🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.
CORRECT
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?
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
BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.
Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.
Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.
🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
The 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. We should plan accordingly.
💬 Seth Godin
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works fine.
🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026
Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is your man
🔗 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?
🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
.. and as I have said myself
death defines life.
I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.
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… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then. We live there now.