📺 Crooks
Netflix. Dubbed. Caper. Not much more to say, except I did watch it all the way through.
Crooks on 🔗 Reelgood
It has been brought to my attention that assumptions have been made - and - call me a stickler - that pisses me off.
Some level setting
My mum was born just outside of Manchester.
My mum’s parents …
🔗 🎙️ The American Dream Is A Pyramid Scheme … Sean Illing doing his thing.
I have a fundamental objection to Uber. (You might have heard.)
Which is why down here in New Zealand, when one of those kind of pickups is needed I use Ola.
Make that ‘used to use’
They …
I read something this past week about ‘feeds and posts’ - and I know ‘we’ do all know that the difference is there - but ‘we’ are also aware that it is not always understood … I think maybe @SimonWoods mentioned it recently? Anyway - I was about to reply with something I considered to be an excellent riposte and then stopped and deleted. My 🔗 ‘riposte’ was a reply - not a repost - and wondering if the meaning of the original use of the word that has been subsumed by modernity and partly explains the confusion?
I know I shared this when @gruber wrote it way back - but sharing again - as he just did - and a reminder from moi .. its not a matter of if they come after you - it is when - best be prepared.
🔗 Bob’s writing about Music and Musicians, but what he described has applicability to any new business launching itself onto the world.
I saw🔗 this in Visual Capitalist today.
No mention of New Zealand where a lot of people complain about the country’s debt, so I thought I might explore - and found this in Macro Trends.
And sure - while we are higher than historical - it isn’t unprecedented - even in the past twenty years. 2003 and 2012 clearly standing out from the crowd. (I wonder what was happening around the globe at that time - rhetorical folks .. and that’s the point - whatever Kiwi leaders might like to think, they are in the gravitational pull of ‘RoW’. That said, the country is clearly doing a lotte better than average.
Who am I to disagree with Austin Kleon and in fact I still don’t .. but the conclusion to the article ends with a use case for why paper dictionaries .. which to this bear seems identical to the why online. What am I missing? 🔗 Source
Was I talking about stumbling across things? Don’t think so, but an example of just that from a few months ago. No words needed to explain the images. Just click through.
🔗 Weekend Reading — Never Again Is Now — Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)