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🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021

I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.

💬 Lindsay Graham

“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”

💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)

🔗 via Austin Kleon

I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.

Your blogroll, anywhere - courtesy of Chris Hannah.

Only on free - but at 2 bucks a month - that could change very soon.

🔗 I am liking the potential of this a lot …

🔗 The empathy of instructions | Seth

Yes and if you are in tech development - particularly indie developers ( not all ) this also means you. The assumptions made in help files, forums and even the products are extraordinary. I firmly believe this why really cool stuff doesn’t take off.

🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Fun graphic.

My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.

Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯

🔗 There’s a well-documented dynamic in fundraising that most founders _feel_long before they ever read about it.

Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.

🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet

Not to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.

There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.

💬 Dave Winer

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🔗 Dead Center | Futility Closet

In a shooting match, Andryusha, Volodya, and Borya each fired 6 shots, and each totaled 71 points. Andryusha’s first 2 shots earned him 22 points, and Volodya’s first shot earned 3 points.

Click through for the actual puzzle - one that had me for a minute building a pretty complex table of scores. And then I solved it in 2 seconds. NO tables needed.

🔗 The Joy of Neo-noir

Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.

Surprised they never became a movie series.