🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast

I don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)

Your customers are your best salespeople.

Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best.


🔗 🎙️ How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - from Freakanomics - its an update old one.

.. who knew?


Just discovered 1440

Why 1440?

The printing press was invented around the year 1440, spreading knowledge to the masses and changing the course of history. More facts: In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. We’re here to make each one count.

🔗🎙️Peter Kafka talking to one of the 1440 founders


Over the past couple of years I have increasingly disconnected from Galloway. Always used to like his insights and takes - but over time he seems to have become very blustery and grand standing. Sean Illing however? I put him up there with Sam Harris. So this one proved a conundrum. Sean won as he and Scott talked about the struggles men are facing today.

🔗🎙️ Sean Illing and Scott Galloway

.. well worth it. No bluster. Considered. Thoughtful. AND IMHO Spot on.

Just shows how a show host really can shape how their guests come off. It’s definitely a skill.


🎵🎙️So talented and humble. One of my favorites - and interviewed by Terry Gross to boot.

[🔗 Beethoven meets Jazz meets The Blues](overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNG…



🔗 🎙️You Must Answer The Questions About Feet

I might have posted this link before, but I keep sending it to people. It ties back to 🖇️🎙️my own podcast about Agents - nearly two years ago now. Still an issue - and will be for a long time yet.


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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!

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From 🔗🎙️ Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview

Absolutely FASCINATING

How is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician. Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe_. This episode features music by Stephon Alexander throughout, from his latest 2024 album Spontaneous Fruit _and his 2017 EP True to Self.


Youngsters probably don’t remember Autonomy. I do.

No time to write too much about it, so look it up and then don’t believe everything you read. Like this …

Federal prosecutors on Monday painted one-time British tech star Mike Lynch as the ruthless mastermind of an $11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard.

Prompted to post this now because I just listened to 🔗🎙️ Mike Lynch (Founder and CEO of Autonomy) and ‘Danny In The Valley’ talking. Mike was found innocent by the DoJ after TWELVE years and tens of millions defending himself against America’s ‘finest’.



While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙️ Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?

I mean - nobody.


A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”

Just to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ones on the world to do it … and absolutely having no regard for the consequences.

My recommendation? Keep focussed on what American voters need to do. You made your decision to break from the UK centuries ago, so who cares what we are doing?

Your choice later this year is one of two things.

  1. End your democracy and in turn empower the rest of the nut jobs around the world to do the same.
  2. Vote against that.

You the voter are in charge.

Still in doubt? I commend you to take a listen to Kara Swisher’s 🔗 🎙️ July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy


🎈177/366 Team Human

You can listen to the whole thing 🔗 🎙️here, but if this 40 seconds doesn’t make you sit up - don’t bother.



🖇️ 🎙️ Vinyl Sneak Peek

Conan’s short promo had me laughing out loud 😂 as I wandered down to the ferry this morning.


🎈126/366 I know @dave is a fan of Andrew Hickey - me too. No time to listen to them all, but when you do - superb. Absolutely superb.

🔗🎙️ Sad to see this in my stream .. disgusted even. Got to say, I thought he was a better person than I could ever have been)

Meanwhile - let’s see what happens - and if it doesn’t, we really need to rally round and make sure it does.

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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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🖇️ Me a couple of days ago ending with ‘wondering what ‘Rob’ will say.

Now we know.

He just delivered a great story - as always and funny. He didn’t say it the way I did (mainly because he has more talent) … but I think we agree. Take a listen.

🔗 🎙️ Paramount: Buy, Sell, Fight