Dana makes some good points in ‘🔗 Why Full Self Driving is a Fraud.’. And of course the US isn’t protectionist.

Today in Tedium:

As you may know, Tedium is a blog and/or newsletter (we haven’t decided yet–I know, surprising nine years in) focused on questions that you never bothered to ask yourself, but are suddenly consumed by the second you hear them.

I know how they feel!

Oh - and in that piece - i got pointed to 🔗 The Story of the Social Security Number - I did not know how the numbers came to be and what they are.

🎈120/366 🔗 The web is not dying

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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🔗 Bob’s writing about Music and Musicians, but what he described has applicability to any new business launching itself onto the world.

Yet another one to file in the bucket of things that don’t seem quite right.

🔗 Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation

🔗 Received from my friend Graham, article from The New Yorker .. as I commented tomorrow him;

Personally speaking - my life is too short

Another discovery from the archives … although only March, so not so bad.

Many of us seek status and belonging without even seeing it; we find it hard not to react to what others are doing, especially those we have been programmed to want to impress. We’re reactive without realizing it. We put limits on ourselves because we buy into other people’s rules. It’s the fundamental limit I’ve observed in most people, including myself and most founders: they define success by succeeding according to the rules that others have defined. 

💬 Mike Maples

🔗 Source (Medium) - so heaven only knows how I stumbled on this one - other than Mike is actually very good at what he does - so maybe I was looking out from him?

😂 🔗 Letting ‘Marketing’ have a ‘seat at the table’

Truth in humor from Tom.