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🔗 It fails very strange to …

Yeah … no

… that’s not what it’s about.
… Iraq worked out so well.
… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
… the Ukrainians.
… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
… it’s about the oil … read history.
… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.

winnng

💬 Charlie Sheen

💬 Today’s Readwise is a Full House ….

🔗 Careers are jungle gyms, not ladders

Real careers look more like jungle gyms. You climb up, move sideways, drop down, hang upside down for a while, and sometimes jump across to something new entirely. Progress isn’t measured only by elevation, but by agility, strength, and perspective. The value comes from how many dimensions you can move in, not just how high you can go.

💬 Guy Kawasaki

The problem is in my positioning function. It’s setting inline styles that override the CSS, breaking the show/hide logic.

💬 Claude

Claude finally taking responsibility … time was when ‘my’ would have read ‘your’

Here’s a funny thing … now there’s a funny thing

💬 Max Miller

Did a back up of my micro blog and I am told that the oldest post in the back up is from 2017 … I open the blog in Mars Edit and I see posts going back to 2005.

Thoughts as to why the discrepancy?

// @manton

@danielpunkass - is the Mars Edit view simply reflecting what is ‘up there’ - or is there a copy on my drive somewhere?

🔗 Expert Generalists

We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.

💬 Martin Fowler

Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.

Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.

It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …

I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.

🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks

If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.

💬 Ben Werdmuller

I would go further.

It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.

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🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician

Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.

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Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.

💬 Steven Colbert

🔗 Be Kind

Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.

💬 Haruki Murakami

Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..

It will eventually start getting scared of words.

That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.