🔗 You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup.

YUP - 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’.

Email me if you are interested in joining.

🔗 Twenty Years Ago, Apple Launched the iTunes Music Store.

The 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.

It also means that I spent close to two years ripping CDs into the Mac to play on the iPod. (Still do that actually.)

🔗 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification in Calfornia

If you are working in or around this program in California - would love to hear from you.

Harry Belafonte ‘managing’ his audience singing the Banana Boat song. 🔗 You know why it is here.

Same 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).

In that 🔗 last post Siri tried to spell ‘Heroes’ … ‘Herpes’

🔗 NZ Tech Podcast: Skills shortage slows fibre installs, satellite woes, ChatGPT cheats from @billbennettnz

“Musk plans a less biased AI”

… and we clearly all believe that Musk is capable of removing bias from social media don’t we?