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We just don’t build them like this any more.

🔗 Markus Brunetti’s Monumental Photos Venerate European Ecclesiastical Landmarks

🤯 .. A ballpoint pen❓

🔗 Habib Hajallie’s Meticulous Ballpoint Pen Drawings Examine the Depths of Emotion.

I used to get told off for doodling in text books when I was a kid. This guy’s drawing pictures on Ancient Texts. #Wonderful

🔗 Creative Thought Is Essential: A Letter from Our Editor

Thinking is my fighting.

💬 Virgina Woolf

🔗 Ranked: The Animals That Kill the Most Humans

Turns out that visiting Australia (arguably host of some of the most dangerous critters in the world) is safer than just being a human.

🖇️ Kind of related to this … Galloway and Swisher recently debating Tucker.

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 …

🏢 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.

Your 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.

Think 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.

💬 Tim Chambers

🔗 Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations.

The 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.

The 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.

That’s why we start at the opposite end - where websites are outcomes of clear thought, strategy and data architecture.

Doc’s 🔗 Identity as Root plays off 🔗 The Root Declaration from Devon.

Not to be confused with …

🔗 I Am Root

OR

🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog

Successful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.

Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S

🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.

🔗 An explanation of why …

this takes a turn at the end.

💬 Mitch Wagner

Certainly 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.