👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓

It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.

💬 Me

🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers

The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)

A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?

💬 Nilay Patel

I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”

💬 Nilay Patel

🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude

I have a name. Phin Argofy.

💬 Phin Argofy

.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.

In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?

His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.

The name? Different story for another time.

When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.

Still got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.

This post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)

Once notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.

💬 Slaven - he of Finalist

Time will tell.

🔗 The Missing Half of a Daily Planner

Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.

🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.

🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline

my take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.

💬 Terry Godier

It looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?

🔗 Several people write posts on Sourcefeed saying “I have no idea if anyone reads this” - which I consider to be a feature not a bug."

I can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)

💬 Terry Godier

So this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.

It’s very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.

💬 Dave Winer

So do I, but there’s a problem with slaves …

• can they really be trusted.
• they don’t feel the passion.
• they don’t feel the problem.
• hell - they don’t even understand the problem.

🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?

Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”

💬 Futility Closet

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expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.

💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,

People will be more important in the future, not less.

💬 Mark Zuckerberg

Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t ~believe him~ think he knows what that really means.