🔗📼 Hamish on The Future of Media @ Ted
I remain a fan of what they are trying to do. There. I said it.
I published 🔗 Why Design Matters a few days ago tying the Ives/Collinson interview to some of the stuff I rattle on about.
I also referenced hesitations I have about Altman.
Today I watched the Ives/Altman video after that multi-billion …
- acquisition (as Altman calls it)
- merger (as Ives calls it)
As I added to that piece just this morning:
I remain mixed about Sam - it’s the odd inconsistencies that aggravate me - but - the fact that he and Elon are on opposite sides is a good signal and that he and Jony are on the same side gives me hope.
From an article by Noah Smith that I need to come back to and write more. I find those three groupings quite fascinating.
Added Later … sorry not helpful - right?
🔗 Is the U.S. in a ‘high-level equilibrium trap’? | Noah Smith
🚧 Still more to come.
Been following this show for a while, finally nailing the last episode of Series 3 over the weekend. Good enough to keep me coming back .. not good enough to have me binge watch, but a solid show …
There must be close to a couple of thousand hand curated links in 🔗Indieseek -
‘a human edited, Indieweb directory’
… painstakingly put together by @bradenslen
Well worth a visit and a click around - no slop allowed. I mean I’m not sure it actually says that - but knowing what I know of Brad, I think it would be safe to put money on it.
But there’s more - you can also submit your own indie site.
There are other places around that does this but they do seem to move in fits and starts. Indieweb seems to be steady, been around a while and gently growing.
Enjoy.
I am on a bit of a rant at the moment …
Over time, my initial reaction sharpened and what started as a critique became a little more spiky … then decidedly more tongue-in-cheek. Because while everyone else was raising a glass of shareholder Kool-Aid, I couldn’t ignore the inconvenient truth: efficiency with fewer people and more profit in a single corporation is ‘competitive edge’. BUT implementing that efficiency at scale is a problem for society without a counter balance. And ‘we’ are doing this - at massive scale - across the planet.
🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my 🔗 albumwhale lists
not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted should be.
In the Age of Experience, perhaps it’s time we stop translating and start developing new, more direct ways to meaningfully measure what matters. (NEWSFLASH - that is not coming out of ‘The Valley’ any time soon.)
This short reflection is my way of shining a light on that moment. Because sometimes a single sentence can unlock a whole new way of thinking.
🔗 I wrote a lot more about Jony Ive’s sit down with Patrick Collinson here.
Talking to an old friend tonight. I said something. He replied …
“Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite”
.. which curiously enough made sense in the flow of the conversation .. but I still had to ask. The full quote …
Poolside laughter has a cynical bite
Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite
It comes from the song ‘🔗📼 Lay Your Hands On Me, version of the song that my friend said that was the version I needed to watch.
Just did and too good not to share. So …
Cans on - Volume up - listen in for 8 minutes - and come out shaking.
When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.
Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.
Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
💬 Paul Nurse
Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
Oh well. We can dream.