🔗 Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches
Wait, What?
If they quit Smartwatches - don’t they just stop doing business?
TIL that Fossil offer a vast range of fashion accessories that I knew nothing about.
Next question.
I noticed this
… which got me to thinking. Do Fossil need that partnership any longer now that Mickey is out of copyright? Wouldn’t they make more money?
🔗 Where Logos Meet Album Covers: Designer Ivan Chermayeff
Its a Substack about a designer of iconic logos that turned his hand to (not so iconic) album covers.
I like some of them - but probably not iconic because the artists of the albums aren’t as big as the corporates either the logos.
🔗 Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (Apple News)
If it is 5 years for this and 4 months for Navarro;
1] are the punishments commensurate?
2] If so what the likely total sentence time will be for the Orange clown?
Still battling with my ‘in process’ (I am being generous) archive that 🖇️ I referenced here. Tucked away I had literally …
🔗 Still struggling with emojis on my site - (The link takes you to a quick conversation with ChatGPT).
Most of them render correctly - but odd ones don’t … like this one for example : ❓
In my book that should be red?
🔗 The True Blue Ocean – ProjectVRM (2020 - I know - another old one!)
To understand the problem here, it helps to hear marketing talk to itself. Customers, it says, are targets to herd on a journey into a funnel through which they are acquired, managed, controlled and locked in.
This is the language of ranching and slavery. Not a way to talk about human beings.
Four years later nothing has changed.
Don’t worry - this isn’t what you think it is.
If you are married or single, a writer or …
Another old note, that deserves to see the light of day. I have 🖇️ written before on my position (a fan - not a fanboy), still …
The Masses:
“Apple hasn’t produced anything new since the …
This is about ‘that’ Andreesen post/ But first … context, because I know - life has moved on.
I am in the process of trying to catch up on a massive backlog of notes that I am steadily
Not sure if this will end up taking longer than the 🖇️ category deletion. We will see.
This one is in the third category. The news has been and gone now - but my opinion hasn’t changed.
Some of you might have stumbled across Andreesen’s Substack :
TL;DR .. who cares.
Despite what he wrote, he’s wrong … not least of which being that word ‘world’ .. it will be fine - regardless of what Marc thinks. People? Yeah - that’s different. Anyway …
What you might NOT have stumbled across are these;
🔗 Alan Jacobs (pdf)
Just read that …
Hilton, together with 🔗 11:11 (Paris Hilton’s agency) launched a Roblox experience where players can earn 🔗 real-world travel rewards
.. and in all honesty I really do not care, except to say that in case you ever have any doubt … it really is a case of it’s not what you know - but who you know.