I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
- 3 inputs [I] : people, capital and tangible assets
- 2 outputs [0] : products and services
The rest is just context.
I like to think of every organization being a magic box.
The rest is just context.
Occasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:
After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment—especially this week!
I don’t sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;
I’ll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, I’m just letting this lie.
đź”— You are the center of concentric circles, Mark Dykeman
It’s another one of those Dunbar posts, the concentric circles are so random that I was reduced to asking ChatGPT ..
“What is the difference between a friend, good friends, best friends and close friends?
A less than satisfactory answer, though it did seem to agree with me (and the author) that a ‘Best Friend’ is closer than a ‘Close Friend’. Other than that? Yeah - no.
And the numbers
Why did he bother writing the piece? Why have I bothered commenting on it?
Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been …
🎵🖇️ 18 - 1975 - Pete Wingfield.
🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track - this one from Paul Hardcastle.
Sometimes time goes slow.
Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why 🎵 🔗 TIL Why
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
đź’¬ Nicolas Klein
🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly. I didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.
This week Rob is a bit more serious than usual - but he’s on an important topic - the ‘truth in history’ versus ‘but it doesn’t make for good drama’ schtick. Something else we agree on - - even though he doesn’t know that!
He ends with how all of this is ‘kind of ok’ in Entertainment - but maybe not so much in reality. You know what I’m talkin' about!