Only one third in - and we will get to the Silverlake/WPEngine fracas .. but for now a 🎙️🔗link to Lenny’s podcast and a wise thought.
Side note - no expert on how this is all going to shake out in the courts - but from what I read - I remain on Matt’s side.
🔗 Our Muslim Boy Wonder - Michael Moore
(It’s about ’Steve’, but it this caught my attention …
How many millions upon millions over the years have snuck into this nation without permission, without invitation, just wham-bam-thank-you-Uncle-Sam-you’re-an-American-man now – ** in this case because of the perhaps questionable morals of a Wisconsin farmer’s daughter**.
💬 Michael Moore
… my bold, because I have questions …
- Why is it only the daughter’s questionable morals?
- What about the morals of Abdulfattah Jandali?
- Why is it even about ‘morals’ - though I guess it was 1950.
🔗 🏝️ Discs - Sir Jony Ive, designer - BBC Sounds and 🔗 Daring Fireball
I think when you struggle, then a goal can become just commercial issues. I understand – I mean, if you’re losing lots of money, you’d like to stop losing lots of money. The problem there is it means you focus on money, and you’re normally losing money because the products aren’t right. And from ‘92 to ‘97, it was a very, very difficult season. One that I am so grateful for – but I still get the shivers sometimes.
💬 Jonny Ives
This really resonated - and if you read some of the stuff I read - it will ring bells, because it is like life;
the money comes when you stop chasing the money
I also liked Gruber’s extented thought;
Judging them as good or bad isn’t the correct framework. It’s that they weren’t right. There’s an inherent subjectiveness to rightness.
💬 John Gruber
🔗 Skype is dead. What happened? - On my Om
Microsoft now talks about Teams being their focus, showing that even today they haven’t realized what made Skype a cultural, consumer force. Microsoft Teams is a terrible product – and I dread using it. In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.
💬 Om Malik
It single-handedly destroyed the long-distance calling business. Most young people today don’t remember, but long-distance calls used to cost a lot of money. Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.
💬 Om Malik
In the early days of podcasting, seemingly every show used Skype because it was so much better than anything else. And it was free! It felt like the future. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if not for Skype, podcasting would’ve been set back several years.
💬 John Gruber
Sharing these - and Om nailed it in that second quote.
Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.
I was one of those immigrants calling home.
SAD.
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🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer
No plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …