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🔗 Bob’s writing about Music and Musicians, but what he described has applicability to any new business launching itself onto the world.

Yet another one to file in the bucket of things that don’t seem quite right.

🔗 Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation

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.

I …

🔗 Received from my friend Graham, article from The New Yorker .. as I commented tomorrow him;

Personally speaking - my life is too short

Another discovery from the archives … although only March, so not so bad.

Many 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. 

💬 Mike Maples

🔗 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?

😂 🔗 Letting ‘Marketing’ have a ‘seat at the table’

Truth in humor from Tom.

🔗Over on Substack this morning, somebody had taken it upon themselves to ‘correct’ a writer’s English.

Tip: realized not “realised”. I’ll surprised that you got that passed spell …

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.

GREAT JOB SIR - most excellent. Really really clear - and it worked first time.

AND of course - big shout out to @otaviocc for the new page.

I did it and it did exactly what it said on the tin.

Sadly 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.

Vlad - 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.

Anyway - over and out - GREAT job. Thank you.

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.

Still there might be …

🔗 📼 This an 11 year old Ted Talk featuring Pablo Holman - demonstrating hacks on the stage. ELEVEN years ago .. so what 2013?

It 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.

Imagine what is possible today. And you wonder why we have problems.

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.

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Fast Forward to last year and here he is again with another Ted Talk ‘Nuclear Reactors Can Solve Inequality’. 🤯

Both Talks were just absolutely inspiring

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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.

The CogX Talk