Just discovered 🔗📚 Linchpin by Seth Godin - and I wonder how I missed it - because I wonder if it is a twist on my ‘Blue Ocean of Org Charts’ - will try to find the post.
🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.
CORRECT
A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?
Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah
BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.
Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.
Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.
🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly.
💬 Seth Godin
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works fine.
🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026
Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is your man
🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?
🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
.. and as I have said myself
death defines life.