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Yesterday 🔗🎙️ Timothy Rybak and Kara Swisher

Today 🔗🎙️ Christopher Lyon with Lyndsey Stonebridge talking about Hannah Arendt

One common observation. by Timothy and Lyndsey (I paraphrase)

Trump is an overweight, obnoxious nothing - it is the apparatus around him that is the problem.

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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Have I mentioned before that I like 🔗 🎙️ Rob Long’s Martini Shot, short entertaining, great story telling about the entertainment business - and ties back into broader business - this one feature Karl Lagerfeld. My take? We all have a ‘little Karl’ in us.

🔗 🎙️ Can you patent a pizza?

Good question.

TL;DR - yes … yes you can.

BUT, apparently it means nothing, because you still need to be big and with deep pockets to protect that patent - because otherwise them large corporations - hell they invented the 💩

Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.

Later

Finished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.

Listen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia

There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.

In parralel, the topic of efficiency seems to be on everyone’s lips - different learned people in different positions essentially reporting ‘findings’ .. new budgets in cities … and the eternal question of whether we are getting what we pay for.

Just one small example from Wayne Brown in Auckland … a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ll let that sink in.

I am far from qualified to comment much on this (other than that seems a lot to me), but Bernard Hickey definitely is - and if you want to read his excellent Substack around not just speed bumps - but all things political and fiscal in this fine country - look no further than 🔗 here.

Meanwhile - Aotearoa - don’t feel so bad - this 🔗 🎙️ podcast from Freakonomics relects on the US construction industry. Turns out it is the only industry that has not become more efficient over the past seventy years - because that is how it is designed!

Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …

Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.

Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?

Good job with the @gruber episode @martinfeld …. noting that it is (I think) 🎙️🔗 the longest one you have published (?) … fitting for the guest 🤪 … seriously though, nice job and good to hear Mr G wax lyrical on his story. Lovely listen.

🔗 Plan for 55,000-acre Silicon Valley utopia unveiled.

It would appear that the designers have explored how new neighborhoods were promoted in the ‘50s and didn’t even bother to update the images.

🎙️ If you prefer to listen - Kevin and Casey with their usual over the top breathless commentary.