A reminder from 🔗 Brian Solis - possibly a riff on John Caswell’s mantra - “the last thing you need near a problem is an expert”.

When Steve Jobs was finally convinced to pursue the iPhone (and he had to be convinced), he gathered his inner circle and asked: Who should we bring into this project? Naturally, the team responded like experts, they brought forward the “smartest people” in the industry.

Jobs exploded.

“I don’t want anyone to work on the iPhone if they’ve worked on a phone,” he said (minus the expletives). “Because we’re not building a phone.”

Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.

🔗 Fixed

At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.

Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.

I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.

I think it was @jsonbecker that wrote a post about 🔗 Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - which I am only just getting\g around to look at and wondering - anyone get this working against their photo library in Micro Blog?

🔗 Land War or Self-Terrorism?

In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.

💬 Timothy Snyder

🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms

The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea.

🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort

.. for marination purposes.

If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks.

And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on.

So … is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk?

🔗 The Full piece from Seth

Reminds me of an old ‘Johnism’ that has over the years appeared in many forms ..

🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome

The whole album - but for me ….

Steven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!

.. would love to hear that.

🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100

… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list.