching if you’re a boomer. You lived through JFK, proffering what you could do for your country and…\nNow it’s WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?
\n
💬 Bob Lefsetz
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-25T07:40:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/25/its-headscratching-if-youre-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/25/scripting-news-monday-march-peter.html", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025
\n\n\nPeter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\nI agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)
\nFour years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-25T07:38:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/25/scripting-news-monday-march-peter.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/its-scorched-earth-time-lets.html", "content_html": "💯 🔗 It’s Scorched Earth Time - let’s start with over throwing 🖇️ Chuck.
\nThis is the second post from Indexed with that headline …
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-24T15:09:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/24/its-scorched-earth-time-lets.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/the-peoples-os.html", "title": "The People’s OS", "content_html": "Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about ‘The People’s OS’. 🔗 Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first world that even then was apparent - much less today. (Hat tip to my friend Jeff Orgel who gave me ‘HumanIT’.) (And now you know why I started ‘People First’.)
\nReading this today makes me think that this movement might just be an idea whose time has finally come … (another hat tip - this one to ‘Victor’.)
\n🔗 (The) Automattic Operating System | Matt Mullenweg
\nToo early to talk about what I was doing one day last week - BUT - reading this totally resonated for me and let me start to explain why and then - when ready - I will come back at another time and in another post to talk about what I was doing.
\nBTW - I am increasingly a big fan of Matt and his thinking. (It started with him taking a stand against bullies) … and yes - I know I am ‘at odds’ with a number of readers on that one - but that’s ok. Right?
\n\n\nAt Automattic, the most important product I work on is the company itself. I’ve started referring to it as the “Automattic Operating System.” Not in the technical sense like Linux, but the meta layer the company runs on. The company isn’t WordPress.com or Beeper or Pocket Casts or any one thing. I’m responsible for the culture of the people who build those things, building the things that build those things. It’s our hiring, our HR processes, our expenses, the onboarding docs; it’s all of the details that make up the employee experience — all the stuff that shapes every employee’s day-to-day experience.
\n
💬 Matt Mullenweg
\nThere are too many buzz word applications with throw away thinking that circulate the interwebs for my taste - and I do what I can (a single voice in a cacaphony of band waggon jumpers) to stop that. BUT the Automattic Operating System is not one of those - it really is a concept that resonates.
\n\n\nA full ‘4π Steradian’ piece of thinking.
\n
(Seperate thought - 🔗 this is the Inc piece that Matt is referring to in his article.)
", "date_published": "2025-03-24T12:48:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/24/the-peoples-os.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/ive-been-following-umair-for.html", "content_html": "I’ve been following 🔗 Umair for years - but - only 10 references to him on this blog (I just counted). I think partly because he sometimes seems do be so out there and partly because he desperately needs a good editor - because he can go on … and on … and on …
\nStill - when you look at some of his old stuff that was ‘out there’ then .. and you look at today - maybe he isn’t as weird as he sometimes reads. So I commend you to today’s offering ….
\n\n\nWhat’s going to be left after five years or so of this? What we’ve already seen, and we’re just two months in?
\n
💬 Umair Haque
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-24T12:27:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/24/ive-been-following-umair-for.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/trapping-misbehaving-bots-in-an.html", "content_html": "🔗 Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth - well beyond my technical competence to understand if this will really work - BUT - I applaud the effort - and on the face of it - very clever … swamp the zones where the zone swampers hang.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-24T12:24:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/24/trapping-misbehaving-bots-in-an.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/real-agency-doc-searls-i.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI don’t nominate agentic, which is suddenly hot shit
\n
… or just shit. (for now). I get the promise - but all we are really seeing is a demo. HIs argument is ‘agency’ as word of the year - not agentic … why the distinction?
\n\n\nSee, agency is a noun, and agentic is an adjective.
\n
But that isn’t really the trust of his main argument.
\nGo read the whole thing.
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\n",
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"tags": ["? Links"]
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/23/objects-outlive-us-her-shopping.html",
"content_html": "\nHer shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
\nDown to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
\nBut no one will give her a glance
\nThey just shuffle on home in a trance
\nThe tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
\nTo make it to church, well, she needs to hurry
\nWhen late she will bow down contrite
\nWhile a meteor turns out the light
And there in an ordinary street
\nA car isn’t where it would normally be
\nThe driver in tears, ‘bout his payment arrears
\nStill, nobody hears whеn a sun disappears
\nIn a galaxy afar
First day of the new job and hе was so nervous
\nThe suit and the platitude, “Can I be of service?”
\nHis boss made him clean all the cars
\nWhile he wondered, “Is there life on Mars?”
\nAnd meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order
\nWhile we bicker on with our fences and borders
\nBut best not think about that
\nIt’s better to live without facts
And now in her old wedding bed
\nA lady will dream that her husband is dead
\nOf course he’s alive, he’ll be home around five
\nStill, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way
The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
\nAnd oddly the first spots make Orion’s belt as
\nYou queue at the bank for an hour
\n‘Cause a solar flare blew out the power
\nThe nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
\nThe water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub
\nIs draining away as we speak
\nBut she loses her job there next week
And there with his first telescope
\nA teenager stands full of hormones and hope
\nAs he squints at the night, like a painting of light
\nHe doesn’t suppose that a black hole implodes
\nIn a trillion tears from now (Ah)
💬 Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)
", "date_published": "2025-03-23T14:46:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/23/objects-outlive-us-her-shopping.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/23/its-incredible-how-supposed-pros.html", "title": "It's Incredible How Supposed 'Pros' Just Don't Get It.", "content_html": "🔗 How Long Can the Apple TV+ Experiment Sputter On?
\n🔗 Apple Losing Over $1 Billion A Year On Streaming
\nAnd still they don’t get it.
\nIn business there is a concept called channel attribution where they try to tie the expenses of email, social, web site, collateral, inside sales, field sales …. You name it .. to sales - and then leaders of those departments attempt to win more budget for their channel because that channel will give the best ROI. #Bollocks
\nBack in ’96 a little company started up - its intention was to be the solution to omni channel attribution. Bought by Adobe 15 years later to continue to do that. It doesn’t but that’s an altogether different story. Today, the likes of Gartner even maintain a category called multi touch attribution it’s big - and still doesn’t answer the question.
\nBut - back to Apple. The thing that both those pieces up there are going on about is meaningless and strikes me more as ‘reverse Channel attribution’. In this model they are trying to work out what revenue contribution to the mothership each channel (streaming in this case) is responsible for and whether it is profitable. I am far from convinced Apple thinks this way. In face they barely even break out their hardware, much less something like streaming. (That said - if anyone really wants to get into the down and dirty look no further than [Horace Dediu])(https://www.asymco.com) - but I digress.
\nIF that was even a concern of Apple’s do you think they wouldn’t have been doing something about it? I could go on - but will resist - because @gruber said it best.
\n\n\nHow much did Apple “lose” on electricity bills last year?
\n
He had two pieces on the NON story. 🔗 Here and 🔗 here
\n🔗🎵📼 Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-23T14:19:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/23/its-incredible-how-supposed-pros.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/23/ready-to-choose-sides-yet.html", "title": "Ready To Choose Sides Yet? ", "content_html": "Unless you live under a rock you know the Trump/Musk Euro issues which got me started on this post - and then it went downhill. (Hard to believe - but true.) It also had be examining my decisions on not becoming a US citizen - but first … beyond the Ukraine and Europe …
\n🔗 The New World Order Is Here, And America Isn’t Part Of It
\n\n\nThe foreign ministers of Japan, China, and South Korea gathered for the first time since 2023, posed for ceremonial photographs, and drafted plans for an Asian future where American preferences no longer command deference.
\n
\n\nThe collapse of American influence isn’t happening because the U.S. military is weaker or its economy smaller. It’s happening because trust in American judgment, consistency, and commitment has plummeted.
\n
someone much more knowledgeable than me …
\n\n\nPS 5 March, 2025. A further sign of trouble in the Five Eyes' alliance was a long report just noticed in the Financial Times_ on 25 February that Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s closest advisers, was urging him to expel Canada from the membership, although even Steve Bannon is reported to have said that this was a bad idea.
\n
Right then!
\nI have long been asked given how long I have lived in the USA - why I never became a US citizen. “Because I never wanted to become a US citizen”, was my usual reply. I am English. (Just in case you are new to this blog - I am being very specific. English - which politically and by my passport means that I am British - but how long is that going to last? So, just declaring my side.)
\n\n\nBut you can keep your British citizenship an and become American - dual citizenship.
\n
And my reply has always been that I find it intellectually challenging to swear allegiance to two countries. (OK - strictly speaking I never swore allegiance to The United Kingdom - I just am.), but were I to have become American …
\n\n\n“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
\n
(My bold)
\nI know - it’s ‘just words’. But to me - words mean something. That is why I am and remain British - until it goes to hell and a hand-basket - at which point - I am with the English.
\n\n\nThe principles embodied in the Oath are codified in Section 337(a) in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which provides that all applicants shall take an oath that incorporates the substance of ….
\n
(Which includes these words - again my bold)
\n\n\nRenounce and abjure** absolutely and entirely all allegiance and fidelity to any** foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which the applicant was before a subject or citizen;
\n
Pretty clear - which gets ignored when everything is sweetness and roses. But it isn’t any more. Which got me to wondering first about 🔗 John Oliver to pick one famous random name, but really more about people like Mike Myers, Drake, Neil Young, Justin Bieber, Will Arnett, Michael J Fox … well, here’s a 🔗 more complete list as Trump threatens Canada with war.
\nLong said that the whole work/life balance problem ‘solves the wrong problem really well’. For example - 🖇️ me, nearly six years ago
\nI conclude …
\n\n\nDoes John Mayall feel fulfilled? Well, needless to say, I can’t speak for him - but I think he does. Is he the richest musician on the planet? Not by a long way. Is he the most well known? Not at all. But I’d wager he is one of the most fulfilled people out there. And not a work-life balance equation to be seen.
\n
Just read this in Gaping Void
\n🔗 Your Life Isn’t Meant To Be Balanced, It’s Meant to Be Whole - Gapingvoid
\nand that article concludes ….
\n\n\nThe leaders who change the world don’t offer better boundaries–they offer better stories. More meaning. Gandhi didn’t check out at 5pm. MLK didn’t compartmentalize his dream.
\n
Were kinda trying to say the same thing.
\nA few years ago now, I developed the ‘Pay|Purpose|Play|Passion model.
\nIt looks something like this to most of us …
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Maybe ‘Balance’ is more like this?
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Of course ‘Nirvana’ might be a single circle image where all four areas fully overlap. Impossible? Probably. Is that what to aim for? Probably not.
\nBecause it is different. For everyone. All the time. In different contexts.
\nAnd that is ok.
", "date_published": "2025-03-22T10:06:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/22/work-life-balance-again.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/22/in-case-you-were-wondering.html", "content_html": "In case you were wondering …. 🔗 When You Will Die cute(?) dynamic graphic.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-22T09:08:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/22/in-case-you-were-wondering.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/16/om-has-a-new-idea.html", "content_html": "🔗 Om has a new idea that utilises Wordland .. which is pretty darn close to what I do here on Micro Blog.
\nThat said .. I would still like a simple way that allows me in ‘view blog mode’ to quickly edit what I am looking at .. rather than the hoop jumping I need to do.
\nAnd then I would like whatever changes I make on the blog to ricochet into the social media platforms .. but I know that’s a different request.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-17T06:31:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/16/om-has-a-new-idea.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/16/chuck-schumer-bob-writing-what.html", "content_html": "\nBob writing what the Democrats should understand. But do they?
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-17T06:25:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/16/chuck-schumer-bob-writing-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/15/the-keys-to-leading-today.html", "content_html": "🔗 The 4 Keys to Leading Today - Rishad Tobaccowala
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-16T06:55:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/15/the-keys-to-leading-today.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/15/totally-legit-steal-my-tesla.html", "content_html": "Totally legit.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-16T06:53:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/15/totally-legit-steal-my-tesla.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/14/you-know-how-i-hate.html", "content_html": "🔗🔎 You know how I hate that word ‘content’ .. it’s getting worse.
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-15T08:48:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/14/you-know-how-i-hate.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Organisations","? Searched"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/13/who-is-jasmine-mooney-ice.html",
"content_html": "\nI am finding this story being reported in a number of places .. though no where in US media.
\nMore to come as I triangulate.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-14T11:19:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/13/who-is-jasmine-mooney-ice.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/early-impressions-of-the-m.html", "content_html": "🔗 Early Impressions of the M4 MacBook Air - On my Om
\n\n\nArc Browser, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Google Drive, Telegram, Zoom, Microsoft Word, Marsedit, ChatGPT, Claude, Quill Desktop, and MacWhisper.
\n
Kudos @danielpunkass one of just 12 apps Om installed on a ’fresh build’ Mac.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-13T02:36:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/early-impressions-of-the-m.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/are-you-the-same-at.html", "content_html": "Are you the same at work as you are at the pub? - Gapingvoid
\n\n\n\nPersonality isn’t permanent
\n
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🔗 Big Tech: Proceed with Caution - Gapingvoid
\n\n\n\nImagine a ‘connect-the-dots’ (Ed: playbook). The people in an organization are the dots. Their relationships are the lines connecting them. That complex web represents an organization. And culture, which occurs in the spaces in between, is the picture that emerges based on how those dots are connected. If you erase 10,000 dots, what happens to the picture?
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-13T02:21:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/big-tech-proceed-with-caution.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/charlie-mungers-greatest-lesson-gapingvoid.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Charlie Munger’s Greatest Lesson - Gapingvoid
\n\n\n\nThe reason why there are thousands of quotes across the internet from Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Maya Angelou, Henry Ford, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, is because their ability as communicators is what drove their success.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-13T02:16:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/charlie-mungers-greatest-lesson-gapingvoid.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/culture-got-us-into-this.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Culture Got Us Into This Mess - Gapingvoid
\n\n\n\nOver the last few decades, while China created a world-class manufacturing capability, we created the Rust Belt. We bled our manufacturing capability dry.
\n
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🔗 Control is an Illusion - Gapingvoid
\n\n\n\nThe map is not the territory.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-13T02:12:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/control-is-an-illusion-gapingvoid.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/this-is-more-challenging-than.html",
"content_html": "\n\nThis is more challenging than it looks. That’s okay. That’s why we need you to do it.
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-13T01:46:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/this-is-more-challenging-than.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/just-another-day-in-the.html", "content_html": "Just another day in the ‘good o’l U.S.A. … 🔗 Read It All
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},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/11/this-bifrost-from-austria-amazing.html",
"content_html": "🔗🎵📼 This Bifrost from Austria - amazing as they are - are very different to
\n🔗🎵📼 The Danish Bifrost that I remember from the 70s
\nDanish Bifrost Hits (is that the right word)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-12T09:36:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/11/this-bifrost-from-austria-amazing.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/11/ill-let-the-quotes-speak.html", "content_html": "💬 I’ll let the quotes speak for themselves.
\n🔗 Why Journalism Is Like Stinky Cheese - by Ted Gioia
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f32b5074e35b4c14a7e9897cec6be2da.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1e8052f084244e9fb15806c70c0da82a.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/08c2d3911f6a476f8ff3d9c87065b480.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-12T03:31:29+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/11/ill-let-the-quotes-speak.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/10/structured-thought.html",
"title": "Structured Thought",
"content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ab63f54426.jpg\")
\nI started a series about ‘Structured Thought’ on LinkedIN and then publishing essentially the same material in my newsletter around 10 days later. (Current status - 2 out on LinkedIN, one in newsletter.)
\nThis morning - I received an email from a newsletter reader about Florence Nightingale - and … 🤯 - this is going to have to be a whole edition all by itself.
\n\nSeperately someone else highlighted the influences of both Tufte and Don Norman. Not wrong, and Tufte was already on my ‘key influencers’ list.
\nFlorence was not.
", "date_published": "2025-03-11T05:18:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/10/structured-thought.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/10/093308.html", "content_html": "Oh SHIT
\n\nI will write more. Not today.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-11T04:33:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/10/093308.html", "tags": ["? Links","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/09/just-leaving-this-here-minutes.html", "content_html": "Just leaving this here.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-10T07:30:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/09/just-leaving-this-here-minutes.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/09/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal-hard.html", "content_html": "🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
\nHard to argue with the logic …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2a541f6377.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-10T03:44:04+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/09/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal-hard.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/09/how-to-resist-trump-and.html",
"content_html": "🔗 How to resist Trump and Musk without ruining your life.
\nWhether you resist him or not .. your life is going to be worse if he isn’t stopped.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-10T03:42:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/09/how-to-resist-trump-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/09/how-silicon-valley-swung-from.html", "content_html": "🔗 How Silicon Valley Swung From Obama to Trump
\nDid it though? Did it really? Once again we are being told that the ‘masses’ have switched sides because a few loud mouthed ignorant bullies with a few bucks in the bank are representative of the entire region.
\nCertainly the facts don’t seem to support the argument.
\n\n\nOverall, Democrats maintained a strong majority in Silicon Valley.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0d8edb0442.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-10T03:36:51+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/09/how-silicon-valley-swung-from.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/prime-target-had-this-been.html",
"title": "📺 Prime Target ★★★½",
"content_html": "![\"Prime](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7301a59c4c.jpg\")
Had this been on Netflix I might have rated it higher. But it wasn’t. Worth a watch for sure .. but not before all the other crackers on Apple TV. And Prime Numbers? I wonder if this was green lighted by the person who did the same for Three Body Problem over on Netflix? Both strike me as written because they came up with a Coll Maths title - and then asked - so whats the story?
\nDon’t get me wrong, this was way better than Three Body Problem (which I still need to review) - but I still felt unsatisfied.
\nPrime Target on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-09T13:48:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/prime-target-had-this-been.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/running-point-cute-entertaining-not.html", "title": "📺 Running Point ★★★½", "content_html": "![\"Running](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cfdf70a1f4.jpg\")
Cute, entertaining not going to change the world, shades of Ted Lasso .. and nothing like Ted Lasso … an ‘inclusive’ set of characters .. about Basketball .. except it isn’t .. like Lasso. Give it a whirl ..
\nRunning Point on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-09T13:33:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/running-point-cute-entertaining-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/generation-beta.html", "title": "Generation Beta?", "content_html": "I think describing who I am, what I want and need and everything else besides based on my age is baloney and claptrap. Hell - I’d put more money on being defined by astrology. But still this bunk persists.
\nIt’s getting weirder.
\nConsider the labels and birth-year brackets commonly used to pigeonhole entire generations:
\n![https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/869d4a68b9.jpg](\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/869d4a68b9.jpg\"){kind=link}
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1.\tThe Silent Generation: Born 1928–1945 (17 years) \n2.\tBaby Boomers: Born 1946–1964 (18 years) \n3.\tGeneration X: Born 1965–1980 (15 years) \n4.\tMillennials (Generation Y): Born 1981–1996 (15 years) \n5.\tGeneration Z: Born 1997–2012 (15 years) \n6.\tGeneration Alpha: Starting from 2013—so far, 12 years \nAnd now?
\nApparently we are already ushering in Generation Beta - 3 years (at least) early.
\n\n\nGeneration Beta officially arrived on Jan. 1, successors to Gen Alpha. While the name follows the conventions of the Greek alphabet, its connotation is less scholarly and more sus for some young parents and every school-age child. Beta is commonly used as slang for weak and passive.
\n
💬 Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ
\nSeriously - The Wall Street Journal? The article wasn’t on the ‘joke page’ - and last time I looked they weren’t doing satire - though I get it - it’s increasingly hard to tell in this climate. But still.
\nIt’s a Corporate Marketing con that for some eye popping reason ‘we the people’ seem to have adopted.
\nWhy?
\nIt’s right up there with ‘content’ - if you are following you know what I am talking about. But in case you don’t - 🖇️🔎 I have hundreds of posts on the topic) that can be reduced to this …
\n![\"Surface\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6d0f6fa006.jpg\")
Meh. I went to checkout the new series .. and discovered it was series 2 .. and according to Apple TV .. I had watched it. So that says everything. I will eventually get round to Season 2 .. but not rushing.
\nSurface on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-09T13:15:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/surface-meh-i-went-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal-is.html", "content_html": "🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is so good today and so true …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/de48c4caab.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-09T04:19:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal-is.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Humour"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/07/the-st-state-thing-has.html",
"content_html": "The 51st state thing has been around for a long time. It’s just the focus on Canada that’s different …
\n🔗 51st State (Plus) by Peter Preston | Goodreads
\n\n[🔗 51st State (song) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_State_(song)
\n.. oh and the fact we have a total nut job running the country who just might decide to invade .. Wag The Dog anyone?
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-08T16:20:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/the-st-state-thing-has.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/07/pulling-on-a-new-jersey.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e40f4bfda1.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-08T07:02:26+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/pulling-on-a-new-jersey.html",
"tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/07/shorpy-has-a-us-bias.html",
"content_html": "📸 Shorpy has a US bias, so lovely to see this 125 year old photo from New Zealand’s South Island this morning.
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/dd4ff87965.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-08T06:39:39+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/shorpy-has-a-us-bias.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/need-to-look-into-woodkid.html",
"content_html": "Need to look into WOODKID more. A lot more.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-07T12:02:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/need-to-look-into-woodkid.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/on-my-tv-show-reviews.html", "content_html": "🖇️ On my ‘TV Show Reviews’ - some are growing in number of series - so rather than repetitive postings on the same series - I am revisiting older ones as I watch and editing. I discovered I’d missed Slow Horses - just ‘fixed’ - not completely since I need to add reviews for a couple of the series - but really. Why? ALL so good.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-07T06:24:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/on-my-tv-show-reviews.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/not-wrong-scripting-news-tech.html", "content_html": "💬 Not Wrong
\n🔗 Scripting News: Tech and Democracy
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ab4fb90a3f.png\")
I know we know he’s a government sponsored sponger … but it’s important to remind ourselves how much of one he is from time to time. No?
\n🔗 $38b of government money that funded Musk companies - FlowingData
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-07T04:45:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/i-know-we-know-hes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html", "title": "The Butterfly Effect Is Real", "content_html": "Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
\n💯 .. we’ve sort of been down this track before .. not so much Martin’s pov .. as the larger picture .. don’t be cowed .. about anything .. by anyone. And yes it can be scary .. but if nobody reads it .. then you got it out of your system .. if everybody reads it .. you will find that you are not alone.
\nMe on related threads .. April to July last year.
\n🖇️ Setting The Record Straight
\n🖇️ We Are Being Forced To Conform
\n🖇️ Is This How You Get ‘Silenced’?
\nSeperately, I am English and have lived in the US a lot .. and have never been tempted to do the citizen thing. That doesn’t stop me writing commenting and signing up to campaign on the ground for politicians that are fighting for what I believe is right. People ask me why? If I can’t vote .. why bother?
\nAnswer.. if I can convince just one person to vote for ‘my politician,’ then I am using their vote as my surrogate. A second .. and more .. icing on the cake. The same goes for writing, cartooning, talking in bars .. play to your strength .. the margins are so close these days that the shift is getting easier every day to make the win happen.
\nKeep going. I am.
", "date_published": "2025-03-06T11:36:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/05/a-double-from-nathan-imported.html", "content_html": "A double from Nathan
\n🔗 Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado
\n🔗 Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles – FlowingData
\nFor example …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c2c25e9c3c.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-06T04:15:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/a-double-from-nathan-imported.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/i-had-never-heard-of.html",
"content_html": "I had never heard of 🔗 Zora Neale Hurston .. until today .. so glad I have. Via The Wisdom Letter
\n1/4
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9142d06ee4974b609ecc72e76e8031e6.jpg\")
\n2/4
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/31f492e50d104347bca76fa94b312a56.jpg\")
\n3/4
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\n4/4
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",
"date_published": "2025-03-05T06:51:03+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/i-had-never-heard-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/originally-published-on-this-blog.html",
"content_html": "Originally published on ‘this’ blog in 2007 - 🖇️ The world has not changed as much as we think …
\n18 years later … the quotes hold and still I would argue that “The world has not changed as much as we think”.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T05:56:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/originally-published-on-this-blog.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/harold-inniss-communications-theories-wikipedia.html", "content_html": "🔗 Harold Innis’s communications theories - Wikipedia
\n.. a new one on me - via Seth Godin via Cory Doctorow … this is how networks work.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T05:35:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/harold-inniss-communications-theories-wikipedia.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/here-are-a-dozen-of.html", "content_html": "\n\nHere are a dozen of the many Micro.Bloggers I enjoy:
\n
💬 Miraz
\n\nThanks you for inspiration Miraz. Some of mine…
\n@Bradenslen
\n@Andysylvester
\n@The
\n@Danielpunkass
\n@Moondeer
\n@Hawaiiboy and @Crossingthethreshold - keeps me connected to HI.
\n@Munish
\n@Dave
\n@Mandaris
\n@Numericcitizen
\n@Mtt
\n@Mitchw
\n@AlanRalph
\n@Bjhess
\n@Jusummerhayes
\n@Amerpie
\n@Endonend
\n@Pratik - his account lives on - though his posts now live elsewhere.
\n@Gregmoore
\n@Moonmehta
\n@Hutaffe
\n@Annie
\n@Kaa
\n@Toddgrotenhuis
\n@Simonwoods
\n@Billbennettnz
\n@Jimmitchell
\n@Devilgate
\n@Herself
\n@Artkavanagh
\n@Tylerknowsnothing
\n@Markstoneman
Daring Fireball: Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’
\n@gruber … Is it just me that thinks 🍎 missed a trick by not using 🔗🎵📼Thunderclap’s song
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:24:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/daring-fireball-another-tim-cook.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/trump-threatens-to-pull-federal.html", "content_html": "🔗 Trump threatens to pull federal funds for US schools allowing ‘illegal protests’.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:18:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/trump-threatens-to-pull-federal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/03/good-morning-good-morning-good.html", "content_html": "📸
\n🔗📼🎵 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c44f000aae.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-04T02:40:58+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/03/good-morning-good-morning-good.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/saw-it-a-couple-of.html",
"content_html": "Saw it a couple of nights ago … and gave it the worst movie ever award …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6585f1cea3.jpg\")
To be fair others did like it - but nobody even thought it worth a nomination .. much less a win .. in any category.
\n5 wins out of 6 nominations?
\nSeriously?
\nI know the world’s gone mad … but really?
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T16:50:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/saw-it-a-couple-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/indexed.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/card7944-1536x901.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-03T11:33:57+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/indexed.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/gaping-void.html",
"content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/all-because-a-single-person-cared-social.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-03T11:33:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/gaping-void.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/only-one-third-in-and.html",
"content_html": "Only one third in - and we will get to the Silverlake/WPEngine fracas .. but for now a 🎙️🔗link to Lenny’s podcast and a wise thought.
\nSide note - no expert on how this is all going to shake out in the courts - but from what I read - I remain on Matt’s side.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/08fe4bbef8.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-03T07:33:09+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/only-one-third-in-and.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/our-muslim-boy-wonder-michael.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Our Muslim Boy Wonder - Michael Moore
\n(It’s about ’Steve’, but it this caught my attention …
\n\n\nHow many millions upon millions over the years have snuck into this nation without permission, without invitation, just wham-bam-thank-you-Uncle-Sam-you’re-an-American-man now – ** in this case because of the perhaps questionable morals of a Wisconsin farmer’s daughter**.
\n
💬 Michael Moore
\n… my bold, because I have questions …
\n🔗 🏝️ Discs - Sir Jony Ive, designer - BBC Sounds and 🔗 Daring Fireball
\n\n\nI think when you struggle, then a goal can become just commercial issues. I understand – I mean, if you’re losing lots of money, you’d like to stop losing lots of money. The problem there is it means you focus on money, and you’re normally losing money because the products aren’t right. And from ‘92 to ‘97, it was a very, very difficult season. One that I am so grateful for – but I still get the shivers sometimes.
\n
💬 Jonny Ives
\r\nThis really resonated - and if you read some of the stuff I read - it will ring bells, because it is like life;
\n\n\nthe money comes when you stop chasing the money
\n
I also liked Gruber’s extented thought;
\n\n\nJudging them as good or bad isn’t the correct framework. It’s that they weren’t right. There’s an inherent subjectiveness to rightness.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\r\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T05:28:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/john-on-john-on-jonny.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/gruber-and-malik-commenting-on.html", "title": "Gruber and Malik commenting on Skype and Microsoft", "content_html": "🔗 Skype is dead. What happened? - On my Om
\n\n\n\nMicrosoft now talks about Teams being their focus, showing that even today they haven’t realized what made Skype a cultural, consumer force. Microsoft Teams is a terrible product – and I dread using it. In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.
\n
💬 Om Malik
\n\n\nIt single-handedly destroyed the long-distance calling business. Most young people today don’t remember, but long-distance calls used to cost a lot of money. Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.
\n
💬 Om Malik
\n\n\nIn the early days of podcasting, seemingly every show used Skype because it was so much better than anything else. And it was free! It felt like the future. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if not for Skype, podcasting would’ve been set back several years.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nSharing these - and Om nailed it in that second quote.
\n\n\nEspecially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.
\n
I was one of those immigrants calling home.
\nSAD.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T05:13:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/gruber-and-malik-commenting-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/01/freedom-or-liberty-dont-let.html", "title": "Freedom OR Liberty - Don't Let Them Confuse You", "content_html": "At one point in 🖇️ Zero Day, De Niro talks about Freedom and Liberty.
\nPerplexity…
\n\n\nThe terms freedom and liberty are often used interchangeably, but they have nuanced differences:
\n
\nFreedom generally refers to the ability to act without external constraints or interference. It is the absence of restrictions, allowing individuals to pursue their desires and actions without hindrance.
\nLiberty, on the other hand, emphasizes freedom within a framework of responsibility and law. It involves being free from arbitrary or oppressive control while respecting the rights of others and adhering to societal rules. Liberty assumes accountability and is often tied to justice and fairness in a structured society.
\nIn essence, freedom is broader and can exist without limits, whereas liberty is freedom regulated by responsibility and mutual respect.
I kind of have/had that in my mind - but not all the time really only when I think about it. AND Perplexity is right - the terms are used interchangeably.
\nI would go further.
\nIt’s a good reminder and one to watch out for as certain people scream ‘Freedom’ … of whatever they are talking about. Don’t forget #LanguageIsImportant
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T05:59:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/01/freedom-or-liberty-dont-let.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/01/if-you-are-a-craft.html", "content_html": "If you are a Craft Lover / User and are missing web clipping - problem solved. 🔗 HERE
\nJust installed - works fine - 3 clips per day for free - and then there is premium.
\nYou are welcome.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T05:43:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/01/if-you-are-a-craft.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/01/no-second-state-visit-for.html", "content_html": "🔗 No second state visit for Trump
\nOR 🔗 here - AT ‘STOP TRUMP DOT ORG’
\nSIGNED
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T05:34:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/01/no-second-state-visit-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/01/anora.html", "title": "🎥 Anora, 2024 - ★", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/959540-anora-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg\"/)
When I first heard about Anora I looked it up and put it in the category of ‘no’ .. not even ‘yeah .. no’ .. just definitely .. NO. Despite this, I found myself watching it last night as part of a group where we are attempting to watch all the ‘Best Picture’ nominations before our Oscar party on Sunday. Left to my own devices .. I would have switched it off, or walked out, by around the 20th minute.
The rest of the movie just had me repeatedly asking myself ‘why’. The final 10 or so minutes found slight redemption .. but not sufficient to move the movie out of the worst movie I’ve seen this year (have to think more if that should read ‘ever’) .. but even ‘the year’ qualifier is significant given that I recently saw Babygirl (a 2 star rating from me.)
Side note .. one reason I didn’t want to see it was it struck me as a low rent remake of Pretty Woman .. and yes similarities in the set up .. but no.
It was just bad .. and Oscar nomination? PLEASE!
BUT judging by the ratings of others … I am very alone.
\n🖇️ Baby Girl Review .. in case you were wondering.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T03:16:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/01/anora.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/27/it-had-to-happen-storm.html", "content_html": "It had to happen:
\n🔗 Storm The Capital - The Game
\nFull Disclosure - not (yet) bought it.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T09:41:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/27/it-had-to-happen-storm.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/27/a-minecraft-movie-official-trailer.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer
\nNo plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T09:37:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/27/a-minecraft-movie-official-trailer.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/26/searing-pie-dont-watch-if.html", "content_html": "[🔗📼 Searing Pie - don’t watch if offended by bad language.]youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_…)
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-27T19:34:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/26/searing-pie-dont-watch-if.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/26/zero-day-its-a-political.html", "title": "📺 Zero Day ★★★½", "content_html": "![\"Zero](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/af45af883a.jpg\")
It’s a political thriller starring De Niro - so you kinda know how it is going to end. Overall I liked it. Though final episode fell away … too many ‘final speeches’ delivered as ‘closing arguments’. Still, for all of that - definitely a good watch.
\n🔗 Anti-Elon Musk Poster “Don’t Buy a Swasticar” in London Goes Viral. (Hollywood Reporter on Apple News)
\n\n\nThe photo is taken from the moment Musk, also the founder of SpaceX, made
\nwhat looked likea Nazi salute at Trump’s January inauguration rally, drawing criticisms from all over the globe. The poster dubs Tesla “The Swasticar.”
My edit because it’s important to get the facts right.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-27T05:59:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/26/antielon-musk-poster-dont-buy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/25/peter-thiel-another-loser.html", "title": "Peter Thiel - Another Loser", "content_html": "In August 2024 he was ‘considering’ a complete and permanent move to New Zealand. Read More
\nAs of yesterday he’s outta here - Kiwi passport in hand - and still hanging on to a large chunk of property in the South Island.
\nIt was a publicity stunt. The Kiwis were played. And they are going to be played again because National have just brought that idea back …
\nNew Zealand changes ‘golden visa’ to lure wealthy migrants
\nTo Remind\nReal Thiel’ emerged in his attack on Gawker.
\nBut his Palantir investment is tanking …. but am sure that it will all be ok once his old Paypal mates ‘sort out America’
\nAnd please don’t cry too much. After dropping 30% in the past 5 days, the Palantir price is still UP 150% just since August last year.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-02-25-at-10.13.272x.png\")
🎵 🖇️ Blog Challenge - Music Edition - thank you for the inspiration @Annie
\n🚧 Links To Posts by Others
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-24T08:51:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/blog-challenge-music-edition-thank.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/23/love-the-waterboys-and-today.html", "content_html": "Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.
\n🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys
\n🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys
\nIf these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-24T06:35:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/love-the-waterboys-and-today.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/23/i-keep-coming-back-to.html", "content_html": "I keep coming back to this visual .. because the other one makes me feel sick.
\n📼🔗 https://youtu.be/HykF5KX4STA
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-24T04:31:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/i-keep-coming-back-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/22/krasnov-wikipedia.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2931812b44.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-02-23T04:42:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/22/krasnov-wikipedia.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/22/this-is-where-we-are.html",
"content_html": "🔗 This Is Where We Are // Patrick Rhone
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-23T04:33:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/22/this-is-where-we-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/21/you-cant-scale-exclusivity.html", "title": "You Can't Scale Exclusivity", "content_html": "Over on LinkedIN .. 🔗 The downfall of Soho House.
\nTurns out that SH is in the ‘dodo’. Personally not surprised. Never a member - often as a guest back in the day - but more recently as I noticed that ‘everyone was a member’, I felt something was up - but too many other rabbit holes to dive into.
\nBack in the day it was a wonderful place. Seems to me that it fails for similar reasons that exclusive fine dining restaurants and this ‘boutique wineries’ ultimately fail .. you can’t scale exclusivity.
\n‘But what about Patek Philippe Watches and Hermes bags’ I hear you cry. ‘Different’ I reply. Product - not service. You can manage the demand. For example - there are Hermes bags for sale that you can’t buy - even if you can afford one.
\nAnyway - back to Soho. This came to mind.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a1d2b715f3.png\")
That’s why it was predictable.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-22T10:39:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/21/you-cant-scale-exclusivity.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/21/simple-advice-for-junior-folks.html", "content_html": "🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital
\n\n\nDon’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.
\n
💬 Hunter Walk
\nI know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.
\nBUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;
\nI worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/639ab609cf.jpg\")
A little over a week ago - I threw out 🖇️ this little billy do onto my blog and thought nothing of it. To save you the click through I was just pointing out some internet speeds I was experiencing - and asked what my response should be. Here on MicroBlog I got 4 comments over the next 24 hours. I dunno - par for the course? Now - through the power of Micro.Blog - these posts are also syndicated to BlueSky, Mastodon and Threads.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/img-4980.png\")
#### On Mastodon (275 followers) after 6 days … apart from 1 ‘like’ … again, Crickets ![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/img-4982.png\")
#### And on Threads (158 followers) after 6 days … holy hell! … 809 likes, 346 comments and over 55,000 total views … ![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/johnphilpins-thread--threads.png\")
All of this definitely not to say ‘look at me’ and all about ‘WTF’ .. and what actually makes people tick. I don’t do twitter - but when I did - and generally on any of these sites - if I hit double digits - I am eternally surprised. This Threads thing actually delivered 2 orders of magnitude more comments than the likes I would typically achieve. Needless to say, I have not even tried to read - much less replied to - the 336 comments - but as I watched the thing spiral up - it was interesting to see it take a life of its own. #### Questions So many - that I don’t know where to start - so I won’t. Just observing.I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-19T07:23:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/18/i-thought-it-was-quiet.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/17/the-braindump-blog-reporting-that.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.
\n\n\nSignal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
\n
\n……
\nAn astonishing coincidence I’m sure.
💬 Braindump
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-18T09:48:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/the-braindump-blog-reporting-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/17/first-it-was-deepseek-and.html", "content_html": "First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/363220fc5b.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-02-18T09:47:39+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/first-it-was-deepseek-and.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/17/collections-improving-the-css.html",
"title": "Collections - Improving The CSS",
"content_html": "Collections is a new micro.blog feature on micro.blog that allows images to be grouped together in … wait for it … ‘Collections’!
\nIt’s a cool extension, but I wanted to feature collections in related posts which gave me problems if I used the recommended CSS. (Problem, because 20 images in a collection resulted in those 20 images appearing at the bottom of all the posts that featured the collection which I felt was overwhelming. Not anymore.
\nMy real desire was to feature them on each post on my blog as a scroll (like on the micro/blog timeline. (The default was to lay them all out on a grid - which resulted in the post being overtaken with a lot of old images). Nothing in the standard CSS allowed for that.
\nMy short term fix was to have a link on a post to a page, 🖇️ like this.
\nBUT - let’s face it - a kluge.
\nJust cracked the entire problem in less time than it has taken for me to write this post.
\nFirst Time.
\nSee what I mean : https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/inspired-by-people-martin-luther.html
\nNext job … Have the scroll sometimes display square images - and sometimes landscape / portrait.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-18T08:45:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/collections-improving-the-css.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/17/but-stiglitz-suggested-the-only.html", "content_html": "\n\nBut Stiglitz suggested the only way the president’s policies would positively contribute to that goal was by running the US into the ground. “The inflation from the tariffs is going in the wrong way, and the only thing that is going in the right way for Bessent is his efforts to crater the economy,” he said.
\n
\n\n“In supporting Trump’s economic policies, Bessent is helping to get the yield curve down by crashing the US economy – not a good policy, I would say.”
\n
🔗 Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-18T07:30:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/but-stiglitz-suggested-the-only.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/15/should-we-cry-for-argentina.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Should We Cry For Argentina?\n… my latest newsletter if you are interested. A bit different to my usual newsletter themes.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-16T06:31:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/15/should-we-cry-for-argentina.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/14/well-who-knew-and-just.html", "content_html": "🔗📸 Well. Who knew? - and ‘just’ down the road apparently.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9bdc130c88.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-02-15T15:45:20+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/14/well-who-knew-and-just.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/14/david-frum-is-not-wrong.html",
"content_html": "David Frum is not wrong …
\n🔗 The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-15T08:38:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/14/david-frum-is-not-wrong.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/13/if-someone-wants-to-unlock.html", "content_html": "\n\nIf someone wants to unlock a stolen phone – or retrieve money from an ATM – and only have five guesses, this data suggests they still have a one-in-eight chance of guessing correctly.
\n
💬 Nathan Yau - Flowing Data
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-14T05:40:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/13/if-someone-wants-to-unlock.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/13/i-was-thinking-of-posting.html", "content_html": "I was thinking of posting a quick response analysis of 🖇️ this post from yesterday - but not yet.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-14T05:34:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/13/i-was-thinking-of-posting.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/13/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "content_html": "🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mahatma Gandhi
\n
17th Feb, 2025: Turns out this one is a fake quote. 🖇️ This is the correct attribution.
\n🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.
\nFresh into the feed today - Doc on the difference between 🔗 Blocking Tracking and Blocking Ads
\nIts 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’)
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T11:12:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/me-back-in-commenting-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/hiding-data-in-an-emoji.html", "content_html": "\n.. sharing - and understand - not sure I could do it.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T11:04:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/hiding-data-in-an-emoji.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/instagrams-because-sometimes-you-need.html", "content_html": "Because sometimes you need to watch things to which you can nod your head up and down - not side to side.
\n🔗 Climate Warming Warning From Carl Sagan
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T11:03:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/instagrams-because-sometimes-you-need.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/re-this-fixed-it-seems.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Re this - fixed. It seems that I am definitely am all over the place on movie watching.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T10:40:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/re-this-fixed-it-seems.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/140359.html", "title": "🎥 Ferry 2, 2024 - ★★★", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1160336-ferry-2-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg\"/)
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.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T10:03:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/140359.html", "tags": ["? Films","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/09/til-that-buffy-saintemarie-wrote.html", "content_html": "TIL that Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote 🎵 Universal Soldier - a song that for some reason (maybe because I only ever heard his version and it was a relatively big hit in the UK) … had always assumed Donovan wrote. 🤦♂️
\nI found out by reading 🔗 this - which is a sad story that I have no opinion about.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-10T09:52:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/09/til-that-buffy-saintemarie-wrote.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/09/how-to-achieve-immortality-ted.html", "content_html": "
🖇️ How to Achieve Immortality - Ted Gioia
\n\n\nIn ancient times, you attained immortality by doing great deeds.\nToday you attain immortality by getting blood transfusions from teenagers, and freezing your body for later revival.\nNeedless to say, there’s a huge difference between these two strategies.
\n
Too True Ted. Too True.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-10T05:57:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/09/how-to-achieve-immortality-ted.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/08/governor-newsom-please-help-franklin.html", "content_html": "🔗Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims
\nWell this little bit of news totally passed me by. Surely an oversight?
\n\n\nThe Franklin Fire was still smoldering when the Palisades Fire ignited. We were still in a hotel, not yet having found a place to rent. We are part of this disaster, yet we have been erased from its response.
\n
💬 Posted by Jason Fried ‘for a friend’.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-09T06:28:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/08/governor-newsom-please-help-franklin.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/seeking-alpha-reporting-security-officials.html", "content_html": "Seeking Alpha .Reporting …
\n\n\nSecurity 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.
\n
\nThe 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
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T10:55:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/seeking-alpha-reporting-security-officials.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html", "content_html": "\n\n? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\nYesterday .. (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
\nEither way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.
\nIt is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?
\n🎵 I know - who cares - its just a …
\n\n\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T08:17:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/concern-the-uks-ai-ambitions.html", "content_html": "🔗 Concern the UK’s AI ambitions could lead to water shortages
\nIf I’d been told when I was growing up in England that in the future the BBC would report that ‘water shortages’ loomed, I would have assumed that I had stepped into a dystopian SF novel that made up my reading pleasure at the time.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T05:53:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/concern-the-uks-ai-ambitions.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/archiving-effort-to-preserve-datagov.html", "content_html": "🔗 Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov - FlowingData
\nWe continue with hope.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T05:06:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/archiving-effort-to-preserve-datagov.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/the-beatles-were-a-rutles.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 The Beatles were a Rutles cover band
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-05T13:35:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/the-beatles-were-a-rutles.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/everyone-knows-your-location-tracking.html", "content_html": "🔗 Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
\n\n\nwhat does Unity, the 3D engine, have to do with the in-app advertisement or location tracking?
\n
…
\n\n\nTurns out that Unity’s main revenue stream (they made $2 bln+ in 2023) is Unity Ads - “Mobile Game Ad Network”. Sounds quite interesting.
\n
Too technical for this bear to fully understand - BUT I got enough to let out a very loud expletive.
\n(via John Wunderlich over on LinkedIN)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ca1d6f4dd3.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-02-05T13:03:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/everyone-knows-your-location-tracking.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/prisons-and-bitcoin.html",
"title": "🚧 Prisons and Bitcoin",
"content_html": "I am unsure if they are connected - so parking this here while we think.
\nThere is also something going on with the Argentinian playbook - which I am planning to publish in a newsletter.
\nI am no expert - but my spidey senses are up … Bitcoin, Argentina, El Salvador .. OR, it’s all summarized thus ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6a73da2808.jpg\")
El Salvador introduced bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 and then - as now - one Tim Draper has oft’ spoken breathlessly of how cool it is that a sovereign nation has adopted it.
\nTim Draper Expects Bitcoin to Transform El Salvador Into One of the Richest Countries in the World.
\nThe flag waving by Tim has never stopped.
\nThat Said
\nPerspective
\nIn a recent Bloomberg interview, Michael Saylor, executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy, revealed that beyond his company’s holdings, he personally owns at least 17,732 Bitcoin, currently valued at approximately $1 billion.
\nYup - Saylor personally owns 150% more Bitcoin than The country of El Salvador - and let’s not forget that his company MicroStrategy owns another 471,107 bitcoins.
\nQuestion
\nWhy do we still trumpet the El Salvador story?
\n\n\nEl Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) is the largest prison in Latin America, with a capacity to hold 40,000 inmates. The facility spans 410 acres of land, with the prison complex itself covering 57 acres (approximately the size of seven football stadiums). It features eight cell blocks and extensive security measures, including electrified fences, reinforced walls, and 19 guard tower.\nIt was built in late 2022 during a large-scale gang crackdown and officially opened in January 2023.\nPopulation of El Salvador - 6.5 million\nThe USA has a total prison capacity across federal, state, and local facilities that can house 1.9 million people in federal prisons, correctional facilities, state prisons, local jails, and other detention centers.
\n
Today’s News
\n# Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador’s mega-jail?
\n\n\nPresident Nayib Bukele confirmed that he had offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system".\nPutting aside the legal questions of exporting US citizens to another country’s prison system - I am wondering what’s going on.
\n
Back Of The Napkin - Capacity
\nBack Of The Napkin - Prisoner Count
\n\n🔗 The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
\nThe names to remember ..
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T13:59:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/the-young-inexperienced-engineers-aiding.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/dei-try-this.html", "content_html": "Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
\n
DEI? 🔗📼 Try This.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T10:05:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/dei-try-this.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/john-brayton-too-he-includes.html", "content_html": "\n.. he includes a script.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T04:29:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/john-brayton-too-he-includes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/made-a-list-of-the.html", "content_html": "\n\nMade a list of the contact info for my congresscritters in Notes.app to make it easier to call daily.
\n
\nToday’s issue: This is a coup. Start calling it that.
💬 Patrick Rhone
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T04:06:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/made-a-list-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/dave-winer-im-sure-as.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T02:30:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/dave-winer-im-sure-as.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/02/i-have-a-sub-domain.html", "content_html": "I have a sub domain on Philpin.com called ‘documents’ where I keep finished docs that are'
\n1] more than a blog post or page
\n2] living documents
\n3] idea catalogues
\n4] private client documents
\n5] extended pages to my blog
Just finished an update on one such document …. 🔗 A Visual Thinking Primer - it fits very much into ‘2’ and part of ‘3’ which is occasionally called out in ‘4’.
\nWhy does it exist? Because as it says halfway through …
\n\n\nI think the larger issue is that people don’t step back and think how to present their information.
\n
Enjoy.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T15:48:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/02/i-have-a-sub-domain.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/02/there-are-an-increasing-number.html", "content_html": "There are an increasing number of posts featuring this thinking …
\n🔗🎙️Trump’s Mafia World Order - Alastair Campbell
\n🖇️ I think Rushkoff said it best.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T06:52:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/02/there-are-an-increasing-number.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/02/when-two-rocks-hit-each.html", "content_html": "
\n\nWhen two rocks hit each other both rocks lose parts of themselves in the battle.
\n
\nIts loud and hard but even the winning rock is bruised and chipped.
\nBut water flows over rock.
\nIn time it erodes the rock to nothing and keeps flowing.
\nMaybe soft overcomes hard by understanding the importance of grace, flow and connection.
🔗 Soft is the New Hard : Rishad Tobaccowala
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T06:48:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/02/when-two-rocks-hit-each.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/this-probably-was.html", "content_html": "📸 This 🖇️ probably was.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/79d87605d6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-02-02T14:22:19+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/this-probably-was.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/as-dave-oft-signs-off.html",
"content_html": "As @dave oft' signs off …
\n\n\nIt’s worse than you think.
\n
Mike Masnick summarises where we are - and it is not good.
\n🔗 Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
\nWe now have a new DNC leader - basically promoted from his existing vice chair to the top job.
\nSO now the new thinking starts?
\nPLEASE.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-02T08:14:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/as-dave-oft-signs-off.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/i-go-in-and-out.html", "content_html": "I go in and out with 🔗🎙️Hardfork with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Topics aside the ‘out’ is often because they both have a habit of moving the tone of their voice up a couple of octaves which truly pierce’s my ear drums.
\nAnd just now I realized how much they also remind me of YouTuber 🔗📼 Ryan George — who can be very funny - and equally piercing.
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T11:00:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/i-go-in-and-out.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/the-infrastructure-of-the-recording.html", "content_html": "
🔗 The Infrastructure of the Recording Industry Is About to Fail
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/262a9d1c99.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-01-31T15:44:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/the-infrastructure-of-the-recording.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/were-nearly-into-april-so.html",
"content_html": "We’re nearly into February - so the ‘Holiday lights’ at 🖇️ john.philpin.com have been uninstalled - and it is no longer snowing. #LifeMovesOn
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T09:22:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/were-nearly-into-april-so.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/just-extended-my-review-of.html", "content_html": "🔗📽️ Just extended my review of ‘Night Agent’ - based on Series 2.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T07:47:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/just-extended-my-review-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyShowReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/anyone-best-mates-with-boardy.html", "content_html": "Anyone ‘best mates’ with 🔗 Boardy?
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T12:36:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/anyone-best-mates-with-boardy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/businessbytes.html", "content_html": "💬
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b49711b7e6.png\")
\n\n",
"date_published": "2025-01-29T08:52:15+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/businessbytes.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise","? Searched"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/nuance-we-dont-need-no.html",
"title": "Nuance? We Don’t Need No Stinking’ Nuance ….",
"content_html": "I published 🔗 this post back in July last year … after months of delay and noodling and questioning, I finally released it - and as with so many of my posts that I often wonder why I bother .. crickets.
\nFrom that piece - if you’ll forgive me for quoting myself …
\n\n\nSadly the Internet has been weaponized and far from creating a place to be educated about the differences of people and countries and life - we are being forced into submission. It’s a place where ignorance is not so much celebrated as ignored - and ignored because on the whole it isn’t recognized, and if you do anything counter to the noise - expect to be piled on because 🔗 you are either with us, or against us.
\n
Since the 6th, I have been thinking a lot about ‘whither next’ … and then, a couple of days ago I became aware of a debacle in this little corner of the internet we call Micro.Blog. Not going to get into it here - if you are reading this - you almost certainly know what it’s about., but were I to reduce the whole thing to a single word it’s called BULLYING.
\n… and as far as I am concerned … bullies can fuck off.
\nHere’s the problem - any semblance of being able to have your opinion is rapidly disappearing - if not gone already. That used to be ‘across the aisle’, now it’s wormed its way into every corner of every room. And this is an ‘all sides’ problem - witness the Micro.Blog ‘contretemps’ referred to earlier. Again - you are either with us, or against us - and that means - all of these concepts are being expunged form our discourse;
\nAmbiguity
\nAmbivalence
\nBalance
\nComplexity
\nContext
\nDepth
\nDuality
\nFinesse
\nGray area
\nHarmony
\nNuance
\nParadox
\nPerspective
\nReflection
\nRelativity
\nSensitivity
\nSpectrum
\nSubtlety
\nTone
\n🔗 A simple, non viral case in point. - the link jumps to a short thread on Substack where I dropped a throw away comment to a comment from Ken Klippenstein and within minutes I got a reply clarifying my tongue in cheek question and what was meant by the executive order. I have learnt my lesson - I need to punctate any and all comments with a smiley emoji … ‘all’ because I am well aware that I am overly glib and sarcastic in most of my online comments.
\nTo save the click through, I also quote this - from ChatGPT ….
\n\n\nfacetiousness seems to be waning touches on broader shifts in communication patterns. The rise of digital communication has led to a decline in face-to-face interactions, which traditionally allowed for the nuanced delivery and reception of facetious remarks. Without the benefit of vocal tone, facial expressions, and body language, the subtleties of facetiousness can be lost or misinterpreted in text-based mediums. Moreover, the immediacy and brevity of digital exchanges often prioritize efficiency over the layered wit that facetiousness entails. As a result, such forms of humor may not translate well in online environments, leading to their diminished use. This shift underscores the complex relationship between evolving communication technologies and the ways we express and perceive humor.
\n
And then just this morning, this popped up in my feeds from Om - posted 18 months or so ago ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/73dcc5cba9.jpg\")
You can read the whole post ‘What’s The Truth?’ here.
\nNot holding back this time. Serendipity has spoken.
\n🔗 Google Maps to show Gulf of America after government updates
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/31c9cd8ea8.jpg\")
Not satisfied with destroying tech - they’re now destroying the real world. I can’t delete them from my phone because they aren’t there.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T06:23:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/google-maps-to-show-gulf.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/i-think-this-episode-might.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T05:16:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/i-think-this-episode-might.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/theres-something-very-meta-about.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T15:55:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/theres-something-very-meta-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/the-cost-of-living-in.html", "title": "The Cost of Living In Places I Have Lived ...", "content_html": "Specifically, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and The United States
\n🔗 Kevin Drum linking to the cheapest and most expensive places to live.
\n\nIn New Zealand there is a lot of handwringing that translates to countless LinkedIN posts talking about ‘jump starting’ the economy and what do they have to do to grow their GDP which inevitably leads to attracting the ‘brightest and the best’. I’ve even weighed into a few of the debates myself …
\nOf course it doesn’t help when one of the leading Kiwi journalists writes NZ now frozen, listless, mean & hopeless
\nHere is one slice of that data from the Worlddata link above.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-01-27-at-18.59.592x.png\")
United States 14
\nAustralia 17
\nNew Zealand 18
\nUnited Kingdom 19
.. but check out the average monthly income which in turn drives the purchasing power index.
\nUnited States 100
\nAustralia 81.4
\nUnited Kingdom 63.8
\nNew Zealand 63.5
I’ll let the UK number sit for you to absorb. I am more interested in the two antipodean counties … turns out Australia has a little more than 30% MORE purchasing power than New Zealand.
\nNo more handwringing needed. I don’t know the exact ins and outs of the rules of NZ and OZ - BUT to all intents and purposes, citizens of each country can jump to the other almost on a whim much as someone in the US can move to a different state. It’s not exactly the same - but for a while now there has been a steady exodus of NZ nationals to OZ for a long time - but its getting a lot more problematic - through to September(ish) of 2024 - an average of 200 Kiwi nationals per day left New Zealand to settle in Australia. When you look at that discrepancy - is there any wonder?
\n(Side Note - 200 per day for 365 days is 7,300 people - that is 0.14% of the country!)
\nOf course - there’s more to life than the cost of living - there is also the 🔗Quality of Life - and delighted to report that New Zealand - despite its poor showing on the cost of living scale delivers a satisfying 9th in the world for Quality of Life - nestling right between Japan and Spain. So at least they have that. BUT … to borrow a phrase from Aoteraoa …
\n\n\n“Yeah … No”.
\n
Turns out OZ is the number one destination in the world for Quality of Life.
\nMe? For all of that handwringing that goes on … I think the powers are solving the wrong problem really well.
\nScience overhaul lays out a fundamental challenge for New Zealand
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T15:41:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/the-cost-of-living-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/i-have-something-i-call.html", "content_html": "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.\nDoes it? 🖇️ It’s here.
\n‘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?
\nThere 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.
\nThere 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.
\nIf it wasn’t there, would the world change? No.
\nMy life - all ‘three score years and ten’ (plus or minus) of it - is but a blip in the matrix, much less these words.
\nWhich is to say that it was quick. Relative I suppose. But it was.
\nWith two actions, I was 🖇️ gone and then 🖇️ not gone.
\nTo tell the tale.
\nThe 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.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T09:32:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/i-have-something-i-call.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/the-intersection-of-politics-business.html", "content_html": "The Intersection of Politics, Business, Culture and YOU.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/246233452a.jpg\")
🔗 From DEI to dei - Gapingvoid
\n\n\nReal change requires a change in mindsets and deep seated beliefs. And you only change that through culture.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/be92b5fb7a.jpg\")
🔗 The Curse of Easy Money - Gapingvoid
\n\n\nSoon you have a two-speed society: those riding the wave, and everyone else paying inflated prices with deflated opportunities.
\n
I have on occasions referenced ‘The Business Equation’ within this ‘Personal Journal’. I shared it last week in a pack of mental models I use as part of my processes that businesses find helpful when building their company. In the sharing, it occurred to me that while pictures are worth 1,000 words - sometimes you might need 10,000.
\nFor example, The Business Equation includes my take on concepts like;
\nThe Virtual Corporation
\nThe Future of Work
\nOutsourcing and Offshoring
\nThe Company of One
\nSupply Chain Transparency
\n… and even my extension to Geoff Moore’s Core/Context model - applied to people and the roles they might be looking to take.
\nI use these models and more during my engagements and advisory services that are designed to grow businesses.
\nI might write more about this. Should I?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7e95e0cfa3.jpg\")
\n… because it’s getting worse.
\n\n\nA strategic thinker wouldn’t call it content.
\n
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.
\nTo save the click through - in a nutshell …
\n\n\nAs 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.
\n
💬 John Philpin
\nAnd
\n\n\nIt is not in the interests of any creator to allow that, so why allow their interests to define how we think?
\n
💬 John Philpin
\nAnd
\n\n\nContent 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.\nAnd 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.
\n
💬 John Philpin
\nSo. What you going to do about it?
\nThank you Roger
\nThe words throughout the 4 part ‘series’ courtesy of Roger Waters - so fitting to end this post with one of his.
\n\n\n\nPicture a courthouse with no fucking laws
\n
\nPicture a cathouse with no fucking whores
\nPicture a shithouse with no fucking drains
\nPicture a leader with no fucking brains
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T07:42:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/thank-you-roger-the-words.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/on-a-purge-roll-good.html", "content_html": "
🔗🎙️… on a purge roll. Good podcasts.
\nTime Is Way Weirder Than You Think - Ezra Klein
\nWe are all going to die, but not from AI - Emad Mostaque
\nBeing human in the age of AI - Sean Illing
\nThe case for not killing yourself - Sean Illing
\nRob Long - Delusional and Arrogant
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T12:16:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/on-a-purge-roll-good.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/cloud-station-kn-travel-center.html", "content_html": "Cloud Station ⚭ KN#33 travel center
\n🔗 📼 This one is AI - but MESMERIZING (Sorry - Facebook)
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T12:05:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/cloud-station-kn-travel-center.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/live-steampunk-germany-posted-years.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 Live SteamPunk - Germany - Posted 5 Years ago - and I only just saw it!
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T12:01:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/live-steampunk-germany-posted-years.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/the-case-for-the-executive.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Case for the Executive Chair
\nI annotated this in the middle of 2024 with the intention to share, it’s pretty damming.
\n\n\nOnly 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.
\n
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.
\n🖇️ You might not be surprised to learn that I have a fix. It’s called The Business Equation
\n🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’
\n\n\nthe art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.
\n
🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.
\nAs always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now?
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T05:19:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/scorsese-takes-aim-at-streamings.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/05/how-a-mole-infiltrated-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 🍿 How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias — ProPublica
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-06T05:16:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/how-a-mole-infiltrated-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/04/a-quote-from-ethan-mollick.html", "content_html": "\nWhich reminds me.
\nWhen you engage with your LLM of choice, do you say ‘good morning’, ‘thankyou’, ‘please’ … all that nicety stuff?
\nBonus question .. regardless of your answer have you tried doing it the other way?
\nDo the results seem better or worse?
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-05T18:23:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/04/a-quote-from-ethan-mollick.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/01/been-reading-headlines-like-this.html", "content_html": "Been reading headlines like this
\n🔗 Trump coverage needs to change and here’s how - Press Watch
\nsince at least 2020 - like this one from … checking … 2020.
\n🔗 Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America
\nMore maybe should be written like this one …
\n🔗 Ruth Ben-Ghiat Explains Trump’s Fascism
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-02T08:17:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/01/been-reading-headlines-like-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/01/an-a-to-z-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 An A to Z of predictions for 2025
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-02T08:15:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/01/an-a-to-z-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/01/nine-years-ago-remembering-eleven.html", "content_html": "Nine years ago - remembering eleven years before that - and I still miss him.
\n🔗 🪦Harry Fenik - it happened 20 years ago this month.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-02T06:49:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/01/nine-years-ago-remembering-eleven.html", "tags": ["? Links","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/30/slowed-me-down-for-a.html", "content_html": "Slowed me down for a second. Great - but how the hell do you find a record shop?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/1311be7f54.jpg\")
Ahmet moved on from planet earth nearly 20 years ago, so the quote pre dates that by a few more — so makes more sense, but still I think Bob’s quote machine needs more relevance.
\n🔗🎵 Lefsetz Letter - Hit Records\t
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-31T12:46:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/30/slowed-me-down-for-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/30/failure-to-elect-a-speaker.html", "content_html": "Failure to elect a speaker by Jan. 6 could delay Trump’s Electoral College certification. (🔗Politico … which completely explains why Mike has t Rump’s ‘full’ backing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-31T12:33:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/30/failure-to-elect-a-speaker.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/29/cant-help-thinking-hoping-that.html", "content_html": "Can’t help thinking (hoping?) that Nike’s 🔗 ’told you so’ ad’ is aimed (just a little bit) at a certain segment of voters.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-30T13:12:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/29/cant-help-thinking-hoping-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/29/a-geopolitical-checkup-open-source.html", "content_html": "🔗🎙️A Geopolitical Check-Up - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
\nShort and Excellent.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-30T04:23:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/29/a-geopolitical-checkup-open-source.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/28/yellen-extraordinary-measures-to-avoid.html", "content_html": "🔗 Yellen: Extraordinary measures; to avoid US debt by default.
\nIt seems that deadline will happen around Jan14?
\nSee earlier post at the challenge looming to even get ducks lined up for Jan 20?
\n🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-29T18:38:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/28/yellen-extraordinary-measures-to-avoid.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/28/just-stumbled-on-august-in.html", "content_html": "Just stumbled on August 2023 .. in plain sight
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-12-29T18:01:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/28/just-stumbled-on-august-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/27/my-daily-sill-delivers-a.html", "content_html": "My daily ‘Sill’, delivers a set of the most popular links shared by the people I follow on (for the moment), Mastodon and Bluesky. It tends to be what you might expect, until today.
\n\nAll links are crackers, number 5 will be of particular interest to the typewriter brigade.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-28T04:02:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/27/my-daily-sill-delivers-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/rushkoff-corleone-style-diplomacy-minutes.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Rushkoff - Corleone Style Diplomacy - 20 minutes, well worth a listen - a ‘theory of everything’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-27T09:29:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/rushkoff-corleone-style-diplomacy-minutes.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/behind-the-founder-marc-benioff.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast
\nI don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)
\n\n\nYour customers are your best salespeople.
\n
Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-27T09:18:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/behind-the-founder-marc-benioff.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/globalisation-defined-years-ago.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Globalisation Defined -18 Years Ago 😂
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-27T05:58:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/globalisation-defined-years-ago.html", "tags": ["? Humour","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/24/judge-rules-arkansas-law-allowing.html", "content_html": "🔗 Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional. … sense prevails - in Arkansas!
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-25T13:02:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/24/judge-rules-arkansas-law-allowing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/24/the-word-for-is-fragility.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Word for 2025 is Fragility - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
\n… I always have ‘three words’ for a year. Reminds me. I need to get on to that.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-25T13:01:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/24/the-word-for-is-fragility.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/24/the-riddle-of-luigi-mangione.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Riddle of Luigi Mangione. makes for an interesting read. Sounds like Gurwinder was his last online interaction and he also became a customer of ReadWise.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-25T13:00:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/24/the-riddle-of-luigi-mangione.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/24/trump-organization-accused-of-tax.html", "content_html": "🔗 Trump Organization Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama.
\n… well that explains THAT.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-25T12:58:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/24/trump-organization-accused-of-tax.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/cnn-gaetz-investigation.html", "content_html": "🔗 CNN: Gaetz investigation will be released - Kevin Drum
\n.. to channel @gruber ‘Finally
\nBut Kevin’s take is most likely ‘why’ …
\n\n\nNow that Gaetz no longer matters to Donald Trump, I guess at least a few Republicans screwed up the courage to do the right thing.
\n
💬 Kevin Drum
\nOn this blog, February ’22 was 🔗 my first reference to …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T11:21:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/cnn-gaetz-investigation.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/the-simple-question.html", "content_html": "Known sex trafficker Matt Gaetz
\n
\n\nThe simple question worth asking is: That piece of media or interaction or investment you’re making – is it to earn trust or simply find attention?
\n
💬 Seth Godin
\nThe whole thing … 🔗 The fame/trust inversion
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T11:15:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/the-simple-question.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/ios-mail-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 iOS 18.2 Mail is a misfire. … until I am allowed to adjust whatever the system is that controls where what ends up -💯
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T11:14:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/ios-mail-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/montana-supreme-court.html", "content_html": "🔗 Montana Supreme Court affirms decision in Held, historic youth climate case (Apple News - but the headline is the important bit and definitely NOT click bait)
\nMaybe this will motivate more action around the world?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T09:49:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/montana-supreme-court.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/how-the-supermarket.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - from Freakanomics - its an update old one.
\n.. who knew?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T06:24:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/how-the-supermarket.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/16/so-building-on.html", "content_html": "So building on 🔗 this … just asked why every table in the room was booked ( the bar is full(Ish) but the rest of the place is empty) .. turns out Monday night is ‘Blues Night’.
\nLATER - turns out Bonomassa himself has haunted that tiny stage a few times …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/2984de1fc4.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-12-17T14:10:06+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/16/so-building-on.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/16/chris-hayes-sounds.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Chris Hayes Sounds the Alarm on Cynthia Lummis’s Bitcoin Act
\nYUP
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-17T09:38:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/16/chris-hayes-sounds.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/14/the-two-popes.html", "content_html": "🎥 The Two Popes, 2019 - ★★★★½ 🖇️
\n\nI’ve clearly got something about Popes‼️
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-15T12:09:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/14/the-two-popes.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/foreign-students-warned.html", "content_html": "🔗 Foreign students warned: Get back to America before Trump takes over.
\nI am not a student - but I had been thinking about this whilst down in New Zealand - but wasn’t in a rush - until November 6th.
\nHello SoCal - looks like I was thinking straight.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T12:31:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/foreign-students-warned.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/just-discovered-why.html", "content_html": "Just discovered 1440
\nWhy 1440?
\n\n\nThe printing press was invented around the year 1440, spreading knowledge to the masses and changing the course of history. More facts: In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. We’re here to make each one count.
\n
🔗🎙️Peter Kafka talking to one of the 1440 founders
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T12:25:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/just-discovered-why.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/over-the-past.html", "content_html": "Over the past couple of years I have increasingly disconnected from Galloway. Always used to like his insights and takes - but over time he seems to have become very blustery and grand standing. Sean Illing however? I put him up there with Sam Harris. So this one proved a conundrum. Sean won as he and Scott talked about the struggles men are facing today.
\n🔗🎙️ Sean Illing and Scott Galloway
\n.. well worth it. No bluster. Considered. Thoughtful. AND IMHO Spot on.
\nJust shows how a show host really can shape how their guests come off. It’s definitely a skill.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T12:15:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/over-the-past.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/mathematicians-have-discovered.html", "content_html": "\n\nMathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity.
\n
【 🔗 New Scientist at Apple News 】
\nGood grief, it was only in my last newsletter when I was talking about the eternal debate re Math(s) .. ‘Discovered or Invented’ and during the journey drifted over towards ‘infinity’ and Cantor and then for some reason changed course, though the point was more to do with …
\n\n\nA good PURE mathematician is exactly this kind of person. They like to look at something that is a known irrefutable fact - and then refute it.
\n
Good news - no need to update my newsletter around ‘infinity’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T11:58:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/mathematicians-have-discovered.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/13/hegseth-does-a.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nHegseth does a 180 on women and gays in combat - POLITICO
\n
“I’m sorry .. what do you want hear .. there you go .. satisfied? .. now give me the damn job so I can get on with my purge.
\nWhen are people gonna wake up?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-14T04:54:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/13/hegseth-does-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html", "content_html": "🎵🎙️So talented and humble. One of my favorites - and interviewed by Terry Gross to boot.
\n[🔗 Beethoven meets Jazz meets The Blues](overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNG…
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-13T06:49:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/07/dawsons-creek-actor.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment.
\nGood idea. Should have thought about it myself …
\nOh wait I did — zero response, just like most of my posts.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-08T13:48:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/07/dawsons-creek-actor.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/07/another-substack-clash.html", "content_html": "Another Substack clash.
\nLiterally back to back - these two pieces appeared. The first was from our old friend Dana talking about the AI Boom bust and in turn - a haircut
\n🔗 When Will The AI Boom Bust? - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9debb60eb0.png\")
And then right after that, another writer talking about what you’ve taken to human interaction out of all customer interactions you’re pretty much left with nothing.
\n🔗 The unexpected opportunity with AI agents - designing for customer friction
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/bf986d93d1.png\")
I think Dana is giving you a real world example from today to support Jamies argument - as he was thinking about the future.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-08T12:37:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/07/another-substack-clash.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/04/i-just-listened.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️I just listened to this podcast twice - Sean Illing talking to Simon Critchley
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-05T06:28:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/04/i-just-listened.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/03/well-now-thats.html", "content_html": "🔗 Well now - that’s an idea - the new product from Arc, though I can’t help thinking that is a video for an audience of one.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-04T06:16:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/03/well-now-thats.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/so-your-iphone.html", "content_html": "\nIt’s not going to change your electric bill much today, but imagine this software running your house.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T04:17:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/so-your-iphone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/agegating-matt-mullenweg.html", "content_html": "🔗 Age-gating - Matt Mullenweg … at the OS layer?
\nOver in identity land I am constantly amazed how the world of tech keep on providing solutions that if they work, will only work with devices and computers.
\nNobody ever talks about how this happens in person or on the phone.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T04:12:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/agegating-matt-mullenweg.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/robottaxis-are-coming.html", "content_html": "🔗 Robot(taxi)s Are Coming! No seriously!
\nI love Om’s visual.
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T04:08:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/robottaxis-are-coming.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/what-happened-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 What happened to Marc Andreessen - Kevin Drum .. money?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T04:06:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/what-happened-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/manton-reeceon-crap.html", "content_html": "🔗 Manton Reece on crap Substack RSS feeds.
\nPersonally not surprised. Isn’t their whole schstick newsletters, email subscriptions and followers, so that the writer knows who is interested in what they produce and how many of them they are? Make the RSS feed too good would undermine all of that .. no?
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T04:05:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/manton-reeceon-crap.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/30/winning.html", "title": "Winning", "content_html": "In my health fight over the past four years, my oncologist 🔗Pepe Sasso had five rules that he laid on me at the very beginning and kept pushing me every time I saw him - including just a couple of weeks ago. One of two things that I maintain is ‘my secret’. 🔗 This is the other.
\nExercise
\nDiet/Nutrition to Maintain a Healthy Weight
\nPositive Mental Attitude (the sail of opportunity is always open)
\nPain Management
\nGood Sleep and Good Sleep Patterns
\n🔗📼🎵Beth Hart - WOW
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-30T10:05:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/29/beth-hart-wow.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/29/carlin-on-the.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 Carlin on the softening of the American langaguge
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-30T10:02:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/29/carlin-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/26/perfect-application-for.html", "content_html": "Perfect application for early Spatial Computing. Whether the app is any good? No idea.
\n🔗 Lapz App Lets You Watch Formula 1 Races on Apple Vision Pro
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-27T07:07:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/26/perfect-application-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/24/bad-monkey-loved.html", "content_html": "📺 Bad Monkey
\nLoved it .. hence the ❤️ … love Vince Vaughn .. but something nearly took it down to a like .. can’t put my finger on it. Still worth a watch though.
\nBad Monkey on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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Wow … the final episode .. excellent until then and then BOOM … out of the park. Lots of reminders .. at so many levels .. and of course we are all guilty.
\nDisclaimer on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-25T09:18:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/24/disclaimer-wow-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/24/check-out-bad.html", "title": "📺 Bad Sisters ★★★★", "content_html": "![\"ShowNameBanner\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/2cbe5f24fc.jpg\")
Series 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nWhat took me so long to get round to watching this show? No idea. Just great.
\nJP .. totally psychopathically horrible .. and all 5 sisters … the same yet very different. Great show.
\nSeries 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nAfter the first series - what was left?
\nA lot apparently. It did not disappoint.
\nBad Sisters on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-25T09:04:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/24/check-out-bad.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/24/time-bandits-not.html", "title": "📺 Time Bandits ★★★", "content_html": "![\"Time](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/1c72c4c0c4.jpg\")
👍 not ❤️
\nI got through it .. but only eventually .. didn’t hold me .. and really repetitive.
\nTime Bandits on 🔗 Reelgood
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-25T08:58:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/24/time-bandits-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/to-be-real.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nTo 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).
\n
(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!)
\n(Another old post that didn’t make it into the ether until now)
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-24T11:21:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/to-be-real.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/systems-of-record.html", "content_html": "Systems of Record are transitioning to System of Compliance while Systems of Engagement are still on the whole being ignored.
\n🔗 Om on content, it’s as if I wrote it - not with the natural flow of Om - but definitely 🖇️🔎 the subject matter.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-24T10:46:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/om-on-content.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Organisations","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/not-my-words.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/52bb115687.jpg\")
\nNot my words - but I did 🖇️ call it nearly 5 years ago - and 🖇️ 🔎 a few times since.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-24T08:56:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/not-my-words.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/one-version-of.html", "content_html": "\nSeriously. ‘The Dog Ate My Homework’ is still a defence?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cab58b1b79.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-11-24T08:35:19+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/one-version-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/russian-spies-jumped.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack (Apple News)
\nI quote for posterity - but unless I’m missing a very subtle nuance of differentiation … ‘yeah - no’
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-11-23T15:47:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/russian-spies-jumped.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/antitrust-enforcers-block.html", "content_html": "“This is the first case we’ve worked where you have an attacker that’s extremely far away and essentially broke into other organizations in the US in physical proximity to the intended target, then pivoted over Wi-Fi to get into the target network across the street,” says Adair. “That’s a really interesting attack vector that we haven’t seen before.”
\n
🔗 Antitrust Enforcers Block the JetBlue-Spirit Merger
\n… earlier this year for sure and still I wonder how this gets blocked when Hawaiian and Alaska just merge without so much as a by your leave.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-23T14:35:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/antitrust-enforcers-block.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/thank-you-google.html", "content_html": "Thank you Google. I don’t care if the government breaks you up or keeps you whole - BUT 🔗 I do care about you continually breaking the Internet.
\nPlease stop doing that.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-23T11:43:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/thank-you-google.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/21/sometimes-something-just.html", "content_html": "Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment
\n\n\n(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of all things.
\n
💬 Sara Hendren
\n(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-22T14:15:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/21/sometimes-something-just.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/it-all-makes.html", "title": "It All Makes Sense - until it doesn't. We are passed that point.", "content_html": "A few of today’s reads all came together this morning …
\nFirst up (which I am not even going to bother linking to) lead with something like … “how corporations can create emotional connections to their customers at ‘scale’.”
\nWhat the fucking what - do not even get me started. Do these people even think about what their words mean when they spew them out?
\nAnyway - onwards - and as so often happens Hugh over at Gaping Void says it the best …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/2c02b55598.jpg\")
🖇️ My highlights on the companion article
\n(Talking of ‘creating emotional connections at scale - one of those silent companies that you know the name of - but wonder what they do is Palantir (remember Cambridge Analytics - who paid the price?) .. yeah, Palantir was the ‘power behind the throne’ - who not only avoided paying the price - but have gone on from strength to strength.
\nAnyway, 🔗 over in Dana land .. he’s looking at the next 4 years - and pointing a very large finger at one 🖇️ Peter Thiel … you know the guy that really runs Palantir (all due respect to Karp), but to remind you who he really is …
\nThe New Zealand Herald did quite a job on that topic - do take a read - eye opening - even if you think you know all about him. (Pro tip - if you have ‘reader mode’ - use it if you really want to read it.) .. and at the end…
\n\n\nAccording to building consent records, his Queenstown Plasma Screen holiday home last year suffered a serious fire, causing more than $500,000 in damage. Building consents for the repairs filed with the Queenstown Lakes District Council in May show Thiel took this opportunity to rebuild and repurpose a walk-in closet. Plans now describe this nook as a panic room.
\n
.. a panic room. In Queenstown? .. and this is the guy who is quietly influencing the US Govt?
\nAnd then there is ‘Ted’s Take’ on the changing nature of communication.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/15400430-bd3e-4aea-9e50-375bd93ba50c-2240x1166.webp\")
Are we doomed?
\nI guess not until this happens …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/194969acb4.jpg\")
(The New Yorker)
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-22T10:54:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/it-all-makes.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/21/received-via-john.html", "content_html": "Received via John Wunderlich - 🔗 work by Randall Munroe - XKCD
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-11-21T11:22:18+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/21/received-via-john.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/16/national-risks-being.html",
"content_html": "🔗 National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT
\nDear Christopher (Luxon) .. I know Washington DC is a long way a way .. but there are some lessons there .. you can watch in real time the future of New Zealand .. at least the future based on the current trajectory.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-16T06:22:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/16/national-risks-being.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/15/the-onion-has.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets. .. a perfect home.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-11-15T08:21:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/15/the-onion-has.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/13/so-i-will.html", "content_html": "“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”
\n
So I will plant this post in various places across the inter webs as I reach out to find those customers that need what I do.
\nThe link is worth clicking on, but that’s not really what this is about. Except, in a way, it kinda is… let me explain.
\nThis part of John’s business model is a weekly sponsorship. He sells them upfront. He can sell two on the same week. And if one becomes open suddenly
\nHere’s the deal: my calendar is showing some similar gaps. Now, I don’t operate exactly like John Gruber—heck, we’re not even in the same space—but at the core, the goal is the same.
\nAnd honestly, for-profit organizations aren’t as different from each other as we might like to think.
\nI like to imagine every organization as a magic box. It takes inputs—people, capital, resources—and transforms them into outputs: products and services that are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.
\nThese are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.
\nThis urgency is one reason why so many rush to create products that can “make money while you sleep.” The aim is to replace perishable inventory with non-perishable. And while that’s a great approach, it’s not what I do, because—despite what I just said—every organization is unique.
\nSo here I am, reaching out to the internet to help fill those gaps.
\nIf you have a business—or know someone who does—that’s struggling to boost revenue, let’s chat. I’ve got frameworks, methods, and a book that’s gotten some praise from fellow writers worldwide.
\nOver the years, I’ve tried it all: flywheels, funnels, category marketing, guerrilla sales, challenger sales, social selling—you name it, I’ve probably experimented with it.
\nHere’s the biggest takeaway:
\nIt’s all about the synergy of teamwork and a shared purpose.
\nIf you’re ready to turn those inputs into something extraordinary, drop me a line. Let’s make some magic happen.
\nThis version aims for a conversational tone while still driving home the main points and inviting engagement.
\n\n\n“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”
\n
💬 Yuval Noah Harari
\n🔗🖇️ Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-13T13:09:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/13/so-are-sapiens.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/12/learn-the-order.html", "content_html": "🔗 Learn the Order of Adjectives in English.
\nNot sure I ever ‘learned’ this - but intuitively it is what I do.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/0804fee13a.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-11-12T17:32:48+12:00",
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"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/12/over-on-substack.html",
"content_html": "Over on Substack I published 🔗🖇️ this …
\n\n\nAt first blush, it might seem to be about maths and it certainly connects, but it’s really about those who challenge the status quo, see something different, push boundaries, which, not coincidentally is exactly what great startups do.
\n
Love to know what you all think?
\n🔗📼🎵 Revolution … Did it happen? Is it happening? Will it happen?
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-08T07:34:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/08/revolution-did-it.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/do-you-care.html", "content_html": "🔗📼🎵 Do you care about your rights?
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T19:03:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/do-you-care.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/twice-in-a.html", "content_html": "🔗📼🎵 Twice In A Lifetime - Apparently
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T18:21:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/twice-in-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/have-you-lost.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T17:45:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/have-you-lost.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/you-can-still.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 You can still rock - but will it be in the free world
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T17:35:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/you-can-still.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/oh-well.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T09:35:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/oh-well.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/during-which-time.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 During which time … A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-07T07:01:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/during-which-time.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/burning-down-the.html", "content_html": "\nYour song of the day, week, month, year, 4 years.
🔗 Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
\n(404 Media)
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-04T09:12:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/04/zuckerberg-the-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/03/the-business-equation.html", "content_html": "🖇️🔎 The Business Equation involves a number of dimensions starting with ‘The Quadrants’ - the top quadrant is market facing, bottom is organisation facing.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/the-business-equation.png\")
The Organisation Facing quadrant is supported by ‘Systems of Record’ - increasingly transitioning to ’Systems of Compliance’
\nThe Market Facing quadrant is supported by ‘Systems of Engagement’.
\nBusinesses spend an inordinate amount of time focussed on ‘systems of compliance’ - to the detriment of ‘systems of engagement’.
\n\n\nDespite Business Growth emerging from ‘Systems of Engagement’.
\n
It’s not just being different. It’s not only being the ‘only one that ‘does what you do’ (hat tip to ‘Jerry’). It’s not just following your dreams. It’s all of that - at the intersection of letting go of the ‘woulda coulda shoulda’ and wrapping that all up in a package that others value and give a shit about.
\n\nPart of an occasional series focused on the 🧶 thinking and methods. of 🧶 People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
\nJust in case you are having any kind of upbeat moment today, this will drag you back down to despondency and depression.
\n🔗 Trump’s clown car cabinet - by Lisa Needham and Aaron Rupar
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-31T10:55:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/31/just-in-case.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/31/it-takes-courage.html", "content_html": "\n🔗 An Exegesis of Markdown, the Most Ubiquitous Piece of Code on the Web ( 🍎📰 )
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T16:02:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/an-exegesis-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/you-must-answer.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️You Must Answer The Questions About Feet
\nI might have posted this link before, but I keep sending it to people. It ties back to 🖇️🎙️my own podcast about Agents - nearly two years ago now. Still an issue - and will be for a long time yet.
\nI am writing a post for 🔗 ‘Human By Design’ .. and this popped up today. Very relevant.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/fd28d8b34f.png\")
\n🔗 Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
\nI don’t now - what you going to do?
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:08:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/elon-muskfunded-pac.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/understanding-our-collapse.html", "content_html": "🔗 Understanding Our Collapse, and Where it Goes From Here
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/67e5f6279e.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-10-30T09:07:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/understanding-our-collapse.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/25/new-study-says.html",
"content_html": "🔗 New study says Black drivers ticketed at 3x the rate of white drivers.
\nKevin Drum just keeps these nuggets flowing daily - multiples of time.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-25T09:59:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/25/new-study-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/24/donald-trumps-contempt.html", "content_html": "🔗 Donald Trump’s contempt for the military, quote by quote
\nA good(? - not sure that is the right word) list from Kevin Drum.
\nEye opening.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-24T11:11:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/24/donald-trumps-contempt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/24/intuit-fail-and.html", "title": "Intuit FAIL - And All Because Of A Failure To Communicate!", "content_html": "‘Storm in a teacup ‘or fallout not yet settled?
\nAt the very least the story reflects poorly on Intuit’s head of communications who clearly doesn’t understand how communication works in 2024.
\nAnd yes I have listened to the whole podcast. The guy clearly doesn’t even understand journalism!
\n🔗📼 What we’ve got here is failure to communicate
\n🔗 Intuit’s PR Team Has Seemingly Never Heard of the Streisand Effect
\nGood post from John @Gruber today - and not wrong. But I think there’s more.
\n🔗 This is Rick Heineman’s LinkedIN Profile
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-2516.png\")
If you are ‘THE’ dude for communications at a place like Intuit - you should understand how social works. The data on his profile suggests he doesn’t. For all I know he might be a Rock Star over on TikTok - haven’t bothered to look - but for Intuit - surely this is a place to have a presence?
\nHe wouldn’t even need to do it himself. He has ‘people’ for goodness sake.
\nAll I know is that IF you are in corporate communications for any enterprise - you need to be at least socially aware. ideally ‘active’ - whatever that means. . If that company is B2C (and I think Intuit is) - then double down on this.
\nHe got promoted just 6 months ago. Maybe he was trying to make a name for himself.
\nHe clearly has.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-24T10:50:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/24/intuit-fail-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/24/just-joined-a.html", "content_html": "Just joined a Discord and was asked to ‘introduce myself’. This is what I said …
\nI have lived at the intersection of ‘people empowerment through technology transformation’ for most of my career.
\nProblem - most of those people were INSIDE corporations and if you were on the outside - forget about it - you were a user, a ‘target’ and there was one objective … ‘maximize our share of your wallet’!
\n25 years ago a group of us asked if a Corporation can have a ‘CRM’ - why can’t a Person have a VRM (Vendor Relationship Manager) .. the question remains unanswered and definitely not implemented.
\nAbout ten years ago, I started focussed writing and podcasting about ‘People First’ and been doing it ever since.
\nI have this feeling that Task driven Agent AIs might be the first opportunity to start solving these very real problems.
\nFinally - I am NOT a coder - fascinated by it - but I know my skills.
\nMy job is to understand what is being produced and explain it to others in terms that THEY can understand and unpack the relevance.
\nSpent my life connecting dots.
\n![\"My](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/c1e64ff01c.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e8aae837e5.jpg\")
\nThe constant push by ‘Industry’ and as a result - ‘Academia’ to specialize, specialize, specialize has resulted in way too many specialized specialists and very few ‘cloud hoppers’.
\nCloud Hopping has always been a differentiator.
\n\nIn the past We might have thought that expertise is only domain.
\nReal expertise has always been about synthesis.
\n\nI like to think of every organization being a magic box.
\nThe rest is just context.
\nOccasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:
\n\n\nAfter being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment—especially this week!
\n
I don’t sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;
\nI’ll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, I’m just letting this lie.
\n🔗 You are the center of concentric circles, Mark Dykeman
\nIt’s another one of those Dunbar posts, the concentric circles are so random that I was reduced to asking ChatGPT ..
\n\n\n“What is the difference between a friend, good friends, best friends and close friends?
\n
A less than satisfactory answer, though it did seem to agree with me (and the author) that a ‘Best Friend’ is closer than a ‘Close Friend’. Other than that? Yeah - no.
\nAnd the numbers
\nWhy did he bother writing the piece? Why have I bothered commenting on it?
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-21T11:40:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/you-are-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/a-story.html", "title": "📚 A Story", "content_html": "Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been circulating the socials - so of course - I did a little bit of triangulation. It looks legit.
\n\nAt 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
\nKafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
\nThe next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying
\n\n\n“please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
\n
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
\nDuring their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
\nFinally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
\n\n\n“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
\n
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote:
\n\n\n“my travels have changed me.”
\n
The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
\nA year later Kafka died.
\nMany years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
\n\n\n“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
\n
Embrace change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-21T11:26:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-story.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/pete-wingfield-another.html", "content_html": "🎵🖇️ 18 - 1975 - Pete Wingfield.
\n🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track - this one from Paul Hardcastle.
\nSometimes time goes slow.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-21T11:10:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/pete-wingfield-another.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 A Trip Down Memory Lane With Pete Wingfield.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-21T10:54:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/last-time-i.html", "content_html": "Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why 🎵 🔗 TIL Why
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-21T10:48:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/last-time-i.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/20/first-they-ignore.html", "content_html": "\n\n“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
\n
💬 Nicolas Klein
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-10-20T10:26:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/20/first-they-ignore.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/an-attempt-at.html", "content_html": "🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly.\nI didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T13:28:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/an-attempt-at.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/this-week-rob.html", "content_html": "This week Rob is a bit more serious than usual - but he’s on an important topic - the ‘truth in history’ versus ‘but it doesn’t make for good drama’ schtick. Something else we agree on - - even though he doesn’t know that!
\nHe ends with how all of this is ‘kind of ok’ in Entertainment - but maybe not so much in reality. You know what I’m talkin' about!
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T13:10:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/this-week-rob.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/vcs-cant-get.html", "content_html": "🔗 VCs Can’t Get Enough of AI for Lawyers
\nIt’s not going to end well.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T09:12:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/vcs-cant-get.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/storytelling-at-scale.html", "content_html": "🔗 Storytelling at scale - by David Szabo-Stuban\nI just joined David’s Discord - a refreshing insight into building your own Agents.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T09:11:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/storytelling-at-scale.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/becoming-you-by.html", "content_html": "🔗 Becoming You. - by Rishad Tobaccowala
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-10-19T09:10:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/becoming-you-by.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/19/if-the-truth.html", "content_html": "We transform and are not just transformed.
\n
🔗If the truth hurts, we can help you avoid it altogether
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6133de7e90.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-10-19T09:08:59+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/if-the-truth.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/18/daring-fireball-the.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand
\n.. now there’s a headline I wasn’t expecting!
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-18T17:26:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/daring-fireball-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/18/tanehisi-coates-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth - talking with Sean Illing.
\n// @Denny - right up your street.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-18T15:49:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/tanehisi-coates-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/18/signals-meredith-whittaker.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism with Kara Swisher
\nGreat listen
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-18T15:48:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/signals-meredith-whittaker.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/17/im-sorry-hes.html", "content_html": "I’m sorry he’s gone. But that is not what this is about.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/73751f6a5c.jpg\")
It’s that phrase … ‘the UK version’
\nWTF … I never watch the show - not my cup of tea - but I do get pissed off about things like this. Original things do happen outside of the U.S.A..
\nThe X Factor is a UK show. It ran from 2004 to 2018
\n🔗 It actually has several versions throughout the world. - that are all franchises of Cowell’s original show.
\nThe US show started 7 years after the UK show started .. in 2011, lasting 3 seasons. It - like all the other shows around the globe .. were licensed courtesy of Cowell.
\nBetter phrasing?
\n\n\nfirst formed in 2010 after each member appeared on the original X factor (reality competition show) in the UK.
\n
The really sad thing about this posts is that I am writing it at all and then finding myself standing up for Cowell’s show which was essentially a latter day ‘[🔗 Opportunity Knocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_Knocks_(British_TV_series)' 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-17T21:03:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/17/im-sorry-hes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/17/searching-my-site.html", "content_html": "Searching my site for something totally different and it found 🖇️ this joke post - one of those things that used to circulate the wires. It is seventeen years old. It’s funny - though the names are definitely from a moment in history. The fourth one down caught my eye …
\n\n\nMOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF (COMICAL ALI):
\n
\nThe chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken.
Comical Ali (Ali G) is of course the Sacha Baron Cohen creation from before Borat …
\nFake News in a comedian’s kitbag 17 years ago.
\nThis shit has been going on for too long.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-17T08:11:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/17/searching-my-site.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/16/i-hope-ted.html", "content_html": "I hope Ted is right.
\n🔗🎵9️⃣ Predictions for the Future of the Music Business
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a3ceb09a51.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-10-16T21:11:29+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/i-hope-ted.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/16/want-daring-fireball.html",
"content_html": "Want 🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Announces New iPad Mini, With A17 Pro and Pencil Pro Support
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-16T17:45:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/want-daring-fireball.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/16/disruption-is-not.html", "title": "Disruption is not Destruction", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/fabd5b85ef.png\")
🔗 Nice to see ‘Disrupt’ ‘growing’
\n… not by size - it has been a big show for a long time - but in terms of thinking.
\nTo my mind the revolution that drives tech startups is disruption - yet too often the result is destruction. Sometimes directly, sometimes an unintended consequence. (I Need to Write That Post.)
\nBeyond that, the historical challenge is that disruption and destruction seem to get conflated - even at times used interchangeably. They are not the same thing.
\nIn short ..
\nDisruption can be positive or negative, acting as a catalyst for change depending on how we view it.
\nDestruction is the act of causing irreparable damage or making something cease to exist.
\nBut there’s more … that other word … ‘innovation’.
\nInnovation is too often associated with ‘disruption’ - but that is not actually the case, though ‘disruptive innovation’ does tend to grab the headlines for radically altering industries or ways of thinking, but not all progress has to come from upheaval.
\nIn many cases, steady, incremental improvements can lead to significant advancements without the need to completely overhaul existing systems. Building on what already works, refining processes, or enhancing current technologies can be just as powerful.
\nBoth disruption and gradual innovation play important roles in driving progress—it’s about choosing the right approach for the context and the goals at hand.
\nNobody explains this better than Geoff Moore (of Crossing The Chasm fame), who wrote Zone To Win … His framework speaks volumes.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/ab9e8c5c60.jpg\")
.. and worthy of another ‘reminder’ post sometime, (A Second Post I Need to Write.) but not the point of this post, which is that this all came to mind as I was looking at the headline speakers for Disrupt this year.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-10-16-at-10.10.282x.png\")
Delighted to see Mary Bara headlining. To be clear, I am no gear head / auto follower - but it seems to this casual observer that she has done a much better job at navigating the shark invested waters of the global automobile industry than her major competitors. The nay sayers will argue ‘lack of innovation’. They are wrong. It’s just that her focus has been on the right side of Geoff’s matrix. Not to say that she hasn’t also been pushing on the bottom left, just not always with great success and that is where all the noise is.
\n/ #TwoCents
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-16T09:33:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/disruption-is-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/14/i-know-i.html", "content_html": "I know I know - but yes only just discovered Mike Dawes - thanks to Rick Beato …
\n\n\n\n🔗 📼 🎵The Rick Beato interview.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-14T14:08:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/i-know-i.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/14/ribbonfarm-is-retiring.html", "content_html": "\nTranslation - I’ve moved to Substack.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-14T13:12:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/ribbonfarm-is-retiring.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/the-coming-labor.html", "content_html": "🖇️ The Coming Labor War - Dana F. Blankenhorn
\n.. yup. If I have posted this before. Sorry. But it does bear repeating.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T18:24:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/the-coming-labor.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html", "content_html": "🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears (🍎Essentials)
\nListen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat
\nIts ONE ‘band’ from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.
\nThey have produced a LOT of albums.
\nThey are extraordinary.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T18:22:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/spatial-computing-has.html", "title": "Spatial Computing Has Another Contender - AND - They Are Not Called Meta.", "content_html": "Stumbled across this a week or so ago and it got me to thinking - remember the 🖇️ Vision Pro?
\nStill don’t have one - no plan to - no personal use case (desire is apparently not a use case … who knew?)
\nThat said, there are bundles and bundles of Business Use cases.
\nAnyway, turns out that 🔗 Sightful are coming out with a solution to a specific use case early 2025.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/67050036dc6518dcc87db54f-group-1948754409.min.png\")
Their glasses predates Zuck’s and I would argue stand to be adopted more because they are going to be focussed on what looks like a single use case … virtual screens in confined spaces.
\nYes folks - Spatial Computing for the rest of us (though to be fair - no pricing that I can see - so may still be only for the wealthy.)
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T18:04:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/spatial-computing-has.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/we-will-not.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘We Will Not Bend the Knee.’ Watch Mehdi’s Powerful Award Acceptance Speech
\nI did, excellent - like so much of his stuff.
\n// @Denny
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T14:43:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/we-will-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/revenge-of-the.html", "title": "Revenge Of The Nerds - Real Revenge", "content_html": "Back a few years ago - I raised the idea that 🖇️ ATS systems should just be banned.. Nothing changed.
\nThen I found this clip from The Monkees TV show that aired in the late 60s … 🖇️ The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared. Yes - 30 years is right - that’s when these things started to appear.
\nOf course in the intermediate time - they have just got better worse.
Even to the point of AI🖇️ Avatars Doing Job Interviews
\nYou cannot make this stuff up!
\nA lot of my objections about so much of this tech is that it;
\n… and all the time never does anyone build a similar system for people. AND corporates don’t end up recruiting the best people for reasons like;
\nUntil now. Brilliant …. The new story is from 404 Media. I haven’t checked but - does this tickle your fancy? It does mine …
\n\nThe solution is sitting in Github -\n🔗The solution is sitting in github so I am not qualified to comment on how well this works - but I have friends.
\nOf course corporate HR is going to declare ‘no fair’ because their systems are going to be swamped … too bad.
\nI presume that someone is going to fork the code and use it to apply for contracts .. and it wont be long before their AIs contact someone on Amazon Turk and convince them to register and sign on (on their behalf) for Job Boards and Recruiter sites - so we can do the same thing there. (Of course it won’t be long before the AIs can also do that.)
\nWe know that the retaliation is going to happen - example case - someone inside the company uses their brains and writes code to get their 5 day job done in 2 to 4 hours - and then take a second job - repeat - and a third job - repeat … what do you think the corporate does when they find out? Promote them?
\nMy prediction - they will work out how to block this access.
\nLet the battle begin.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T13:13:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/revenge-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","People First","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/10/to-be-real.html", "content_html": "\n\nTo 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 here, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).
\n
[]🔗 My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa](https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good)
\nWritten in response to a piece suggesting that Luxon’s not doing a good job. Why? My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he ever did a good job.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-10T03:59:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/10/to-be-real.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/04/more-on-kris.html", "content_html": "More on Kris
\nI ’never’ do this - so take this as the exception that proves the rule. We all know that 🖇️ Kris K recently passed - on Maui
\nMy friend Randall wrote to me (these extracts reproduced with his permission)
\nSuch a sad loss of a hero whom I actually knew …. Sarah Teed and I had the privilege of a hanging w/ him and John Prine when we played the Castle theater many years ago and I opened for him at the MACC many times sharing moments with him and his wife Lisa.
\nRandall went on and shared some Kris wisdom …
\n\n\n”He believed that songwriting is a spiritual communion of mind, body, and soul, and he believed that William Blake was correct in asserting that anyone divinely ordered for spiritual communion but buries his talent will be pursued by sorrow and desperation through life and by shame and confusion for eternity.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-10-04T22:39:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/04/more-on-kris.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/03/just-listened-to.html", "content_html": "” (Blake) is telling you that you’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do," Kristofferson said in the Ken Burns' documentary ‘Country Music’.”
\n
Just listened to Gilbert’s 2024 release - he’s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original 🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural musical habitat.)
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-03T13:05:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/03/just-listened-to.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/03/just-for-kicks.html", "content_html": "Just for kicks I signed up for a month of 🥐 🔗 ..
\n\n\nA buttery smooth app for cross posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads.
\n
Big benefit for me is that I can add multiple accounts for the same service - useful as we start to push out The Future Found
\nAND
\nWhen I send I can choose which accounts it sends to.
\nNext job (request?) - as I publish to MicroBlog or LinkedIn or Facebook or …. have that post appear in Croissant ready for me to decide where I want to cross post. #Maybe.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-03T11:09:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/03/just-for-kicks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/02/daring-fireball-meta.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’
\nNot even sure it is the same game.
\n", "date_published": "2024-10-02T09:09:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/02/daring-fireball-meta.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/02/you-might-not.html", "content_html": "You might not recognize the words - 🔗🎵 but you will certainly recognize the song. Superb re-imagination.
\nHow did i get here?
\nSitting on this spinning sphere
\nWhen will I leave here
\nWe know death is always near
\nI try to understand but answers don’t come easily
\nFriends always deceiving me
\nIs this what life’s supposed to be?
\nHuman animals
\nWe roam the earth in search of blood
\nHope for humanity?
\nI don’t think there ever was
\nWe’re in perpetual war, and that’s the only law
\nCan I change it? I doubt it
\nSo I write songs about it
\nI was young once but now I’ve grown old
\nRight in front of your еyes you’ve seen my life unfold
\nI had no choicе as I became the underdog’s voice
\nA young black kid… look what the fuck I did!
\nWhen I’m gone there’ll be someone to carry on
\nWe can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
\nHow accepting of the bullshit we’ve all become
\nThis whole world is… comfortably numb
\nHello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
\nHello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
You’ve got a TV, a computer, so you don’t care
\nA roof, some clothes, some food
\nThat’s right, it’s all there
\nLock yourself in your house, try to forget about
\nThe millions dyin' from wars, starvation and drought
\nYou’ve got your own problems - yes, we all do
\nNobody is free from stress, not him, or me, or you
\nBut still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
\nIn the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
\nI don’t want no drama but I carry a gun
\nI don’t want no problems but they’ll probably come
\nSo we get high to wash away the pain
\nSelf-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
\nWe think that we can hide away from the misery
\nYou can close your eyes but still can plainly see
\nThere’s nowhere to run…
\nYou’re just comfortably numb
Hello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
\nHello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
I spent half my life just trying to survive
\nAnd the other half trying to keep you all alive
\nFor some reason I still care
\nI’ve done my dirt
\nIt’s amazing that i’m still here
\nThere’s true evil out there, I’ve been trying to warn you
\nYou could meet the devil himself, then what you gonna do?
\nNo time to pray, no chance to run
\nListen… ‘cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
\nAs you stand before me we’re all here as one
\nWe gotta come together or our chances are none
\nMaybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles
\nThe though of humans coexisting, that’s impossible
\nBetter to stay numb, live in denial
\nWe’re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
\nToo much religious beef, too much racist shit
\nAnd if there is a God we probably make him sick
Hello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
\nHello… is anybody out there?
\nCan anybody hear me?
🔗 Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads . Because of course they are.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T19:41:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/ford-seeks-patent.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/even-android-users.html", "content_html": "Even Android users can’t have nice things.
\n🔗 Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T10:41:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/even-android-users.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/its-only-getting.html", "content_html": "It’s only getting worse …
\n🔗 AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now
\nFor the longest time I have argued against the thoughtless deployment of ATS systems in corporations.
\nDownside for corporates - totally miss the nuance of people and their ‘particular sets of skills’ because they are over simplifying what they think they are looking for.
\nDownside for people - your resume and cover letter are no longer enough - you know need to think about tuning yourself with keywords to ensure you are fully ‘Search Engine Optimised’.
\nThe whole thing is just one giant mess that benefits nobody.
\nMe previously …
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T10:40:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/its-only-getting.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/an-excellent-read.html", "content_html": "An excellent read.
\n🔗 AI - A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?
\nSo excellent, I thought I would share some extracts.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/79a5ea7a1a.png\")
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-09-29T10:22:57+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/an-excellent-read.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/wearisome-and-dissipating.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Wearisome and Dissipating - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures
\n\n\nIt’s interesting to me that leaders of companies who have disrupted entire industries by “breaking the box” and solving problems in new ways are so committed to “doing work” the same way it’s been done for the last 50 years.
\n
💬 Nicole Rivers
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T10:18:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/wearisome-and-dissipating.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/27/wp-engine-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 🍿 WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-27T12:30:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/27/wp-engine-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/26/gop-rep-matt.html", "content_html": "🔗 GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Heavy Sex Party With 17-Year-Old: Legal Docs (Apple News)
\nThis story has been in and out of the news for YEARS.
\nAnd here it is surfacing again.
\nTime to DO something about it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-26T07:21:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/26/gop-rep-matt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/25/kevin-drum-too.html", "content_html": "Kevin Drum 🔗 Too cheap to meter is finally getting close.
\nOn the click through … all the places in California … and there are a LOT -…where the whlesale price of electicity is … wait for it …
\nI am pissed off that UGG can’t trademark their name - and so UGG ripoffs abound!!
\nIt’s exactly the same deal with Wordpress and WPEngine. It should not be allowed.
\nMatt M … 🔗 WP Engine is not WordPress
\nThe opening statement on the WPEngine site …
\n\n\nWe power the freedom to create on WordPress
\n
Because of course Wordpress don’t do that?
\nThe Second WTF today - in as many posts!
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-25T11:06:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/25/i-am-pissed.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/25/privacy-service-optery.html", "content_html": "🔗 Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data
\nWhat goes through the mind of these people? I want to delete something from the internet - but just before you do that please suck it in the giant AI thingy so it is built into the future and for posterity!
\n🔗 Everina Maxwell (don’t ask)
\n\n\nShe grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier.
\n
(my bold)
\nWhilst I get that the author of the above is trying to be funny, I might grant more credibility with accuracy. Brighton Pier appeared (pun intentional) on the South coast 3 years before Stella Gibbons was even born and fully 33 years before Cold Comfort Farm was published.
\nAs for running water, well - it was a farm - so highly likely.
\nI guess 50% true is pretty good in these modern times.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-24T23:28:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/24/everina-maxwell-dont.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/24/telegram-changes-policy.html", "content_html": "🔗 Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities
\nOh - I wonder what caused that change to happen?
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-24T23:14:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/24/telegram-changes-policy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/22/elon-musk-owes.html", "content_html": "🔗 Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7
\nGO TEAM HUMANITY
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-22T14:05:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/22/elon-musk-owes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/22/daring-fireball-danny.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-09-22T14:04:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/22/daring-fireball-danny.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/21/094249.html", "content_html": "🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.
\nReview by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-21T09:42:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/21/094249.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/21/the-iphone-pro.html", "content_html": "🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.
\nReview by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-21T07:45:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/21/the-iphone-pro.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/15/karl-roves-take.html", "content_html": "🔗 Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate - Robert Reich .. yes and still not saying vote for Kamala.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-15T09:52:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/15/karl-roves-take.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/10/dana-on-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)
\nYes - and ..
\nThere’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question, a punchline .. that allows the reader, listener .. to get ‘in and out’ efficiently. In ‘Fast Publishing’ the reader / listener is required to do that themselves .. spending time sifting through what is being said to get to the essence. Very few people can do that ‘on the fly’, you just have to look around and see the swamps of unintelligible noise that the public is now exposed to. The swamp is over flowing. True, there are some excellent people that can do that .. the very large majority can’t. That has always been the case.
\nThe solution is that we need personal information filters that surface what we want from the swamp. Our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.
\nThat’s what is different today … the ‘editor’ used to filter for us .. for everyone. We (suddenly?) - didn’t like that .. and now we live in our bubbles - I would argue partly because we don’t have our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-10T08:14:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/dana-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/10/my-bone-is.html", "content_html": "My bone is being tickled by a very funny writer over on Substack by name of Daniel Piper …
\nOne excerpt from his Substack to give you a flavor:
\n\n\nLast night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend. After dinner, one of the guests performed a magic trick involving some cutlery and a napkin, much to everyone’s delight. After that, another guest picked up an acoustic guitar and performed a song by the band Oasis. The host then excitedly asked if anybody else had a creative talent they would like to share. I immediately offered to write a short poem on the spot, featuring all of the guests. They were thrilled, and all watched with fervent anticipation as I took out my notebook and started writing. After ten minutes the poem was complete, and they asked me to read it aloud. I refused. They asked again, and I said no. As an author, my talent is the act of writing, not performance. Plus, my writing is deeply personal, it cannot simply be shared with anyone. They seemed disappointed, even after I assured them the poem was excellent. I couldn’t believe it. They had just had the privilege of watching a Serious Literary Author in the act of writing for a whole ten minutes, and now they were complaining. I thought they were being quite ungrateful.
\n
Something I wrote into The Substack Notes about him:
\n\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-09-10T08:12:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/my-bone-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/10/hows-that-ai.html", "content_html": "I don’t always manage to read Daniel Piper each morning, but when I do, my day starts with a minimum of a hearty guffaw all the way through the ‘larf spectrum’ to that which some describe to be that of a screaming banshee, though I prefer to think of it as a chuckle. I appreciate that this might upset the author, who is by his own account a serious writer and experienced littérateur, but I actually don’t care .. because as both my friends will tell you, it is all about me. (I use the term ‘friend’ in the loose meaning of someone I talked to on ‘The Tube’ .. the London one .. I don’t talk to the bloody telly! That’s what screaming is for.)
\n
\nAnyway all this to say that the tune of this particular ‘piper’ resonates. Deeply. Go try him out. Nothing to lose, everything to gain, which is a rare benefit in these trying times.
🔗 How’s that AI tsunami looking, a year on? (Charles Arthur)
\n🔗 Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next (Ted Gioia) (This one is a Readwise link that includes my highlights)
\nRelated. Very related. Yet different
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-10T07:34:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/hows-that-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html", "content_html": "From 🔗🎙️ Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview
\nAbsolutely FASCINATING
\nHow is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician.\nAlexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe_. This episode features music by Stephon Alexander throughout, from his latest 2024 album Spontaneous Fruit _and his 2017 EP True to Self.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-09T18:06:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/07/the-crafting-of.html", "title": "The Crafting of Craft.", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/16d2f7efb7.png\")
\n🖇️ Talking about knowing what you’re talking about - nobody who knows what they are talking about would confuse me with a real programmer.
\nThat said, I just read 🔗 Going the Extra Mile — Beyond CSS, most of which is well above my technical pay grade - but still I was fascinated by the attention to detail around ‘crafting Craft’.
\nConsider - a whole post (well 75%) devoted to the process behind getting a check box ‘just right’ and the remaining 25% explaining ‘push away’, which I knew had to be coded in some way - but who knew there is a phrase for it?
\nGreat read - even if you aren’t technical you get the idea of their focus on good design - Steve would have been proud of them
\n\n\n“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
\n
💬 Steve Jobs
\n… which probably explains why they won app of the year and were name called (not once - but twice) in this year’s WWDC.
\nThe article ends with …
\n\n\nAll of this for what?\nWill all users see the difference? — Probably not. Was it worth it? — Absolutely. These are the minor details that often go unnoticed when present, but become conspicuous when missing.\nWe strive for having as many of those details as possible, making the experience great but at the same time — seamless.
\n
Kudos to Craft - a Great App and a serious tool for writing documents in the 21st Century.
\n( 🖇️ Related (Page-less Writing Apps) )
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-07T10:58:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/the-crafting-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/07/read-and-agree.html", "content_html": "Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post 🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens
\nAfter I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.
\nMy reading habits are clearly being tracked.
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-09-07T10:20:55+12:00",
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},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/07/pageless-writing-apps.html",
"title": "Pageless Writing Apps",
"content_html": "🔗 Lex raises $2.75M for its AI writing tool that helps writers get past blocks.
\n\n\nThe AI stuff is cool, but there was one thing about this app that made me want to keep using it: It has no historical baggage. I find it odd that many modern word processors like Google Docs and Word retain a bias toward pagination — the UX is intended for printing documents onto letter-sized paper. Lex, in contrast, does away with all that.
\n
💬 TechCrunch
\nBeen exploring 🔗 Lex.page for a couple ‘ months. I even pay - but not yet used it enough to know whether I am going to continue to pay.
\nThat said, the above quote is interesting and I agree with the ‘historical baggage thought - but they are hardly at the vanguard of that kind of thinking!
\nIt as if the writer has never heard of;
\nLet alone, Obsidian, Roam and Notion
\nSide note - Craft. Most definitely a personal favorite. And I am increasingly using it to share thoughts, ideas, minutes, reports to specific audiences - most often under ‘loose’ password control.
\nCant wait to get my hands on the new stuff they have in Beta - though even that still wont solve what I really really want!
\nAdding to which their own foray into AI support, I just want to tie apps like that into a single world - and not have different versions of different LLMs spread around various apps. ANNOYING.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-07T10:10:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/pageless-writing-apps.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/05/shout-outs-to.html", "content_html": "Shout Outs To @dsearls@journa.host and @dave in the 🔗 latest entry from ‘Jobsworth’
\nBTW - while I am here 🔗JP published another great post the other day about Cricket - specifically Cricket stats and records.
\nHe opened with:
\n\n\nYou have been warned. This one’s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here.
\n
I am definitely not a hardcore cricket nut - and still read the entire thing to the end. Fascinating.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-05T11:26:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/05/shout-outs-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/05/kleo-each-episode.html", "content_html": "📺 Kleo
\nEach episode kept me coming back for more. An increasingly difficult thing to do in theses ‘streaming times’.
\nKleo on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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Me last July … 🔗 Read
\nMe last August … 🔗 Read
\nWhy?
\nBecause as the scuttle around that movie at the time suggested - nothing was as it seemed.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-09-05T10:32:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/05/me-last-july.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/05/people-dont-read.html", "title": "People Don't Read Anymore - Except When They Do.", "content_html": "🔗 Raw data: Book and newspaper consumption - Kevin Drum
\nThere is a mantra in the world that people ‘don’t read’ (anymore?).
\nAnd on top of that - if they do - (very) short form - definitely not books.
\nI have long thought this to be wrong.
\nThey certainly might not read your stuff. Or my stuff, but they do read - BUT - they read what interests them , what engages them and definitely not limited to stuff that appears at the top of lists.
\nKevin’s short analysis on the data says that today we are spending twice what we spent on physical books 40 (or so) years ago. As he says - buying is not reading (👋🏼 to the Unlibraries) .. but beyond physical books there are ebooks, blogs, newsletters … yup - we definitely aren’t reading any more - except when we do.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-05T10:19:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/05/people-dont-read.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/03/shocking-revelations-about.html", "content_html": "🔗 Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson’s arrest and bail conditions
\nI am hoping there is another side to this story. But so far - only a hope.
\n", "date_published": "2024-09-03T11:09:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/03/shocking-revelations-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/01/anil-is-not.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-09-01T15:02:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/01/anil-is-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/30/got-off-the.html", "content_html": "Got off the ferry yesterday and looked for my usual scooter, and noted that the purple ones (Beam) weren’t there - only Lime available. Having lost Ola in the city earlier in the year - got me to wondering.
\n\nIt would appear at first glance that Beam have been ‘naughty’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-08-30T16:27:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/30/got-off-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/22/artlung-the-pillar.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-08-22T11:26:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/22/artlung-the-pillar.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/15/read-the-whole.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/4075a0f482.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-08-15T08:03:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/15/read-the-whole.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/13/matchstalk-men-and.html",
"content_html": "🔗 📼 🎵 📸 Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/73d9fcf1cd.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-08-13T11:42:21+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/13/matchstalk-men-and.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/11/somebody-googled-me.html",
"content_html": "Somebody googled me recently and emailed me asking if I was ‘the criminal profiler’, or at least connected to him.
\nI am, and back in 2017, I wrote a little post connecting the two of us.
\nI have just added the full story of when we ‘met’ a loooong time ago -and appended it to the 2017 post.
\n\n(The story started before Google.)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-08-11T08:55:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/11/somebody-googled-me.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/08/they-who-are.html", "content_html": "In 2024 if you Google “John Philpin”, you will indeed find that there are two of us, but back then, there wasn’t a Google … I know kids .. hard to believe. There was something called ‘Alta Vista’ and Yahoo - but nascent at best.
\n
They who are being parodied are apparently seeking this ‘lol’ site to ‘cease and desist’ - because really - there is nothing more important … right?
\n🔗 Failing What Matters Most - Your Premier EDR (Endpoint Destruction and Razing) Partner Since 2024!
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-08-08T15:27:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/08/they-who-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/02/just-in-case.html", "content_html": "
Just in case you think that all VCs are like Thiel and Andreesen … no … no they are not - they are just the loudest voices with the quietest money.
\nWell 🔗 THIS goes a long way to explaining the Andreesen, Horowitz, Thiel, Musk position on Trump.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T16:24:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/well-this-goes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/youngsters-probably-dont.html", "content_html": "Youngsters probably don’t remember Autonomy. I do.
\nNo time to write too much about it, so look it up and then don’t believe everything you read. Like this …
\n\n\nFederal prosecutors on Monday painted one-time British tech star Mike Lynch as the ruthless mastermind of an $11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard.
\n
Prompted to post this now because I just listened to 🔗🎙️ Mike Lynch (Founder and CEO of Autonomy) and ‘Danny In The Valley’ talking. Mike was found innocent by the DoJ after TWELVE years and tens of millions defending himself against America’s ‘finest’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T14:43:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/youngsters-probably-dont.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/death-is-not.html", "title": "Death Is Not Free", "content_html": "🔗 It’s time to ask once again why it costs so much to die in Aotearoa.
\nI for one did not know this and come to think of it - I don’t know what the ‘cost of dying’ is in other countries either.
\n\n\nIn New Plymouth, for example, it could cost over $7,200 for a burial … represent(ing) the burial plot itself.
\n
Umm - burial?
\n\n\nOnce you’ve covered the expense of the burial, there are a number of additional costs that can make the actual cost of dying far greater – the figure often cited in the media for an average funeral is $10,000.
\n
Rough dollar translation … take 60% of those numbers for the US dollar.
\nMeanwhile in California …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-07-29-at-12.35.582x.png\")
Then again the average Californian income is three to four times that in New Zealand.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T12:39:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/death-is-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/we-are-being.html", "title": "We Are Being Forced To Conform", "content_html": "It’s 18 months old - but 🔗 this post from TimUrban resurfaced this morning, where he talks about how long it took to write his book, reminding me of a post I have had parked for a while now. Time to unleash it.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6f1a21da70.jpg\")
The title of this post was originally ‘Are We Being Forced To Conform?’ I changed it because as I read it before publishing, I think I answered my own question. We are.
\nIt all started as I was 🖇️ building on this post which was about flavor (🔗the original Substack and how it reminded me of Rick Beato’s piece on people not understanding something being ‘📼 🔗 out of tune’). Small potatoes really - a little bit o' fun.
\nAt the time - over on Substack I commented on the flavor post
\n\n\nI couldn’t work out which bit to highlight so read the whole thing it’s the food version of Rick Beato talking about people not understanding what ‘out of tune’ means … and we wonder why the world is being turned upside down?
\n
Then I started thinking more about a thread that emerged over on Micro.Blog, where @manton commented that he had started and been noodling a post for months before scrapping it and starting again before he published a post he had been noodling on Gaza.
\n🔗 The comments on the original post are informative
\nI think 🔗 this is the post that Manton finally settled on., which on the whole assumes a reasonably fair and neutral position that everyone applauded .. and what is really not to love? (A lot IMHO - but that is for another post.)
\nThe French have (had?) an expression
\n.. that in my life I have used a lot, despite the fact that according to the OED, there are around 0.3 occurrences per million words in modern written English of the word ‘vive’ - let alone ‘vive la différence’. But heh - vive la différence 😂
\nThe phrase is used to express appreciation of diversity. Maybe that is why it has fallen out of use? Should I stop using it too?
\nWhen I was a lad I learned about standard deviation and how oft times populations fell into some kind of ‘normal distribution’ with the vast majority sitting within ‘±3𝜎’.
\nIt seems to this bear that no matter what our private beliefs and personas might be - the crowd is forcing us into only sharing the parts of our personas that fit the vanilla of modern life, with the result that on the face of it, society is forcing conversation in ‘the town square’ to something more like ±𝜎 - and you keep anything outside of that to yourself - for fear of retaliation.
\nConsider 🔗 this post from @pratik for example.
\nSadly the Internet has been weaponized and far from creating a place to be educated about the differences of people and countries and life - we are being forced into submission. It’s a place where ignorance is not so much celebrated as ignored - and ignored because on the whole it isn’t recognized, and if you do anything counter to the noise - expect to be piled on because 🔗 you are either with us, or against us.
\nThe Road Less Taken .. ‘Less’, by Bob, not to be confused with ‘Not’, by the other ‘Bob’.
\nBob L agrees.
\nRick’s video is referenced in para' 4.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T12:06:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/we-are-being.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "content_html": "I have been with 🍎🗺️ since the start and definitely felt the pain. But. BUT - thanks to Google I stuck with it.
\n\n\n\nApple Maps is one of the best examples of the power of persistence I can think of. It started as a laughing stock, but now, for people in many countries, it’s arguably the best maps service.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T11:43:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/some-have-speculated.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n
😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T08:34:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/some-have-speculated.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/28/bob-on-the.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f7c2cc5a54.jpg\")
.. reminding me that I somehow watched the first two episodes ( I think on Prime) .. and never went further, since we are in the Acorn camp - not Britbox. (Should I swap?)
\n📽️ Not a bad show - but like Bob says;
\n\n\n“The Responder” is dark. There are no characters you can identify with, root for. If you want an uplifting show, “The Responder” is not for you.
\n
One correction to Bob’s review - it is not set in Scotland - it is in Liverpool. But yes … gritty.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-28T14:43:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/28/bob-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyShowReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/27/presumed-innocent-another.html", "content_html": "📺 Presumed Innocent
\nAnother in that 🖇️ theme of ‘TV shows that were movies’. Just watched the last. Unusually for me, not as a binge - but week by week - and loved it.
\n\n\n\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-27T18:25:32+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/presumed-innocent-another.html",
"tags": ["? Shows","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/27/remembering-bill.html",
"content_html": "\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-27T18:10:50+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/remembering-bill.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Humour"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/27/in-case-you.html",
"content_html": "In case you were wondering about 🖇️that last post, 🖇️ I just dispatched this on Substack, which links back.
\nThinking about performance.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-27T16:45:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/26/i-have-no.html", "content_html": "I have no idea why I hadn’t seen this already - I mean - it is 6 years old. But now I have - I am sharing.
\n🔗 📼 Ray Dalio - Radical Transparency and Algorithmic Decision-making
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-26T15:34:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/26/i-have-no.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/18/ive-read-a.html", "content_html": "I’ve read a few of these from the various pundits - but I particulalrly liked this from @gruber 🔗 It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-18T09:33:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/18/ive-read-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/16/you-cant-buy.html", "title": "You Can't Buy Snow Leopard via Apple.", "content_html": "Spoiler alert - I am talking about the book by Category Pirates, not Apple’s OSX.
\nI don’t recommend many business books .. in fact I don’t really recommend any, rather I recommend the authors, based on what I know, read and see them talking about. Christopher Lockhead is one such person and last week I recommended him again.
\nEmail received this morning …
\n\n\nI tried buying Snow Leopard on Apple but only the audiobook is available.
\n
I was more than a little surprised, but he’s not wrong. I even thought I’d sorted it ..by visiting the book on the 🔗 Category Pirates web site, see the link to ‘Apple Books’?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-07-16-at-14.31.302x.png\")
Yeah No. Apparently - click on that button and you are taken to Amazon.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-07-16-at-14.30.322x.png\")
Which is a good place to buy the hard copy - but this takes you to Kindle and sorry, no, not going to be doing that.
\nI wonder why no Apple Books? I was wondering whether it was the name - and its clash with an earlier OSX. But that was FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, and as mentioned above, the audio book is available.
\nWeird - right?
\nFear not - I am on the case and if I get answers I will report back.
\nBy the way - don’t try visiting that book page on a phone, or even the mini iPad - looks like there is something askew with the media settings for the site.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-16T14:45:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/16/you-cant-buy.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/15/stepping-back-from.html", "content_html": "🔗 Stepping Back From the Precipice - Sam Harris
\nJudging by how much you can read of this before the paywall - I would argue that Sam should make this free for all to read.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-15T11:07:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/15/stepping-back-from.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/14/three-quick-instas.html", "content_html": "Three quick Instas …. that I saved during the week …
\n🔗 😵💫 Pen Tapping - one day he might have hi own drum set.
\n🔗 😂 Dave Allen - teaching you how to tell the time.
\n🔗 🚘 A GPS for your car - circa 1971www.instagram.com/reel/C8qR…) - holy mackarel.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-14T15:22:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/14/three-quick-instas.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/14/on-yesterdays-post.html", "content_html": "📸 🌊 On 🖇️ yesterday’s post I remarked how all the boats had collected in one corner of the bay. In the comments a friend wrote
\n\n\nThe boats are huddled in the corner because the wind is meant to swing around to the east.
\n
.. a ‘sea farers’ explanation - which I kind of had in my head - but when it is so pretty, it is hard to think that it is going to get worse.
\nAnyway. It did. This was taken earlier today - and that has been the high spot! Next job move the cushions inside.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/da6220a9e0.jpg\")
There are 56 in the series .. I just counted. There only going to be two more and then the unplanned series that you probably thought was never going to end .. well, it is ending.
\n\n🖇️ For posterity - because the photo gallery will get redefined soon.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-12T09:13:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/12/there-are-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Bay"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/11/it-all-starts.html", "content_html": "It all starts at 🖇️ john.philpin.com - which reposts to
\n🔗 Threads and 🔗 Bluesky and 🔗 Mastodon
\nSeperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.
\nSo if i post on Masto with my ‘real’ Masto - my blog’s Masto can see it and so those posts can manually find their way back to the blog …
\nI can also post a message on Threads and Bluesky BUT those messages would stay in their respective domains … until today.
\nI just enabled Fediverse sharing on Threads - so now if I post to my blog, like always it gets pushed to Threads - which is now visible on the Fediverse - so I can follow myself with my Threads account on Masto - and I presume vice versa.
\nI am writing this to get my head straight.
\nSo far - BlueSky is only federated via Bridgy which I am not going to use because there is enough to do now in working out what goes where, why and how on my accounts - and do not get me started on the new accounts I am setting up for The Future Found - where I have already enable the Threads account for Fedi access.
\nI mean, you’re either ‘all in’ or why bother. Right?
\nA. There is a lot wrong with that last sentence!
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-11T14:20:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/11/it-all-starts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/11/margaret-sullivan-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 Margaret Sullivan on how the media normalizes Trump .. article by Aaron Rupar - just reiterating my comment over on Substack …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-07-11T13:53:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/11/margaret-sullivan-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/11/many-of-trumps.html", "content_html": "We need more Margarets.
\n
\n\nMany of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether that agenda is good or bad.
\n
💬 Jonah Goldberg
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-07-11T13:50:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/11/many-of-trumps.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/10/bob-told-me.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-07-10T13:33:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/bob-told-me.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html", "title": "🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermarket", "content_html": "Twenty Two Years Ago - give or take - my friend Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found called ‘In Abstentia’. Still at the top of my memory banks sees me sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown as I listened to …
\n🔗🎵 Blackest Eyes - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
\nHe dropped me the MP3s that evening - and in turn they got moved to my iPod for my listening pleasure. That weekend I was up in San Francisco and did a detour to this store.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/babfb6c550.jpg\")
Yes ‘that’ specific one - it had served me well thought the 90s and though Amazon was beginning to creep into my world - Tower still held a special place for me - particularly for special music.
\n… and the rest is history - I have heard it all (ok - not ‘all’ - the dude is prolific), but I do have over FIFTY of his albums in CD format and seen him live in different formats maybe eight times across two continents.
\nAll this as a backdrop to this morning’s trip to the Supermarket.
\n.. and to say that if anyone spotted me this morning in the Supermarket - smiling, taking my head, bouncing even … this is why. (Jax believes Wilson’s music is sad and makes her sad.) Me? Yes it is sad - but I am with Wilson on this
\n\n\n“I don’t tend to write songs about things that make me happy. I tend to write songs about things that make me angry or melancholic or sad.\nThose are the things that make me want to express or exercise something through my songwriting.\nThere’s a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia."
\n
💬 Steven Wilson
\nIn no particular order - other than this is the order the tracks got played .. and Yes … Apple Music - because why wouldn’t you?
\n🔗🎵 The Watchmaker - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Pariah (feat. Ninet Tayeb) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Permanating (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Trains - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Sectarian - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Four Chords That Made a Million - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 The Raven That Refused to Sing - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Grace for Drowning - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Index - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\nBelle De Jour - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Postcard - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 PERSONAL SHOPPER - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music - featuring Elton John on ‘Shopping List’.
\n🔗🎵 Luminol - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Deform to Form a Star - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
\n🔗🎵 Signify - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-10T13:30:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/10/and-kind-of.html", "content_html": "And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.
\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dc1cee6d1f.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-10T10:33:45+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/and-kind-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/08/medhi-nails-it.html",
"content_html": "\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-08T10:36:39+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/medhi-nails-it.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/08/heather-cox-richardson.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Heather Cox Richardson from last Friday.
\n\n🔗🎙️Heather talking to Kara … long, but oh so worth it.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/47ca254866824881a19919118de45e00.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/3c2ec3787c1742f7a03fd8ac2e588be0.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dbd2326b817d4ab88a8a5b154d8d6a22.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/171d56e4aebe4a7b9cdd8e874658a350.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-08T07:17:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/heather-cox-richardson.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/06/while-the-dems.html",
"content_html": "While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙️ Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?
\nI mean - nobody.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-06T16:35:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/06/while-the-dems.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/06/the-lincoln-lawyer.html", "content_html": "📺 The Lincoln Lawyer
\nOne of those shows that was originally a movie .. so you don’t bother. On this one, I eventually gave in and just finished the second series, so I guess good .. right? Right.
\nThe Lincoln Lawyer on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 The Last Thing He Told Me
\nNot ‘unentertaining’ (is that even a word?).
\nI did get to the end .. which doesn’t always happen, even though ‘the why’ I got pretty much immediately.
\nThe Last Thing He Told Me on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🔗 Stonekettle Station: Raggedy Man
\nSo let’s say you make that change. Do you have a plan?
\nIf not, then why the change?
\nIf so .. then what is it?
\nIt’s a valid question, though Jim might have got to it sooner if he had a good editor.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-06T10:46:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/06/stonekettle-station-raggedy.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/06/i-know-there.html", "content_html": "I know there are few Doctor Who fans that float around in my spaces … so sharing this for them … 🔗 Best of the Whoniverse … and if you are also a writer .. double share.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-06T10:43:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/06/i-know-there.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html", "content_html": "A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”
\nJust to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ones on the world to do it … and absolutely having no regard for the consequences.
\nMy recommendation? Keep focussed on what American voters need to do. You made your decision to break from the UK centuries ago, so who cares what we are doing?
\nYour choice later this year is one of two things.
\nYou the voter are in charge.
\nStill in doubt? I commend you to take a listen to Kara Swisher’s 🔗 🎙️ July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-05T12:49:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/04/the-king-must.html", "content_html": "\nBob makes the connection 🔗 here
\nElton might have written the music, performed it, made it famous - but it was Bernie who wrote ….
\nNo man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
\nRound your throne room floor
\nWhile the juggler’s act is danced upon
\nThe crown that you once wore
And sooner or later
\nEverybody’s kingdom must end
\nAnd I’m so afraid your courtiers
\nCannot be called best friends
Caesar’s had your troubles
\nWidows had to cry
\nWhile mercenaries in cloisters sing
\nAnd the king must die
Some men are better staying sailors
\nTake my word and go
\nBut tell the ostler that his name was
\nThe very first they chose
And if my hands are stained forever
\nAnd the altar should refuse me
\nWould you let me in, would you let me in, would you let me in
\nShould I cry sanctuary
No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
\nRound your throne room floor
\nWhile the juggler’s act is danced upon
\nThe crown that you once wore
The king is dead, the king is dead
\nThe king is dead, the king is dead
\nLong live the king
Bob often nails it - and I do like his style.
\n🔗 The Dems and Napster - An Analogy, Bob Lefsetz
\n🔗 Same article - with my highlights
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-03T13:49:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/03/bob-often-nails.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/03/how-the-ultrawealthy.html", "content_html": "🔗 How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money
\n\n\nFor the ultra-wealthy, money is effectively not finite. It’s just a resource to be pointed at any burning thing. I know you’re looking at your banking app saying $broke and wondering, “how can this be?” and yet: it is true. The most counter intuitive thing is that, not only is the money faucet boundless for them, but in fact, most of the money coming out of the faucet is not their own. People who control large pools of money are very, very eager to let billionaires use their money.
\n
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\n",
"date_published": "2024-07-03T13:48:32+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/03/how-the-ultrawealthy.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/30/the-whole-thing.html",
"content_html": "\nDon’t know about you - but it definitely resonates for this bear.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/bb0b700c31.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-30T13:14:03+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/the-whole-thing.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/30/a-recent-discovery.html",
"content_html": "😂 🔗 A recent discovery (for me at least) on Insta - this is one post - but the channel (is that what they call it over there?) is worth following.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-30T13:07:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/a-recent-discovery.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/30/the-monkees-predicting.html", "title": "🎈182/366 The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared.", "content_html": "A friend on LinkedIN recently made a comment and referenced a video clip in support of his argument, which truth be told, I can’t recall - but it definitely wasn’t about ‘ATS’.
\n🔗 📼 This is the video clip .. it’s a scene from the Monkees TV show - this particular one directed by Bob Rafelson, written by David Panich - who I had never heard of - but given the subject matter of the clip, was intrigued enough to look him up .. IMHO - serious writing chops.
\nAll this to say that if you have EVER been on the wrong side of one of those bloody ‘ATS’ machines that sift resumes before any human gets to it - this clip will resonate. It is from 1966 Series 1, Episode 3. The reality of ATS in business kicked off THIRTY YEARS LATER.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-30T11:02:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/the-monkees-predicting.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/30/kaleidoscope-i-remember.html", "content_html": "📺 Kaleidoscope
\nI remember a news item a few months ago about a series on one of the streaming services that plays the episodes in a random order for each viewer. Clever I thought, a non linear show played on a linear format, moved on and promptly forgot about it.
\nI just finished it. Really, really good. Arguably made so much better by the lead actor .. Giancarlo Esposito .. but seriously, no duds. Highly recommend it.
\n(Side note .. I didn’t even clock that the show was the one I had read about until the very end.)
\nKaleidoscope on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🎈180/366 My goodness - Apple really do not want you to embed an HTML signature into Mail - do they?
\n🔗 How to do just that - just 23 steps - but very thorough instructions.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-28T15:30:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/28/my-goodness-apple.html", "tags": ["? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/26/body-problem-i.html", "content_html": "📺 3 Body Problem
\nI didn’t dislike it .. I just didn’t care about the people. I mean .. ok and all that, but I think the title is the most interesting thing.
\n3 Body Problem on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 The Fixer
\n2015 .. Season One .. doesn’t seem to be a Season Two. Probably says something. Probably would agree with that something.
\nThe Fixer on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🎈178/366 📺 Blackbird
\nWhy it took me so long to watch Blackbird I have no idea. But oh so good.
\nBlackbird on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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\n
You can listen to the whole thing 🔗 🎙️here, but if this 40 seconds doesn’t make you sit up - don’t bother.
\n\n🔗 Why OpenAI added an NSA Chief to their board
\nMr Gioia (the other one) lays out the spectrum of possibilities of why, offering his own take.
\nWhat do you think?
\nI have a hard time getting my head around a ‘Manhattan project for AI’. Not that it’s a bad idea .. but … have you checked out DC lately?
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-25T14:21:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/25/why-openai-added.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/24/classic-victor-borge.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Classic Victor Borge (Insta)
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-24T19:41:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/24/classic-victor-borge.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/24/age-it-catches.html", "title": "🎈176/366 AGE - It Catches Up On You.", "content_html": "I read this today
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-2164.png\")
in 🔗 Austin Kleon’s Newsletter.
\nNow let me be clear - I am not so old that I ever used one, BUT
\nI do know what it is and where it was used … and sadly I am old enough to have had a boss who did have such a thing on his desk.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/8abca62e2f.jpg\")
I just looked up Austin on Wikipedia - we aren’t that many years apart … FTW.
\nLATER THOUGHT - In my younger years I was in the U.K. and Austin will have been in the U.S.A. (Clutching at Straws?)
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-24T18:25:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/24/age-it-catches.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise","? LongForm","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/23/freddie-star-isnt.html", "content_html": "Freddie Star isn’t exactly a household name - even in the UK - but back in the day 🔗 📼 😂 he could be very funny.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-23T13:48:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/23/freddie-star-isnt.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/22/daring-fireball-apple.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple ID to Be Renamed to Apple Account .. which is an excellent idea. It’s time it was recognized that our ‘ID’ doesn’t belong or get managed by a Corporate … finally Apple get is it. Besides, ‘Account’ is much more logical.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-22T17:18:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/daring-fireball-apple.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/22/larry-lessig-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 Larry Lessig on ‘How AI could threaten democracy .. yes .. and having listened to it - I’m not sure if that is REALLY what it is about.
\nIf you haven’t got 20 minutes to watch the whole thing - try this - the last minute of the talk - because I think THIS is what it is about. (its a link to the last minute of the talk).
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-22T17:17:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/larry-lessig-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/22/is-this-how.html", "title": "Is This How You Get 'Silenced'?", "content_html": "Over in a more ‘private’ group there was a side discussion on Music … specifically .. ‘Country’ and someone had brought up Beyonce .. and well, time to throw in a comment …
\n\n\nBeyoncé does ‘Country’ and not one word about ‘cultural appropriation’ 🤪 no comment from this section of the Peanut Gallery … even Tay Tay had to break out of that genre. I will look up Garth’s contribution to the Muppets Multiverse.
\n
Feeling that my strategically placed emoji was sufficient to indicate that there was a certain amount of playful humor going on. (Or so I thought.)
\nIt took a few days for this reply (my bold)
\n\n\nI understand you were just making a comment, but I feel it is important to check your facts before making claims about cultural appropriation that may just be fuel for a false fire. ….
\n
… and the writer went on about the contribution of black musicians to the genre " who have been unheard and unacknowledged, and who have contributed so much in largely unrecognized ways." .. etc etc, stuff anybody with a pulse would know .. and then went on about what they have done in ‘Country’.
\n… and .. what facts?
\nI resisted responding how the Beatles at the beginning and the Stones - almost forever - did exactly the same thing, as did Led Zeppelin - oh and Elvis. I KNOW - well documented ….
\nI elected not to respond at all. And instead became decidedly less vocal in there at least 😵💫)
\nCurious that back in April 🖇️ I had cause to write this. I didn’t highlight it at the time - but I wrote it in response to a different thread in this exact same group where I was accused of using tired and well worj sterotypes and tropes.
\nMy approach is not to respond and ignore. Easy.
\nBut - is there something else going on?
\nThoughts?
\nPrompted to write all this because - well this reminded me …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-2151.png\")
🔗 The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True.
\nUmair Haque nearly a year ago. He seemed a little extreme back then.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-18T11:47:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/18/the-gops-vision.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/16/not-seen-much.html", "content_html": "Not seen much comment about this (but then I don’t always read the right things).
\nSadly I won’t be experiencing it any time soon.
\n1] Serious props to @gruber and team
\n2] If Apple doesn’t know - I feel they should work it out … quickly.
\nStopping now - 🔗 📼 to watch the 2D version.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/01493cf34d.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-16T18:01:41+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/not-seen-much.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","Quotewise"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/16/ive-done-mine.html",
"content_html": "🔗 I’ve done mine. .. have you done yours?
\n🔗 Thanks for the the link Joe/
\n(This is why my 🖇️ Guestbook blog roll is useful.)
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-16T11:33:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/ive-done-mine.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/16/guestbooks-blogrolls-reciprocity.html", "title": "🎈168/366 Guestbooks, Blogrolls, Reciprocity and Paying It Forward", "content_html": "Trying to tie it all together for the occasional visitor.
\nIt all started with Guestbooks. ( 🖇️ I have one ) and yesterday I caught up on reciprocating and getting ahead of the curve. ✅
\nI then created a new page that is connected to and referenced from my guest book page - so that there is a quick check for those I have visited. 🖇️ You can find that here. - and anyone signing mine can move on to the next …
\nAnd then I added a new blogroll. If I sign your guestbook, I add your feed to my NetNewsWire and from there it appears on my 🖇️ ’Guestbook Blogroll’
\nEnjoy.
\nImage courtesy of ChatGPT 4o - prompt - “Guestbooks, Blogrolls, Reciprocity and Paying It Forward”
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/760cf9d248.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-16T10:41:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/guestbooks-blogrolls-reciprocity.html",
"tags": ["? LongForm","? Links","366"]
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/15/i-just-signed.html",
"content_html": "I just signed 🔗 Joe Crawford’s guest book. I also have one of those. The one that @bjhess built. 😎 I have to say that only as I have wandered the web and signed have I realized how unusual Barry’s is - in that allows Markdown - which if supported allows me to leave my Kilroy moniker …
\n![\"\"](\"https://philpin.com/wp-content/uploads/johnphilpinblogfiles/JohnWasHere.jpg\")
🔗 MacGPT - ChatGPT in your menubar if you are into that sort of thing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-14T08:02:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/14/macgpt-chatgpt-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/14/fascinating.html", "content_html": "🎈166/366 🔗 🎵 Fascinating
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-14T07:59:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/14/fascinating.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/13/memories-moving-to.html", "title": "🎈165/366 🎵 Memories Moving To The Future", "content_html": "A Musical Box - no, not 🔗 🎵 that one - though in itself well worth a watch - Gabriel at his theatrical finest in 1974.
\nI happened to drift around some music videos on YouTube last night - and well - some of them just needed to be shared …
\n🔗 🎵 1 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits
\n🔗 🎵 2 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits
\nMoving on to why Music has a problem. 9 minutes from Rick Beato - listen.
\n🔗 🎵 Rick Beato on Music created by AI - All AI generated tracks come from 🔗 Udio
\nLets see how long it takes AI to do this …
\nAll is not lost - except it might be because we have seen time and time again how the extraordinary is not always understood and often ignored.
\n🔗 🎵 Guthrie playing .. in The Hans Zimmer Show … just watch Zimmer’s face during this 2 minute solo …
\nWho the hell is Guthrie (apart from the finest living exponent of the guitar you will ever hear.)
\n🔗 🎵 Rick spends 10 minutes answering that exact question
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-13T10:26:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/13/memories-moving-to.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/ten-new-albums.html", "content_html": "🎈162/366 🎵🔗 Ten New Albums I Am Enjoying Right Now - Ted Gioia
\nThis is a track from one of them.
\n\nLOVE IT
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-10T12:20:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/ten-new-albums.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/i-was-rolling.html", "content_html": "😂 I was rolling in the aisles when they first came out. They just reappeared today and I’m rolling in the aisles all over again. …
\n🔗 📼 How Does The Financial System Work
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-06-10T12:02:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/i-was-rolling.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/09/ha-kudos-to.html", "content_html": "
🎈161/366 Ha .. kudos to Mr. @danielpunkass .. if it all goes wrong with MarsEdit, he clearly has a future with roles like ‘futurist’ ‘Oracle’ ‘pundit’ .. AI indeed.
\nDaniel is one of a handful of people that circulate in the Apple ecosphere that never forgets why Apple s different .. to (pretty much) any other company.
\nThe extract from his post last year that @gruber called out is a perfect example.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-06-09T07:56:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/09/ha-kudos-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/08/two-must-reads.html", "content_html": "Two must reads … that came through (to me at least) just this morning.
\nEnjoy.
\n🔗 Crisis in the Culture: An Update - by Ted Gioia
\n🔗End of the Cloud Era - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-08T14:27:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/08/two-must-reads.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/08/turn-up-charlie.html", "content_html": "📺 Turn Up Charlie
\nJust like 🖇️ Loot .. not one to dislike … and likely more a passion project for the only reason I watched it ( a while back now) .. Idris.
\nBut I do like to occasionally log some older stuff .. cos we don’t all watch everything at the time do we … so you still need to know.. right? Wrong?
\nOr do you?
\nTurn Up Charlie on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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There should be a rating between Like and Dislike. In the end I went for like .. because in all honesty I couldn’t really ‘dislike’ … but no .. NOT a recommendation. I wonder if they were trying to go for that Ted Lasso feel good thing? No idea .. but whatever that Ted Lasso feel good thing is … it was not this.
\nLATER:
\nGet despite that initial review of the first couple of series … here I am again on the third. I guess it has something ❓
\nSeries 1 ★★★½
\nSeries 2 ★★★½
\nSeries 3 ★★★½
\nLoot on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🎈160/366 📸 🌊 “🔗🎵📼 Early one morning just as the day was dawning …”
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6a77b6af13.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-08T08:04:25+12:00",
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"tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos","366","? Bay"]
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/05/interesting-twist-from.html",
"content_html": "Interesting Twist .. from today’s 🔗 HCR
\n\n\nThen, on Saturday, there was what Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times called a plot twist. It turns out the state of Washington has a law on the books that prevents felons from running for office. But because a candidate has to be certified to be on a ballot before they can be challenged, the issue can’t be resolved until Trump officially becomes the Republican Party’s presidential nominee at the July convention. Westneat asked, “Republicans: You sure you want to go down this road?”
\n
Not entirely sure why this is different to Colorado off top of my head.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-05T12:59:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/05/interesting-twist-from.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/04/our-very-own.html", "content_html": "Our very own @jthingelstad on the 🔗 🎙️ Omni Podcast
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-04T13:52:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/04/our-very-own.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/the-first-vision.html", "title": "🎈155/366 The First Vision Pro Concert Movie", "content_html": "I have touched on this before but after reading a Lefsetz post over the weekend, decided to expand a little and log the thinking for posterity.
\n🔗 Lefsetz Letter - Company At The Sphere - that’s the link to where 🖇️ this quote came from that I published this weekend. I said I’d be back…
\nAround 2016 - ‘the term ‘spatial’ was being coined’. - though I personally think Apple’s ‘spatial’ is a light year or two ahead of where Mr. Scoble was at the time (He’s very quiet these days, isn’t he?)
\n🖇️ But February this year I made some pretty logical predictions about the first Vision Pro Movie.
\n🖇️ And in October last year I was predicting that The Sphere was a pretty good place to start on a ‘Vision Pro Concert Series’ - and I think Apple will be the one to do it. Well, maybe not ‘doing’ it - but certainly financing it.
\nI still think that.
\nBut who will be the director and/or subject matter for this groundbreaking event?
\nDespite Tay Tay’s global appeal, it won’t be her. The Swifties don’t have the money to buy the Pro.
\nPeter Jackson is deep into the latest tech to do great things, definitely a friend of Apple - and his foray into music with The Beatles is interesting - but no, no Sphere experience and besides 🔗 he is deep into his next Trilogy .. as Producer - not Director, but still ..
\n\n\nOriginal “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy filmmaker Peter Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are producing the movie and “will be involved every step of the way,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during an earnings call Thursday.
\n
Phish? I dunno - not seeing it.
\nTwo very real possibilities …
\nU2 - deeply intertwined with Apple - remember the album? And then they were first up at the Sphere - and Zane Lowe hanging out with them, talking with them. We have seen some of the footage, but who knows what was taken off the ‘back stage’ for the first Vision Pro movie?
\n… but I am wondering - and well out of left field - but …
\nThe Grateful Dead - who have always been at the bleeding edge of touring and spectacle
\nIt’s all fitting in for this bear.
\nThe only hard thing to reconcile is that ‘Tay Tay’ problem. Is there an overlap?
\nI think there just might be.
\nWhat do you think?
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-03T11:06:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/the-first-vision.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Posts","? LongForm","? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/02/the-post-slashes.html", "content_html": "The post 🔗 Slashes by Manu got me to thinking …
\nIf
\nfoo.com/contact
\ntakes you to ‘contact’ - but by using a ‘redirect’ and the actual URL is more like
\n‘stuff.weirdandcrazy.jcaourincag79q8i6iasicnAYT.com’
\n… is it still a slash page?
\nAsking for a friend.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-02T13:51:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/02/the-post-slashes.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/01/systems-the-purpose.html", "content_html": "🎈153/366 🔗 Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash
\nYes?
\nYes!
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-01T13:07:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/01/systems-the-purpose.html", "tags": ["? Links","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/31/politics-again-a.html", "title": "🎈152/366 Politics - Again.", "content_html": "My reply to @ridwan got a little long, so I thought I might not reply and start a new thread.
\n🔗 This is Ridwan’s original post
\nThis is my reply to his comment under that post …
\n\n\nWe are in for a Labour government, which is a done deal. However, Is Keir Starmer’s the PM after 14 years of Tory squander? I see him as just another politician who will say anything to get elected and turn his back on the people who voted Labour. I guess, even if people do vote for Labour, how many really vote for Keir?
\n
Like all good British elections - very few people will get to vote for The PM .. 😀
\nThe problem however is the same as ever it was - who the hell would want to get into politics anywhere these days - so you are left with those that do and when they do - you want to know what is wrong with them - and why - and …. I have a three thousand word introduction to the book about all of this - that I have in my head - but it will never reach paper or screen of any kind.
\nVote or Don’t Vote - BUT if you don’t vote - you don’t get to complain later.
\nIf you chose the first option - understand what principle(s) you are voting for - what problems you are wanting solved etc - and base your choice on the best of the candidates to do that. (There is no other choice.)
\n2.1) sometimes those calls are things like\n- ‘he’ll bring back school lunches - the other guy took them away
\n2.2) sometimes they are broader in nature\n- this candidate will ensure that billionaires pay the ‘same rate’ of tax as the rest of us, the other doesn’t get it
\n2.3) sometimes the choice is that there is a clear and present danger to me, society, my country and the world … with the other - not so much.
\nALL ARE VALID
\n.1 , .2 and .3 will vary by voter - sometimes on the day but more importantly - because of their general inability to
\na - conceive of,\nb - understand,\nc - see the impact on themselves should it come that,\nd - concern themselves with others - so long as ‘I’ am ok\ne - just grok …
\nThe possible outcomes of the wrong solution to ‘2.3’ and/or don’t believe them.
\nSo - if enough people at the 2.1 level voted for one person and enough people didn’t vote for the ‘other’ person because they are too old, trips on stairs, mumbles .. guess who wins?
\n(Apologies a US biased set of criteria that is very real at the moment - but you get the drift - e.g. - back in Blighty - compared to David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris (the THREE Prime Ministers that served when Jeremy was the Leader of the Opposition for just 4 1/2 years .. how much worse off would we be?
\nI do know that JC was and is on the side of PEOPLE - and has served in Govt fighting the fight for over 40 years. When he was ousted - he didn’t slink off like the last 4 Tory PMs did to reap their financial rewards, cashing in with the Corporations .. he’s still there , serving the people of Islington and still fighting the fight.
\nAt a broad character level who would you rather have run the country for the past FOURTEEN YEARS? Seriously - FOURTEEN?
\nHeres the thing - the country is being ALLOWED to vote for a party that with one outcome would put Kier in charge. That’s not a bad thing … since Cameron - every single PM has actually been APPOINTED by a few people - it is a few in the Tory party ..
\nCameron won in 2010\nHe won again (just) in 2015 - and I recall resigned over Brexit\nTheresa May was then appointed\nAs the incumbent she then won the next election, but not very well, so was ousted and Boris moved in\nWho went on to win his election until Truss was appointed and then little Rishi.
\nDespite being in power for 14 years - Cameron was the last PM that actually won the election without first having a dry run as a PM because they had previously been appointed.
\nIf Kier turns out to be no good - it is within the power of the Labour Party to remove him and put in someone else - it isn’t the first time - as the Tories continually demonstrate.
\nThe UK isn’t the same as the US. Keep the prize in mind. 14 years of Tory Rule might be broken. Don’t not vote (for Labour) just because you think the leader is
\n\n\njust another politician who will say anything to get elected and turn his back on the people who voted Labour.
\n
You vote for him to get Labour get in power. Don’t like Labour? Vote Tory … clearly they know exactly what they are doing. Just look around the UK - it is clear.
\nIf anybody doesn’t like all of this? Then it is time for action and to do something about it. Get others to join your cause. Change things. Too hard?
\nThat’s why we are where we are.
\nPS - I know you all know all this. Sometimes I just have to wave my cane!
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-31T17:09:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/31/politics-again-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/30/today-i-got.html", "content_html": "Today I got my first 🖇️ guestbook signature from a total stranger.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-30T22:34:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/30/today-i-got.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/30/after-yesterdays-weather.html", "content_html": "📸 🌊 After 🖇️ yesterdays weather - this was rather welcome particularly since it was so bad that it knocked the power out. Bed by 7 for this bear.
\nBut … the next morning - what do they say ‘calm after the storm’?
\nOr is it before?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dc792c50de.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-30T15:38:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/30/after-yesterdays-weather.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links","? Bay"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/30/and-the-word.html",
"content_html": "🎈151/366 And The Word is ‘OM’
\n🔗 Mama - Mother Earth - Om … from Ted Gioia )
\nGreat dive into ‘M’ …
\n🔗📼 But mostly this a short video demonstrating how a repeating rhythm increasingly speeded up just eventually ‘hums’. Quite lovely.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-30T15:32:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/30/and-the-word.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/30/updating-airtable-records.html", "content_html": "🔗📼 Updating Airtable records with advanced Fillout forms - YouTube
\nHave you heard of Fillout? Marvelous stuff.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-30T10:49:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/30/updating-airtable-records.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/30/just-updated-my.html", "content_html": "Just updated my 🔗 Using ‘page’ .. no longer just personal usage - now added business.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-30T08:14:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/30/just-updated-my.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/28/some-days-you.html", "content_html": "🎈149/366 | 📸 🌊 Some days you see the conflict of the weather over time and I publish a short series - like 🖇️ yesterday. Today the conflict is happening all at once.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/86d345c8ad.jpg\")
\n![\"straight](\"https://philpin.com/wp-content/uploads/johnphilpinblogfiles/StraightLine.png\")
.. and yes this post features in both series I am running at the moment.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-28T11:43:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/28/some-days-you.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links","366","? Bay"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/28/an-oldy-but.html", "content_html": "\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-28T09:09:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/28/an-oldy-but.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/darn-q-weve.html", "content_html": "\n
\n\nQ: We’ve been getting a lot of questions about an alleged Winston Churchill quotation and I’m trying to verify if it’s genuine. The story is that when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” Have you ever seen this quote? I’ve seen a lot of sources saying that it’s fake but I would love to get your opinion.
\n
💬 Dan Evon, Snopes.com
\nThe quote came to mind about 80% through Ken Burns Brandeis address.
\n[🔗 📼 You can watch it here.](Ken Burns, H’24 Keynote Address to Brandeis University’s 2024 Graduates)
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T22:35:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/darn-q-weve.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/you-just-cant.html", "title": "You Just Can't Tell. Nobody Can.", "content_html": "I love listening to knowledgeable 🎵 people steeped in ‘the lore’, ‘the history’ .. I can swim in it forever. An inevitable question appears somewhere in the conversation .. “did you know it was going to be a hit?”
\n\n\nno clue mate
\n
… is the usual and correct response.
\nSame with newsletters. You just can’t tell. I keep reading over and over different writers that are surprised when their ‘magnum opus’ falls flat and a ‘throwaway’ goes viral.
\nMy throwaway newsletter from a couple of days ago gave me an equal numbers of unsubscribes and subscribes … no viral accelerator for me .. but after being flat for over a year - my ‘paid subscriptions’ increased by around 10%. Not only that, but the subscription broke a psychological barrier - paid for subscriptions hit ‘double figures’ 🥳
\nThe point is that you just don’t know - right?
\nIf you want to read it - 🔗 you can
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dfecef2197.jpg\")
\nHistory ‘scholars’ weighing in on this 🔗 LinkedIN post .. I can’t be bothered to join in.
\nFor me - YUP … Count me with the Luddites
\nThe point of this post is more about language changing .. over time words get co-opted and they change and come to mean something different .. oft' through more and more people not having the full understanding of the origins. Shame really. I’m all for language changing .. I just wished people wouldn’t change the meaning just because they don’t understand the nuance .. or worse that they don’t know.
\nAt least that footy player said in front of the world that he didn’t know what ‘encyclopedic’ meant.
\nMaybe he ‘could care less’ (sic) … another peeve.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T12:06:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/history-scholars-weighing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/george-conway-predicts.html", "content_html": "🔗 George Conway predicts Trump won’t be unanimously acquitted in hush money trial (🍎🗞️)
\n.. been thinking that myself - and when it happens how THAT will get spun into puke and bile.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T11:56:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/george-conway-predicts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/talking-about-series.html", "content_html": "🎈148/366 Talking about ‘series’ .. as we are in the process of closing out ‘May’ - I finally got round to updating my 🖇️ 🔎 366 series
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T11:22:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/talking-about-series.html", "tags": ["? Links","366","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/back-then-i.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Back then I was undecided whether the early images constituted a series. This morning I hit ten - so I hereby declare that 🖇️ we do in fact have a series.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T10:54:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/back-then-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/26/impeach-nixon-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Impeach Nixon! - a lesson from history.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-26T09:01:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/26/impeach-nixon-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/26/behold-the-tiny.html", "content_html": "The ‘Tiny Pod’ 🚧
\nis indeed a thing to 🔗 behold - for those of you that have a watch but don’t want to wear it on your wrist?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-26T08:57:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/26/behold-the-tiny.html", "tags": ["? Links","366","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/the-series-i.html", "content_html": "🖇️📸 The series - I guess it is now - is building nicely
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T12:52:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/the-series-i.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/i-know-its.html", "content_html": "I know it’s 🔗 here - but I have to look it up every time. Of course ‘every’ shouldn’t be too many - but sadly - not the case.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T12:14:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/i-know-its.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/today-is-my.html", "title": "🎈146/366 Today Is My Anniversary 🚧", "content_html": "It’s 🔗 Towel Day ( thank you @odd ) - but today also happens to be my 25th Anniversary
\nYup - 25 years. Truth be told it had been going on a lot longer - but it was 25 years ago that we actually tied the knot .. and I have had my ‘personal space’ on the internet ever since May 25th, 1999 (Creation Date: 1999-05-25T20:14:36Z).
\nNow of course, we had known each other a lot longer than that - long before the web in fact, but you know when you first connect you don’t really note the dates do you? It’s like a permanent honeymoon. Hours merge into days into weeks into months … who really knows when ‘it’ really all started?
\nI can tell you that I first got ‘involved’ with the internet in 1985. I mean it wasn’t what we know today. My own internet experience in those days was email around our international offices .. but it was the internet (ok, ok - intranet - there’s a word you don’t hear much these days.)
\nAlthough Google Trends suggests I am wrong …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-05-25-at-11.40.582x.png\")
.. again!
\nAnyway, I do remember being annoyed that my messages wouldn’t go out to the people I wanted to talk to - you know customers, partners, vendors - all the people a business should be talking to. .. we could only talk amongst ourselves. I mean the Cerne account team could connect to their customer .. why did I have to use Compusurf (sic)? … but that’s a different story.
\n( .. and no I didn’t do AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve .. they were never for me - maybe even back then I had the innate desire to avoid being locked into a silo.)
\nAnyway, that’s it … 25 Years with my 🔗 own domain ✅
\nOnwards.
\nHow will I celebrate? Why - taking my towel down to the beach of course.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T11:48:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/today-is-my.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","366","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/no-need-to.html", "content_html": "No need to bring you up to speed about that google short code to bypass Google’s world of enshitification - except to say 🔗 Ernie at Tedium built a web site to make it ‘easy for all’
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T11:19:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/no-need-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/i-stumbled-across.html", "content_html": "I stumbled across this today as I was collecting 🖇️ these. I nearly moved through because ‘Kelly’ - but I am a sucker for Jeff, so …
\nHoly Crap …🔗 🎵 📼 Jeff Daniels
\n.. I was under the impression he had only recently written it - but this from 13 years ago - suggests otherwise.
\n\n\n
… another two ‘broken links’ .. has something changed?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T10:56:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/i-stumbled-across.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/in-no-particular.html", "content_html": "In no particular order (except for perhaps the first two) …
\n\n\n
We all get that broken link message from time to time don’t we? What is particularly interesting on this post is to find EIGHT blocks - I wonder if it is the writers insisting on the block - I don’t think there I any other constant.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-25T10:51:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/in-no-particular.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/24/about-content-stewart.html", "content_html": "🎈145/366 About content.
\n🔗 📼 😂 Stewart Lee on Social Media (Content Provider)
\nDon’t worry, it’s not my usual rant. Just a very funny piece of standup that needs to be watched more than it has.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-24T17:14:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/24/about-content-stewart.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/24/075504.html", "content_html": "
Saw 🔗 this ..
\n(sorry ..Facebook) .. thought of @Ron
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-24T07:55:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/24/075504.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/23/vinyl-sneak-peek.html", "content_html": "\nConan’s short promo had me laughing out loud 😂 as I wandered down to the ferry this morning.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-23T10:50:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/23/vinyl-sneak-peek.html", "tags": ["? Humour","? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/23/public-service-announcement.html", "content_html": "Public Service Announcement
\n🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Make Google’s ‘Web’ View Your Search Default
\nNot tried this yet … but I will be . and I know it will be of interest to most people in my world.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-23T09:03:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/23/public-service-announcement.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/21/whatever-you-are.html", "content_html": "Whatever you are doing … stop … and 🔗 📼 😂 spend 5 minutes watching this.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-21T21:12:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/21/whatever-you-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/21/a-bucket-of.html", "title": "🎈142/366 A Bucket Of Slop", "content_html": "I am well aware that despite my years long campaign to stop people from describing their words, articles, photographs, thinking … beliefs, soul … Intellectual Property even … ‘content’ … they continue to… unabated.
\n\nBut I am not giving up …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/90e81f5d1b.jpg\")
That said - there are people that ‘get it’. (Though I will freely admit that we are also in the minority there!)
\nMeanwhile the ‘bot farms that have been delivering the real content (sic) to our uncurated feeds and inboxes have been gearing up for the AI revolution - and indeed as reported in many places are already shaping our ‘thinking’. (I use the word loosely.)
\nImagine then my delight to read that ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9d796d53c9.jpg\")
Sidebar - if you don’t know what a ‘bucket of slop’ is - ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.
\nPerfect.
\nThe trick now is going to be how readers will be able to spot the slop - given that they already have difficulties separating content from any kind of value.
\nRead the whole piece …
\n🔗 Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
\n… and hat tip to John Gruber who referenced this post on Daring Fireball.
\n🔗 Meanwhile, over in Finland, they do have an idea or two.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-21T14:06:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/21/a-bucket-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links","366","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/21/a-warning-for.html", "content_html": "A Warning For Our Times …
\n🔗 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-21T13:25:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/21/a-warning-for.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/21/leaving-now-added.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780310411987/cover.jpg\")
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-2088.png\")
… now added to my ‘want to’ list (Leaving by Roxana Robinson)
\n… but separately the piece by Lefsetz is archived into my Readwise … lest I forget.
\nGorgeous.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-21T13:24:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/21/leaving-now-added.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/19/sometimes-gallagher-just.html", "content_html": "Sometimes Gallagher just nails it …
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📺 Sugar
\nStunning .. great job from Colin F .. but the homage to ‘noir’ yet modern, the direction, the cinematography, the colors, the lights, the nuance … everything. Just so good.
\nI have read that people loved the mid season ‘twist’ …if we are talking last scene in episode 6 .. yeah no .. I had that scene in my head for a couple of episodes prior, so no twist for me. In fact, it happened to coincide with when I thought the show had finished .. and I 🖇️ even posted that I was very disappointed with the ending (EEJIT I am).
\nAnyway .. all this to say … loved it. If you have 🍎 📺, whatever else you are watching stop - and go take a look.
\nSugar on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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Shed a Tear🔗 - William Gallagher
\n\n\nThe DECORATOR stands back to appreciate his day’s work. The entire wall is now painted. Satisfied, he collects his snap-tin, paint, brushes, ladder, etc., lights a cigarette stub and walks off.
\nWhile he’s been achieving that painted wall, the film crew cast have failed to do anything at all. So much effort, so much energy, so much time, and nothing achieved whatsoever.
\nCompletely unrelated, I’ve been sitting and typing in this chair for the past few days while four men put up a shed in our garden.
\n
😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-18T15:18:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/18/shed-a-tear.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/18/thrutopian-futures-anyone.html", "content_html": "Thrutopian Futures anyone?
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-18T15:17:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/18/thrutopian-futures-anyone.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/18/safe-house-meh.html", "content_html": "📺 Safe House
\nMeh. Look carefully you will see I didn’t dislike it. Equally, I didn’t like. I liked the premise - each series an entirely different cast, set of characters - even the Safe House itself was a different house (and yes - I did watch both) … but still. MEH.
\nSafeHouse on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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\n\nCathedrals are places designed to show their creator’s opulence and power, but they’re also designed to alter our senses, to throw us into alternate worlds, so that they can open us our minds to change. If that’s the case, what will these places be in the 21st century?
\n
Good question that was running through my mind when I stumble across this quote …
\n\n\n“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
\n
💬 David Foster Wallace
\nWorlds Colliding. The piece I was reading was 🔗 Cathedrals of the 21st Century from Unchartered Territories, that ends …
\n\n\nYou can see similar processes at play today in places like courtrooms or parliaments, albeit more subdued: They are big, solemn, sound is controlled and there are ceremonies, serious uniforms…
\n
… and then immediately …
\n\n\nBut you can also apply the same principles and end up with a completely different setting and experience: nightclubs.
\n
If that observation makes you sit up you should go read the whole thing. Also, some great images throughout as you read Tomas Pueyo’s observations across geography and time.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-18T13:41:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/18/what-will-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/15/when-the-city.html", "content_html": "🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London - sorry 🍎 📰 - just couldn’t resist. A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-15T15:06:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/15/when-the-city.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/14/obsidian-derives-its.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-05-14T12:57:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/14/obsidian-derives-its.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/14/simplified-though-still.html", "content_html": "🔗 Simplified - though still a WIP.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-14T12:45:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/14/simplified-though-still.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/im-gonna-say.html", "content_html": "I’m gonna say that even though my ‘pages’ - you know the ‘about’ .. ‘doing’ .. ‘new’ .. ‘using’ .. aren’t ‘done’ - they are clearly done enough to add them to the menu.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/7aa6e95f22.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-09T23:38:15+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/im-gonna-say.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/read-bob-lefsetz.html",
"content_html": "Read 🔗 Bob Lefsetz today - with this 🔗URL at the very top of his post. Nice piece. On the click through you see this.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-05-09-at-17.47.502x.png\")
Different chap I know - but I wonder if anyone else has remarked on it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-09T17:51:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/read-bob-lefsetz.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/the-furor-and.html", "title": "The Furor and How One Creative Thinker Changed Everything", "content_html": "To catch you up, you might have missed 🔗 📼 this video .. you can see it at the bottom of the page.
\nWhen I first saw it, I liked the visual effect - but really - not the message. As I wrote over on 🔗 John’s blog
\n\n\nI saw that vid .. kinda like it .. BUT .. I dunno … destroy everything physical, crush it to nothing ?
\n
Unbeknownst to this bear - a lot of people were of the same opinion. A ‘furor’ indeed.
\nAnyway, in the comments thread on John’s blog he highlighted 🔗this ’twitter post’ from Reza Sixo Safai. This is the 🔗 tweet
\nNow on occasions I do pop out from under my rock and have noticed that these days Twitter isn’t a very nice place to go anymore. So - on behalf of you dear reader, I donned my protective suit, sprayed myself from top to bottom, grabbed the video and behold …. With all and every credit to Reza. ’Twitter’ is the only reason I pulled it to be here - because Twitter, so now all can view it - and those with protective clothing can pop over and see for themselves.
\nMy comment cannot be better than this one …
\n\n\nThis is unironically one of the cleverest creative feats I have ever seen. To take a widely-publicized, universally panned ad and then turning it into the exact ad that it should have been, communicating the desired message 10000x better.
\n
💬 Amal Dorai
\n![\"straight](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\")
\n
\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-09T14:28:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/the-furor-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/08/a-man-in.html", "content_html": "📺 A Man In Full
\nIt was only when I got to the end that I discovered it was a series that emerged from a Tom Wolfe novel. This is no ‘Bonfire’ though. Jeff did a good job - but really, not much of a story. The only surprise was the ending. No spoilers - but it wasn’t what I expected - but now you know it is Wolfe - maybe it will be?
\nA Man In Full on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🎈129/366 Siri For MidWesterners 😂
\n🔗📼 Enjoy. … via Chris Lockhead.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-08T11:58:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/08/i-think-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/08/protests-then-and.html", "content_html": "\nI highlighted too much to even start to choose a great quote. Just read the article .. talking the ‘differalities’ of the 60s to today. Written by a 75 year old Vietnam vet who was awarded the a Purple Heart and came back and joined the peace movement.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-08T06:23:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/08/protests-then-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/07/i-think-victim.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780385549981/cover.jpg\")
\nI think 📚Victim by Andrew Boryga might be ‘next’ having just read 🔗 Bob’s post
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-07T07:31:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/07/i-think-victim.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/05/i-know-dave.html", "content_html": "🎈126/366 I know @dave is a fan of Andrew Hickey - me too. No time to listen to them all, but when you do - superb. Absolutely superb.
\n🔗🎙️ Sad to see this in my stream .. disgusted even. Got to say, I thought he was a better person than I could ever have been)
\nMeanwhile - let’s see what happens - and if it doesn’t, we really need to rally round and make sure it does.
\n
Excellent point from Don.
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/890e93ccd5.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-05T16:51:03+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/05/excellent-point-from.html",
"tags": ["? Links","People First"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/05/nervous-drivers-pay.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Nervous drivers pay to be whisked across America’s scariest bridge
\n(Sorry - 🍎📰 )
\n.. I am of the opinion that if you’re too scared to drive this road - you shouldn’t be licensed for any road. What say you?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-05T15:49:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/05/nervous-drivers-pay.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/05/baby-reindeer-well.html", "content_html": "📺 Baby Reindeer
\nWell - I didn’t see that coming. What a ride. Not for the light hearted. Not for everyone - but loved it. Every little weird bit. Want a proper review - 🔗 try this one
\nBaby Reindeer on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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Funny, worth a click through - unless you don’t think this is funny …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-04T16:11:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/04/letters-by-shaun.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/04/me-in-the.html", "content_html": "Last weekend, the drive up to London was improved by listening to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook on the car’s CD player. I was amused by my inability to follow the plot as closely as I would have liked, and put this down to middle age. It was only when I arrived at my destination that I realised the CD player was on “shuffle” mode.
\n
😂
\n🖇️ Me - in the middle of April - but had been having the problem (an out of control mouse) for a lot longer.
\nCracked the issue this morning.
\nSidecar.
\nIt seems recently that I have not been closing my iPad, and so my Mac believes that I have a second screen.
\nIssue resolved.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-04T09:04:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/04/me-in-the.html", "tags": ["? Humour","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/me-a-couple.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Me a couple of days ago ending with ‘wondering what ‘Rob’ will say.
\nNow we know.
\nHe just delivered a great story - as always and funny. He didn’t say it the way I did (mainly because he has more talent) … but I think we agree. Take a listen.
\n🔗 🎙️ Paramount: Buy, Sell, Fight
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-02T16:13:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/me-a-couple.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/i-have-referenced.html", "content_html": "I have referenced 🔎 🖇️ The UNDaunted on this blog a few times. On a call this morning - and we are going live in two weeks . Letting a few friends and family in early. If you are into Social Impact - you are going to love The UNDaunted. Hit me up in whatever way makes sense to learn more.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-02T12:45:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/i-have-referenced.html", "tags": ["? Links","? UNdaunted","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/i-love-rick.html", "content_html": "I love Rick Beato’s podcast channel and Ted Gioia’s writing and so was delighted to watch this meeting of minds last night …
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-02T07:20:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/i-love-rick.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/for-your-most.html", "content_html": "🎈123/366 For your most happy listening pleasure … put me in such a good mood.
\n🔗🎵📼 The Mariachis with Hugh Cornwell perform Golden Brown
\n
🔗 🎵 📼 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning
\n(📸 from earlier today)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/2c1b93ec91.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-01T17:59:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/01/good-morning-good.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/01/cigarettes-after-sex.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Cigarettes After Sex are playing Madison Garden.
\nDon’t worry, I hadn’t heard of them either.
\n🔗 🎵 Apocalypse is their ‘biggie’. (1,233,307,237 streams. Apparently, I must have been under my rock at the time.)
\n🔗 🎵 📼 Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) - not as many!
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-01T12:50:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/01/cigarettes-after-sex.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/30/thats-entertainment.html", "title": "That's Entertainment ...", "content_html": "No - 🎵🔗 not this
\nWe knew Ms. Redstone wanted out. Looks like it’s going to happen.
\nAnd Ellison’s Skydance seems to be in the frame for the preferred acquirer which I definitely do not get - but sure why not?
\nI look forward to opinions from people like Rob Long and Peter Kafka, if I were to predict - I am guessing that Long in particular might be thinking like me. (Or am I thinking like him?)
\nThe main question is what does David think he is buying and what does Shari think she is selling - because I think they are two very different things. But Heh! What do I know?
\n(Side Note - The ‘Ellison’ is Larry’s son - who seems to be turning out to be a media/entertainment version of technology dad.)
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-30T18:36:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/thats-entertainment.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/30/as-i-wrote.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780307371560/cover.jpg\")
\nAs I wrote in January … The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 📚is a wonderful little book .. so who knows why I am posting on April 30th that I have just finished it. Opinion not changed. Read it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-30T09:59:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/as-i-wrote.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/30/i-had-been.html", "content_html": "🎈121/366 I had been wondering about 🔗 Keycap Shine.
\nThen @gruber 🔗 explains even more today.
\nIt all makes sense. Still bloody annoying.
\nAt least I can stop polishing my keyboard.
\n
Dana makes some good points in ‘🔗 Why Full Self Driving is a Fraud.’. And of course the US isn’t protectionist.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-30T09:33:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/dana-makes-some.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/29/today-in-tedium.html", "content_html": "Today in Tedium:
\n\n\nAs you may know, Tedium is a blog and/or newsletter (we haven’t decided yet–I know, surprising nine years in) focused on questions that you never bothered to ask yourself, but are suddenly consumed by the second you hear them.
\n
I know how they feel!
\nOh - and in that piece - i got pointed to 🔗 The Story of the Social Security Number - I did not know how the numbers came to be and what they are.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-29T16:32:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/29/today-in-tedium.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/29/the-web-is.html", "content_html": "🎈120/366 🔗 The web is not dying
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/023b43ffab.png\")
\n
🔗 Bob’s writing about Music and Musicians, but what he described has applicability to any new business launching itself onto the world.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-24T15:25:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/24/bobs-writing-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/24/yet-another-one.html", "content_html": "Yet another one to file in the bucket of things that don’t seem quite right.
\n🔗 Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-24T15:18:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/24/yet-another-one.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/24/new-projects-because.html", "title": "New Projects -because of course, you can never have enough projects.", "content_html": "As my Category culling is drawing to a close continues with no end in sight, I just discovered a new project.
Not only do I have this space - but over on Blot I have a different - yet related space.
\nI used to have 🔗 https://words.philpin.com - for ‘words’ and 🔗 https://pictures.philpin.com which eventually became 🔗 https://images.philpin.com for, well … ‘images’.
\nAnd then I moved everything into 🔗 https://archive.philpin.com - it’s so easy in Blot - and everything is was great - were it not for rather a large number of links on Micro Blog that point to those three old blogs. (I know its large - because I just searched for those URLs in Mars Edit),
Three choices;
\nDo Nothing (which doesn’t really work for me)
\nManually change them - one by one (which is something I don’t want to do)
\nWrite a script to search for those three parts of URLs and replace with ‘https://archive.philpin.com’, at the same time as adding a category ‘My Archives’
\n🖇️ Remember Micro Monday Follow Day? - I just fixed the click through - because after all this shuffling a few things got broken. There are some crackers in there … 5 Years Ago Today Apparently!
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-23T20:03:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/23/remember-micro-monday.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/23/received-from-my.html", "content_html": "🔗 Received from my friend Graham, article from The New Yorker .. as I commented tomorrow him;
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-23T14:09:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/23/received-from-my.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/another-discovery-from.html", "content_html": "Personally speaking - my life is too short
\n
Another discovery from the archives … although only March, so not so bad.
\n\n\nMany of us seek status and belonging without even seeing it; we find it hard not to react to what others are doing, especially those we have been programmed to want to impress. We’re reactive without realizing it. We put limits on ourselves because we buy into other people’s rules. It’s the fundamental limit I’ve observed in most people, including myself and most founders: they define success by succeeding according to the rules that others have defined.
\n
💬 Mike Maples
\n🔗 Source (Medium) - so heaven only knows how I stumbled on this one - other than Mike is actually very good at what he does - so maybe I was looking out from him?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-22T17:05:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/another-discovery-from.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/letting-marketing-have.html", "content_html": "😂 🔗 Letting ‘Marketing’ have a ‘seat at the table’
\nTruth in humor from Tom.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-22T11:51:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/letting-marketing-have.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/we-dont-care.html", "title": "We Don't Care What The World Thinks - We Know Best.", "content_html": "🔗Over on Substack this morning, somebody had taken it upon themselves to ‘correct’ a writer’s English.
\n\n\nTip: realized not “realised”. I’ll surprised that you got that passed spell check! 😊
\n
The irony of her own typos in her post correcting someone that didn’t need correcting aside …
\nThe click through takes you to the thread where Tom replied, but to save you that - this is what he wrote …
\n\n\nThank you so much for your feedback in jumping in to correct me on what you believe is my poor spelling but you might want to check your facts: it’s lovely that America has its own spelling for words, and I am all for diversity of language, but I think I’m going to stick with the British spelling what with the fact that I was born in and live in the United Kingdom and (though I often wish it was more) have only visited the USA once in my life, for a total of five days.
\n
Which then spawned a steady stream of comments.
\n\nAgain - to save the click through, I wrote …
\n\n\nPretty much whatever the UK does .. the response of the US is to do it different, if not completely opposite … spelling, driving on the wrong side of the road, eschewing roundabouts in favor of the four way stop, inventing its own version of perfectly acceptable games, defining the world as being the country .. ‘world series’, ‘
\ncapital of the world’, taking a perfectly lovely uk show and rewriting it as an American show .. oh and then deliver an order of magnitude more episodes (Key Point: no series set up is that good) .. shall I go on?
And I wouldn’t normally bother writing this - except I was reminded of another Americn trait … we are the first … we are best .. we are exceptional …
\nOver in another group, someone posted this image.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dac3bc7f36901c2c.jpg.webp\")
Which reminded me of Philo Farnsworth (‘Father’ of TV), who has a staute in the Presidio in San Francisco
\nI quote …
\n\n\nPhilo Farnsworth (1906-1971) is the American engineer credited with inventing the first television. He had his potato row/scan line epiphany while growing up in Idaho, but it was later that he fully developed his image dissector and electronics system. His first successful broadcast happened on September 7, 1927, between two rooms in his lab in San Francisco.
\n
In my world 1927 follows 1926 .. but let’s not let facts get in the way in America.
\nI am sure there is some bright person out there that will give me some technical overview of why one or the other - but really, to the average bear … this is the ‘Telly’ for goodness sake.
\nAll this to ask … why are ‘they’ like that?
\n(I do know ‘they’ aren’t all like that - I’ve lived in the US long enough to know that - which I will use as my excuse why I freely interningle UK and US spelling in a single paragraph.)
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-22T10:59:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/we-dont-care.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/i-do-like.html", "content_html": "I do like @jsonbecker photo plugin that basically allows you to 🔍🖇️ for a post based on the image that’s there … (I know that’s not how it is promoted - but that is how I am using it …) … just wish I could ‘present’ them better. Maybe a second plugin?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-22T06:28:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/i-do-like.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/just-a-big.html", "content_html": "Just a BIG shout out to @vladcampos for 🔗 📼 this video which talks you through how to rearrange the categories on the archive page of your MicroBlog.
\nGREAT JOB SIR - most excellent. Really really clear - and it worked first time.
\nAND of course - big shout out to @otaviocc for the new page.
\nI did it and it did exactly what it said on the tin.
\nSadly it still isn’t quite right - i think mainly because Vlad is using Tiny Theme and I am using Hitchens and I am guessing some kind of styling conflict kicked in and it threw out the rest of my page (like Vlad I am not a developer), but no big deal, we just rolled back and maybe not at 11:32 pm I will look at the coe and se if I can parse what should be changed.
\nVlad - one additional thing - rather than saving the name of a page and creating a new one - you can in fact click on the original page and when you save it - it automatically creates the edited page in the block at the top - that will save a few nano seconds.
\nAnyway - over and out - GREAT job. Thank you.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T23:34:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/just-a-big.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/in-case-you.html", "title": "There Has To Be A Link Here For You ...", "content_html": "In case you hadn’t realized - I have been doing some backlog clearing over the weekend, this is one of those catchups. Links from the wild - collected and - not quite curated.
\nStill there might be something here for you?
\n
🔗 Validating Factual Personal Information | February 2024 | Communications of the ACM - it’s as if Vint isn’t plugged in to the possibilities? What am I missing?
\n🔗 A Fascinating dive into the history of Poland
\n🔗 Why Is California the Way It Is? - by Tomas Pueyo - love this kind of visual analysis of the ‘history of geography’.
\n🔗 Haitz’s law - Wikipedia - the Moore’s law of light?
\n🔗 Rethinking the Concept of Philanthropy .. something near and dear to my heart as we ready to unleash our new organization onto the world.
\n🔗 The Seismic Shift That’s About to Change the American Workplace .. it’s Apple News, But TL;DR - old people is the fastest growing
\n🔗 A quick and easy guide to measurement. - Simon Wardley writing about ‘his thing’. It’s quotes like this that make me smile.
\n\n\nDeciding on what you will measure matters because it will change the type of system that you will build. A measure for getting people quickly from high to low altitude will encourage the development of one system - for example, personal solid fuel rockets. However, a measure for doing this safely will promote the development of another - for example, a parachute.
\n
🔗 Rishad Tobaccowala - Four Strategic Mistakes.
\n🔗 Roger Martin - Why Planning Over Strategy
\n🔗 Scott Galloway on (amongst many things) ESG - and is it failing to live up to its promise - he thinks so.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T17:04:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/this-an-year.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 This an 11 year old Ted Talk featuring Pablo Holman - demonstrating hacks on the stage. ELEVEN years ago .. so what 2013?
\nIt includes a shout out to Kim Cameron who Pablo called The Chief Privacy Architect at Microsoft, which indeed at one time he was - though Kim retired from Microsoft May, 2011, the shout being an announcement that his hacks allowed him to track KIm as he moved through a conference - and … well, I will let you watch the video.
\nImagine what is possible today. And you wonder why we have problems.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-04-21-at-16.25.142x.png\")
Kim of course is the author of The Seven Laws of Identity, that I have had the occasion to refer to on this very blog and it is unclear if Pablo’s call out of what he achieved in tracking Kim had any connection to Kim’s retirement - and to be sure I am not suggesting that at all, and to my knowledge nothing suggests that this was the case.
\n
Fast Forward to last year and here he is again with another Ted Talk ‘Nuclear Reactors Can Solve Inequality’. 🤯
\nBoth Talks were just absolutely inspiring
\n
So imagine my delight to discover this one …. where he is talking at Charlie Muirhead’s CogX last year. I haven’t watched it yet - saved for tonight, but I sure am looking forward to it.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T16:55:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/this-an-year.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/crooks-netflix-dubbed.html", "content_html": "📺 Crooks
\nNetflix. Dubbed. Caper.\nNot much more to say, except I did watch it all the way through.
\nCrooks on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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It has been brought to my attention that assumptions have been made - and - call me a stickler - that pisses me off.
\nMy mum was born just outside of Manchester.
\nMy mum’s parents were Mancunians.
\nMy dad was brought up in Rochdale.
\nMy dad’s parents were .. well, that is a long story.
I was brought up in York (not born - but then I wasn’t born in the UK - so there’s that).
\nSuffice to say that I would never have been able to play for Yorkshire - even if was good enough (I wasn’t even close … I got to play for my ‘house’ once because only 11 of us turned up) .. and by the way - despite what it sounds like my ‘house’ wasn’t part of a ‘public’ school.
\n(Oh - and in England - public schools are actually private - I know - it’s all fucked up}
\nStill, I am Yorkshire enough to know that this was a rule (until all the other clubs started bringing on international players and - well - ‘knocking them for six’.)
\nSuffice to say, I am without a doubt of Northern Stock .. and proud of it.
\nIt has been a while, but people that ‘fancy themselves with accents’ still pick up my Yorkshire twang.
\nMy People First thinking probably emerges from my early (I wasn’t even a teen) introduction to ‘cooperatives’, that you may know got their start in Rochdale (guess who I learned that from).
\nHe also told me all about Gracie Fields .. arguably one of the most famous Rochdale alumni (despite living out her final years in Capri) .. I sometimes wonder if this very early introduction to a singer from a previous generation sort of shaped some of my takes on music?
\nDespite never having lived in Lancashire, if there is one football team I could be described as supporting .. it would be ManU … because my Dad and Grandad were both supporters, ie long before it was fashionable to love them.
\nI am old enough to remember Cyril Smith .. and even though in those days I was not particularly politically aware, he made sense to me .. maybe that Rochdale fairness and equality shining through.
\nAll this to say that when (and it is when - not if) I make a joke about ‘the north’, such as there should be customs at Watford Gap or the M25 is the inspiration behind the movie ‘Truman’, flat caps, ay up, whippets … whatever the hell it is … I am having fun - and dear ‘Upset Notherner’ - I would strongly suggest you get over yourself.
\nI would further argue that customs at Watford Gap would be highly beneficial to The North, because customs work both ways.
\n
.. just a few - I could go on.
\n\n\nFlat caps are dress accessories that fall between casual and formal. Back in the 19th century, a flat cap was a sign of working class men but has now evolved to being a piece of headgear popular among elites. Men who wear a flat cap these days are trendsetters and well-dressed men in Hollywood.
\n
💬 W and H
\n\n… ‘appen, ee bah gum - its all dialect people .. and if someone from Yorkshire is going to accuse me of cultural appropriation OR cultural sterotyping - well - I say Fuck You.
\nHave you been to a party recently? Read the internet? Whippets might not be what you think I mean. But let’s say I am talking about the dog .. they have been a recognized bread in Kennel Clubs around the world for nearly 1 1/2 centuries. Moreover, it was a Whippet that won the Frisbee Dog World Championship three years in a during the seventies. They are great dogs and why is it bad to be associated with Whippets?
\nBottom line, this fits in the Politically Correct space that is absorbing this world in a very bad way. No - you cannot tell me how I want to say things or reference them - particualrly if they are MY HERITAGE.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T13:46:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/setting-the-record.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/the-american-dream.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ The American Dream Is A Pyramid Scheme … Sean Illing doing his thing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-21T13:01:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/21/the-american-dream.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/21/ola-has-gone.html", "title": "🎈111/366 Ola Has Gone Lyft Was Never Here. I Refuse To Use Uber. Now What?", "content_html": "I have a fundamental objection to Uber. (You might have heard.)
\nWhich is why down here in New Zealand, when one of those kind of pickups is needed I use Ola.
\nMake that ‘used to use’
\nThey pulled out! Gone. No longer here. Removed themselves …
\nChatting to a ‘Corporate Cabs Taxi Driver - who was doing the usual complaining about ‘Ride Share Companies’ (to be fair - I did prompt him) and I pointed out that IF there was an app I could go to and call up a real cab like I could a Lyft, Ola or MAYBE an Uber - it would make it a darn sight more convenient … and he very kindly referred me to an app called 🔗 Your Ride.
\nBrilliant I said. Will try it out.
\nI tried to try it.
\nApp is not available on ‘my App Store’.
\nMy App store is the U.S.A. store.
\nI have written to them.
\n
I updated the base to include @ameripie and @jedda specifically.
\nWhile I was there - I found some peeps in my Feedbin that I had - but weren’t in the right folder - so fixed that and now the list is a bit longer. Discovering some additional anomalies;
\n@manton - Is there a way to make that list alphabetical ?
\n@simonwoods I have you - and I also have ‘TIL’ - but there are two different feeds?
\n@odd - I pulled what seems to be your feed - but these are your replies(?), whilst your real feed is here - raising in case you didn’t know.
\nJust to make it easier to check - this is a screen capture of the blogs in the system as of the weekend of 20/21 April. Proving it in alphabetical order. LMK if want to be added - or indeed taken off … all good.
\n![\"MB](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-04-21-at-08.53.562x.png\")
I read something this past week about ‘feeds and posts’ - and I know ‘we’ do all know that the difference is there - but ‘we’ are also aware that it is not always understood … I think maybe @SimonWoods mentioned it recently?\nAnyway - I was about to reply with something I considered to be an excellent riposte and then stopped and deleted.\nMy 🔗 ‘riposte’ was a reply - not a repost - and wondering if the meaning of the original use of the word that has been subsumed by modernity and partly explains the confusion?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T13:29:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/i-read-something.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/20/daring-fireball-how.html", "content_html": "\nI know I shared this when @gruber wrote it way back - but sharing again - as he just did - and a reminder from moi .. its not a matter of if they come after you - it is when - best be prepared.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T13:03:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/daring-fireball-how.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/20/bobs-writing-about.html", "content_html": "🔗 Bob’s writing about Music and Musicians, but what he described has applicability to any new business launching itself onto the world.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T13:01:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/bobs-writing-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/20/i-saw-this.html", "content_html": "I saw🔗 this in Visual Capitalist today.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/8d4125d218.jpg\")
No mention of New Zealand where a lot of people complain about the country’s debt, so I thought I might explore - and found this in Macro Trends.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-04-20-at-12.48.042x.png\")
And sure - while we are higher than historical - it isn’t unprecedented - even in the past twenty years. 2003 and 2012 clearly standing out from the crowd. (I wonder what was happening around the globe at that time - rhetorical folks .. and that’s the point - whatever Kiwi leaders might like to think, they are in the gravitational pull of ‘RoW’. That said, the country is clearly doing a lotte better than average.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T13:00:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/i-saw-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/19/who-am-i.html", "content_html": "Who am I to disagree with Austin Kleon and in fact I still don’t .. but the conclusion to the article ends with a use case for why paper dictionaries .. which to this bear seems identical to the why online. What am I missing?\n🔗 Source
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-19T07:08:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/19/who-am-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/17/surprise-me-is.html", "content_html": "🎲 Surprise Me! is now the phrasing in my single post footer - replacing ‘Random’ .. seemed more in keeping with the tone that I am trying to achieve on this blog - not to mention that it is consistent with the other places I reference this functionality.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-17T11:29:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/17/surprise-me-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Surprise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/17/a-personal-knowledge.html", "title": "🎈107/366 A Personal Knowledge Repository?", "content_html": "It is lost in the mists of time but I seem to recall a post by @brentsimmons from years ago - maybe even last century? The advice was to reply to emails as a post, so that when a second email comes, you can modify the material on your blog and send the link. (I more than likely have over simplified, taken it out of context, changed the essence if not meaning / idea - but that’s what we do right? The point is that the core thinking has stuck with me … write once - use many.
\nIt’s good advice and indeed many corporate processes follow this idea. Think help desk, somebody asks a gnarly question, it isn’t available in your ‘knowledge repository’, so you reply with original thought and then publish that answer into the repository so that anyone else who has the question can find the answer.
\nBUT - when it comes to the personal blog, even I - who has this ingrained in my brain, still doesn’t do this as routine and - even more frustrating - when i do .. it gets forgotten about over time because I don’t have a real system to manage such things - and why would I?
\nSo it is about memory - but also I have found the Micro Blog Search-Space PlugIn by @sod absolutely excellent for unpacking such posts'.
\nAll this to say that I have just put up a page on my blog that is the start of attempting to provide help to others that ask.
\nEnjoy.
\n🖇️ Getting Started With Your Own Micro Blog
\n
Was I talking about stumbling across things? Don’t think so, but an example of just that from a few months ago. No words needed to explain the images. Just click through.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/8566c09e8f.jpg\")
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\n
🔗 Weekend Reading — Never Again Is Now — Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-15T23:12:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/15/was-i-talking.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/15/it-occurred-to.html", "content_html": "\n\nIt occurred to me watching a Martin Scorcese documentary about the life of George Harrison, how much people in music seek out opportunities to create with other musicians. In technology, it doesn’t happen, we don’t even look at each other’s software.
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-15T23:06:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/15/it-occurred-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/15/long-said-that.html", "content_html": "Long said that I speak three languages; English, Music and Math(s) .. sounds like @andysylvester is on a 🔗 similar track.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-15T15:05:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/15/long-said-that.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/i-am-still.html", "content_html": "I am still running these words in my mind …
\n\n\nStarting right now we must invest time and resources to hone, sculpt and architect the six key skills will be essential in the future to complement machines, co-exist with change, and ensure continuous re-invention.
\n
\nThree of these have to do with individual competence (Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity) and three how we connect with each other and the world outside our minds including new AI agents. (Collaborate, Communicate, Convince).
💬 Media Village
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T23:12:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/i-am-still.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/an-interview-with.html", "title": "An Interview With An AI", "content_html": "There are so many of these things popping up (AIs that is), you need an AI to track the AIs.
\nPi is one that caught my eye a while back, and I have had some noodles and doodles with it - when time allows. Clearly 🔗 David had a bit more time than me - because he sat down and interviewed them (?) .. or is it still an ‘it’?
\nYes, as David explains at the beginning of the podcast, sometimes the flow is a bit stilted - and through my ears sounded robotic (though I think that is being fixed next week!)
\nThe point is - which is the same point that David concludes with - yes - it is not there - but holy hell in a hand basket … the ‘interview was waaaaaay better than many I start, a darn sight more interesting and really - if you were to drop this in the middle of a bunch of reptiles … talking heads … politicians talking - who do you think is gong to hold the attention best - and I choose that particular category because they are used to being interviewed, to pitching, to telling stories. Some have even been trained ….
Even with the passionless voice - I found more passion and definitely more reasoning from Pi than a lot of people that puncture my days and nights.
\nWorried yet?
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T21:59:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/an-interview-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/have-to-say.html", "content_html": "Have to say that were somebody to back me up against a wall - put a gun to my head and ask me 🖇️ who my top 10 artists - ever - were, XTC would be on that list.
\n\nJust lovely and a tremendous trip down memory lane.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T20:53:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/have-to-say.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/yesterday-timothy-rybak.html", "content_html": "🎈104/366
\nYesterday 🔗🎙️ Timothy Rybak and Kara Swisher
\nToday 🔗🎙️ Christopher Lyon with Lyndsey Stonebridge talking about Hannah Arendt
\nOne common observation. by Timothy and Lyndsey (I paraphrase)
\nTrump is an overweight, obnoxious nothing - it is the apparatus around him that is the problem.
\n
![\"Citadel\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/c459d572ea.jpg\")
There are spies. A bad organization called Manticore. A mole in the good guys organization. Who knows how it will all end? OK - not a real question. But entertaining enough.
\nCitadel on 🔗 Reelgood.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T14:28:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/citadel-there-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/one-lane-bridge.html", "content_html": "📺 One Lane Bridge
\nTwo seasons worth. Another in the style of ‘Kiwi Scandinavian Noir’ 😁. It’s not a cracker - but good enough to watch both seasons over time. (Trust me - there are many a show I start - never finish - and a review of which you will not find in here.)
\nOne Lane Bridge on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 The Brothers Sun
\nDespite writing this back in February - it didn’t. Quirky. Funny. Great Action - and Michelle Yeoh. I mean - c’mon.
\nThe Brothers Sun on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 Criminal Record
\n‘Truth to Power’. Solid, gritty, Brit detective drama.
\nCriminal Record on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 The Gulf
\nCoincidentally found myself living on/in ‘The Gulf’ when I discovered the show, so watched it with a little bit of a ’travelogue’ perspective. 😁 One of those dark Kiwi shows - they seem to be emulating ’Scandinavian Noir’ - if that is a term. If it isn’t, it should be. Great show.
\nThe Gulf on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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📺 Gray
\nArguably formulaic - but something about it kept me hooked. And ‘Cornelia’, don’t you love that name? If you like this genre - it is well worth a watch.
\nGray on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
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🖇️ Me 5 Years Ago - Simpler Times. .. who would have predicted where we are today.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T13:41:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/me-years-ago.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/13/ripley-started-slow.html", "content_html": "📺 Ripley
\nStarted slow. Continued slow. Finished Slow. And I loved it. The Black and White cinematography was superb. More in those grey tones than color could ever do. Have to say I was nervous of having a longer version of the film. No worries. Totally different.
\nRipley on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
![\"ShowNameBanner\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a1a2c15c11.jpg\")
Apparently, Murdock and Musk were on pace to receive the RBG Award? Nobody thought .. hang on a minute?
\nIt gets worse. Below the fold …
\nTwo other ‘awardees’ were 🔗 Michael Milliken
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/0518669c2f.png\")
.. and 🔗Martha Stewart
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a7c81664d4.png\")
… and yes I do understand second chances and all that - but still .. am I the only one out here on the edge - again?
\nIMHO .. Sly was the only one who deserved to be on a short list to begin with.
\nLove to know the backstory.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-12T13:46:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/12/talk-about-misguided.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/11/wondering-if-anyone.html", "content_html": "Wondering if anyone saw this ‘post’ of mine from earlier this year.
\n(NO response at the time 🥺 - but if you have ‘replies turned off - it would have gone straight by you.)
\nBeen bouncing around since then - and I keep coming back to 🔗 Daylite - a Mac only app - BUT seems to be very powerful. Finally took a dip into their 2 week trial - and talking next week - but anybody got any thoughts, comments, thumbs up and down »> other than thePRICE $$$$ - yeah - now I recall why I didn’t commit - but then if it stops me spending time in twiddling with stuff - maybe?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-11T17:14:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/11/wondering-if-anyone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/11/have-i-mentioned.html", "content_html": "Have I mentioned before that I like 🔗 🎙️ Rob Long’s Martini Shot, short entertaining, great story telling about the entertainment business - and ties back into broader business - this one feature Karl Lagerfeld. My take? We all have a ‘little Karl’ in us.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-11T17:02:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/11/have-i-mentioned.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/11/remember-all-that.html", "content_html": "🎈101/366
\nRemember all that kerfuffle about Apple and Beeper - well - as reported just this week Automattic just bought Beeper - which personally I thought was a GREAT move. Even greater - in the same week Beeper launched their new app!
\nInstalled - and ready - because even without iMessages - I still have a Unified Inbox for everything else.
\n
And - not that anybody is watching me - but why this article should pop into the stream today - I have no idea - but it’s all about those other Beepers!
\n🔗 The Forgotten War on Beepers - by Louis Anslow
\n
Two pieces that in some ways seem to contradict each other and themselves - even down to one being quite serious and the other with more humor.
\n🔗 Fergie Chambers Is Heir to One of America’s Richest Families and Determined to See the U.S. Fall. (Readwise with Highlights)
\n… 🔗 The original Rolling Stone Link)
\nand
\n🔗 America is too Lazy for a Second Civil War (Readwise with Highlights)
\n… 🔗 The original Sam Colt Link
\nThat said, you can read both and wonder where you fit on the spectrum, because to me it is not altogether clear.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-11T13:09:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/11/two-pieces-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/10/ranked-the-worlds.html", "title": "Ranked: The World’s Top Flight Routes, by Revenue", "content_html": "🔗 Sydney to Melbourne. Really?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-10T21:27:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/10/ranked-the-worlds.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/10/if-anyone-feels.html", "content_html": "If anyone feels inspired to pop over to 🔗 this page on LinkedIN that I just made public, it is the very early beginnings of our new initiative ‘The Future Found’. More will be forthcoming.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-10T20:27:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/10/if-anyone-feels.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/10/a-failed-rock.html", "content_html": "\n.. personally, I see this as one of the world’s great successes - how near were we I wonder?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-10T13:37:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/10/a-failed-rock.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/10/companies-graded-from.html", "content_html": "🔗 108 companies, graded from most to least racist.
\nIt’s a start, but I wouldn’t take it as absolute - to me the more interesting info is in the footnote ..
\n\n\nNOTE: The companies listed in black are federal contractors. The companies in gray aren’t.
\n
The sheer number of contractors ‘in black’ could surely be reduced by a little more vigilance in the government to at least reduce that number - maybe others will then follow?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/589cdd70b1.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-04-10T09:20:11+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/10/companies-graded-from.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/09/raindrop-which-i.html",
"content_html": "I have had Raindrop for yonks, but it landed with a thud in my conscious this past week. Yes - the usual AND the possibility of 🖇️ this - or even this!
\nNot sure - yet - how / if it connects to everything else in my newly emerging connected world of NetNewsWireFeedBinReadWiseRaindropMicroBlog.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-09T21:52:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/09/raindrop-which-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/09/meanwhile-i-stopped.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Meanwhile … I stopped off for a well deserved ‘Latte and Eggs Bennie’.
\nI don’t know who this young lady is
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/baade833d7.jpg\")
(angle to purposely disguise her identity) , but she talked for the duration. And I do mean talked, barely drawing breath, much less pausing to listen to whoever was on the other end.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-09T12:50:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/09/meanwhile-i-stopped.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/08/gioias-rule-of.html", "content_html": "🎈098/366
\n\n![\"Six](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/370ac8cf4c.jpg\")
.. there are some things in life that I clearly do not understand … such as the need for Democrats to self destruct.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-07T17:59:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/07/biden-may-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/07/porn-showing-the.html", "content_html": "\nWe know that the Porn Industry leads the way in adopting new technology to redefine itself.
\nNot once or twice - but continually. Only Fans might be the latest example.
\nIn this piece Bob Lefsetz suggests that musicians of the world take a leaf out of their book.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-07T11:31:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/07/porn-showing-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/06/seperately-i-still.html", "content_html": "🎈096/366
\n\n\nSeperately I still look forward to having MicroBlog and Readwise just synch with my chosen folder in Newswire. And then I thought I read the other day that this is indeed possible. Is it? I can’t find anything about it anywhere. 🥺. But there’s more. I want the opportunity to change the order dynamically, based on ‘last post in’ - but no plans according to Manton.
\n
.. from 🖇️ here - where i have just published V4 of my ‘blogroll - but still no answers to those question - plus - I wonder if there is any plan to offer a ‘nested’ list. (If you click through - the need becomes clear. 🤒
\n
🎈094/366
\n🔗 Google to delete search data of millions who used ‘incognito’ mode.
\n‘Incognito’ is not ‘incognito’ and barely a flutter in the ether.
\n
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\n🔗 Johnson Warns Jeffries Could Become Speaker
\n‘Warns’ …
\n… the article suggests Hakim is the House Minority Leader- I would suggest that if indeed he ‘assumes the mantle’, that he would then be the House Majority Leader … it’s just that the definition of which ‘majority’ ii is - like different to the usual donkeys and elephants.
\n
🔗 The great list of all the blog platforms.
\nI scrolled and scrolled and thought …. he’s forgotten Montaigne.
\nBut he hadn’t. Why did I doubt?
\nMore importantly, Did you know there were this many blogging platforms out there?
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-02T14:03:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/02/the-great-list.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/02/can-you-patent.html", "content_html": "\nGood question.
\nTL;DR - yes … yes you can.
\nBUT, apparently it means nothing, because you still need to be big and with deep pockets to protect that patent - because otherwise them large corporations - hell they invented the 💩
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-02T13:55:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/02/can-you-patent.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/02/i-think-this.html", "content_html": "I think this is a great list …
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/bbfe85bf57.jpg\")
Courtesy of : 🔗 Social Rebellion
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-02T08:56:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/02/i-think-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/01/why-i-write.html", "content_html": "\nDo I agree?
\nYUP.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-01T17:20:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/01/why-i-write.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/01/avoid-these-common.html", "content_html": "🔗Avoid these 3 common phrases—they make you look weak and insecure, experts say (🍎 News) ..
\nI don’t know .. I am sorry to ask, I just wonder if anyone else thinks this is a croc?
\nIt just tends to be how we talk in England.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-01T16:29:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/01/avoid-these-common.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/01/happy-april-fools.html", "content_html": "Happy April Fools Day
\n🔗 Why The Sun Never Sets Over San Serriffe - by Mike Sowden
\nHave to say, I don’t recall it .. being so young and all .. but I agree, hard to see how we could make it work in 2024.
\nAll you font wonks out there .. you definitely will enjoy, but then .. non don’t wonks can also enjoy .. I run an inclusive blog.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-01T16:16:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/01/happy-april-fools.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/01/behold-three-lefsetz.html", "content_html": "Behold THREE Lefsetz pieces - personally annotated and ready for your delectation … your welcome.
\n🔗 The New Music Business | annotated by John
\n🔗 The Normalization Of Insanity | annotated by John
\n🔗 John Oliver’s Million Dollar Offer | annotated by John
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-01T13:04:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/01/behold-three-lefsetz.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/01/after-this-another.html", "title": "🎈091/366 - It's Historical ...", "content_html": "🖇️ After this .. another one from May last year. This one wasn’t as ‘finished, so tweaked a bit for clarity.
\nSeparate question - what was going on in my life in May last year?
\n
Just off a loooong web session with 50 or 60 very wise people talking about AI and ESG. Specifically ‘The Future of Sustainable Decisions in the Boardroom.’ Great session, and they are regular sessions, so ping me if you would like to join the next one.
\nIt came up, so I will report … though I have said this before AND I am going to keep saying it in different ways.
\nAI used to be about being the best. If the chess program couldn’t beat a grand master then clearly it wasn’t very good. And then it was - so then they said what about ‘GO’ … it never won - and then it did. Clearly AI doesn’t work - until it does.
\nBut this stuff is new.
\nYes - it doesn’t write like Stephen King or paint like Monet .. but most of us don’t and …
\nAND that’s not the point.
\nThe point is that it can write better than the average person.
\nSo (to begin with ) only the below average people will be replaced.
\nProblem 1 - ask anyone how good they are at anything - they will ‘generally’ see themselves as ‘better than average’.
\nProblem 2 - statistically - 50% of those people are wrong.
\nProblem 3 - a substantial part of the population can’t see it coming.
\n
This video is more recent and is an ad - been circulating in places like the book of faces - but makes for a good two minute watch and relates.
\n\n\n\n\n
🖇️ You wouldn’t thinks so - but the culling count hit double digits today.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-31T10:00:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/31/you-wouldnt-thinks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/31/llms-and-reputation.html", "content_html": "🔗 LLMs and reputation management is an interesting take by Don Marti on a problem we don’t seem to talk too much about - but you can see it developing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-31T09:29:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/31/llms-and-reputation.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/31/in-case-you.html", "content_html": "In case you thought that there’s not much variety in music these days … turns out that at the Macro level - you are spot on.
\n🔗 🎵 Global Album Charts - IFPI
\nTL;DR
\nTaylor Swift and Kpop - that’s (just about) it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-31T09:27:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/31/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/31/the-new-blogroll.html", "content_html": "🎈090/366
\nThe new blogroll functionality has taken me down a rabbit hole as I have come to realize how disorganized my feeds were - are, despite appearing very organized.
\nAnyway. 🖇️ V2 is now in place. V2 ≠ Final.
\n
\n\nI think micro.blog is going to get very interesting once the APIs for all these random social networks fill out.#
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\nNice - and prolly right. Which reminds me.
\nBlogrolls …
\nOn the @dave blogroll 🔗 at scripting.com his order pushes blogs with ‘latest post’ to the top - any plans on something like that for Micro Blog @manton ?
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-30T09:48:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/30/i-think-microblog.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/30/the-ticket-master.html", "content_html": "The Ticket Master rip off discussion often pops up into the feeds - so this one doesn’t surprise me\n🔗 Explosive New Documents Unearthed On Live Nation/Ticketmaster
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-30T09:44:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/30/the-ticket-master.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/29/these-companies-have.html", "content_html": "🔗 These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021 (In case you were wondering.)
\nI was - which is why I will be back later with some more thoughts.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/b3db725232.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-03-29T12:47:58+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/29/these-companies-have.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/28/did-trump-just.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Did Trump Just Get Bailed Out?
\nIt’s rhetorical folk.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-28T09:31:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/28/did-trump-just.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/27/this-very-much.html", "content_html": "🎈086/366
\nThis very much resonates with my My People First thinking. 🔗 via Stowe Boyd - essentially - when you hear ‘the powers’ talking about how people are their most important assets and blah blah blah - would be interesting to learn how they really sit against this list/
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/ca1e54d22b.jpg\")
\n
Started watching a new series on Netflix. First episode definitely has me hooked ,,, though it seemed that I knew the plot. So, looked it up. Of course I knew the plot. It was a movie from a 5(?) years ago. A very good movie actually. But different as it was, the connections were tight - even down to the directorial style. It was if the TV dude was emulating the Film dude … 🤦♂️ similar! Identical. It was the same director - Guy Ritchie - I do love me some ‘Guy’.
\nTurns out that he made the movie and then turned around and said - right them let’s do a TV show. It’s going to be good.
\n🖇️ 📽️ The Gentlemen
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-27T00:21:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/27/started-watching-a.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/26/and-of-course.html", "content_html": "And of course fussing with only 🖇️ one change is never enough - now I am onto blogrolls - very much like the OPML import. Thankyou @manton
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-26T17:56:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/26/and-of-course.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/26/when-you-talk.html", "content_html": "🎈085/366
\nWhen you talk about 🔗 Blank Faces … and you get Blank Looks.
\n
One URL - Many AIs to chat to … 🔗 Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-25T12:55:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/25/one-url-many.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/24/microsofts-brazen-ai.html", "content_html": "🔗 Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection
\nWhat Om does not touch on is the issue of ‘acquisition’.
\nTo this bear (and others), what also seems to have happened is that Microsoft has all but bought the company. but actually didn’t.
\nWhy not just buy it?
\nWell because then you need permission from the Feds - if not the EU, which takes time and even then might not happen (remember Figma), and certainly in the AI space close scrutiny is happening.
\nOk - not that close - but you know what I mean.
\nWatch this (tech bypassing pesky things like delays and rules and law and .. to accelerate and ‘avoid’ scrutiny) happen more and more in other places.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-24T09:24:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/24/microsofts-brazen-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/22/the-ostrom-sessions.html", "content_html": "The Ostrom Sessions are part of a program running at Indiana University - curated and directed by Doc Searls.
\nThey haven’t all been the best, though the speakers have always been ‘real names’. The video is the latest with guest Jeff Jarvis. This one was good.
\nEnjoy.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-22T08:33:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/22/the-ostrom-sessions.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/21/a-truly-excellent.html", "title": "🎈080/366", "content_html": "A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.
\n📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.
\n
The Atlantic explains why ‘🔗 It’s a canned-water company now worth $1.4 billion - of Course America Fell for Liquid Death’
\n(See of it is behind a paywall - but Apple users can read it in full 🔗 here)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-19T08:56:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/19/the-atlantic-explains.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/16/why-is-england.html", "content_html": "You can think of Liquid Death as the apotheosis of meta-advertising. It doesn’t just say Forget the product for a moment while you watch this ad. It dispenses with the product entirely. The advertisement is the product. What Liquid Death is selling is not so much purified water as purified marketing, marketing that has shed its product—the soul without the body.
\n
🎈075/366
\n🔗 📼 Why is England called England?
\n.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
\n
🎈070/366
\n🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)
\nEllison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.
\n
Wondering about 🔗 Pabbly - what do you all think?
\nIt’s an IFTTT / Zapier thing »>
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-09T15:07:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/09/wondering-about-pabbly.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/29/why-is-england.html", "content_html": "🔗 📼 Why is England called England?youtube.com/watch)
\n.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-29T22:40:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/29/why-is-england.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/29/salesforces-marc-benioff.html", "content_html": "🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)
\nEllison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-29T22:33:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/29/salesforces-marc-benioff.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/21/amazon-and-spacex.html", "content_html": "🔗 Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law.
\n… because of course they are.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-21T18:53:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/21/amazon-and-spacex.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/20/if-you-are.html", "content_html": "If you are watching closely you will know that my 366 project is pretty messed up right now. Just a little bit too much going on - so laying out breadcrumb markers that I will be revisiting slowly but surely.
\n\nA WIP - but had to share a 13 second video of some lads on the beach taken with an iPhone from a long long way-a-way.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-20T17:40:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/20/if-you-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/09/all-change-more.html", "title": "All Change? More Of The Same?", "content_html": "Life can move slowly.
\nBut then it doesn’t.
\nCase in point …. or is it?
🔗 Me on LinkedIN 12th December 2023
\nResignation 14 December 2023
\n🔗 Business Desk Reporting 19th December 2023
\nGood result?
\nIt’s a start.
\n
Then we learn that the new chair is Jenifer Kerr - wait, she’s the chair of NZTE.
\nIndeed she is.
\nWe now have one person chairing NZTE and Callaghan - thought the profiles are slightly different. (I wonder why?)
\n\n\nJennifer has extensive governance experience, both in New Zealand and overseas. Her current positions include chair of Worksfe, deputy chair of Callaghan Innovation, a director of Eke Panuku Development Auckland and Waipa Networks, and member of New Zealand Police’s Audit and Risk Committee. Former governance roles include director of New Zealand Rugby and Counties Manukau Rugby Union.\nPreviously, Jennifer has been general manager of customers, people and environment at Transpower, former group director of human resources and health and safety at Fonterra, and group manager of human resources for Mobil Oil for all of Europe. She has run her own consultancy and has strong experience in organisational strategy, chief executive recruitment and succession, executive remuneration and stakeholder relationships.\nJennifer is a member of Global Women and has degrees in arts and social sciences from the University of Waikato. She is of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama descent.
\n
\n\nJennifer Kerr has extensive international experience in the HR and health, safety and wellbeing sectors in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She was formerly General Manager of Customers, People and Environment at Transpower and Group Director Human Resources and Health & Safety at Fonterra. She has also operated her own consultancy business, and prior to that was the Group Manager of Human Resources for Mobil Oil for all of Europe.\nJennifer has governance experience in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, including pension plan trustee roles in both countries. Jennifer is a member of New Zealand Global Women and has taken an active role during her career in mentoring and coaching other women to achieve their potential. She is of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama descent.
\n
One observation - nowhere in either of those bios is there a mention of anything to do with ‘RandD’, ‘Innovation’ ‘Tech’ and all the various off shoots and things that those two orgizations are there for. I guess it is clear what the focus is.
\nAnd maybe something else ..
\n
Ever since I arrived in NZ I have been amazed by the sheer number of governmental organizations that float around the country ‘doing’ ‘things’. It’s a country of 5 million people. These are the organizations I have identified so far that brave entrepreneurs navigate for help.
\n… not to mention the ‘chambers’ and ‘ema’ and ‘business nz’ and ‘eda’s’ and ‘incubators’ and ‘accelerators’ and … (thankyou Andy)
\nHere’s the question - as the new administration start implementing their plan - how many closures and/or mergers should we expect?
\nWhat do you think?
\nAnd is Callaghan and NZTE first?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-08T23:38:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/09/all-change-more.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Posts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/anyone-explored-beepercom.html", "content_html": "Anyone explored 🔗 beeper.com ?
\nIs it in use anywhere - or is it just a giant wait list?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T11:45:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/anyone-explored-beepercom.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/06/serendipity.html", "title": "🎈037/366 | 🔁 Serendipity", "content_html": "![\"Serendipity\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5bd6c8700e.jpg\")
Is it catching❓Or is it just plain old serendipity❓
\nIt was January 1st when I had the idea for the 366 series. It wasn’t fully formed, but I had to start. And, as the posts started to happen over the next few days, there were different ideas and formats running around in my head and being tried out. With the layouts, every time I locked down on a new one - I went back to the older 366 posts and adjusted. (Not the post itself - the layout.) I have never been diagnosed with OCD, but I have my suspicions.
\nIt has now all settled down, a flow has been building, so much so that I have topics in my head that are maybe a week out.
\nThe trouble is that some of the topics are big, and I know I don’t have time on that day and some get really big so have to flag with 🚧 - my signal that I will be coming back.
\n🖇️ Like this one for example, which I flagged with the emoji - but I know there is so much more to say that I even added words for more context.
\nI happen to share 366 posts into specific, yet different communities to solicit feedback. 🖇️ This one for example, has spawned comments applying the thinking to a game, which then moved on to applying that game to corporate workshops. Which is just brilliant really. No idea if any of that will take off - we will have to see .. I just like the idea that
\n… and that’s where we have got to so far. In amongst all of that I have some actions I need to do to close some loops - but it’s all because of the serendipity of the different people coming together in this chain of thinking. #Awesome
\nBut - and here’s the weird part … this wasn’t the serendipitous event that I was referencing when I first ideated the theme of this post. Not at all.
\nThe thread started as a simple idea that as I came up with this project - so too did Om, who I follow and read anyway - but within his ‘river’, he has a sub-theme called 🔗 Project 36
\nI don’t really follow his photos (though they are really rather good), and I became aware of it because of 🔗this post on his blog, which ends with these words …
\n![\"As](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f24cad093b.jpg\")
They really resonated with me. ()Om often does) and on the 3rd🖇️ January I linked to his New Years message because those words there in my mind right at that point because just three days in I was already feeling the enormity of what I had challenged myself to deliver, daily.
\nI also have a couple of posts in the 366 series that are very short - to maintain the flow - but they don’t take much time. Like🖇️ this one from the 28th January - it’s a quick photo!
\nBut there’s more. fellow MicroBlogger 🔗 TeeJay seems to have also latched on to the one a day post. In his case - every single day he is putting a lovely image that he takes on that day.
\nTurns out - for him it is not a new idea. 🔗As his new year post points out. and now his daily photo comes into my RSS feed each and every day - reminding me to stay the course.
\nAnd to tie it all back. This whole post was one of those quick throwaways. I had the idea for a ‘serendipity’ post when I had seen Om and Teejay - it was up my sleeve to write it when I was short of time. Like today.
\nThe observant amongst you will have spotted that an ‘eye candy’ image accompanies every post. In this case, I wrote my two lines and hopped over to Leonardo to generate my image.
\nThis was the first image to come out …
\n![\"Earlier](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/df32bfb940.jpg\")
Seriously? Cubes? After just writing a a long post that featured a cube. Is Leonardo watching me? Of course I had to connect those dots and unpack that serendipity.
\nAnd with that … done. Time to post. A quick check reveals the word count to be roughly 100 times my original target. I know I am hitting the send button with the post not fully proofed, which is why 🚧 is at the top.
\nI will come back later to make whatever inevitable fixes I will need to do. For now though … I feel I have rambled to the end of this garden path and I can sense it has come around full circle back to where it all started.
\nIf you are still with me. Thankyou for seeing it through.
\n
💬
\nI really don’t like ‘PM’ - so I take great delight from reading pieces like this. Robert Hutton is seriously funny and yet its true.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-1902.png\")
If you want to read the whole thing - 🖇️ I Put it up on Readwise - and you can speed read my highlights - some real zingers.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-06T16:46:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/06/i-really-dont.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/06/no-action-except.html", "content_html": "Some people respond to me with musical references.
\nI do it. A lot. In reverse? Not so much.
\nThis is an example of someone who has done it a few times. ❤️
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/afea85e019.png\")
So, may I introduce you to - no, not ‘Billy Shears’.
\nElvis.
\nNo, not that Elvis.
\nThis Elvis.
\n🔗 🎵 📼 Elvis Costello Performance
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-06T11:48:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/06/no-action-except.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/04/just-added-limitarianism.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781662601842/cover.jpg\")
\nJust added 🔗 Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns to my ‘To Read’ 📚 list.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-04T19:18:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/04/just-added-limitarianism.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/04/tldr-vlmr.html", "title": "🎈035/366 | 🧊 TL;DR | VL;MR", "content_html": "![\"a](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/0a52432349.jpg\")
🚧
\nOut in the wild - and really - these days what else would you call ‘LinkedIN’, I 🔗 read a post by 🔗 Tim Parsons that had garnered a few comments. It was touching on a pet peeve of mine, despite TL;DR being a technique I use from time to time.
\nThis was the essence;
\n\n\nSometimes it just can’t be any shorter and still be useful. Some lynchpin bit of data or context would have to be sacrificed, a risk go unnamed, a requirement remain unidentified.
\n
\nSometimes information exchange has to include all the information AND the meta data it needs to build a bridge from you to me.
\nSometimes “Too Long; Didn’t Read” is a terrible risk/reward proposition, and you have to go all the way to “Very Long; Must Read.”
\nWhen everything extra has been distilled out, but there’s still a lot there, that’s a sign of something complex enough to be fascinating, or at least full of critical, decision-influencing intel.
He ended his post with a reference back to the source.
\n\n\nI remember 🔗 Marjorie Anderson activating that thought in my head weeks ago, and now it won’t leave.
\n
This resonated ….
\n\n\nSometimes TL;DR simply must yield to VL;MR
\n
Which got me to thinking.
\nYou know how I am with that word … ‘content’.
\nTo remind from one of many posts on the topic - just on this blog ….
\n\n\nAs long as ‘we the creators’ keep 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’, ‘homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’ (which coincidentally is what silos have always been used for), then, we only have ourselves to blame as the resultant payment for our art, our thinking and our ideas, will continue to race to the bottom.
\n
And whilst on the topic of silos ….
\n\n\nYou should never … ever … trust a Silo. It’s theirs. The stuff you put there is theirs. Even our' handle is actually ‘theirs’.
\n
All this and more can be found in an earlier post here : 🖇️ Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Content
\nAnd it is not just me …
\nJust today
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d74ba293da.png\")
and last year .. Dana Carvey and Will Arnett brought it up (listen it’s a one minute snipped) on the Smartless podcast.
\nAnyway, with that all said … ‘set up’ done … ✅
\nIt struck me that ‘TL;DR | VL;MR’ is the second axis I have been looking for in my one man war on ‘content’. So I drew the picture.
\n‘content | material ' on the x axis and ‘TL;DR | VL;MR’ on the y axis - and I was left with ‘Yeah .. so what?
\nThe ‘so what’ was because I realized that it was missing the third axis …‘Entertainment | Understanding’
\nThe fact is that so much that is running around the ‘interwebs’ is ‘Entertainment’. Nothing wrong with that, but VL;MR is really about Understanding.
\nMoreover, the front facing 4 quadrants are all about ‘Entertainment | Understanding’ and TL;DR | VL;MR - not ‘Content | Material’
\nSo I drew it again.
\n![\"a](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/af86c5d388.jpg\")
The coloration isn’t quite right for all occasions, but in this particular context
\nBut generally that is not the case, because what triggered me is that context and history and space and time and .. is needed to really bottom out ‘Understanding’
\nSo far so good?
\nI added the third dimension.
\n![\"a](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9908723c18.jpg\")
And we are there … nearly.
\nThe dimensions are right - but the colors remain at odds with my thinking. I have the image in my head plus the colors need to be fading from one color to the next - depending on the context. I am not a graphic artist … and I could draw what I am thinking … eventually … and maybe I will return to complete / correct this.
\nBut before I do that. Make sense? See where I am coming from?
\n
Gorgeous. Totally gorgeous. Welling with tears.
\nIn the spirit of John Cooper Clarke and Simon Armitage.
\n\nYou’ll be hearing more about them soon as part of a larger initiative I am working on.
\nOh - and if you like Orbital - you might also enjoy 🎵 📼 🔗 this
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-03T13:33:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/03/orbital-gorgeous-totally.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/03/on-a-business.html", "content_html": "On a business call this morning, we took a sidetrack down the path of ‘the problem with flying’. Flanders and Swann were mentioned - and specifically the ‘bit’ they did about excess baggage. I know their stuff - this one didn’t ring a bell.
\n\n😂 Fell on the floor laughing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-03T10:23:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/03/on-a-business.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/bob-nails-it.html", "content_html": "\nLefsetz and Gioia have deep music backgrounds, but I often find that their writing about other things often resonates with me far more than the people that should be pointing things like this out.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/fa4d475fea.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-02-02T13:53:52+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/bob-nails-it.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/how-very-very.html",
"content_html": "\nJoy killers.
\n(Gaping Void on LinkedIN)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6efdfcf470.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-02-02T13:42:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/how-very-very.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/my-substack-went.html",
"content_html": "My Substack went a little bit quiet in 2023. For good reasons IMHO.
\nI am firing it up again. If you want to take a read 🔗 you can.
\nIt’s a little bit more personal than usual - which I have been told is a good thing. If you vlick through - hope you like.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:26:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/my-substack-went.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/and-the-winner.html", "title": "🎈033/366 | 🥇 And The Winner Is …", "content_html": "![\"and](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5a9b78de79.jpg\")
This 366 project is officially one month in, so I thought I’d take a look at how we are doing on the ‘view’ front .. I won’t use ‘read’ (no assumptions here 😀).. so, without further ado, and for your delectation, coming in at Number 5 …
\n5 : 🖇️ 013/366 ⌨️ Typewriters .. and more.
\nAnd so on down the line …
\n4 : 🖇️ 026/366 | 🆔 The ‘entity’ in Identity.
\n3 : 🖇️ 004/366 | 🏢 Demonstrating The Pace Layer).
\n2 : 🖇️ 003/366 | 💬 A New Purpose.
\nAnd the winner - at least for this month, coming in at number …
\n1 : 🖇️ 002/366 | ♟️ Is There Planning In Strategy❓
\nNumbers 1, 2 and 3 are respectively the 2nd, 3rd and 4th posts in the series, so not surprised.
\nI am surprised at the 26th post coming as high as 4th, after all, It only had 5 days to get there.
\nBy the time you get down to Number 5 - well, it’s a topic that resonates, and had a full half month to ‘move on up’, so once again, no real surprise.
\nI will run the numbers again next month, for February - and again for January - and will also provide a ‘year to date’. Be interesting to see the comparisons. (BTW, I am specifically running the data between specific dates - in this case for example Jan 1 to Jan 31 - not just ‘last month’.)
\nI am also interested to see if this posts gives a jump on these particular posts, so I will check the data in 7 days.
\nThat’s all for now - except to say, my many thanks to 🔗 Vincent who wrote and maintains the 🔗 tinylytics app that in turn produces the data I need to write this email. Couldn’t do without it.
\n
![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f17ee05fff.jpg\")
So it is out in wild and the reviews are in … and this is not another ‘one of those’.
\n‘My man’ Om 🔗 also posted about Vision Pro - he himself also highlighting that his post was not one of those. A big difference between us (as if there were just a few - there are not - there are many) is that he has actually tried one out! So there is that.
\nIn his post he talked about 4 magic moments on day one of owning his new toy. This is the fourth on the list.
\n\n\nMy last magic moment came when the Vision Pro became what I have always wanted — the future of television (and video.) A screen like none before. I opened up the Apple TV app, and picked an immersive video film of highliner Faith Dickey.\nI watched Dickey walk across a highline across the cliffs of Norway, but I felt as if I was there. It was so breathtaking — and in that moment, I thought maybe someday this is how all movies, televisions, and even home videos are going to be made for all to experience them live.
\n
And it got me to thinking about that last sentence (that is my bold in the quote that you see).
\nChristopher Nolan famously produces movies for iMax first Sure, you can watch them in other spaces … but the real experience can only be found on iMax - and not any old iMax .. the best iMax.
\nObvious question … how long before the first movie is made that is ’tuned’ for ‘Vision Pro first’?
\nTo clarify … (‘this new movie’ will be to ‘Vision Pro’ as as ‘Oppenheimer’ is to ‘iMax’)
\n1] ’Such a’ movie will be released in 2025. Maybe early 2026.
\n- (Confidence 70 to 80%)
\n2] It won’t be a GREAT movie - like Oppenheimer. The timeline for that? 2030.
\n- (Confidence 25% - 75% lots of variable in this one - because ‘Great’ is hard to calibrate AND also the demand needs to connect to there being sufficient headsets out there for the story of success to work.)
\n3] It will be financed by Apple.
\n- (Confidence 100%. Because it is totally in their interests and are already funding movies and can give the makers a LOT of help well beyond dollaroos.)
What do you think?
\n
🔗 People that know Fripp talking about Fripp and the King Crimson Movie
\nThese kind of comments add up to so much more than a lot of rubbish you read from people that only have opinion.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-01T09:03:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/people-that-know.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/01/as-i-wrote.html", "content_html": "\n🔗 Pakistani military use age-old tactics to keep Imran Khan away from election.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-01T09:02:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/as-i-wrote.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/31/elon-musks-bn.html", "content_html": "Any pretence of due judicial process being followed was abandoned entirely at both cases where Khan was sentenced this week. Instead of an open courtroom, the trials were conducted inside the jail where Khan is being detained and his lawyers were not allowed to choose or cross-examine any witnesses.
\n
🔗Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules.
\nA line in the sand has been drawn.
\nThat said - not quite where the 🖇️‘limitareanists think it should be drawn.
\nBut it is a start.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T12:24:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/elon-musks-bn.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/listening-to-ingrid.html", "content_html": "Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.
\nFinished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.
\nListen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T11:40:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/listening-to-ingrid.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/fossil-is-quitting.html", "content_html": "🔗 Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches
\nWait, What?
\nIf they quit Smartwatches - don’t they just stop doing business?
\n\nTIL that Fossil offer a vast range of fashion accessories that I knew nothing about.
\nNext question.
\nI noticed this
\n![\"Fossil](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e4c5aa7f37.jpg\")
… which got me to thinking. Do Fossil need that partnership any longer now that Mickey is out of copyright? Wouldn’t they make more money?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T10:01:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/fossil-is-quitting.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/where-logos-meet.html", "content_html": "🔗 Where Logos Meet Album Covers: Designer Ivan Chermayeff
\nIts a Substack about a designer of iconic logos that turned his hand to (not so iconic) album covers.
\nI like some of them - but probably not iconic because the artists of the albums aren’t as big as the corporates either the logos.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T08:20:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/where-logos-meet.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/man-who-stole.html", "content_html": "🔗 Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (Apple News)
\nIf it is 5 years for this and 4 months for Navarro;
\n1] are the punishments commensurate?
\n2] If so what the likely total sentence time will be for the Orange clown?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T08:19:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/man-who-stole.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/30/just-a-few.html", "title": "🎈030/366 | 🔗 Just A ‘Few’ Links", "content_html": "![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a362c5c901.jpg\")
Still battling with my ‘in process’ (I am being generous) archive that 🖇️ I referenced here. Tucked away I had literally hundreds of links - some of which I have no clue why I saved them to drafts - rather than 🔗 Raindrop (a far more logical place). This is a random election from said list. Trust me - you don’t want the whole thing!
\n
🔗 Still struggling with emojis on my site - (The link takes you to a quick conversation with ChatGPT).
\nMost of them render correctly - but odd ones don’t … like this one for example : ❓
\nIn my book that should be red?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-29T11:16:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/still-struggling-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? AI Expts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/the-true-blue.html", "content_html": "🔗 The True Blue Ocean – ProjectVRM (2020 - I know - another old one!)
\n\n\nTo understand the problem here, it helps to hear marketing talk to itself. Customers, it says, are targets to herd on a journey into a funnel through which they are acquired, managed, controlled and locked in.
\n
This is the language of ranching and slavery. Not a way to talk about human beings.
\nFour years later nothing has changed.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-29T10:42:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/the-true-blue.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/is-honesty-the.html", "title": "🎈029/366 | 🎙️ Is Honesty The Best Policy❓", "content_html": "![\"You](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/11a81b67cb.jpg\")
Don’t worry - this isn’t what you think it is.
\nIf you are married or single, a writer or manager, paid for what you do or just for the love, delivered or received feedback, good or bad this is worth every minute of the 11 minutes and 44 seconds it will take you to listen to it.
\n\nI think this is my absolutely favorite podcast.
\nW H A T - I S - N O T - T O - L O V E ❓
\n
Another old note, that deserves to see the light of day. I have 🖇️ written before on my position (a fan - not a fanboy), still …
\nThe Masses:
\n“Apple hasn’t produced anything new since the iPhone.”
\nBut surely: …
\nThe Masses:
\n“Yeah yeah yeah … but nothing like the iPhone. Nothing innovative.”
\nApple … hold by beer.
\nBehold, not just a new product, a new category that we call ‘Spatial Computing’, to give you an idea of what we mean.
\nThe Masses:
\n“Yeah - that sucks it is going to fail.”
\nA couple of links.
\n🔗 Isn’t That Spatial? | No Mercy / No Malice
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-29T10:09:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/sometimes-there-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/this-is-about.html", "content_html": "This is about ‘that’ Andreesen post/ But first … context, because I know - life has moved on.
\nI am in the process of trying to catch up on a massive backlog of notes that I am steadily
\nNot sure if this will end up taking longer than the 🖇️ category deletion. We will see.
\nThis one is in the third category. The news has been and gone now - but my opinion hasn’t changed.
\nSome of you might have stumbled across Andreesen’s Substack :
\n\nTL;DR .. who cares.
\nDespite what he wrote, he’s wrong … not least of which being that word ‘world’ .. it will be fine - regardless of what Marc thinks. People? Yeah - that’s different. Anyway …
\nWhat you might NOT have stumbled across are these;
\n🔗 Alan Jacobs (pdf)
\n🔗 Wired : Marc Andreessen is (mostly) Wrong this time
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-29T10:01:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/this-is-about.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/just-read-that.html", "content_html": "Just read that …
\nHilton, together with 🔗 11:11 (Paris Hilton’s agency) launched a Roblox experience where players can earn 🔗 real-world travel rewards
\n.. and in all honesty I really do not care, except to say that in case you ever have any doubt … it really is a case of it’s not what you know - but who you know.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-29T09:16:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/just-read-that.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/i-just-worked.html", "content_html": "I just worked out how to add captions to my images on my blog like🖇️ here for example.
\nI adjusted my TextExpander template for future 🖇️ 🔎 366 posts.
\nI need to decide if I should go back and fix all the posts published in 366 thus far?
\nWhat’s the name of that psychological problem again?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T11:02:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/i-just-worked.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/just-a-picture.html", "title": "🎈028/366 | 📸 Just A Picture", "content_html": "![\"Just](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/7920ee6863.jpg\")
Because somedays 🖇️ Ain’t Nobody Got Time For ‘Dis’. Sorry.
\n
📺 Fool Me Once
\nI have watched a lot of the Harlan Coban mini series on Netflix. The early ones used to be really good … and then somehow I think the way was lost. This latest, while not the best, certainly represents a turning of the order for ‘good story’.
\nThat said .. final episode .. last 5 minutes? Yeah … No. Totally unnecessary.
\nFool Me Once on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
![\"ShowNameBanner\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/02177be8b3.jpg\")
That’s how long I have been thinking about writing a newsletter around this thought (surviving that is).
\nI really should extract the digit!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T08:51:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/me-from-thats.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/posts-i-need.html", "content_html": "🖇️ 🚧 🔍 Posts I Need To Revisit
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T08:48:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/posts-i-need.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/private-public-letters.html", "content_html": "🔗 Private Public Letters - I am guessing that it is fully subscribed?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T08:45:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/private-public-letters.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/netflix-has-the.html", "content_html": "🎬 🔗 Netflix Has The Best Assassin Movie of 2024 — Why Is It Being Buried? (Apple News)
\nNever heard of it. But then it isn’t coming out until June. Added to my list for sure. But why is it being ‘buried’? Well first we have to ask is it being buried? I am not sure it is?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T23:17:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/netflix-has-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/27/matt-gaetz-reveals.html", "content_html": "🔗 Matt Gaetz Reveals Narcissistic Reason He Pushed Out Kevin McCarthy (🍏 News) - one day they will nail him. Funny how little old George was cast out so ‘quickly’ (life is rrelative) - and yet this predator has been hanging out in the hallowed halls for years.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T18:17:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/27/matt-gaetz-reveals.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/27/microsoft-lays-off.html", "content_html": "🔗 Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
\n\n\nMicrosoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts.
\n
Sometimes you forget how sprawling companies like Microsoft are. With 1900 gone - there are still over 20,000 left.
\nAnd that’s just the ‘gaming’ bit.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T18:08:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/27/microsoft-lays-off.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/26/propublica-hires-first.html", "content_html": "🔗 ProPublica Hires First Senior Director for Technology
\nAwesome. So many congratulations @werd
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-26T14:49:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/26/propublica-hires-first.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/25/do-not-put.html", "title": "🎈025/366 | 🐫 Do Not Put ‘Product’ In Charge", "content_html": "![\"Do](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5b9c40685b.jpg\")
Don’t get me wrong. I have a lot of time and respect for 🖇️ Dana Blankenhorn - as you can see … so this one caught my attention
\n\n\nThere’s a single rule I’ve learned studying technology this last half century.\nProduct must be in charge.
\n
.. and 🔗then he goes on
\nI totally disagree, so had to comment and did. Reproduced here for posterity
\nI don’t disagree on taking the finance wonks out .. but not sure I agree on putting product in … I know lots of companies that lead with product .. and it doesn’t work unless there is wider purview which is often missing in product thinking. Our friends in Cupertino don’t lead with product .. though many pundits think they do .. they lead with vision, experience and story that the product delivers against.
\nThe ‘top’ needs to be market, future market, visionary oriented. Disciplines that used to fall under marketing … though sadly not anymore .. as they are all chasing data and models and RoI .. but those people exist. In all of those disciplines. The dude at the top can still be a focussed finance wonk … their ancillary skill (beyond those three core requirements) is to listen to everyone, take advice and pay attention.
\nAgain .. the man at the top of Cupertino is ‘operations and supply chain’ ( by history ) but to the casual observer, that isn’t so obvious. Meanwhile, the man before him was vision and experience and story .. sure he definitely had a say in product … but from an holistic viewpoint -
\nJust one slice of the holisticism (is that even a word)… how many ‘product’ people get what good design can do.
\nIf they do .. I mean REALLY do .. why are there so many badly designed, poorly performing products out there?
\nPostscript - sometimes the Leonardo images take a few tweaks to get even close to my underlying message - but in this case - third go - and was only generating 1 image at a time. Sometimes I run out of the 150 free credits that I get every day - and have to choose from a bad lot.
\nThis image just spoke volumes to me as ‘the house that ‘product’ built.
\nFunnily enough - today’s emoji was also absolutely clear.
\n
🔗 Jon Stewart to return to The Daily Show through 2024 US election season.
\nOH!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-25T12:13:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/25/jon-stewart-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/25/donald-trump-wins.html", "content_html": "🔗 Donald Trump wins Republican primary in New Hampshire
\n\n\nHe is representing the American people. He is not out for himself. He’s not out for political gain. He’s not out for financial reasons. He doesn’t need money, he doesn’t need fame and fortune. He already has all of that.
\n
💬 Tina Lorenzo, 63, a Trump supporter since 2016
\nNo comment … you know 🖇️ my position
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-25T12:13:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/25/donald-trump-wins.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/24/tims-job-is.html", "title": "🎈024/366 | 🍏 Tim’s Job Is Safe", "content_html": "![\"Tim’s](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9efedc0dcf.jpg\")
🖇️ This fine piece of writing dates back to June 2016. What? 7 1/2 years ago?
\nIt popped up yesterday when I was searching my site for something else. A few things dawned on me, not least of which … whatever happened to Scoble? Not that I care.
\nDon’t get me wrong. I am sure he is bouncing around somewhere - I just don’t track him. I am guessing that at some point in time I just closed him out of my mind, because he more often than not wrote rubbish.
\nThat certainly seemed to be my opinion .. what? 7 1/2 years ago! 😃
\nThat all said, posting this as an early (quasi) ‘claim chowder’ (tip o' the hat to @gruber) entry. I didn’t believe him (Scoble) then - and said so - and though the jury is strictly still out - I am firmly in the camp that the vision pro IS the next big thing and more importantly that it is because of ‘Tim Apple’ - not despite him. In short - I don’t think Tim needs to worry too much. Certainly not about ‘Bob’.
\n
There’s 📼🎵 something in the air. Anybody else feeling it?
\nIt started happening last week. All good.
\nBut .. not all good apparently 😖
\nI tried to find a post on my site to link to - #FAIL.
\nThis is the message
\n\n\n\n2024-01-23 11:34:07\tError: Error building site: open content/2022/01/01/the-first-message.md: no such file or directory
\n
Gnashing teeth.
\nTalk about a downer!
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-24T12:10:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/24/theres-something-in.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/23/todays-contribution-is.html", "content_html": "
🖇️ Today’s 366 Contribution is different again.
\nContinuing to experiment with both format and material in the 🖇️ 366 posts to see what resonates with others - because they all resonate with me. I mean, why would I bother posting things that don’t?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-23T12:59:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/23/todays-contribution-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/23/highlights-from-yesterday.html", "title": "🎈023/366 | 9️⃣ Highlights From Yesterday", "content_html": "![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d520eafca2.jpg\")
A different theme for today’s 366 … nine links to yesterday’s news - complete with pithy comment - courtesy of this author
\n
1️⃣ 🖇️ Remember my post from a couple of weeks ago?
\nWell, it turns out that though he might have been expecting .. hoping for that … it might not be a slam dunk.
\n🔗 Tories hire coordinator to get expat supporters to vote in general election.
\nWho knew?
\n2️⃣ 🔗 Trump Says He ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test, Mind Is ‘Stronger’ Than 25 Years Ago
\n.. not exactly a high bar.
\n3️⃣ 🔗 Flanders government looks to force TikTok and YouTube to share revenue | Belgium.
\nSome lessons here. Most Governments pay (they don’t use that word … but that is what they are doing) to attract film production.
\nI think this is the right way round.
\n4️⃣ 🔗 Rise in measles cases prompts vaccination campaign in England.
\nOh .. so it’s ok to get vaccinated now?
\n5️⃣ 🔗 The Musical Instruments Market Size Is Expected To Reach $14 Billion By 2027.
\nWonder what constitutes a ‘musical instrument ‘ these days?
\n6️⃣ 🔗 January 21, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
\n![\"Even](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/13b115f361.jpg\")
\n\nI wonder if Dobbs, with its announcement that when Republicans are given power over our legal system they do not consider themselves obligated to recognize an established constitutional right, will turn out to be today’s version of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
\n
No Comment. Yet.
\n7️⃣ 🔗 Thousands of Māori gather to tell New Zealand’s government: you cannot marginalise us.
\nGot to say .. ‘Cristopher (sic) and crew’ were warned.
\n8️⃣ 🔗 DeSantis Might Be the Worst Presidential Candidate in Recent Memory
\nSay what now?
\nIsn’t The Orange Clown a Presidential candidate? Problem nailed .. ‘they’ve forgotten already .. and he is in the fucking race!
\n9️⃣ 🔗 It seems that ‘God sent a quitter’
\n\n\nIf his campaign is remembered at all, it will be for setting fire to a pile of money big enough to be seen from space in order to win a grand total of nine Iowa delegates.
\n
ROTFFLOL
\n
🔗 LIfe Imitating Art? … that is if 🎬 Love Actually counts as ‘art’?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-23T12:30:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/23/life-imitating-art.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/22/thought-id-try.html", "content_html": "Thought I’d try out 🔗 paid tinylytics for a while.
\nSome odd stats there - so now I need to check out what is being checked out!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-22T22:44:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/thought-id-try.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/22/ted-lasso-just.html", "content_html": "📺 Ted Lasso
\nJust marvelous. No point in saying more, since I can’t add to all the other plaudits.
\nTed Lasso on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
![\"ShowNameBanner\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/42c5c65ea2.jpg\")
Steve Winwood and Carlos - and no - I do not know how I missed this 2 to 3 years ago - but missed it I did.
\n\nWell worth recording. Well worth a listen.
\n📼 .. and then a little older. … GROOVIN!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-22T15:01:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/steve-winwood-and.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/ferret-apples-new.html", "content_html": "📼 🔗 Ferret - Apple’s new multi modal AI
\nI found this rather interesting, of course when you think about it - their camera work and car dev will absolutely have given them an edge on understanding images … makes total sense.
\nThen I read…
\n\n\nApple stopped using and supporting NVidia products in 2016, its Ferret model was developed using NVidia’s highly efficient A100 graphics cards. Therefore, the source code available on GitHub does not work on Apple’s products.
\n
🤦🏽
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-21T19:50:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/ferret-apples-new.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/so-heres-an.html", "content_html": "So here’s an odd thing for anyone interested to do with the very excellent ‘Conversation on Micro.blog’ plugin.\n🖇️ This link (2016) works - BUT at the bottom - it reads ‘Also on Micro.blog - and not the usual ‘Conversation on Micro.blog’ like on say 🖇️ this post.
\n‘Also on’ - just takes you to the home page of the blog.
\n‘Conversation on’ - takes you to the actual post.
\nOn closer looking at the plugin I see something that is called a fall back link - which i THINK is new? Certainly newer than my original install - so I am guessing that posts of a certain age and/or posts that were imported (like this one) don’t work.
\nIs that right @sod ?
\nAnything a mere mortal can do to improve this?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-21T19:46:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/so-heres-an.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/in-case-you.html", "content_html": "\nIt’s an Instagram account. Clever ideas brought to life …
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-21T07:33:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/i-am-not.html", "content_html": "I am not a paid subscriber ..so don’t know how this ends, but this is one of the best pre paywall cliff hangers I have ever read ….
\n🔗 Postcard from Sundance… Starting with H'wood Agents at Burbank Airport
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-21T07:21:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/i-am-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/maybe-the-media.html", "title": "Maybe The Media Is Biased?", "content_html": "\n\n\nThe comforting conceit that Donald Trump is an unpleasant yet passing American aberration, often heard during his 2017-21 presidency, is harder to believe than ever after his Iowa caucus landslide victory last week.
\n
Simon .. it wasn’t a landslide. Even the article you linked to doesn’t say ‘landslide’. You of all people should know this .. maybe you should read your own newspaper more …
\n🔗 Iowa caucuses 2024: Republican results in full | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
\nHe won 20 delegates .. and 3 more after the idiot Ramaswamy dropped out. 17 more won by ‘others’.
\nCall that a landslide? Ronald Reagan winning 49 of the 50 states .. THAT’S a landslide. (Tip o’ the hat to Crocodile Dundee.)
\n🔗 Here’s what Iowa’s own newspaper wrote.
\nTL;DR 15% of registered republicans actually voted. Around 110 thousand out of 3.2 million people.
\nIt really does seem that we have a biased media .. but not like the Rethuglicans think.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-21T07:04:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/maybe-the-media.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/21/the-seven-laws.html", "title": "🎈021/366 👮🏼♂️ The Seven Laws of Identity", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f3fa5ba52b.jpg\")
I was listening to 🎙️this podcast and of course duly reminded of Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity, so replaying here for posterity. You can 🔗 read a quick summary here.
\n\n\nLaw 1: User control and consent
\n
\nTechnical identity systems must only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent
\nLaw 2: Minimum disclosure for a constrained use
\nThe solution which discloses the least amount of identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable long-term solution
\nLaw 3: Justifiable Parties
\nDigital identity systems must be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship
\nLaw 4: Directed Identity
\nA universal identity system must support both “omni-directional” identifiers for use by public entities and “unidirectional” identifiers for use by private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles
\nLaw 5: Pluralism of Operators and Technologies
\nA universal identity system must channel and enable the inter-working of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers
\nLaw 6: Human Integration
\nThe universal identity metasystem must define the human user to be a component of the distributed system integrated through unambiguous human-machine communication mechanisms offering protection against identity attacks
\nLaw 7: Consistent Experience Across Contexts
\nThe unifying identity metasystem must guarantee its users a simple, consistent experience while enabling separation of contexts through multiple operators and technologies
Down here in sunny New Zealand, I have been helping a local man with his identity solution. More on that in due course - because - guess what - its pretty much ‘tops’ .. and expression I learned last night which is the antonym of ‘pants’ … but I digress.
\nIt turns out his system hits all seven laws - and that’s just how it worked out, to because he designed to them. This gives me even more confidence that we are on to something. It would be kinda like building a robot and then realizing it is ‘Asimov compliant’.
\n
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-20T16:46:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/last-week-thomassmith.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/20/future-vision.html", "title": "🎈020/366 | 🔮 Future Vision", "content_html": "Last week, Thomas-Smith and his male cofounders abandoned their original concept of “the Tinder of subletting” to launch a “girls only club” called Girls Who NYC in New York.
\n
![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/3fdf8e2663.jpg\")
Over the holidays, down in Wellington, I somehow constantly found myself in conversations about ‘local politics’ … council, city, region … and dare I even say national? (On a global scale ’national thinking’ for a small country like New Zealand is still ‘local’.) No need to talk about the topics discussed - the usual, but my recurring observation that was never rejected is that long term planning anywhere for housing, climate change, infrastructure, EV cars, bike lanes … you name it .. is never that long term because the elected officials - even if they had the vision .. and often they don’t’ (but that is a different story) - don’t think beyond their election cycle.
\nAs a result it is a brave group of politicians that put in place 25 to 30 year plans for anything … much less real long term!
\nEnter 🔗 The Ministry for the Future - New Ideas From Ancient Wisdom. - with my highlights and annotations on Readwise. It’s not quite the same idea and far more ‘financially technical’ than I might ever hope to completely understand - much less explain - but it is all connected and makes for a fascinating - if technical - read.
\n\n\nUnless you’re a policy wonk or a certain kind of federal contractor, you can be forgiven for not knowing what the discount rate is.
\n
BUT - so you know …
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/c9d202e6-3588-433d-bd5b-d75082e3ac86-4-5005-c.png\")
Seperately …
\n📼 A Long Now talk from Kim Stanley Robinson : Climate Futures: Beyond 02022 (referenced in the article, not yet watched - but is now in my queue). Also, that 02022 is not a typo - it’s a ‘Long Now’ year. I like them just from that simple switch in thinking. It positions us in time very differently to 2022. (Not sure if it is also unseen inspiration behind the numbering system of my series for 2024.)
\n‘nuff said for now. Suffice to say, I am going to do some further exploring around the ‘social discount rate’. This bear hadn’t stumbled across it previously - but it seems to be an excellent way of thinking about a reason why ‘our’ policies are so broken.
\n
Can’t recall if I have shared the 🔗 Gurwinder Principles before, so belt and braces - using my annotated / high-lit Readwise link.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-20T15:08:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/cant-recall-if.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/20/well-now-maybe.html", "content_html": "🔗 Well now - maybe I am reading in the wrong places - but surprised I am not seeing more about this … annotated Readwise link.
\nTL;DR - Apple has changed how podcast downloads are being measured and that means a lot of some of the bigger numbers out there are no longer that big.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-20T12:43:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/well-now-maybe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/20/we-really-dont.html", "content_html": "🔗 We Really Don’t Have to ‘Understand’ Trump Voters Anymore
\nAgreed.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-20T12:24:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/we-really-dont.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/20/three-different-links.html", "content_html": "Three different links from three different sources covering 🎵 and the future thereof.
\nTL;DR … It’s not looking good.
\n🔗 The death of package fees, consolidation and layoffs have sharks swimming away in record numbers into management. - The Ankler
\n🔗 How platforms killed Pitchfork? - Casey Newton
\n🔗 Why is music journalism collapsing? - Ted Gioia
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-20T10:00:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/three-different-links.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/19/yesterdays-post-about.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Yesterday’s ‘366’ post about the future was societal in nature..
\n🖇️ Today’s retains the ‘future theme’, but is more personal..
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-19T10:49:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/19/yesterdays-post-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/18/a-better-future.html", "title": "🎈018/366 | 🔮 A Better Future", "content_html": "![\"democracy](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a18fa40646.jpg\")
A short one today because the 🔗 📼 Biden video speaks for itself.
\nFor me? One of the best, passionate most comprehensive campaign speeches I have ever heard. In fact, the qualifier ‘campaign’ is probably unnecessary.
\n
🔗 Trump Judge Spanks Ron DeSantis for Retaliating Against a Democratic Rival
\nI bet he enjoyed it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-17T18:19:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/17/trump-judge-spanks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/17/both-sides-now.html", "title": "🎈017/366 | 🪙 Both Sides Now", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/4162019a90.jpg\")
No. Not the song.
\nI don’t blame you if you haven’t been keeping up with ‘SubstackGate’. I have .. so you don’t have to … you are welcome.
\nBottom line .. Fascism, Nazis, Support, Deplatform … you get the picture.
\n![\"quote\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5bf7dab03c.png\")
![\"quote\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/64420b15d3.png\")
My Thoughts?
\nI am on Substack and read some bit of it each and every day. Never seen a single piece by a Nazi. Never been recommended to go visit a Nazi. The fact is that they are always going to be somewhere - even in real life. On the blogging / newsletter side of the platform - I don’t see the issue - BUT - on the social side of it - yes - it COULD - and when / if I do - I will reconsider - but for now … kinda like Bernard wrote up there.
\n
The WIP emojis on my ‘366’ postings have been removed and we are up to date and back on track.
\nJust been checking my tinylytics data, they seem to be catching attention.
\nTrying to work out why some do - and some don’t.
\n[🖇️ The archive so far](john.philpin.com/categorie…
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-16T16:11:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/16/the-wip-emojis.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/14/the-gamekeeper-is.html", "title": "🎈014/366 | 💩 The Gamekeeper Is The Poacher", "content_html": "![\"a](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/fa3735ad40.jpg\")
An excellent show from the mighty John Oliver taking on McKinsey in this one. You know … the company that advised Purdue on how to sell more Oxy. Spin through to 15:50 … to hear this one.
\n\n\nMr. Sternfels they didn’t have experience - they were the identical humans working for both at the same time.
\n
💬 Katie Porter
\n\nCleaning out the swamp, stopping the revolving door of public service and corporate interest … it really doesn’t matter what you call it - what is clear that the swamp / cesspool / revolving doors are very much alive and well - no matter what anyone claims.
\n
![\"a](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a073d5d2b5.jpg\")
A quite lovely story which I have chosen to share through my Readwise account, so you can speed through my highlights if you so wish.
\nAlternatively, 🔗 this is the original New Yorker article, written by Ann Patchett.
\nIt’s from 2021, it’s mainly about removing clutter from your life, but sharing it here because of the ending which focuses on the typewriters in her life, and thought this was quite beautiful.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/15fea1adef.png\")
.. and beyond beauty …
\n\n\nAfter he died, Tavia found two laminated cards.
\n
‘He’, being Kent, ‘Tavia’s father’, who had seemingly continually transformed his life, leaving behind a veritable museum of artifacts .. and yet these two laminated cards tell the entire story.
\nI don’t know .. it just stopped me in my tracks.
\n
![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/69978f5225.jpg\")
It’s true. My ‘under the rock’ habitat continues into 2024.
\nI asked a six year old yesterday if he liked music … yes … so what’s your favorite song?
\n\nI hadn’t heard of DNCE - but liked this one enough to poke around … wait … it’s Joe Jonas?
\nPersonally, never a big fan of the Jonas brothers - but adding this to my list of (two so far) singers that switched me. The other one is Harry Styles (never a big fan of One Direction).
\n
![\"Future](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/3edb0db61e.jpg\")
A couple of click throughs in this morning’s review triggered this post.
\nIt started here … 🔗 Substack Barely Does The Bare Minimum
\nwhich linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: Make the indie web easier
\nwhich then linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: More on the easier indie web
\nA few links to interesting places that are about the indie web - but with an undercurrent of something that I have been banging on about forEVER …
\n\n\nIf we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.
\n
💬 Giles Turnbull'
\nThere are a few - and indeed MicroBlog is one such example (that is not listed in those links) … although even MicroBlog has its challenges.\nI think the overall challenge is two fold;
\n1] It is not easy.
\n- so requires significant resources to make it a reality.
\n2] Does ‘everybody’ care enough?
\n- because if they don’t - I feel the TAM might be pretty small - and will include a large number of people already in the camp of what we have is good enough.
![\"Current](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/29f8cc870a.jpg\")
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🔗 Interesting piece from Om today.
\nI think he’s right about that up there. What I am not so sure about is this down here.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/73bd2627f0.png\")
Why?
\nBecause it will bring all those ‘EEJITS’ out of the woodwork, who maintain that ’Steve’ did everything and Tim has done nothing, isn’t innovative, riding the coat tails etc …
\n(Count me in the camp of the people that believe that had Tim NOT done what Tim did when he did it, that there wouldn’t even be a significant enough Apple to do what he is doing now.)
\n
Not being a Redditer, I had never heard of this account - and certainly no idea of its truth - but ….
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-08T10:07:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/08/not-being-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/08/solving-the-right.html", "title": "🎈008/366 | ❓ Solving The Right Problem", "content_html": "![\"solving](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a49f07641a.jpg\")
Today’s Sketchplanations resonated, even though I had never heard of the ‘problem’ being ‘🔗 The XY Problem
\nBack at Group Partners we would help people ‘avoid solving the wrong problem really well’
\nOthers talk about ‘peeling back the onion to get to the root cause’ (think a doctor treating your hip to solve your back pain), etc etc.
\nWhatever it is known as, this is what anyone should do to solve a problem. Never treat the symptom.
\nIf you don’t agree, comment below.
\nIf you do agree - do you have other names you use?
\n
![\"Pace](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e7e05b20f7.jpg\")
A couple of days ago I wrote a little (very little) about Stewart Brand’s 🖇️ Pace layer. It’s worth clicking through - not just to my short piece, but in turn the links in that post.
\nStill - to the point.
\nAndy Hamilton dropped a post on LinkedIN a couple of days ago referencing an Australian report called ‘Barriers to collaboartion and commercialization’ asking if there were lessons that can be learned fro New Zealand. And so ‘the people’ weighed in - with the inevitable group waxing lyrical about business and government working hand in hand to innovate and become world leaders in ….
\nPipe dreams - and ‘Pace Layers’, illustrated above explain why.
\nThe model was developed by Stewart Brand and Brian Eno of all people. A quick study will reveal why government involvement in innovation is flawed. If you are still missing the challenge comes down to the
\n\n\nThe order of a healthy civilization. The fast layers innovate; the slow layers stabilize. The whole combines learning with continuity.
\n
💬 Stewart Brand
\nIt reminds me of something 🔗 Venkatesh Rao wrote about many years ago - and which I in turn referenced in my 🔗 book a couple of years ago.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/fourforces.png\")
\nI have always had a fundamental problem with government being joined at the hip with business. In principle, it sounds lovely. It can work. It does work … but not if you want to be fast, innovative, different, leading edge, using new technologies - all of these things are not part of a government’s DNA - the pace layer model reveals why it won’t work.
\nWhatever speed government works at, it still wont be fast enough for business and if you slow down business to more readily accommodate government, then others will beat you to market.
\nJust three case studies out of the hundreds if not thousands just in the software industry; Uber, AirBNB and Facebook.
\nAnd don’t get me started on Tesla, The Boring Compnay, SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink and the rest of the ‘Musk Suite.
\n
Friend 1: Do not watch ‘🔗 🎬 Leave The World Behind’.
\nFriend 2 : I’ll watch it - I like to make my own mind up, not just listen to what others think.
\nMe : Cool - have you seen Barbie?
\nFriend 2 : Oh no. I don’t like the messaging behind that one.
\nMe : Messaging? What about making ….. oh never mind.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-07T11:06:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/07/friend-do-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/06/the-first-of.html", "content_html": "🖇️ The first of the 61 batches has been completed.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-06T10:44:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/06/the-first-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/04/220718.html", "title": "🎈004/366 | 🏢 Demonstrating The Pace Layer", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781101562642/cover.jpg\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/1a079a5301.jpg\")
Over the break, I had the fortune (not committing to whether that’s good or bad, since that is a whole different story) to visit Martinborough in the Wairarapa - one of New Zealand’s wine regions. It’s a cute little town that includes a single ‘supermarket’.
\nOn one visit I noticed two photographs on the wall - the building from the early part of the last century, photographed in 1906 ….
\n… and a second of a different building (same site) in 1949.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a636a173b3.jpg\")
As I took the photographs of the photographs, I commented to a couple passing by and watching me that it was a shame that a beautiful building such as the original was replaced by the ‘flat pack’.
\nI assumed that some bright spark had decided to pull the old one down in favor of the ‘modern, sleek lined building’.
\nNever assume.
\nYes the old one was pulled down - but after a major earthquake rendered part of it flat and part of it unsafe - and I get why you would want to modernize and I know why the designs changed - but that’s not what this is about.
\nWhat it’s about is that the photographs and conversation reminded me of a 🔗 recent post from Stowe Boyd that referenced Stewart Brand’s book 🔗 How Buildings Learn which in turn built on the ideas of British architect Frank Duffy.
\n\n\nBuildings aren’t made out of glass, concrete and stone: they’re made out of time, layers of time.
\n
💬 Frank Duffy
\nBrand’s model is clear;
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/eyjidwnrzxqioijhc3nldhmuchvichvilm9yzyisimtlesi6im52yjdjyzdslzaxnteznzgymde.png\")
… and the two images reveal it in action. No images from the inside of the store - though for the Kiwi’s amongst you, I can say that the Martinborough FourSquare is the nicest (and largest) FourSquare I have ever visited. (For Brits, think of a FourSquare as something like one of those Tesco or Safeways Mini-marts we find in ever increasing numbers around the British Isles. Think of the Martinborough Foursquare as more akin to a mid sized Waitrose. For American readers … Wholefoods? High end Safeways?
\nAll that said - look at Brand’s model carefully and consider buildings you know and how they relate.
\n
It has taken a couple of days (and gos), but I am beginning to get my new series settled in. Still some tweaks to go - and there is a BIG fix needed on the site around syndication - but nearly there.
\n🖇️ 🔎 You can see the series coming together here.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-03T09:50:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/03/it-has-taken.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/03/interesting-to-read.html", "title": " 🎈003/366 | 💬 A New Purpose", "content_html": "![\"It](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d61738efdb.png\")
Interesting to read 🔗 this from Om. I definitely did not feel that all of last year, but definitely in the past couple of months, something in me has been coming together. It’s as if bits of Lego have been suddenly snapping together, around writing, my work programmes and the connected thinking.
\nIt’s not just the new year. There’s a fundamental shift I am feeling.
\nThe question is whether it is an aberration, or something that will translate to something that will stay for part of the journey.
\nI think it’s the latter.
\nLATER
\nFunny .. as I published this post, someone sent me this;
\n![\"caterpillar,](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/b68497e301.jpg\")
Every time I read 🔗 A Camera Not An Engine by Venkatesh Rao I found myself highlighting more and more - so that it was very nearly all highlight! So - I cut some back and have published to my Readwise. Next job if I get round to it .. annotations.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-02T14:29:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/02/every-time-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/02/in-one-of.html", "title": "🎈002/366 | ♟️ Is There Planning In Strategy❓", "content_html": "![\"Is](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/86ca5e8e87.jpg\")
In one of my work programmes there is an ongoing debate around planning and strategy .. one of the team going as far as to suggest that ‘strategic planning’ is an oxymoron (my words). This seems to nicely channel an aspect of that thinking.
\nThis particular quote
\n![\"If](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/8bb5b7e5ed.png\")
is taken from 🔗 this article, which in turn arrived with me from discussions over at the UNdaunted. You’ll be hearing more about them over the next year.)
\nI think it also plays into the old adage (I paraphrase) ..
\n\n\n“All plans are a waste … but planning is essential.”
\n
For me. I think there is truth in this line of thought.
\nWhat do you think?
\n
![\"New](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/97f7394415.jpg\")
There’s a 🔗 Stonehenge in New Zealand.
\nSpent a lovely afternoon there today.
\nIf you have interest its 🔗 three words are ‘enable.improves.preperations’.
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/10b8d817cc.jpg\")
![\"Staying](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0958a872f9.jpg\")
![\"That’s](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0849cc5160.jpg\")
.. and so a new year begins and the Daily Stoic … as a publishing event … ends.
\nA variation on a theme will be forthcoming .. inspired by this thought from a Daily Stoic entry on 🖇️ December 22nd
\n![\"Ralph](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/05d16a0ea1.png\")
Meanwhile …
\n![\"Happy](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/e5677e5e38.jpg\")
Sorry - but this is going to be a ‘MicroBlog Storm’. Is that a thing I hear you ask? Why yes - yes it is. If IKEA can have 🖇️ ‘Vintage IKEA’ - then hell has clearly frozen over - and a ‘MicroBlog Storm’ is definitely a thing.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-20T11:32:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/20/about-that-adobe.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/19/dems-and-repubs.html", "content_html": "Dems and Repubs have a lot more in common than we might think.
\nIn US politics … the two prime parties are symbolized by a 🔗 Donkey and Elephant.
\nThe curious thing is that 🔗 Thomas Nast created both the original satirical cartoons.
\nThese days they’d sue him!
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-19T20:55:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/19/dems-and-repubs.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/19/fuck-tiktok-fuck.html", "content_html": "Fuck TikTok.
\nFuck Russell Brand.
\n🔗 TikTok users including Russell Brand given special status, messages show.
Just in case you get too happy absorbing 🔗 Reasons To Be Cheerful, now you can 🔗 Cry Once a Week.
\nIt’s all about balance.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-18T10:13:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/18/just-in-case.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/18/i-have-saved.html", "content_html": "I have saved 🔗 Layers of Time: Pace Layers of Work by Stowe Boyd to read properly later - but it triggered some other works I have been absorbing recently how the our digital worlds have been shaping our physical world for decades - and it is only accelerating.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-18T10:11:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/18/i-have-saved.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/18/careful-what-it.html", "title": "Careful What It Says In The Small Print", "content_html": "I was meant to be picking up a car from 🔗 Europcar this afternoon - for a one month reservation.
\nI just tried to change that reservation and pick it up early tomorrow.
\nLady on the call center said no problem - and was about to hit the confirmation button … but as she was talking I hear that the new price was DOUBLE the old price.
\nWhen I booked car, the agent said that there would be no problem and no charge to change the booking if I need to.
\nI relayed this to this booking agent.
\nAbsolutely she said, it would normally cost you 6 dollars to change the booking - and we are waiving that fee … but the contract also says that if the cost of the rental changes, we have to reflect that change in the new contract.
\nNew job this afternoon … go down to Auckland Airport and pick up the car rental.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-18T09:10:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/18/careful-what-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/16/minister-pulls-brakes.html", "content_html": "🔗 Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initiatives.
\nSeriously? It costs THAT much?
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-16T20:45:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/16/minister-pulls-brakes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/16/paris-is-saying.html", "content_html": "\nMeanwhile ‘my man Dana’ has been banging on about the US propensity for cars of the large and heavy variety forever … not to mention the battery decisions being made - necessary apparently - because of the weight and size factor of these vehicles.
\nThis just today for example.
\n\n\nWhile the Internet and iPhone came on faster, these were internal revolutions. They didn’t change the world around us. Mass EV adoption will.
\n
🔗 The EV Revolution is Upon Us.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-16T20:25:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/16/paris-is-saying.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/16/car-drivers-torment.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-16T20:12:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/16/car-drivers-torment.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/16/what-is-the.html", "content_html": "\nProtest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.
\n
More proof .. if proof were needed .. that I live under a rock … fascinating .
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-16T13:01:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/16/what-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/15/talking-of-linkedin.html", "content_html": "JESSICA CHASTAIN: But then I looked at the test, and I thought, OK, it doesn’t seem too unreasonable. And then I looked at my films, and I realized not one of my films has passed that test.
\n
Talking of LinkedIN - 🔗 take a look at this which I just dropped onto LinkedIN. It’s my position on the Callaghan debacle that New Zealand’s ‘Office of the Auditor General’ has just weighed in on.
\nTL;DR - Callaghan are guilty.
\nTo quote;
\n\n\nCallaghan Innovation did not …
\n
… a whole tonne of stuff. The piece is called - Accountability Has No Meaning in New Zealand - because really unless something now happens. It doesn’t.
\nThose who live in Aotearoa should find it particularly interesting. Even if you haven’t been tracking the past few years of the story.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-15T12:03:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/15/talking-of-linkedin.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/14/i-think-i.html", "content_html": "I think I just broke 🔗 LinkedIN
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-14T16:45:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/14/i-think-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/12/theres-a-lot.html", "content_html": "There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.
\nIn parralel, the topic of efficiency seems to be on everyone’s lips - different learned people in different positions essentially reporting ‘findings’ .. new budgets in cities … and the eternal question of whether we are getting what we pay for.
\nJust one small example from Wayne Brown in Auckland … a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ll let that sink in.
\nI am far from qualified to comment much on this (other than that seems a lot to me), but Bernard Hickey definitely is - and if you want to read his excellent Substack around not just speed bumps - but all things political and fiscal in this fine country - look no further than 🔗 here.
\nMeanwhile - Aotearoa - don’t feel so bad - this 🔗 🎙️ podcast from Freakonomics relects on the US construction industry. Turns out it is the only industry that has not become more efficient over the past seventy years - because that is how it is designed!
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-12T14:18:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/12/theres-a-lot.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html", "content_html": "📽️ Finally steadily working my way through ‘The Morning Show’ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last night’s episode …
\n🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra
\nGorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-11T09:42:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","MyShowReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/10/dear-chrisover-in.html", "content_html": "Dear ‘Chris’\nOver in Australia,\n🔗 Foreign investors who snap up Australian homes to face higher taxes.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T14:40:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/10/dear-chrisover-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/10/you-might-remember.html", "content_html": "You might remember that I was never a fan of 🖇️ Ramaswamy
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/addda6eb59.jpg\")
\nJust 4 months later - even Fox has tuned on him … FOX!
\nFox🔗 News Goes Absolutely Nuclear on ‘Court Jester’ Vivek Ramaswamy - The Daily Beast
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T09:29:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/10/you-might-remember.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/09/seventh-russian-general.html", "content_html": "🔗 Seventh Russian general confirmed dead’ … hoist by his own petard’?
\nNot keeping a strict count now - but someone should, along the lines of …
\nRussian Generals killed by Ukraine: 7\nRussian Generals claimed to be killed by Ukraine: 16 plus one admiral\nRussian Generals accidentally killed by Russia
\nRussian Generals purposely killed by Russia
That last one isn’t as strange as you might think - putting aside this from a year ago : 🔗 Putin said to be conducting internal purge of military generals, intel personnel we ‘know’ a bit about 🔗 this one at least.
\nMeanwhile, Putin just created 60 more … I wonder what the Russian department of ‘Workplace Safety’ thinks?
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-09T13:28:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/09/seventh-russian-general.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/04/apples-new-journal.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s new Journal app won’t be available on iPad and Mac
\nSeriously? I guess if I use it … it will only be for photos … no writing .. oh wait …DayONE dos it all on all platforms.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-04T14:30:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/04/apples-new-journal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/03/bitcoin-explained.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-12-03T12:54:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/03/bitcoin-explained.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/02/hell-no-in.html", "content_html": "Hell No … in fact why am I still subscribed after 🖇️ this fiasco?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/51e5e992c3.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-12-02T17:00:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/02/hell-no-in.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/02/decisions-decisions-rent.html",
"content_html": "\nRent 3.99\nBuy 14.99
\nWill I watch it 4 times?
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-02T16:38:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/02/decisions-decisions-rent.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/02/years-ago-could.html", "content_html": "40 years ago …
\n🔗 Could electronic mail undermine conventional post
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-02T13:15:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/02/years-ago-could.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/you-know-how.html", "content_html": "You know how AI can write stuff - so you don’t have to?
\nAnd you know how AI can read stuff - so you don’t have to?
\nAnd you know how you can use AI to soup up your videos - so you don’t have to?
\nSo all that’s left for you to do is watch the videos?
\nWELL - now you don’t even need to bother with that.
\n\n\nBard to understand a video’s content and respond to user requests for information
\n
🔗 One more nail in the coffin for being human
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-30T16:11:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/you-know-how.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/yet-again-the.html", "content_html": "\nTHE COPS THINK IOS 17’S NAMEDROP IS DANGEROUS
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-30T14:50:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/yet-again-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/in-a-sign.html", "content_html": "🔗 In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying..
\nI moved over to Overcast a couple of years ago - but this is very sad. Really liked Castro. 😢
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-30T14:48:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/in-a-sign.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/et-tu-henry.html", "content_html": "🪦🖇️ Et tu Henry?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-30T14:10:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/et-tu-henry.html", "tags": ["? RIP","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/28/switzerland-is-trying.html", "content_html": "🔗 Switzerland Is Trying to Host the Cheapest Winter Olympics on Record
\nWell they’ll save a lot of money just having the snow ready to go, rather than having to create it in a desert.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-28T17:53:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/28/switzerland-is-trying.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/28/apples-vision-pro.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t the Future
\nFlagging this to highlight that I am betting that Wired is WRONG. I will come back to it in the future - let’s say round about the end of Q1, beginning of Q2, 2024?
\nThe Wired link is from June. Meanwhile 🖇️ me in October. I will try to find a few more.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-28T15:08:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/28/apples-vision-pro.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/28/hickeys-article-my.html", "content_html": "\nMy restack …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6050df1a01.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-28T12:31:23+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/28/hickeys-article-my.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/25/the-link.html",
"content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0fb39d97f5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-25T16:33:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/25/the-link.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/25/listening-brands-by.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Listening Brands by Jr Little 📚 was published in 2015 - did we not already have this then?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7702.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-25T13:48:16+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/25/listening-brands-by.html",
"tags": ["? Books","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/22/bay-area-diner.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Bay Area diner to close original store after 49 years.
\n… via @dave .. had many a ‘brekky’ in that establishment over the years.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-23T08:26:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/22/bay-area-diner.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/21/a-wheres-waldo.html", "title": "A Where’s Waldo Update", "content_html": "Been a busy year.
\nI am just this week completing the final trip to close the loop.
\nJanuary : New Zealand / Honolulu stopover/ LA
\nFebruary : LA
\nMarch : LA
\nApril : LA / Palm Desert
\nMay : LA / Palm Desert
\nJune : Palm Desert
\nJuly : Palm Desert
\nAugust : Palm Desert
\nSeptember : Palm Desert / LA / UK / Poland
\nOctober : UK / Paris / Portugal
\nNovember UK / LA / Palm Desert / Sydney, Oz stopover/ New Zealand
\nDecember : New Zealand
Sadly the Sydney/Oz will not register on my ’🖇️ Where’s Waldo ’ live post, due-to the self imposed rule of not just ’no stop overs’ … but a minimum two nights. Next time. This was actually the first time ever in Oz. (Hard to believe)
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-22T10:29:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/21/a-wheres-waldo.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/21/airline-take-off.html", "content_html": "Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
\n\n\nPassengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
\n
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-22T10:24:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/21/airline-take-off.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/17/you-know-how.html", "content_html": "You know how sometimes stupid little things you can clearly see for years before it finally happens and yet other times a seismic shift happens in an instant ….
\n🔗 OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-18T10:56:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/17/you-know-how.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/16/having-observed-my.html", "content_html": "Having observed my co traveller lugging a 1000 page opus around with her recently … 🔗 this resonated (Instagram Reel
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-17T14:01:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/16/having-observed-my.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/16/we-see-some.html", "content_html": "We see some flexibility emerging as to WHERE people work - but not very much around WHEN they work.
\nEven then, given the changes in the WHERE and WHEN - we need to urgently start conversations around what that in turn means for HOW we work.
\n—
\n… thoughts emerging from 🔗 Ollie Henderson’s LinkedIN post
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-17T13:58:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/16/we-see-some.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/16/joe-manchin-warns.html", "content_html": "🔗 Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’.
\n… and you are the man to stop him?
\nOr have you just woken up?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-17T13:32:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/16/joe-manchin-warns.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/individual-empowerment-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 Individual Empowerment and Agency on a Scale We’ve Never Seen Before.
\nI wonder … I see where Doc is headed - but we still have mediators.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:21:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/individual-empowerment-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/did-you-know.html", "content_html": "Did you know that the 🔗 Four Yorkshiremen sketch was not a Python original?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:20:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/did-you-know.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/id-never-heard.html", "content_html": "I’d never heard of him until this morning - 26 - and dead, but what an enormous legacy.
\n🔗 Frank Ramsey (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
\n\n🔗 The New Yorker … apparently he died of a liver infection.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:09:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/id-never-heard.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/disney-is-buying.html", "content_html": "🔗 Disney Is Buying Hulu: Here’s What’ll Happen Once It Owns It All.
\n.. no mention nf Apple then buying Disney - something I do not see … and yet more and more people keep jumping on that bandwagon.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:04:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/disney-is-buying.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/dx-is-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 DX is the new UX - by Sangeet Paul Choudary
\n… do you agree?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:02:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/dx-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/hey-madonna-let.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:02:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/hey-madonna-let.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/im-years-old.html", "content_html": "💬 🔗 I’m 17 years old, and I don’t know if I want to record and publish an EP …
\nThe answer on the click through , but in summary …
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-1651.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-15T05:01:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/im-years-old.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/pink-to-distribute.html",
"content_html": "🔗 🎵 Pink to distribute banned books at Florida tour dates.
\nYES!
\nJust wish she had more to hand out.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-15T04:53:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/pink-to-distribute.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/13/farewell-suella-but.html", "content_html": "Farewell Suella … but, say what?
\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, 🔗 told the Mail on Sunday in June: _"_Cleverly is a total wet rag who wants to fly out to China to kiss the backside of a regime responsible for shocking abuses of human rights."
\nOk .. it’s the Mail .. but still …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7aed59f939.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-11-14T04:50:58+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/13/farewell-suella-but.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/09/somewhere-over-on.html",
"content_html": "Somewhere over on Facebook Johannes Ernst was promoting 🔗 InkWELL …talking about the Fediverse and Indieweb .. and featuring our very own @manton .. home page quotes Cory D …
\n\n\nAs Cory Doctorow says, corporate platforms like Facebook and X have business models that are based on holding users hostage and leveraging their attention and their data for profit.
\n
Just mentioning it because I spent way too much time attempting to pull the real URL out … free of FB crud to share with you all. Oh the irony!
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-10T02:37:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/09/somewhere-over-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/09/never-had-a.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Never had a high opinion of him … … seems like others feel the same way….
\n🔗 Please get Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-10T02:29:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/09/never-had-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/09/not-fulfilling-your.html", "content_html": "🔗 Not fulfilling your potential? You’re focusing on the wrong things
\n\n\nThe secret to achieving mastery and fulfilling your potential requires using your mind to focus only on the things you have 100% control over. Seeking acceptance holds you back as it inevitably means compromising on what’s really important to you and what you believe.
\n
‘Straight outta ComptonThe Stoics
I have a draft of a piece about ‘an experience(?)' in London that ended the night with us riding in a ‘🔗 Paddy Wagon’, the story evolved because of some combination of Oxy, Meth and Alcohol.
\nJust read that 🔗 Meth is cheaper than beer in Laos .. my instant reaction … ‘probably in London too’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-09T09:32:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/08/i-have-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/01/an-unusual-newsletter.html", "content_html": "🔗 An unusual newsletter from me - connecting to unusual subject matter (for me) in my Substack.
\nEnjoy?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-02T03:27:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/01/an-unusual-newsletter.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/01/natures-way-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’.
\nBoris … so powerful, so caring, so concerned … so Boris.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-02T01:08:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/01/natures-way-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/18/just-added-the.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781635769081/cover.jpg\")
\nJust added 🔗 📚 The Exponential Age by Azeem Azhar to my book lists.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-19T01:41:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/18/just-added-the.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/16/now-there-is.html", "content_html": "Now THERE is a little bit of history on 🔗 Flatiron’s web site @danielpunkass
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-10-17T00:25:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/16/now-there-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/15/joni-mitchell-watched.html", "content_html": "\n… originally home to Pearson Weekly and the first ever crossword published in the UK ….
\n
Love Beato
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-16T04:47:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/15/joni-mitchell-watched.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/15/that-decision-cost.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘That decision cost lives’: Covid data case further deflates Ron DeSantis’s campaign.
\n… not that we care about him anymore … but if we could just bankrupt him❓
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-16T04:10:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/15/that-decision-cost.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/15/white-house-seeks.html", "content_html": "🔗 White House seeks vast weapons package ‘to help Israel defend itself’.
\nBe interesting to see if this can happen while the house is out of action … because it then begs the question as to why the same can’t happen for Ukraine?
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-16T03:51:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/15/white-house-seeks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/14/max-hastings-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 Max Hastings is voting Labour over ‘dreadful’ Tories led by ‘loser’.
\nLet that sink in.
\nMax Hastings!
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-14T22:12:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/14/max-hastings-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/12/the-double-standard.html", "content_html": "🔗 The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-12T20:55:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/12/the-double-standard.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/10/netanyahu-is-drawing.html", "content_html": "🔗 Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran.
\nSo the US can be drawn into a war that Israel starts … but not into a war to defend Russian aggression?
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-10T19:49:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/10/netanyahu-is-drawing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/anyone-using-hemingway.html", "content_html": "\nTheres a new version out. Thoughts?
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T08:28:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/anyone-using-hemingway.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/california-workers-who.html", "content_html": "🔗 California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease. (Apple News)
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T08:26:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/california-workers-who.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/his-work-seems.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog.
\nBack in the day I had ‘my Moondog’ … it still lives with my other vinyl down in Surrey.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T08:25:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/his-work-seems.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/the-beat-generations.html", "content_html": "\n\nThe Beat Generation’s 🔗 William S Burroughswas a grandson of 🔗 William Seward Burroughs, the founder of 🔗 Burroughs Corporation.
\n
Why has it taken me this long to learn that?
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T08:01:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/the-beat-generations.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/now-that-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 Now THAT is a Secretary of State!
\n… Warning … it is on the site formally known as Twitter.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T07:55:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/now-that-is.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/204443.html", "content_html": "🔗 If you want to join me on Twin Me … I am here …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/3aaae03410.jpg\")
\nIn case you are wondering … peer to peer messaging - no central server .. not even a Mastodon ‘like’ approach.
\nStill don’t know how they do it - and I am sure that someone soon is going to tell me all the reasons why I shouldn’t be using it!
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T07:44:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/204443.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/us-vs-them.html", "title": "Us vs Them OR Us and Them OR Us + Them", "content_html": "Interesting thread over on LinkedIN from my friend 🔗 Dave Wilt - who started on the track of ‘vs’.
\n🔗 Corporate Identity Politics. (It was kind of about Sales and Marketing alignment - a problem which was a problem long before I started out in business. You would have though by now we might have fixed it? But no.)
\nAnyway - about half way through I managed to pivot the thread to 🎵 Music … mainly because the core topic just gets talked about - and IT IS NEVER FIXED - so … ‘BORING’.
\nFrom the thread …
\n\n\nYou might notice that the original song was called ‘Us and Them’, while the tour and film is called ‘Us + Them’.
\n
\n“It’s not a mistake. It’s a subtle modification. The original ‘and’ was not necessarily inclusive. It was highlighting one or the other. The power of ‘+’ sign is additive. It drives home the idea of being united. Together.”
\nIt’s a small and very important detail. It’s language.
If you want to read the newsletter I was going to write about … ‘🖇️ Rewriting History’
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-09T07:40:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/us-vs-them.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/07/why-do-eight.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives?
\n\n\nThe good news is that’s actually not so hard. If the House elected leaders with ranked-choice voting (RCV), this debacle could have been avoided from the beginning. Imagine how different this would have been. The Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries would have led after the first round. McCarthy would have been second. And the Republican Freedom Caucus protest candidate would have finished a distant third. No one would have earned a majority, so an instant runoff would have kicked in.
\n
Excellent idea.
\nThe bad news is this is long journey when it comes to adoption. 🤞
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-07T21:43:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/07/why-do-eight.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/06/senators-warn-house.html", "content_html": "🔗Senators warn House Republicans that a more conservative speaker won’t make their dreams come true. (Apple News)
\nSorry team … that’s not what they are trying to do … it’s about blowing up the institution, sticking it to anyone that disagrees, slowing down everything if not just stopping it and getting the Orange Clown out of his 96 indictments.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-07T04:53:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/06/senators-warn-house.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/06/roll-over-cloud.html", "content_html": "🔗 Roll Over, Cloud Czars - Dana Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-06T20:53:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/06/roll-over-cloud.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/i-didnt-see.html", "content_html": "I didn’t see the sign above this graphic saying no photography until after I took it.
\nThen again, there was nothing to say you couldn’t publish it if you had.
\nI was more taken with the ‘consistency’ of the advice as to how you should pack and travel.
\nTo be clear - not taken at 🖇️ Heathrow.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1604fadae9.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-10-03T05:32:33+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/i-didnt-see.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/you-know-how.html",
"content_html": "🎵 You know how it is …. you check into your hotel and wander down to the bar and the next thing you know - you bump into Ryan Waste. He and his band 🔗 Municipal Waste just flew in from the US for a 🔗 three week tour.
\nHad to get a selfy …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7557.jpeg\")
\r\nHim with his band …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/image-asset.jpeg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-10-03T05:21:50+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/you-know-how.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/trump-says-he.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant.
\nIs there anyway we can make that happen?
\nSoon?
\nAsking for a friend.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-03T03:30:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/trump-says-he.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/crop-circles-what.html", "content_html": "🔗 Crop Circles: What Is Behind These Complex and Intricate Works of Art?
\nA recurring question in my world …
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-03T01:28:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/crop-circles-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/a-link-to.html", "content_html": "A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.
\n🔗 🎵 Afterwords is no exception.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-02T21:56:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/a-link-to.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/finally-can-sit.html", "content_html": "Finally! Can sit down, ‘avec l’ordinateur’, and fix the broken posts and links that have been posted on 🖇️ my blog these past few days.
\nThankyou for your patience.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-02T19:38:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/finally-can-sit.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/30/and-so-we.html", "content_html": "And so we hit ‘30’ - 🖇️ September Challenge Completed.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-30T23:22:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/30/and-so-we.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/29/sept-photo-challenge.html", "content_html": "📸 230930 🖇️ #MBSept
\nWhat a way to end the series … a treasure indeed.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-6575.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-30T10:37:08+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/29/sept-photo-challenge.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/29/sept.html",
"content_html": "📸 230929 🖇️ #MBSept
\nBulbs that improve the contrast.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/8b9ae0dfd6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-29T17:10:22+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/29/sept.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/29/mbsept-bulbs-that.html",
"content_html": "📸 230928 🖇️ #MBSept
\nworkout - not many of these in this library!
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-3306.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-29T16:58:10+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/29/mbsept-bulbs-that.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/27/mbsept-bracelets-also.html",
"content_html": "📸 230927 🖇️ #MBSept
\n(Em)Bracelets also available .. they are the ones on the left.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-27T17:32:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/27/mbsept-bracelets-also.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/26/just-the-cost.html", "content_html": "Just the cost of doing business .. $75M wouldn’t have bought one of those houses.
\n🔗 JP Morgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands for $75m.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-27T05:27:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/26/just-the-cost.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/26/mbsept-beverage-line.html", "content_html": "📸 230926 🖇️ #MBSept
\nBeverage line 1 - where ‘Establishment 1’ could teach ‘Establishment 2’ a thing or two about attracting a crowd.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/c601601bcf.jpg\")
\nBeverage line 2 - where ‘Establishment 2’ could teach ‘Establishment 1’ a thing or two about providing a relaxed environment.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/bbc2acb101.jpg\")
\nThere’s always a balance!
\nBonus? The word ‘beverage’ appears in both photographs.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T17:19:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/26/mbsept-beverage-line.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/just-updated-my.html", "content_html": "Just updated my ‘🖇️ Places I have lived and visited’ list to include Poland.\nGot here last night … heading back on Sunday,
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T03:21:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/just-updated-my.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/the-rocks-the.html", "content_html": "📎 The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global
\nAdded this 🎬 to my ‘find and watch’ list.
\n… and 🔗 this one … though totally different.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T03:12:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/the-rocks-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/it-takes-a.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T03:10:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/it-takes-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/everybody-wants-to.html", "content_html": "It takes a lot of energy not to trust someone.
\n
\n\nEverybody wants to be Jim Morrison but nobody wants to be found outside the 🔗 Whisky a Go Go out of your skull.
\n
Just rapping with a friend - and out pops this sentence.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T03:09:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/everybody-wants-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/the-former-refugee.html", "content_html": "📎 The former refugee who wants to cut immigration, and become the first female Dutch PM.
\nI have no idea who she is … but the story smacks of ‘climbing the ladder provided … and pulling it up after you’. We’ve got them in The US and the UK .. you know who I am talking about.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-25T22:01:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/the-former-refugee.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/heathrow-is-so.html", "title": "Heathrow Is So Special … And Not In A Good Way.", "content_html": "The bag and its contents (not always the same - but pretty darn similar) has flown ‘in cabin’ all over America, to and from Mexico, down to New Zealand, around New Zealand across to Oz and back, then returning to America through Hawaii and onwards across to London … not a single problem.
\nTerminal 5, Heathrow … 45 minutes stood at security analyzing and rescanning that very same bag three times. Some items thrown away … like a small bottle of perfume, creams etc. Some items packaged up and in around 48 hours you can go online - pay the ransom fee and have it shipped to an address in the UK .. good job we had one.
\nThey wanted to confiscate the medications .. no we don’t have the prescriptions with us, but if someone dies are you prepared to accept the consequences?
\nIn the end, one small bottle of perfume thrown away was the most expensive item, but maybe 10 others also disposed of … several other bottles packaged up into a plastic bag … in the next couple of days, we can log on … pay the ransom and have the balance shipped to the UK address. It was totally unclear why;
\nI asked if we had checked the bag, would it have been ok? No problem at all sir.
\nAnd then I just couldn’t resist. Can you explain why all of these containers are a problem … after all, they are all below the publicised amounts allowed. Oh yes sir… that’s not the problem, there are just too many of them. So, I went in to ask … where do I find the regulation that describes the total number off containers am I allowed?
\nBlank looks.
\n\n\n“Leave it John”
\n
Adding insult to injury … get to the gate and told that it is a full flight … ‘that bag’ needs to be checked in.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-25T21:39:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/heathrow-is-so.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/25/mbsept-we-learn.html", "content_html": "📸 230925 🖇️ #MBSept
\nWe learn about flares very early.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/9fb89ab950.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-25T20:21:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/mbsept-we-learn.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/24/mbsept-maybe-the.html",
"content_html": "📸 230924🖇️ #MBSept
\nMaybe the most famous belt to certain aficionados?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/a437a495d2.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-24T20:43:45+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/24/mbsept-maybe-the.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/23/mbsept-with-champagne.html",
"content_html": "📸 230923🖇️ #MBSept
\nWith Champagne you could have not just ‘a day in a life’ … but more importantly ‘a life in a day’.
\n![\"\"](\"https://JohnPhilpin-test.micro.blog/uploads/2023/676ce915b2.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-24T02:07:22+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/23/mbsept-with-champagne.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/22/road.html",
"content_html": "📸 230922🖇️ #MBSept
\nThis is ‘The Road to Hana’ … just not the one that everyone else travels on … maybe because a different part of it is ‘giving way to the Ocean’?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/dscn0501-2.jpeg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-23T00:49:41+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/22/road.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/21/mccarthy-says-hardright.html",
"content_html": "🔗 McCarthy says hard-right Republicans ‘want to burn whole place down’..
\nFINALLY … he gets it. But they can be stopped if Kevin has the cahoonas.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-22T10:21:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/21/mccarthy-says-hardright.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/21/news-corp-shareholders.html", "content_html": "🔗 News Corp shareholders renew call for Rupert Murdoch to step down.
\nTen years later ….
\n🔗 Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-22T02:56:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/21/news-corp-shareholders.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/21/sept.html", "content_html": "📸 230921🖇️ #MBSept
\nDid the Elephant fall in .. or is it climbing out?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/917ea9301b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-22T02:28:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/21/sept.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/20/just-been-reading.html",
"content_html": "Just been reading threads, posts and comments on various sites … it’s so relaxing beats sleeping 🤪. One thought before I once again try to cross 🔗 The Point Of No Return.
\nDoesn’t our side have guns?
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-21T05:18:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/20/just-been-reading.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/20/this-week-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 This Week In Disgrace. … Just in case you have lost track of the celebrity faux pas in the past week.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-21T01:33:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/20/this-week-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/20/mbsept-disruption-isnt.html", "content_html": "📸 230920🖇️ #MBSept
\nDisruption isn’t new. Disruption isn’t always about Silicon Valley. Disruption isn’t ’American’. Imagine the disruption to people’s lives in the tiny hamlet of Akaroa when this was installed in 1901.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/07ac6ae347.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-21T01:30:59+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/20/mbsept-disruption-isnt.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/19/good-job-with.html",
"content_html": "Good job with the @gruber episode @martinfeld …. noting that it is (I think) 🎙️🔗 the longest one you have published (?) … fitting for the guest 🤪 … seriously though, nice job and good to hear Mr G wax lyrical on his story. Lovely listen.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-20T11:54:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/19/good-job-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/19/mbsept-looking-down.html", "content_html": "📸 230919🖇️ #MBSept
\nLooking down on the edge of the world.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/71baa4562e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-19T21:37:25+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/19/mbsept-looking-down.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/18/mbsept-you-might.html",
"content_html": "📸 230918🖇️ #MBSept
\nYou might not think of wine as fabric, but with the right wine in the right hands, it can be just that … if not the very foundation of ‘good society’. Clearly the French agree. You just have to read the label.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f2b7c8fc8d.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-18T22:51:31+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/18/mbsept-you-might.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/back-in-the.html",
"content_html": "🎵 Back in the day, a gentleman by name of Pete Frame produced two stunning 📚books … Rock Family Trees. Hand drawn ‘family trees’ of Rock Giants at the time.
\nI know of Theo Travis because of his work over the years with Steven Wilson, but also as a performer in his own right and then most recently with Soft Machine, which is how he came to write 🖇️ John Marshall’s obit’.
\nFamily Trees tend to be very hierarchical, so I plugged the two threads together and then added 50 years of humanity.
\n‘Hierarchy’ is old school. ‘Networked’ is new school’.
\nHow cool would it be to choose (say) 50 musicians like Theo and build networks of
\nIt needs to be someone like Theo … a wide enough eclectic career to be interesting but not so overwhelming it becomes meaningless. For example someone like Bowie would just be a page of lines.
\nJust #SpitBallingHere
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T13:45:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/back-in-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/i-think-bob.html", "content_html": "🔗 I think Bob Lefsetz is an iPhone fan. A big one.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T13:41:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/i-think-bob.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/russell-brand-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long.
\n\n\nFrom demeaning sexual remarks on radio to offering his assistant naked to Jimmy Savile, every disturbing detail of this cogent documentary makes it mind-boggling that these alleged abuses have taken so long to surface.
\n
Exactly.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T03:25:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/russell-brand-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/dear-drew-what.html", "content_html": "Dear Drew .. what were you even thinking? If it is so clear now why wasn’t it a week ago?
\n🔗 Drew Barrymore Isn’t Bringing Back Daytime Show Until Strike Ends
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T03:18:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/dear-drew-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/mbsept-our-first.html", "content_html": "📸 230917🖇️ #MBSept
\nOur first promotion of Stop Child Traffic was as intense as the intense chocolates that made up the floor prizes at the IIW. But nowhere near as intense as the next three years.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/9f2bd586b2.jpg\")
\nP.S. … we know the chocolates were intense … it says so, right there on the packet.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T03:07:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/mbsept-our-first.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/binanceus-ceo-brian.html", "content_html": "🔗 Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder bails as the company cuts 1/3 of its employees.
\nBecause of course they are.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T05:57:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/binanceus-ceo-brian.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/saturday-morning-breakfast.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ancient times
\nWaves Cane.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T05:56:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/saturday-morning-breakfast.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/twitter-is-still.html", "content_html": "🔗 Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links.
\nBecause of course they are.
\nPS - Why don’t we all just move on?
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T05:55:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/twitter-is-still.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/headphones-are-collecting.html", "content_html": "🔗 Headphones are collecting too much personal data
\nBecause of course they are!
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T05:52:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/headphones-are-collecting.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/i-am-no.html", "content_html": "I am no fan of Brand … as I have 🖇️ 🔎 previously touched on … so this comes as no surprise. Of course, I have no idea of the truth and we don’t yet know the story … but where there’s smoke etc etc.
\n🔗 Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T04:12:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/i-am-no.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/16/mbsept-oof-just.html", "content_html": "📸 230916🖇️ #MBSept
\nOof just what was needed. Wish it was every day … ‘needed’ or not.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7d2554409f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-17T03:17:20+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/mbsept-oof-just.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/15/mbsept-its-the.html",
"content_html": "📸 230915🖇️ #MBSept
\nit’s the ’Red Fort’ … How much more red can it be?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ce69dc037e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-16T00:00:27+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/15/mbsept-its-the.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/14/new-material-emerging.html",
"content_html": "New material emerging from Steven Wilson. All links below are Songwhip, so listen via your app of choice. Listed in personal preference of the music.
\n\n🎵🔗 Rock Bottom with Ninet Tayeb
\n🎵🔗 Economies of Scale … wonderful video, so click on the YouTube link.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-15T07:48:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/14/new-material-emerging.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/14/mbsept-pretty-sure.html", "content_html": "📸 230914🖇️ #MBSept
\nPretty sure this qualifies as a statue. I mean, I’ve got others, but to riff on the words of Mr. Dundee …
\n\n\nCall that a statue? This is a statue.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/64ed293acc.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-15T02:42:19+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/14/mbsept-pretty-sure.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/13/mbsept-the-glow.html",
"content_html": "📸 230913🖇️ #MBSept
\nThe ‘glow’ might not immediately be apparent - but it is there.
\n![\"IMG](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-9268.jpg\" "\\"IMG_9268.JPG\\"")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-14T04:53:58+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/13/mbsept-the-glow.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/13/looks-like-popmoneycom.html",
"content_html": "Looks like 🔗 PopMoney.com have lost the battle.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-14T04:50:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/13/looks-like-popmoneycom.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/12/mbsept-dont-panic.html", "content_html": "📸 230912🖇️ #MBSept
\nDon’t Panic
\n![\"\"](\"https://JohnPhilpin-test.micro.blog/uploads/2023/image.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-13T08:34:10+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/12/mbsept-dont-panic.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/11/services-targeted-by.html",
"content_html": "🔗 22 services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA.
\nI get the App Store … but can someone explain Safari? I know it’s the default iOS Browser, but it takes 5 seconds to change it. What is the issue?
\n🔗 Q&A: DMA: Ensuring fair and open digital markets
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-12T07:41:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/11/services-targeted-by.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/11/mbsept-released-in.html", "content_html": "📸 230911 🖇️ #MBSept
\nReleased in 2011, 🔗🎵 The Floyd Retrospective is itself old enough to be a retrospective, but in any case, this footage is not part of it, because it has just been rediscovered.
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cc1c84805a.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cc1c84805a.jpg\")
📸 230910 🖇️ #MBSept
\nNot my cycle.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6e63375032.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-11T04:41:53+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/10/mbsept-not-my.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/09/mbsept-a-little.html",
"content_html": "📸 230909 🖇️ #MBSept
\nA little north of Auckland these is something called Sculptereum, and in one of the corners of Sculptereum, there is an installation that includes one of my favorite quotes.
\n\n\nMusic [is] an art form that transcends language.
\n
💬 Herbie Hancock
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/04aadb5b82.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/04aadb5b82.jpg\")
He was (is) a lovely man. I had to lean in to hear what he was saying. So I did. Our conversation continued and he apologized for his speech. No apology necessary, but he had identified that it was hard for me to hear (loud place aside), he was also a little ‘croakey’.
\nHe explained that he had had cancer.
\nCancer of the throat.
\nThree times.
\nHe was diagnosed in 2017. The doctors recommended he have surgery. He went through the surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.
\nA year later in 2018, the doctors did a PET Scan, and found ‘some more’, so they recommended he have surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.
\nA year later in 2019, the doctors did a PET Scan, and found ‘some more’, so they recommended he have surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.
\nHe got his clearance a year later in 2020, and as I write, it is 2023. Finally he is three years clear.
\nHe is such a positive, focussed, alive person … despite not having eaten solid food for 5 years. Despite having to grind the pills he needs to take daily into a powder before he can swallow them. Despite having lost so much of his throat where the surgeon had cut and cut and cut … to remove the cancer. Despite having had his vocal cords so damaged that the raspy, quiet speech is now his voice. Despite no longer having any of this teeth left because of the radiation therapy. Despite all of this and so much more … like going through all of this totally alone.
\nHis positivity was absolutely awe inspiring.
\nNo ‘poor me’. No ‘why me’. No ‘sad face’. Just happy and grateful to be alive - and alive he most certainly is. Living life as much to the full as he can as he put it.
\n—
\nAll of this resonated deeply.
\nMy cancer diagnosis was January 2021. It was identical. Both of us were ‘T2, stage 4’, with three significant differences.
\nAs of now, it looks like we beat it … having got my two year clearance just a few weeks ago.
\nThat said at the time, hospitalized twice, in the first visit, Jax was told to be prepared for me ‘not to make it’. I was warned that everything that Cody is experiencing could be me plus, needing a cane to walk, maybe even a wheelchair. For me, I have essentially blocked this all out (my way of coping), so this served as a massive wake up call … a bigger one than I experienced when I walked into a new doctor who looked past me waiting for ‘John’ … expecting to see me hobbling in at best. Or another doctor here in the US who knew my background from the advance files that he had received and was stunned that they hadnt operated and ‘looked this good’.
\nSure I have side effects, some of which I am told will be with me for the rest of my life, but compared to Cody … so insignificant that I shouldn’t mention it. I tend not to, but sometimes people ask.
\n\n\n“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’”
\n
💬 Hunter S Thompson
\n.. I try, but ain’t nothing compared to Cody who is doing just that … in Spades.
\nThis is a story from my occasional series ‘🖇️ Travels Without Charley’ - my small ‘homage’ to John Steinbeck. The names are changed to protect the innocent, but they are all true and based on conversations I have had with people that I have met around the world … and who’s story resonates.
\nThis particular one - more than any other in the published (and unpublished) series - resonated more than any other.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-09T09:36:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/08/people-cody.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","People First","Travels Without Charley","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/08/predicting-apple-services.html", "content_html": "\nHorace is one of my favorite analysts. Love to know how accurate this is.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/dbe021b2e5.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-09T03:00:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/08/predicting-apple-services.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/08/mbsept-i-approached.html",
"content_html": "📸 230908 🖇️ #MBSept
\nI approached today’s prompt with apprehension. ’Yonder’ for goodness sake. But I 🖇️ stuck to my guns, took a deep breath, opened photos and entered ‘yonder’ into the search. Just a single image came up.
\nInitially it made no sense. But look closely and all is revealed.
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/82215ee682.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/82215ee682.jpg\")
🔗 Former Trump White House adviser found guilty of contempt of Congress.
\n… dum dum dum, and …
\n🎵 📼 Another one bites the dust.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-08T17:58:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/former-trump-white.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/i-tried-daves.html", "content_html": "\n
Need to add something about deduping.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/774a45516f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-08T06:45:34+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/i-tried-daves.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/money-does-not.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Money does not solve disasters like this.
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-1503.png\")
What an awesome city.
\nWhat an awesome reconstruction.
\nDon’t just click into Doug’s post - 🔗 explore the site.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-08T06:04:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/reconstructing-tenochtitlan-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/i-looked-at.html", "content_html": "🔗 I looked at 17,702 links I’ve saved since 2009 to see how bad “link rot” really is
\n25% seemed low - but that is overall. Ten year old links are sitting around 33%.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-08T06:02:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/i-looked-at.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/plan-for-acre.html", "content_html": "🔗 Plan for 55,000-acre Silicon Valley utopia unveiled.
\nIt would appear that the designers have explored how new neighborhoods were promoted in the ‘50s and didn’t even bother to update the images.
\n🎙️ If you prefer to listen - Kevin and Casey with their usual over the top breathless commentary.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-08T06:00:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/plan-for-acre.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/mbsept-sometimes-the.html", "content_html": "📸 230907 🖇️ #MBSept
\nSometimes the panorama setting just doesn’t do justice.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/feac6690eb.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-08T03:56:03+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/mbsept-sometimes-the.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/06/i-asked-chatgpt.html",
"content_html": "I asked ChatGPT to read 🖇️ my post and give me a 200 character summary.
\n\n\nThis blog questions if institutions can be founders. It argues founders are individuals, while organizations serve as vehicles for change, relying on teams for success. Established companies often struggle to innovate.
\n
Not bad.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-07T12:21:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/06/i-asked-chatgpt.html", "tags": ["? Links","? AI Expts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/06/over-on-linkedin.html", "title": "Why Large Organizations Often Fail To ‘Innovate’, Where ‘Tiny Companies’ Succeed.", "content_html": "Over on LinkedIN, a friend of mine shared a post by Phil Morle 🔗 on whether institutions / corporates can be founders. I wrote a long reply which caused LinkedIN to barf and reject my reply, which in turn caused me to publish two separate pieces; 🖇️ Don’t Trust The Silos. and 🖇️ Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Silos To Publish Their Thinking., neither of which are pertinent to understanding the flow of this ‘reply’, but I wanted to highlight why this isn’t a reply on the post.
\nI asked ChatGPT to summarize the post. 🖇️ In 200 characters AND 200 words … not by usual gorgeous style 🤣 - but not wrong.
\nThe piece was good and I wanted to add my two cents, since on initial read I found it confusing. My interpretation of the core premise is to better understand some of the reasons behind why large organizations often fail to ‘innovate’, where ‘tiny companies’ succeed.
\nThe confusion I had started in the title of the piece, ‘Can Institutions Be Founders’ … which extended into the piece itself.
\nConfused because IMHO, founders are people and whether an organization is big or small, new or old, innovative or staid … they are not people, though they are made up of people … and processes, strategies, plans …
\n![\"IMG](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-1500.png\" "\\"IMG_1500.PNG\\"")
\n… yes … AND … the organization doesn’t allow the founder to behave like one.
\nPayPal, to randomly choose an innovative start up, was an organization with a large number of subsequently famous founders that went on to start many other successful innovative companies that changed the landscape of business. The founders were/are people. It is people that are the innovators. The startups, the organizations are the vehicles that enable that change.
\nOne of the great unspoken truths of the start up world is that despite our worship of the individual, we ignore that they don’t do it by themselves. They have an idea and build a company made up of many people to realize their vision. The team all contribute to the organizations success. Don’t look to me to document the traits of a great ‘founder’, plenty of places to check that list, just to say that an organization can allow those traits to soar and create … or they can kill it.
\nJobs, Gates, Ellison … insert your ‘hero of choice’ … are great at what they do/did because of their original vision, their leadership, their focus, their tenacity, their communications, their sales ability and so much more … but none of them succeeded without their team to realize their ambition.
\nIn other words .. it is the Organisation that delivers the vision.
\nSo the real question is why does it more often than not, take an organization called a startup to deliver those transformative innovations rather than an existing organization? (Yes - there are exceptions.) Remember Gates and Ellison seperately out innovated IBM, Jobs, Xerox, FinTech startups are leaving Banks and Financial Institutions in the dust, Bezos destroyed the bookstores … it’s an epidemic .. but we associate the founders name with the innovation and success .. and forget that without the team of people they assembled they could never execute.
\nWith that caveat out of the way, arguably Ellison could have joined IBM and … with an instant team, and finance ‘ready to go’ would likely have failed. Bezos could have joined Barnes and Noble … and failed, the Collison brothers could have joined Citi .. and failed, Jobs … you get the picture.
\nThey would have failed, not because they didn’t have what it takes, because clearly they do, but rather because because the organization would have clipped their wings.
\nWhy?
\nThe topic has been very well studied and reported on in a book called 🔗 Zone To Win by 🔗 Geoffrey Moore possibly more famous for 🔗 Crossing The Chasm
\nIn the pages of ‘Zone To Win’ you will find a pretty solid analysis of why established organizations fail to innovate. Turns out the first job is to identify what kind of innovation we are talking about …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7e71161870.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7e71161870.jpg\")
… and build from there.
\n(Interesting to note that when we talk about ‘innovation’ our minds automatically jumps to what Geoff describes as ‘disruptive innovation’ on the left in the diagram, but there are also ‘sustaining innovations’, which tend to operate inside those large organizations.)
\nMeanwhile, the founders build their organizations in their own image, make their own rules, and relentlessly drive their vision over years … sometimes to the frustration of people inside this companies who have their own ideas as to what could happen. For example both Marc Benioff and Tom Siebel are Oracle alumni that had the vision of ‘software for sales’ respectively (not respectfully) creating Salesforce and Siebel. A vision that at the time was not shared by Larry, so they left. Subsequently LJE became a believer having been an early investor in Salesforce, launching NetSuite and eventually buying Siebel.
\nIn the end, I don’t believe that Phil and I are that far apart in thinking. His summary of the seven people traits are not wrong … but hand in hand with that goes the need for the organization to not just support the fledgling initiative but to actively defend it from the cuckoos who inhabit the rest of the organization.
\n.. and a framework to unpack the challenge and work out what an organization can do about it.
\nIf there is interest I can expand a lot further, but for now, if you have got this far, THANKYOU. What do you think?
\nPlease throw in your two cents below and let’s see if together we can make a buck.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-07T11:37:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/06/over-on-linkedin.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise","? LongForm","People First","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/06/whenever-microblog-launched.html", "content_html": "Whenever MicroBlog launches one of their challenges, it takes me a while to lock into the format I want to standardize on for the series. I think I finally have it nailed for 🖇️ #MBSept
\nKey rule for my entries this time round is that I use the prompt to search my photo library and use the ‘best’ picture for that entry.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-07T07:32:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/06/whenever-microblog-launched.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/06/the-nixon-tardis.html", "title": "📸 The Nixon Tardis and My First Indian Food In Three Years", "content_html": "I was very happy to be going out to eat my first Indian in over 3 years (long story). In fact I was so happy that I took pictures. I took a few actually - but sharing this one in particular because of the Tardis and Dalek.
\nMy First Indian In Three Years - Right Beside The Tardis
\nIt seemed odd at the time, but I didn’t investigate it until just now - turns out it is famous!
\n\nWho knew?
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-07T06:32:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/06/the-nixon-tardis.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/06/well.html", "content_html": "📸 230906 🖇️ #MBSept
\nA well, not a stairwell - but definitely in Wellington.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/352e5eaeb4.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-07T03:22:54+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/06/well.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/05/friends-dont-let.html",
"title": "Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Silos To Publish Their Thinking.",
"content_html": "🖇️ I wrote a related piece yesterday.
\nThis one takes the thought a step further, because it’s not just original posts … but also replies.
\nAs so often happens to me these days .. I start to reply to a message somewhere in one of the interweb’s silos … you know where they are in control - not you … even down to how long your message should be … because … you know ‘they’ know best. When that happens, I start a new post on said silo .. where there isn’t a character limit .. but I find myself doing that less and less … because why do I want to give my original thinking to a silo that stores undifferentiated commodities like bulk chaff? That’s why I don’t write ‘content’ …
\nBut these days there’s even more reason not to use the Silos for being the prime origin of your IP, your work, your thinking.
\n🖇️ The short ‘case study’ just yesterday is all about the problem.
\nMy next post started as a reply to a very good LinkedIN post .. and is a prime example of the ‘too long’ problem. I’ll link to here when it is finished.
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-06T02:54:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/05/friends-dont-let.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","People First","? Links","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/05/forest.html", "content_html": "📸 230905 🖇️ #MBSept
\nThey say that sometimes you can’t see the forest for the tree .. I know what they mean.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/a59ec207a8.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-06T02:20:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/05/forest.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/04/orange.html",
"content_html": "📸 230904 🖇️ #MBSept
\nOrange isn’t my go to fruit for a good cocktail, but they do still work.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cf58f7fe2f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-05T15:57:08+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/04/orange.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/03/mbsept-there-is.html",
"content_html": "📸 230903 🖇️ #MBSept
\nThere is nothing more precious
\n![\"There](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ef54f8802f.jpg\")
📸 230902 🖇️ #MBSept
\nAt an Unconference buildup is the process of assembling the agenda.
\n![\"At](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/9b55be04f1.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-09-03T04:44:12+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/02/buildup.html",
"tags": ["? Photographs","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/01/first-up-on.html",
"content_html": "🔗 First Up on Manu’s new series - our very own Manton Reece
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-02T07:22:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/01/first-up-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/01/mbsept-an-extract.html", "content_html": "📸 230901 🖇️ #MBSept
\nAn extract of some abstract wallpaper.
\n![\"An](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/200104b9da.jpg\")
📺 Secret Invasion
\n… and while we are on the topic of ‘🖇️ back stories’ of movie franchises … it’s got Samuel J - so definitely not bad - but also not the greatest.
\n\n\n\n
![\"Show](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/fd450a3a17.jpg\")
📺 Obi-Wan Kenobi
\nHistorically not been a big watcher of the Star Wars franchise. Sure I have watched them - but not ‘religiously’ - so expert in the story arc I am not. That said - I really like the back story series that they have been producing. (Even 🖇️ Boba Fett - despite my review at the time and definitely 🖇️ The Mandalorian)
\n\n\n\n
![\"Show](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f678147663.jpg\")
\n\nThings on the internet can be forever, but you can’t assume someone else will keep them going, especially when it’s stuff like video, which costs real money to host. If you love something, try to get a local copy and store it on a hard drive you control.
\n
💬 Matt Birchler
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-31T05:43:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/things-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/that-old-argument.html", "title": "That Old Argument That AI Won't Replace ‘Whole’ People", "content_html": "I agree with Matt on this one - and then go on to explain why I disagree. Trust me … it will make sense.
\n[🔗 Birchtree](birchtree.me/blog/chat got-still-hasnt-taken-all-those-jobs/)
\n\n\nI continue to think that these generative tools are good for augmenting certain workflows, but replacing whole people is going to be very unusual. We’ll see, though.
\n
💬 Matt Birchler
\nI would agree - but that isn’t what is going to happen.
\nIf you have thirty people in a department’ and AI makes you 10% ‘more efficient’ - a company now only needs 27 people.
\nRepeat.
\nAcross all departments, Across all companies. Across all industries.
\nOf course some departments are going to be more affected than others. For example If you are working on a help desk where your job is to answer questions in a call center … well - firstly, that 10% estimate is going to be a lot higher. So - what do you think is going to happen?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-31T05:27:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/that-old-argument.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/kanopy-stream-classic.html", "content_html": "🔗 Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries - it’s like Libby for Film.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-31T05:16:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/kanopy-stream-classic.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/if-you-are.html", "content_html": "If you are keeping up, you will know that I use 🔗 to highlight links to other places on the web. This morning I am introducing 🖇️ to highlight links to this blog. Like here. - there will need to be a limited amount of revisiting older posts to ‘make it so’. But the ‘rule’ is already in place.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-31T05:09:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/if-you-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/coming-to-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Coming to a channel near you
\nNot Just The Majors …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.53.462x.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.53.462x.png\")
But Also The Minors …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.54.152x.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cleanshot-2023-08-29-at-15.54.152x.png\")
I killed Wordpress on 🔗 Philpin.com this morning - and now hand crafting my own HTML and CSS. Don’t get too excited - my work is not rocket science.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-30T05:36:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/29/i-killed-wordpress.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/28/silicon-valley-elites.html", "content_html": "🔗 Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city. … because of course they are.
\n\n\nThe project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.
\n
Not clear how very much each put into the pot - but to remind - Andreesen is very big into land and property development. (🔗 Me back in August last year referencing his stake in ‘WeWork redux) - and who his wife’s dad was.
\nSurprised not to see Thiel there.
\nSurprised to see Lauren there.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-29T09:33:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/28/silicon-valley-elites.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/more-musk-manure.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ More Musk Manure … interview with Ronan Farrow after his New Yorker piece.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-27T14:12:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/more-musk-manure.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/vivek-ramaswamy-says.html", "content_html": "🔗 Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser.
\nOh FFS … just what we need …
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-27T11:39:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/vivek-ramaswamy-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/i-do-like.html", "content_html": "🔗 I do like what Montaigne does - but I have no idea how I might really use it.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-27T09:08:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/i-do-like.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/not-read-much.html", "content_html": "Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer ‘hot’ (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to ‘sing along’ - 🔗 🎵 there’s a web site for that.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/245e47335c.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-27T08:01:17+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/not-read-much.html",
"tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/japanese-nail-houses.html",
"content_html": "\nSpectacular idea of how just one person can stand up and be counted.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-27T07:11:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/japanese-nail-houses.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/25/ouch.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/c0a3c8f380.jpg\")
\n\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-26T15:11:17+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/25/ouch.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/25/apple-pay-cant.html",
"title": "Apple Pay can’t beat Visa and can’t touch PayPal for popularity",
"content_html": "\nI expected more from William Gallagher. And myself for that matter.
\nPlease Read Comments Before Spending Time Reading This.
\nI could have deleted it - but leaving it as a reminder to be more careful.
\n🔗 Apple Pay can’t beat Visa and can’t touch PayPal for popularity
\nSure - total sense - except …
\nVisa was founded in the late 50s, Mastercard mid 60s, Paypal at the end of last century, while Apple Pay hasn’t been around for 10 years yet, unlike Google Pay that has been around for 12 years and not even on the list.
\nPLUS Apple Pay is not available to all people - you have to have an iOS device.
\nWith that in mind - if I was in one of those other companies - I would be looking very closely at what ‘we’ are doing wrong.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/20347de83c.jpg\")
",
"date_published": "2023-08-26T10:43:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/25/apple-pay-cant.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/25/i-am-exploring.html",
"content_html": "🔗 I am exploring this more (Medium - sorry)
\n\n\npUNk doesn’t ask for permission or seek forgiveness.
\n
\n\npUNk is and does. It is who we are in our being and our thinking and our action.
\n
\n\nYes — pUNk is notoriously brash but we need brashness now more than ever. We need the crazies, the ones who are positively disrupting, the thoughtful ones who are not hidebound by tradition or phased by the unknowns.
\n
More to come as I bottom out where this is headed - but is one of three separate groups of people that have passed through the ‘Philpin Philters’ this week.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-26T09:26:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/25/i-am-exploring.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/25/kremlin-denies-putin.html", "content_html": "🔗 Kremlin denies Putin ordered plane crash to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin
\n… well they are hardly going to put their hands up and say “it was us” are they?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-26T05:34:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/25/kremlin-denies-putin.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/in-just-one.html", "content_html": "In just one week - another domain in my life is not renewed and the work there archived … not to the 🔗 BIG archive … no … 🔗 right here
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-25T08:12:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/in-just-one.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/on-this-day.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-08-25T06:15:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/on-this-day.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/the-real-republican.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Real Republican Debate Winner Was Clear, in One Sense (Apple News)
\n\n\nPrior to the debate, his name recognition was so low among voters that he offered $20 gift cards to anyone who donated a dollar to his campaign to meet the threshold of 40,000 individual donors needed to earn him a spot in the debate.
\n
Hashtag #Winning !
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-25T06:06:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/the-real-republican.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/subway-sold-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Subway sold to Arbys and Dunkin owner Roark Capital (Apple News)
\n\n\nRoark Capital, which has $37 billion under management, specializes in franchised businesses and owns multiple restaurant chains. Its brands include Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John’s and Sonic.
\n
Why is this allowed? Isn’t this the exact consolidation of power in a market that the FCC is meant to be watching?
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-25T06:03:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/subway-sold-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/if-you-were.html", "content_html": "If you were in need of a new source for good quotes … well, I just stumbled over 🔗 this.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-25T05:55:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/if-you-were.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/23/css-frustrations-hope.html", "content_html": "CSS Frustrations - hope some passing good samaritan might help …
\nCan anybody tell me why I can’t get the ‘cite’ element on this page : 🖇️ https://john.philpin.com/2020/01/05/people-kevin.html to move over to the right?
\nIt SHOULD look the same as this
\n🖇️ https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/robert-f-kennedy.html - where I have used my usual tag ‘attribution’
\nI have tried
\nWeasel Insurance
\n\n\nIf your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed. But if it’s ruined by floodwaters, your renters policy won’t cover it.
\n
( 🔗Apple News)
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-24T10:23:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/23/weasel-insurance-if.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/23/simon-cowell-sells.html", "content_html": "🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.
\nHe was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-24T10:11:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/23/simon-cowell-sells.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/21/someone-paid-almost.html", "content_html": "🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari
\nPuts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-22T12:20:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/21/someone-paid-almost.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/21/they-used-to.html", "content_html": "They used to be ‘deplorables’ Is ‘listless vessel’ a promotion?
\n🔗 Ron DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels’ in Republican broadside.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-22T12:12:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/21/they-used-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/21/in-photos-tropical.html", "content_html": "🔗 In photos: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flooding and mudslides California - The Washington Post
\nI guess WaPo had a photographer on hand in Coachella Valley. Hardly anything about LA.
\n![\"Coachella](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/88bbc4f8ed.jpg\")
That riverbed is normally dry.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-22T11:58:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/21/in-photos-tropical.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/david-merfield-and.html", "title": "David Merfield and Blot Once More Deliver. Simple Solution - but QUITE BRILLIANT", "content_html": "Blot Delivers. Again.
\n🖇️ Back in 2020 I wrote this. Then just a few days ago 🔗 I asked again … this time I also pinged David.
\nThe nub?
\nHow it would be really useful when on a public page on a blot site - e.g. this one - to be able to have a single click that takes you to the file in dropbox - which you could then edit and save, so updating the site.
\nThe current method is to take note of whatever the content is - open up dropbox and navigate to the file, which may - or may not - be as easy as it sounds. For me - because of how I structured my dropbox - it is generally a pain in the neck.
\nNo More.
\nThanks to David I know have a bookmark that he wrote for me.
\nNow I can click on that book mark and voila - there is the dropbox file.
\nLet me know if you would like the code.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:59:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/david-merfield-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/ai-bots-are.html", "content_html": "🔗 AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles
\n… well, they could hardly be worse - if I am any measure.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:38:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/ai-bots-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/a-lot-of.html", "content_html": "A lot of people look at Italy as a great place to go for a low cost vacation.
\nMeanwhile ….
\n🔗 Italians shun domestic resorts and head to Albania.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:38:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/a-lot-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/about-that-film.html", "content_html": "🎛️ About ’That’ Film
\nI wrote about it back in mid July. 🖇️ Smelt fishy then. Still smells fishy.
\nKafka’s podcast goes ‘off piste’ - but well worth it as it explores what exactly was/is going on with the movie - that’s in part one. In part two - the ‘other side’.
\n\nThe Full Podcast:
\n🎙️ Explained: Sound Of Freedom
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:14:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/about-that-film.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","MyPodcastSnippets","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/18/i-first-read.html", "content_html": "I first read about DEW being ‘the cause’ of the fire the day after the fire started (and I rarely see crackpot stories, unless I am searching.) … more than a week later ….
\n🔗 🌺 Hawaii fires: spread of conspiracy theories reveals tech firms’ failings.
\n.. and a quick search will reveal the distraction from the real problem that is developing.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T05:25:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/i-first-read.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/17/olbermans-opening-salvo.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ Olberman’s opening salvo is absolutely spot on
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-18T12:22:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/17/olbermans-opening-salvo.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/17/top-jokes-at.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Top jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 - British Comedy Guide
\n… don’t let the date fool you. STILL FUNNY.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-18T11:53:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/17/top-jokes-at.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/17/i-think-the.html", "content_html": "I think the ‘🔗 start page’ is there, though I still need to fill in some of the pages on the click through.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-18T06:46:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/17/i-think-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/17/i-get-what.html", "content_html": "I get what Doug Belshaw writes at a big picture level, but thinking of income without the context of cost of living is not useful and maybe misleading.
\nTo quote his quote …
\n\n\nPeople at Income Level 4 earn more than $32 a day. At this Income Level, we find thee richest billion on the planet, who work in jobs that typically require at least 12 years of education – something those on the lower Income Levels cannot currently aspire to.
\n
If you earn $32 each and every day in the good ol' USA - you are earning $11,680 per year - $1,000 per month which is not going to go too far by my calculations.
\n🔗 Income Levels- Doug Belshaw - Thought Shrapnel
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-18T06:18:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/17/i-get-what.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/14/customer-futures-perspective.html", "content_html": "🔗 Customer Futures Perspective: It’s not about your identity - it’s about your identifiers
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-15T10:34:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/14/customer-futures-perspective.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/14/that-said-theres.html", "content_html": "🖇️ That said …. there’s more.
\nNot just ‘topped’.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/97bba942e7.jpg\")
\n‘Tailed’
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/bbc816e00c.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-15T09:56:31+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/14/that-said-theres.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/14/jeopardy-whats-changing.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Jeopardy! - What’s changing amid writers' strike
\nWhat’s changing? Nothing. Same old same old - just repeated and remixed. Sounds like a recipe for massive success.
\nBUT - in light of this - I wonder if writers will want to return to the format when we are all done and dusted?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-15T06:27:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/14/jeopardy-whats-changing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/13/hawaii-has-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 🌺 Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires(🍎 News)
\nCNN has a very different definition for ‘robust’ than I do.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-14T02:38:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/13/hawaii-has-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/12/clarence-thomas-hikes.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Clarence Thomas Hikes Price of Supreme Court Decisions to Keep Pace with Inflation (Apple News)
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-13T04:34:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/12/clarence-thomas-hikes.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/12/from-one-of.html", "content_html": "From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.
\n\n\nAs I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world.
\n
🔗 August 11, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-13T04:33:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/12/from-one-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/daring-fireball-wheres.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Where’s My Fainting Couch?
\n\n\nRelated: Jeremy Vaught registered the @music account on Twitter 16 years ago, and had posted to it frequently. He is a paying Twitter Blue subscriber. And X Corp just took the handle from him, like they did to the guy who had @x. This company is a great and trustworthy partner for individual creators.
\n
The Account in question.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/e1081280af.jpg\")
\nFucker.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T10:43:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/daring-fireball-wheres.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/help-maui.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/b26c08c0d5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-12T05:52:03+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/help-maui.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/nick-cave-the.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248
\n\n\nIn the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.
\n
💬 Nick Cave
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:33:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/nick-cave-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/rebuilding-will-be.html", "content_html": "🔗 Rebuilding will be a huge and costly undertaking, governor says - Honolulu Civil Beat (Apple News).
\nSo much being written comparing this disaster to other disasters around the world U.S.A.
Finally, someone writing about what will make the recover absolutely unique, and very very difficult.
\n\n\nAlso delaying recovery is the fact that Maui is a less populous island in a remote island state. Robert Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, likened the Maui fire to wildfires such as a 2018 blaze that destroyed much of the town of Paradise, California. He said the scale of destruction reminded him of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.\nBut a major difference, he said, is the ability to respond. On the mainland, he said, it’s possible to quickly “muster 3,500 dump trucks” to move rubble.\n“I just can’t do it here,” he said.
\n
🌺
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:16:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/rebuilding-will-be.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/somebody-needs-to.html", "content_html": "Somebody needs to employ me as an analyst.
\nBloomberg : 🔗 WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business.
\nMe : 🔗 Four years ago referencing me from three years before that.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:14:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/somebody-needs-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/marsedit-b-initial.html", "content_html": "🔗 MarsEdit 5.1b1: Initial Mastodon Support … oh - very nice @danielpunkass
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:04:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/marsedit-b-initial.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/rss-continues-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 RSS continues to be so dea…oh…alive and well … shared from my RSS Reader..
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:03:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/rss-continues-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker
\nThe New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.
\nI’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …
\n\n\nThe only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.
\n
PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-11T13:14:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/back-in-the.html", "content_html": "Back in the day when LinkedIN did interesting things.
\n🔗 The post over on my ‘archives’ site
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1c356d4f74.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-11T13:03:54+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/back-in-the.html",
"tags": ["? Links","?????"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/over-on-linkedin.html",
"content_html": "\nA post about Hopin - two years ago valued at $7.75B, core assets just sold at $15M (not typos)
\nFinal paragraph reads;
\n\n\nThat all being said, the person who did come out of this one looking like a true shrewd player is Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin’s founder. He cashed out nine figures worth of secondaries. He played the game like a pro.
\n
… “he played the game like a pro” - and that right there is the problem … VC hubris and stupidity aside.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-11T11:15:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/over-on-linkedin.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/the-county-of.html", "content_html": "The county of Maui hosts a number of tech m/billionaires with ownership of land counted in tens of thousands of acres. Hell, one of them owns 96% of the island just across the strait from Lahaina.
\nI do hope they find their way to seriously helping the island get through this and then really recover … and not just go live in one of their other houses while things ‘settle down’ — whilst offering ‘thoughts and prayers’.
\n\n🌺
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-11T06:46:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/the-county-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/09/is-superlinkme-real.html", "content_html": "Is 🔗 Superlink.Me real?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T18:59:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/09/is-superlinkme-real.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/09/john-naughton-a.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n“A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.”
\n
💬 Benjamin Disraeli
\n\n\n““It is, except that now we have a disorganised one.”
\n
💬 John Naughton
\nBonus on the click through. Posters!
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T08:53:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/09/john-naughton-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/09/the-secret-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Secret to Your Success .. Mark Manson doing what Mark Manson does.
\n… Damn him!
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T08:50:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/09/the-secret-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/08/in-case-you.html", "content_html": "In case you all missed this story ….
\n🔗 Zoom’s Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-09T07:40:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/08/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/08/105125.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/27a484a590.jpg\")
\nPart of an occasional series focused on the 🧶 thinking and methods. of 🧶 People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f377016404.jpg\")
\nPart of an occasional series focused on the 🧶 thinking and methods. of 🧶 People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/645703915e.jpg\")
\nPart of an occasional series focused on the 🧶 thinking and methods. of 🧶 People First. Time will tell if it becomes something bigger like a book or ‘manual for survival’ (though that is the plan.)
\n🔗 Identity as a Product … neat idea from @dave
\n\n\nAn identity service as a business. Operated by a strong company with longevity and a good track record for treating users and developers fairly.
\n
Hmm - let me think who that might be?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-07T09:54:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/06/identity-as-a.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/06/new-acoustic-attack.html", "content_html": "🔗 New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy … just when you thought you had done everything you need …
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-07T09:47:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/06/new-acoustic-attack.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/06/inspired-by-this.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ef87ac0a6e.jpg\")
\nInspired by this Substack by Charles Arthur.
\n🔗 What everyone’s getting wrong about Threads
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-07T04:40:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/06/inspired-by-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/05/over-on-linkedin.html", "content_html": "Over on LinkedIN, 🔗 Richard Foster-Fletcher - founder of 🔗 MKAI asks
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/83c82a459e.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/83c82a459e.jpg\")
The full piece is here
\nI started to reply and of course LinkedIN gave me its usual ‘too long’ message … hence the post. (Those that follow me, might recognize some of the arguments.)
\nYes we do need to rethink work-life balance … and we should start by scrapping the concept entirely. I doubt Ed Sheeran (to pick a random name) worries about his work-life balance? Or anybody who is doing what they love and getting paid to do it for that matter.
\nThe problem is that for most people ‘work’ is not a passion, or love … it is the means to an end of building income that then allows them to follow their passion. Remember ‘hobbies’? Remember ‘holidays’? Remember retirement? … all constructs that allow people to take a break from ‘the machine’ and do what they really want to do.
\nWork-Life balance is one of those. It is only needed in a world where the work part is not your dream, passion, love …. So bring on the AIs and let them pick up the drudgery of our work lives. Let people move on to thinking and doing things that they consider meaningful and love and have a passion for.
\nOf course, this Utopia is destined to fail, without significant changes in the social fabric of society.
\nTake a look at what most musicians, artists, writers (insert the thing you really love and want to do) actually earn and quickly realise that they don’t make a living, much less a good one. Now imagine doubling or trebling the number of people trying to earn a living in that way .. and ask yourself if X million people currently struggle to make a living, how 2X or 3X are going to do that?
\nBonus question. When will corporations stop thinking of customers and staff as two distinct ‘audiences’, and realize that they are all connected, starting with the fact that they are all people. As more companies shed people from their books through automation, outsourcing, off shoring and now (apparently) AI, they get to produce more and more things for customers to buy at less and less cost. Thats the ‘maximizing shareholder value’ bit.
\nLast time I looked, the buying power of the robot market was non existent - primarily because they don’t get paid for the work they do. As ‘the machine’ replaces more and more people by ‘machines’, there will be less and less people earning income to buy the stuff that the corporations are producing, it doesn’t matter how good their product is … nobody can buy it, even if they want to. Then what?
\nThis is why asking what the future of work looks like is asking the wrong question.
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f41eb1ae6f.jpg\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f41eb1ae6f.jpg\")
BTW - Richard hosts an excellent salon under the umbrella of MKAI, hit me up if you would like to join - and I will connect some dots.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-06T07:02:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/05/over-on-linkedin.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/03/idris-elba-and.html", "title": "Idris Elba and I Have Something To Talk About.", "content_html": "Idris Elba Says He Was Held at Gunpoint After Trying to Intervene on Man Threatening Woman
\nTrue story. So was I. A little over 30 years ago … South of Market in San Francisco. (Just in that one sentence you have more information about my story than the linked article tells you about the Idris story)
\nAND I wasn’t even intervening on an argument - I was just ‘hanging’ with my friend.
\nThere were three of them, one with the gun, one watching while the third put his hands into my pockets looking for (I assume) money or a wallet. He found nothing. I don’t know why because the wallet was there. Finding nothing, the one with the gun looked at me intently, staring me down. It seemed to last a lifetime. And then he nodded to his two buddies and off they sauntered. No words spoken. No need.
\nI have had on occasions shared this story with small groups of people - generally when people start going on about how they won’t travel to x or visit y - after they have just heard about some violence in said location … which IMHO is just ridiculous - and why I share it. That said, I have never shared my story in writing, on a blog, into Social Media. For a start - who would be interested? After all, nothing happened. Then nothing happened in the Idris story, where the key point of the piece was …
\n\n\n“He pulled out a gun, stuck it right in my face.”
\n
and
\n\n\nElba didn’t elaborate on the actions he took to talk the man down, or what happened to the woman after the encounter. But given that the actor is able to recollect the instance, the situation seems to have been quelled.
\n
That’s the story - and that qualifies for an entry in 🔗 Entertainment Weekly, The NME, The Daily Mail and hosts of other places
\n\nWhat Makes News? I sense a pattern.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-04T13:16:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/03/idris-elba-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/03/do-your-clients.html", "content_html": "🔗 Do your clients a favor by charging what you’re worth
\nI sense a theme ….
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/3008a0c755.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-04T10:53:33+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/03/do-your-clients.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/03/in-parallel-with.html",
"content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-04T10:26:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/03/in-parallel-with.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/especially-when-the.html", "content_html": "In parallel with the flow I felt my mind disappear into another world. A dream world. A world that I understood and recognized, but knew wasn’t my normal state, in turn begging the question - which one is normal?
\n
🔗 😂 Especially when the trip is sponsored by corporate
\nTruth In Humour
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:46:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/especially-when-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/hollywoods-doom-loop.html", "content_html": "🔗 Hollywood’s doom loop - Brian Morrissey - The Rebooting
\n\n\nVideo is now 65% of all internet traffic
\n
… of course it is. But is that a worthwile measure?
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:45:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/hollywoods-doom-loop.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/and-finally-i.html", "content_html": "\n\nAnd finally I get it.\nAll this planning, all this assessing of sequences and balancing of resources, it all does exactly what outlines do.\nIt lets you feel busy while you put off the actual writing.
\n
💬 William Gallagher
\n\nand
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:41:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/and-finally-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/im-afraid-ill.html", "content_html": "I hadn’t thought of it like that, but the instant it was said to me, I couldn’t disagree.\nI just didn’t do it.
\n
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:37:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/im-afraid-ill.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/how-do-i.html", "content_html": "“I’m afraid I’ll be eating my breakfast one morning and choke and I don’t want to die alone.”
\n
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T03:15:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/how-do-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/the-antidote-to.html", "title": "The Antidote To Worldcoin", "content_html": "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
\n
![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/93d8baf8-871f-4990-8703-b36b52444b1c.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/93d8baf8-871f-4990-8703-b36b52444b1c.png\")
and then there is this ….
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1b3e1fc7-0ebe-4085-99fa-97d7bd83f313.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1b3e1fc7-0ebe-4085-99fa-97d7bd83f313.png\")
… she’s talking about Sam Altman
\n🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.
\n\n\nThe cryptocurrency industry is rife with projects that embrace the idea of “progressive decentralization”: beginning out as a highly centralized project run by a small group, but promising to eventually turn over control of the project to a DAO. Few ever follow through,10 but it is a convenient way to stave off criticism.
\n
💬 Molly White
\nIn my same ‘reading session’ this piece from my friend Alan Mayo : The Reasonable Future: Identity 2.5 appeared. He concludes;
\n\n\nSome of the world is hell-bent on achieving Identity 3 Decentralization and, ironically, this is not going to happen anytime soon. With our current proven technologies we have all the building blocks to build sophisticated Identity solutions that provide a good customer experience and good security. That is where we should be spending our time, rather than dreaming of an impossible future.
\n
💬 Alan Mayo
\nThe Antidote?
\nStop listening to people who are playing both sides of the ‘Business Equation’ - even better … stop acting on their recommendations. Altman isn’t the only one.
\nThis is a 🧶 People First post - to see others in the series, click here.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T07:11:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/the-antidote-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise","? LongForm","People First","MyCrafts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/socialroots-is-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 Socialroots is a ‘worker-owned cooperative business’ and they are working on an interesting problem that is hard to articulate to anyone who hasn’t already experienced the problem they are fixing. #Catch22
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T06:28:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/socialroots-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/is-rock-dead.html", "content_html": "🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)
\nAn interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ff45d14c6b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-08-01T04:49:52+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/is-rock-dead.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/i-cant-believe.html",
"content_html": "🔗 ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol (Apple News)
\n… of course they are - keeps the wages down.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T03:52:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/i-cant-believe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/dear-rishi-sunak.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dear Rishi Sunak, you’ve declared war on people who want to curb car use. It’s one you’ll lose.
\nIt’s fascinating how parochial the ‘right’ are.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T03:52:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/dear-rishi-sunak.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/at-i-go.html", "content_html": "🔗 At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row.
\nInspired.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T03:51:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/at-i-go.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/put-learners-first.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools.
\nI would argue misguided. What say you?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-31T10:21:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/30/put-learners-first.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/censorshipresistant-publishing-for.html", "content_html": "🔗 Censorship-resistant publishing for the web
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-31T08:22:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/30/censorshipresistant-publishing-for.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/im-no-fan.html", "content_html": "I’m no fan of CardiB’s music .. but with her all the way on her 🔗 reaction to the dick in the Audience who threw his drink at her … it really is time to hold people accountable for their actions … 🖇️ like Gaga.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-31T04:44:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/30/im-no-fan.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/29/more-to-come.html", "content_html": "More to come on the ongoing site changes, but my podcast can now be found on my 🎙️Philpin domain - and if I can get Substack to fix their bug, it will soon there, which is part of the reason why my newsletter is no longer called a newsletter - but rather 🔗 a ‘Substack’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-30T05:56:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/29/more-to-come.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/28/about-two-minutes.html", "content_html": "About two minutes in and already this 🔗 NOSTR client makes more sense than others I have used.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-29T07:01:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/28/about-two-minutes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/27/we-are-watching.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nFor British tourists still flying to Greece while it is on fire and a few holdout news organisations, the answer seems to be to look away or deflect.
\n
No No No - you have it all wrong.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/f13c4b5882.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-07-28T03:39:07+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/27/we-are-watching.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/27/linda-yaccarino-does.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Linda Yaccarino: does Twitter’s CEO have the most difficult job in tech.
\nDon’t know. Don’t care. It’s not as if she could have been blindsided.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-28T03:14:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/27/linda-yaccarino-does.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/26/another-entry-into.html", "content_html": "Another entry into the Encyclopedia of ‘what could possibly go wrong’.
\n\n\n\nCaptures everything you’ve seen on your Mac and iPhone and makes it searchable with AI. Your colleagues will wonder how you do it all.
\n
I will wonder why you did it at all?
\nTo be fair, I haven’t read their ToCs. In fact I don’t even know if there are any. I just wonder how many people will do as they ask without thinking things through.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-27T10:10:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/26/another-entry-into.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/26/weve-talked-about.html", "content_html": "We’ve talked about 🔗 Anti Libraries (un-libraries, non-libraries) in the past. Adding this one to the ‘canon’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-27T09:56:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/26/weve-talked-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/26/this-substack-about.html", "content_html": "This Substack about 🔗 Upside Down Maps reminded me of this episode of 📼 Map Men on YouTube
\nDefinitely more information in the article - but Map Men is far more entertaining.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-07-27T09:53:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/26/this-substack-about.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/26/digital-typography-technology.html", "content_html": "
🔗 Digital Typography Technology: The Cold War TrueType Created
\nI know there are all kind of ‘font people’ out there - including @pimoore (who I am guessing knows all this already), but I thought it made for an interesting history lesson.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-27T09:51:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/26/digital-typography-technology.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/25/of-media-and.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/bd3d4799be.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-07-26T03:13:22+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/25/of-media-and.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/25/arc-is-out.html",
"content_html": "\n",
"date_published": "2023-07-26T03:12:08+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/25/arc-is-out.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/25/we-all-do.html",
"content_html": "We all do what we can.
\n🔗 Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation.
\n🔗 AOC joins Hollywood picket line in New York: ‘Solidarity is stronger than greed’
\nWhilst they do what they can …
\n\n\nIt’s incredibly damaging for everybody in terms of the big epics
\n
💬 Mark Borkowski
\n.. because of course, Mark is a PR Agent and I presume his business is suffering, read more in this piece;
\n🔗 ‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-26T03:00:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/25/we-all-do.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/24/cracked-it-he.html", "title": "Cracked It. He is a Misogynist. Pure and Simple.", "content_html": "\n… and actually a hell of a lot more. Now, with the calm of the morning, and many days behind me, I have had time to reflect on this 🖇️ ’Journal Storm’ and understand a little more about what was going on.
\nIt had been a long hot day, Margarita’s and a bite to eat were necessary - so we decided to hit a local bar for Happy Hour. Jax was finishing off some errand, so I went ahead, sat down in a couple of corner seats, ordered a Margarita, some ‘bites’ and waited. I looked around and observed the other patrons - you know - as you do.
\nAll was what we would expect, except for one guy who’s behavior with the bar staff was weird. He clearly had an issue about how he was being served. ’Spidey senses up’ … he was definitely more antagonistic to the one woman bar keep than the two male ones. Just an observation. Thought nothing of it. No words were exchanged.
\n15 minutes in, Jax appeared, extended the food order, modified the margarita order (as she does, it is her prerogative) and we were off to the races.
\nNot sure how it all started, but before I knew it Jax was in conversation with this same dude. I paid no attention - just earwigging. Climate Change, Immigration, American Exceptionalism, Biden’s lies, Democratic corruption were all terms that he brought into the conversation seemingly from nowhere. I nudged Jax and suggested she just let him go. He wasn’t worth the time. She wanted to explore. Before long I was brought in to the flow - since he was making some pretty outlandish statements about Climate Change … I offered an opinion … and was rapidly ‘closed down’. I disengaged. Jax continued, developing the ‘conversation’ to how climate change has a strong link to human migration and so trafficking (very much her world), and that rapidly morphed into him going on about ‘IMMIGRATION’, ‘BIDEN’, ‘WALL’ and … Jax pointed out to him that whatever your politics, it is clear that … he cut her off - asking her how she knew more than ‘experts’.
\nI couldn’t resist, so I once more interjected … and asked whether he wanted to listen to what she had to say, because she actually is an expert. He shut up for two seconds and then asked her if she had seen ‘that movie’ … I drifted off and he’s once again in full force telling here that ‘she is no expert - and how can she possibly know what she is talking about … I tried to pull her out again. Failed …
\nThe dude went on about something or other … I didn’t care what and pointedly got out my phone and posted this (to clarify - the ‘they’ referred to in that post was actually Jax - not sure why I said ‘they’).
\nThe conversation lecture continued and then he leant over to me and said ‘high five’? Holding out his hand, grinning. I ignored him. ‘fist bump’? … changing his hand formation.
I continued to ignore him and Jax told him that she knows me and ‘he isn’t going to do that’.
\nHis voice raised (I assume that was so he made sure that I heard) …
\n\n\nYou see this is the problem - how can we ever discuss things we disagree about if people don’t engage.
\n
I had had enough and asked the barkeep if there was another part of the bar we could move to. (No, sorry, full).
\nA quiet exchange with Jax … and then I looked directly at the dude and said …
\n\n\n“You are spouting such a pile of crap that I am no longer in this conversation.”
\n
… and walked out to the deck.
\nI was there for about ten minutes and got a text from Jax to meet her ‘downstairs’.
\nI did.
\nThe next few days, Jax kept going back to the conversation. Why was he like that? Why was he so rude? How could I have been different? (She’s good at that - I should learn from her more.) Slowly what happened in those ten minutes emerged … sadly he had got to her … like crap on your pants.
\nThat was last week - thankfully, she now seems to have got over it.
\nI haven’t. I better not see him again.
\nWhat follows I can only report on because Jax stayed for an additional ten minutes.
\n🔗 An open voice mail to @manton from @dave - I have no idea if it all makes sense … BUT … some of you all might? 12 minutes and 54 seconds.
\n\n\nYou (‘Manton’) do an unbelievable job in supporting APIs
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-25T05:20:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/24/an-open-voice.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/24/if-you-read.html", "content_html": "If you read ‘Umair’, you know this - but this is not from Umair, but rather Sam Bowman.
\n\n\n\nSam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a principal at Fingleton, and executive director of the Adam Smith Institute.
\n
🔗 Britain is a developing country
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-25T05:18:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/24/if-you-read.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/24/something-happened-not.html", "content_html": "🔗 Something Happened - not the book - as JP is quick to point out - but rather a cricket match where ‘rain stop play’ … and yet somehow so much went on.
\nI know there are few cricket fans out there … trust me, it will resonate - and I am not even a fan!
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-25T05:07:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/24/something-happened-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/minimalist.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T09:19:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/minimalist.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/we-could-soon.html", "content_html": "\nNot sure I agree. Do you?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T03:50:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/we-could-soon.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/i-survived-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
\nOver three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T03:45:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/i-survived-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/mumbling-actors-bad.html", "content_html": "Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
\n
🔗 Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on.
\n… picked up on Scripting.com - and missed it at the time (January) … but 💯 … adding bad sound people / sound mixing to the list.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T03:28:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/mumbling-actors-bad.html", "tags": ["? Links","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/why-americas-largest.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (Apple News)
\nFollow on question.
\nIf America can’t make wrenches - how are they going to crack Semiconductors?
\nAnd with #NoIrony
\nThe machines in the ‘Made in America’ factory to make the wrenches were made in Belarus.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-24T03:22:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/why-americas-largest.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/21/what-is-wormgpt.html", "content_html": "🔗 What Is WormGPT And How To Use It: Explained
\n\n\nA hacker has made his own maliciously inclined version of ChatGPT: Introducing WormGPT, a chatbot created to help online criminals.
\n
.. because of course there is!
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-22T09:56:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/21/what-is-wormgpt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/20/i-hope-this.html", "content_html": "I hope this isn’t AI …
\nAND - if you don’t want to click through to Twitter I understand - so 🖇️ click here.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-07-21T09:19:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/20/i-hope-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/20/i-am-looking.html", "content_html": "Dear Lady Gaga - you are my hero. ♥️♥️♥️ pic.twitter.com/RfyqxffFmU
— ᒪᗩᑎᑕᗴ 🏳️🌈 (@LanceUSA70) July 20, 2023
I am looking for a good resource for images of 3d models that I can use and easily edit to add to a presentation in Keynote.
\n🔗 This is is one such resource but it doesn’t have what I need - at least that I can find - any and all help welcome.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-21T07:37:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/20/i-am-looking.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/18/the-microblogging-ecosystem.html", "content_html": "🔗 The microblogging ecosystem post Twitter
\n\n\nThere won’t be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform’s decline has opened up the world of microblogging.
\n
💬 Adam Tinsworth
\nNice summary from @adders on the state of whatever it is that the ‘Twitter Wars’ are all about. My take - he’s not wrong. I often reference Timothy Ruff on this …
\n![\"Protocols](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0ca7e2526d.jpg\")
.. though he in turn says we should thank Mike Masnick for the wisdom. Either way, what we all should be rooting for includes ‘open’, ‘portable’, ‘transparent’, you know … all the stuff that people should care about - but somehow the vast majority seem not to.
\nProtocols are the answer. The trick will need the corporations to give way on their walled garden mentality and the engineers building this brave new world to understand that the other 99.999999999% of the world won’t do it if it is ‘too hard’ - and ‘too hard’ means for the average person - not the MIT rocket scientist.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-19T04:59:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/18/the-microblogging-ecosystem.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/17/ive-moved-my.html", "content_html": "I’ve moved my 🔗 Substack to philpin.com - and renamed it as part of a bigger move to close down yet another domain and consolidate my online world at that URL.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-18T09:33:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/17/ive-moved-my.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/six-rightwing-activists.html", "content_html": "🔗 Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges.
\n… the surprise for me is that they were allowed, that nobody questioned it, that it goes by unnoticed.
\nWhere do I get the gun?
\nOh that’s right …. Anywhere.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T11:07:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/six-rightwing-activists.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/digital-ids-are.html", "content_html": "🔗 Digital IDs are coming and they are worse than you think.
\nI’ve already commented on Substack.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T10:42:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/digital-ids-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html", "content_html": "![\"Nantucket](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/96c4cec487.jpg\")
\n🎵 Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain is a massively important album to yours truly - part of my formative years if you will.
\nTIL what a 🔗 Nantucket Sleighride actually is …. thanks to the 🎙️Freakonomics podcast
\n🤯
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-16T07:36:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/13/fda-approves-first.html", "content_html": "🔗 FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill.
\n🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-14T02:36:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/13/fda-approves-first.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/12/wife-of-huw.html", "content_html": "🔗 Wife of Huw Edwards names him as BBC presenter at centre of allegations.
\n\n\nOfficers at Scotland Yard have now concluded there is no evidence to support this allegation leaving the Sun facing questions about its reporting
\n
Sue them. Close them down. It won’t make any difference. This is the same shit show that gave us the douche Piers Morgan and he’s back there spewing his usual crap.
\nIt won’t make a difference because It’s another Murdoch gutter tabloid.
\n🍿.. only one because despite the expected hoopla and outrage, nothing will happen to the mawho allows this crap to keep on rolling.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-13T08:34:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/12/wife-of-huw.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/12/gosh-darn-i.html", "content_html": "Gosh darn … I was so taken by 🔗 this conversation today that it rather unusually derailed my routine. 🖇️ I am now back on track … and also rather unusually (first time?) this morning my extract is from the source material, not Ryan’s summary.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-13T04:00:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/12/gosh-darn-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/11/it-would-be.html", "content_html": "🎬 It would be around 1,315 days - cant be more exact, because I am not sure of the first date, since I last went to a Theater to watch a movie.
\nThe movie back in late 2019 was Knives Out, yesterday’s was Asteroid City. (I only reviewed 🖇️ Knives Out 2) - 3 stars and flagged as better than 1 if that gives you a clue.
\nBoth coincidentally featured an ‘ensemble cast’. (I don’t make a habit of those kinds of movies.)
\nBut the funny thing is that we saw last night’s movie with the same couple that we saw Knives Out. That is the only time we have been to the movies with those friends and the only time we have been to that particular Theater.
\nLike pandemic bookends.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-12T05:03:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/11/it-would-be.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/11/the-app-store.html", "content_html": "\n… turns out I was late to the party … my first ‘purchases’ didn’t happen until January 9th the following year.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-12T03:45:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/11/the-app-store.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/10/theres-a-movie.html", "content_html": "🎬 There’s a movie out there just released called the 🔗 Sound of Freedom
\nGood reviews on IMDB … serious subject … but it seems to this observer that it is being artificially promoted. I’ve also had some back chatter that all is not what it seems.
\nAny thoughts from those that read this post?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-11T05:59:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/10/theres-a-movie.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/10/popular-phrases-in.html", "content_html": "Popular phrases in my world …
\n\n\nI play the guitar - I am not a guitarist
\n
and
\n\n\nI write - I am not a writer
\n
… so I read Manu’s 🔗 new post with interest.
\n\n\nI am not a speaker and chances are you’re not one either. And yet you’re probably speaking with other people constantly in your life without giving it a second thought.
\n
💬 Manuel Moreale
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-11T04:00:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/10/popular-phrases-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/10/humans-beating-ai.html", "content_html": "Humans beating AI
\n🔗 Traffic cones vs. self-driving cars.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-11T03:56:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/10/humans-beating-ai.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/07/investors-bought-nearly.html", "content_html": "🔗 Investors Bought Nearly $1 Billion in Land Near a California Air Force Base. Officials Want to Know Who Exactly They Are. (Apple News) … move along now … nothing to see here.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-08T05:22:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/07/investors-bought-nearly.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/07/102150.html", "content_html": "🔗 The 20 best podcasts ever. … I was going to retitle this the 20 podcasts I have never listened to and then just at the end I spotted one that I do listen to every now and then .. depending on time and guest.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-08T05:21:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/07/102150.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/07/spill-another-one.html", "content_html": "🔗Spill - another one.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-08T04:48:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/07/spill-another-one.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/06/how-canada-saved.html", "content_html": "🔗 How Canada Saved My Life (And Why It Still Matters) - Umair Haque
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-07T07:33:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/06/how-canada-saved.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/06/australian-minister-calls.html", "content_html": "🔗 Australian minister calls Donald Trump Jr a ‘big baby’ over canceled tour.
\nTurns out he did have a visa.
\nTurns out people just didn’t want to listen to him.
\nJust one question … Can we cancel him here aswell?
\nOk …2 questions … When is he being arrested?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-07T07:31:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/06/australian-minister-calls.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/06/as-i-start.html", "content_html": "As I start the next journey with the next network over on 🔗 Threads, a song from the Moody Blues comes to mind.
\nWatching and waiting
\nFor a friend to play with
\nWhy have I been alone so long
\nMole he is burrowing his way to the sunlight
\nHe knows there’s some there so strong.
‘Cause here there’s lot of room for doing
\nThe thing you’ve always been denied
\nLook and gather all you want to
\nThere’s no one here to stop you trying
Soon you will see me
\n‘Cause I’ll be all around you
\nBut where I come from I can’t tell
\nBut don’t be alarmed by my fields and my forests
\nThey’re here for only you to share
‘Cause here there’s lot of room for doing
\nThe things you’ve always been denied
\nSo look and gather all you want to
\nThere’s no one here to stop you trying
Watching and waiting
\nFor someone to understand me
\nI hope it won’t be very long
🔗 Judge Orders Biden Officials to Limit Contact With Social-Media Companies (WSJ via Apple News)
\n… because of course the prior guy didn’t do anything like that.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T05:24:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/judge-orders-biden.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/05/fireworks-never-thought.html", "content_html": "🔗 Fireworks … never thought of them like this.
\n@dave is not wrong.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T05:22:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/fireworks-never-thought.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/05/ibm-red-hat.html", "content_html": "🔗 IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall
\n.. back in June apparently. Missed that at the time.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T05:20:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/ibm-red-hat.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/05/the-mostly-forgotten.html", "content_html": "🔗 The (Mostly) Forgotten Battle For American Independence…in Yorkshire.
\nAs a kid I visited Flamborough Head a lot. Family day trips and all that. But I still liked it enough to have also returned there as an adult - albeit a while back now.
\n… and yet I never knew this. #AlwaysLearning
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T05:20:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/the-mostly-forgotten.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/05/english-tourist-accused.html", "content_html": "🔗 English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age.
\nThe ignorance we breed is extraordinary.
\nIt also means that if it was brand new … he sees no problem.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T01:58:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/english-tourist-accused.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/04/people-hire-phone.html", "content_html": "🔗 People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers (Apple News … but it makes me happy.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-05T02:38:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/04/people-hire-phone.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/04/overnight-shootings-in.html", "content_html": "🔗 Overnight shootings in Pennsylvania and Texas mar Fourth of July festivities.
\nI’m sorry .. What?
\nMar?
\nTo mar your 4th July festivities would be that it rained on your barbecue. Next they’ll be reporting about the ’inconvenience’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-05T02:38:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/04/overnight-shootings-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/i-think-louisiana.html", "content_html": "I think Louisiana has a Dem as Governor and the rest are Rethuglicans. Just earlier today I referenced 🖇️ North Carolina sailing towards being a second Florida.
\nHold that in your mind as you read that the 🔗 Decline in Budweiser Beer Sales has lead to the Closure of Two Bottle Factories in the South. … specifically the closures are in those two States. In that same article I read …
\n\n\nMunhall also said the closures may also be connected to a conservative boycott of Bud Light.
\n
Which in turn got me to wondering how many conservatives in those two states helped impact those closures through the boycott are now directly jobless or will soon be suffering financially because of the inevitable knock on effect.
\nI think I might enter the entire Republican voting base for the Darwin Awards.
\nSeperately, it is increasingly clear that the Dems should just step back and watch the ‘alternative’ just self destruct.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T12:13:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/i-think-louisiana.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/on-the-state.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI don’t know what’s going to come out of this moment but I do hope more people realize that human connections are still available out there. You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people. You can still set up a forum dedicated to something you’re passionate about and create a community with 50 other people, even if Reddit turns to shit. Things can live on the web simply because enough people care about them and pour time and love into them. And that is what makes the web special.
\n
💬 Manuel Moreale
\nReminded me very much of What Is The Small Web
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T09:50:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/on-the-state.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/is-north-carolina.html", "content_html": "🔗 Is North Carolina Going to Become Like Ron DeSantis’s Florida?
\n… certainly seems to be 🖇️ heading that way.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T09:44:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/is-north-carolina.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/they-lied-about.html", "content_html": "🔗 They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
\n\n\nWasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago? Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power? Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral? Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy.
\n
💬 Chris Hedges
\nSomewhere on this blog there is a link that connects to this.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T09:42:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/they-lied-about.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/if-you-think.html", "content_html": "If you think your HOA is overly prescriptive, if not downright authoritarian, try this on for size.
\n🔗 The housing community that will require ‘patriots’ to fly the US flag.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T03:33:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/if-you-think.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/will-el-nio.html", "content_html": "🔗 Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
\n… who knows … but it sure doesn’t look good.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T03:29:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/will-el-nio.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/02/get-it-got.html", "content_html": "🔗 Get it, got it, good. … Gallagher reminding us that brevity is the soul of wit.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T21:25:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/02/get-it-got.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/01/jack-dorsey-says.html", "content_html": "🔗 Jack Dorsey Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Can and Will’ Win Presidential Election., or to put another way ‘one nut job says another nut job can and will win Presidential election’.
\n\n\n“Kennedy is also a strong proponent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency for which Dorsey has long been an evangelist.”
\n
…aaahhh …
\nTHAT explains it.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T12:04:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/01/jack-dorsey-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/01/delaware-house-oks.html", "content_html": "🔗 Delaware House OKs Measure Allowing Big Corporations to Vote in Local Elections.
\n… because you know - corporations are people too.
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T12:02:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/01/delaware-house-oks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/01/a-couple-of.html", "content_html": "A couple of useful help links that I am dropping in here to revisit.
\n🔗 How to Recursively Find All Files in Directories/Subfolders by Wildcards
\n🔗 How to Remove Amazon Kindle Ebook DRM in 2023 … thankyou @pcora
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T05:44:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/01/a-couple-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/01/you-know-that.html", "content_html": "You know that thing about ‘owning your own server’ and if not at least ‘owning your own domain’? How you should think about managing and controlling your online presence as part of your identity?
\nTurns out that it isn’t just corporates that can screw you over. Turns out that Harvard has done exactly that. To their Berkman alumni no less and one of the URLs caught out in the move is a listserve and blog that talks about the importance of identity.
\nAaaah the irony.
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T05:31:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/01/you-know-that.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/01/about-apples-latest.html", "title": "About Apple's Latest Milestone - The THREE BILLION ONE", "content_html": "Noting that Apple just passed the THREE TRILLION Market Cap this past week - I remember all the hoopla when It passed the ONE TRILLION Market Cap threshold - but I hadn’t realised that it was as recent as 2018 - just slightly less than 5 years ago. Seems like just ‘yesterday’.
\nTripling Market cap in three years is impressive enough. Doing that when you are the largest Market Cap in the world …
\n\n\nOn Aug. 2, 2018, Apple (AAPL) made history by becoming the world’s first publicly traded company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
\n
Somehow I also didn’t know that ‘the return’ was as close to Cook’s starting date as this;
\nBut I do remember some older history, because I am old enough now and close enough then to recall ‘the noise’ at the time.
\n\n\nOctober 6, 1997: Michael Dell makes an infamously bleak appraisal of Apple’s fortunes. Asked what he would do with the struggling company, the founder of Dell Inc. says he would “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
\n
(Who’s Michael Dell again?)
\nMarch 1997 : 🔗 Ellison still wants Apple
\nThis a headline after Steve’s close friend Larry J Ellison suggested to Steve that he just buys Apple outright - award Steve 25% of the stock - and ‘get Apple back to its rightful position.
\nSteve talked him out of it.
\nI am going to guess (we will never know) that had Larry bought Apple - it would not have become the company it is today.
\nDate wise, this time also marked the end of LJE’s baby sitter’s (literally) rise through the ranks of Oracle - his last position running the division responsible for putting Oracle on the Mac (pause for a moment while you contemplate that idea). Marc Benioff then went on to start Salesforce. I wonder if he would have rejoined Apple had Larry bought the company?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-02T05:18:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/01/about-apples-latest.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/30/judges-ban-bolsonaro.html", "content_html": "🔗 Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’.
\n.. see how it works America?
\n", "date_published": "2023-07-01T06:01:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/30/judges-ban-bolsonaro.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/27/wittgenstiein-vs-socrates.html", "content_html": "🔗 😂 Wittgenstiein vs Socrates - Existential Comics
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-28T05:16:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/27/wittgenstiein-vs-socrates.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/27/another-opening-another.html", "content_html": "🔗 Another Opening, Another Show - by Dana F. Blankenhorn … #SpotOn
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-28T05:16:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/27/another-opening-another.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/26/ignoring-your-own.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ignoring your own hits in the tinylytics.app
\n.. I was wondering!
\nThankyou @vincent
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-27T06:16:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/26/ignoring-your-own.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/25/desantis-proves-he.html", "content_html": "DeSantis proves he is a loser.
\nWhen I first arrived in San Francisco from the UK years and years and years ago - one of my favorite late night haunts was Hamburger Mary’s. Life moved on - didn’t go anymore and never really thought about them until this morning when I read that they took DeSantis to court and won over one of his stupid ‘laws’.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-26T04:00:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/25/desantis-proves-he.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/24/saturday-morning-breakfast.html", "content_html": "🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inflation for some light relef.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-25T05:11:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/saturday-morning-breakfast.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/24/ffs-texas-governor.html", "content_html": "FFS : 🔗 Texas governor signs bill rescinding water breaks as deadly heat grips state | Texas | The Guardian … yet totally unsurprised.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-25T04:59:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/ffs-texas-governor.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/24/i-know-there.html", "content_html": "📝 I know there are a few typewriter people in here that will enjoy this ….
\n🔗 I can’t write unless the typewriter is rattling
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-25T04:56:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/i-know-there.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/23/does-anyone-else.html", "content_html": "\nDoes anyone else see this behaviour? I have posted the issue to help in the past, but it seems to get worse - not better. Am I an edge case? (The video is only a few seconds long.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-24T05:28:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/23/does-anyone-else.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/23/doc-searls-outlining.html", "content_html": "🔗 Doc Searls : Outlining vs. Formatting
\nvia @dave
\nNot a new post - but highlights how the hijacking of language reaps confusion.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-24T03:47:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/23/doc-searls-outlining.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/21/daring-fireball-regulation.html", "content_html": "🔗 Daring Fireball: Regulation for Thee, but Not for Me
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-22T04:16:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/21/daring-fireball-regulation.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/21/learned-of-macwhisper.html", "content_html": "Learned of 🔗 MacWhisper from Om Malik - downloading even as I type.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-22T03:16:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/21/learned-of-macwhisper.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/paging-fastmail-users.html", "content_html": "
Paging FastMail users … I have never heard of 🔗 Morgen, have you?
\nFastmail are making a big thing of integrating with Morgen.
\nAnybody been using them? Any good?
\nParticularly interested to see what seems to be ‘Calendly like functionality’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T07:14:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/paging-fastmail-users.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/turns-out-kieran.html", "content_html": "🔗 Turns out Kieran is a poet …
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T06:59:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/turns-out-kieran.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/himesh-patel-reads.html", "content_html": "📼 Himesh Patel reads a funny response to a university rejection letter.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T05:39:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/himesh-patel-reads.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/the-life-and.html", "content_html": "
📼 🎵 The Life and Music of John Wetton - the production of this video is everything that John Wetton was not. But the message and the story? I’ll take it - not enough written about the guy who 🔗 wrote 🎵 Starless
\n![\"So,](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/aa47c2a85f.jpg\")
![](\"https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/4/7/4/4/7/1/474471-extraction-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg?v=4b684f8e41\"/)
From time to time you will find me referencing ‘Jax’, the unseen, omnipresent being that does in fact have a life of her own.
\nAn example of her day job;
\n\nIn Richard’s words …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T04:12:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/from-time-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/romanian-prosecutors-send.html", "content_html": "We explore the idea of the ‘Human Contract’ and how it could provide a roadmap for navigating the rapidly advancing AI landscape, safeguarding our human values, and ensuring equity. It’s a reflection of discussions with the very eminent figure in AI, technology, and ethics - Jax Harrison
\n
🔗 Romanian prosecutors send Andrew Tate to trial … there are lots of small wins going on in the world today … but they do add up.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:46:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/romanian-prosecutors-send.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/short-daytime-naps.html", "content_html": "🔗 Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says.
\nSo its either good for you OR an early sign of Alzheimer. Well. glad that is all cleared up!
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:45:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/short-daytime-naps.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/apple-tv-remake.html", "content_html": "🔗 Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled..
\nGah - didn’t even know that this was on the cards. Dead before arrival. 😢
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:43:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/apple-tv-remake.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/liz-truss-says.html", "content_html": "🔗 Liz Truss says lettuce joke was ‘puerile’ and media did not understand her ideas.
\nIt is clear that she remains disconnected from humanity - and her humour is on par with her public speaking skills.
\nBut these speaking gigs are likely to continue. Best to ignore - but - as this post reveals - that is hard.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:37:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/liz-truss-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/til-that-metal.html", "content_html": "🎵 TIL that Metal / Ragga fusion is not just a thing - but has been a thing for a LONG time.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:34:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/til-that-metal.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/18/pilvi-takala-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-19T06:02:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/18/pilvi-takala-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/18/if-at-first.html", "content_html": "The most nonconformist thing about Takala may be her talent for refusal. Sarah McCrory, the director of Goldsmiths, recalls appearing on television with her for an art festival: “They put this terrible makeup on me, and then Pilvi turned up, and I was, like, ‘How come you don’t have to?’ And she was, like, ‘Well, because I said no.’ “
\n
If at first you don’t succeed ….
\n🔗 The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
\n\n\nCormac McCarthy’s first 5 novels were totally ignored. . . . Even Blood Merdian—now widely considered a modern classic of American fiction—got remaindered after only selling 1,883 copies.
\n
💬 Ted Gioia
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-19T04:41:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/18/if-at-first.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/17/recoding-america-why.html", "content_html": "🔗 Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-18T04:28:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/17/recoding-america-why.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/17/india-court-bars.html", "content_html": "
🔗 India court bars airing of Al Jazeera documentary.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-18T04:27:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/17/india-court-bars.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/if-you-journal.html", "content_html": "If you Journal - and get stuck… don’t we all? …🔗 some ideas for you.
\nIf you are a DayONE user - you can scroll through and add the prompts to DayONE by a simple click - or as it turns out 40 simple clicks - but then there are well over 500 of them.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T04:13:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/if-you-journal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/parcast-and-gimlet.html", "content_html": "🔗 Parcast and Gimlet Layoffs Reflect a Bigger Spotify Podcast Pivot
\nMaybe Podcasts will survive?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T03:41:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/parcast-and-gimlet.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/its-not-a.html", "content_html": "It’s not a good look Bill.
\nThen again Harvard … neither is this.
\n🔗 Harvard morgue manager charged with theft, sale of body parts.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T03:38:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/its-not-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/beyonce-concerts-blamed.html", "content_html": "🔗 Beyonce concerts blamed for Sweden’s inflation
\nReally? Beyonce?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T03:35:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/beyonce-concerts-blamed.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/republican-official-appears.html", "content_html": "🔗 Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from non-profit to own law firm. … well, this was two days ago …do we know yet?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T13:19:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/republican-official-appears.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/andrew-tate-served.html", "content_html": "🔗 Andrew Tate served legal papers after allegations of rape and sexual assault.
\nOne by one.
\nStep by step.
\nLittle by little.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T13:17:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/andrew-tate-served.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/eu-moves-closer.html", "content_html": "🔗 EU moves closer to passing one of world’s first laws governing AI
\n.. they don’t seem to hang about these ‘unelected bureaucrats’ .. do they?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T13:03:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/eu-moves-closer.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/crud-begone.html", "title": "Crud Begone", "content_html": "In various places I play in - including professional ‘anti-tracking and privacy’ groups - I am constantly stunned by the link sharing that goes on. Stunned because people that should do know better always seems to share links ‘complete with’ the tracking crud that can so easily be removed.
It is so bad that when someone pastes the crud URL, I will post the crud free URL.
\nNobody comments. Nobody does the same. Nobody stops posting the crud.
\nSo, delighted to read about this move by Apple.
\n🔗 Apple hits email analytics again in iOS17
\nTo be clear - I remove all crud, Apple’s intent is to only remove the crud that ties back to the individual. But it’s a start.
\nNot sure yet how it works, and in what circumstances, but already I think it is a pity it is only in mail.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T13:00:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/crud-begone.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/meanwhile-over-on.html", "content_html": "Meanwhile - over on Scripting.com …. 🔗 Uncle Sam doesn’t “ask”
\n\n\nThis isn’t Macy’s
\n
💬 An IRS Agent
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:50:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/meanwhile-over-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/a-masterclass-in.html", "content_html": "A Masterclass in Corporate DoubleSpeak.\n🔗 Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:49:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/a-masterclass-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/the-beatles-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 🎵 The Beatles to release final song using AI to isolate John Lennon’s voice.
\nI wonder where the proceeds will go to?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:47:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/the-beatles-to.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/orrick-lays-off.html", "content_html": "🔗 Orrick Lays Off 90 Lawyers and Staff, Delays Start Dates
\nWell if the lawyers are starting to lay people off … and delay the graduate intake ….
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:47:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/orrick-lays-off.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/here-and-here.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Here and 🔗 here and here … clearly🍎 are not listening to me.
\nBut Apple notes does have smart lists on iOS - why not Photos?
\nIt’s not as if Photos is missing the needed underpinnings.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T07:13:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/here-and-here.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/what-the-pga.html", "content_html": "🔗 What the PGA Tour’s corporate sponsors have to say about joining forces with the Saudis
\nTL;DR - Nothing - absolutely nothing.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T06:31:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/what-the-pga.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/13/til-about-adenza.html", "content_html": "TIL about 🔗 Adenza - Nasdaq just bought them at an 18 times expected 2023 revenue - for a total of $10.5 BILLION .. which gave Thoma Bravo a profit of close to 100% in less than two years. Not only that but Nasdaq doubled its debt load to do the deal. The 18 times revenue is interesting in that it is triple the usual revenue to acquisition ratio.
\nNasdaq closed down 10%. As far I can see, the Nasdaq people who did the deal kept their jobs.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-14T05:30:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/13/til-about-adenza.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/in-case-you.html", "content_html": "In case you are interested in how much money you can make from your Substack …
\n🔗 Revealed: top 27 highest-earning Substacks generate over $22m a year
\n… ‘can’ mind you.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T04:31:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/want-to-get.html", "content_html": "🔗 Want to Get Stuff Done? Build Yourself a ‘Friction Tunnel’
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T03:31:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/want-to-get.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/aligning-images-in.html", "content_html": "We need more friction in our computing experiences, so that when we do make decisions, they’re more explicit and less mindless
\n
🔗 Aligning Images In Markdown - Surinder Bhomra
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T03:31:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/aligning-images-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/woman-who-took.html", "content_html": "🔗 Woman who took abortion pills after UK legal time limit jailed for 28 months.
\nI am so used to reading these kinds of headlines here in the U.S.A. that I had missed that this was in the U.K.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T03:13:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/woman-who-took.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/berlusconi-dead-apparently.html", "content_html": "🔗 Berlusconi dead. … apparently it comes to us all.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T02:04:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/berlusconi-dead-apparently.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/sometimes-we-dont.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T02:03:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/sometimes-we-dont.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/12/blah-blah-gargle.html", "content_html": "“Sometimes we don’t have enough supplies to clean, so we just use what we have or just use water. Sometimes we don’t have a mop, so we use the blankets left on airplanes by passengers to clean the floors,” said Sanchez. “Sometimes in the bathroom there will be blood on the floor, toilet, walls, and there is feces and urine on top of the toilet. When I don’t have enough gloves, I’ve had to wrap a blanket around my hand to clean the bathroom.”
\n
Blah blah .. Gargle gargle … Mooting more move … Wooft ….
\nJust in case you needed proof that I am not dying ….
\n🔗 Why Dying People Often Experience a Burst of Lucidity (Apple News).
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-13T01:50:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/12/blah-blah-gargle.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/11/a-substack-sharing.html", "content_html": "🔗 A Substack … sharing because of a very clever graphic, that once seen, seems so obvious.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-12T09:14:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/11/a-substack-sharing.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/11/nicola-sturgeon-arrested.html", "content_html": "🔗 Nicola Sturgeon arrested in SNP finances inquiry … beginning to get a clue as to why she may have stepped down.
\nMeanwhile - another example as to how this should work.
\nAre you listening America?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-12T06:44:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/11/nicola-sturgeon-arrested.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/11/085215.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-06-12T03:52:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/11/085215.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/10/meanies.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-06-11T13:18:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/10/meanies.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/09/m-americans-believe.html", "content_html": "🔗 12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power.
\n… I bet they are also the ones that have the bulk of the guns.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-10T02:58:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/09/m-americans-believe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/09/the-burrito-universe.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Burrito Universe Is Better
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-10T02:52:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/09/the-burrito-universe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/08/paragraphica-by-bjrn.html", "content_html": "🔗 Paragraphica by Bjørn Karmann
\nInteresting project coming out of Denmark.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-09T02:54:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/08/paragraphica-by-bjrn.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/annual-profit-million.html", "content_html": "🔗 Annual profit: $750 million … I wonder how much CNN would be sold for? My guess? Waaaaaay less than ‘a Twitter’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T12:29:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/annual-profit-million.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/search-versus-search.html", "title": "Search versus Search", "content_html": "For the longest time I have had the wonderful plugin 🔗 ’Search Space’ by @sod running on my site. It is truly fantastic - use it all the time to find post I know I have written in the past - that I want to link to - like here .. imagine how long that would have taken to build without a powerful search.
\nI also use Hitchens by @pimoore for my site, and Pete rather conveniently included ‘Search’ as part of his template. Not sure what he is doing behind the scenes to make that work - but like all of Hitchens - it just worked out of the box.
\nBut … BUT … ever since installing @sod ’s plugin, having two searches has annoyed me, but I lived with it. Although I knew how to hide the built in search in CSS, I did NOT know how to identify the element that needed hiding, Until NOW.
\nThanks to Jason I can now find and identify the elements I need to drop into the CSS. (Again, I new all about ‘Inspect’, but for whatever reason I had a mental block when it came to finding the specifics.)
\nNo longer - and as a result, I now have only 1 🖇️ Search on my site.
\nNo idea if @sod is reading this - maybe I will ping him separately - and find out if he is working on an update - because I do have a few ideas.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T07:03:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/search-versus-search.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/manton-reece-appnet.html", "content_html": "🔗Manton Reece - App.net archive migrated
\nI know Manton isn’t going to do it … but surely this is plug-in potential?
\nSimple … no?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T06:32:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/manton-reece-appnet.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/the-most-important.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Most Important Technology in the World … Dana.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T06:31:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/the-most-important.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/cnn-chief-chris.html", "content_html": "🔗 CNN chief Chris Licht to leave cable news network days after Atlantic profile
\nGood Riddance.
\n\n\n\n\nand again on
\n\nand finally on
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T06:31:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/cnn-chief-chris.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/07/from-the-folk.html", "content_html": "From The Folk At Matter
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-06-08T05:30:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/07/from-the-folk.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/06/everest-climber-thanks.html", "content_html": "Today we’re thrilled to launch a new sister site: 🔗 ReadSomethingWonderful.com - a home for timeless internet writing.
\n
🔗 Everest Climber Thanks Sponsors, Blocks Sherpa Who Saved His Life - The Messenger
\nI need a new category on my blog : W@NKERS
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-07T09:41:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/06/everest-climber-thanks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/05/identity-paradigms-by.html", "content_html": "🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
\nKiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
\n‘Identity’ mind you, not just ‘online identity’.
\n\n\nWhat does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
\n
💬 Alan Mayo
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-06T04:11:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/05/identity-paradigms-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/the-billionaires-have.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T07:08:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/the-billionaires-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/i-like-about.html", "content_html": "I like 🔗 About Numeric Citizen’s Craft page … been trying to do that myself - but it quickly gets bloated.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T07:06:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/i-like-about.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/identity-paradigms-by.html", "content_html": "🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
\nKiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
\n‘Identity’ mine you, not just ‘online identity’.
\n\n\nWhat does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
\n
💬 Alan Mayo
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T04:45:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/identity-paradigms-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/wwdc-keynote-bingo.html", "content_html": "\nLots of pundits have been rabbiting on about tomorrow … but I like Basic Apple Guy’s the best …
\n![\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/108a5926e8.png\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/108a5926e8.png\")
🔗 Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU if There’s Any Real AI Regulation
\nWait - wasn’t he saying the other day that AI needs to be regulated?
\nSpots - leopards?
\nBluff called ?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-03T14:27:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/02/sam-altman-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/stowe-boyd-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 Stowe Boyd is seeking to grow his readership.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/03fe792a40.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-06-02T12:01:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/stowe-boyd-is.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/phone-dependence-by.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Phone Dependence - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
\nUmmm - Yikes!
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T11:58:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/phone-dependence-by.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/meta-threatens-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Meta threatens to pull news from California apps over journalism payment bill.
\nYes please.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T11:56:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/meta-threatens-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/amazon-to-pay.html", "content_html": "🔗 Amazon to pay out $30.8m over alleged spying on customers.
\nAt first glance I thought ‘typical’ - yet again the big guys essentially gets off scott free for unfettered mass surveillance.
\nBut click on through … it’s not that at all - ‘just’ a rogue employee.
\nHoly Rings Batman!
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T06:17:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/amazon-to-pay.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/fax-machines-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 Fax machines and cash-only stores: Japan struggles to go digital.
\nNot just Japan.
\nPersonal story; I needed to go see a doctor here in California for a routine check up. Last three years of history is actually in New Zealand.
\n\n\nPlease have your doctors in New Zealand fax all your records to this number.
\n
Fax? Much easier to send in email.
\nAccording to the assistant - no that isnt acceptable, because email is ‘known to not be secure’.
\nI don’t disagree - but asked her how secure she felt Faxing was?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T06:12:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/fax-machines-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/india-has-removed.html", "content_html": "🔗 India has removed the periodic table from school textbooks.
\nClearly, the ‘curriculum’ developed in the good ol’ USA is slowly making its way round the world.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T06:07:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/india-has-removed.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/brexit-will-be.html", "content_html": "🔗 Brexit will be known as ‘historic economic error’, says former US treasury secretary.
\nNo sh1t Dick Tracy!
\nSuch insight. It’s clear that Larry is worth every penny he’s paid.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T06:05:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/brexit-will-be.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/meet-the-gop.html", "content_html": "🔗 Meet the GOP Presidential Hopefuls
\nHopefuls? I am guessing that each of them are ‘hopeful’ that their inevitable book is going to sell a few copies, because that is the only reason they announced.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T06:03:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/meet-the-gop.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/it-was-around.html", "content_html": "It was around 10 years ago that I got my first exposure to Guthrie Govan on Steven Wilson’s Raven album and in the touring band that IMHO was the definitive Wilson band.
\nNice to see 📼 Rick Beato wax lyrical on the man in 10 short minutes that includes some great YouTube footage.
\n🎵 Bonus - Guthrie running his magic on Wonderful Slippery Thing
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-02T05:58:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/it-was-around.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/just-watched-this.html", "content_html": "VERY Clever.
\nI just watched 📼 this and had to try it out on 🔗 Micro Blog.
\n![\"Screen](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/38e2f2ac9f.png\")
The link works for any browser, but in Arc you can see and navigate the whole site with the ‘new look’.
\nTo be clear, the ‘design’ is ‘designed’ to look nothing like what my real site looks like.
\nClever is all.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T08:55:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/just-watched-this.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/if-this-goes.html", "content_html": "If this goes according to plan, you can read this on;
\nBluesky - not yet.
\nFlickr
\nLinkedIN
\nMastodon
\nMedium - Ghost Town
\nNostr …. SLOW
\nTumblr
\nTwitter - I know.
Don’t worry - this is a one off - not going to inundate the streams.
\nThe full public journal is here
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T05:10:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/if-this-goes.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/uk-should-play.html", "content_html": "🔗 UK should play leading role on global AI guidelines, Sunak to tell Biden
\n.. then do it Rishi. Stop talking and telling and speaking and Do It.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T04:30:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/uk-should-play.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/oligarchs-are-marxists.html", "content_html": "\nAs is often the case - Dana is not wrong.
\n![\"Dana](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7e555c499d.png\")
\n
![\"Dana](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/faeae76636.png\")
Australia is in the news this morning for all the wrong reasons.
\n\n🔗 US warned it might suspend ties with Australian special forces over war crime allegations. - of course the US has never been accused of war crimes.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T04:26:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/australia-is-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/two-totally-different.html", "content_html": "Two totally different stories that are connected.
\n🔗 Purdue can shield wealthy Sackler family from opioid lawsuits. - they get to pay 6 billion and keep the rest of their ill gotten gains.
\n🔗 Indian official fined after draining reservoir in search of mobile phone. - the total fines added up to less than a thousand bucks after flusjing over 4 million litres of water from a reservoir!
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T04:23:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/two-totally-different.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/the-woman-who.html", "content_html": "The woman who accused the last guy of sexual assault took him to court and won.
\nThe woman who accused the current guy of sexual assault couldn’t make it stick and has 🔗 now moved to Russia.
\nIt’s important to recognize that things aren’t always the same … even when they seem to be.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T04:18:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/the-woman-who.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/i-have-so.html", "title": "I Have - So You Don't Have To.", "content_html": "A few links with no ‘search or surf’ needed. All you need to do is click.
\n\n
You are welcome.
\n🔗 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term. - I didn’t get the popcorn because my guess is that she will be out for ‘good behavior’ before I could finish the box.
\n🔗 Lawyer ‘Greatly Regrets’ Using ChatGPT in Briefing That Included Fake Citations. … and on a related note 🔗 I cannot believe the shit that morons are getting up to with ChatGPT - because in 2023 it is obligatory for all lists (even micro lists like this) to have at least one link be about ChatGPT, so I went for two - and related as well!
\n🔗 Tom Evslin: Is AI Dangerous? - turns out yes … and no … because it depends.
\n🔗 A New Uber Clone With Armed Drivers Is the App for a Violent and Paranoid America (Apple News) - if you follow me, you might know that Uber is not (shall we say) high on my list of innovative and ethical companies - so in that respect they are absolutely an Uber clone.
\n🔗 The QAnon Shaman Is Out of Prison and Selling Yoga Leggings Now (Apple News) - because of course he is. Beats me why he didn’t start it in prison. Oh wait ….
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T11:51:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/i-have-so.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/i-read-molly.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781453222089/cover.jpg\")
\nI read Molly Jong-Fast and had never really thought about it - but - TIL she is the daughter of 🔗 Erica Jong (📚 Fear of Flying) … of course she is … the clue
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T06:31:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/i-read-molly.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/man-wielding-fish.html", "content_html": "🔗 Man wielding fish knife attacked home of Benedict Cumberbatch
\nPutting aside the news for a moment … I have been thinking a lot recently about things like death, legacy, memories, leaving your mark … and noting to myself how little we know about anybody. At all. Even famous / historical people. More on this will emerge in the future … but, case in point, in case you know nothing about Cumberbatch, this is his descriptor …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T05:47:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/man-wielding-fish.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/will-ai-free.html", "content_html": "The Doctor Strange star ….
\n
🔗 Will AI free us from drudgery – or leave us jobless and hungry?
\nIt’s a good question. So much noise abut how AI is going to free up people so thy can live fulfilling lives as drudgery is removed … but that last sentence speaks to the reality …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T05:41:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/will-ai-free.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/illinois-set-to.html", "content_html": "There is certainly a lot of potential for AI to change the world for the better. I just don’t think there’s an appetite among the people at the top to harness that potential.
\n
🔗 Illinois set to become first state to end book bans.
\nI never hear Pritzker’s name associated with a potential presidential run - but it should be.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T05:18:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/illinois-set-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/malcolm-mclaren-talentless.html", "title": "🎵 Malcolm McLaren ... Talentless Hack or Talented Svengali?", "content_html": "🔗 Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop.
\nFor all of his total lack of skill as a musician / singer .. his ability to constantly break new ground and open listeners ears to new possibilities was quite extraordinary.
\nDuck Rock never made it to ‘personal favorite’ status, but still extraordinary.
\nMy most favorite McLaren is surely ’Fans’ - 40 years old NEXT year
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T05:17:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/malcolm-mclaren-talentless.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/japan-pm-fires.html", "content_html": "🔗 Japan PM fires son after pictures emerge of ‘inappropriate’ private party at official residence.
\nMoral leadership … clearly Japan has still got it … take note U.K. and U.S.A.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T05:09:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/japan-pm-fires.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/how-to-subscribe.html", "content_html": "🔗 How to subscribe to YouTube RSS Feeds without third-party services.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-30T19:34:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/how-to-subscribe.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/29/us-ready-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 US ‘ready to fight in space if we have to’, says military official.
\nWell that’s good to know, although when you say ’if we have to’ … can you explain more? #AskingForAFriend
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-30T17:43:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/29/us-ready-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/29/the-state-of.html", "content_html": "The state of the nation - and what a state it is in …
\n🔗 Last year, Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines than England.
\nWhat the hell are we doing in England while Ukraine is at war?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-30T17:40:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/29/the-state-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/27/trump-has-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’ … says ‘Donald Jr’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-28T06:07:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/27/trump-has-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/26/bidirectional-you-tube.html", "title": "‘BIDIRECTIONAL’ You Tube RSS Feeds", "content_html": "🔗 Scripting News: YouTube and inbound RSS
\nInteresting link from @dave
\nAlso interesting is the YouTube outbound RSS that he wants.
\nGoogle don’t make it easy - BUT - every YouTube channel does have an RSS feed - I just added my channel to feed into MicroBlog, to make sure it still works. There are three videos in there - that have a total viewership of something less than 3 :-) So don’t get excited.
\nBUT - it is possible.
\n📡 My Channel’s RSS feed - for what its worth
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-27T04:44:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/26/bidirectional-you-tube.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/26/a-newly-emerging.html", "content_html": "🔗 A newly emerging series on the blog. - its just a start - and off line in the system - well suffice to say - this might become a category?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-26T19:52:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/26/a-newly-emerging.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/you-might-know.html", "title": "You Might Know Me As A 'Tech Exec' - But Actually, I Am An Astronaut.", "content_html": "When you read that ‘blah blah’ who’s ‘made a name for themselves’ as an actor, writer, singer, chef, musician … whatever .. has now just turned to interior design (I bought my 15,000 share foot house in Malibu and just had ‘this vision’) … or fashion design … or whatever …. what are your thoughts?
\nI ask because I just spotted that 🔗 Dua Lipa has just designed her first collection for Versace. I know this is not her first outing in design - but surely first with an icon?
\nIs this akin to tRump writing reading a book or Harry ‘writing’ one?
How about Johnny D sharing the stage with Jeff?
\nGalling?
\nI think so.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-26T13:59:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/25/you-might-know.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/lemons-do-they.html", "title": "Lemons - Do They Exist - Or A Cunkstion?", "content_html": "Anyone else worried that this is even a question? Or that it needs to be asked?
\n\n\nAnyway, I don’t have an answer about lemon origins except to say that they are at least as real as babies, and if they aren’t real then what the fuck did I just eat?
\n
💬 The Bloggess
\nTo be clear, this is not a Bloggess origin story … but rather a debate that seems to have emerged on the inter-webs somewhere about ‘Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence’ - with people pointing out that Lemons ‘do not occur naturally’ … so are artificial … so not ‘real’ … at least in ‘that’ sense of the word.
\nFirst, if that is true, then total news to me. But put that aside, because the quirkiness of the debate tickles me. It’s ‘the other thing’ that has slipped quietly under the radar, that I am worrying about, because at some point in the online world, ‘real’ has become synonymous with ‘exist’.
\nThat is … if it is not real - then it does not exist.
\nReally?
\nNow, I am not a philosopher - so the existence of a lemon I leave to people further up the pay grade scale than I, but I did get to wondering whether this is a ‘Cunkstion’1, or at least Cunk like?
\nCan someone higher up the pay scale have a think and reply please?
\nRead More From The Bloggess: 🔗 When life may or may not give you lemons
\nCunkstion - a contraction of ‘Cunk Question’ - which is one of those innocent, easy ‘obvious’ questions that nobody has ever asked - but when you do - the expert finds themselves tied up in knots for one of three reasons …1) it is just plain stupid, 2 a non sequitur or 3) a deeply profound question demonstrating great insight (if on occasions - accidentally). ↩︎
\n🎵 Mirror To The Sky By Yes … as I type on my second time through it … so that’s good … right?
\n… update. 🖇️ Review
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-26T12:34:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/25/mirror-to-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/24/like-a-lot.html", "title": "🔗 A List of AI Links", "content_html": "\nLike a lot of us I guess - I have been reading and listening a lot to the AI chatter. This is a list of not everything I have read and listened to - and not quite sure why these ended up on a list and others didn’t - but still you might find an interesting nougat in here?
\nLet’s start with a highly curated list generated by the inimitable Doc Searls.
\nAn AI reading list - by Doc Searls - Reality 2.0 Newsletter
\nWomen Shaping the Future of Blockchain Technology
\n\n10th May 2023 Digital Bytes - by Jonny Fry - Digital Bytes
\nUsing AI For Creation, Innovation, & Category Design
\nChatGPT Is Already Obsolete - The Atlantic
\nAI in the Boardroom: A Revolutionary Construct? – The FinReg Blog
\n\n\n\n\n\nUsing AI For Creation, Innovation, & Category Design
\n\nAmericans' views on use of AI in hiring
\nOpenAI stumps in Washington - POLITICO
\nA Manhattan Project for AI safety - POLITICO
\nInside Mozilla’s AI crusade - POLITICO
\nThe long game between writers and AI - POLITICO
\nThe possibly-unstoppable march of facial recognition - POLITICO
\n5 questions for SmartNews' Rich Jaroslovsky - POLITICO
\n5 questions for Silent Eight’s Martin Markiewicz - POLITICO
\n5 questions for the Digital Dollar Project’s Jennifer Lassiter - POLITICO
\nSeeking a Distribution Advantage with AI | LinkedIn
\nSeeking a Distribution Advantage with AI | LinkedIn
\nESG Strategy and AI: A match made in the Boardroom | LinkedIn
\nProduct Questions for AI Features | LinkedIn
\nThe Dawn Of Mediocre Computing - by John Philpin
\n17th May 2023 Digital Bytes - by Jonny Fry - Digital Bytes
\n1 Recode Media with Peter Kafka - Vox - AI is the future! AI is a fraud. Let’s debate.
\n2 Recode Media with Peter Kafka - Vox - Inside the AI Gold Rush
\n3 Recode Media with Peter Kafka - Vox - How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?
\nForget ChatGPT. These Are the Best AI-Powered Apps.
\nThe AI News is Picking Up Speed Again! - YouTube
\n\nI built my own AutoGPT that makes videos - YouTube
\nBing vs Bard vs ChatGPT: A Battle of Conversational AI Titans - YouTube
\nMy First Look At Adobe Firefly - This is Scary 🫣 - YouTube
\nThe A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023 - YouTube
\n\n10 AMAZING Ways AutoGPT Is Being Used RIGHT NOW - YouTube
\nMicrosoft’s New AI Clones Your Voice In 3 Seconds! - YouTube
\n‘Godfather of AI’ discusses dangers the developing technologies pose to society - YouTube
\nSam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 - YouTube - over TWO HOURS LONG
\nStable AI - Stability Diffusion
\n\nCody - The AI Trained on Your Business - Artificial Intelligence Powered Knowledge Base
\n\n\nToday’s selection of WTF/FFS Headlines from the Guardian.
\n🔗 With DeSantis campaign event, Musk seeks to shore up a sinking Twitter
\n🔗 Chief justice says US supreme court keeps ‘highest standards’ of conduct
\n🔗 Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-25T04:35:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/24/todays-selection-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html", "content_html": "I just found out about 🔗 Connie Converse
\n\n🎙️ Mike Pesca talking to Howard Fishman who wrote 📚 To Anyone Who Ever Asks
\nTalk about a hole in history.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-24T08:59:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Books","? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/22/this-insider-spotify.html", "content_html": "🔗 This Insider Spotify Data - simple but interesting analysis from Rick Beato.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-23T12:14:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/22/this-insider-spotify.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/18/the-blind-pig.html", "content_html": "\n
Canadians definitely understand Festivals.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-19T07:52:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/18/the-blind-pig.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/17/dianne-feinsteins-health.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dianne Feinstein’s health: The senator seems not to remember being absent from the Capitol.
\nNothing to see here … move along now … except that exchange is frightening.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-18T04:36:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/17/dianne-feinsteins-health.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/17/george-will-in.html", "content_html": "George Will - in the first line of a 🔗 Washington Post article links to a New York post article (nothing like using credible sources)… and as if that wasn’t enough, his complaint seems to be about California imposing its will on other states without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’ … no mention of FlorIda, Texas or the rest of those States forcing their opinions on the rest of us.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-18T04:10:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/17/george-will-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/16/scott-adams-moves.html", "content_html": "🍿🔗 Scott Adams Moves ‘Spicier’ Dilbert Comic to Twitter Following Race Comments Backlash.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-17T10:45:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/16/scott-adams-moves.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/16/i-link-to.html", "content_html": "I link to Umair Haique’s writing (warning - Medium) … from time to time - but have never looked up what Eudaimonia means, let alone its etymology. So … TIL
\n🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flourishing
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-17T05:36:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/16/i-link-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/16/a-lot-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 A lot of offices are still empty — and it’s becoming a major risk for the economy
\n\n\n“It’s a troubling development for the commercial real estate industry at a time when the U.S. economy is already showing signs of stress and maybe even a recession.”
\n
Dear NPR … ‘development’? This has been on the horizon for years.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-17T04:28:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/16/a-lot-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/i-love-the.html", "content_html": "I love the Playing For Change Series.
\nStumbled across these over the weekend.
\nEnjoy.
Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones) feat. Taj Mahal
\nWhat’s Going On (Marvin Gaye) Feat. Sara Bareilles
\n\n\n🔗 🎵 📺
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T03:40:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/i-love-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Shows"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/i-always-like.html", "content_html": "
I always like a good visual.
\nAnd when the visual is about creativity - well … who can resist?
\n🔗 Visualized: The Daily Routines of Famous Creatives
\nThe lesson is that there is nothing routine about the routine of creativity.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T03:10:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/i-always-like.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/why-are-so.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
\nI hope their accents are better than Dick’s.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T02:59:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/why-are-so.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/the-hill-reporting.html", "content_html": "The Hill reporting that 🔗 Twitter under fire for perceived censorship ahead of election in Turkey.
\nPerceived? We have to get out of this ’both sides’ shit.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T02:53:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/the-hill-reporting.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/14/replying-to-doc.html", "content_html": "Replying to Doc Searls
\n🔗 Your AI ~v~ A.I. comment triggered a thought.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-15T05:08:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/14/replying-to-doc.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/14/spotify-purged-thousands.html", "content_html": "Going forward, I am standardizing on AI.
\n
\nA.I. might imply a two letter acronym for Artificial Intelligence .. and for now, whilst I agree that it’s ‘artificial’, I am far from convinced ‘it’ demonstrates ‘intelligence’.
\nMeanwhile, AI is a nice handy name to bucket these things under.
Spotify 🔗purged thousands of AI-generated songs uploaded by the music startup Boomy. The streamer said it flagged the tunes it thought were being listened to by bots, which inflated listener numbers.
\nNot just written by AI - but listened to by bots.
\nI wonder how much income that cost real artists?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-15T04:58:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/14/spotify-purged-thousands.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/14/the-summer-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 The summer of decentralized social
\nSam Liebeskind provides a nice simple guide to the world of decentralized social networks by comparing to the email world.
\n🔗 EMAIL : the first, largest and most open social network..
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/c31f5b5456.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-05-15T04:55:29+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/14/the-summer-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/14/is-it-time.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? (Apple News) .. of course I haven’t read it … what a stupid question. And if the arguments are real and valid … well count me in the Ostrich camp.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-15T04:22:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/14/is-it-time.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/12/as-the-hype.html", "content_html": "As the hype around BlueSky builds, I am reminded of the hype that surrounded Clubhouse. Looks like that’s what Charles has been thinking.
\n\n\nVelvet rope: it tells you that the people who got past it are special. Unlike you.
\n
💬 Charles Arthur
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/e036c5f698.jpg\")
\nMy last 🔗 Travels Without Charley makes for a short, thoughtful read.
\nThinking Allowed
\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\nAm I missing a step with webmentions?
\n🔗 A recent post on People First was syndicated to Micro Blog.
\nI replied to that post in MicroBlog.
\nAnd it seems to be approved
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/4ad5b8fabb.png\")
So, shouldn’t it appear here?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6a1562ca3e.png\")
🔗 Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce - The Verge
\nQuel surprise … I wrote this when I was still on the wait list … and once in I even guested on a couple … my one word summary of the experiences, the site, the conversations, the quality … ‘crap’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-05T05:26:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/04/clubhouse-is-laying.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/04/it-is-may.html", "content_html": "It is May … I am sitting in LA, with the heating on, while outside it is pouring with rain. This while I read 🔗 How El Niño could affect U.S. weather. (TL;DR .. if you thought it has been hot recently … you ain’t seen nothing yet.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-05T05:22:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/04/it-is-may.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/marketing-technology-landscape.html", "content_html": "🔗 2023 Marketing Technology Landscape: 11,038 Solutions
\n… this is getting silly.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T05:13:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/marketing-technology-landscape.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/elon-musk-threatens.html", "content_html": "🔗 Elon Musk threatens to reassign @NPR on Twitter to ‘another company’.
\nDouche.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T05:11:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/elon-musk-threatens.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/the-democrats-unveil.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Democrats Unveil a Secret Weapon on the Debt Ceiling.
\nI’m not am sure that I don’t fully understand this … but definitely intrigued enough to watch how it pans out.
🔗 Rheingold on The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T05:09:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/rheingold-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/trump-makes-up.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nAfter years of calling CNN “fake news,” Donald Trump has agreed to appear on the network for a town hall. His campaign says it wants to hit reset on its relationship with the channel now that it’s under new management.
\n
Bollocks. Licht has steadily and systematically moving CNN towards ‘the new center’ since he arrived. This will be a total softball.
\nMeanwhile … who really cares? CNN peaks at around half a million for its biggest star (Anderson Cooper).
\nCable TV ratings are blips on the radar
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T03:44:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/trump-makes-up.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/et-tu-gordon.html", "content_html": "🪦Et tu Gordon. I didn’t believe it when I read it .. but yes it is true. 84 … not a bad run.
\nThank-you for the 🎵music.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T14:15:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/et-tu-gordon.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/they-can-survive.html", "content_html": "
![\"Bernie](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/bf50f486e5.jpg\")
🔗 ‘They can survive just fine’: Bernie Sanders says income over $1bn should be taxed at 100%
\nYou go Bernie.
\n… the problem is that nobody earns ‘income’ over $1Billion … isn’t that the real problem?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:42:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/they-can-survive.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/103643.html", "content_html": "💬
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/d16eb7242a.png\")
\n🔗 Are large language models intelligent? Are humans?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:36:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/103643.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/karl-lagerfeld-had.html", "content_html": "🔗 Karl Lagerfeld had odious views. We shouldn’t be putting him on a pedestal.
\nFiled in my bucket of things that I don’t pay attention to, so not aware of the claims. That said, is this another case of judgement of historical behavior because the modern context has changed? If so … is that right?
\nDiscuss.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:27:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/karl-lagerfeld-had.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/calling-it-now.html", "content_html": "🎛️ Bitcoin is Still The Future of Payments
\n🔗 Calling It Now: Elon Musk’s Micropayments Gambit Will Flop Big Time
\n🎙️Though Musk and Twitter aren’t specifically called out, it is clear that Lightspark’s David Marcus agrees - mainly because Micropayments can’t work while we continue to organize our payments as we do.
\nYou should really listen to the whole thing, but this snippet particularly pertains to the MicroPayment comment above.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:24:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/calling-it-now.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","MyPodcastSnippets"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/save-the-kindles.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nWhat if Amazon offered used readers, in bulk, to people in states that are banning books, and in school districts that are limiting what kids can read? What if it offered special deals on banned books, and brought titles to young people some of their “betters” are forbidding for them, to encourage reading?
\n
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:18:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/save-the-kindles.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/30/hate-speech-on.html", "title": "💬 Hate Speech On Core Intuition", "content_html": "🔗 Just finished listening to the latest Core Intuition.
\nAt one point in the conversation @manton and @danielpunkass were talking about community guidelines, social norms et al. Hate speech on Bluesky was specifically brought up. Apparently they have a way to add tags to posts so that posts can be marked as ‘hatespeech’, ‘not safe for work’, etc.
\nSounded a pretty neat solution to me - but apparently someone over on @mastodon suggested that this meant BlueSky was allowing hate speech.
\nHave to say, one of the common threads running through a lot of Mastodians I observe is the ‘superior’, ‘better than thou’, ‘my way or the highway’ attitude … even down to comments like ‘if you don’t ‘alt text’ your images - I will unfollow you'.1
\nBut, ‘allowing’ hate speech? There is no agreement what constitutes hate speech, so I guess this individual is judge and jury? Don’t get me wrong … I think most ‘decent people’ can bucket up the obvious extremes … it’s when it gets to the grey areas it becomes difficult. Like art - we can’t define it - we just ‘know it when we see it’.
\nI was reminded of a well used amorphism
\n\n\n“One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”
\n
This also ties into something I wrote just yesterday
\n1] I wonder if Mastodon is filling up with ‘snowflakes’. (Back when my mum was alive she used to rail on ‘do gooders’ … a term that seems to have fallen out of use these days - but the sentiment remain in these ‘behavioural vigilantes’.
\n2] I wonder whether the meek have inherited the earth … at least in terms of public discourse?
\n3] Has the pendulum swung too far? Satire and parody has lost meaning and too many people are cancelling themselves for fear of public admonishment and worse - retribution from the herd.
\nWhat do you think?
\nToo late - I have already unfollowed you. (Not that I disagree with the need to do it - and I try - but it doesn’t always happen and life is too short.) ↩︎
\nFunny - I am writing my next newsletter and 🔗 this is one of the top of mind issues that I am covering off in it. Might add it as a link in the final newsletter.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-01T05:37:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/30/funny-i-am.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/30/finally-the-backfill.html", "content_html": "FINALLY - 🔗 The backfill is completed.
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-01T05:05:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/30/finally-the-backfill.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/if-you-have.html", "content_html": "If you have been following along, you will know that I am a big fan of Lockhead and Category Design. But on this one - I totally disagree. It’s only 15 minutes - less if you remove the top and tail. For example - jump right in at 1’ 56” and you can stop at 12’ 50# - so what 11 minutes?
\n🔗 Elon Musk’s New Category Design For Twitter: Will it work? - Lochhead on Marketing
\nI do agree that Musk is up to something. BUT
\nThe thesis of Category Pirates lands on how this Blue Checkmark fiasco is the start of ‘great thinking … marketing even … from Musk … in that this is ‘the first time we have seen an attempt to deliver a paid for social platform at scale’. Me - no idea if that is true, BUT riffing on ‘Theodore’ for a moment … people are on Twitter not because they want a blue checkmark - but rather to ‘say and write stuff and have it pushed out to the unsuspecting world’.
\nI don’t disagree that Musk is up to something as he works through the monetisation question - BUT - the idea of faffing around with the check mark is the result of some great marketing mind is nuts. The idea that he is in the process of creating an entirely new category is nuts. Trying maybe - but not yet creating,
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T11:29:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/if-you-have.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/not-sure-i.html", "content_html": "🔗 Not sure I have ever seen all the late night hosts come together in a single send off like this - I mean ALL.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T07:21:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/not-sure-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/a-bullying-politician.html", "content_html": "🔗 A bullying politician or snowflake civil servants? The downfall of Dominic Raab
\nI do not know Raab, other than his public persona, so take my thoughts with a pinch of NaCl. That said, there is a consistency to the back stories that keep getting published. Bottom line - to me - he doesn’t seem to be a nice man.
\nThat said - I am sympathetic to his claims. We are living too much in a world where if I even feel offended - you will pay. To continue down that path will result in more and more people being ‘quietly silenced’.
\nSilencing Raab is one thing - but it will work (is working?) both ways.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T07:16:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/a-bullying-politician.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/dream-dinner-party.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dream dinner party guests: Obama, Springsteen and Spielberg delight Barcelona restaurant staff.
\nLove Those Smiles. Warming the cockles of my heart
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/9318206e66.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-04-30T07:03:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/dream-dinner-party.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/worldwide-public-cloud.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Worldwide public cloud spending heading for US$600 billion
\n\n\n“If you found yourself wondering why the cloud hyperscalers have chosen this moment to build in New Zealand, the answer lies in Gartner’s latest cloud forecast.”
\n
@billbennettnz not sure you actually answer that question? I mean I get that Gartner is predicting outsized growth - and why NZ would want those data centers - but you don’t seem to offer a reason why MSoft and AWS are making the investments? Or have I read too fast?
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T06:40:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/worldwide-public-cloud.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/you-probably-shouldnt.html", "content_html": "🔗 You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup.
\nYUP - at least from a financial rewards perspective. But there are other considerations (as I said to a long time friend this past week) who is thinking of launching ‘StartUps Anonymous’.
\nEmail me if you are interested in joining.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T06:30:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/you-probably-shouldnt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/twenty-years-ago.html", "content_html": "🔗 Twenty Years Ago, Apple Launched the iTunes Music Store.
\nThe first Mac I ever owned arrived Christmas 2001. The iPod had been released and I wanted one - but it was Mac only back then. So I also ‘needed’ a Mac! It can’t have been two years before I had completely left Windoze behind.
\nIt also means that I spent close to two years ripping CDs into the Mac to play on the iPod. (Still do that actually.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T06:26:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/twenty-years-ago.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/27/chatgpt-chats-to.html", "title": "🤖 ChatGPT chats to ChatJP", "content_html": "Turns out that ChatGPT can be pretty useful. Who knew?
\nIn case you aren’t keeping up - I have been playing around with embedding video on 🔗 john.philpin.com. I cracked it a while back - but the process of creating the clip had a lot of friction because of the app I was using.
\nFixed that - thanks to learning that the podcast app I use every day (Overcast) has had audio clipping since 2019. Seriously!
\nSo friction to creating the clip removed, but still stuck on how a visitor would know the app was ‘playable’ (no little ‘play’ arrow) and even when they did - up popped another window …
\nAs @Miraz wrote …
\n\n\nIt’s not clear that it’s an audio clip
\n
… and as @pratik wrote
\n\n\nI wish it started playing in-page.
\n
💯❗️
\nI am not a developer, coder, programmer … by any stretch of the imagination - hell - I don’t even play one on TV. I impressed myself to even manage to embed the video - to play in line? Time for a chat.
\nI know how much time I spend googling css / html stuff to copy and paste into the site - find it doesn’t work - spending more time to find the right structure - repeat - until it finally works. I looked at Google with significant trepidation.
\nEnter ChatGPT that I have played around with to better understand capabilities, but never with a view to creating something ‘production ready’.
\nFrom opening ChatGPT to getting a finished result took me about two minutes - half of which was waiting for my web site page to flush out the old and refresh the new - twice (as the chat below makes clear).
\nFor posterity - my conversation is below.
\nOh - and this was using ChatGPT-3.
\n🔗 This is the finished post in action.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6078fc57fe.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-04-28T11:07:53+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/27/chatgpt-chats-to.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","?????"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/27/worker-adjustment-and.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification in Calfornia
\nIf you are working in or around this program in California - would love to hear from you.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-28T05:46:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/27/worker-adjustment-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/27/harry-belafonte-managing.html", "content_html": "Harry Belafonte ‘managing’ his audience singing the Banana Boat song. 🔗 You know why it is here.
\nSame song - from the extraordinary Stan Freberg (we don’t hear much about him these days ) - in 1957 - with his (I think very funny) parody of the same song).
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-28T05:32:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/27/harry-belafonte-managing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/turns-out-i.html", "title": "🎙️ Turns Out I Don't Need Snipd Afterall ...", "content_html": "I have had three actions in ‘Things’ now for weeks. They were there to remind me to post a snippet from three podcasts that I wanted to share. The actual snipping and posting is not that hard - so why did I need to set a reminder?
\nBECAUSE
\nI use Overcast to listen to Podcasts and I had no intention of moving my listening experience over to Snipd. Earlier in the year I had been playing with Snipd. and even posted a couple … 🔗 here and 🔗 here, but the friction on the adhoc process in the workflow - not so easy.
\nSnipd is a good app for extracting a slice and posting. BUT I listen to Podcasts in Overcast, so when I wanted to snip something, I had to;
\n… and only then could I start the process.
\nClumsy - at best - and lots of friction - so I just made a note in Things - which you now know I never got round to!
\nI might be blind, ignorant or stupid - but tonight I discovered that Overcast offers very similar (identical?) functionality. Is that new? Am I really that slow?
\nAnyway, just tried out the Overcast mechanism - and very nice, sitting right there in front of me.
\n\nSnipd account deleted.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T18:06:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/turns-out-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/in-that-last.html", "content_html": "In that 🔗 last post Siri tried to spell ‘Heroes’ … ‘Herpes’
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T05:56:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/in-that-last.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/nz-tech-podcast.html", "content_html": "🔗 NZ Tech Podcast: Skills shortage slows fibre installs, satellite woes, ChatGPT cheats from @billbennettnz
\n\n\n“Musk plans a less biased AI”
\n
… and we clearly all believe that Musk is capable of removing bias from social media don’t we?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T05:05:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/nz-tech-podcast.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/25/glossary-terms.html", "title": "䷓ Glossary Terms ", "content_html": "Slowly building up my glossary links ( thankyou @AndySylvester ) … 4 active so far … more in the background - and none of the embedded terms are yet implemented (except that one at the bottom of this post). None of the click throughs are final text yet - but that is kind of the beauty of the 🔗 glossary.
\nLearn more about People First.
\n\nAn experiment as I think about moving peoplefirst.business into MicroBlog.
\n\nAbout my position on The Future of Work.
\n\nCable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.
\n\n\nWho “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing?\nProbably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops.\nCNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.
\n
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-26T06:28:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/25/cable-news-dana.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? RIP","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/24/i-knew-this.html", "content_html": "🔗 I knew this - there have been mentions on this topic before. Sharing because I think Merriam Webster’s replies demonstrate a keen and fast wit IMHO. (Warning … Twitter thread.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-25T04:49:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/24/i-knew-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/24/a-list-of.html", "content_html": "A list of 10 not counting when he ‘turns it up to 11’ turning points on the internet. Tedium writes: 🔗 What We Can Learn from the Past
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-25T04:23:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/24/a-list-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/23/paleblue-usb-rechargeable.html", "content_html": "🔗 Paleblue USB Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.
\nRechargeable batteries have been around for a while but charging blocks always seemed clunky and yet another lump of plastic you need to keep around and still never be able to find when you need it.
\nThis looks like a good solution.
\nAny experiences?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-24T02:56:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/23/paleblue-usb-rechargeable.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/21/why-america-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why America and Britain Are Both Self-Destructing.
\nThe problem with Umair is that his writing very often depresses me. The bigger problem is that I have a hard time disagreeing with his observations and conclusions ( yes he is guilty of hyperbolic phrasing ).
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-22T07:35:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/21/why-america-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/21/elon-musk-pays.html", "content_html": "🔗 Elon Musk pays for Stephen King and LeBron James to keep Twitter blue ticks.
\nNow what we want is for those guys that have been granted free ticks to tell Musk to ‘de-tick’ them.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-22T05:34:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/21/elon-musk-pays.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/20/daring-fireball-whatsapp.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nI’m glad to see these companies defending end-to-end encryption, but this letter dances around the repercussions of this proposed legislation in the U.K. What they mean in the third paragraph quoted above is that if the legislation passes, people in the U.K. won’t be able to use WhatsApp or Signal or any other end-to-end encrypted service. Apple isn’t a signatory of the letter, but I think iMessage would be banned too.
\n
💬 John Gruber
\nThere is so much idiocy in the UK government these days.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-21T12:24:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/20/daring-fireball-whatsapp.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/19/from-ellsberg-to.html", "content_html": "\nAlleged? I think they all are. Isn’t the question whether they should be punished?
\nNot only that, there is little commonality in their motivations.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-20T05:22:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/19/from-ellsberg-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/19/the-guardian-asks.html", "content_html": "The Guardian asks why are Americans being shot for knocking on the wrong door?
\nGood question, even as the article was being written, a third story emerges;
\n🔗 Woodlands Elite cheerleaders shot: Athlete Payton Washington hospitalized after 2 girls were shot.
\n(Apparently she got in the wrong car)
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-20T05:03:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/19/the-guardian-asks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/18/phuck-phox-settled.html", "content_html": "Phuck Phox
\nSettled for less than half of what was on the table … they should have called Saul.
\n🔗 Fox and Dominion settle for US$787.5m in defamation lawsuit over election lies.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-19T10:02:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/18/phuck-phox-settled.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/18/thousands-fled-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
\nI think there were quite a few more than ‘thousands’.
\n… and ‘fled’?
\n… and to answer the question - yes - with orders of magnitude more engagement.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-19T06:38:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/18/thousands-fled-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/17/parliament-watchdog-opens.html", "content_html": "🔗 🍿 Parliament watchdog opens investigation into Rishi Sunak
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-18T12:29:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/17/parliament-watchdog-opens.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/17/elon-musk-reportedly.html", "content_html": "🔗 Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker.
\nIs this the same ElonMusk that signed that letter about slowing AI down?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-18T02:10:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/17/elon-musk-reportedly.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/15/more-people-should.html", "content_html": "More people should at least read this …
\n🔗 Mehdi Hasan on How to Argue and Win
\n… and (ideally) his book (full disclosure .. I haven’t, but it is now on my list.)
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-16T04:49:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/15/more-people-should.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/having-your-cake.html", "content_html": "🔗 Having your cake and eating it.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T10:20:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/having-your-cake.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/rescuing-a-project.html", "content_html": "I don’t want to live forever … I just don’t want to die.
\n
🔗 Rescuing a project in progress
\nWhatever kind of project you are doing … good advice from Mr. Fried.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T10:16:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/rescuing-a-project.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/shades-of-phil.html", "content_html": "Shades of Phil Collins … though to be fair … sending a fax requires a tad more effort than an email
\n🔗 Rupert Murdoch reportedly divorced Jerry Hall by email.
\nStill .. what else do you need to know about the man?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T09:24:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/shades-of-phil.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/obsession-review-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Obsession review – the actors in this erotic thriller all seem to need the toilet.
\n\n\n“We have come a long way in many fields of human endeavour since the early 90s, but, alas, actors have still not learned to run fast and run far from anyone who wants them to appear in anything with the words “erotic” or “obsessive love” in the brief.”
\n
Filed under ‘Film Reviews I Wish I’d written’ … and no, I have not seen the film.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T09:20:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/obsession-review-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/104306.html", "content_html": "🔗 Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant dies aged 93.
\nA long life had Mary. Rest In Peace.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T05:43:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/104306.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/11/mythic-quest-im.html", "title": "📺 Mythic Quest ★★★½", "content_html": "![\"Mythic](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/538dbca8f3.png\")
\nSeries 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nI’m not a gamer, but it’s not really to do with games. It’s another sitcom based in the office. Not a bad way to while away some time.
\nSeries 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nThe saga continued … it really isn’t a bad show at all. Don’t expect deep.
\nSeries 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
\nThis one cracked along at a pace that I don’t remember the first two did and with it came up a better show somehow. (Hence more stars). Is it just me - but is Rob McElhenney becoming more like Ryan Reynolds with each series?
\nSeries 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
\nThe quest rolls on. It’s just a light story. Fast quick episodes. There isnt really a complicated arc to the whole show - but definitely enjoyable. The stars suggest it’s getting better. Not sure that is true.
\n🔗 Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? - people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
\n🔗 I showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like it. - I look forward to this new series.
\n\n\nI am a cult author, asked in the street maybe five times a year: “Are you Emma Forrest?” And I am Emma Forrest. But it’s a surname invented by my grandfather to combat anti-semitism, so there are other more legitimate Emma Forrests, some with their own internet fame, like the Scottish judo star or the woman, also Scottish, who consumes 3,000 calories of fizzy drinks a day.
\n
💬 Emma Forrest
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-11T03:35:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/10/its-monday-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/10/superrich-abandoning-norway.html", "content_html": "🔗 Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly. - @odd - what is your take? Should we care?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-11T03:32:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/10/superrich-abandoning-norway.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/09/we-built-our.html", "content_html": "🔗 We built our dream Cotswolds farmhouse in two weeks. (Apple News Link)
\n\n\nTheir dream was almost ten years in the making.
\n
Color me confused.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-10T05:38:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/09/we-built-our.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/07/legacy-blue-checkmarks.html", "content_html": "🔗 Legacy Blue CheckMarks Still Have Their Checkmarks - and can’t remove them? … even if you try!
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-08T11:48:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/07/legacy-blue-checkmarks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/07/calling-all-writers.html", "content_html": "🖋️ Calling All Writers … ✍🏽 Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one (it takes you to a Readwise URL - I highlighted a few sentences that caught my eye.)
\n🔗 This is the original URL on Substack
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-08T11:47:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/07/calling-all-writers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/06/new-zealand-leaving.html", "title": "New Zealand | Leaving - On A Jet Plane", "content_html": "🔗New Zealand loses appeal to rich foreigners as investor visa numbers plunge..
\nMaybe they have been reading Rushkoff’s book - and don’t want to be put in the same bag as Peter Thiel?
\n\n\nIt was bizarre. I do get called out a lot to do these talks for businesspeople about the digital future. So, it was one of those where they paid me a bunch of money to convince me to spend some jet fuel and leave my home and pontificate, but then instead of taking me out onto the stage, they brought these five guys into the green room and sat around this table and started asking me all these very binary questions about where they should place their bets for the digital future: Bitcoin or Ethereum; VR or AR; and finally, New Zealand or Alaska—where should they invest in land to put their bunker for “the event”?
\n
💬 Douglas Rushkoff
(my bold)\nBut still ….
\nIt’s not just rich foreigners not arriving - it’s ordinary people leaving … again.
\nAll kinds of reasons - but just from my own peculiarly tight Kiwi circle
\nme - of course - though I haven’t abandoned the country completely!
\na kiwi friend and his wife moved to Portugal in January.
\na highly networked and successful tech entrepreneur who has built his businesses in New Zealand for the last 30 years, very well connected, recognized by many for his contribution to the country has hit a wall and is looking at the US and The Far East as new opportunities. His words;
\n\n\n“In New Zealand there is zero appetite in thinking beyond the shores of the country.
\n
\n\nMy overall experience in NZ shows that it is a country that is too small and internally focused to get meaningful traction as an innovator, not impossible, just a smaller pond and appetite …. I plan to build connections in Australia and further regionally in Asian markets this year.
\n
But there’s more. COVID saw a lot of Kiwis returning ‘home’. COVID has ‘moved on’ (well - we all know it hasn’t - but it is clearly now manageable), net result, the Kiwis are back out on the road again.
\nExample - just like the UK, there is a severe shortage of healthcare professionals just one of many articles .. a shortage of 4,000 people (this in a country of 5 million people). If a similar ratio were applied to the US, there would be a shortage of over 1/4 million healthcare workers!
\nHere’s the rub … in my three years in New Zealand I lost count of trained healthcare professionals (and accountants and engineers for that matter) who were driving for taxi companies and Ola. (I am sure that the same applied to Uber - but can’t speak to that, because - well - Uber ). Why? Because New Zealand requires them to go through all their training again. (Not just pass exams - but actually retrain.)
\nMeanwhile - a Kiwi trained Healthcare professional can fly out of Auckland, land in Sydney, get paid more and have a lower cost of living.
\nThere’s a lot more around the challenges that New Zealand face - which I’ll save for another day - just to leave you with a couple of quotes from Bernard Hickey - a Kiwi journalist and political commentator based in Wellington. (again - my bold.)
\n\n\nWayne Brown is actually simply expressing a view held by most asset owners and investors in Aotearoa-NZ’s economy, or as I call it, a housing market with bits tacked on. That deeply held and and so-far-extremely-profitable investment strategy is that owning shares or investing in businesses in Aotearoa is vastly inferior to owning land, especially leveraged residential land, and even better if it is residential-zoned land that remains banked and undeveloped. The
\n
\n\nWayne Brown (ed - the new major of Auckland) is being exactly what he is: a property developer who has actually made most of his personal money from land price appreciation on land made valuable through rezoning and paying for water connections at a lower-than-full cost.
\n
![\"more](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/9bcea27768.png\")
Other parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-07T10:36:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/06/new-zealand-leaving.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/06/just-in-case.html", "content_html": "Just in case you are thinking that the US is a little over the top - try this on for size …
\n![\"Headline](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/3c0f4d0e23.jpg\")
\n🔗 Then again - in the US we shoot pranksters.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-07T07:15:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/06/just-in-case.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/05/apologies-if-this.html", "content_html": "🎵Apologies if this is a repeat - search doesn’t seem to be working for me today 😢
\nYesterday ‘someone’ posted a bandcamp link to a band I did not know … ‘Hum’.
\nFriggin awesome stuff.
\n🔗 A songwhip link to the album … shades of ‘Secret Machines’?
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-06T05:40:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/05/apologies-if-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/the-most-consequential.html", "content_html": "🔗 The most consequential politics story in the US isn’t the Trump arraignment.
\nOnce again - following the easy meat, so we take our eyes off the ball and the real game.
\nDeflection and Misdirection - keep your eyes open.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-05T06:04:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/the-most-consequential.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/why-did-sanna.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why did Sanna Marin lose Finland’s election?
\nIt only seems like yesterday (last November!) when she met with Jacinda Ardern and they had to defend attacks on them suggesting that they were just meeting because they were women of a similar age.
\nJacinda went first. Now it’s Sanna.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-05T06:02:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/why-did-sanna.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/oh-wow-mathematicians.html", "content_html": "Oh WOW
\n🔗 Mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape.
\nInvent? Or do they mean discover? I mean - the shape has always been there.
\nStill, looking forward to seeing magazines like Architectural Digest feature photographs of kitchens, bathrooms, patios et al using the tile.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/a5afaf07b9.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-04-05T05:54:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/oh-wow-mathematicians.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/were-pirate-ships.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?
\nI don’t know - but I like the idea!
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-05T05:50:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/were-pirate-ships.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/staten-island-forgotten.html", "content_html": "🔗 Staten Island, Forgotten Borough .. I wonder how many NYC visitors think they have ‘been to New York’, when in fact they have likely only ‘been to Manhattan’ (riding in from JFK or La Guardia or even Newark aside). That said it is easy to forget the island, even if you do think of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx - the island would be the last - if at all - on most lists. (Full disclosure - for all the times I have been to NYC, ‘the island’ remains the only Borough I have never been to.)
\nThat all said, it does seem an interesting - if not ‘complicated’ - place with multiple contradictions. Great read.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-05T05:37:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/staten-island-forgotten.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/04/does-it-matter.html", "content_html": "🔗 Does it matter if Substack is in financial trouble?
\nTL;DR : No - and I agree.
\nBut - in there are some great links from @adders that are there regardless of Substack’s survival that allow you to seamlessly move off Substack and on to Ghost, Buttondown or Beehiiv. Nice.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-05T05:28:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/04/does-it-matter.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/i-havent-thought.html", "content_html": "I haven’t thought about this album for years - and then Tedium wrote about it at length ….
\n🔗 🎵 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The Rock Opera That Shaped the Form
\nI relistened to some of it earlier today. I still enjoyed it - but to my ears it hasn’t aged well. Not yet put my finger on why - but I suspect a new listener might not engage with it in the same way.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-03T10:28:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/i-havent-thought.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/just-read-colinwalker.html", "content_html": "I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …
\nSharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.
\nFarewell Ryuichi and thankyou.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-03T07:43:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/just-read-colinwalker.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/via-doc-searls.html", "content_html": "Via Doc Searls
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-02T14:25:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/01/via-doc-searls.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/the-night-agent.html", "title": "📺 The Night Agent ★★★ ", "content_html": "… aims to make individuals become more aware of the risks and benefits of data trading and sales, and take steps to protect their own data …\n…. is the first step towards unpacking and untangling the complex world of data exchanges.\n… we hope to provide guidance on how industry groups and associations can develop better codes of conduct and best practices for data exchanges.
\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/da85fa10f1.png\")
\nSeries 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nIt follows a formula (but what doesn’t these days?). For all of that though - enjoyed it - and set up for a second series by the looks of it. If you have seen the ‘young Jack Ryan’ shows and/or ‘The Recruit’ … you know what to expect.
\nSeries 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nThe quality remains - keeps you watching - but a few more disconnects in the overall story arc. And yes - the set up for Series 3 is in place.
\n![\"Stoicism\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ce6f52fce5.jpg\")
My first visit to the ‘sevens’.
\n![\"Sub](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6dcb923de5.png\")
UPDATE: 230427
\n… and immediately went back into the eights - until 7th April.
\n![\"🔗](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/257227ce73.png\")
\n\n“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh-and-blood object [are] up against the thing that isn’t. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happens in a flash.
\n
\n\nTo me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you—so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that’s what I think we do when we’re interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is, [is] not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. [It’s] a state of affairs that we’re assessing.”
\n
💬 Phyllida Barlow
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-03-25T05:37:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/24/sculpture.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/24/at-long-last.html", "content_html": "🔗 At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree.
\n… because even donkey’s deserve to know their roots.
\n", "date_published": "2023-03-25T05:34:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/24/at-long-last.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/24/styling.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-03-25T05:24:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/24/styling.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/20/i-will-share.html", "content_html": "I will share the recording link when it is available … but just listening to Doc Searls’ Ostrom workshop with Cory Doctorow .. if he’s half right … good luck with the future.
\nUPDATE, March 21st, 2023
\n\n\n\n“Alas, the beginning is missing due to a technical glitch.”
\n
💬 Doc Searls
\n", "date_published": "2023-03-21T06:48:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/20/i-will-share.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/15/smbc-is-on.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-03-16T05:17:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/15/smbc-is-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/15/fancy-an-excel.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-03-16T05:16:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/15/fancy-an-excel.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/15/everything-is-liquid.html", "content_html": "\n\nSociety is way behind in adapting its rules to this new liquid culture. It makes everything precarious for everyone. Sam Bankman-Fried went from the Forbes 400 to a jail cell in a few weeks. I don’t think he has yet to get his head around how destroyed his life is. (Have a suicide watch ready when he figures it out.)\nThere are a few industries that still resist this facet of Moore’s Law. Education is one. Health care is another. Law is a third. We have yet to see Trump’s perp walk, and legal delays make new infrastructure almost impossible to build.
\n
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-03-16T05:14:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/15/everything-is-liquid.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/14/the-madame-blanc.html", "title": "📺 The Madame Blanc Mysteries ★★★½", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9855e44cb6.jpg\")
It’s one of those ‘little shows’. Lovely and gentle in itself. No deep mysteries - just one to gently unwind to. BONUS - the theme music has ear wormed itself into my brain - and is embedded.
\n\nSeries 1 ✅
\nSeries 2 ✅
\nSeries 3 ✅
\nSeries 4 ✅
\nThe Madame Blanc Mysteries on 🔗 Reelgood
\n\n\n
I first reviewed at end of series 2.
\n![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca08530f5f.jpg\")
Finally got round to updating it today - June 6th, 2026.
", "date_published": "2023-03-15T08:14:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/14/the-madame-blanc.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Shows","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/14/prison-abolition-even.html", "content_html": "🔗 Prison Abolition Even For Elizabeth Holmes.
\nClearly. I have no idea who Elizabeth Homes really is, though I do have my own biased opinions that she is a con artist, but Nathan Robinson highlights a conundrum that goes beyond her case. That said - what would be very wrong is for Holmes to be the one that breaks the mold.
\nHalf of me already thinks that she planned this pregnancy yo use it as a ‘get out of jail’ card.
\n", "date_published": "2023-03-15T08:05:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/14/prison-abolition-even.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/10/twitter-is-going.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n“Managers were apparently instructed to provide lists of people who should be promoted, only for those managers to then be fired and replaced by the lower-paid people they’d recommended for promotion.”
\n
I heard that he thought Squid Game was real.
\n", "date_published": "2023-03-11T13:42:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/10/twitter-is-going.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/08/i-agree-so.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/63df0c5f72.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-03-09T05:24:08+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/08/i-agree-so.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/05/theres-an-entire.html",
"content_html": "\n\nThere’s an entire section in the bookshop called Self-Help, but there is no section called Help Others.
\n
💬 Simon Sinek
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-03-06T03:11:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/05/theres-an-entire.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/03/oh-the-irony.html", "content_html": "Oh the irony.
\n🔗 Amazon to pay $150,000 over Kindle removing 1984
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-03-04T05:53:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/03/oh-the-irony.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/02/i-hope-i.html", "content_html": "One of the plaintiffs, Justin Gawronski, has a compelling story about his experience with Amazon’s memory hole. Apparently, he was reading his copy of 1984 as a summer assignment for school, and had been using one of the Kindle’s selling points—the ability to attach notes to specific parts of the e-book text—to prepare for his return to school. Since he was actively reading the work when Amazon pulled the plug, he actually got to watch the work vanish from his screen.
\n
🔗 I hope I am not restricting myself here, because it could get challenging.
\nUpdates:
\nMarch 3rd - yup - already widened the definition.
\nMarch 5th - I think I’ve nailed it. (Though I had to retake a couple of images to get the consistency I was seeking.) Let’s see how it holds up. Then I will explain.
\nMarch 11th - it’s a ‘bit of a cheat’ … but arguably still fits into the ‘rules.
\nMarch 31st - we did it!
\n", "date_published": "2023-03-03T09:51:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/02/i-hope-i.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/is-this-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Is this the best comment on Rishi Sunak’s new Northern Ireland deal?
\n\n\n“if food is available on supermarket shelves in Britain”
\n
‘If’ … not ‘when’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T12:18:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/is-this-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/making-canada-better.html", "content_html": "\nStrikes me as a good list for any country to aspire to.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T05:01:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/making-canada-better.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/its-only-me.html", "content_html": "\nLovely.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T04:54:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/its-only-me.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/chatgpt-is-basically.html", "content_html": "🔗 ChatGPT is basically a user interface for search.
\n.. maybe more a UI for answers?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T04:52:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/chatgpt-is-basically.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/an-american-healthcare.html", "content_html": "🔗 An American healthcare story; A Whole Lotta Nothing via @dave
\n\n\n“ The entire world except the US figured out the cost of medicine is easy to handle if it is shared by all. I don’t think anything will change in the US in my lifetime, if I really want health security as I get older, I would have to leave the country.“
\n
The American way is ‘I’, whilst a lot of the rest of world is ‘we’ … though in the U.K. at least, the government is moving as fast it can towards ‘I’ and away from ‘we’.
\nThe 51st state is alive and well.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T04:50:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/an-american-healthcare.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/such-a-nice.html", "content_html": "Such a nice chap … 🔗 A Rundown of All the Legal Cases Against Donald Trump … it’s extraordinary how sprawling the ‘woke left’s’ conspiracy against him actually is!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T04:42:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/such-a-nice.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/first-look-new.html", "content_html": "🔗 First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4
\n…. and still no RSS emoji.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T04:37:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/first-look-new.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/25/i-am-not.html", "content_html": "I am not a paid subscriber to RibbonFarm, so I can’t offer you any insight into what 🔗 all this has to do with friction, AI, meaning, and zero-interest rates? (Readwise link that includes a few highlights) … but it made for a fascinating read in its own right … particularly in light of the Meccano news I linked to a couple of days ago - and the Lego comparisons.
\nA great example of why I enjoy reading the ideas of Venkatesh Rao.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-26T08:20:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/25/i-am-not.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/23/exploring-tracking-crud.html", "title": "Exploring Tracking Crud in Readwise", "content_html": "This is in Stoop.
\n\n
![\"Stoop](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/3ce24594eb.jpg\")
I click on the ‘Read On’ link and see this.
\n![\"Viewing](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/5d84504147.jpg\")
BUT - if I save to ‘Read Later' in ‘Readwise’ and then open Readwise, I see this
\n![\"Readwise](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/04c7c8d3a4.png\")
🔗 The original page (sans the 5 lines of tracking crud)
\nHere’s what I am wondering.
\nWhen I visit the public Readwise link it includes this tracking crud;
\nwhich to this untrained bear, seems to be very different tracking crud to Liminals, so there is some rewriting going on?
\nWhy?
\nAnd …
\nIf I remove that tracking crud, I can still see the article, so could Readwise automatically remove that tracking crud as they save the link into my library?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-24T05:24:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/23/exploring-tracking-crud.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/23/norfolk-southern-is.html", "content_html": "\nNo words.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-24T04:38:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/23/norfolk-southern-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/23/peak-people-tom.html", "content_html": "\nTom Evslin with some interesting arguments around climate, population and the world at large. Who knows if he is right and since we do not know, it’s probably not a good idea to assume.
\nWhat’s that stock warning?
\n… historical performance should not etc etc.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-24T04:37:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/23/peak-people-tom.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/23/nothing-is-unimportant.html", "content_html": "\n\nNothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong person peels an orange. On some level this makes sense: When your model of the world is paper thin, a tenuous thing that startles you endlessly, the few experiences that become routine carry a lot of weight. If someone else peels the orange then you might as well change the rules of gravity, too.
\n
🔗 Dispatches from childhood, Simon Sarris
\nLovely.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-24T04:29:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/23/nothing-is-unimportant.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/if-you-love.html", "content_html": "If you love blue album covers AND/OR you didn’t know that blue album covers were a thing, then 🔗 The Feminine Blue Mystique - by Rachel Cabitt is the place for you.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T08:29:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/if-you-love.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/there-are-the.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T08:26:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/there-are-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/salesforce-jumps-on.html", "content_html": "“There are the crypto people who have seamlessly become AI people, much like how the amateur Twitter epidemiologists suddenly morphed into military experts.”
\n
🔗 Salesforce jumps on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with a surprise acquisition
\n\n\n“It’s also worth noting Tempo was incubated by SRI International, the agency that created Apple’s Siri software.”
\n
it’s not clear if this is being positioned as a benefit or a warning. 😂
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T07:07:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/salesforce-jumps-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/dana-on-carter.html", "content_html": "🔗 Dana on Carter: “His entire political life lasted just 14 years.”
\nTalk about how you get defined!
\n\n\nCarter didn’t enter politics until he was 42, running for State Senate. While Governor in 1973 he appeared on the game show “What’s My Life,” saying he was running for President. While the panelists weren’t blindfolded, no one recognized him. His entire political life lasted just 14 years.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T05:31:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/dana-on-carter.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/this-is-not.html", "content_html": "Jimmy Carter was a man completely outside his time, and outside his place, from the moment of his birth until his death. He wasn’t a great orator. He wasn’t a wartime leader. Yet no one in 20th century America has proven more important, based on the strength of his example, and his steadfast belief that we can be better than we are.
\n
This Is Not The End.
\n🔗 Nick Cave on Growing Older - older mind you … not ‘old’.
\nThis IS The Beginning.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T05:28:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/this-is-not.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/21/the-historical-roots.html", "content_html": "🔗The Historical Roots of Political Fault-lines in the U.S.A.
\nTripped over this last night. It’s from a couple of years ago (but really the whole point of the piece is that differences are deeply rooted - and thus relatively timeless). An interesting piece even of itself., even more so if you read it and draw parallels with other parts of the world.
\nThe boundaries on the map drawn are ‘cultural boundaries’, reflecting what people feel and how they relate to each other in the U.S.A.
\nNow think about a couple of ideas, (say) …
The U.S.A. as the Middle East
\nState lines equivalent to country borders
\nThe difference is that moving between states in the U.S.A. is a whole lot simpler than between countries in the Middle East.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-22T02:32:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/21/the-historical-roots.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/20/michael-tsai-on.html", "content_html": "🔗 Michael Tsai on Choosing and Switching Mastodon Instances
\nTurns out it might not be that simple - and, given the author, this particular bear has put any thoughts about this on the back burner - and switched off the gas!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-21T05:34:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/20/michael-tsai-on.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html", "title": "🎵 This Is The End", "content_html": "I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘the end’.
\nI guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.
\nBecause I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘The End’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.
\nThis is the end
\nBeautiful friend
\nThis is the end
\nMy only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
\nOf everything that stands, the end
\nNo safety or surprise, the end
\nI’ll never look into your eyes again
\n\n“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood."
\n
💬 Jim Morrison
\nIf you want a really good cry, the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …
\n\nIf you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …
\n\nIf you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had The Isle of Wight …
\n🔗 Live at The Isle of Wight in 1970
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-20T12:32:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Films","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","MyFilmReferences","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/a-substack-with.html", "content_html": "A Substack with bundles of links : 🔗 Digital Countries are the Next New Thing
\nWho’s already started : 🔗 The Network State Dashboard
\nThe Book : 🔗The Networked State Book (free and downloadable)
\nOriginally posted on John.Philpin.Com
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T17:21:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/a-substack-with.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/streams-of-consciousness.html", "content_html": "🚧 🔗 Streams of Consciousness · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer via ‘Om’.
\nMore on this, in the comments, soon, like I often do.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T17:10:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/streams-of-consciousness.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/new-zealand-unrecognized.html", "title": "New Zealand | Unrecognized Leadership", "content_html": "If the UK and/or the USA could find more leaders that demonstrate the qualities of Jacinda Arden, wouldn’t both surely be better off for it?
\nSadly, she’s had her run, the voters are not going her way hence her resignation. ‘Hitch’ is being allowed to reset the agenda and so far at least, seems to be turning the ‘anti-Labour’ tide. Make no mistake though, yes, she took some wrong turns but the problems being laid at her feet won’t go away with new leaders. It’s a global problem … and despite New Zealand managing to punch well above their international weight over the last few years … these global issues are exactly that … global.
\n🔗 Colbert pays tribute to Jacinda
\n🎙️ What was behind Jacinda-mania and why did it end so suddenly?
\nOther parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T14:17:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/new-zealand-unrecognized.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/jimmy-carter-opts.html", "content_html": "🔗 Jimmy Carter, 98, opts for hospice care after string of hospital visits
\nSad, but it comes to us all.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T11:40:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/jimmy-carter-opts.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/bookmarks-left.html", "content_html": "6 🔗 Bookmarks left.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T11:39:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/bookmarks-left.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/substacks-fail-at.html", "title": "Substacks Fail At Providing Joy", "content_html": "\nA claim made by Mike Pesca on his ‘occasional’ 🔗 Substack. But maybe that isn’t the point? Maybe that is also not right? He asked for comments. This post is is my response. What do you think?
\nI definitely agree with the sentiment of your post. I do feel I kinda ‘know’ people on podcasts better than, those who’s newsletter or blog I read. That said …
\nTo spend time listening to a podcast is a big time commitment. Example - listening to The Gist each week day requires me to devote around 2% of all my available time on that day, which translates to (maybe) 25% of my ‘disposable time’ (8hrs of sleep, 8hrs of work, (say) 6hrs of ‘life’ leaves 2 of disposable time).
\nYes I can do other things while I listen, but it is still time intensive. PLUS, there is a commitment to that time to even get to know whether I want to listen. I know I can speed up the podcast - but really?
\nMeanwhile, I can grok newsletters, blogs et al pretty quickly and make a decision if I really want to commit time to reading it. So to get to information - the written word every time. To get to ‘know’ someone … audio.
\nBut there won’t therefore be a large number of people in that category that I really ‘know’ - if in fact any. Example: despite listening to the Gist for many years - because I like the show and more often than not enjoy what you are talking about - I still don’t really ‘know’ you.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T11:35:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/substacks-fail-at.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/webrings-thank-you.html", "content_html": "\nThank you @bradenslen
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T08:38:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/webrings-thank-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/18/should-we-declare.html", "content_html": "Should we declare ourselves a networked state? A Balaji Srinivasan concept.
\nA Substack with bundles of links : 🔗 Digital Countries are the Next New Thing
\nWho’s already started : 🔗 The Network State Dashboard
\nThe Book : 🔗The Networked State Book (free and downloadable)
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-19T05:42:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/18/should-we-declare.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/palo-alto-a.html", "content_html": "🔗 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World is a new book by Malcolm Harris.
\nHe talks about it on this podcast 🎙️The Dark History Of Silicon Valley with Sean Illing.
\nOh my!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T15:09:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/palo-alto-a.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Podcasts","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/having-said-that.html", "content_html": "Having said that I reject lists I am quietly building some interesting lists of albums on AlbumWhale … and when I say lists … were I to tell you that one of those lists has just two items on it … you will understand that the word ’list’ is being rather loosely used.
\nBecause actually, I like lists … but I like them to have context.
\nSometimes the context is helped simply by knowing who created the list and maybe why they created it. ‘Top 50 guitarists in Rock music created by Rolling Stone’ might be one such example. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with who is on it, or what position they are in … But the source being a known quantity … Rolling Stone .. is sufficient for me to engage.
\nLots of albums listed by someone I don’t know, where I rarely know the albums listed and those I do, I don’t like most of the time gives me no reason to engage. NONE.
\nIf that album had a sentence that explained why? … my engagement interest goes up … significantly.
\nBack to my lists, they aren’t the 50 albums I’ve always loved … mainly because such a list would include bands like Talking Heads, Pink Floyd and Tears for Fears … and really … who cares?
\nRather I have taken a different tack.
\nA list of phenomenal albums by artists you might not have heard about - and why I think they are so good? 🎵 Would that be interesting?
\nA new ‘WIP’ list - focussed on something I am calling 🔗 English Progressive. Early days yet, 🎵 there are only three listed so far, but the future is big
\nYou can find all my AlbumWhale lists here - but those three are the main focus for now.
\nThankyou for your attention.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T13:43:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/having-said-that.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/there-are-so.html", "content_html": "There are so many things in 🔗 this article by Dana F. Blankenhorn that I have highlighted, that had I spent time calling them out, well, you might just as well have clicked through to read it.
\nIt pretty much opens with;
\n\n\nHe (Ali) held his forearms against his body and let George Foreman punch himself out. Ali won in the 8th round.
\n
It ends with;
\n\n\n“In this way Joe Biden is the most consequential President of the 21st century.”
\n
Two minute read. Days of thought.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T08:18:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/there-are-so.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/the-beckn-protocol.html", "content_html": "The 🔗 Beckn protocol “allows you to create open and decentralized digital ecosystems”. So far, the word ‘blockchain’ is mentioned nowhere (that I have found). I also haven’t found how it handles ‘identity’ before it facilitates a transaction, though it says it does ‘identify each other’ but I’m not sure that is the same thing?
\nCan anyone share their experiences. It looks really interesting from a ‘People First’ perspective.
\nExtracts from their world …
\n\n\nidentify each other and perform transactions with each other without the need for a central intermediary
\n
\n\nBeckn Protocol is an open commerce protocol with an abstract core, which is enabling market players to reimagine building seamless digital experiences and networks. This is very similar to how HTTP, while being a simple and open protocol has fueled seamless interaction between multiple systems and led to an explosive growth in internet adoption.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T04:10:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/the-beckn-protocol.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Posts","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/podcast-overload-spot.html", "content_html": "\nThe beckn community is an open community. So, no registrations. No memberships. No partnerships. Just a minimal footprint of an open and equally accessible Beckn Protocol that anyone can use. Multiple businesses and organizations have started using beckn protocol to fuel their digital acceleration. The credo of being an open protocol creates a level-playing field for any market player, small or large.
\n
Spot Om (sic)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/15c92c2101.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-18T03:51:42+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/podcast-overload-spot.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/if-you-do.html",
"content_html": "If you do only one thing today, click on this link and read. So funny.
\n🔗 Geoff Greer’s site: Gasoline Car Review
\nvia John Naughton
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-17T08:07:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/if-you-do.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/rihanna-explains-decision.html", "content_html": "🔗 Rihanna explains decision to reverse Super Bowl boycott
\n.. clearly a lot has changed in the past 4 years. The Kaepernick issue is obviously sorted - and what is left to do is now clearly best served by doing the performance that just four years ago was a non starter.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-17T08:05:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/rihanna-explains-decision.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/congressman-ro-khanna.html", "content_html": "🔗 Congressman Ro Khanna: ‘The American dream has slipped away’
\nDon’t disagree Ro. Do not disagree.
\nBUT it’s not new news and it has only gotten worse.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-17T07:59:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/congressman-ro-khanna.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/why-chatgpt-will.html", "title": "Why ChatGPT Will Change the World, Lower Your Fees BUT NOT Raise Your Revenue (Unless You Differentiate)", "content_html": "Shel Israel writes : 🔗 How ChatGPT Will Change the World, Lower My Fees and Raise My Revenue
\nI get what he is saying - except I don’t.
\nHis argument centers on his unit price dropping - but he will write more.
\nBack of an envelope calculations. Let’s say he increases his output ten fold and reduces his price by EIGHTY PERCENT.
\nThis would double his revenue. All good nay … all great!
But if this works - he isn’t the only writer that will do this.
\nAnd if that changes broadly across the writing industry, that 80% will likely have to fall further - unless there is substantial differentiation.
\nThe differentiation will vary - but will become essential. (It’s essential now - but that’s a different story.)
\nPeople that write ‘content’ have a problem.
\nThe problem is that if you write content - how do you differentiate?
\nI’ve written about it before here and here and here and here and … well - you get the picture.
\nThis is why for the longest time I keep repeating (sorry - I am going to have to quote myself) … though Will Arnett at least has caught on and so has Chris Lockhead
\n\n\nContent is a horrible, generic, cheap, anything will do kind of word. Which is why ‘content has no value. It is in the best interests of buyers of our sweat, labour, thought and time to keep price down. But our costs are not kept down. So our earnings suffer. And they are suffering badly.
\n
Job One - Stop making content.
\nJob Two - Start writing blogs, articles, white papers, posts, scripts, essays …
\nThe ultimate oxymoron: Strategic Content
\n🎛️ English Progressive Redux
\n🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
\nWhat do you think?
\n\n \n \n \n \n![](\n\"[john.philpin.com/uploads/2...](https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/c54ef72c7f.png)\")
\n \n \n\n🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T11:03:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/english-progressive-redux.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts","MyPodcastSnippets"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/soccers-america-problem.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n““Over time players go where the money is. The money is here. Once Americans realize that the sport is moving west …. it’s going to stoke anti-American sentiment around the world. It’s something we need to be ready for.”
\n
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:39:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/soccers-america-problem.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/yes-elon-musk.html", "content_html": "🔗 Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
\nSorry. Didn’t notice. With good reason.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:34:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/yes-elon-musk.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/her-car-died.html", "content_html": "🔗 Her car died, so she walked to work. One day on the walk, she found $15,000.
\nHeart warming story, via John Naughton.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:33:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/her-car-died.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/the-hacking-and.html", "content_html": "🔗 The hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections.
\n\n\n…. disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace.
\n
Cough - well clearly not without a trace!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:32:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/the-hacking-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/one-more-example.html", "content_html": "🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.
\nThere is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call 🔗 ’English Progressive’ adding the specific words that “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.
\nThis morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.
\nThankyou - thankyou very much!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:15:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/one-more-example.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/14/why-do-of.html", "content_html": "🔗 Why Do 50% of People Live in This Circle?
\nAbsolutely Fascinating.
\n… and a great reminder of how small America really is.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/61a75e3670.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-15T07:13:17+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/14/why-do-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
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"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/musical-muscle-memory.html",
"content_html": "🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
\nListening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
\nBack in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
\nIt never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
\nListening without the jump just felt wrong.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T13:54:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/musical-muscle-memory.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/setting-categories-automatically.html", "title": "Setting Categories Automatically On MicroBlog", "content_html": "It’s interesting how small things mess you up. I am putting some time into trying to make it easier to find stuff on my blog and recently discovered filters where you can “automatically set categories when text in new posts matches a filter”.
\nFor new posts it seems to work flawlessly. The cool thing is that you can ‘Run Filter’ - which essentially means that it will go off and apply that rule to your archive. It works.
\nOf course if you have a lot of posts (sorry), it might take some time - but it does seem to get there. So. after a while, when I view the categories I can see the post count increasing. And - when I look at the posts through the lens of Mars Edit I can see all the new posts where the category has been applied.
\nAll good. UNTIL. I noticed that though every thing SEEMED to be working - actually, over on the web site, the categories were not being allocated. Turns out patience is a virtue - because after several days (I kid you not) elapsed, it seemed that everything was also working on the site. All good.
\n( @manton - is this time delay expected behavior?)
\nAll good until I set up the filter to
\nfind text = ‘youtube.com/watch' and add that post to the category ‘myyoutubes’.
\nThe wait aside, it ran like a dream. Except it didn’t. I realized that posts that definitely contained links back to YouTube were not being picked up. I ran the filter again - and waited. TWICE. Nothing changed.
\nThis morning I discovered why.
\nTurns out that there is a second URL format that YouTube uses … youtu.be
\nI am guessing that the youtube syntax varies depending on whether you are on a computer versus iOS or something similar. Anyway, I then set up a second filter that adds the post to the same category - and … it is now working (wait aside)
\nBTW, the really cool thing is that I also use the plugin ‘Lite YouTube for Micro.blog by @rknightuk - so those links automatically render as embedded videos on my site. 🖇️ Say, like this one - which at time of typing still hasn’t been correctly allocated its category - but I am keeping an eye on it.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T12:23:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/setting-categories-automatically.html", "tags": ["? Videos","Help","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/new-zealand-declares.html", "title": "New Zealand Declares A National Emergency For The Third Time In Twelve Years", "content_html": "That’s how bad it is getting .. and not just in New Zealand.
\nBernard Hickey reporting that New Zealand has declared a 🔗 National emergency for Gabrielle. The massive storm and floods two weeks ago where 4 people died did NOT have the same focus. In fact, it’s only been enabled twice before. Though in fairness, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake in 1931 would have resulted in it being declared a National Emergency had there been such an organization and in later years, with other earthquakes, it was the Department of Civil Defence that was called into action.
\nThat all said, these challenges do seem to be accelerating.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/4a84707eaf.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-14T11:55:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/new-zealand-declares.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/i-have-flown.html",
"content_html": "I have flown this route many, many times (sorry - Twitter), so when I read that 🔗 United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean, I explored.
\nNot reported at the time (this wasn’t news?) and revealed in The Air Current, an organ that surely everyone reads?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T07:16:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/i-have-flown.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/in-light-of.html", "content_html": "In light of my daily reading of 🔗 The Daily Stoic, this one seemed to connect to some recent themes I have been reading. Not the first time this 💬 has been on the site, but three years ago, it wasn’t as pretty.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cfc6de7ec7.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-14T06:39:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/in-light-of.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/most-people-i.html",
"content_html": "Most people I know will resonate with this 🔗 video. A great example of ‘truth in humour’. And yes I know there are exceptions … which is why OUR fitted sheets are always perfectly folded!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T04:38:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/most-people-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/12/why-im-leaving.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nSubstack is designed for writers, not business owners.
\n
💬 Ellen Donnelly
\nWhat she means is that Substack doesn’t have all the data tracking guff and stuff that comes with the marketing ESPs like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-13T17:09:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/12/why-im-leaving.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/12/a-set-of.html", "content_html": "A set of links from Jono Hey’s 🔗 Sketchplanations where he uses his image talent to help us understand meanings, spellings and usage of words. Really good, something for everyone.
\nIt all started here the old c or s question in spelling
\nHomonyms -v- Homographs -v- Homophones -v- Heteronyms
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-13T07:33:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/12/a-set-of.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/11/export-from-overcast.html", "content_html": "Export from Overcast to OPML.
\nImport to iThoughts. (odd - right?)
\nExport to Markdown.
\nPost Markdown into an MB page.
… and voilà … 🔗 a list of podcasts I follow.
\nNext job is to work out how to automagically organize the list so it is easier for the average passer by.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-12T15:22:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/11/export-from-overcast.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/11/yikes-stay-safe.html", "content_html": "YIKES .. 🔗 stay safe New Zealand - particularly Auckland.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-12T13:59:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/11/yikes-stay-safe.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/11/a-few-days.html", "content_html": "A few days after the conversation started, someone (1) wrote;
\n\n\n“all I need now is a technical person that is interested in writing the plugin.”
\n
Voila.
\n\nProject started.
\nP U M P E D
\n(1) Was it @sod? Can’t find the comment that is in my head anywhere!
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-12T13:44:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/11/a-few-days.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/into-coops-fed.html", "content_html": "Into Coops? Fed up with Zoom, Teams, Blue Jeans et al … maybe 🔗 The Online Meeting Cooperative is what you are looking for. Anyone using them?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T14:45:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/into-coops-fed.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/uber-settles-uk.html", "content_html": "🔗 Uber settles UK VAT tax bill with HMRC
\n… Tracking the organizational antichrist - AKA Uber - as I do, I was surprised that I hadn’t hear about this little scam. Glad to see the loop is closed and the noose tightened.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T14:43:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/uber-settles-uk.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/just-been-looking.html", "content_html": "Just been looking at the various options to backing up my MicroBlog. Nice to see that the WayBack machine has been 🔗 quietly doing its job in the background. Not so nice to see how much of a problem there was in 2020 and 2021. ONWARDS.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/c952edc829.png\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1a33944414.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-11T11:43:47+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/just-been-looking.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/if-you-subscribe.html",
"content_html": "🔗 If you subscribe to Calm and are into Stoicism.
\nDiscovered this by accident. Calm has a lot of stuff - but they are really bad at offering ways to find it.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T09:31:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/if-you-subscribe.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/the-streamlining-continues.html", "content_html": "The Streamlining continues.
\n🔗 A new page indexing all of my pages on MicroBlog to reduce menu clutter.
\nIf you know how to
\nremove ‘categories’ (the archive / category page)
\nmove ‘bookshelf’ from the end of the menu
\nI sure would appreciate the help. Thankyou.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T08:52:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/the-streamlining-continues.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/that-content-word-again-you.html", "content_html": "🎛️ That ‘Content’ word again.
\nYou might have read my 🔗 many posts about ‘content’ .. and my singular objection to that word. Turns out I am not the only one. Will Arnett waxes lyrical about that exact issue on Smartless.
\n\n \n \n \n \n![](\n\"[john.philpin.com/uploads/2...](https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/302d1dc795.png)\")
\n \n \n\nThe Full Podcast: 🎙️ Smartless : Dana Carvey
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T16:56:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/that-content-word-again-you.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Podcasts","MyPodcastSnippets","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html", "title": "An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating", "content_html": "🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
\nA particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love.\nOr how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
\nSo - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
\nInteresting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
\nAnyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T15:35:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/how-to-add.html", "content_html": "🔗 How to Add Chapters to Your Highlights in Readwise with Headings …. it is amazing how much stuff there is under the hood over at #Readwise.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T13:52:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/how-to-add.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/pretty-things-wikipedia.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nDuring their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
\n
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T06:50:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/pretty-things-wikipedia.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/08/talking-about-drafts.html", "content_html": "🔗 Talking about Drafts and Mastodon …
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-09T05:12:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/08/talking-about-drafts.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/podsearch-reborn-from.html", "content_html": "🔗 Podsearch Reborn … from David Smith.
\nInteresting - and powerful.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:57:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/podsearch-reborn-from.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/this-little-service.html", "content_html": "This ‘little’ service is a welcome extension to my tool set.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:55:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/this-little-service.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/matt-on-artifact.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n“Don’t expect a TikTok style UI or the ability to subscribe to specific sites like you can in an RSS reader.
\n
💬 Matt Birchler
\nArtifact didn’t make it to my ‘must try’ list. The implication of 100% AI crosses it off my list completely.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:53:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/matt-on-artifact.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/cringely-on-chatgpt.html", "title": "Cringely On ChatGPT", "content_html": "\n\n“Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old family friend who, in turn, used ChatGPT to generate the letter, which he thought was remarkably good.”
\n
🔗 … which in turn prompted Bob Cringely to write this article.. It has all the usual caveats we see in article after article, although this time talking about how ChatGPT was used to generate that letter of recommendation. In Bob’s opinion it lacked the important personal touch. All good, not wrong.
\nHe then writes .. without irony that I can see
\n\n\n“Even if ChatGPT was allowed access to my old friend’s email boxes, it would only learn about his style and almost nothing about Cole, with whom he’s communicated, I think, twice.”
\n
He doesn’t explain how someone without AI help could write a food personal recommendation for someone they have communicated with twice.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:26:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/cringely-on-chatgpt.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/if-you-are.html", "content_html": "If you are following along, you know this is my ‘year of stoicism’ … so of course Existential Comics burst my bubble!
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/2614a5ae8b.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-08T06:19:25+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/if-you-are.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/getty-images-sues.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the U.S. for Copyright Infringement via @gruber
\nWell this isn’t good, particularly in light of
\n\n\n“Stable Diffusion occasionally produces output with Getty Image’s watermark.”
\n
YIKES
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:15:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/getty-images-sues.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/russell-brand-sucks.html", "title": "Russell Brand Sucks", "content_html": "I was never a fan of Russell Brand, so hard to say my opinion of him has ‘fallen’.
\nThat was from the start, but his very misplaced prank with Ross on Andrew Sachs sealed it for me.
\nI also don’t spend much time thinking about Jonathan Ross - but at least he has a tiny spec of talent.
\nWhich is why I enjoyed this short video of 🔗📼 Helen Lewis talking Russell Brand decent into conspiracies and a good analysis of how he - and others of his ilk - ‘do it’.
\n[April 6: 2025 - sadly - this video has been take private - BUT there is this one …
\n🔗📼 How Russell Brand became a conspiracy theorist Guru | Helen Lewis
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:12:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/russell-brand-sucks.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/06/just-discovered-this.html", "content_html": "Just discovered 🔗 this on the MicroBlog help site - highlighted by @sod - THANKYOU … been looking for ways to bulk manage categories - and this definitely helps.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-07T12:31:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/06/just-discovered-this.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/06/canada-is-coming.html", "content_html": "🔗 Canada is coming undone - a report from Al Jazeera. I think this change is happening in a few other countries - but it might not be as obvious. Yet. We need to be vigilant. We need to act.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-07T05:01:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/06/canada-is-coming.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/06/i-always-had.html", "content_html": "I always had 🎵 BrandX as ‘Jazz/Fusion’ - but they are sometimes classified as ‘Progressive’. That’s why 🔗 ’genres’ are so hard - if not to say meaningless. Whichever they are - a great listen - delivered courtesy of The Old Grey Whistle Test.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-07T04:58:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/06/i-always-had.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/05/streetpass-for-mastodon.html", "content_html": "\n…anyone using it?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-06T18:05:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/05/streetpass-for-mastodon.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/05/just-to-say.html", "content_html": "🔗 Just to say thank you to some of the unseen heroes of the MicroBlog community … more will be added - but it is a start.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-06T13:18:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/05/just-to-say.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/nicely-read-days.html", "content_html": "🔗 ‘Nicely’ read … 8 days late.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-05T12:43:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/nicely-read-days.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/management-positions-could.html", "content_html": "🔗 Management Positions Could Be Next on Chopping Block as Businesses Course Correct
\nIt’s telling that the ‘permafrost layer’ is ‘next’ not ‘first’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-05T07:25:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/management-positions-could.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/03/ilhan-omars-removal.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ilhan Omar’s removal from panel was ‘stupidest vote’, says Republican
\n\n\nKen Buck, a committee member and Republican congressman from Colorado, was heard calling the action the “stupidest vote in the world.
\n
… maybe, but he still voted ’for’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-04T05:55:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/03/ilhan-omars-removal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/01/just-when-you.html", "content_html": "Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. What do these people (and I use the word loosely) think they are doing? Who are they protecting?\n🔗California police kill double amputee who was fleeing: ‘Scared for his life’.
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-02T04:58:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/01/just-when-you.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/31/said-it-before.html", "content_html": "Said it before saying it again ..l 🔗 this Mastodon / MicroBlog stuff is not easy is it?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-01T18:42:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/31/said-it-before.html", "tags": ["? Links","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/31/chris-hedges-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 Chris Hedges is one of many voices I read talking about the war mongering U.S.A. … and I get it - I really do … BUT … if somebody invades a country … and we 🔗 don’t do what we are doing … then what should we do?
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-01T11:26:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/31/chris-hedges-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/31/david-fisher-has.html", "content_html": "\n\nDavid Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.
\n
💬 Wayne Hickey
\nThe article ….
\n🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.
\n… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/7f3f3dc797.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2023-02-01T04:32:53+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/31/david-fisher-has.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/30/peaky-blinders-ive.html",
"title": "📺 Peaky Blinders ★★★★★",
"content_html": "![\"Peaky](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/46972fab5f.jpg\")
\n
Originally Published: Jan 31st, 2023
\nUpdated: Jan 25th, 2026
Series 1 ★★★
\n\n\nIt took me a long time to start for whatever reason - but finished very quickly.
\n
Series 2 ★★★
\n\n\nNothing extra to say.
\n
Series 3 ★★★
\n\n\nNothing extra to say.
\n
Series 4 ★★★
\n\n\nNothing extra to say.\n \nSeries 5 ★★★
\n
\n\nI’ve been ‘out of town’ - so the final series has been beyond my reach. Now fixed. Everything I would expect from the beginning AND Tom Hardy … phenomenal role, phenomenal acting.
\n
Series 6 ★★★
\n\n\n\nAnd then another ‘final’ series. And oh my.
\n
\n \n
➕
\n★★★★★\tSo Good - A personal favourite
\n★★★★☆\tExcellent - well worth a watch
\n★★★☆☆\tEnjoyed - recommend
\n★★☆☆☆\tNot Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats
\n★☆☆☆☆\tNot for me
\n\n\nThis is how Jim Crow rolls on in the 21st century. Yes, it’s about the guns. But the guns are about the racism. If my fellow men weren’t so damned racist, so scared of “the other,” they wouldn’t be getting killy, fewer people would be getting killed, and de-escalation could begin.
\n
\n\nAs it is, you’re safer in Kyiv.
\n
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-25T12:24:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/25/the-why-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/24/florida-teachers-told.html", "content_html": "🔗 Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution
\nIf you are teacher in Florida, why would you stay? (Either in teaching - or Florida).
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-24T07:35:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/24/florida-teachers-told.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/24/shared-understanding-without.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n… without a shared understanding of where we are in life and what words mean to us, there’s no room for constructive interactions."
\n
💬 Manuel Moreale
\nNo argument.
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-24T07:33:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/24/shared-understanding-without.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/23/behold-a-source.html", "content_html": "Behold … a source for your ‘daily enigma’ …
\n🔗 Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-23T13:58:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/23/behold-a-source.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/21/just-finished-the.html", "title": "📺 The Recruit ★★★½", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/8943fb9681.jpg\")
\nSeries 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nJust finished the first season, Did not expect that ending.
\nSeries 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
\nThe second series seemed to take a long time to come through - but kept up the pace - but somehow it failed to hold my attention as much series 1. Still worth a watch though.
\n🔗 Too much truth for a comic strip. - but a potential solution to one of society’s many ills?
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-21T12:22:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/21/too-much-truth.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/21/david-smith-in.html", "content_html": "David Smith in his article 🔗 Kind, Friendly Designs makes a really interesting point - and provided a very nice way to solve the inherent bias of the UI.
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-21T12:12:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/21/david-smith-in.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/21/chatgpt-listed-as.html", "content_html": "🔗 ChatGPT listed as author on research papers
\n… ummm …
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-21T12:09:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/21/chatgpt-listed-as.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/12/legendary-rock-guitarist.html", "content_html": "🎵🔗 Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
\n… “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis”
\nF U C K !
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-12T14:49:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/12/legendary-rock-guitarist.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? RIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/08/second-series-of.html", "title": "📺 Slow Horses ★★★★½", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/de81723765.jpg\")
\nSeries 1 💯
\nSeries 2 💯
\nSecond series of Slow Horses … check. Superb. Didn’t think they would improve on Series 1. They did AND they are already promoting Series 3 - can’t wait.
\nSeries 3 💯
\nSeries 4 💯
\nStrength to strength to strength - it just keeps getting better. How can that be?
\nSeries 5 💯
\nIt continues to lot let itself down.
\n🔗 England show their true colours with meek surrender in armband fiasco.
\nThe team rolls over to ⚽️ FIFA pressure.
\nMeanwhile FIFA roll over to Host country pressure (see Beer fiasco).
\nJust in case you were wondering who is in charge in Quatar and how long principles last.
\n", "date_published": "2022-11-22T10:33:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/22/england-show-their.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/03/verifiable-credentials.html", "title": "Verifiable Credentials", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2022-11-04T14:14:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/03/verifiable-credentials.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/15/theres-been-odd.html", "content_html": "There’s been odd comments on Micro.Blog asking if @dave really is on MicroBlog.
\n🔗 This post comparing Substack to Micro.blog definitely records that ‘yes it is him’, ‘yes he set up the feed’ and ‘no he hasn’t been active in here’.
\n", "date_published": "2022-10-15T11:00:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/15/theres-been-odd.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/30/unpacking-the-potential.html", "content_html": "Unpacking the Potential of Web3 Publishing - Tokens, But How?
\n", "date_published": "2022-07-31T17:16:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/30/unpacking-the-potential.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/30/artificial-intelligence-for.html", "title": "Artificial Intelligence For The Creative Professional", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/331efd15d3.jpg\")
There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output.
\nMy mind explodes when I see the 'image' results.
\nI think ‘meh’ - so far - when I see the 'written' results.
\nI am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?
\nFor more background, you might enjoy this from The Verge;
\n🔗How independent writers are turning to AI
\nNote - all of the words you read on peoplefirst.business are not created - or even suggested - but any AI tool. (Can you tell?). 😂
\n", "date_published": "2022-07-31T17:00:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/30/artificial-intelligence-for.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Humour","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/28/232006.html", "content_html": "![\"The](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/8bd8be2a49.jpg\")
MacStories : 🔗 Generating Markdown Links to Mail Messages with Shortcuts and AppleScript
\nDr. Drang : 🔗 Mail links and percentages
\nI used to use hook - but not enough to pay for it - so stopped.
\nSpark has an easy way to generate deep links to emails - BUT - if you move the message to a different folder - the lnk breaks for me.
\nSo question.
\nDoes the MacMail linking also break when you move messages, or is the ID absolute?
\n", "date_published": "2022-07-21T12:01:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/21/about-those-deep.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/27/th-session-of.html", "content_html": "5th Session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic starts in 25 minutes … live conversation with a few of us across 3 continents who like to read books … let me know if you’d like to join us .. I’ll send you the zoom link.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-27T07:39:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/27/th-session-of.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/23/linking-your-thinking.html", "title": "Linking Your Thinking", "content_html": "I have been tracking Nick Milo and his wonderful work around Obsidian for a while. Recently he announced LYT Kit v5 and 🔗 this is his overview.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-24T17:16:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/23/linking-your-thinking.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/03/a-passwordless-future.html", "content_html": "🔗 A Passwordless Future Needs Portability
\n\n\n“We definitely need to get there because telling users that they may not change from Android to iOS or vice versa because they won’t be able to log into anything is not a good situation.”
\n
One more example of why Silos need to die.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-03T15:13:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/03/a-passwordless-future.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/24/i-promise-that.html", "content_html": "I promise that I didn’t plan it this way but the last three meetings of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic differ in length by only 14 seconds.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/25d28a71ae.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-05-24T22:07:27+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/24/i-promise-that.html",
"tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? Searched"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/16/great-meeting-of.html",
"content_html": "📚Great Meeting Of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-16T12:04:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/16/great-meeting-of.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/05/you-knew-it.html", "content_html": "You knew it was going to happen. Didn’t you?
\n🔗 Satanic group asks to fly flag at Boston City Hall after supreme court ruling.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-05T14:46:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/05/you-knew-it.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/30/the-twitter-end.html", "title": "🐧 The Twitter End Game", "content_html": "Two writers - well … write …
\n🔗 Ezra Klein and 🔗 Venkatesh Rao providing their take on what all this twitter stuff means. They seem to agree on the short term effect …
\nVenkatesh writes
\n\n\n“He can no more prevent Twitter from turning into a sort of personal Valhalla orbiting his person than Jupiter can stop being a massive planet. Which means there will be a massive shift from vibe-neutral public space to some sort of Free Speech Thunderdome where Elon sets the Vibe of the Month for you to either rejoice in, or resist.”
\n
Ezra writes
\n\n\n“Betting against Musk has made fools of many in recent years. But I count myself, still, as a cautious believer in Musk’s power to do the impossible — in this case, to expose what Twitter is and to right-size its influence. In fact, I think he’s the only one with the power to do it. Musk is already Twitter’s ultimate player. Now he’s buying the arcade. Everything people love or hate about it will become his fault. Everything he does that people love or hate will be held against the platform. He will be Twitter.”
\n
But maybe not the long term one.
\nVenkatesh seems to be of the belief of one more nail in the blog coffin - though I can’t reconcile how he arrives at that conclusion.
\nWhile Ezra writes;
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-30T14:24:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/30/the-twitter-end.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/30/aquas-barbie-girl.html", "content_html": "“He will have won the game. And nothing loses its luster quite like a game that has been beaten.”
\n
🔗 Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ won’t be in the Barbie movie.
\nWell, that’s just wrong, but
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-30T14:03:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/30/aquas-barbie-girl.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/29/truth-in-action.html", "content_html": "“it could have something to do with the 1997 lawsuit Mattel filed against the band for trademark violation. Along with its claims of copyright infringement, Mattel also argued that the sexual implications of Aqua’s song damaged the Barbie brand and the company’s marketing plans.”
\n
Truth In Action
\n🔗 Communities and free speech.
\n~ Manuel Moreale
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-29T18:53:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/29/truth-in-action.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/29/the-micro-blog.html", "content_html": "📚 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic Invite was just sent out for May 15th/16th - let me know if you didn’t receive it.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-29T17:05:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/29/the-micro-blog.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/28/just-watched-the.html", "content_html": "Just watched the trailer of 🔗 Kedi.
\nNot sure I will watch the movie - but the 2 minutes of the trailer? Definitely worth my time.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-28T11:15:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/28/just-watched-the.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/27/delta-air-lines.html", "content_html": "🔗 Delta Air Lines to start paying flight attendants during boarding.
\nDid you know that the flight attendants on your plane were working for free until the doors were sealed?
\nFiled in ‘new news’.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-27T13:51:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/27/delta-air-lines.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/27/fidelity-plans-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Fidelity plans to allow people to put retirement savings into Bitcoin
\nWhat could possibly go wrong?
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-27T13:51:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/27/fidelity-plans-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/27/from-the-chaps.html", "content_html": "From the chaps at Gaping Void ….
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-27T13:50:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/27/from-the-chaps.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/27/i-just-added.html", "content_html": "“Let’s just say, in 2024, if Trump gets reelected (for example), he will have to ask Elon’s permission to get back on Twitter. We’re talking about ‘the leader of the free world’ kissing Elon’s ring. And if the President is kissing the ring, imagine who else is getting in line: Politicians, regulators, captains of industry, foreign dignitaries, Hollywood celebrities.”
\n
![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9780307419644/cover.jpg\")
\n📚 I just added 🔗 A Good Hard Kick in the Ass by Rob Adams to my ‘want to read list’ … anybody else tried it?
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-27T10:21:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/27/i-just-added.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/lore-what-is.html", "title": "Lore - What Is It Good For?", "content_html": "Apparently - absolutely everything, (with apologies to Edwin Star). That said, a really GREAT series of articles by Venkatesh Rao on ‘Lore’ The Index To The Series
\nThis is Part 7 of 7 : 🔗 Towards Management Metamodernism , from which I quote;
\n\n\nJust as Wallace noted, in 1993, that literary writing was increasingly substituting TV-watching for observation of life (which, as he pointed out, was understandable, since life itself was about sitting on a couch watching television), by 2007 or so, on the threshold of the global financial crisis, “external reality” to leaders meant the output of the literary-industrial complex.
\n
💬 Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm
\n(My bold reminding me of the UK series Gogglebox - an entire show where we the viewers watched other viewers watch television!)
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T14:50:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/lore-what-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/what-i-listened.html", "content_html": "🔗 Work Work Work Work Work - On the Media
\n🔗 Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:53:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/what-i-listened.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/what-i-learnt.html", "content_html": "🔗 Set Telegram Account to Automatically Self Destruct and Delete Itself
\n🔗 Santa Claus is Real and He’s a Democratic Socialist
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:52:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/what-i-learnt.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/what-i-read.html", "content_html": "🔗 Ethereum’s big switch to proof of stake, explained.
\n🔗 Profits and the pandemic: As shareholder wealth soared, workers were left behind
\n🔗 Binance gave Putin regime information on users who donated to opposition leader Alexei Navalny
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:51:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/what-i-read.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/dear-new-zealand.html", "title": "Dear New Zealand ...", "content_html": "… did you know this was going on in your own backyard?
\n\n\n“In the back room of an old and greying building in the northernmost region of New Zealand, one of the most advanced computers for artificial intelligence is helping to redefine the technology’s future.”
\n
🔗 A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people
\n… as reported by MIT.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:51:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/dear-new-zealand.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/vibe-shifts-are.html", "title": "Vibe Shifts - Are You Part Of Them?", "content_html": "I never made the switch from photography to illustrations on my web properties, but I do very much remember when Unsplash seemed to suddenly be the ‘defacto choice’ for photography on many sites. More recently seeing Craft and others add the service right into their apps, I have felt for a while that I need to discover a new source of visual inspiration.
\nWas that due to that acquisition, or is it the uniquity of images from the Unsplash library? Are they related?
\nCase in point …. how many times have you seen this image?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/44bb2811cf.jpg\")
\nPhoto by Ian Schneider on Unsplash
\nAccording to Unsplash it has nearly 150 million views and has been downloaded 1,225,278 times - not recorded are the 2,397 sites I have visited that use this image!
\nSo yes, I have noticed that I am struggling to find images on Unsplash that work for what I am writing about. Which is why I am eagerly waiting for my access to DALL-E 2 and … Midjourney … because I already have plans to change the illustrative approach to my blogs and social sharing.
\nI thought it was just me - until I read this today;
\n\n\nSometime around 2015 there was a mysterious vibe shift in web design. It came so suddenly, and with so much decisive force, that it stood apart from the normal ebb and flow of aesthetic trends. It was like an invasive species taking over an ecosystem from a weaker competitor.
\n
💬 Nathan Baschez
\n🔗 DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts
\n\n\nI think when Unsplash (the free photography website) was founded in 2013 it killed the old vibe by democratizing access to great photography, and thereby ruining its function as a costly status signal. Companies then started using custom illustrations in their brand aesthetic because illustrations suddenly became much more rare and expensive relative to photos.
\n
\n\nI’m interested in this little piece of design history because today I think history is on the brink of repeating itself. Now that we have DALL·E 2 (and other AI image generators), a huge portion of visual vibes will become democratized. What Unsplash did to photography, DALL·E 2 will do to illustrations, 3D renderings, and eventually all visual styles.
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:20:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/vibe-shifts-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/me-i-know.html", "content_html": "In other words: a vibe shift is indeed coming.
\n
Me?
\n\n\n“I know nothing.”
\n
💬 Private Schultz
\nBut I have just been working through 🔗 Elon’s Giant Package … which is an alternative take on what is going on with today’s news.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T09:46:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/me-i-know.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/25/just-looking-out.html", "content_html": "📚 Just looking out ahead and realized that I still need to come up with my two books for the next meeting of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-25T21:44:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/25/just-looking-out.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/23/experiment.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2022-04-23T16:56:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/23/experiment.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/22/just-discovered-future.html", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/books/9781578511945/cover.jpg\")
\nJust discovered 🔗 Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis 📚 and added it to my ‘want to read’ bookshelf. The summaries I have read put it right in the middle of my 🔗 People First thinking
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-22T11:43:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/22/just-discovered-future.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/21/still-trying-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Still trying to get my head around ‘System’ … massive in scope - and yet only just getting started.
\nWondering if anyone out there has spent time in there?
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-21T14:55:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/21/still-trying-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/21/as-a-s.html", "content_html": "🎶🎵 As a 60s ‘pop song’, 🔗 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound’s Kites has always had a place in my heart.
\nAs a progressive band, 🔗 Gentle Giant sits in my personal pantheon of musical influence.
\nJust discovered today that the latter were essentially the same band as the former. 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-21T14:32:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/21/as-a-s.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/20/am-i-dead.html", "title": "Am I Dead?", "content_html": "You know in 🔗 Coco there is this idea that you need to be remembered to continue to live in the land of the dead?
\nI don’t think I am dead - but can anyone out there confirm?
\nAsking - because on three seperate occasions this past week - someone else has sought me out for a meeting, which I have confirmed and agreed to, only to then be totally ghosted.
\nI know. I know.
\nIt’s not them … it’s me!
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-20T12:46:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/20/am-i-dead.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/19/bigname-investor-sequoia.html", "content_html": "\nUmmm - yes. Agreed. It’s hard
\nBut You Had ONE Job!
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-19T17:28:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/19/bigname-investor-sequoia.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/19/paypals-peter-thiel.html", "content_html": "🔗 PayPal’s Peter Thiel may be a ‘genius’, but I’m still not champing at the bitcoin.
\nSpoiler alert - he isn’t a genius. In fact, he seems to be kind of mundane.
\nThe clue might be that he is - despite everything else his name is associated with - still ‘Paypal’s Peter Thiel’.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-19T09:39:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/19/paypals-peter-thiel.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/18/talking-about-failed.html", "title": "Talking About Failed Leadership ...", "content_html": "Just after stumbling 🔗 across this
\nI found this
\n\nWhat tech billionaire was that wondered?
\nEric Greenberg came the Google reply. He that founded Viant and then left and founded Scient. (I always thought that an odd move - to my mind they were identical companies - but no matter … onwards …)
\nTo saving you going there, according to Wikipedia, Scient was bought and sold over the years and whatever is still left of it now sits in Publicis. Meanwhile Viant was acquired by something called Divine that filed for bankruptcy 20 years ago - and then liquidated after some of the execs were accused on looting subsidiaries.
\n**Meanwhile, more rabbit hold diving found that **
\n🔗 NY jury awards $12 million to Fla. billionaire in wine dispute
\nTL~DR … Eric lost in court to one of the Koch brothers over selling counterfeit wine.
\nRead more about that here …
\n🔗 Scient Founder Accused of Selling Counterfeit Wine
\nand out of that Eric emerged once more ….. to found ‘Wrap’
\n🔗 How Eric Greenberg Became a Once (and Future?) Internet Billionaire - WRAP
\nWho / What is ’Wrap’? Try this …
\n\nLMK if you get what they are doing. I don’t.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-18T16:13:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/18/talking-about-failed.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/18/qanon-candidates-are.html", "content_html": "“How mighty are the fallen.”
\n
🔗 QAnon candidates are on the ballot in 26 states (Apple News)
\n.. and if that wasn’t depressing enough ….
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-18T15:58:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/18/qanon-candidates-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/18/sometimes-old-posts.html", "title": "Sometimes Old Posts Just Don't Hold Up", "content_html": "“QAnon candidates receive support from GOP megadonors like Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, casino mogul Steve Wynn and San Francisco Giants owner Charles Johnson.”
\n
🔗 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate
\nIt dates back to 2006 - and no need to read it, because in the opening paragraph they highlighted three US business leaders that we needed to pay attention to.
\nI think around that time there was a phrase bandied around …
\n#winning
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-18T15:56:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/18/sometimes-old-posts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/18/the-cellist-by.html", "title": "📚The Cellist by Daniel Silva", "content_html": "Just finished reading: 🔗 The Cellist by Daniel Silva 📚
\nDefinitely a good read … kept me turning the pages … though I take issue with him being described as ‘the new LeCarre … or am I just being overly defensive of one of my ‘4 Johns’.
\nThat all said, the most amazing thing about this book is that following Jan 6th 2021 he revised the book top to bottom in 6 weeks. Not that this should cause you to read it … but absolutely testament to his desire for realism in his books.
\nThis was my first Silva … but it won’t be my last.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/547e303d39.jpg\")
Ezra Klein talking to Dan Olson.
\n🔗 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard.
\n🔗 Bonus Video from Dan that I haven’t (yet) watched - but now in the queue after listening to the podcast.
\n.. and then 🔗 there’s this, which is a piece in Time where a crypto expert responds.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T13:12:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/ezra-klein-talking.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/the-kardashians-are.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Kardashians Are Back. Why Should We Care?
\n…an excellent question.
\nCan somebody click through, read the article and give me the top 3 points.
\nThankyou.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T13:06:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/the-kardashians-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/everything-i-know.html", "content_html": "🔗 Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint.
\nHe’s writing about Powerpoint, but he’s really talking about titleless blog posts.
\nAnd I agree.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T13:03:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/everything-i-know.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/musks-twitter-people.html", "content_html": "\n\nPeople who responded said it'd never happen because Twitter's balance sheet was too weak to justify an acquisition. They missed that not all of Twitter's value shows up on its balance sheet.\n\n
💬 Dave Winer
\nThat is the problem of all balance sheets - because it is only a financial tool.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T13:02:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/musks-twitter-people.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/whats-app-does.html", "content_html": "\n… oh goody.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T08:37:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/whats-app-does.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/texas-banned-homeless.html", "content_html": "🔗 Texas Banned Homeless Encampments, So a Guy Made One on His Property (Apple News)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T08:35:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/texas-banned-homeless.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/14/the-four-natural.html", "title": "The Four Natural Forces Applied To Business", "content_html": "“If we fail, then nothing else is going to happen in this part of America for a long, long time. But if we succeed, the benefit could be monumental.”
\n
I used the 4 natural forces model in my 📚recent book as an analogy for the 4 forces of humanity.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/3f14bcb2be.png\")
\nAnd then I read that 🔗 Fermilab has found a discrepancy with the mass of the W boson.
\n“The current 'standard model' of particle physics describes four fundamental forces. Three of those — electromagnetism, gravity and the strong nuclear force — push or pull things, broadly speaking. The fourth force — the weak nuclear force — doesn't really push or pull anything. Instead it makes one type of particle transform into another type of particle. In doing so we get the force responsible for radiation, and it's the force that drives nuclear fusion in the sun. So it's quite important.”\n
I’ll say it’s important. Now I will have to revisit some of the thinking in the book!
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-14T14:30:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/14/the-four-natural.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/14/remember-when-jack.html", "content_html": "Remember when Jack made an NFT out of his first tweet?
\n🔗 NFT collector gets $280 top bid for the Jack Dorsey tweet NFT he bought for $2.9 million last year
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-14T14:25:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/14/remember-when-jack.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/13/guy-kawasaki-and.html", "title": "Guy Kawasaki and Marc Benioff In Conversation", "content_html": "Guy Kawasaki was probably for first person in the business world with the title ‘Evangelist’ and coincidentally an old neighbour of mine.
\nMarc and I worked with each other back in my Oracle days.
\nThis podcast has Guy interviewing Marc talking of his trajectory from 19 year old college kid to CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
\nWhile it might SEEM to be yet another Silicon Valley story - this one is presented through the lens of what makes Marc different to the average SV success story … which is his humanity and desire to give back. He’s doing it in spades around San Francisco. But elswhere aswell.
\nHe’s also very big into meditation.
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-13T07:56:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/13/guy-kawasaki-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/12/the-famine-of.html", "title": "The Famine of 1932-33", "content_html": "I was talking to a long time friend of mine last night. She is of Ukrainian descent.
\nI knew about Stalin’s ‘Great Famine’, but did not know how much of this act of aggression occurred in Ukraine.
\n🔗 Ukraine - The famine of 1932–33 (Holodomor)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-04-12T13:16:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/12/the-famine-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/10/i-noticed-this.html", "content_html": "“Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians.”
\n
🔗 I noticed this morning that 1999.io was getting a bunch of hits.
\n… @dave wondering who’s suddenly hitting his ‘1999’ servers.
\nSomebody in here?
\nYou’d have thought that in the time he took to write the post he could have looked up his logs?
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-10T14:22:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/10/i-noticed-this.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/10/koch-group-says.html", "content_html": "🔗 Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial ‘victory’ to Russia in Ukraine (Judd Legum)
\nThe same Koch keeps their factories running along in Russia and has announced that they have no intention of closing them.
\nThe same Koch that fuels the Rethuglicans agenda.
\nThe same Koch … oh just go look them up ….
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-10T14:20:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/10/koch-group-says.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/10/i-dont-read.html", "content_html": "I don’t read a lot of Chris Brogan - though he did provide the impetus behind my annual ‘3 words’.
\nThat said I think this summarizes why I don’t read him much.
\n\n\n“Blogs are dead.
\n
\nOr are they?
\nThat’s all you get. I’m writing it in my newsletters.”
💬 Chris Brogan
\n🔗 On the Occasion of my 52nd Birthday
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-10T14:15:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/10/i-dont-read.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/08/thiel-blasts-dimon.html", "content_html": "🔗 Thiel Blasts Dimon, Buffett and Fink as ‘Finance Gerontocracy’ at Bitcoin 2022.
\nBuffett’s scepticism of bitcoin prompted Peter Thiel to call him a ‘sociopathic grandpa’.
\nOf course, Peter Thiel is such a lovely person, that I am sure we are all hanging on his every word.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-08T13:32:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/08/thiel-blasts-dimon.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/07/who-knew-that.html", "content_html": "~🎵🎶 Who knew that Rick Astley’s formative years had him as a Prog Rock / Drummer type. First concert ever? Supertramp or Camel - he can’t quite remember!
\n🔗 Listen to the 🎙️Podcast Here
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T13:02:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/who-knew-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/07/om-malik-if.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n“If you hurry to get to the future, you always get a punishment for it. For example, instant coffee.”
\n
💬 Alan Watts
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T12:37:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/om-malik-if.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/07/artists-in-ireland.html", "content_html": "🔗 Artists in Ireland to receive 325 Euros per week
\nUBI for Artists? Well maybe ‘IBI’ for Artists.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T12:34:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/artists-in-ireland.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/07/interesting-watch-harvard.html", "content_html": "Interesting watch
\n🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
\nThe real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
\nBut if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T12:33:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/interesting-watch-harvard.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/06/top-cybersecurity-influencers.html", "content_html": "🔗 Top 50 Cybersecurity Influencers
\n… are you on the list?
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-06T18:57:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/06/top-cybersecurity-influencers.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/06/aocs-warning-for.html", "content_html": "🍎🔗 AOC’s Warning for Democrats: ‘We’re in Trouble’
\nShe’s not wrong.
\nSadly.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-06T08:53:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/06/aocs-warning-for.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/05/help-web-users.html", "content_html": "🔗 Help Web2 Users Make Jump to Web3
\n\n\n“If web3 builders continue to ask new web2.5 users to jump into the unfamiliar world of web3 without assets, network, status, or history, reaching widespread adoption will be difficult.”
\n
Why this has to be explained - explains how we got here.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-05T18:14:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/05/help-web-users.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/04/i-have-closed.html", "content_html": "I have closed and archived a number of blogs I had in different places over the past year.
\nThey all now sit in words.philpin.com.
\nDuring ‘🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic meeting’ this morning, I finally decided to point an obsidian vault at the blot folder - and see what comes out.
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-04T13:48:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/04/i-have-closed.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/01/my-goodness-time.html", "content_html": "📚My Goodness Time Flies …
\n🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is upon us again!
\nWatch out for the deets in your email and calendars ….
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-01T07:41:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/01/my-goodness-time.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/26/notes-reminding-us.html", "title": "Notes Reminding Us About Notes", "content_html": "Two short posts that arrived almost back to back in the multivarious reading apps that seem to be multiplying on my iPad.
\nThe first came from Derek Silvers about why we should write plain text files.
\nThe ‘shouldness’of that instruction cant be more emphasised. All that he says I do know, but it’s good to be reminded. But, even then it still doesn’t stop me from writing a lot of stuff in a couple of the most proprietary formats out there .. Apple’s ‘Pages’ and ‘Keynote’.
\nYES Keynote … it isn’t just for presentations, I use it to create simple graphics and structured workbooks.
\nThe second was Note-taking became a full-time job, so I stopped
\nLast year out of nowhere, I became aware and interested in Obsidian. I learnt about Zeitelkasten. I discovered that Obsidian was just the latest application that promised to be my salvation.
\nI haven’t stopped using it - but boy did that post resonate!
\nImportant to 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
\n", "date_published": "2022-03-26T16:47:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/26/notes-reminding-us.html", "tags": ["? Books","Help","? LongForm","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/09/with-thanks-to.html", "content_html": "With thanks to @richnewman and his demo on 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic earlier this week, I find myself looking at DevonTHINK again.
\nThe price mentioned on the day was a couple of hundred bucks - but it looks like there is a version at $100 - will I be disappointed?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/464ba923be.jpg\")
\n\n
![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/982983e539.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-03-09T13:58:07+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/09/with-thanks-to.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Searched"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/27/the-second-session.html",
"content_html": "🧶 📚The second session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is coming up - delighted that @artkavanagh will be hosting. Sadly @ton will not be able to make it, so his session will need to run at a future event.
\nOtherwise, looks like we are all in for a good session on the 6th/7th March.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-27T15:00:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/27/the-second-session.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","MyCrafts","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/22/thomas-keneallys-s.html", "title": "We MUST Abandon the Language of the Market to Reclaim our Humanity", "content_html": "🔗 Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity
\nI posted this link at the time it was published (2020).
\nIt surfaced the other day through my DayONE - and I decided to repost it in the category 🖇️ ‘Language Is Important’- ‘Tom’ and I are on the same page.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-22T16:18:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/22/thomas-keneallys-s.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","People First","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/21/seven-summits-cool.html", "content_html": "Seven Summits — Cool Infographics
\nVery cool.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/ada5e50a59.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-02-21T10:30:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/21/seven-summits-cool.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/21/disappearance-of-central.html",
"content_html": "Disappearance of Central Valley via Stowe Boyd
\nPainful visualization.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/204df73bd5.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-02-21T10:27:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/21/disappearance-of-central.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/13/rands-in-repose.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Rands in Repose … writing about Zoom Meetings.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/f1dfb417c7.png\")
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-02-13T11:14:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/13/rands-in-repose.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/11/the-game-is.html", "content_html": "“Do you want to know why you’re fatigued at the end of a long day of video conferences? It’s because your brain has been straining to collect essential information that is no longer there.”
\n
\n\n“The game is free … but you could spend up to $1,000 US Dollars just to buy the assets you need to play the game.”
\n
Another example of redefining language.
\nThis from 🔗 Paul Butler
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-11T15:50:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/11/the-game-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/10/languageisimportant-a-new.html", "content_html": "‘Language Is Important' - a new category now available on this blog.
\nLATER
\nCategory depricated - that said 🔗 🔎 click here - and all those posts re categorized will come up - along with a lot more.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-10T16:34:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/10/languageisimportant-a-new.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/08/if-at-the.html", "content_html": "\n\n“If, at the end of your show you say “Available where you get podcasts,” then my friend, you have a podcast. If you have to say “Only available on Spotify” (or some other exclusive service), good for you, but it’s not a podcast.”
\n
💬 Dave Winer
\n… and I very much agree with him.
\nLanguage is important … and I am done with Corporates hijacking language so to appear better than they are.
\n🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-08T14:56:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/08/if-at-the.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Podcasts","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/04/the-crypto-crash.html", "content_html": "🔗 The Crypto Crash Has Destroyed a Trillion Dollars in Wealth
\nI question the use of the word ‘wealth’.
\nThe $1Trillion came from nowhere … and now it’s gone back to nowhere.
\n\n
🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-04T15:35:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/04/the-crypto-crash.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/03/building-on-an.html", "content_html": "Building on an earlier thought Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended …
\nBit by bit we are being divided and ‘taken out’ …
\nUnited we stand … divided we fall!
\n\n
🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-03T13:03:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/03/building-on-an.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/01/if-you-are.html", "content_html": "If you are part of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic - check your inbox.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-01T07:29:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/01/if-you-are.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/27/rebuilding-my-micro.html", "title": "🚧Rebuilding My Micro Blog", "content_html": "By simply adding stuff / pages and plugins to my blog without thinking something eventually had to break - and it did. My thanks to @manton and @pimoore for pointing out the error. Turns out Hitchens doesn’t include a ‘Replies’ page - which caused my archive to disappear.
\nFlatearth time. I mean - everything. (Barring two hidden pages being used for 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic ).
\n📚Promoted on Substack this morning
\nStruck me as an interesting read for a number of Micro Bloggers including 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-01-27T07:16:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/27/promoted-on-substack.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/12/authors-who-died.html", "content_html": "📚 🪦 🔗12 Authors Who Died In 2021
\nOf interest to *🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-12T17:23:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/12/authors-who-died.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? RIP","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/06/this-is-what.html", "content_html": "🧶 📚[This is what 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is all about - so far!](https://www.craft.do/s/q4t5GKyMPcWXCp)
\nIf you click through - and are interested … there is a link to register at the top of the page.
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-01-06T10:53:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/06/this-is-what.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","MyCrafts","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/06/funny-how-you.html", "content_html": "📚 🚧 Funny how you come across stuff that is so cool - and then it disappears again … such as the Literature Map
\nI used it to create a 🔗 series of 7 posts last year and then it got lost.
\nMaybe something to use in the 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic?
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-06T09:45:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/06/funny-how-you.html", "tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Links","? WIP","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/06/the-readersrepublic-signal.html", "content_html": "🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic Signal Group Is Now 13 Strong
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/2265d7d4e0.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2022-01-06T09:21:47+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/06/the-readersrepublic-signal.html",
"tags": ["? Books","? Links","? Searched"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/10/01/joe-manchin-who.html",
"content_html": "\nFollow the money.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-01T11:56:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/10/01/joe-manchin-who.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/02/this-we-know.html", "content_html": "🔗 This we know .. but a short read, nicely encapsulated and an action we can all take at the end.
\nPay for stuff!
\n", "date_published": "2021-07-02T15:34:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/02/this-we-know.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/01/27/for-the-party.html", "content_html": "\n\n“For the party to move forward, we got to move the party with Donald Trump. There’s no way to be a successful Republican Party without having President Trump working with all of us and all of us working with him. That’s just a fact. And I think we got a decent chance of coming back in 2022. But we can’t do it without the President.”
\n
Lindsay Graham, 2021
\n\n\n“If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”
\n
Lindsay Graham, 2016
\n🔗 Three Scenarios for Rolling Back Surveillance Capitalism, Johannes Ernst
\nThinking Allowed
\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\nseems a more appropriate URL for my second blot site than
\n\nBoth those links are now updated - since everything is now at https://archive.philpin.com
\nBoth those links are now dead
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-02T16:21:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/09/02/httpsimagesphilpincom-seems-a.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/25/covid-links-apple.html", "content_html": "Apple And Google Admit Ethereum App To Let Employees Prove They’ve Been Vaccinated
\nAn 18-Month View of a Post-COVID World (visuals)
\nThe Impact on Advertising Spend (visuals)
\nWhat comes after Zoom? (good question) ( better one- how did the others drop the ball?)
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-25T15:06:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/25/covid-links-apple.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/25/want.html", "content_html": "\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/fe98d0a29c.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-06-25T14:18:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/25/want.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/25/race-car-driver.html",
"content_html": "👁️ 🔗 Race car driver Jessi Combs has posthumously been named the fastest woman on Earth by Guinness.
\nMany congratulations and all that - BUT - ‘posthumously named’ … ‘ON earth’ ….
\nDid I miss the memo redefining the after-life?
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-25T13:46:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/25/race-car-driver.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/09/this-country-was.html", "content_html": "\n\nThis country was built on unconscious racism. We have to consciously decide to take it into another direction.
\n
💬 David Frier
\n(🔗 Source)
\nI don’t often disagree with Frier, but;
\n\n\n… the country was built on unconscious racism …
\n
Really? Unconscious?
\nBeing blind and ignoring it is not unconscious.
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-09T13:23:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/09/this-country-was.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/31/restaurants-are-barely.html", "content_html": "🔗 Restaurants are barely surviving. Delivery apps will kill them.
\n\nThere’s another story circulating, where restaurants are being hijacked my the delivery companies. I will link to it here when I find it.
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-31T18:10:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/31/restaurants-are-barely.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/30/a-steady-change.html", "content_html": "A steady change ongoing over at my blot site. Any piece of writing has to fit into one folder … any and all additional tags will only be emoji - so far I have identified these :
\n🥇, 🎥, 🎵, 💡, 💬, 📚, 📜, 🔗, 🖋, 🗒, 📃, 😂, 🔍
\n\nNot there yet - but it is the right thing to do.
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-30T17:13:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/30/a-steady-change.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Links","? Quotes","? Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/its-a-sound.html", "content_html": "It’s a ‘Sound’ update!
\nConvocast : 6 ✅
\nBUNKER-19 : 4 ✅
\nSnickelcast : 9 ✅
\nSnickelcast : 10 ✅
\nOK - @macgenie … I’m ready for the podcast challenge!
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T19:04:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/its-a-sound.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/i-dont-really.html", "content_html": "I don’t really write fiction. At least fiction that sees the light of day ….
\n🔗 The Letter is an exception. Published yesterday on BizCatalyst.
\nI decided to 🖇️ narrate it in the latest episode of BUNKER-19.
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T18:23:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/i-dont-really.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/bunker-continues-but.html", "content_html": "BUNKER-19 - Episode 4
\nThe series continues - but Episode 4 had to go up to YouTube - too big to hangout in Micro.Blog
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-05-20T16:23:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/bunker-continues-but.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/07/gawd-only-just.html", "content_html": "GAWD - only just remembered that 🔗 Micro Challenge Sprints have already started!
\nSo that’s this weeks fail :-(
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-07T20:48:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/07/gawd-only-just.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/03/just-revisiting-the.html", "content_html": "🔗 Just revisiting the Google Rant
\n.. all this time later, does it still hold?
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-03T16:36:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/03/just-revisiting-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Posts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/02/and-so-farewell.html", "content_html": "And so farewell 🔗 Automatic.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/3286e685f5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-05-02T09:39:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/02/and-so-farewell.html",
"tags": ["? Links"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/01/bit-by-bit.html",
"content_html": "Bit by bit I have been ‘unfavoriting’ old posts. They aren’t useful since they don’t tie to a conversation so really are just bookmarks with no context.
\nThis was a link that @brentsimmons dropped in January 2018.
\n🔗 Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
\nWorth a revisit.
\n", "date_published": "2020-05-01T13:48:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/01/bit-by-bit.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/30/amsterdam-to-embrace.html", "content_html": "🔗 Amsterdam to embrace ‘doughnut’ model to mend post-coronavirus economy.
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-30T12:46:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/30/amsterdam-to-embrace.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/30/the-roam-cult.html", "content_html": "\n🚧 Me? I’m still on the ‘let me in’ part of the list. Anyone else care to share their Roam Reflections?
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-30T12:23:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/30/the-roam-cult.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/30/new-york-post.html", "content_html": "\nBye Bye.
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-30T11:46:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/30/new-york-post.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/06/consent-and-information.html", "content_html": "Consent and Information Sharing - Kantara Initiative
\nParking for future reference
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-06T18:10:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/06/consent-and-information.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/31/180751.html", "title": "The Defence We Have Is Simple - A Snicklecast", "content_html": "A snickelcast highlighting the solution and what can go wrong.
\n\n\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-03-31T17:07:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/31/180751.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/17/people-first.html", "title": "People First!", "content_html": "
Why People First? It’s a question that I am often asked. Why not? If not people, then what should be first?
\n\n\n\nThe questions being asked by mainstream media are primarily about how markets and business will recover - few ask how people will recover.
\n
💬 John Philpin
\n", "date_published": "2020-03-18T17:10:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/17/people-first.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/09/stephen-king-attacks.html", "content_html": "🔗 Stephen King attacks axing of Woody Allen book
\n", "date_published": "2020-03-09T08:15:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/09/stephen-king-attacks.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/08/woody-allens-memoirs.html", "content_html": "🔗 Woody Allen’s memoirs: this is the behaviour of censors, not publishers.
\nWhat do you think?
\n", "date_published": "2020-03-08T10:55:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/08/woody-allens-memoirs.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/08/top-of-table.html", "content_html": "\nNothing stops ‘⚽️ the game’.
\n", "date_published": "2020-03-08T10:41:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/08/top-of-table.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/05/download-this-update.html", "content_html": "\nWait!
\nWhat?
\nSeriously?
\nWho in Microsoft is responsible?
\nHave they been fired?
\nIf not. Why not.
\n", "date_published": "2020-03-05T08:22:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/05/download-this-update.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/12/14/221212.html", "content_html": "Links That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 10)
\n🔗 Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
\n🔗 The tale of the tortuous creation of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother
\nJane Fonda speaks at TEDWomen 2019
\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 9)
\nBark - Best Parental Control Monitoring App for iPhone & Android
\nI’m a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here’s What I Learned
\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 8)
\nVinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs For the First Time Since 1986
\nDigital Impact Investing Is Here Now
\n\n\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 7)
\nJason Fried on the Future of Work, 13 years later
\nApple News launches daily email newsletter
\n\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 6)
\nAre you developing skills that won’t be automated
\nWebflo is a responsive web design tool, CMS, and hosting platform
\nWhy 1 in 4 of You Will Lose Your Job in 2020
\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 5)
\nHolochain | Think Outside the Blocks - scalable distributed computing
\n\nSome Unsolicited Blogging Advice
\n\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 4)
\n(All these published to BizCatalyst360)
\n\nOn Your Road to Trust – Always Say Thank You
\n\nThe Art And Science Of Purpose
\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 1)
\nSix Strategies to Sell More by Selling Less | CustomerThink
\n\nThe Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 3)
\nSee David Gilmour Join Richard Thompson for ‘Dimming of the Day’ at Thompson’s Birthday
\nMatt Kaul - English is Not Normal
\n\nLinks That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 2)
\nMeet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.
\nWhy So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis
\nCraig McClellan - Tools of Choice
\n🔗 Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple board as TV battle looms
\nHands up if you are surprised?
\nThought not.
\n", "date_published": "2019-09-14T11:52:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/13/disney-ceo-bob.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/12/these-legitlooking-iphone.html", "content_html": "👁️ 🔗These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
\nNow there’s a clever thing. At least if you’re a bad person that is.
\n", "date_published": "2019-08-13T03:02:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/12/these-legitlooking-iphone.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/15/woman-on-illegal.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2019-07-16T14:07:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/15/woman-on-illegal.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/25/corporate-speak.html", "title": "Corporate Speak", "content_html": "I have a problem with ‘Corporate Speak’. Putting aside how ‘we the people’ seem to adopt corporate speak as part of our conversation - how else does ‘content’ become part of our day to day vocabulary? (Although that is an entirely different topic.)
\nHere’s the thing … the same organisations that use phrases like;
\n‘Share of Wallet’
\n‘Attacking and Targeting a Market’ (that’s you and me folks) and breaking down those
\n‘Adoption Barriers’
\n‘Taking the hill’
\n‘Users’ not ‘People’
\nAnd have something called a ‘War Room’ !!! - you know the place where Marketing meet to plan how to extract out last cent. Anyway these organisations are exactly the same organisations that say things like
\n‘Your Passion Is Our Satisfaction’,
\n‘Pleasing People Is Our Motto’ and
\n‘A Customer Is Always Right’.
\nMe? I think what is said behind closed doors more often reflects the truth. What is broadcast in public is what they think we want to hear. It’s politics, not business, but isn’t that what happened to Mitt Romney?
\nThis week’s newsletter explores corporate language and asks why have people just blindly adopted it without question? It doesn’t serve us - only the corporation.
\n\n
🖇️ 🔎 .. and much more on what I think about language here.
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-26T12:11:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/25/corporate-speak.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Posts","? LongForm","People First","? Links","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html", "content_html": "🎵 Ok .. if it’s ear worming me .. it can ear worm you.
\nElton and Leon - 🍎 🎵 🔗
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-18T08:48:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/04/im-only-human.html", "content_html": "🎵 I’m Only Human Afterall … came to mind after I heard this
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-05T13:31:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/04/im-only-human.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/04/sorry-just-because.html", "content_html": "Sorry - just because we voted you in, or you own a newspaper or are a big strapping tech jock … whatever … you are not ‘an elite’ … another example of language being co-opted to maintain the status quo.
\n🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-05T07:10:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/04/sorry-just-because.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/24/wake-up-punk.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n”Joe Corré, son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, is readying a documentary titled Wake Up Punk.”
\n
💬 Daniel Kreps - Rolling Stone
\nYou burn a pile of stuff supposedly worth $6million and 3 years later, you think wait, I’m broke, I’ll make a movie about burning the stuff. Got It.
\n", "date_published": "2019-05-25T04:39:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/24/wake-up-punk.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/24/trump-tells-barr.html", "content_html": "🔗 Trump Tells Barr to Declassify Documents
\n\n\nTrump will be acting as his own Julian Assange, releasing U.S. secrets to advance his agenda.
\n
💬 David Frum
\nI like that analogy.
\n", "date_published": "2019-05-25T04:30:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/24/trump-tells-barr.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/26/winer-started-im.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n”I’m thinking sort of the opposite of broadcast.. NarrowCast, SlimCast, TrimCast, SmallCast, MiniCast, NoCast, UnCast, PayCast, BuyCast, MyCast, DudCast… just a few ideas
\n
thegrump
\nThankfully he didn’t include microcast or snickelcast in his list.
\n", "date_published": "2019-04-27T03:40:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/26/winer-started-im.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Podcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/29/linda-mcmahon-to.html", "content_html": "🔗 Linda McMahon to leave Cabinet for Trump 2020 PAC
\nMy thanks to @endonend for the shortcut.
\nIf you see this - it worked!
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-30T06:28:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/29/linda-mcmahon-to.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/28/of-course-treasury.html", "content_html": "\n\nOf course Treasury officials are open to adjustments! That’s because these adjustments would help big corporations. It’s only when it comes to things like health care for the poor that Republicans are dead set against adjustments.
\n
💬 Kevin Drum
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-03-29T13:20:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/28/of-course-treasury.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/27/welcome-to-the.html", "content_html": "Welcome To The Machine - over on ‘The Archive’ …. no - not Pink Floyd - though they are referenced.
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-28T12:45:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/27/welcome-to-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/23/published-this-two.html", "content_html": "🖇️ Published this two years ago today … trying to put context around world events and what they mean to young people and why it might be different to old …
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-24T07:18:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/23/published-this-two.html", "tags": ["? Posts","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-customer.html", "content_html": "Link Post 11
\nCustomer Success
\nAll that customer success rubbish that people randomly ramble on about … I’m fed up with it. It’s about people. End Of. Sorted.
\nWhy Authentic Storytelling is the Key to Customer Advocacy Some headlines are so full of buzzwords and cliches that they just scream out not to be clicked on.
\n5 Tips to Acquire Accurate Customer Data for Your Business - Seriously - WTF!
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:39:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-customer.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/193538.html", "content_html": "Link Post 10
\nThe Humour Of Politics
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:35:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/193538.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-the.html", "content_html": "Link Post 9
\nThe Future?
\n🔗 Uber looking to integrate London bus and Tube data into its app
\n\n🔗 French court follows UK in ruling against Uber in ‘employment’ contract case
\nDouglas Rushkoff: How to be “Team Human” in the digital future | TED Talk
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:34:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","MyTedTalks"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-data.html", "content_html": "Link Post 8
\nData Meets Art
\nW. E. B. Du Bois’ staggering Data Visualizations are as powerful today as they were in 1900
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:32:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-data.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-and.html", "content_html": "Link Post 7
\nAnd then there’s science
\nTechnology Addiction – Debunking The Myths
\nPhysics explains why time passes faster as you age
\nMake Every Piece Count … we’re talking meat people - and what science is doing - and no it isn’t about GMO or cellular (mis)management
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:30:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-and.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-more.html", "content_html": "Link Post 6
\nMore Tech Shit That Caught My Eye
\nVLC is adding AirPlay support and will reach 3 billion downloads
\nTwo important ways Apple is preparing for life after the iPhone
\nRevealing Dropbox’s dirty little security hack
\nThe future of the TabLinks Safari Extension
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:28:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-more.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-tech.html", "content_html": "Link Post 5
\nTech Shit That Caught My Eye
\nFast wireless charger for an iPhone or Galaxy phone - 22 bucks.
\n\nHow to Calibrate Apple Watch for More Accurate Step Tracking
\nBrief Thoughts on the State of Windows
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:27:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-tech.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-truth.html", "content_html": "Link Post 4
\nTruth In Art And Images
\nDaily Poems. Well actually, a singular poem. I defy anyone to not self identify.
\nWhat Is 3D Visualization?. What indeed?
\nGorgeous Low-Angle Satellite Photo of San Francisco
\nThe Chicago Art Institute has put 50,000 High-Res Images Online
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:24:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-truth.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-entertainment.html", "content_html": "Link Post 3
\nEntertainment
\nDeadwood Returns - ‘nuff said.
\nCharlie Brooker on Bandersnatch
\n7 minutes of Tommy Lee Jones' fabulous Japanese coffee commercials
\nThe Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50 … ok maybe not entertainment … but it should be.
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:21:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-entertainment.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/11/link-post-enormous.html", "content_html": "Link Post 2
\nEnormous Writing You Need To Read
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-12T15:20:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/11/link-post-enormous.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/06/who-calls-to.html", "content_html": "W.H.O. calls to reclassify weed.
\n\n\n”If the changes are adopted, it would serve as an admission by world governments that they were wrong about marijuana."
\n
Kevin Urgiles
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T13:19:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/06/who-calls-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/06/mind-my-picasso.html", "content_html": "🔗 Mind my Picasso… superyacht owners struggle to protect art.
\n\n\n”Some 1 percenters are forced to hire art historians to come aboard their superyachts to help restore multimillion-dollar paintings damaged by cornflake shrapnel and champagne corks.”
\n
No comment. Absolutely none.
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T05:03:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/06/mind-my-picasso.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/12/ways-to-be.html", "content_html": "🔗 3 Ways To Be Smart On Social Media
\n\n\n”One of these studies showed that commenting on a post, instead of pressing the like button, could improve the mood of the person who made the original post. In one such example, a respondent in the study described how personalized comments, even trivial ones about funny cat videos, can result in feelings of support.”
\n
Someone’s been watching Micro Blog!
\n", "date_published": "2019-01-12T19:45:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/12/ways-to-be.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/12/11/introduced-some-emojis.html", "content_html": "Introduced some emojis to index a few of my posts on the 🔗 Words site.
\n🎵
\n🎥
\n📚
\n🖋
\n🔗
\n🗒
\n💡
\nIn my world, there is even a space for both!
\nPictures - they say - are worth a thousand words.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/3d209cc688.jpg\")
\nWords however are very specific and in many ways less open to interpretation (lawyers aside!!)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/4e24b167bc.jpg\")
\nSo, I am going for both.
\nHere on my muttering stream - i have oft’ referenced the closing down of my different social spaces, so might I welcome you to :
\nWords - now Archives - the lead content on this space are words - sometimes supported by pictures … but not always. (UPDATED LINK)
\nand
\nPictures - now Archives- the lead content on this space are pictures - sometimes supported by words … but not always.
\nBoth are based on Blot.IM
\nI will also publish a picture of how it all connects on … where else … Archives !
\nAlso to come soon … Sounds.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/6ff211f3f1.jpg\")
\nMore broken links identified in the archives.
\n", "date_published": "2018-12-12T08:55:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/12/words-and-pictures-theres-room.html", "tags": ["? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/11/20/070900.html", "content_html": "🚧 Micro Monday Recommendation Number ‘FOUR’
\n\n", "date_published": "2018-11-20T07:09:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/11/20/070900.html", "tags": ["? Links","? WIP"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/10/29/voter-suppression-is.html", "content_html": "🔗 Voter suppression is a crucial story in America, but broadcast news mostly shrugs
\n", "date_published": "2018-10-30T06:26:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/29/voter-suppression-is.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/30/world-cup-brazil.html", "content_html": "🔗 ⚽️ World Cup 2018: Brazil hitting form in time for Mexico showdown
\nMy money has been on Brazil since the beginning … and I know nothing about football.
\n", "date_published": "2018-07-01T09:50:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/30/world-cup-brazil.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/26/the-downside-of.html", "title": "The Downside Of Social Media", "content_html": "Titans of Social Media explain why they might have made a mistake.
\nThere has been a lot of recent commentary on social media addiction, but this video summary was interesting, concise and in 15 minutes says it all.
\nTo me what is interesting is that they all say that they could see it coming … and then did it anyway. What does that say about them. It certainly doesn’t say that they ‘put people first’.
\nFor those of us who have lived in relatively placid times, it is hard to believe that American politics could become more chaotic than it is today... something...will push us into a new and uncertain era of politics, likely far stranger and possibly more dangerous than anything in memory. The force is technology. It's easy to think we're living through a disruptive period now, but we're only scratching the surface of what true technological change can do to a society... technological change over the past half-century has been almost trivial... however, a new pivot may be coming.\n", "date_published": "2018-02-27T07:21:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/26/the-downside-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/06/john-philpin.html", "title": "John Philpin", "content_html": "Within just a few years, driverless cars will be plying the streets in great numbers, multilingual artificial intelligence programs will take over many customer service roles, and algorithms chewing over the massive amounts of data we emit will manage everything from our day-to-day health to the contents of our refrigerators. Robots are becoming more dexterous and less likely to trip over themselves, and gene editing may trigger a transformation that starts with the treatment of disease and could easily end up with the transformation of humans themselves… perhaps just 10 to 20 years from now, we will have to deal with the threat technology poses to our social order-and to our politics… widely cited work by scholars at Oxford University puts the share of jobs at risk in America…at nearly 50 percent.
\nThe best-case scenario is one in which American society experiences a great awakening, leading to a flowering of social movements that provide the political support for significant reforms… a second, more dire scenario might come to pass: that of creeping authoritarianism… If democracy cannot respond effectively and authoritarianism does not keep the peace, then a third scenario becomes more probable-state failure…There is a fourth possible future: the deus ex machina, the external shock that creates the conditions for radical, but democratic change."
Two John Philpin’s? It might get confusing.
\nYes we have talked on the phone
\nYes we are related (we think)
\n\n🖇️ This is one of my philpin sites
\nThis was originally posted to my 1999 stream, which after importing from 1999. seemed to get ‘upset’. So I have moved it here and deleted it there to fix the problem.
\nOriginally posted on ‘river.beyondbridges.net’ : April, 2017
\n", "date_published": "2018-02-06T05:36:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/06/john-philpin.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/maybe-i-am.html", "content_html": "Maybe I am just getting too cynical for my own good, but when I read that 🔗🎵 Marillion is releasing a deluxe version of their 1994 album Brave … is it just me that wonders if they are readying themselves for retirement and need a pension?
\n", "date_published": "2018-01-30T06:26:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/maybe-i-am.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2017/03/09/john-philpin-the.html", "title": "John Philpin - The Other One ", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8f3206a0eb.jpg\")
\n
![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/johnphilpin.png\")
\n
It was a few years ago now, you can tell, because I had to get up from my chair, walk to the kitchen and pick up the phone.
\n\n\nHello .. John Philpin
\n
.. and those were the last words that seemed to make sense in this particular conversation. The following is paraphrased, my memory is not that good.
\nOh hello, we are calling to see if you have any commentary on the recent developments in Gainesville.
\nSorry, could you repeat that?
\nOh yes, we are following up on some recent developments around the murders in Gainesville, and calling to ask if you might add any perspective.
\nI’m sorry .. what kind of perspective?
\nWell given your involvement at the time, we were thinking ..
\nSorry. What involvement?
\nIs that John Philpin?
\nIt is.
\nP H I L P I N ? (Spelling it out).
\nYes.
\nWell given your connection to ..
\nI’m sorry, I think you have me confused with someone else.
\nBut you are John Philpin ..
\nYes. Tell you what if you give me your number, I will look into who it might be and get them to call back.
\n.. number exchanged and I sat down.
\nIn 2024 if you Google “John Philpin”, you will indeed find that there are two of us, but back then, there wasn’t a Google … I know kids .. hard to believe. There was something called ‘Alta Vista’ and Yahoo - but nascent at best.
\nIn all honesty, I can’t recall exactly how I went about the next step. We had Compuserve - and of course at Oracle I had access to the ‘real’ ‘internet’ - but - there still has to be something at the other end to be found for a ‘search’ to work … so this was going to be tough.
\nBut … BUT - you may not know this, but ‘Philpin’ is a pretty uncommon name. Uncommon like there may be 5 to 6 hundred of us - tops - around the world today. I can also tell you that 75% of them live in Pembrokeshire, Wales, or at least in South Wales.
\nOk - I jest - but it is not so far off.
\nDonald Philpin - a cousin of my dad’s - did some research back in the 60s and 70s and unpacked a family tree of sorts essentially connecting us all back to a ‘Walter Philpin’ of Tenby, Pembrokeshire in the 1600s. (When I say - research - this was no internet search (see earlier google comment), this was serious - visiting parish churches, pouring through registers of birth, deaths and marriage and painstakingly putting it all together, by talking to family members. (Now THAT was commitment.)
\nAnyway, long story short (let’s assume I used Compuserve) and tried to find this other Philpin. I failed. Kind of. I found an author called John Philpin - who was probably the writer this journalist thought I was. But - no way of connecting - no phone - certainly no email - even for the publisher - just an address in NYC, which IMHO seemed too hard. (Clearly I was no ‘Donald’.)
\nI also found a musician by name of 🎵Five Philpin and there seemed to be a connection to a John Philpin - and I am a music nerd anyway - so what the hell - I reached out to him through email that seemed to be associated with his music.
\nAnd nothing … for a few weeks and I then got an email from Five.
\nWe exchanged emails - and I bought every CD he had ever released - ( I like to support ‘smaller’ musicians and hell - with the same last name as mine - of course I was.)
\nAsked him about John - and turns out John is his father - at the time Five was in LA / Seattle - and dad was over In New England. Anyway could Five connect me?
\nFive - “Leave it with me.”
\n… delivering a result a week or so later, here’s Dad’s phone number - give him a call.
\nI did.
\nWe talked for a couple of hours … mainly around who both us ‘John Philpins’ came to be us ‘John Philpins’ .. and given the tightness of our Family tree, we tracked back to our mutual roots … in .. Pembrokeshire and and and …
\n.. and finally I got round to telling him about the call from the news paper asking for a comment .. and there was a silence, and then .. (again ..paraphrasing)
\n\n\nI have no interest in talking to these people whose only job seems to be title tattle, so I wouldn’t bother getting back to them … but should they call again, I would answer their questions. They are looking to speak to John Philpin and gather ‘quotes’ .. give them. Don’t let knowing nothing about the cases they call about get in the way .. make it up .. it would stand more chance of being right than some of what they write. Might be fun?
\n
We chatted a little longer - said our good byes and moved on with our lives.
\nI never heard anything more from the journalist - or any other for that matter, so I never got to try out John’s idea. I sporadically kept in touch with Five - had one more email exchange with John - but basically all our lives just continued, with this one tiny dent of connection.
\nWhere else are you going to hear Donald Trump described as a
\n\n\nclingfilmed parcel of hamburger meat that’s been kicked through a yellow cobweb
\n
(?)
\nNow that is a very good question. And is all you need to know before you 🔗 click through to read all about it.
\nAnd. When you do. Make sure you watch the 1 hour of perfect Charlie Brooker reportage.
\nMany thanks to my good friend Dr. Watson for alerting me to the piece.
\n[Updated 250421 - dead links]
\n", "date_published": "2016-12-31T12:29:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/12/30/a-clingfilmed-parcel.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/08/11/its-all-about.html", "title": "It's All About The Headline ....", "content_html": "Opening copy reads :
One of Apple's largest component suppliers, Samsung Electronics ...
... not could have (should have ?)
One of Apple's largest competitors, Samsung Electronics
... because the article is ALL about safety in Samsung's semi con factories and clearly reads ...
That year, and every year since, tech media outlets have regularly suggested that there was no real difference between Apple's iPhone and the manufacturing of much lower margin Android products, which cut corners and take expedient shortcuts to deliver cheap products.
🔗 Read All About It At Apple Insider - who should not be using such stupid click bait headlines and opening copy in their articles.
#ShameOnThem
\n", "date_published": "2016-08-12T03:40:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/08/11/its-all-about.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/07/12/lest-we-forget.html", "title": "Lest We Forget ...", "content_html": "\n\nSpeaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Following a disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as Speaker and resigning from Congress.
\n
\nGingrich later admitted that, while he was pushing for Clinton’s impeachment, he was engaged in an affair with a Congressional aide. “There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them”, Gingrich said in 2007.
\nHe later said the situation was ‘complex and, obviously, I wasn’t doing things to be proud of.
You mean like now ?
\n\n", "date_published": "2016-07-13T05:06:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/07/12/lest-we-forget.html", "tags": ["? Links","? LongForm","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/07/04/july-th-reality.html", "content_html": "🔗I usually like Brad Feld’s thinking but I definitely take issue with his conclusion to this piece.
\n\n\nI’d like to believe that in America, we’ll continue to be at the forefront of human society as we work through these issues.
\n
(I know it is fiction - but it’s hard to argue with it ….](https://youtu.be/ML3qYHWRIZk)
\n\n", "date_published": "2016-07-05T07:16:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/07/04/july-th-reality.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/06/01/someone-else-who.html", "title": "Someone Else Who Doesn't Get It", "content_html": "
A piece by Robert Scoble on 🔗 ‘Why Tim Cook better worry’. Scoble opens with his take on ‘the fourth visible user interface of the personal computer era.’
\n\n\nThe first was character mode. MS-DOS.
\n
\nThe second was the GUI, graphical user interface. Macintosh and Windows.
\nThe third was touch. iPhone and Android.
\nThe fourth is spatial computing.
…. and then goes on to suggest that Cook ‘doesn’t get it’ and Apple should be worried.
\nHe seems to forget that Apple.
\nAnd - remember this piece was 🔗 written by the guy that wrote that he would never take his google glass off … and was generally THE world’s leading advocate of same. But that was in 2013.
\nThen last year he wrote;
\n\n\nLast night before Skrillex at Coachella came on two guys were talking next to me. One said ‘I want to get away from the Google Glass guys.’ I turn around and there are two guys wearing Glass. Google does have a problem here. I haven’t worn mine at all this weekend. What is going on here in a world where I am carrying around a camera and EVERYONE uses their phones or a GoPro but Glass feels freaky and weird? Google has launched this product poorly, is what. But wearable technology needs a different set of skills than Google has. What? Empathy.
\n
and just last week;
\n\n\nYes, Google Glass had its problems, but that’s because it was released too early. It was a misunderstood product that could stand up to neither expectations nor criticism.
\n
Meanwhile - Apple’s R and D spend is running close to 10 billion a year - do we really think they aren’t working on interesting, game changing, futuristic ideas ?
\nAs Asymco’s Horace Dediu wrote;
\n\n\nWhile other companies make a bigger show of their projects, ‘Apple’s’ work is in secret. It is substantial and calibrated by market opportunity.
\n
Funny - this just in today - from a piece called ‘When Should Apple Introduce Its Innovations’. (Sorry the mangling - see below - lost the link)
\nA couple of choice quotes;
\n\n\nWhat Apple’s critics stubbornly fail, or refuse, to acknowledge - even though the evidence before them is overwhelming is that it’s not first that matters, it’s first to get it right. The critics want Apple to invent the next big thing. But Apple doesn’t invent. They never have invented. They reinvent.
\n
and
\n\n\nEverything at Google IO so far: Here is our answer to a rival’s product. Ours is way better. It will be out later this year.
\n
💬 Farhad Manjoo on Twitter
\n#word
\nI rediscovered this post on Jan 23rd, 2024 it having been imported from one of my other blogs a while back. It had clearly got severely mangled in the process. So I have just demangled it - including moving out of that ‘special’ Wordpress HTML that we all ‘love’ so much and reformatted with Markdown and added some of my little emojis for better discovery in the future. Otherwise what you read above is what went live way back then.
\n", "date_published": "2016-06-02T05:03:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/06/01/someone-else-who.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/05/18/how-mighty-are.html", "content_html": "How Mighty Are The Fallen
\nEd Miliband: now Doncaster's 40th-most powerful person
.. to remind you - Ed is the ex leader of the UK Labour party who once had aspirations to be the PM. To also remind you at one time he was thought to be too left wing for Britain ... and then they dropped Jeremy Corbyn into his position.
\n", "date_published": "2016-05-19T04:15:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/05/18/how-mighty-are.html", "tags": ["? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/04/22/prince-winer.html", "content_html": "My thanks to @davewiner for allowing me to join 🔗 1999 - an auspicious day as Prince passes into history at 57.
\nA salute to his 1999
\n\n", "date_published": "2016-04-22T14:17:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/04/21/prince-winer.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2015/12/08/the-hidden-convenience-in-ios.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2015-12-08T05:27:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2015/12/08/the-hidden-convenience-in-ios.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes"] } ] }
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