I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
- 3 inputs [I] : people, capital and tangible assets
- 2 outputs [0] : products and services
The rest is just context.
I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
The rest is just context.
Occasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:
After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment—especially this week!
I don’t sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;
I’ll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, I’m just letting this lie.
🔗 You are the center of concentric circles, Mark Dykeman
It’s another one of those Dunbar posts, the concentric circles are so random that I was reduced to asking ChatGPT ..
“What is the difference between a friend, good friends, best friends and close friends?
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.
And the numbers
Why did he bother writing the piece? Why have I bothered commenting on it?
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 …
🎵🖇️ 18 - 1975 - Pete Wingfield.
🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track - this one from Paul Hardcastle.
Sometimes time goes slow.
Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why 🎵 🔗 TIL Why
“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.”
💬 Nicolas Klein
🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly. I didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.
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!
He 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!