🎵 Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.
Back in the day ‘we’ had a line:
Oracle’s first platform for any `Product’ is always PowerPoint - and is written by LJE.
It stemmed from Larry’s penchant for announcing products in large public forums and nobody else seemed to have any knowledge of it.
Just read this:
🔗 The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
With this quote
Some Oracles never change.
.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.
I joined Lyris roughly 13 years ago. On my arrival - I had the ‘swag bag’ waiting for me in which was a mouse mat …and 13 years later not only do I still have it but it travels with me to most places I go.
Today I was taken by an article by 🔗 Scott Brinker - famed for his ‘stack maps’ - in which Lyris used to feature.
His articles arrives - and I either miss it - or I scan it - or I read it. On this occasion 🔗 1967 was the summer of love we will remember 2025 as the summer of vibes I read it - and - ummmm - no.
Umm - hell no.
…maybe one day I will follow this up with a more detailed reasoning why - but for now “yeah, no” is the only appropriate response.
Why?
1967 was music, movement, and meaning.
2025? Unless you live in a tech bubble (and clearly many do) I would suggest that when people look back from 2050, and ask how they remember 2025 - I suspect the answers or more likely to fall into categories such as;
- That America lost democracy.
- That the world slipped further into fascism.
- That we tipped past the point of no return on climate.
- That AI passed the tipping point - ushering in 50% unemployment. OR
- That AI passed the tipping point - and finally - humanity is actually free to live, create, and flourish.
My bet? However it lands, it won’t be remembered as the ‘summer of vibes’.
I am assuming that Scott has one of his tongues in one of his cheeks - so I won’t get too uppity - but just one more question - how many of you look back to 2022 as the year of
- The SPACs (and their collapse) - until their 2025 revival
- Web3 (remember when that was going to save us?)
- Cyber <fill in your ‘phrase du jour» it mainly created headlines)
- The restart of the Ukraine War (potential start of WW3)
- The end of free money
- The arrival of ChatGPT
.. and this was just 3 years ago
That said - BIG doff of hat to Lyris CMO and all round lovely man - 🔗Alex Lustberg for being 15 years ahead of tech culture and capturing ‘vibe’ as part of The Lyris culture.
Four Tools I Use
When I tell others, they seem to find them useful.
Ikigai - look it up
Pay, Play, Passion and Purpose - a ‘Structured Thought’ Model
Collect and Curate, Connect and Communicate - think Gladwell’s Tipping Point (Maven, Networker and Communicator).
Core and Context - think Moore - but then add a touch of Structured Thought with a dash of #PeopleFirst
🔗 … and then there is Hunter’s Letter
I’ll be back with more links at some point.