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💬🏢 To be declared a category king .. you need to be taking 70 percent - ish of all revenue and profits of said category. If nobody in a category is making a profit does that mean there is no category king❓Wondering on behalf of Sam, Dario et al.

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💬🏢 That still doesn’t mean free - which is where I think people get confused. And for an extended thought ‘free’ is too often measured in not spending money. Associate your time with money and you start to realise how much free costs.

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👁️🚧 Experiment.

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👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

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A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.

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💬 🔗 Going Electric

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Which is why we all, as people who design culture whether we realize it or not, need to keep thinking about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and perhaps most importantly, how not to get too comfortable with where we currently are. 

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💬 On the packaging front:

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Apple completed the transition to 100 percent fiber-based packaging last year, fulfilling its pledge to remove plastic from packaging by 2025. Over the past 10 years, Apple engineers and designers have developed alternatives to common packaging components, replacing plastic screen protectors and trays with versions made with recycled or responsibly sourced paper. They also innovated to make packaging more recyclable, designing the largest boxes, like for the new Studio Display XDR, to collapse into smaller pieces that fit into a home recycling bin. Apple avoided more than 15,000 metric tons of plastic in the past five years alone – the equivalent of about 500 million plastic water bottles.

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💬 I just checked hell .. it still seems to be the usual inferno .. so I guess he sees what is coming and starting his pivot spin. You’ll see a lot of it this year.

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💬🏢 Don’t just ‘Think Different’. Be Different.

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💬🎵🏢 Careful what you measure … life is a game .. life is gamed.

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💬🏢🕋 People - Process - THEN - Technology

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💬

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💬🏢 I often reference Brand’s ‘Pace Layers’ when attempting to reconcile ‘the speed of tech’ with the ‘speed of government’. It helps.

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💬🏢 Written a while back and even more relevant today.

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**Extension thought:**The ‘buyer’s journey’ is not the same as the ‘customer’s journey’ and both are totally different to whatever sales process that someone in your business has mapped out.

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🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …

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🔗 Try it in the Car

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The collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.

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💬 Matthew Lyon

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Thank you sir.

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💬💯 Sometimes quoting someone is just not enough. This is one such occasion ….

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This is the original post:

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🔗 The Courage to Stop - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

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🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.

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🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.

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Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.

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💬 John Gruber

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👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.

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    Using AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts

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    Using ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t

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    🔗 At AI Dinners - Template Suggestion

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LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.

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💬 Hunter Walk

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💬🏢 It’s not easy … got the t-shirt and everything … but I am sure that the other way is not right. Then again, different for the sake of different is even worse. You know what I’m talkin’ about❗️

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💬🎵

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💬

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💬🏢 People …Process … THEN Technology

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👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet

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The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.

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💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919

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🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan

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You unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.

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💬 Peggy Noonan

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👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …

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🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.

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💬 Ben Werdmuller

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🔗 Newbird.AI! Or Loony.AI

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The suffix was the investment thesis.

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💬 Om Malik

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💬 not sure when I captured this one .. but in my notes, clearly in a ‘phlippant’ mood, I wrote: “Give them phones to scroll!”

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💬 a classic that flowed into my daily feeds this morning, reminding all Kiwis and Brits to be careful out there.

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💬

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To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.

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💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.

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👁️ Pots and kettles spring to mind …

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Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.

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💬 you know who …

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💬 One of the original artists in the history of Structured Thought. Flatland was published in 1884.

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🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime - a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe

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And if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine.

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💬 John Gruber

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😂😂😂😂

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💬

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🔗 Attention and effort

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Attention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off.

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💬 Seth Godin

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🔗 A quote from Giles Turnbull

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I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.

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💬 Giles Turnbull

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🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents

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That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.

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💬 Simon Willison

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

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💬 Bertrand Russell

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When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.

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📼🎵🔗Fast Forward to 2020

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Hold My Beer

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💬 Rammstein

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🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

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Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.

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💬 Ben Werdmuller

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You’re absolutely right—I reverted to the quick-fix approach and missed the bigger strategy.

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💬 Claude

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.. is a recurring message these days - I need to work out why it doesn’t keep this information in ‘mind’. Annoying.

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🔗 The end of the content shortage

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The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.

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💬 Seth Godin

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Here’s willing it to be so.

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In his State of the Union address in January, Donald Trump identified a problem for America: “We’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it.” To give him his due, he seems to have found a solution.

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💬 Andrew Palmer, Executive Editor - The Economist

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… as Doug wrote …

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🔗Paperwork - Futility Closet

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

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💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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🔗 The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!

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I’ll be damned if I am not interested. And I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what he does next. That doesn’t mean I need to gulp his MBA-speak as wisdom. I will call the game as I see it being played.

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💬 Om

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-15T13:56:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/15/the-return-of-travis-kalanick.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/lettres-dcoratives-is-a-celebration.html", "content_html": "

💬 Lettres Décoratives: Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters and Vibrant Letterforms

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I have gotten through the last 15 years or so not even coming across the expression ‘Fin de Siècle’ - much less using it in anger - and now three times in less than a week!

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I blame @mitchwagner

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💬 Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’.

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:53:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/stewart-brand-on-musk-bezos.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/the-essence-of-a-machine.html", "content_html": "

💬 The Essence of a Machine - Om

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I can’t remember when I used the words “cute” and “want” about a computer in the same breath.

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\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:32:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/the-essence-of-a-machine.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/experian-and-transunion-are-leaving.html", "content_html": "

💬 Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports

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I will never understand how these companies became so powerful. Yes - I have read explanations. No - I don’t understand how they were allowed.

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:30:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/experian-and-transunion-are-leaving.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/12/132830.html", "content_html": "

💬

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💬

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-03-12T12:27:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/12/132757.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/08/youre-right-to-call-me.html", "content_html": "
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You’re right to call me out.

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💬 Claude

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… too right buster❗️

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-08T10:58:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/08/youre-right-to-call-me.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/06/macbook-neo-apple-makes-a.html", "content_html": "

🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich

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To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.

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💬 Andy Ihnatko

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In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includees the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-06T10:15:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/06/macbook-neo-apple-makes-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/04/ive-never-had-the-experience.html", "content_html": "

🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.

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To just choose one from the post …

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💬 Andy Ihnatko

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-04T13:41:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/04/ive-never-had-the-experience.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/01/it-fails-very-strange-to.html", "content_html": "

🔗 It feels very strange to …

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Yeah … no

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… that’s not what it’s about.
\n… Iraq worked out so well.
\n… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
\n… the Ukrainians.
\n… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
\n… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
\n… 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.
\n… it’s about the oil … read history.
\n… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.

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#Winning

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💬 Charlie Sheen

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-01T08:43:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/01/it-fails-very-strange-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/27/todays-readwise-is-a-full.html", "content_html": "

💬 Today’s Readwise is a Full House ….

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\n", "date_published": "2026-02-27T06:56:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/27/todays-readwise-is-a-full.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/careers-are-jungle-gyms-not.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Careers are jungle gyms, not ladders

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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.

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💬 Guy Kawasaki

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T21:16:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/careers-are-jungle-gyms-not.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/26/the-problem-is-in-my.html", "content_html": "
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The problem is in my positioning function. It’s setting inline styles that override the CSS, breaking the show/hide logic.

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💬 Claude

\n

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

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-26T08:53:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/26/the-problem-is-in-my.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/20/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html", "content_html": "
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Here’s a funny thing … now there’s a funny thing

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💬 Max Miller

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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.

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Thoughts as to why the discrepancy?

\n

// @manton

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

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-20T11:59:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/20/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/19/expert-generalists-we-are-thus.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Expert Generalists

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

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💬 Martin Fowler

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

\n

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’.

\n

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

\n

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

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

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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.

\n
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💬 Ben Werdmuller

\n

I would go further.

\n

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

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-19T08:03:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/subscriptions-are-rising-at-big.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/18/115843.html", "content_html": "

💬

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🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician

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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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➕

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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.

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💬 Steven Colbert

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-18T10:35:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/18/cbs-pulls-colbert-interview-with.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/17/072812.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Be Kind

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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.

\n
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💬 Haruki Murakami

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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 ..

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It will eventually start getting scared of words.

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

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-17T06:28:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/072812.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/goldman-sachs-boosts-apple-inc.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends

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NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.

\n
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💬 Horace Dediu

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‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T16:00:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/goldman-sachs-boosts-apple-inc.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/14/i-feel-i-might-have.html", "content_html": "

I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.

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🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian

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Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.

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💬 Nick Cave

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-14T15:57:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/14/i-feel-i-might-have.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/ai-delivers-greater-value-when.html", "content_html": "
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AI delivers greater value when it reduces friction, simplifies interaction, and improves workflow efficiency.

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💬 Geoffrey Moore

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T12:41:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/ai-delivers-greater-value-when.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/takaichi-walked-away-from-the.html", "content_html": "
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Takaichi walked away from the Feb. 8 vote with a historic landslide, securing a rare two-thirds supermajority in the lower house for her Liberal Democratic Party. The LDP went into the day with 198 seats in the 465-seat chamber and walked out with 316. That’s the largest mandate in Japan’s postwar history, bigger even than any won by Shinzo Abe, Takaichi’s late mentor. The LDP can now override vetoes from the upper house, where it lacks a majority. After cycling through revolving-door prime ministers for years, Japan has elected its most powerful leader since World War II.

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💬 Ian Bremmer

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T09:11:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/takaichi-walked-away-from-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/a-complex-system-contrary-to.html", "content_html": "
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A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies. The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

\n
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💬 Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Structured Thought Meets Music Meets The Business Equation … and probably more besides.

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You say yes, I say no,
\nYou say stop, and I say go, go, go,
\nOh no.
\nYou say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello,

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💬 Paul McCartney

\n

First song from Paul after Brian Epstein (no relation) passed on to the next stage of his life …

\n

Wikipedia:

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“It’s such a deep theme in the universe, duality – man woman, black white, ebony ivory, high low, right wrong, up down, hello goodbye – that it was a very easy song to write.” McCartney also said that, in “Hello, Goodbye”, he was promoting “the more positive side of the duality”.

\n
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Which all came to mind this morning reading 🔗 this post by Manton Reece who observed …

\n
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If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise?

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To which I reply by quoting some lines from a less talented group of songwriters - and yet seem pertinent …

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Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top

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💬 Those that believe they have won.

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and

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The world is my oyster

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💬 Everyone else.

\n

.. or perhaps more simply - as one door closes - another opens.

\n

Corollary - not for everyone (the corpses of software companies that litter the technology freeway is testament to that.) … so what do we do?

\n

\n \n

\n

The shift that Manton is describing is right - but IMHO falls short of what a business needs in The Age of Engagement which is pretty much what I have been writing about for a while now ….

\n

Two Foundational Posts

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🔗 The Age of Reason Is Over

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🔗 The Age of Experience is Emerging

\n

Just this past week

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🔗 Coherence Is The New Moat

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🔗 Engagement Platforms as Coherence Infrastructure

\n

Bonus Post

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🔗 Marketing in 2025 (and 2026 it turns out)

\n

From a marketing perspective - the 4Ps have been part of the lexicon of any marketeer on this planet since before I was born. But now …

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say goodbye

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… to the 4Ps: Price, Place, Product and Promotion

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say hello

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… to The 4Es : Exchange, Ease, Essence and Experience

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Price gives way to Exchange
\nNot what you charge. What you trade. Mutual value.

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Place gives way to Ease
\nNot where you are. How frictionless you make it. If engagement hurts, product dies.

\n

Product gives way to Essence
\nNot what you make. Who you are - through your customer’s eyes. Stop second guessing.

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Promotion gives way to Experience
\nNot what you say. What they feel. Their perception is your only reality.

\n

OR

\n

You say ‘goodbye’ to ‘Product Efficient Supply Chains’ while I say ‘hello’ to ‘Customer Effective Demand Networks’

\n

(Those are two thought threads of mine that go back to the early oughts and are integral to The Business Equation.)

\n

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When everyone can ship code (I know, I know), technical execution becomes table stakes - but I think although Manton’s words are different to my words he is recognising the shift that I keep describing … constraint has moved from PRODUCT to EXPERIENCE.

\n

So - back to Manton’s list;

\n\n

These aren’t the ‘other aspects’ of running a software business. They are now the primary aspects. Code is just infrastructure. In fact just last week, my friend and partner for the development of the apps we are building said just last week.

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The cost of code might be coming down - but people don’t buy code - they buy software.

\n
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Actually - being who I am I think they are buying what the software will do for them - but that’s my marketing lens. What Tony was hitting on is right from th pot of what marketeers used to call ‘Full Product’.

\n

The 4Ps assumed scarcity of products, distribution and information, whilst the 4Es assumed abundance where engagement is the only moat.

\n

Manton’s list is actually part of The 4Es.

\n\n

The Age of Engagement isn’t coming. It’s here. Code is just catching up.

\n

and clearly - Jimi was way ahead of his time! (But we knew that already. Right?)

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If you want to set some time to explore how all this can be used to help your business transition into the ‘Age of Experience’. 📅 Let’s Talk

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Alright. Your system, your logic.

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💬 Claude

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Darn Tootin'

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💬 Me

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💬

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Via John Naughton:

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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

\n
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💬 Viktor Borge

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💬

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💬

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The Super Bowl is this weekend, and I really don’t care who wins it, but I’ll watch the game anyway — because that’s what we do, right?

\n
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💬 Dan Lewis

\n

Actually no Dan. We don’t.

\n

We make conscious decisions to make our short lives worth something.

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💬

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🔗 Coherence Is the New Moat

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Another post restructure - and reissue.

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🔗 Robin Sloan - Pace layers

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As you climb the pace layers, your sources of infor­ma­tion get fewer and far­ther between.

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The Full Quote

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As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get fewer and farther between. Everyone has something to say about nature. But to remain relevant in the higher and more turbulent layers you must update rapidly, and be correct more often than not. Few people are worth listening to about commerce or fashion. Most people’s ideas are simply out of date. At a certain point you reach the edge of what is known or talked about at all, and there are only a few people left. I will find you there, among the researchers, the reporters, the shamans and the spies.

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💬 ‘Deepfates’

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I was referencing 🖇️🔎Pace Layers a few times through 2024 - and it very much ties to some of my recent thinking. More to come as I fold it all together.

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💬

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💬

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💬

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-02-04T13:15:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/141524.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/we-were-pleased-to-see.html", "content_html": "
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We were pleased to see the Mac install base reach another all-time high, with nearly half of customers who purchased a Mac being new to the product.

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💬 \"Tim 🍎\"

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🤯

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T14:19:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/we-were-pleased-to-see.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/sidenote-why-in-the-world.html", "content_html": "
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Sidenote: Why in the world is Meta’s VP of comms doing this on Twitter/X, not Threads, which continues to grow?

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💬 John Gruber

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Another Sidenote: Why in the world is anyone on Twitter at all.. sorry ‘that’s where my audience is’ doesn’t cut it.

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Get Off .. or continue to support all the depravity … all of it .. even the bits you can’t see .. it’s still there. Like racism in America before Tяump .. it didn’t magically appear .. it’s just come out of the shadows.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-29T07:15:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/sidenote-why-in-the-world.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/28/when-your-company-is-worth.html", "content_html": "
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When your company is worth more than most nations, you cannot afford principles that inconvenience presidents. The moral equation changes. What once seemed unthinkable becomes necessary. Cook learned this the hard way after he skipped a presidential photo op and was thrown back under the tariff bus. So now he shows up. He sits in the front row. He claps when expected. This is what happens when valuation becomes destiny.

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💬 Om

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-28T14:27:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/28/when-your-company-is-worth.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/145126.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:51:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/145126.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/an-update-to-this-published.html", "content_html": "

🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021

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I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.

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💬 Lindsay Graham

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\n

“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”

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💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)

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🔗 via Austin Kleon

\n

I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:16:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/perhaps-we-really-do-live.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/there-is-no-advantage-that.html", "content_html": "
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There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.

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💬 Dave Winer

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🔗 Source

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via Mathew Ingram

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:44:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/via-mathew-ingram.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/the-ios-adoption-rate-is.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years

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But the overwhelming majority of Apple users — especially iPhone users — just let their devices update automatically. They might like iOS 26’s changes, they might dislike them, or they might not care or even notice. But they just let their software updates happen automatically — and they will form the entirety of their opinions regarding iOS 26 after it’s running on their iPhones.

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💬 John Gruber

\n

Have to say I need to adjust my feeds that seem to be swamped with how bad xxx26 is. Talk about ‘first world problems’.

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💬 Good to be reminded sometimes.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-20T14:22:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/20/good-to-be-reminded-sometimes.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/17/around-hunter-volunteered-for-psychedelic.html", "content_html": "
\n

Around 1962, Hunter volunteered for psychedelic chemical experiments at Stanford University, research covertly sponsored by the CIA in its MKULTRA program: other participants included Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, and then report on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him. After a friend attempted to dissuade him, he said, “It’ll be fun! I’ll take my typewriter and no telling what’ll come out.”\nThis incident was the first substantial experience any of the Grateful Dead had with psychedelic drugs, and the creative surge he experienced would prove influential on their collective outlook. Around this time, Hunter was briefly involved with Scientology, and also struggled with addiction to methamphetamine and speed, which drove him to move briefly to Los Angeles and then to New Mexico. Some of his hallucinations later inspired his lyrics, such as those to “China Cat Sunflower”.

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💬 Wikipedia

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💬 Word

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\n

“The fact that Trump is accepting the medal says something about him as a person: a classic braggart who wants to adorn himself with other people’s awards and work,” Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, former finance minister and the current leader of the Center Party, told NRK.

\n
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💬 Bloomberg

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-17T07:53:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/17/the-fact-that-trump-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/16/mad-magazine-autostereogram-cutecore-the.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore

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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.\nWe should plan accordingly.

\n
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💬 Seth Godin

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🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.

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🖇️ Used this quote before.

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There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.

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💬 Keisei Tagami

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.. and as I have said myself

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death defines life.

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💬 \"\"

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10T07:12:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/081213.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/09/153916.html", "content_html": "

💬 \"\"

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-09T14:39:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/09/153916.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/08/to-be-an-enemy-of.html", "content_html": "
\n

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.

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💬 Henry Kissinger

\n

… via John Naughton

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-07T14:43:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/07/154340.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/i-have-been-thinking-about.html", "content_html": "
\n

I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.

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These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\\i: the outside has a new way in.

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We are not, and have never been, the exclusively self-determining, independent beings that have been given the run of the world. We are something else, a part of nature, a part of everything and feeling a connection, shaking our booty and giving and receiving some love can help us find our place - and put a big smile on our faces.

\n
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💬 Peter Gabriel

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\n

The leading edge is defined by the fact that most of us aren’t on it.

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💬 Seth Godin

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T08:30:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/093053.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/03/092935.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-03T08:29:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/03/092935.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/135454.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T12:54:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/135454.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/02/what-if-ed-zitron-is.html", "content_html": "

🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?

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Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.

\n
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💬 Don Marti

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-02T11:06:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/02/what-if-ed-zitron-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/165252.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T15:52:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/165252.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/110930.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T10:09:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/110930.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/daring-fireball-photoshop-and-the.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG

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Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.

\n
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💬 John Gruber

\n

It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.

\n

Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:02:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/daring-fireball-photoshop-and-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/my-sense-of-the-right.html", "content_html": "

😂😂😂

\n
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My sense of the “right” way to handle this puzzle is to think of it as a network and use some powerful result from graph theory to solve it in an instant. But since the only thing I know about graph theory is that it exists, I went about it differently.

\n
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💬 Dr. Drang

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I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.

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Previous Years

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📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different

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📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend

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📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend

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📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice

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📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous

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📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)

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📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful

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Everything can change on a new years day
\nEverything can change on a new years day
\nEverything can change on a new years day
\nAnd everything changed on a New Year’s Day

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💬 Rage Against The Machine

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\n

🔗📼 Rage Against The Machine

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\n

Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise.

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💬 Aaron Levie

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via 🔗Simon Willison

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-31T09:13:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/31/jevons-paradox-is-coming-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/31/anyone-who-honestly-wants-to.html", "content_html": "
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Anyone who honestly wants to be young again has never lived, only imagined, only masqueraded.

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💬 Ursula K. Le Guin

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Not My Words - but those of ‘The 🔗Jax’ - over on 🔗 LinkedIN

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(Lightly edited to make sense in a blog post.)

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“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”

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💬 Jax Harrison

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Keeping #CHILDREN - babies literally safe online should be #EVERYONE ’s priority. Sadly this causes so much damage - and I am so sad for the loss of this young boy 13 year old -Levi and for the family who lost him.

\n

Maybe Australia has it right.

\n

Children don’t have the wisdom or knowledge to know what is real and what isnt - or how to cope when things go wrong…

\n

Parents are not sure how to explain it or talk to their children about it - the dangers of hashtag#chatbots and #sexbots and #sextortion to a child of 13years old. And not only that - because it is supposed to be safe for them to use the Apps. Is it awkward to tell your 13yr old these things? Yes, but now a more than necessary and urgent conversation to have.

\n

Why? It is because of the consequences of lack of hashtag#safety parameters of private companies - who are larger than many nations - who are deciding the fate of our #CHILDREN and their futures - without the appropriate intervention and guidance from lawmakers and governments or even counsellors. Without full disclosure of what they are allowing.

\n

Do you really think if there was a warning label like on a pack of cigarettes - every time you or your child logged in to the App - if there was a flashing for 30 seconds a warning ‼️ “Use of this app may expose children and others to harmful sextortion, potentially harmful relationship bots, cutting and self harm groups and challenges, radicalisation, bullying, and may cause severe anxiety, self harm and suicidal thoughts … everyone would be so keen on it - NO. Of course not - parents and teens would think twice.

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And that’s the smallest step the companies could do. It would cost them nothing … just less children on their platform.

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Instead they just take the risk and do nothing to make it better because it doesn’t cost that much to them.

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The value of collecting our children’s data is worth more than that. Think about it. Read that again.

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Somehow as a human society we are abdicating responsibility of the protection of our …

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#childrensrights
\n#childrensminds
\n#mentalhealth
\n#hearts

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… to private companies who have #profit first and #safeguarding second.

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We cannot trust them to do the right thing - because “when a leopard shows you its spots you should believe them”.

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Their actions tell you who they are.

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#OnlineSafety prevents hashtag#OfflineHarms and companies like hashtag#Instagram hashtag#Meta can and should do better.

\n
\n

“We should all do the right thing by and for our children - they are our future and deserve to be protected.”

\n
\n

Governance and regulatory accountability and actions don’t hinder innovation they #savelives - our children’s lives.

\n

#thefuturefound
\n#onlinesafety
\n#AI
\n#governance
\n#regulation
\n#policy
\n#children
\n#stopchildtraffic
\n#socialmedia

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-30T10:09:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/30/we-should-all-do-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/111240.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-28T10:12:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/111240.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/ivebeen-thinking-a-lot-about.html", "content_html": "
\n

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the “need to publish” and to constantly “put out content” have contributed to the overall devaluation of the media ecosystem, turning attention into a piñata for monetization. It’s prompted me to work ona longer piece, which I’ll keep refining for a few more days before sharing it with the readers. 

\n
\n

💬 Om Malik

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-28T07:24:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/ivebeen-thinking-a-lot-about.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/the-empire-of-money-war.html", "content_html": "

The empire of money, war, and fire
\ncuts across the land.

\n

There are in the same country
\nshepherds watching their flocks.

\n

💬 Wendell Berry

\n

via @ajay … thank you.

\n

Both.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-28T07:23:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/the-empire-of-money-war.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/in-order-for-news-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

In order for news to have a chance of working we need to be using only the web, commodity services that are completely replaceable, and we keep our own writing, and route it to everyone who’s interested via the open protocols of the web. That’s the only way people with important ideas and info can get it out there.

\n
\n

💬 DaveWiner

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-28T07:16:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/in-order-for-news-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/28/the-foundation-had-fallen-because.html", "content_html": "
\n

… the foundation had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.

\n
\n

💬 Mike Pence

\n

No .. I didn’t expect to be quoting him this morning either.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-28T07:05:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/28/the-foundation-had-fallen-because.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/email-design-is-a-special.html", "content_html": "
\n

Email design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.

\n
\n

💬 Brett Tapsra

\n

… tell me about it.

\n

🔗 Create Email Campaigns from Markdown

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T09:39:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/email-design-is-a-special.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/25/bubbles-produced-from-a-machine.html", "content_html": "
\n

… bubbles produced from a machine while the show was in progress stained all the furniture in the hall. As a consequence, Pink Floyd were banned from ever playing there again.

\n
\n

💬 Wikipedia

\n

The Hall?

\n

The Queen Elizabeth Hall.

\n

Halcyon Days.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-25T11:53:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/25/bubbles-produced-from-a-machine.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/24/the-minutes-report-on-cecot.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge

\n
\n

Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year.

\n
\n

💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge

\n

.. via @gruber ….

\n

🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

\n

And of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-24T08:49:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/24/the-minutes-report-on-cecot.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html", "content_html": "
\n

Take Apple News vs iBooks - they’re both reading apps, so why is it necessary to have two separate apps? Because they’re extremely different reading and writing experiences and it doesn’t make sense to lump them into a one-size-fits-all approach.

\n
\n

💬 Michael Tsai

\n

Nailed it and why I don’t';

\n\n

BUT anything I highlight, save, make a note on/in ANY of the things I am reading, watching or listening to all ends up in the same place.

\n

🔗 MORE

\n

(Another discovery in ‘Drafts’ March 2023)

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T14:59:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/for-the-last-years-many.html", "content_html": "
\n

For the last 15 years, many companies chased ‘digital transformation.’ But if we’re honest, most of us didn’t transform, we digitised. We took analog processes and made them digital. We moved pieces to the cloud. We modernised within silos. We upgraded the present - instead of redesigning the future for a digital-first world.

\n
\n

💬 Brian Solis

\n

**\nI have a draft that I clearly need to finish that is exactly along this theme although I call it a ‘**data-lead people first world’.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T14:15:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/for-the-last-years-many.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/132144.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T12:21:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/132144.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Land War or Self-Terrorism?

\n
\n

In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.

\n
\n

💬 Timothy Snyder

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T09:07:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/18/the-opposite-of-the-drive.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know

\n

Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….

\n
\n

Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle

\n
\n

💬 WaPo

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-18T08:16:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/the-opposite-of-the-drive.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/17/the-information-gets-its-facts.html", "title": "The Information Gets Its Facts Wrong - Again", "content_html": "
\n

The appointment is reminiscent of Meta Platforms’ hiring of former British Prime Minister Nick Clegg as a global affairs executive in 2018 …

\n
\n

💬 Martin Peers - The Information - talking about Osborne and OpenAI

\n

No he wasn’t. He was ‘Deputy’ PM - a bit like ‘Winnie’ and ‘Seymour’ in New Zealand at the moment (a thank you from the dominant party that still couldn’t get a majority on its own - so formed a coalition.)

\n

Nick was so good at his job that in 5 short years as Deputy he took the LibDems from 57 seats to just 8. After which he lost his position, resigned from party leader and a year later lost his local election. After that the Brits made him a ‘Knight’ in the UK and Zuck made him whatever it was called for Meta.

\n

Imagine how far he could have gone if he was a success.

\n

( 🔗 The Link

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-17T13:43:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/17/the-information-gets-its-facts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/16/remember-when-we-so-concerned.html", "content_html": "

Remember when we so concerned that all our ‘house data’ from Roomba was being sent over to Google - without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’.

\n

🖇️ Me - 2018

\n

… and then onto 2022 when Amazon got involved …

\n

Fast Forward to 2025 - and …

\n

🔗 Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears

\n

Turns out all your data is now all wrapped up and safe and over in China.

\n
\n

The Amazon acquisition wasn’t anti-competitive — it was iRobot’s last chance to remain competitive.

\n
\n

💬 [Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/roomba-maker-irobot-declares-bankruptcy)

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-16T16:40:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/16/remember-when-we-so-concerned.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/11/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Land War or Self-Terrorism?

\n
\n

In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.

\n
\n

💬 Timothy Snyder

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T12:36:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/11/land-war-or-selfterrorism-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/11/tump-and-the-tump.html", "title": "Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик", "content_html": "

Consider that in the wake of the national security announcement from Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик

\n
\n

What’s most striking to me about this document isn’t any specific policies, but what it reveals about values. Increasingly, the United States and Europe don’t share them. This reflects a change in America far more than a change in Europe. Trump sees a G-Zero world ruled by the law of the jungle, where might makes right and everything can be bought. For all its flaws, institutional quirks, and bureaucratic sclerosis, the European Union stands for something else: rule of law, liberal democracy, human rights, multilateralism. You can roll your eyes at that list all you want, but it’s the foundation of the entire European project. Heck, it’s why America built the transatlantic alliance in the first place. (The alternative, two world wars, didn’t work out too well for anyone.) And it’s now in direct tension with what Washington is selling.

\n
\n

💬 Ian Bremmer

\n

🔗 Full Piece which also includes this reminder …

\n
\n

The only time NATO’s Article 5 has ever been invoked was by the United States, after September 11, 2001. Every European ally came to America’s defence despite different approaches to free speech, regulation, and countless other policy disagreements. They showed up, fought, and died alongside Americans in Afghanistan.

\n
\n

💬 Ian Bremmer

\n

So … Europe is the enemy, China - despite rhetoric seem to be closer and Russia - with no cards but all the influence - blood brothers.

\n

I would note that …

\n

Together, the EU countries hold more US debt than Japan and China put together - to the tune of $2 maybe 2.5 trillion. - well above twice that of China - and that doesn’t include the UK who is in the same ball park as China all by itself.

\n

All that wringing of hands a few months ago about China selling its debt and now we have this.

\n

Of course - they didn’t.

\n

No economist in this house - but I do wonder when a country - any country - will get to do something radical rather than putting up with this shit.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T10:45:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/11/tump-and-the-tump.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/if-your-marketing-isnt-working.html", "content_html": "

🔗 If your marketing isn’t working

\n
\n

If you’re struggling selling the thing you made, it’s worth reconsidering the audience, the promise and the change you seek to make–and then be honest with your team about whether your offering is actually remarkable, or just the best you could do with what you had.

\n
\n

💬 Seth Godin

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T08:44:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/if-your-marketing-isnt-working.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/10/i-was-once-out-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

I was once out to dinner several years ago with about ten really well-known drummers, all of whom I have enormous respect for and admire. For some reason, we got onto the subject of Van Morrison. One of them said, “Hands up everyone who’s been fired by Van Morrison!” And nine out of ten put their hands up into the air. The only time I played with him, I wasn’t being paid, so he couldn’t fire me. Things like that definitely bring you together to the brotherhood.

\n
\n

💬 Nick Mason

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-10T08:43:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/10/i-was-once-out-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/090050.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T08:00:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/090050.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/08/091941.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-08T08:19:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/08/091941.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/08/091905.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-08T08:19:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/08/091905.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/06/162722.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-06T15:27:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/06/162722.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/06/162710.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-12-06T15:27:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/06/162710.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/i-never-met-him-but.html", "content_html": "

💬 I never met him - but I sure do miss Kevin.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T10:25:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/i-never-met-him-but.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/112425.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T10:24:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/112425.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/000305.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-23T23:03:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/000305.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/22/chatgpt-running-through-some-stuff.html", "content_html": "

ChatGPT running through some stuff for me this morning - and one part it was really tripping up over - so i explained what was wrong - ‘thinking’ … long reply - embedded in there was

\n
\n

… the generated “dodecahedron” was definitely auditioning for a different role

\n
\n

💬 ChatGPT

\n

I dunno - I thought that was quite funny.

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-22T12:43:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/22/chatgpt-running-through-some-stuff.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/21/its-fine-that-google-stopped.html", "content_html": "
\n

It’s fine that Google stopped allowing for the creating of new links a while back, but there’s no reason they should ever stop redirecting existing links. The whole reason anyone might have used goo.gl instead of something like bit.ly is misplaced trust in Google. I trust Google with almost nothing long-term. Mark my words, they’re going to do this with Gmail accounts eventually.

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n
\n

What Gruber said.

\n
\n

💬 Me

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-21T08:13:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/21/its-fine-that-google-stopped.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/18/matthew-mcconaughey.html", "content_html": "

💬 Matthew McConaughey

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-18T10:55:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/18/matthew-mcconaughey.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/17/the-logical-end-of-mechanical.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n
\n

“The logical end of mechanical progress is to reduce the human being to something resembling a brain in a bottle. That is the goal towards which we are already moving, though, of course, we have no intention of getting there; just as a man who drinks a bottle of whisky a day does not actually intend to get cirrhosis of the liver.”

\n
\n\n

Via John Naughton

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-17T12:54:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/17/the-logical-end-of-mechanical.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/13/true-although-it-beggars-belief.html", "content_html": "

💬 True - although it beggars belief how big that gap can be - when all it takes to close it up is to think.

\n

But we don’t.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-13T22:51:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/13/true-although-it-beggars-belief.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/10/its-as-if-they-are.html", "content_html": "
\n

it’s as if they are living in different nations

\n
\n

💬 Scott Galloway

\n

Well hello … they are Scott - they are

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-10T13:32:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/10/its-as-if-they-are.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/08/i-like-the-thought-do.html", "content_html": "

💬I like the thought - do not like the cover.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-08T11:36:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/08/i-like-the-thought-do.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/i-did-watch-one-battle.html", "content_html": "

I did watch 🎬 One Battle After Another - and it was absolutely marvelous. I do my reviews on Lettrboxd which get pulled to my blog - not sure yet how top connect all that with all this new stuff on micro.blog to create a seamless experience - so until then .. you can get to the review here.

\n

One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½: john.philpin.com

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T17:36:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/i-did-watch-one-battle.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/forgery-xkcd-document-forgery.html", "content_html": "

Forgery

\n

💬🔗 xkcd: Document Forgery

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T14:18:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/forgery-xkcd-document-forgery.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/via-the-information-my-bold.html", "content_html": "

💬 via The Information (my bold)

\n
\n

Meta Platforms internally projected that 10% of its revenue last year, or $16 billion, came from ads promoting fraudulent products or schemes, Reuters reported. These include ads for fake products, sextortion schemes or crypto scams.

\n
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T14:09:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/via-the-information-my-bold.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/07/it-seems-so-long-ago.html", "content_html": "

💬😂 It seems so long ago. Doesn’t it? I do like Ezra’s take.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-07T10:12:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/07/it-seems-so-long-ago.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/06/113731.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-06T10:37:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/06/113731.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/06/113631.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-06T10:36:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/06/113631.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/06/113548.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-06T10:35:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/06/113548.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/06/113400.html", "content_html": "

💬 😂

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-06T10:34:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/06/113400.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/05/092012.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-05T08:20:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/05/092012.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/05/via-the-inimitable-john-naughton.html", "content_html": "

💬 via the inimitable John Naughton

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-05T08:18:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/05/via-the-inimitable-john-naughton.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/05/not-just-philosophers-its-everywhere.html", "content_html": "

💬 Not just philosophers. It’s everywhere.

\n

Too many people are in the camp of ‘I do it this way - so the rest of the world surely does it this way’.

\n

Just a couple of weeks ago hit this thought as we were iterating on a website.

\n

They just couldn’t understand why we ‘needed’ to do ‘all that’ …

\n
\n

“I’d never use it”.

\n
\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-05T08:15:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/05/not-just-philosophers-its-everywhere.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/05/he-certainly-did-i-also.html", "content_html": "

💬 He certainly did. I also am not a fan of his just because in his dotage he saw the light. It’s up there with living a life of debauchery and on your death bed suddenly you decide you actually do ‘believe’. No. And yes I did read the Frum piece - that’s what prompted the comment.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-05T08:08:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/05/he-certainly-did-i-also.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/05/090241.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-11-05T08:02:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/05/090241.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/28/reminds-me-of-a-douglas.html", "content_html": "

💬 Reminds me of a Douglas Adams thought - when I find it I will add it here,

\n\"\"\n

Later: Found It.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2025-10-28T11:22:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/28/reminds-me-of-a-douglas.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/28/074257.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-28T06:42:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/28/074257.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/26/220253.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-26T21:02:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/26/220253.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/26/204114.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-26T19:41:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/26/204114.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/18/113916.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-18T10:39:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/18/113916.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/17/094944.html", "content_html": "

💥💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-17T08:49:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/17/094944.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/04/this-was-publisehd-in-and.html", "content_html": "

This was publisehd in 2017 - and I am sure I saw something this pst week that announced essentially the same things as ‘news’. Ofc ourse I cant find it - but when I do - will come back here and add it.

\n

🖇️ Reuters Reporting Ten Year Old News As Something New. // 💬 John Philpin

\n
\n
\n", "date_published": "2025-10-04T13:46:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/04/this-was-publisehd-in-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/03/from-earlier-this-year-but.html", "content_html": "

From earlier this year - but an interesting reminder …

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🔗 Across and within | Seth’s Blog

\n

Talking about the tension between space and time leading to the rise and fall of societies and cultures.

\n

AI is different ..

\n
\n

my take is that Claude brings us everything it knows, and that its function is to help us go within, not across.

\n
\n

💬 Seth Godin

\n", "date_published": "2025-10-03T09:40:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/03/from-earlier-this-year-but.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/02/you-arent-going-to-cut.html", "content_html": "
\n

“You aren’t going to cut your way to innovation."

\n
\n

💬 Jony Ive to Brian Chesky.

\n", "date_published": "2025-10-02T08:25:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/02/you-arent-going-to-cut.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/29/if-apple-just-shipped-all.html", "content_html": "
\n

If Apple just shipped all EU iPhones with Android instead of iOS, all of their DMA problems would go away. EU iPhone users would lose all iOS exclusive features and Apple device Continuity integrations. EU consumers would effectively have no choice at all in mobile OSes. They’d just get to choose which brand of Android phone to buy.

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n

They should do it!

\n", "date_published": "2025-09-29T11:06:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/29/if-apple-just-shipped-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/27/and-to-do-that-is.html", "content_html": "

💬 .. and to do that is going to need said Fediverse to be a whole lot simpler than it is today. a WHOLE lot simpler. Friction is the killer.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-27T07:48:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/27/and-to-do-that-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/27/its-not-natural-is-it.html", "content_html": "

💬 Its not natural is it? Other than that snake that eats its own tail.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-27T07:46:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/27/its-not-natural-is-it.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/27/074541.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-27T07:45:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/27/074541.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/13/and-capped-off-with-this.html", "content_html": "

💬 and capped off with this opinion re coffee.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-13T16:02:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/13/and-capped-off-with-this.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/13/the-conversation-moves-on-from.html", "content_html": "

💬 The conversation moves on, from the poached egg to the toast.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-13T16:00:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/13/the-conversation-moves-on-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/13/not-wrong.html", "content_html": "

💬 Not wrong …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-09-13T15:52:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/13/not-wrong.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/20/061827.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-08-20T06:18:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/20/061827.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/03/actual-web-pages-from-didnt.html", "content_html": "

😂😂

\n
\n

Actual web pages from 1994 didn’t include nearly a megabyte of JavaScript to display 3 kilobytes of text.

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2025-08-03T10:24:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/03/actual-web-pages-from-didnt.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/02/follow-me-down-to-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

Follow me down to a place by the river
\nSold for my kidneys, sold for my liver
\nWhy so weedy, so fucking needy
\nThere’s no such thing as being too greedy

\n
\n

🎵💬

\n", "date_published": "2025-08-02T20:45:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/02/follow-me-down-to-a.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/02/good-to-see-it-in.html", "content_html": "

💬 good to see it in writing …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-08-02T08:48:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/02/good-to-see-it-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/20/142705.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-07-20T14:27:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/20/142705.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/20/on-the-road-was-published.html", "content_html": "

💬 On the Road was published nearly seventy years ago .. just to remind us all that history rhymes .. and arguably never changes.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-07-20T09:55:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/20/on-the-road-was-published.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/15/083413.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-07-15T08:34:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/15/083413.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/14/hcr.html", "content_html": "

💬 HCR …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-07-14T08:27:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/14/hcr.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/12/164249.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-07-12T16:42:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/12/164249.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/12/173123.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-06-12T17:31:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/12/173123.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/12/the-cheeto-in-chief-johannes.html", "content_html": "
\n

The Cheeto in Chief

\n
\n

💬 Johannes Ernst

\n

🤣 .. and clever in color and character

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-12T07:00:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/12/the-cheeto-in-chief-johannes.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/08/listening-to-this-kara-and.html", "content_html": "

💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.

\n

SYNCH

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-06-08T10:38:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/08/listening-to-this-kara-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","MyPodcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/02/135345.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-06-02T13:53:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/02/135345.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/02/131615.html", "content_html": "

💬 I sometimes use a personal guide to ‘people’ based on MSOffice (a clue to how seriously I take this). Everyone is part Powerpoint, part Excel and part Word.

\n\n

Percentages will vary. Came to mind when I saw this recent Gaping Void.

\n

\"Gaping

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-02T13:16:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/02/131615.html", "tags": ["Gaping Void","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/02/i-would-pay-extra-for.html", "content_html": "
\n

I would pay extra for cable service to have none of my money go to Fox News.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

Me too.

\n

Oh wait - I don’t have a cable service.

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-02T13:14:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/02/i-would-pay-extra-for.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/01/the-boss-released-his-first.html", "content_html": "

The Boss released his first album in ’73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ wasn’t quite the all American anthem they thought - including ‘Ronnie’, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the ‘people that don’t pay attention’.

\n

Clearly not.

\n
\n

Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans

\n
\n

💬 The Guardian

\n

The Guardian? Hell fire!

\n

It got me to thinking how true is that?

\n

My thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-01T10:46:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/01/the-boss-released-his-first.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/01/this-mornings-thoughts-about-getting.html", "content_html": "

💬 This Morning’s Thoughts About Getting Started

\n

\"A\"A\"A\"A\"A\"A\"A

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-01T09:44:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/01/this-mornings-thoughts-about-getting.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/i-do-like-jps-journies.html", "content_html": "

I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints

\n
\n

An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.

\n
\n

💬 'JP'

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T18:15:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/i-do-like-jps-journies.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "title": "About Those PE Companies", "content_html": "

If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I haven’t even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do - focussing too much (IMHO - on cost not value) .. but lets move on.

\n

Today’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.

\n

🔗🎙️ This podcast is from Decoder

\n
\n

Today, I’m talking with journalist Megan Greenwell about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. It comes out June 10th. It’s fantastic and maddening in equal measure. I highly recommend it.

\n
\n

💬 Nilay Patel - (Decoder)

\n

It is - not unnaturally - US centric - and there, for sure, the problem has been growing since KKR and Nabisco back in the 80s. (Made famous by Bryan Burrough’s Barbarians at the Gate book at the time.

\n

Moreover, there are plenty of people far more qualified than I to fill you in on PE. But I can’t resist setting a little scene …

\n

Though the podcast went into the history and problems of PE in the US, it did not explore one of the more insidious aspects of US PE companies - the ‘roll up’.

\n

Example, if you have a pet, you know who your local vet is … BUT - you may not know that between\n30 and 50 percent of those ‘local’ veterinary clinics are now owned by a PE company (sorry - hard to get the percentage more specific - but that is also why this can happen). This? Yes - that ownership was just 10%, 10 years ago.

\n

In 2020, NONE of the top 30 CPAs had taken any PE money. In 2025, 50% of the top 30 companies in the U.S.A. are either wholly owned or partially owned by PE.

\n

Today, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of ALL PE investments is into the US ‘consumer services’. Consumer Services is primarily what we call ‘Hospo/Supermarkets’ in New Zealand.

\n

Which brings me to my point. Our language - MY language has been for years; ‘Buy local.’ ‘Buy from the ‘little guy’.’ ‘Support your local community.’ I believe that this idea is very important in New Zealand - but if this takes off in New Zealand - how will we know who is REALLY local?

\n

Case in point …

\n

Transport … I have pushed against Uber since they started - and since arriving in New Zealand - pushed harder - pointing out that for every dollar spent on an Uber takes 25%(ish) not just out of the pockets of the taxi business - but out of the country - because Uber is essentially a Californian Tech company. Fast forward to today and .. scooters.

\n
\n

\"Dirty

\n
\n

When I got to Auckland Uber (via Beam) and Lime were the two scooter companies that I was aware of. Beam got thrown out for being ‘🔗 naughty’ and then there was one - ruling the waves until the end of last year when contracts were renewed and ‘Flamingo’ appeared. Look at their site and they describe themselves as being funded by ‘Private Equity’ - but drill in, there is no significant company in there that I can see - just a cabal of local (Kiwi) business people who seem to like Jacksen Love’s idea and invested. TBC - this is GREAT - I am not saying all PE is bad. And giving Lime a run for their money - I am in.

\n

So what about New Zealand - are we going to follow the US - or be different?

\n

I always hope and want for different, but I remain dubious.

\n

In NZ, the majority of PE are locally owned companies (maybe up to 20 of them) and less than a handful of International companies. (3?)

\n

It wouldn’t be fair to measure the number against the US, which operates at a radically different scale to New Zealand - so how about a ‘per capita’ measure.

\n

Turns out that

\n\n

In New Zealand - PE is roughly 4 times the size of the VC industry - pretty much the same ratio as in the US.

\n

I have no idea of the real power and influence of PE in New Zealand. Certainly the VC world is tiny compared to the US and not really made up of significant players - and valuations are a lot lower than what can be achieved in the US - which is part of the reason we tend to lose out great ideas and companies to the US. (Xero. RocketLabs. Soul Machines. Auror and … and .. and - still it is going on - most recently a tiny little company with big ideas - Grw.ai exported themselves to San Francisco.

\n

So - we do need to grow up - and value properly competitively. Otherwise - who are we kidding. BUT, if we do do that- how do we avoid the ‘greed trap. How do we avoid VCs and worse BIG PEs taking over our local businesses?

\n

Final case in point…

\n

Optimal Workshop - cool company down in Wellington, took a 🔗 PE investment of $10,000,000 (Kiwi) in 2022 from Pioneer Capital - Pioneer are a local PE company - all good.

\n

Here’s the thing. OW are in a very busy and focussed space (depending on how you cut the cloth) and Thoma Bravo - one of the larger US based PE companies ($US184 Billion in assets under management) - just before and just after the OW investment dropped well over 200 times that on a couple of their ‘competitors’ (its complicated) and merged them.

\n
\n

Customer experience is mission critical to organizations, and the combined company will be well-positioned to further market expansion, accelerate innovation, and provide even greater insights to its customers.

\n
\n

💬 A.J. Rohde, Senior Partner at Thoma Bravo

\n

🔗 Pioneer meanwhile owns a majority stake in OW ….

\n
\n\n(a share I can't reconcile based on publicly available information - because even a 50% stake would mean a valuation of 20Kiwi - post money - which would point to a revenue of 5Kiwi at a 4x multiple - but any public numbers (none of them from OW) had revenue at 5 to 7 million US - close to double.\n\n
\n

BUT - whatever the story - it is not a large number if Thoma wanted to buy them - particularly when you look at their customer base and their ability to grow globally from Wellington. Imagine the possibilities if they were on Market Street, San Francisco?

\n

Pioneer could easily collect a 5 times multiple to their investment from just 3 years ago if Thoma Bravo made them an offer, New Zealand would lose another great company, but the investors? They would be just fine. See how that goes? (Assuming that the New Zealand Commerce Commission approved it - they have stopped such sales before.)

\n

All hypothetical of course, though in the USA it would be a slam dunk decision (apologies for the Basketball reference). But this is the conundrum.

\n

Or is it? What do you think?

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-31T16:37:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","MyPodcasts","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/30/061122.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-30T06:11:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/061122.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/28/135717.html", "content_html": "

💬

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💬 Today’s Thoughts To Tickle The Taste Buds

\n\"\"\n\"\"\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-25T11:10:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/todays-thoughts-to-tickle-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/21/quick-reminder.html", "content_html": "

💬 Quick Reminder

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-21T06:09:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/21/quick-reminder.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/16/it-never-gets-old-and.html", "content_html": "

💬 It never gets old and always bares repeating …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-16T15:11:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/16/it-never-gets-old-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/16/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "content_html": "

When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.

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Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.

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Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.

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💬 Paul Nurse

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Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.

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Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.

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Oh well. We can dream.

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-16T08:29:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/16/when-i-was-a-lad.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/15/nicely-said.html", "content_html": "

💬 Nicely said.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-15T09:09:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/15/nicely-said.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/15/073118.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-05-15T07:31:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/15/073118.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/15/i-presume-that-the-uae.html", "content_html": "

I presume that The UAE has ‘taken one for the team’ and has become the 51st state and Canada is safe (at least until the clown decides we need a 52nd).

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This is the only explanation after learning today that the ‘500Bn Stargate initiative’ that Tяump announced 40 years ago just 4 months ago and was …

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focused on spending $500 billion on new facilities in the U.S. to help OpenAI develop advanced AI.

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💬 Anissa Gardizy - The InformatIon

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Thank you to UAE for helping to Make America Great Again.

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Next Stop - Saudi America (sic).

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-15T00:36:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/15/i-presume-that-the-uae.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/about-isaac-asimov.html", "title": "About Isaac Asimov", "content_html": "

🔗It’s not the colour of the pill that counts

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Happened to be talking about Asimov to a friend of mine the other day. We both had read ‘everything’ he had written - and certainly for me I know that will not be true, but definitely I hit the 45 to 50 books range - I can still picture them on my my book shelf in my teenage bedroom.

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BUT - we both agreed that the reading was a long time ago - and not sure if they would stand the test of time - based on writing quality (?) Not sure that is the right term.

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So interesting to see this today …

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among Isaac Asimov’s many faults, his total lack of interest in characters meant some deft footwork by the writers of the Foundation television series.

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💬 William Gallagher

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Yes - that is probably it. I don’t recall him being an ‘emotional’ writer, which as a teen I didn’t miss. It was the ideas that I was after.

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T12:27:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/about-isaac-asimov.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/why-today-april-th-should.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday

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The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."

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💬 Daniel Ellsberg

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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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💬 John Maynard Keynes

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(Via John Naughton)

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:32:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/markets-can-remain-irrational-longer.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/business-insider-may-have-published.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com

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My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..

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💬 John Gruber

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I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.

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Brother from another mother.

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T11:30:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/business-insider-may-have-published.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/04/gaping-void-commentary.html", "content_html": "

💬 Gaping Void Commentary

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\n", "date_published": "2025-05-04T10:36:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/04/gaping-void-commentary.html", "tags": ["Gaping Void","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/27/233526.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T23:35:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/27/233526.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/24/about-that-trade-war.html", "content_html": "

💬 About that trade war …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-24T05:47:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/24/about-that-trade-war.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/24/not-sure-how-far-back.html", "content_html": "

💬 Not sure how far back this quote goes. But on investment - even today, the unspoken request lurks … when are you moving here? If you happen to live outside the US .. good luck with the visa.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-24T05:47:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/24/not-sure-how-far-back.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/24/pretty-much-describing-pay-and.html", "content_html": "

💬 Pretty much describing Pay and Play .. not Purpise or Passion. And the commercially viable part .. isn’t that just a twist on others perceiving value. #Thinking

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-24T05:41:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/24/pretty-much-describing-pay-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/23/content-slop-end-of-but.html", "content_html": "

💬 content = slop. END OF.

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But if you present me an essay, book, article, video, pithy comment, observation, slice of humour .. that broadens my mind, my thinking or entertains me .. I’m all over it.

\n

Cannot wait for the filters to arrive. To allow me to train my AI to throw content into the trash.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-23T07:47:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/23/content-slop-end-of-but.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","Business Bytes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/23/just-a-reminder.html", "content_html": "

💬 Just a reminder.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-23T07:41:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/23/just-a-reminder.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/22/content-the-miracle-worker.html", "content_html": "

💬 Content - the miracle worker …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-22T23:00:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/22/content-the-miracle-worker.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","Business Bytes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/i-was-saved-by-god.html", "content_html": "
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“I was saved by God to make America great again”

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\n

💬 Tяump

\n

Maybe. Then again …

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\n

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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\n

💬 attributed to Sinclair Lewis - but actually unknown'

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Related ….🔗 A poem from 2011 by Terry Ehret

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T22:11:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/i-was-saved-by-god.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/21/maybe-there-is-an-i.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Maybe There Is an I in Team - Now I Know - writes Dan Lewis. He clearly doesn’t follow me. A reminder for all ….

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There might not be an ‘I’ in ’tEaM’ .. but there is definitely a ‘ME’

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💬 ME

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-21T10:16:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/maybe-there-is-an-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/will-this-be-the-chinese.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Will this be the Chinese Century?

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\n

Probably yes, though that may not mean what people expect.

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💬 Noah Smith

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T10:54:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/will-this-be-the-chinese.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/20/071353.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-20T07:13:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/071353.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/225447.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T22:54:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/225447.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/225412.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T22:54:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/225412.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/inspired-by-people-albert-einstein.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Albert Einstein

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T11:00:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/inspired-by-people-albert-einstein.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/18/inspired-by-people-swahili-proverb.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Swahili Proverb

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T11:00:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/18/inspired-by-people-swahili-proverb.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/17/openai-develops-xlike-social-feature.html", "content_html": "
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OpenAI Develops X-Like Social Feature in ChatGPT

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💬 Amir Efrati - The Information

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OpenAI is developing an X-like social feed within ChatGPT in part so that people can share how they’re using the chatbot to solve problems or create images, according to a person who has seen a prototype for employees.

\n

That person did not go on to say that it actually wasn’t anything to do with that and all about Sam wanting to stick it to the Muskrat.

\n

He also didn’t say that he felt that it made more sense to take a world class, massively popular LLM with 500 million weekly users and growing and adding a little chat app on the side rather than taking a declining, failing and money losing little chat app and expecting to add to its value by adding a second rate AI on the side.

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Question - why is it ‘X-like’ and not ‘Masto-like’ or ‘BlueSky-like’ or …

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-17T00:31:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/17/openai-develops-xlike-social-feature.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/16/inspired-by-people-steve-jobs.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Steve Jobs

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-16T06:38:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/16/inspired-by-people-steve-jobs.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/16/inspired-by-people-satya-nadella.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Satya Nadella

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-16T06:28:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/16/inspired-by-people-satya-nadella.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/14/written-in-he-died-in.html", "content_html": "

💬📚 Written in ‘63 - he died in ‘69 - book finally published in ‘80 .. so arguably he knew nought of our world today …

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And yet …

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Phil Jackson

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-14T08:21:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/14/inspired-by-people-phil-jackson.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/lovely-captures-the-mustiness-of.html", "content_html": "

💬📚Lovely. Captures the mustiness of some of my favourite bookstores over the years.

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💬 This 📚 is seven years old ….

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Tomorrow will be my 75th ‘Inspired By People’ post.

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My last? Push through to one hundred?

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I also just worked out that I am missing 5 images from the collection above … the problem is … which ones?

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Doesn’t seem to be an easy way to work that out.

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:07:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/tomorrow-will-be-my-th.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/inspired-by-people-ken-blanchard.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Ken Blanchard

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:44:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/inspired-by-people-ken-blanchard.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/i-suppose-if-the-only.html", "content_html": "
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I suppose if the only goal is to hurt China then shooting yourself in the foot, such that you no longer need to buy shoes for stumps, is a strategy you could choose, but that does nothing to help with what should be the primary motivation: shoring up the U.S. national security base.

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💬 Ben Thompson

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Via John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:31:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/i-suppose-if-the-only.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/it-doesnt-matter-what-you.html", "content_html": "
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It doesn’t matter what you didn’t do yesterday, it only matters what you do today and tomorrow.

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💬 William Gallagher

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:29:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/it-doesnt-matter-what-you.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/think-of-this-one-as.html", "content_html": "

💬 Think of this one as a bonus to the ‘Inspired By People’ series …

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mother Teresa

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Herman Melville

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Booker T. Washington

\n\"If\n

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Sounds’s About Right …

\n
\n

Anyone invested in a mutual fund that owns Tesla shares could be about to bail out Musk and his billionaire friends.

\n
\n

💬 Fred Lambert

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-09T15:06:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/09/soundss-about-right-anyone-invested.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/09/inspired-by-people-proverb-all.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Proverb

\n\"Many\n

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Simon Sinek

\n\"What\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-08T20:42:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/08/inspired-by-people-simon-sinek.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/the-fact-that-the-headlines.html", "content_html": "

The fact that the headlines in the main U.S.A. newspaper look like this …

\n

\"\"

\n

Speaks Volumes.

\n

🔗 See the full list on ‘today’s’ US Front Pages

\n

That it takes a film director (Ok - not ‘just’ a film director) to highlight it - speaks to even more problems. ( I would vouch he isn’t the only source - but I haven’t seen this many images on a single scroll …

\n

🔗 Massive Crowds Everywhere!

\n
\n

Everywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution

\n
\n

💬 Michael Moore

\n

Just 4 Random Images From His Post

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\n

🔗 As for the muskRAT - burn those companies to the ground.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Robert Ingersoll

\n\"We\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T08:53:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/inspired-by-people-robert-ingersoll.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/i-finally-looked-at-my.html", "content_html": "
\n

I finally looked at my nest egg and was shocked to see the new number. Even worse that the dollars in the account will buy even less as US currency loses its value as the flight to safety currency. It’s not a big surprise as the US behaves like a drunk Dunning-Kruger schoolyard bully. What is amazing, if you think about it, is that we aren’t having an emergency impeachment and trial to get him out of there.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-06T08:43:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/i-finally-looked-at-my.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/inspired-by-people-malcolm-x.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Malcolm X

\n\"When\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-06T08:00:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/inspired-by-people-malcolm-x.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/inspired-by-people-babe-ruth.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Babe Ruth

\n\"The\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-05T11:20:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/05/inspired-by-people-babe-ruth.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/inspired-by-people-author-all.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Author

\n\"The\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-04T07:11:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/inspired-by-people-author-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/the-future-of-work.html", "title": "The Future Of Work", "content_html": "\n

\"\"

\n

If you haven’t read 🔗📚 Ollie Henderson’s Future Work/Life you should. Excellent.

\n

This particular quote reminds me of something that Jason Fried wrote in one of his books ..

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\n

New technologies tend to imitate the old until people figure out what they’re really meant to do. Early websites were brochures. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages. Early TV shows were radio shows with pictures.

\n
\n

💬 Jason Fried

\n

So too work. We ‘broke’ work about 5 years ago - but slowly people (Corporates) are ‘fixing it’ (As in making us all go back to our old ways.) This is because they are still looking at work through the lens of the brochure/horseless carriage. It will be a while before we break it again - BUT - it will be broken but only once we have truly unpacked how the new world of work works.

\n

I’ve got ideas. I’ve got people. I’m excited for the future.

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:49:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/the-future-of-work.html", "tags": ["MyReviews-Books","? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-what-makes-an.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?'

\n
\n

Martin has a good list here of fundamentals, but ultimately, you know it when you see it.

\n
\n

💬 JohnGruber

\n

.. like ‘pornography’ and ‘art’ then?

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:09:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-what-makes-an.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-steve-kornacki-exits.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Daring Fireball: Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports

\n
\n

They might well just switch off the lights and lock the doors at MSNBC.

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n

He’s not alone with that thought. Comcast has been moving deck chairs for a while now.

\n

But this is more a demonstration of another media company bending the knee.

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T10:06:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/daring-fireball-steve-kornacki-exits.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/03/inspired-by-people-norman-shidlec.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Norman Shidlec

\n\"A\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-03T08:17:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/03/inspired-by-people-norman-shidlec.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/man-cannot-endure-his-own.html", "content_html": "
\n

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

\n
\n

💬 Ernest Becker

\n

… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Vala Afshar

\n\"We\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-02T06:44:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/inspired-by-people-vala-afshar.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/inspired-by-people-mattie-stepanek.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mattie Stepanek

\n\"Unity\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-04-01T23:42:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/inspired-by-people-mattie-stepanek.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/obvious-closes-the-door-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Obvious” closes the door to inquiry.
\n“Perhaps” opens it.

\n
\n

💬 Seth Godin

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-01T23:17:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/obvious-closes-the-door-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/134725.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T12:47:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/134725.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/134525.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T12:45:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/134525.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/134401.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T12:44:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/134401.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/inspired-by-people-paul-solarz.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Paul Solarz

\n\"Collaboration\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-31T12:42:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/inspired-by-people-paul-solarz.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/30/we-cannot-be-naive-and.html", "content_html": "
\n

We cannot be naive and think that we are not going to suffer from major interference from the malignant actors who are in Washington right now.

\n
\n

💬 Charlie Angus

\n

… malignant actors.

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-30T22:43:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/30/we-cannot-be-naive-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/30/inspired-by-people-george-shinn.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 George Shinn

\n\"There\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-30T16:01:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/30/inspired-by-people-george-shinn.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/30/another-cracker-from-ambrose-by.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Another cracker from Ambrose …. by @bradenslen

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\n

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.\n💬 Ambrose Bierce

\n
\n

How could I not share another Ambrosian delight?

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-30T09:37:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/30/another-cracker-from-ambrose-by.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/29/post-by-bradenslen-daily-quote.html", "content_html": "

Ambrose - courtesy of Brad by @bradenslen

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\n

The covers of this book are too far apart.\nAmbrose Bierce

\n
\n

Magic! Love Ambrose.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Donne

\n\"No\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-29T06:49:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/29/inspired-by-people-john-donne.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/28/inspired-by-people-margaret-carty.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Margaret Carty

\n\"The\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-28T06:36:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/28/inspired-by-people-margaret-carty.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/28/032721.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-28T02:27:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/28/032721.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/28/032654.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-28T02:26:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/28/032654.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/28/032625.html", "content_html": "

💬

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John C. Maxwell

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Barack Obama

\n\"Real\n

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\n

It’s head-scratching if you’re a boomer. You lived through JFK, proffering what you could do for your country and…\nNow it’s WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?

\n
\n

💬 Bob Lefsetz

\n

🔗 Read the whole thing

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-25T07:40:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/25/its-headscratching-if-youre-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/25/scripting-news-monday-march-peter.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025

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\n

Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)

\n

Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Aristotle

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-25T07:05:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/25/inspired-by-people-aristotle-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/24/the-peoples-os.html", "title": "The People’s OS", "content_html": "

Back in the archives of People First I used to talk about ‘The People’s OS’. 🔗 Here for example. It sat together with something that I also called HumanIT. In many ways playful ideas on a tech first world that even then was apparent - much less today. (Hat tip to my friend Jeff Orgel who gave me ‘HumanIT’.) (And now you know why I started ‘People First’.)

\n

Reading this today makes me think that this movement might just be an idea whose time has finally come … (another hat tip - this one to ‘Victor’.)

\n

🔗 (The) Automattic Operating System | Matt Mullenweg

\n

Too early to talk about what I was doing one day last week - BUT - reading this totally resonated for me and let me start to explain why and then - when ready - I will come back at another time and in another post to talk about what I was doing.

\n

BTW - I am increasingly a big fan of Matt and his thinking. (It started with him taking a stand against bullies) … and yes - I know I am ‘at odds’ with a number of readers on that one - but that’s ok. Right?

\n

Vive la différence

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\n

At Automattic, the most important product I work on is the company itself. I’ve started referring to it as the “Automattic Operating System.” Not in the technical sense like Linux, but the meta layer the company runs on. The company isn’t WordPress.com or Beeper or Pocket Casts or any one thing. I’m responsible for the culture of the people who build those things, building the things that build those things. It’s our hiring, our HR processes, our expenses, the onboarding docs; it’s all of the details that make up the employee experience — all the stuff that shapes every employee’s day-to-day experience.

\n
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💬 Matt Mullenweg

\n

There are too many buzz word applications with throw away thinking that circulate the interwebs for my taste - and I do what I can (a single voice in a cacaphony of band waggon jumpers) to stop that. BUT the Automattic Operating System is not one of those - it really is a concept that resonates.

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A full ‘4π Steradian’ piece of thinking.

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\n

(Seperate thought - 🔗 this is the Inc piece that Matt is referring to in his article.)

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I’ve been following 🔗 Umair for years - but - only 10 references to him on this blog (I just counted). I think partly because he sometimes seems do be so out there and partly because he desperately needs a good editor - because he can go on … and on … and on …

\n

Still - when you look at some of his old stuff that was ‘out there’ then .. and you look at today - maybe he isn’t as weird as he sometimes reads. So I commend you to today’s offering ….

\n
\n

What’s going to be left after five years or so of this? What we’ve already seen, and we’re just two months in?

\n
\n

💬 Umair Haque

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Charles Darwin

\n\"In\n

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🔗🎵📼 Objects Outlive Us

\n

Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
\nDown to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
\nBut no one will give her a glance
\nThey just shuffle on home in a trance
\nThe tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
\nTo make it to church, well, she needs to hurry
\nWhen late she will bow down contrite
\nWhile a meteor turns out the light

\n

And there in an ordinary street
\nA car isn’t where it would normally be
\nThe driver in tears, ‘bout his payment arrears
\nStill, nobody hears whеn a sun disappears
\nIn a galaxy afar

\n

First day of the new job and hе was so nervous
\nThe suit and the platitude, “Can I be of service?”
\nHis boss made him clean all the cars
\nWhile he wondered, “Is there life on Mars?”
\nAnd meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order
\nWhile we bicker on with our fences and borders
\nBut best not think about that
\nIt’s better to live without facts

\n

And now in her old wedding bed
\nA lady will dream that her husband is dead
\nOf course he’s alive, he’ll be home around five
\nStill, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way

\n

The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
\nAnd oddly the first spots make Orion’s belt as
\nYou queue at the bank for an hour
\n‘Cause a solar flare blew out the power
\nThe nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
\nThe water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub
\nIs draining away as we speak
\nBut she loses her job there next week

\n

And there with his first telescope
\nA teenager stands full of hormones and hope
\nAs he squints at the night, like a painting of light
\nHe doesn’t suppose that a black hole implodes
\nIn a trillion tears from now (Ah)

\n

💬 Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Vince Lombardi

\n\"Individual\n

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\n

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

\n
\n

💬 Henry Ford

\n

.. but they’re not Musky. Are they? I think this might be where the two of you diverge?

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-22T08:57:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/22/if-everyone-is-moving-forward.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/22/inspired-by-people-halford-e.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Halford E. Luccock

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\n

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

\n
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💬 T. S. Eliot

\n

I think we know who he’s talking about.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Harry S. Truman

\n\"It\n

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 James Cash Penney

\n\"The\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-20T07:29:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/19/inspired-by-people-james-cash.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/18/inspired-by-people-john-c.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John C. Maxwell

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-19T08:48:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/18/inspired-by-people-john-c.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/17/inspired-by-people-sydney-smith.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Sydney Smith

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-18T06:17:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/17/inspired-by-people-sydney-smith.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/16/inspired-by-people-muhammad-ali.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Muhammad Ali

\n\"Service\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-17T05:36:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/16/inspired-by-people-muhammad-ali.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/15/inspired-by-people-zig-ziglar.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Zig Ziglar

\n\"You\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-16T06:04:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/15/inspired-by-people-zig-ziglar.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/14/inspired-by-people-anita-roddick.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Anita Roddick

\n\"The\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-15T09:09:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/14/inspired-by-people-anita-roddick.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/12/this-is-more-challenging-than.html", "content_html": "
\n

This is more challenging than it looks. That’s okay. That’s why we need you to do it.

\n
\n

💬 Seth Godin

\n

🔗 Two kinds of instructions

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Patrick Lencioni

\n\"Teamwork\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-13T01:33:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/12/inspired-by-people-patrick-lencioni.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/11/ill-let-the-quotes-speak.html", "content_html": "

💬 I’ll let the quotes speak for themselves.

\n

🔗 Why Journalism Is Like Stinky Cheese - by Ted Gioia

\n\"\"\n\"\"\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-12T03:31:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/11/ill-let-the-quotes-speak.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/11/one-of-my-johns-with.html", "content_html": "

💬 one of my ’4 Johns’ .. with one of his rarer books.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Author

\n\"None\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-12T02:58:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/11/inspired-by-people-author-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/10/inspired-by-people-steve-jobs.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Steve Jobs

\n\"Great\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-11T03:39:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/10/inspired-by-people-steve-jobs.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/09/inspired-by-people-audre-lorde.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Audre Lorde

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-10T03:26:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/09/inspired-by-people-audre-lorde.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/generation-beta.html", "title": "Generation Beta?", "content_html": "

I think describing who I am, what I want and need and everything else besides based on my age is baloney and claptrap. Hell - I’d put more money on being defined by astrology. But still this bunk persists.

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It’s getting weirder.

\n

Consider the labels and birth-year brackets commonly used to pigeonhole entire generations:

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1.\tThe Silent Generation: Born 1928–1945 (17 years)   \n2.\tBaby Boomers: Born 1946–1964 (18 years)   \n3.\tGeneration X: Born 1965–1980 (15 years)   \n4.\tMillennials (Generation Y): Born 1981–1996 (15 years)   \n5.\tGeneration Z: Born 1997–2012 (15 years)   \n6.\tGeneration Alpha: Starting from 2013—so far, 12 years   \n
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And now?

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Apparently we are already ushering in Generation Beta - 3 years (at least) early.

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Generation Beta officially arrived on Jan. 1, successors to Gen Alpha. While the name follows the conventions of the Greek alphabet, its connotation is less scholarly and more sus for some young parents and every school-age child. Beta is commonly used as slang for weak and passive.

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💬 Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ

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Seriously - The Wall Street Journal? The article wasn’t on the ‘joke page’ - and last time I looked they weren’t doing satire - though I get it - it’s increasingly hard to tell in this climate. But still.

\n\n

It’s a Corporate Marketing con that for some eye popping reason ‘we the people’ seem to have adopted.

\n

Why?

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It’s right up there with ‘content’ - if you are following you know what I am talking about. But in case you don’t - 🖇️🔎 I have hundreds of posts on the topic) that can be reduced to this …

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Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word. Which is why it has no value.
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As long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using low cost, homogenous, non-descript words like ‘content’ to describe our work, our soul, our beliefs, our passion, our effort, then our work will continue to be viewed as ’free–to–cheap–to–low–cost’, homogenized, non-differentiated, interchangeable fodder and we will only have ourselves to blame as the payment for our art, our thinking, our ideas continues to race to the bottom.
\n

Bottom line … the ‘con’ in content is there with intent.

", "date_published": "2025-03-09T13:27:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/generation-beta.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/08/some-days-none-seem-relevant.html", "content_html": "

💬 Some days none seem relevant … but on occasions I get one ..

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But today we have two

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 African Proverb

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-09T02:14:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/inspired-by-people-african-proverb.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/07/pulling-on-a-new-jersey.html", "content_html": "

🔗💬 Pulling on a new Jersey.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-08T07:02:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/pulling-on-a-new-jersey.html", "tags": ["Gaping Void","? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/07/inspired-by-people-anne-frank.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Anne Frank

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-08T04:42:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/inspired-by-people-anne-frank.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/085319.html", "content_html": "

💬

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💬 Not Wrong

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🔗 Scripting News: Tech and Democracy

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-07T04:46:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/not-wrong-scripting-news-tech.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/inspired-by-people-confucius-all.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Confucius

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-07T04:41:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/inspired-by-people-confucius-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/05/inspired-by-people-ralph-waldo.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-06T04:01:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/inspired-by-people-ralph-waldo.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/05/london-june-faced-with-the.html", "content_html": "

💬 London, June 1940

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Faced with the bewilderment of my countrymen, by the disintegration of a government in thrall to the enemy, by the fact that the institutions of my country are incapable, at this moment, of functioning, I, General de Gaulle,. French soldier, realise that I now speak for France”

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💬 Charles de Gaulle

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via John Naughton (though Siri felt ‘Moan Naughty’ was the correct reference)

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-06T03:55:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/london-june-faced-with-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/here-are-a-dozen-of.html", "content_html": "
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Here are a dozen of the many Micro.Bloggers I enjoy:

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💬 Miraz

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🔗 Her original post

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Thanks you for inspiration Miraz. Some of mine…

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@Bradenslen
\n@Andysylvester
\n@The
\n@Danielpunkass
\n@Moondeer
\n@Hawaiiboy and @Crossingthethreshold - keeps me connected to HI.
\n@Munish
\n@Dave
\n@Mandaris
\n@Numericcitizen
\n@Mtt
\n@Mitchw
\n@AlanRalph
\n@Bjhess
\n@Jusummerhayes
\n@Amerpie
\n@Endonend
\n@Pratik - his account lives on - though his posts now live elsewhere.
\n@Gregmoore
\n@Moonmehta
\n@Hutaffe
\n@Annie
\n@Kaa
\n@Toddgrotenhuis
\n@Simonwoods
\n@Billbennettnz
\n@Jimmitchell
\n@Devilgate
\n@Herself
\n@Artkavanagh
\n@Tylerknowsnothing
\n@Markstoneman

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:58:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/here-are-a-dozen-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/inspired-by-people-leo-buscaglia.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Leo Buscaglia

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:14:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/inspired-by-people-leo-buscaglia.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/065531.html", "content_html": "

💬

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💬

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-03-04T03:15:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/03/071556.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/03/inspired-by-people-george-bernard.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 George Bernard Shaw

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-04T03:09:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/03/inspired-by-people-george-bernard.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/02/our-muslim-boy-wonder-michael.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Our Muslim Boy Wonder - Michael Moore

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(It’s about ’Steve’, but it this caught my attention …

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How many millions upon millions over the years have snuck into this nation without permission, without invitation, just wham-bam-thank-you-Uncle-Sam-you’re-an-American-man now – ** in this case because of the perhaps questionable morals of a Wisconsin farmer’s daughter**.

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💬 Michael Moore

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… my bold, because I have questions …

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🔗 🏝️ Discs - Sir Jony Ive, designer - BBC Sounds and 🔗 Daring Fireball

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I think when you struggle, then a goal can become just commercial issues. I understand – I mean, if you’re losing lots of money, you’d like to stop losing lots of money. The problem there is it means you focus on money, and you’re normally losing money because the products aren’t right. And from ‘92 to ‘97, it was a very, very difficult season. One that I am so grateful for – but I still get the shivers sometimes.

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💬 Jonny Ives

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This really resonated - and if you read some of the stuff I read - it will ring bells, because it is like life;

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the money comes when you stop chasing the money

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I also liked Gruber’s extented thought;

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Judging them as good or bad isn’t the correct framework. It’s that they weren’t right. There’s an inherent subjectiveness to rightness.

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💬 John Gruber

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🔗 Skype is dead. What happened? - On my Om

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🔗 Daring Fireball

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Microsoft now talks about Teams being their focus, showing that even today they haven’t realized what made Skype a cultural, consumer force. Microsoft Teams is a terrible product – and I dread using it. In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.

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💬 Om Malik

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It single-handedly destroyed the long-distance calling business. Most young people today don’t remember, but long-distance calls used to cost a lot of money. Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.

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💬 Om Malik

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In the early days of podcasting, seemingly every show used Skype because it was so much better than anything else. And it was free! It felt like the future. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if not for Skype, podcasting would’ve been set back several years.

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💬 John Gruber

\n

Sharing these - and Om nailed it in that second quote.

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Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.

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I was one of those immigrants calling home.

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SAD.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Bunyan

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T03:38:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/02/inspired-by-people-john-bunyan.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/01/you-know-what-im-talking.html", "content_html": "

💬 You KNOW what I’m talking about …

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💬

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💬

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Dalai Lama

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T01:59:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/01/inspired-by-people-dalai-lama.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/28/inspired-by-people-jeanpaul-sartre.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Jean-Paul Sartre

\n\"When\n

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\n", "date_published": "2025-03-01T04:49:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/28/inspired-by-people-jeanpaul-sartre.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/27/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mahatma Gandhi

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T06:13:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/27/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/27/when-this-popped-up-today.html", "content_html": "

When this popped up today …

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… it reminded me of this …

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Muhammad

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Hypercritical: Hyperspace

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Today, most Mac users don’t even notice that using the ‘Duplicate’ command in the Finder to make a copy of a file doesn’t actually copy the file’s contents. Instead, it makes a ‘clone’ file that shares its data with the original file.

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💬 John Siracusa

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🤯 .. count me in the ‘most’ camp - and now. needing to understand this more - even though I still use ‘save as’.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Leo Tolstoy

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Helen Keller

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Irwin Federman

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Daniel Goleman

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💬

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Over on LinkedIN .. 🔗 The downfall of Soho House.

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Turns out that SH is in the ‘dodo’. Personally not surprised. Never a member - often as a guest back in the day - but more recently as I noticed that ‘everyone was a member’, I felt something was up - but too many other rabbit holes to dive into.

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Back in the day it was a wonderful place. Seems to me that it fails for similar reasons that exclusive fine dining restaurants and this ‘boutique wineries’ ultimately fail .. you can’t scale exclusivity.

\n

‘But what about Patek Philippe Watches and Hermes bags’ I hear you cry. ‘Different’ I reply. Product - not service. You can manage the demand. For example - there are Hermes bags for sale that you can’t buy - even if you can afford one.

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Anyway - back to Soho. This came to mind.

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That’s why it was predictable.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Margaret J. Wheatley

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-22T06:18:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/21/inspired-by-people-margaret-j.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/21/simple-advice-for-junior-folks.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital

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Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

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💬 Hunter Walk

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I know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.

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BUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;

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I worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.

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Which Is Why

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Amazon taking control of James Bond is like McDonald’s taking over a great steakhouse chain like Del Frisco’s.

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💬 John Gruber

\n

it seems like only yesterday that I was reading how much BB hated Amazon - and how they would never have creative control - and yet here we are.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-21T05:11:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/20/amazon-taking-control-of-james.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/20/084610.html", "content_html": "

💬

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Bunyan

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-21T04:24:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/20/inspired-by-people-john-bunyan.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/19/systems-of-truth-reality-of.html", "title": "Systems of Truth? Reality or Pipedream?", "content_html": "

When I read Scott Brinker (ChiefMartec) I generally feel that our thinking is aligned, but his images often seem to be designed to create fear and creating a speech bubble above my head that reads something like “my god - how the hell can I keep up”. They don’t, IMHO give clarity. Well, maybe back in 2011 .. maybe - but I recall back then it still seem overwhelming ..

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By the time I got to 2024 - I was seriously asking myself what is the point? (Although it didn’t stop me reading his posts.)

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So I initially found his post from today a breath of fresh air, imagine … ‘Meet the new martech stack: systems of context and systems of truth’

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And in it I found a reasonable framework;

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Which I liked - because it aligns with my ‘Business Equation’ thinking.

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.. but then I read the piece and even Scott calls out my initial thought…

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Now, squinting at my diagram you might ask, “Isn’t this just systems of engagement and systems of record with different labels?

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💬 Scott Brinker

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But that isn’t where I am going, because ‘words’ are important.

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Systems of Truth

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Truth? Who’s Truth?

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I am a customer of Citibank. Their system of record will tell you that my home address is up in Marin, North California. I live in SoCal - and never bothered changing it - the bank is minor to my requirements - and everything I do is online - why waste my time.

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My mobile provider is different again.

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The data farms/lakes/mountains (using such nice natural sounding words to describe tools of the surveillance economy aside) hosted by the large corporates can never show absolute truth about me - they will only ever have a filter/slice/view of who I am .. which is partly what I choose to share - which will vary from person to person and their context at the time.

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These are not systems of truth, they are the systems of record of the corporation that houses that particular set of data. To be fair - Scott does make that distinction in his piece (my bold).

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they remain the arbiters of truth for data within their domain

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💬 Scott Brinker

\n

and then goes on …

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We never achieved a true single system of truth (SSOT). Turns out there are just too many domain-specific data truths. But with a universal data layer on bottom and domain-specific data governance platforms on top, we now have many systems – plural – of truth.

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💬 Scott Brinker

\n

So why change it? Again - referencing my example at the opening of this section - Citi do not have the truth about my residence. No matter how hard they try - they have a System of Record - so why muddy the waters and call it Truth (other than climbing an board with attempting to use a ‘word of the moment’.)

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Systems of Context

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I would argue that systems of engagement by definition includes that of context. In face to me - that is the whole point.

\n

Scott clarifies;

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Instead of a monologue, where a brand serves a contextual experience based on its own definition of the buyer’s journey and what it thinks the buyer wants, concierge AI agents will engage buyers in a true dialogue to understand and serve their actual context.

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💬 Scott Brinker

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and then

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A little farther out on the horizon – but maybe not that far – buyers will use their own AI agents to interact with our systems of context. These aren’t customer-facing AI agents that sellers control. These are customer-owned AI agents that they control. They will inherently shape the experience to the context of the buyer.

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💬 Scott Brinker

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Aaah yes - that promised nirvana - putting the customer in control (or at least their agents - but who owns the agents?) … remember we live in a world where if we buy a digital book - you don’t actually own it - why are agents going to be different.

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If it is - I will be first in line for that service - but breath not held. And this is why.

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Closed Systems

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It will have been around 20 years ago that Joyce Searls asked if a corporation has a ‘CRM’ that allows them to ‘manage their relationship with their customer’ - why don’t we (people) have a ‘VRM’ to ‘manage our relationship with our vendors? Put simply, if I change my cell number, I need to let the change be known to each of the vendors I use … electic, gas, utilities, bank, uber, amazon …. you get the picture. A VRM would allow you to make one update - and your vendors systems of record would be updated accordingly.

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Twenty years later, we still don’t have that.

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But John - I hear you cry - AI is going to change all that - to which I say excellent - when?

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… and back to those personal AI agents. How? Yes there will be a small cadre of people who will download agentic models and live in that rarefied world of ‘sovereignty’ - but given that most people don’t know - or think to act on even managing their phone notifications - I don’t see them downloading their personal agentic models just yet. And even if we do - the corporations have to allow us to do that - first and then allow that model to interact with their systems. They aren’t really very good at that when you think about it.

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For all of this - I am pretty sure that Scott doesn’t come from my POV - but rather that of the corporation, which I think explains our different take. It’s clear just by looking at this image form his article …

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He puts those systems of truth right slap bang the middle.

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I would have the exact same image - with me - the individual in the center - with my system of TRUTH - and context filter around that to expose the slices of truth I want a corporation to see and use in their own systems of engagement.

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And that can be built by starting here.

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Stopping here for now - but this is a bit topic -and I think needs more to be said.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Winston Churchill

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💬

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Bertrand Russell

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-19T04:02:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/18/inspired-by-people-bertrand-russell.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/17/the-braindump-blog-reporting-that.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.

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Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
\n……
\nAn astonishing coincidence I’m sure.

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💬 Braindump

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💬

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Martin Luther King Jr.

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A couple o’ quotes via John Naughton …

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If it’s sent by ship, it’s cargo. If sent by road, it’s shipment.

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💬 Dave Allen

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We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let’s hope we make the right choice.

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💬 Woody Allen

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-17T15:36:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/16/a-couple-o-quotes-via.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/16/can-we-please-stop-calling.html", "content_html": "
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Can We Please Stop Calling These People Populists? – Trumpism is not a working-class revolt against the elites. All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated elite.

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💬 David Brooks

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Dear David - of course we can - just as soon as you stop calling those other people ‘Elites’.. they are not.

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They just happen to have a lot of money and so feel entitled to be treated differently to the rest of us.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-17T15:33:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/16/can-we-please-stop-calling.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/16/talent-hits-a-target-no.html", "content_html": "
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

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💬 Schopenhauer

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(via John. Naughton)

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I kinda get it. BUT. If we can’t see it .. how do we know?

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-17T12:31:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/16/talent-hits-a-target-no.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/16/inspired-by-people-hubert-h.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Hubert H. Humphrey

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\"The

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A bully is a felony waiting to happen.

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💬 Dexter

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Rutherford B. Hayes

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-16T05:40:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/15/inspired-by-people-rutherford-b.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/14/143106.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-15T10:31:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/14/143106.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/14/the-worth-of-a-state.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Stuart Mill

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-15T05:20:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/14/the-worth-of-a-state.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/13/if-someone-wants-to-unlock.html", "content_html": "
\n

If someone wants to unlock a stolen phone – or retrieve money from an ATM – and only have five guesses, this data suggests they still have a one-in-eight chance of guessing correctly.

\n
\n

💬 Nathan Yau - Flowing Data

\n

🔗 The Complete Article

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-14T05:40:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/13/if-someone-wants-to-unlock.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/13/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mahatma Gandhi

\n

\"The

\n

17th Feb, 2025: Turns out this one is a fake quote. 🖇️ This is the correct attribution.

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John Adams

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-13T04:44:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/12/inspired-by-people-john-adams.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/the-uk-demands-apple-build.html", "content_html": "
\n

The U.K. demands Apple build a back door into its products; Apple is more likely to leave the country.

\n
\n

💬 Ben Thompson

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T13:08:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/the-uk-demands-apple-build.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/ever-look-back-and-remember.html", "content_html": "

💬 Ever look back and remember the simpler times ..

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T06:22:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/ever-look-back-and-remember.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/inspired-by-people-martin-luther.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Martin Luther King Jr.

\n

\"An

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T06:20:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/inspired-by-people-martin-luther.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/10/inspired-by-people-ralph-nader.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Ralph Nader

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-11T03:45:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/10/inspired-by-people-ralph-nader.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/09/inspired-by-people-sam-walton.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Sam Walton

\n

\"People

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-10T05:23:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/09/inspired-by-people-sam-walton.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/08/governor-newsom-please-help-franklin.html", "content_html": "

🔗Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims

\n

Well this little bit of news totally passed me by. Surely an oversight?

\n
\n

The Franklin Fire was still smoldering when the Palisades Fire ignited. We were still in a hotel, not yet having found a place to rent. We are part of this disaster, yet we have been erased from its response.

\n
\n

💬 Posted by Jason Fried ‘for a friend’.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-09T06:28:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/08/governor-newsom-please-help-franklin.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/08/inspired-by-people-benjamin-disraeli.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Benjamin Disraeli

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-09T04:45:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/08/inspired-by-people-benjamin-disraeli.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html", "content_html": "
\n

? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

Yesterday .. (If you’re feeling stressed) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? 🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song

\n

Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.

\n

BUT

\n

It is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?

\n

🎵 I know - who cares - its just a …

\n

🔗📼 Sign ‘O’ the Times

\n

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

\n

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

\n

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

\n

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T08:17:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quote","MyYouTubes","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/inspired-by-people-franklin-d.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Franklin D. Roosevelt

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T04:27:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/inspired-by-people-franklin-d.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/06/091104.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-07T05:11:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/06/091104.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/06/071800.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-07T03:18:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/06/071800.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/06/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mahatma Gandhi

\n

\"A

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-07T03:11:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/06/inspired-by-people-mahatma-gandhi.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/05/100728.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-06T06:07:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/05/100728.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/05/inspired-by-people-albert-camus.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Albert Camus

\n

\"Democracy

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-06T05:39:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/05/inspired-by-people-albert-camus.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/05/093432.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-06T05:34:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/05/093432.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/the-prognosis-isnt-good-but.html", "content_html": "
\n

The prognosis isn’t good. But we should get our shit together asap because it’s our only hope.
\nPS: Blaming other people is easy and powerless. Accepting your own responsibility and doing something to change it is powerful.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-05T06:38:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/the-prognosis-isnt-good-but.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/kim-got-it-before-we.html", "content_html": "

💬 Kim got it before we knew we needed it.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-05T05:29:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/kim-got-it-before-we.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/04/inspired-by-people-the-full.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Alexis de Tocqueville

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

\n
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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-05T05:22:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/inspired-by-people-the-full.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/ontario-premier-doug-ford-has.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that he’s pulling the plug on his province’s $100 million deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink, announcing that “Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.”

\n
\n

💬 Various News Outlets

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T12:48:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/ontario-premier-doug-ford-has.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/made-a-list-of-the.html", "content_html": "
\n

Made a list of the contact info for my congresscritters in Notes.app to make it easier to call daily.
\nToday’s issue: This is a coup. Start calling it that.

\n
\n

💬 Patrick Rhone

\n

🔗 The Source

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T04:06:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/made-a-list-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/03/inspired-by-people-the-full.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Simon Sinek

\n

\"Leadership

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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💬 Dave Winer … 🔗 I’m 99.9% sure, as crazy as it sounds, when Musk is finished with his software project, you will have to use X for everything related to the government. To pay taxes, to receive health care, to renew your passport. And if you try to arrest him, he’ll stop paying interest on the US debt, and that will be the end of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. He won’t just control the US government, he will control the world economy.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T02:30:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/dave-winer-im-sure-as.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/02/100209.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Dwight Eisenhower

\n

\"Politics

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 John F. Kennedy

\n

\"The

\n

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T03:13:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/02/inspired-by-people-the-full.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/loneliness-emerges-from-the-inability.html", "title": "Loneliness Emerges From The Inability To Connect", "content_html": "

I don’t think the Beatles were the greatest band that ever lived. There I said it. I know there will be people that disagree with me.

\n

That said, even with two views of ‘truth’ it is still possible to have a deep, interesting, meaningful conversation that might open my mind and who knows … ‘theirs’ as well. In other words in this case true connection is possible even if the participants have different ‘realities’.

\n

BUT - and it is a big but .. that does require a willingness on both sides to bridge those differences through empathy, listening, open-mindedness and communication. It is that very act of seeking to understand others - and in turn be understood - that creates a space where connection thrives.

\n

I think loneliness emerges from the inability to connect.

\n

It remains possible in music, literature and sport to name but three random topics of conversation in the public square (the real public square - not the dumpster fire), so why not in politics? I have an idea.

\n

I think true connection can be fostered when individuals prioritize mutual respect and shared humanity over complete agreement or identical perceptions.

\n

Sadly, when it comes to politics the broad swathe of humanity are being trained by a few ‘bad actors’ (let’s keep it civil) to ignore that.

\n

When did that start? Well, we all have ideas I am sure. Here’s mine …

\n
\n

Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

\n
\n

💬 George Bush

\n

.. but he wasn’t the first.

\n
\n

Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.

\n
\n

💬 Matthew 12:30

\n

Lenin and Mussolini also used similar phrasing to get their point across. This is a ‘both sides’ argument that has been effectively used over a couple of millennium to get the support of the masses.

\n
\n

When will they ever learn.

\n
\n

💬 Pete Seger

\n

Never?

\n

I am not sure how to fix it.

\n

We’ve gone deep down the rabbit hole. It’s going to get worse. A lot worse. Before it gets better.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-02T15:20:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/loneliness-emerges-from-the-inability.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/vance-v-rory-my-money.html", "content_html": "

Vance v Rory? My money is on Rory.

\n
\n

love your family and then you love your neighbour, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritise the rest of the world.

\n
\n

💬 Vance

\n

if he really believes that - maybe he can have a chat with Elmo who’s currently dicking around in that last bit with a lot of RoW whilst fucking over America.

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-02T11:01:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/vance-v-rory-my-money.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/letting-this-sit-not-so.html", "content_html": "

💬 Letting this sit .. not so much for the quote which is powerful enough - more the follow up question which I am thinking about and will drop more thoughts into the comments .. thoughts mind you - not sure there is a single ‘answer’.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-02T06:11:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/letting-this-sit-not-so.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/01/inspired-by-people-a-visual.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Cicero

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\"The

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-02T05:41:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/inspired-by-people-a-visual.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/seems-appropriate-good-night.html", "content_html": "

💬 Seems appropriate … good night.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T16:21:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/seems-appropriate-good-night.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/inspired-by-people-more-quotes.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Woodrow Wilson

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\"There

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T05:16:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/inspired-by-people-more-quotes.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/123126.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T08:31:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/123126.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/30/115230.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Anne Frank

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\"No

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T07:52:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/30/115230.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/29/inspired-by-people.html", "content_html": "

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Thomas Jefferson

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\"The

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🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below.

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\n", "date_published": "2025-01-30T14:41:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/29/inspired-by-people.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/it-all-came-together-dont.html", "content_html": "

It all came together…

\n

\"\"

\n
\n

Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.

\n
\n

💬 Jim Acosta

\n

A resplendent day for Jim Acosta and journalistic integrity

\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T15:35:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/it-all-came-together-dont.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/28/businessbytes.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes

\n", "date_published": "2025-01-29T08:52:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/28/businessbytes.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/a-reminder-about-content.html", "title": "A Reminder About ‘Content’", "content_html": "

… because it’s getting worse.

\n
\n

A strategic thinker wouldn’t call it content.

\n
\n

Sorry - no idea who wrote that - not me - but definitely on pace with my thinking - which you will know that 🖇️🔍 I have written about this many times over the years.

\n

To save the click through - in a nutshell …

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As long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using low cost, homogenous, non-descript words like ‘content’ to describe our work, our soul, our passion, our beliefs then our work will continue to be viewed as ‘free - to - cheap - to - low - cost’, as ‘homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’. Moreover, we then only have ourselves to blame and the resultant payment for your art, your thinking, your ideas, will continue to race to the bottom.

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n

And

\n
\n

It is not in the interests of any creator to allow that, so why allow their interests to define how we think?

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n

And

\n
\n

Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word. Which is why ‘content’ has no value. It is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the buyers of our sweat, labour, thought and time to keep their price down. But our costs are not kept down. So our net earnings suffer. And they are suffering badly.\nAnd it has to start with you - the creator, because it isn’t in the interests of buyers to change their behaviour and vocabulary - ‘they’ want great work at no cost.

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n

So. What you going to do about it?

\n
\n

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes | 🔗🔎 Content

\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T09:04:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/a-reminder-about-content.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","? Links","Business Bytes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/every-legendary-startup-started-as.html", "content_html": "
\n

Every legendary startup started as a dumb idea. Until it wasn’t.

\n
\n

💬 Christopher Lockhead

\n

I keep repeating this to myself - over and over again. It’s good to remember. But don’t get carried away … because ‘what goes up must come down’.

\n

For example we just heard about that $500Billion investment in AI and then just a few days later little start up in China took twice that off the entire tech stock market.

\n

\"Winning\"

\n

… except for Apple it seems. Why?

\n

I suspect that it has a lot to do with Apple’s AI strategy of on-device processing first.

\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T08:55:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/every-legendary-startup-started-as.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/dont-get-me-wrong-this.html", "content_html": "

Don’t Get Me Wrong.

\n

This isn’t a pivot. The broader swathe of my usual fayre will continue to be punched out onto keyboard or glass.

\n

Music, Business, Humor, Tech, Observations et al … it will all continue.

\n

But the ‘Politics Tab’? Yeah, that’s different - and I suspect will also subtly change the topics in those top level categories.

\n
\n

“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men.”

\n
\n

💬 Dwight Eisenhower

\n", "date_published": "2025-01-28T08:10:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/dont-get-me-wrong-this.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/31/only-that-seems-high-to.html", "content_html": "

💬 Only? That seems high to me.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:54:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/31/only-that-seems-high-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/29/the-sense-of-an-ending.html", "content_html": "

The Sense of an Ending : Rishad Tobaccowala

\n
\n

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

\n
\n

💬 Julian Barnes

\n", "date_published": "2024-12-30T04:23:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/29/the-sense-of-an-ending.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/25/quotes-i-collect-them-so.html", "content_html": "

🚧 💬 Quotes. I collect them, so maybe a ‘collection’ application?

\n

This is going to be a living , breathing kinda post.

\n

And like all living, breathing things … it might die.

\n
\"A\"A\"A\"Text\"A\"A\"A\"A
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-26T10:51:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/25/quotes-i-collect-them-so.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/22/its-an-older.html", "content_html": "

💬 it’s an older quote and analogy .. but it got me to wondering how the Muskrat, Andreesen, Thiel category fits in? Parasites? I think worse.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-23T04:18:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/22/its-an-older.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/22/frum-seems-to.html", "content_html": "

💬 Frum seems to have successfully reduced the issue to a single sentence.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-23T04:15:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/22/frum-seems-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/22/to-keep-in.html", "content_html": "

💬 To keep in mind

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-23T04:10:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/22/to-keep-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/21/074648.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-22T03:46:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/21/074648.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/19/091100.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-20T05:11:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/19/091100.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/cnn-gaetz-investigation.html", "content_html": "

🔗 CNN: Gaetz investigation will be released - Kevin Drum

\n

.. to channel @gruber ‘Finally

\n

But Kevin’s take is most likely ‘why’ …

\n
\n

Now that Gaetz no longer matters to Donald Trump, I guess at least a few Republicans screwed up the courage to do the right thing.

\n
\n

💬 Kevin Drum

\n

On this blog, February ’22 was 🔗 my first reference to …

\n
\n

Known sex trafficker Matt Gaetz

\n
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T11:21:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/cnn-gaetz-investigation.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/18/the-simple-question.html", "content_html": "
\n

The simple question worth asking is: That piece of media or interaction or investment you’re making – is it to earn trust or simply find attention?

\n
\n

💬 Seth Godin

\n

The whole thing … 🔗 The fame/trust inversion

\n", "date_published": "2024-12-19T11:15:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/18/the-simple-question.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/14/161124.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-15T12:11:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/14/161124.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/12/140241.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-13T10:02:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/12/140241.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/10/155939.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-11T11:59:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/10/155939.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/09/134159.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-10T09:41:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/09/134159.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/09/for-fucks-sake.html", "content_html": "
\n

For fucks sake. There’s no real reason we should even care what Elon Musk thinks about this, but Elon’s mother? Have we gone completely crackers?

\n
\n

💬 Kevin Drum

\n
\n

Yes

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n", "date_published": "2024-12-10T06:58:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/09/for-fucks-sake.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/09/075240.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-10T03:52:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/09/075240.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/101845.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T06:18:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/101845.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/02/connected-thoughts-in.html", "content_html": "

💬 Connected thoughts in today’s Readwise grab bag …

\n

\"\"\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2024-12-03T06:13:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/02/connected-thoughts-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/30/there-are-recurring.html", "content_html": "

💬 There are recurring themes in my daily reviews.

\n\"\"\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-12-01T04:33:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/30/there-are-recurring.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/29/the-interknit-i.html", "content_html": "

The Interknit

\n
I suggest we do that by making an 'Interknit' a truly social network of networks comprised of everyone's social graph.
\n

💬 Doc Searls

\n

(He was resurfacing something from 13 years ago)

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-30T10:00:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/29/the-interknit-i.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/27/enough-said-but.html", "content_html": "

💬 Enough Said - but you know this already don’t you?

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T14:02:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/27/enough-said-but.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/27/122133.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T08:21:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/27/122133.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/27/privacy-and-just.html", "content_html": "

💬 Privacy - and yes … a bumper crop from today’s batch.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T08:21:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/27/privacy-and-just.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/27/the-future-of.html", "content_html": "

💬 ‘The Future of Work’ will not be defined by the people who control the very tools that might accelerate that definition.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T08:18:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/27/the-future-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/27/todays-readwises-the.html", "content_html": "

💬 Today’s ‘Readwises’

\n

‘The Internet Wants To Be Fragmented’ - But can it?

\n

\"\"\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T08:15:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/27/todays-readwises-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/24/133415.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-25T09:34:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/24/133415.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/to-be-real.html", "content_html": "
\n

To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down in New Zealand, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).

\n
\n

🖇️ My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa

\n

(I wrote this in response to a newsletter on Substack suggesting that despite being one of those CEO types, he’s not doing a great job as PM. My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he was what good as a CEO!)

\n

(Another old post that didn’t make it into the ether until now)

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-24T11:21:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/to-be-real.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/23/western-culture-was.html", "content_html": "
\n

Western culture was built on one-way communication. Leaders and experts speak - and the rest of us listen.

\n
\n

💬 Ted Gioia

\n

If you read Ted’s newsletter - you might have seen that quote recently… and YES>

\n

BUT - there are some extensions that other people are writing about that I don’t agree with. Comments will follow.

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-24T11:14:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/23/western-culture-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/my-joke-about.html", "content_html": "
\n

My joke about mortality is that I know I’m in line for the exit, but I let others cut in. I wish Paul hadn’t.

\n
\n

💬 Doc Searls

\n

I love those two sentences.

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-23T15:03:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/my-joke-about.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/test-ignore-mepre.html", "title": "Blockquote Testing 3", "content_html": "

Ideally I want all of these various versions to appear the same, if not at the very least

\n

‘<’ should look the same as ‘blockquote

\n

And

\n

With and without ‘attribution’

\n

Test One

\n
\n\n\n> first up, this is a blockquote using a markdown ‘>’\n\n\n
\n
\n

first up, this is a blockquote using a markdown ‘>’

\n
\n

Test Two

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\n\n\n> first up, this is a blockquote using a markdown ‘>’ and an the attribution (n p class="attribution">💬 John</p> ) on a separate line\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

first up, this is a blockquote using a markdown ‘>’

\n
\n

💬 John

\n

Test Three

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\n\n<blockquote> this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’</blockquote> and the attribution tag on a different line\n\np class="attribution">💬 John</p>\n\n\n
\n
this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’ and the attribution tag on the same line

💬 John

\n

Test Four

\n
\n\n<blockquote> meanwhile, this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’</blockquote><p class="attribution">💬 John</p>\n\n
\n
this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’ and the attribution tag on the same line
\n

💬 John

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-23T12:43:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/test-ignore-mepre.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Help"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/21/sometimes-something-just.html", "content_html": "

Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment

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(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of all things.

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💬 Sara Hendren

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(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-22T14:15:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/21/sometimes-something-just.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/22/civil-war-in.html", "content_html": "

💬 Civil War In New Zealand?

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-22T06:46:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/civil-war-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/15/a-fine-piece.html", "content_html": "

💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-15T08:27:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/15/a-fine-piece.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/13/so-are-sapiens.html", "content_html": "
\n

“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”

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💬 Yuval Noah Harari

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🔗🖇️ Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-13T13:09:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/13/so-are-sapiens.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/06/161917.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-06T15:19:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/06/161917.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/05/165256.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-05T15:52:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/05/165256.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/05/164811.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-11-05T15:48:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/05/164811.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/04/the-first-rule.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The first rule is: attack, attack, attack.”
\n“Rule two, Admit nothing, deny everything.”
\n“Rule three? “No matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.”

\n
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💬 Roy Cohn.

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-04T09:12:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/04/the-first-rule.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/04/on-impulse-he.html", "content_html": "
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On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

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💬 Margaret Atwood

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-04T09:07:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/04/on-impulse-he.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/musk-concluded-his.html", "content_html": "
\n

Musk concluded his segment by offering support for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, explaining that he believes humans are more likely to reach Mars before the end of the decade if Trump wins next week.

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💬 The Information

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WTF …

\n
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💬 John Philpin

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T10:05:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/musk-concluded-his.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/102731.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:27:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/102731.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/ive-not-seen.html", "content_html": "

💬 I’ve not seen that statement anywhere else … have you?

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:26:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/ive-not-seen.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/that-was-then.html", "content_html": "

💬 That was then about a time even before that - and we wonder about now?

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:21:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/that-was-then.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/i-am-writing.html", "content_html": "

I am writing a post for 🔗 ‘Human By Design’ .. and this popped up today. Very relevant.

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🔗🔎 BusinessBytes | 🔗 More

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:19:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/i-am-writing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/101602.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:16:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/101602.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/it-feels-to.html", "content_html": "
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“It feels to me like there’s one thing The Who can do, and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.”

\n
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💬 Pete Townsend

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T09:06:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/it-feels-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/26/doesnt-seem-to.html", "content_html": "

💬 Doesn’t seem to be heretical to me …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-26T05:38:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/26/doesnt-seem-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/25/083026.html", "content_html": "

💬😂

\n

😂💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-25T07:30:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/25/083026.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/23/i-have-not.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

\n
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💬 Thomas Edison

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-23T17:55:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/23/i-have-not.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/23/whats-more-crypto.html", "content_html": "
\n

What’s more, crypto investors have been in a holding pattern as they wait to see the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, with many hopeful that a Donald Trump victory will invigorate the markets.

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💬 The Information

\n

Yup. Thats why it is crypto investors in the VC class have thrown their weight behind the clown.

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-23T11:13:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/23/whats-more-crypto.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/20/stories-are-developed.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Stories are developed – not wordsmithed.”

\n
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💬 Mike Maples

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-20T15:44:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/20/stories-are-developed.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/20/first-they-ignore.html", "content_html": "
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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

\n
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💬 Nicolas Klein

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(🔗 not Gandhi)

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-20T10:26:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/20/first-they-ignore.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/20/happiness-is-when.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

\n
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💬 Mahatma Gandhi

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-20T10:23:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/20/happiness-is-when.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/15/go-kevin.html", "content_html": "

💬 Go Kevin!

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-10-15T08:43:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/15/go-kevin.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/its-this-messianic.html", "content_html": "
\n

It’s this messianic belief in a vision that makes many entrepreneurs so quirky – and so interesting. It takes a unique personality to spend years saying “I’m right” when most around you say “That’s wrong.”

\n
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💬 Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein

\n

via Daring Fireball: Crazy Stupid Tech

\n

Subscribed - of course. But not a dissimilar message to Chris Lockhead, Mike Maples - and others.

\n

Go read their books.

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T13:52:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/its-this-messianic.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/crossposting-is-the.html", "content_html": "
\n

Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple information channels

\n
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💬 Wikipedia

\n

Many thanks to @manton for getting me to the final step (that would be you Threads) -

\n

Hello Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/j… / @johnphilpin.bsky.social

\n

Hello Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/fractalli… / fractallion.tumblr.com

\n

Hello Mastodon: mastodon.social/@fractals / @fractals@mastodon.social

\n

Hello Threads: www.threads.net/@johnphil… / @johnphilpin@threads.net

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T07:47:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/crossposting-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/02/men-have-no.html", "content_html": "
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.

\n
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💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

\n

He means all of us - different times - BUT - maybe it is more applicable to men? What say you?

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-02T09:08:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/02/men-have-no.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/30/it-all-seems.html", "content_html": "

💬 It all seems so easy …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-30T07:21:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/30/it-all-seems.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/the-real-power.html", "content_html": "

💬 The Real Power Brokers

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T20:05:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/the-real-power.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/29/wearisome-and-dissipating.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Wearisome and Dissipating - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures

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It’s interesting to me that leaders of companies who have disrupted entire industries by “breaking the box” and solving problems in new ways are so committed to “doing work” the same way it’s been done for the last 50 years.

\n
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💬 Nicole Rivers

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T10:18:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/wearisome-and-dissipating.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/26/clearly-more-people.html", "content_html": "

💬 Clearly more people should take this advice …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-26T06:58:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/26/clearly-more-people.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/20/media.html", "content_html": "

💬 404 Media …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-20T09:11:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/20/media.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/16/064528.html", "content_html": "

😂💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-16T06:45:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/16/064528.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/13/when-you-put.html", "content_html": "

💬 When you put it like that, it all falls into place.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-09-13T08:05:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/13/when-you-put.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/12/weve-learned-that.html", "content_html": "
\n

We’ve learned that Meta Platforms is putting the final touches on one such cluster, which will be a little bigger than 100,000 H100s, located somewhere in the U.S. The company will use the new supercomputing cluster to train the next version of its Llama model—Llama 4, for those of you who are counting—according to a person at the company who is involved in the effort. The cost of the chips alone could be more than $2 billion!

\n
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💬 The Information

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🖇️ Talking about knowing what you’re talking about - nobody who knows what they are talking about would confuse me with a real programmer.

\n

That said, I just read 🔗 Going the Extra Mile — Beyond CSS, most of which is well above my technical pay grade - but still I was fascinated by the attention to detail around ‘crafting Craft’.

\n

Consider - a whole post (well 75%) devoted to the process behind getting a check box ‘just right’ and the remaining 25% explaining ‘push away’, which I knew had to be coded in some way - but who knew there is a phrase for it?

\n

Great read - even if you aren’t technical you get the idea of their focus on good design - Steve would have been proud of them

\n
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“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

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💬 Steve Jobs

\n

… which probably explains why they won app of the year and were name called (not once - but twice) in this year’s WWDC.

\n

The article ends with …

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All of this for what?\nWill all users see the difference? — Probably not. Was it worth it? — Absolutely. These are the minor details that often go unnoticed when present, but become conspicuous when missing.\nWe strive for having as many of those details as possible, making the experience great but at the same time — seamless.

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Kudos to Craft - a Great App and a serious tool for writing documents in the 21st Century.

\n

( 🖇️ Related (Page-less Writing Apps) )

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🔗 Lex raises $2.75M for its AI writing tool that helps writers get past blocks.

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The AI stuff is cool, but there was one thing about this app that made me want to keep using it: It has no historical baggage. I find it odd that many modern word processors like Google Docs and Word retain a bias toward pagination — the UX is intended for printing documents onto letter-sized paper. Lex, in contrast, does away with all that.

\n
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💬 TechCrunch

\n

Been exploring 🔗 Lex.page for a couple ‘ months. I even pay - but not yet used it enough to know whether I am going to continue to pay.

\n

That said, the above quote is interesting and I agree with the ‘historical baggage thought - but they are hardly at the vanguard of that kind of thinking!

\n

It as if the writer has never heard of;

\n\n

Let alone, Obsidian, Roam and Notion

\n

Side note - Craft. Most definitely a personal favorite. And I am increasingly using it to share thoughts, ideas, minutes, reports to specific audiences - most often under ‘loose’ password control.

\n

Cant wait to get my hands on the new stuff they have in Beta - though even that still wont solve what I really really want!

\n

Adding to which their own foray into AI support, I just want to tie apps like that into a single world - and not have different versions of different LLMs spread around various apps. ANNOYING.

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-07T10:10:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/pageless-writing-apps.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/05/someones-having-a.html", "content_html": "

Someone’s Having A Larf …

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It’s the billion-dollar baby of artificial intelligence. Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced Wednesday it had raised a whopping $1 billion from big-name venture capital firms, including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
\nThat’s a huge amount of money for a three-month-old company with 10 staffers, no product and a “singular focus” on creating “safe” AI rather than a money-making product (at least in the short term).

\n
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💬 The Information

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-05T12:09:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/05/someones-having-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/04/080437.html", "content_html": "

💬

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💬

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💬

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💬

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💬 Like this one?

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-08-31T16:25:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/31/like-this-one.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/27/i-dont-think.html", "content_html": "

I don’t THINK I shared this already … ‘Mercenary versus Missionary’ - 💬 Christopher Lockhead

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-08-27T13:58:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/27/i-dont-think.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/27/stowe-boyd-pace.html", "content_html": "

💬 Stowe Boyd - Pace Layers Applied To Work

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-08-27T13:56:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/27/stowe-boyd-pace.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/22/ted-gioia.html", "content_html": "

💬 Ted Gioia

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-08-22T10:08:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/22/ted-gioia.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/30/have-a-great.html", "content_html": "

💬 Have a great day y’all

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-07-30T08:25:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/30/have-a-great.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "content_html": "

I have been with 🍎🗺️ since the start and definitely felt the pain. But. BUT - thanks to Google I stuck with it.

\n

🔗 Delighted to see this.

\n
\n

Apple Maps is one of the best examples of the power of persistence I can think of. It started as a laughing stock, but now, for people in many countries, it’s arguably the best maps service.

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T11:43:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/a-reminder.html", "content_html": "

💬 A Reminder

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\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T08:58:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/a-reminder.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/27/reminders.html", "title": "💬 5 Reminders", "content_html": "

It’s Saturday - so just sorting out things that I saved and never did anything with - but these 5 - I dunno - good reminders.

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In case anyone is confused …

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… or stupid.

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A solid reminder that I need from time to time.

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The idea behind this one often resurfaces in my mind (not the precise words mind), but I find the essence to be a good reminder of the importance of stepping away. It isn’t really what he is asking about - but still right.

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He’s talking about WeWork and Uber.

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💬 🎵

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I find a lot of Andrew Hickey’s observations quite insightful. Like this one ….

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Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met.\nBe grateful.

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💬 Mark Manson

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Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether that agenda is good or bad.

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💬 Jonah Goldberg

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🔗 Source

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💬

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Twenty Two Years Ago - give or take - my friend Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found called ‘In Abstentia’. Still at the top of my memory banks sees me sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown as I listened to …

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Blackest Eyes - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music

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He dropped me the MP3s that evening - and in turn they got moved to my iPod for my listening pleasure. That weekend I was up in San Francisco and did a detour to this store.

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Yes ‘that’ specific one - it had served me well thought the 90s and though Amazon was beginning to creep into my world - Tower still held a special place for me - particularly for special music.

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… and the rest is history - I have heard it all (ok - not ‘all’ - the dude is prolific), but I do have over FIFTY of his albums in CD format and seen him live in different formats maybe eight times across two continents.

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All this as a backdrop to this morning’s trip to the Supermarket.

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.. and to say that if anyone spotted me this morning in the Supermarket - smiling, taking my head, bouncing even … this is why. (Jax believes Wilson’s music is sad and makes her sad.) Me? Yes it is sad - but I am with Wilson on this

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“I don’t tend to write songs about things that make me happy. I tend to write songs about things that make me angry or melancholic or sad.\nThose are the things that make me want to express or exercise something through my songwriting.\nThere’s a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia."

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💬 Steven Wilson

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In no particular order - other than this is the order the tracks got played .. and Yes … Apple Music - because why wouldn’t you?

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🔗🎵 ‎The Watchmaker - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Pariah (feat. Ninet Tayeb) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Permanating (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Trains - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Sectarian - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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‎🔗🎵 ‎Four Chords That Made a Million - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music

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‎🔗🎵 ‎Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎The Raven That Refused to Sing - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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‎🔗🎵 ‎Grace for Drowning - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Index - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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‎Belle De Jour - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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‎🔗🎵 ‎Postcard - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎PERSONAL SHOPPER - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music - featuring Elton John on ‘Shopping List’.

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Luminol - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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🔗🎵 ‎‎Deform to Form a Star - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music

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‎🔗🎵 ‎Signify - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music

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💬 I would argue that the thought is far from ‘heretical’. What say you?

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💬

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🔗 💬 The Whole Thing

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Don’t know about you - but it definitely resonates for this bear.

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💬

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I read this today

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in 🔗 Austin Kleon’s Newsletter.

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Now let me be clear - I am not so old that I ever used one, BUT

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I do know what it is and where it was used … and sadly I am old enough to have had a boss who did have such a thing on his desk.

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I just looked up Austin on Wikipedia - we aren’t that many years apart … FTW.

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LATER THOUGHT - In my younger years I was in the U.K. and Austin will have been in the U.S.A. (Clutching at Straws?)

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I agree. I am increasingly pissed off by the thought police. I have two unpublished posts that I need to get out through the door around this.

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I’m not interested in making my opinions “advertiser-friendly,” nor in virtue-signaling to censorious, self-righteous ideologues. It’s popular amongst the simple-minded these days to label people as bigots on the basis of colorful remarks. In so doing, the self-appointed thought police often completely miss the point the writer was trying to make. As a feral Gen Xer, I don’t have the patience to walk on eggshells around thin-skinned people. If I can’t be honest and authentic, then why bother?

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💬 Jennifer Devastatia del Gato

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The original article on Manu’s website : Jennifer Devastatia del Gato – Manu

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Coincidentally I dropped a note on Jennifers guestbook a couple of weeks ago. Her site is something to behold.

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💬 Indeedy Doody …

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Over in a more ‘private’ group there was a side discussion on Music … specifically .. ‘Country’ and someone had brought up Beyonce .. and well, time to throw in a comment …

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Beyoncé does ‘Country’ and not one word about ‘cultural appropriation’ 🤪 no comment from this section of the Peanut Gallery … even Tay Tay had to break out of that genre. I will look up Garth’s contribution to the Muppets Multiverse.

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Feeling that my strategically placed emoji was sufficient to indicate that there was a certain amount of playful humor going on. (Or so I thought.)

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It took a few days for this reply (my bold)

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I understand you were just making a comment, but I feel it is important to check your facts before making claims about cultural appropriation that may just be fuel for a false fire. ….

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… and the writer went on about the contribution of black musicians to the genre " who have been unheard and unacknowledged, and who have contributed so much in largely unrecognized ways." .. etc etc, stuff anybody with a pulse would know .. and then went on about what they have done in ‘Country’.

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… and .. what facts?

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I resisted responding how the Beatles at the beginning and the Stones - almost forever - did exactly the same thing, as did Led Zeppelin - oh and Elvis. I KNOW - well documented ….

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I elected not to respond at all. And instead became decidedly less vocal in there at least 😵‍💫)

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Curious that back in April 🖇️ I had cause to write this. I didn’t highlight it at the time - but I wrote it in response to a different thread in this exact same group where I was accused of using tired and well worj sterotypes and tropes.

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My approach is not to respond and ignore. Easy.

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But - is there something else going on?

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Thoughts?

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Prompted to write all this because - well this reminded me …

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\n", "date_published": "2024-06-22T12:39:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/is-this-how.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","LongForm","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/22/amongst-all-the.html", "content_html": "

Amongst all the hoopla you don’t often read that.

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🎈173/366 I know Mighty Networks aren’t the only show in town but she is not wrong. I remain amazed how people keep building THEIR communities inside the silos. You explain and the response often includes how they have so many people in their ‘socialsilo’ group. I can’t be bothered to explain any more.

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💬

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💬

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I need to understand what this means. It’s from an essay that I tried to read, which lead me to the conclusion that I am definitely not the target reader, which might explain why this seems to be the absolute opposite of my understanding of even ‘why’ an ecosystem.

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I will try to 🚧 revisit.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-06-17T19:38:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/17/i-need-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/17/we-live-in.html", "content_html": "

We live in a world where everything is Alternative .. and so nothing is.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-06-17T19:32:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/17/we-live-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/17/curious-final-line.html", "content_html": "

Curious final line in Matt Mullenweg’s post re Apple Intelligence.

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(Interesting that Apple has now started to adopt the playground terminology.)

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💬 Matt Mullenweg

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I am no expert on these things - but …

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  1. Didn’t Wordpress come out with ‘Playgrounds’ last year?
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  2. Haven’t Apple been using ‘Playgrounds’ for around a decade?
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Not seen much comment about this (but then I don’t always read the right things).

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Sadly I won’t be experiencing it any time soon.

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1] Serious props to @gruber and team

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2] If Apple doesn’t know - I feel they should work it out … quickly.

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Stopping now - 🔗 📼 to watch the 2D version.

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When asked how I juggle so many different roles, I explain that each time I add a new one, I do all the others a bit worse. …

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💬 Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming

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💬 A Couple O’ Crackers that resurfaced today …

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💬

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💬 .. just a reminder. Not the first time I have posted this.

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Found on a 1Password thread …

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Left unchecked you may stop worrying about building the best product, and you instead focus on building the best business. It is a subtle subconscious switch, but it’ll have massive impact on the product your customers use.

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I like that distinction.

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I’ll come back to this later. Lefsetz has already connected some dots .. but he didn’t go on and introduce the lurking ‘hobby’ that ‘solves this’ and is a clear and present danger to the entertainment industry if they continue to focus on BAU.

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The last paragraph.

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Trump also is a first-time offender with no criminal record.

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💬 Wall Street Journal

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Whilst I understand the thinking behind the first part of that sentence …

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Surely it is only true in as much as he hasn’t previously been caught and held to account.

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Semantics? Sure. But language is important.

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💬 They just accumulate and then you purge saving a few that aren’t particularly the best but do very much resonate at that moment in time.

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The Information

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At this rate, it won’t be too long before Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the U.S. Shares of the AI chip maker rose another 7% on Tuesday to $1,139, giving the company a market capitalization of $2.8 trillion, according to Koyfin data. Apple, by comparison, finished the day with a market cap of $2.9 trillion, while Microsoft, the current leader, has a market cap of $3.2 trillion.

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There is something seriously wrong with the Stock market. Yeah - I know. Old News.

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🔗 Darn

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Q: We’ve been getting a lot of questions about an alleged Winston Churchill quotation and I’m trying to verify if it’s genuine. The story is that when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” Have you ever seen this quote? I’ve seen a lot of sources saying that it’s fake but I would love to get your opinion.

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💬 Dan Evon, Snopes.com

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The quote came to mind about 80% through Ken Burns Brandeis address.

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[🔗 📼 You can watch it here.](Ken Burns, H’24 Keynote Address to Brandeis University’s 2024 Graduates)

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Speak as if you know what you’re talking about. Listen as if you don’t.\nAct as a way to find out.

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💬 Mark Manson

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N I C E

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💬

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I have to say, being English and all that - well, I don’t usually do this kind of thing - but he gave me permission to use his name, so …

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🤯

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Honored? Without a doubt.

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Speechless? Definitely. Apparently not.

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GOBSMACKED? Totally.

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💬 About that IndieWeb thingy …

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Sometimes Gallagher just nails it …

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🔗 Read The Whole Thing

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Cathedrals are places designed to show their creator’s opulence and power, but they’re also designed to alter our senses, to throw us into alternate worlds, so that they can open us our minds to change. If that’s the case, what will these places be in the 21st century?

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Good question that was running through my mind when I stumble across this quote …

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“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

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💬 David Foster Wallace

\n

Worlds Colliding. The piece I was reading was 🔗 Cathedrals of the 21st Century from Unchartered Territories, that ends …

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You can see similar processes at play today in places like courtrooms or parliaments, albeit more subdued: They are big, solemn, sound is controlled and there are ceremonies, serious uniforms…

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… and then immediately …

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But you can also apply the same principles and end up with a completely different setting and experience: nightclubs.

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If that observation makes you sit up you should go read the whole thing. Also, some great images throughout as you read Tomas Pueyo’s observations across geography and time.

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Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, is nearing a multiyear deal to spend $10 billion to rent Oracle cloud servers

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\n

💬 The Information

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10 BILLION. To RENT.

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To catch you up, you might have missed 🔗 📼 this video .. you can see it at the bottom of the page.

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When I first saw it, I liked the visual effect - but really - not the message. As I wrote over on 🔗 John’s blog

\n
\n

I saw that vid .. kinda like it .. BUT .. I dunno … destroy everything physical, crush it to nothing ?

\n
\n

Unbeknownst to this bear - a lot of people were of the same opinion. A ‘furor’ indeed.

\n

Anyway, in the comments thread on John’s blog he highlighted 🔗this ’twitter post’ from Reza Sixo Safai. This is the 🔗 tweet

\n

Now on occasions I do pop out from under my rock and have noticed that these days Twitter isn’t a very nice place to go anymore. So - on behalf of you dear reader, I donned my protective suit, sprayed myself from top to bottom, grabbed the video and behold …. With all and every credit to Reza. ’Twitter’ is the only reason I pulled it to be here - because Twitter, so now all can view it - and those with protective clothing can pop over and see for themselves.

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My comment cannot be better than this one …

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This is unironically one of the cleverest creative feats I have ever seen. To take a widely-publicized, universally panned ad and then turning it into the exact ad that it should have been, communicating the desired message 10000x better.

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\n

💬 Amal Dorai

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Rafah’s fate hung in the balance on Monday after Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire-for-hostage deal but Israel responded skeptically and carried out night airstrikes on Gaza’s southernmost city.

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\n

… whatever happens now - whatever is said - why on earth would Hamas believe anything being said.

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My mum used to tell me that what you say is not important - it is how you act.

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Cards Played.

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📡 Follow with RSS

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🗄️ All the posts

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💬 I know what he means …

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💬 I like this distinction.

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🎈118/366

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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.

\n
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💬 Søren Kierkegaard

\n

\"straight

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\n

📡 Follow with RSS

\n

🗄️ All the posts

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Does

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And (of course) the US and allies drove the nazis to full and complete surrender.

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Mean the same \\ Have the same conclusion .. feeling(?) \\ Correctly reflect history as

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And (of course) the allies and the US drove the nazis to full and complete surrender.

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\n

If not .. which do you feel is more accurate?

\n

How would you write the sentence?

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\n

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.

\n
\n

💬 Søren Kierkegaard

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Another discovery from the archives … although only March, so not so bad.

\n
\n

Many of us seek status and belonging without even seeing it; we find it hard not to react to what others are doing, especially those we have been programmed to want to impress. We’re reactive without realizing it. We put limits on ourselves because we buy into other people’s rules. It’s the fundamental limit I’ve observed in most people, including myself and most founders: they define success by succeeding according to the rules that others have defined. 

\n
\n

💬 Mike Maples

\n

🔗 Source (Medium) - so heaven only knows how I stumbled on this one - other than Mike is actually very good at what he does - so maybe I was looking out from him?

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It has been brought to my attention that assumptions have been made - and - call me a stickler - that pisses me off.

\n

Some level setting

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My mum was born just outside of Manchester.
\nMy mum’s parents were Mancunians.
\nMy dad was brought up in Rochdale.
\nMy dad’s parents were .. well, that is a long story.

\n

I was brought up in York (not born - but then I wasn’t born in the UK - so there’s that).

\n

Suffice to say that I would never have been able to play for Yorkshire - even if was good enough (I wasn’t even close … I got to play for my ‘house’ once because only 11 of us turned up) .. and by the way - despite what it sounds like my ‘house’ wasn’t part of a ‘public’ school.

\n

(Oh - and in England - public schools are actually private - I know - it’s all fucked up}

\n

Still, I am Yorkshire enough to know that this was a rule (until all the other clubs started bringing on international players and - well - ‘knocking them for six’.)

\n

Suffice to say, I am without a doubt of Northern Stock .. and proud of it.

\n

If You Are Keeping Track

\n

It has been a while, but people that ‘fancy themselves with accents’ still pick up my Yorkshire twang.

\n

My People First thinking probably emerges from my early (I wasn’t even a teen) introduction to ‘cooperatives’, that you may know got their start in Rochdale (guess who I learned that from).

\n

He also told me all about Gracie Fields .. arguably one of the most famous Rochdale alumni (despite living out her final years in Capri) .. I sometimes wonder if this very early introduction to a singer from a previous generation sort of shaped some of my takes on music?

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Despite never having lived in Lancashire, if there is one football team I could be described as supporting .. it would be ManU … because my Dad and Grandad were both supporters, ie long before it was fashionable to love them.

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I am old enough to remember Cyril Smith .. and even though in those days I was not particularly politically aware, he made sense to me .. maybe that Rochdale fairness and equality shining through.

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So What?

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All this to say that when (and it is when - not if) I make a joke about ‘the north’, such as there should be customs at Watford Gap or the M25 is the inspiration behind the movie ‘Truman’, flat caps, ay up, whippets … whatever the hell it is … I am having fun - and dear ‘Upset Notherner’ - I would strongly suggest you get over yourself.

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I would further argue that customs at Watford Gap would be highly beneficial to The North, because customs work both ways.

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Facts

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.. just a few - I could go on.

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Flat Caps
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Flat caps are dress accessories that fall between casual and formal. Back in the 19th century, a flat cap was a sign of working class men but has now evolved to being a piece of headgear popular among elites. Men who wear a flat cap these days are trendsetters and well-dressed men in Hollywood.

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💬 W and H

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🔗 Source

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AyUp
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… ‘appen, ee bah gum - its all dialect people .. and if someone from Yorkshire is going to accuse me of cultural appropriation OR cultural sterotyping - well - I say Fuck You.

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Whippets
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Have you been to a party recently? Read the internet? Whippets might not be what you think I mean. But let’s say I am talking about the dog .. they have been a recognized bread in Kennel Clubs around the world for nearly 1 1/2 centuries. Moreover, it was a Whippet that won the Frisbee Dog World Championship three years in a during the seventies. They are great dogs and why is it bad to be associated with Whippets?

\n
The Myth Is Busted .. years ago.
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\n

Bottom line, this fits in the Politically Correct space that is absorbing this world in a very bad way. No - you cannot tell me how I want to say things or reference them - particualrly if they are MY HERITAGE.

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Substack is a unified media ecosystem. It encompasses both publishing and conversation. This duality is important, because ….. ramble ramble ramble

\n
\n

.. Hamish McKenzie over on Substack but I liked the first part and racking my brains to try and recall where I’d seen that idea before …

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It occurred to me watching a Martin Scorcese documentary about the life of George Harrison, how much people in music seek out opportunities to create with other musicians. In technology, it doesn’t happen, we don’t even look at each other’s software.

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💬 Dave Winer

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🔗 Source

\n", "date_published": "2024-04-15T23:06:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/15/it-occurred-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/i-am-still.html", "content_html": "

I am still running these words in my mind …

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Starting right now we must invest time and resources to hone, sculpt and architect the six key skills will be essential in the future to complement machines, co-exist with change, and ensure continuous re-invention.
\nThree of these have to do with individual competence (Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity) and three how we connect with each other and the world outside our minds including new AI agents. (Collaborate, Communicate, Convince).

\n
\n

💬 Media Village

\n

🖇️Their Site

\n", "date_published": "2024-04-14T23:12:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/i-am-still.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/13/andy-warhol-once.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Andy Warhol once promised everybody 15 minutes of fame, but on TikTok that often gets reduced to 15 seconds of attention.”

\n
\n

💬 Ted Gioia

\n", "date_published": "2024-04-13T11:09:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/13/andy-warhol-once.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/13/manu-writing-about.html", "content_html": "

🎈103/366

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💬

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Manu writing (about) how I feel.

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\n

📡 Follow with RSS

\n

🗄️ All the posts

\n", "date_published": "2024-04-13T09:34:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/13/manu-writing-about.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","366"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/30/i-think-microblog.html", "content_html": "
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I think micro.blog is going to get very interesting once the APIs for all these random social networks fill out.#

\n
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💬 Dave Winer

\n

Nice - and prolly right. Which reminds me.

\n

Blogrolls …

\n

On the @dave blogroll 🔗 at scripting.com his order pushes blogs with ‘latest post’ to the top - any plans on something like that for Micro Blog @manton ?

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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💬 T. S. Eliot

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💬 You might guess that the I hate the name of the book, but there’s more. Read the sentence. The whole thing is just wrong.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-08T21:02:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/08/you-might-guess.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/08/i-thought-it.html", "content_html": "

I thought it was only me that 💬 said that.

\n

\"\"

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💬 I knew there was a good reason to procrastinate.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-08T20:22:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/08/i-knew-there.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/proactive-tldr.html", "content_html": "

💬 Proactive TL;DR

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T18:07:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/proactive-tldr.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/via-stowe-boyd.html", "content_html": "

💬 via Stowe Boyd

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💬

\n

I really don’t like ‘PM’ - so I take great delight from reading pieces like this. Robert Hutton is seriously funny and yet its true.

\n

\"\"

\n

If you want to read the whole thing - 🖇️ I Put it up on Readwise - and you can speed read my highlights - some real zingers.

\n", "date_published": "2024-02-06T16:46:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/06/i-really-dont.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Links"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/06/one-afternoon-when.html", "content_html": "
\n

”One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace.”

\n
\n

💬 Victor Borge

\n

Via John Naughton

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-05T14:12:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/05/151213.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/bob-nails-it.html", "content_html": "

💬 🔗 Bob nails it

\n

Lefsetz and Gioia have deep music backgrounds, but I often find that their writing about other things often resonates with me far more than the people that should be pointing things like this out.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:53:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/bob-nails-it.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/ted-is-often.html", "content_html": "

💬 🎵

\n

Ted is often very wise.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:47:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/ted-is-often.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/ordinary-people-sometimes.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

‘Ordinary’ people sometimes make their decisions based on not wanting to be on the wrong side of history. Pity that government ‘people’ don’t think about that.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:47:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/ordinary-people-sometimes.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/to-put-it.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

To put it into perspective!

\n

No matter how many books there are out there about business survival, it never seems to sink in.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:44:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/to-put-it.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/and-the-winner.html", "title": "🎈033/366 | 🥇 And The Winner Is …", "content_html": "
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« 032/366 | 034/366 »

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\"and

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’And The Winner Is' By 'Leonardo'
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\n

This 366 project is officially one month in, so I thought I’d take a look at how we are doing on the ‘view’ front .. I won’t use ‘read’ (no assumptions here 😀).. so, without further ado, and for your delectation, coming in at Number 5 …

\n

5 : 🖇️ 013/366 ⌨️ Typewriters .. and more.

\n

And so on down the line …

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4 : 🖇️ 026/366 | 🆔 The ‘entity’ in Identity.

\n

3 : 🖇️ 004/366 | 🏢 Demonstrating The Pace Layer).

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2 : 🖇️ 003/366 | 💬 A New Purpose.

\n

And the winner - at least for this month, coming in at number …

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1 : 🖇️ 002/366 | ♟️ Is There Planning In Strategy❓

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Thoughts

\n

Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are respectively the 2nd, 3rd and 4th posts in the series, so not surprised.

\n

I am surprised at the 26th post coming as high as 4th, after all, It only had 5 days to get there.

\n

By the time you get down to Number 5 - well, it’s a topic that resonates, and had a full half month to ‘move on up’, so once again, no real surprise.

\n

I will run the numbers again next month, for February - and again for January - and will also provide a ‘year to date’. Be interesting to see the comparisons. (BTW, I am specifically running the data between specific dates - in this case for example Jan 1 to Jan 31 - not just ‘last month’.)

\n

I am also interested to see if this posts gives a jump on these particular posts, so I will check the data in 7 days.

\n

That’s all for now - except to say, my many thanks to 🔗 Vincent who wrote and maintains the 🔗 tinylytics app that in turn produces the data I need to write this email. Couldn’t do without it.

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😂🤣👀💬

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💬

\n

I think he has …

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\n

It’s starting to feel like the only thing scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions.

\n
\n

💬 Dan Wang

\n

via John Naughton.

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🔗 Donald Trump wins Republican primary in New Hampshire

\n
\n

He is representing the American people. He is not out for himself. He’s not out for political gain. He’s not out for financial reasons. He doesn’t need money, he doesn’t need fame and fortune. He already has all of that.

\n
\n

💬 Tina Lorenzo, 63, a Trump supporter since 2016

\n

No comment … you know 🖇️ my position

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\n

Never base your identity on politics. The world will eventually change, but you won’t.

\n
\n

💬 Mark Manson

\n

… except I don’t agree. Unless I am missing something?

\n

What do you think?

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\n

“Wisdom is when you stop over-investing in every shiny new idea, feeling, or person that comes along.”

\n
\n

💬 Mark Manson

\n

Hell yes - tell me about it.

\n

Well, except for apps … and notebooks … and pens of course - don’t forget pens … and that new craft ale … not to mention exploring that new idea that Jim shared last night, Oh and that new blogging tool thingy. Yeah - I think I am covered. Or maybe …..

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💬

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« 015/366 | 017/366 »

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\"a

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Somebody else’s grass is greener. Always.

\n

Just finished a conversation with a Turkish gentleman who has now lived in New Zealand for 10 years. Came here to learn English. He has. Now moving to Perth …

\n
\n

You can earn twice the money and buy twice the house for half the money. What can go wrong?

\n
\n

Indeed, what can go wrong? So much, but then doing nothing solves nothing and it still can go wrong. Plus his journey time ‘home’ will be halved - as will the cost of the flight.

\n

If people leaving their own country to get a better life in New Zealand are leaving to get a better life in Australia - is it any wonder that so many Kiwis do exactly that?

\n

I hear of this talked about amongst people - a lot. At the policy level - not so much.

\n

If you think housing is expensive where you live, consider New Zealand - where a ’tradie’, a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a coder, a … pretty much any skill class you can think if can emigrate across the Tasman sea, earn twice the money and buy a similar property for half the price - is it any surprise that they are?

\n

Meanwhile, I know a few Kiwis who have lived abroad for most of their life and will be ‘coming home’ to retire.

\n

Does anyone else see a problem?

\n

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\"a

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An excellent show from the mighty John Oliver taking on McKinsey in this one. You know … the company that advised Purdue on how to sell more Oxy. Spin through to 15:50 … to hear this one.

\n
\n

Mr. Sternfels they didn’t have experience - they were the identical humans working for both at the same time.

\n
\n

💬 Katie Porter

\n

🔗 📼 McKinsey

\n

Cleaning out the swamp, stopping the revolving door of public service and corporate interest … it really doesn’t matter what you call it - what is clear that the swamp / cesspool / revolving doors are very much alive and well - no matter what anyone claims.

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\"Future

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A couple of click throughs in this morning’s review triggered this post.

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It started here … 🔗 Substack Barely Does The Bare Minimum

\n

which linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: Make the indie web easier

\n

which then linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: More on the easier indie web

\n

TL;DR

\n

A few links to interesting places that are about the indie web - but with an undercurrent of something that I have been banging on about forEVER …

\n
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If we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.

\n
\n

💬 Giles Turnbull'

\n

YES

\n

There are a few - and indeed MicroBlog is one such example (that is not listed in those links) … although even MicroBlog has its challenges.\nI think the overall challenge is two fold;
\n1] It is not easy.
\n- so requires significant resources to make it a reality.
\n2] Does ‘everybody’ care enough?
\n- because if they don’t - I feel the TAM might be pretty small - and will include a large number of people already in the camp of what we have is good enough.

\n

\"Current

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🔗 Interesting piece from Om today.

\n

I think he’s right about that up there. What I am not so sure about is this down here.

\n

\"\"

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Why?

\n

Because it will bring all those ‘EEJITS’ out of the woodwork, who maintain that ’Steve’ did everything and Tim has done nothing, isn’t innovative, riding the coat tails etc …

\n

(Count me in the camp of the people that believe that had Tim NOT done what Tim did when he did it, that there wouldn’t even be a significant enough Apple to do what he is doing now.)

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My thinking is slow, so my writing process is slow.

\n
\n

💬 Matt Stoller

\n

… I know what he means.

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« 006/366 | 008/366 »

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\"Pace

\n

A couple of days ago I wrote a little (very little) about Stewart Brand’s 🖇️ Pace layer. It’s worth clicking through - not just to my short piece, but in turn the links in that post.

\n

Still - to the point.

\n

Andy Hamilton dropped a post on LinkedIN a couple of days ago referencing an Australian report called ‘Barriers to collaboartion and commercialization’ asking if there were lessons that can be learned fro New Zealand. And so ‘the people’ weighed in - with the inevitable group waxing lyrical about business and government working hand in hand to innovate and become world leaders in ….

\n

Pipe dreams - and ‘Pace Layers’, illustrated above explain why.

\n

The model was developed by Stewart Brand and Brian Eno of all people. A quick study will reveal why government involvement in innovation is flawed. If you are still missing the challenge comes down to the

\n
\n

The order of a healthy civilization. The fast layers innovate; the slow layers stabilize. The whole combines learning with continuity.

\n
\n

💬 Stewart Brand

\n

It reminds me of something 🔗 Venkatesh Rao wrote about many years ago - and which I in turn referenced in my 🔗 book a couple of years ago.

\n
\n\n
\n

Bottom Line

\n

I have always had a fundamental problem with government being joined at the hip with business. In principle, it sounds lovely. It can work. It does work … but not if you want to be fast, innovative, different, leading edge, using new technologies - all of these things are not part of a government’s DNA - the pace layer model reveals why it won’t work.

\n

Whatever speed government works at, it still wont be fast enough for business and if you slow down business to more readily accommodate government, then others will beat you to market.

\n

Just three case studies out of the hundreds if not thousands just in the software industry; Uber, AirBNB and Facebook.

\n

And don’t get me started on Tesla, The Boring Compnay, SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink and the rest of the ‘Musk Suite.

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\n

Continuing on from yesterday’s post (4/366), Martinborough is actually a planned town, originally laid out by

\n

Its center square and the roads running into it were laid out to represent a Union Jack.

\n
\n

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life

\n
\n

💬 Oscar Wilde

\n

The names of the roads through ‘old Martinborough’ are named after towns in Europe that Mr. Martin travelled to on a world tour before he laid out his new town. Later - as the world moved towards World War 1, some of the more germanic sounding street names were changed to celebrate important Military leaders of the time - hence Kitchener.

\n

\"\"

\n

Meanwhile - head down Kitchener Street to the square and back out along Jellicoe Road there are three mural on the wall. This is one of them celebrating The Martinborough Hotel.

\n

\"\"

\n

The Artist seems to have an understanding of how the town came to be - or are the bags on the Fiat actually those of the visitors to Martinborough - and not of Mr. Martin. Then again - when Mr. Martin was traveling, I am not sure the car had been invented, much less the Fiat 500.

\n

Maybe Oscar had it right? Maybe the artist is predicting the arrival of the Fiat 500 - so that life can indeed imitate art?

\n

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\"\"

\n

Over the break, I had the fortune (not committing to whether that’s good or bad, since that is a whole different story) to visit Martinborough in the Wairarapa - one of New Zealand’s wine regions. It’s a cute little town that includes a single ‘supermarket’.

\n

On one visit I noticed two photographs on the wall - the building from the early part of the last century, photographed in 1906 ….

\n

… and a second of a different building (same site) in 1949.

\n

\"\"

\n

As I took the photographs of the photographs, I commented to a couple passing by and watching me that it was a shame that a beautiful building such as the original was replaced by the ‘flat pack’.

\n

I assumed that some bright spark had decided to pull the old one down in favor of the ‘modern, sleek lined building’.

\n

Never assume.

\n

Yes the old one was pulled down - but after a major earthquake rendered part of it flat and part of it unsafe - and I get why you would want to modernize and I know why the designs changed - but that’s not what this is about.

\n

What it’s about is that the photographs and conversation reminded me of a 🔗 recent post from Stowe Boyd that referenced Stewart Brand’s book 🔗 How Buildings Learn which in turn built on the ideas of British architect Frank Duffy.

\n
\n

Buildings aren’t made out of glass, concrete and stone: they’re made out of time, layers of time.

\n
\n

💬 Frank Duffy

\n

Brand’s model is clear;

\n

\"\"

\n

… and the two images reveal it in action. No images from the inside of the store - though for the Kiwi’s amongst you, I can say that the Martinborough FourSquare is the nicest (and largest) FourSquare I have ever visited. (For Brits, think of a FourSquare as something like one of those Tesco or Safeways Mini-marts we find in ever increasing numbers around the British Isles. Think of the Martinborough Foursquare as more akin to a mid sized Waitrose. For American readers … Wholefoods? High end Safeways?

\n

All that said - look at Brand’s model carefully and consider buildings you know and how they relate.

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\"It

\n

Interesting to read 🔗 this from Om. I definitely did not feel that all of last year, but definitely in the past couple of months, something in me has been coming together. It’s as if bits of Lego have been suddenly snapping together, around writing, my work programmes and the connected thinking.

\n

It’s not just the new year. There’s a fundamental shift I am feeling.

\n

The question is whether it is an aberration, or something that will translate to something that will stay for part of the journey.

\n

I think it’s the latter.

\n

LATER

\n

Funny .. as I published this post, someone sent me this;

\n

\"caterpillar,

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\n

\"Is

\n

In one of my work programmes there is an ongoing debate around planning and strategy .. one of the team going as far as to suggest that ‘strategic planning’ is an oxymoron (my words). This seems to nicely channel an aspect of that thinking.

\n

This particular quote

\n

\"If

\n

is taken from 🔗 this article, which in turn arrived with me from discussions over at the UNdaunted. You’ll be hearing more about them over the next year.)

\n

I think it also plays into the old adage (I paraphrase) ..

\n
\n

“All plans are a waste … but planning is essential.”

\n
\n

For me. I think there is truth in this line of thought.

\n

What do you think?

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💬 The (LATEST) Red Hand Files - You can ask me anything. There will be no moderator. This will be between you and me. Let’s see what happens. Much love, Nick : The Red Hand Files

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… privacy is mostly a settled issue in the physical world, and a grace of civilized life. Clothing, for example, is a privacy technology. So are walls, doors, windows and shades.

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Private spaces in public settings are well understood (…) . This is why no store on Main Street would plant a tracking beacon in the pants of a visiting customer, to report back on that customer’s activities — just so the store or some third party can “deliver” a better “experience” through advertising. Yet this kind of thing is beyond normative on the Web: it is a huge business.

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💬 Doc Searls

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(Trump is a) bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war.

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💬 Cornell West

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“Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called ‘The Dead Kennedys’, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.”

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💬 Herb Caen

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“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family. . . . When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated. Our name is actually homage to the American Dream.”

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💬 Raymond John (East Bay Ray) Pepperell (Dead Kennedies)

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Somehow Britain now has a refugee policy so bonkers that even the Rwandans are worried it might be a bit harsh. And this is a country that recently shot 12 refugees dead. 

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💬 Robert Hutton

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I’m still puzzled why NPR and CNN and Harvard and other legacy institutions haven’t set up on Substack. But they clearly have zero interest in doing so—even if they could make money and expand their audience.\nYet these same institutions launched on Threads the very first day. They couldn’t sign up as soldiers for Mark Zuckerberg’s new empire fast enough.

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💬 Ted Goia

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Read it

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Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.

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💬 Judge Chutkan

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

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💬 Upton Sinclair

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We can do it quick, fast and safe, but it doesn’t necessarily taste great.

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💬 Chris Young

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Chris is McDonald’s senior director of global menu strategy.

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Three thoughts

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Global Menu Strategy is a job! Who knew?

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Isn’t ‘taste’ his job? .. So is he new in and shaking it up .. or is it his fault?

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I wonder what his boss thinks of that quote?

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We are here on Earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I do not know.

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💬 W. H. Auden

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💬 via John Naughton

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Somewhere else on the interwebs, my friend Perry Offer wrote …

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There is no power for those who want it, in truth.

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💬 Perry Offer

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… which I had been meaning to capture in here for posterity … and then I stumbled on this.

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Truth Requires Power — Truth in itself is no power at all, in spite of all that flattering rationalists are in the habit of saying to the contrary. Truth must either attract power to its side, or else side with power, for otherwise it will perish again and again. This has already been sufficiently demonstrated, and more than sufficiently!

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💬 Friedrich Nietzsche

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The creative adult is the child who has survived.

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💬 Ursula Le Guin

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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💬 Voltaire

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.

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💬 Annie Dillard

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-21T04:15:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/20/how-we-spend.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/16/i-have-never.html", "content_html": "
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I have never seen so many tech CEOs come to town to wine, dine and opine.

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💬 Jessica Lessin

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(On Joe and Xi hanging in SFO.)

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-17T13:17:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/16/i-have-never.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/im-years-old.html", "content_html": "

💬 🔗 I’m 17 years old, and I don’t know if I want to record and publish an EP …

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The answer on the click through , but in summary …

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💬

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💬

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Via John Naughton

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💬

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Let’s call it ‘his brand’.

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-09-18T23:00:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/18/040037.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/the-word-world.html", "content_html": "
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The word world, even when preceded by the immodest adjective real, is a self-consciously anthropocentric one that seems curiously aware of its own artificiality. Unlike planet, which decenters the human, or universe, which renders the human infinitesimal, world seems to carry with it an unspoken irrational commitment to the centered human, with all the absurdities such centering entails.

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💬 Venkatesh Rao

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-09-17T03:14:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/16/081439.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/09/mbsept-a-little.html", "content_html": "

📸 230909 🖇️ #MBSept

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A little north of Auckland these is something called Sculptereum, and in one of the corners of Sculptereum, there is an installation that includes one of my favorite quotes.

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Music [is] an art form that transcends language.

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💬 Herbie Hancock

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He was (is) a lovely man. I had to lean in to hear what he was saying. So I did. Our conversation continued and he apologized for his speech. No apology necessary, but he had identified that it was hard for me to hear (loud place aside), he was also a little ‘croakey’.

\n

He explained that he had had cancer.

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Cancer of the throat.

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Three times.

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He was diagnosed in 2017. The doctors recommended he have surgery. He went through the surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.

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A year later in 2018, the doctors did a PET Scan, and found ‘some more’, so they recommended he have surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.

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A year later in 2019, the doctors did a PET Scan, and found ‘some more’, so they recommended he have surgery and ‘radio’ and ‘chemo’. “Let’s see” they said.

\n

He got his clearance a year later in 2020, and as I write, it is 2023. Finally he is three years clear.

\n

He is such a positive, focussed, alive person … despite not having eaten solid food for 5 years. Despite having to grind the pills he needs to take daily into a powder before he can swallow them. Despite having lost so much of his throat where the surgeon had cut and cut and cut … to remove the cancer. Despite having had his vocal cords so damaged that the raspy, quiet speech is now his voice. Despite no longer having any of this teeth left because of the radiation therapy. Despite all of this and so much more … like going through all of this totally alone.

\n

His positivity was absolutely awe inspiring.

\n

No ‘poor me’. No ‘why me’. No ‘sad face’. Just happy and grateful to be alive - and alive he most certainly is. Living life as much to the full as he can as he put it.

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—

\n

All of this resonated deeply.

\n

My cancer diagnosis was January 2021. It was identical. Both of us were ‘T2, stage 4’, with three significant differences.

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As of now, it looks like we beat it … having got my two year clearance just a few weeks ago.

\n

That said at the time, hospitalized twice, in the first visit, Jax was told to be prepared for me ‘not to make it’. I was warned that everything that Cody is experiencing could be me plus, needing a cane to walk, maybe even a wheelchair. For me, I have essentially blocked this all out (my way of coping), so this served as a massive wake up call … a bigger one than I experienced when I walked into a new doctor who looked past me waiting for ‘John’ … expecting to see me hobbling in at best. Or another doctor here in the US who knew my background from the advance files that he had received and was stunned that they hadnt operated and ‘looked this good’.

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Sure I have side effects, some of which I am told will be with me for the rest of my life, but compared to Cody … so insignificant that I shouldn’t mention it. I tend not to, but sometimes people ask.

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’”

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💬 Hunter S Thompson

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.. I try, but ain’t nothing compared to Cody who is doing just that … in Spades.

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This is a story from my occasional series ‘🖇️ Travels Without Charley’ - my small ‘homage’ to John Steinbeck. The names are changed to protect the innocent, but they are all true and based on conversations I have had with people that I have met around the world … and who’s story resonates.

\n

This particular one - more than any other in the published (and unpublished) series - resonated more than any other.

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🔗 Predicting Apple Services.

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Horace is one of my favorite analysts. Love to know how accurate this is.

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🔗 Money does not solve disasters like this.

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\"The

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Context

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Over on LinkedIN, a friend of mine shared a post by Phil Morle 🔗 on whether institutions / corporates can be founders. I wrote a long reply which caused LinkedIN to barf and reject my reply, which in turn caused me to publish two separate pieces; 🖇️ Don’t Trust The Silos. and 🖇️ Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Silos To Publish Their Thinking., neither of which are pertinent to understanding the flow of this ‘reply’, but I wanted to highlight why this isn’t a reply on the post.

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In Summary

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I asked ChatGPT to summarize the post. 🖇️ In 200 characters AND 200 words … not by usual gorgeous style 🤣 - but not wrong.

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My Reply

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The piece was good and I wanted to add my two cents, since on initial read I found it confusing. My interpretation of the core premise is to better understand some of the reasons behind why large organizations often fail to ‘innovate’, where ‘tiny companies’ succeed.

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The confusion I had started in the title of the piece, ‘Can Institutions Be Founders’ … which extended into the piece itself.

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Confused because IMHO, founders are people and whether an organization is big or small, new or old, innovative or staid … they are not people, though they are made up of people … and processes, strategies, plans …

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… yes … AND … the organization doesn’t allow the founder to behave like one.

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PayPal, to randomly choose an innovative start up, was an organization with a large number of subsequently famous founders that went on to start many other successful innovative companies that changed the landscape of business. The founders were/are people. It is people that are the innovators. The startups, the organizations are the vehicles that enable that change.

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One of the great unspoken truths of the start up world is that despite our worship of the individual, we ignore that they don’t do it by themselves. They have an idea and build a company made up of many people to realize their vision. The team all contribute to the organizations success. Don’t look to me to document the traits of a great ‘founder’, plenty of places to check that list, just to say that an organization can allow those traits to soar and create … or they can kill it.

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Jobs, Gates, Ellison … insert your ‘hero of choice’ … are great at what they do/did because of their original vision, their leadership, their focus, their tenacity, their communications, their sales ability and so much more … but none of them succeeded without their team to realize their ambition.

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In other words .. it is the Organisation that delivers the vision.

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So the real question is why does it more often than not, take an organization called a startup to deliver those transformative innovations rather than an existing organization? (Yes - there are exceptions.) Remember Gates and Ellison seperately out innovated IBM, Jobs, Xerox, FinTech startups are leaving Banks and Financial Institutions in the dust, Bezos destroyed the bookstores … it’s an epidemic .. but we associate the founders name with the innovation and success .. and forget that without the team of people they assembled they could never execute.

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With that caveat out of the way, arguably Ellison could have joined IBM and … with an instant team, and finance ‘ready to go’ would likely have failed. Bezos could have joined Barnes and Noble … and failed, the Collison brothers could have joined Citi .. and failed, Jobs … you get the picture.

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They would have failed, not because they didn’t have what it takes, because clearly they do, but rather because because the organization would have clipped their wings.

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Why?

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The topic has been very well studied and reported on in a book called 🔗 Zone To Win by 🔗 Geoffrey Moore possibly more famous for 🔗 Crossing The Chasm

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In the pages of ‘Zone To Win’ you will find a pretty solid analysis of why established organizations fail to innovate. Turns out the first job is to identify what kind of innovation we are talking about …

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… and build from there.

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(Interesting to note that when we talk about ‘innovation’ our minds automatically jumps to what Geoff describes as ‘disruptive innovation’ on the left in the diagram, but there are also ‘sustaining innovations’, which tend to operate inside those large organizations.)

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Meanwhile, the founders build their organizations in their own image, make their own rules, and relentlessly drive their vision over years … sometimes to the frustration of people inside this companies who have their own ideas as to what could happen. For example both Marc Benioff and Tom Siebel are Oracle alumni that had the vision of ‘software for sales’ respectively (not respectfully) creating Salesforce and Siebel. A vision that at the time was not shared by Larry, so they left. Subsequently LJE became a believer having been an early investor in Salesforce, launching NetSuite and eventually buying Siebel.

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In the end, I don’t believe that Phil and I are that far apart in thinking. His summary of the seven people traits are not wrong … but hand in hand with that goes the need for the organization to not just support the fledgling initiative but to actively defend it from the cuckoos who inhabit the rest of the organization.

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.. and a framework to unpack the challenge and work out what an organization can do about it.

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If there is interest I can expand a lot further, but for now, if you have got this far, THANKYOU. What do you think?

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Please throw in your two cents below and let’s see if together we can make a buck.

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Things on the internet can be forever, but you can’t assume someone else will keep them going, especially when it’s stuff like video, which costs real money to host. If you love something, try to get a local copy and store it on a hard drive you control.

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💬 Matt Birchler

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🔗 Read It All

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I agree with Matt on this one - and then go on to explain why I disagree. Trust me … it will make sense.

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[🔗 Birchtree](birchtree.me/blog/chat got-still-hasnt-taken-all-those-jobs/)

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I continue to think that these generative tools are good for augmenting certain workflows, but replacing whole people is going to be very unusual. We’ll see, though.

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💬 Matt Birchler

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I would agree - but that isn’t what is going to happen.

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If you have thirty people in a department’ and AI makes you 10% ‘more efficient’ - a company now only needs 27 people.

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Repeat.

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Across all departments, Across all companies. Across all industries.

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Of course some departments are going to be more affected than others. For example If you are working on a help desk where your job is to answer questions in a call center … well - firstly, that 10% estimate is going to be a lot higher. So - what do you think is going to happen?

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💬

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This is actually the first time that tropical storm watches have been issued on the West Coast of the United States," said Elizabeth Adams, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in San Diego. Typically, when a tropical storm makes its way to the southwestern U.S., it has severely dissipated, weakening to a depression or storm remnants, she said.
\nBut not this time.

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Hang onto your hats. In all senses of the expression.

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It’s a start …

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Vivek Ramaswamy. The millionaire entrepreneur may have “no previous political experience to his name” and “virtually zero name recognition,” but Ramaswamy does have “the number one factor in winning over the pundits and viewers.” And that, he writes, is “an unnatural dose of confidence.”

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💬 Mark McKinnon

\n

Aaah yes - exactly what we need - someone who knows nothing - but is ‘supremely’ ‘confident’ that he can ‘fix it’.

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-19T07:36:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/vivek-ramaswamy-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/15/174654.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-08-16T12:46:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/15/174654.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/12/from-one-of.html", "content_html": "

From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.

\n
\n

As I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world. 

\n
\n

🔗 August 11, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-13T04:33:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/12/from-one-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/11/nick-cave-the.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248

\n
\n

In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.

\n
\n

💬 Nick Cave

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-12T04:33:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/11/nick-cave-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/09/john-naughton-a.html", "content_html": "

🔗 John Naughton

\n
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“A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.”

\n
\n

💬 Benjamin Disraeli

\n
\n

““It is, except that now we have a disorganised one.”

\n
\n

💬 John Naughton

\n

Bonus on the click through. Posters!

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T08:53:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/09/john-naughton-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/09/how-many-priorities.html", "content_html": "
\n

How many priorities do you have in your business and life right now?
\nIf you’re struggling to gain traction, perhaps its your lack of focus that’s causing your lack of growth.

\n
\n

💬 Shawn Blanc

\n

He might just be right when it comes to me.

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-10T02:55:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/09/how-many-priorities.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/07/if-you-arent.html", "content_html": "
\n

“if you aren’t living on the edge you are taking up too much space”

\n
\n

💬 Who Knows

\n

Much as I like the quote, as far as I can tell, there is not a single attributable source.

\n

I definitely do not live on the edge - in any shape nor form. But, I do try to ‘live small’ and not take up too much space.

\n

Recently been thinking that despite best efforts, it seems I am still taking up too much.

\n

Or is my thinking muddied by others living too large and encroaching on my little corner?

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-08T02:34:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/07/if-you-arent.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/and-finally-i.html", "content_html": "
\n

And finally I get it.\nAll this planning, all this assessing of sequences and balancing of resources, it all does exactly what outlines do.\nIt lets you feel busy while you put off the actual writing.

\n
\n

💬 William Gallagher

\n

🔗 Source

\n

and

\n
\n

I hadn’t thought of it like that, but the instant it was said to me, I couldn’t disagree.\nI just didn’t do it.

\n
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:41:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/and-finally-i.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/02/im-afraid-ill.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I’m afraid I’ll be eating my breakfast one morning and choke and I don’t want to die alone.”

\n
\n

🔗 💬 Source

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-03T06:37:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/im-afraid-ill.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/the-antidote-to.html", "title": "The Antidote To Worldcoin", "content_html": "

\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/93d8baf8-871f-4990-8703-b36b52444b1c.png\"

\n

and then there is this ….

\n

\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/1b3e1fc7-0ebe-4085-99fa-97d7bd83f313.png\"

\n

… she’s talking about Sam Altman

\n

🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.

\n
\n

The cryptocurrency industry is rife with projects that embrace the idea of “progressive decentralization”: beginning out as a highly centralized project run by a small group, but promising to eventually turn over control of the project to a DAO. Few ever follow through,10 but it is a convenient way to stave off criticism.

\n
\n

💬 Molly White

\n

In my same ‘reading session’ this piece from my friend Alan Mayo : The Reasonable Future: Identity 2.5 appeared. He concludes;

\n
\n

Some of the world is hell-bent on achieving Identity 3 Decentralization and, ironically, this is not going to happen anytime soon. With our current proven technologies we have all the building blocks to build sophisticated Identity solutions that provide a good customer experience and good security. That is where we should be spending our time, rather than dreaming of an impossible future.

\n
\n

💬 Alan Mayo

\n

The Antidote?

\n

Stop listening to people who are playing both sides of the ‘Business Equation’ - even better … stop acting on their recommendations. Altman isn’t the only one.

\n
\n

This is a 🧶 People First post - to see others in the series, click here.

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T07:11:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/the-antidote-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","Quotewise","LongForm","People First","MyCrafts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/31/is-rock-dead.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)

\n

An interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-08-01T04:49:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/31/is-rock-dead.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/ive-never-been.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime and anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”

\n
\n

💬 Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-31T04:47:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/30/ive-never-been.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/29/103727.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-07-30T05:37:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/29/103727.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/25/we-all-do.html", "content_html": "

We all do what we can.

\n

🔗 Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation.

\n

🔗 AOC joins Hollywood picket line in New York: ‘Solidarity is stronger than greed’

\n

Whilst they do what they can …

\n
\n

It’s incredibly damaging for everybody in terms of the big epics

\n
\n

💬 Mark Borkowski

\n

.. because of course, Mark is a PR Agent and I presume his business is suffering, read more in this piece;

\n

🔗 ‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet.

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-26T03:00:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/25/we-all-do.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/24/an-open-voice.html", "content_html": "

🔗 An open voice mail to @manton from @dave - I have no idea if it all makes sense … BUT … some of you all might? 12 minutes and 54 seconds.

\n
\n

You (‘Manton’) do an unbelievable job in supporting APIs

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-25T05:20:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/24/an-open-voice.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/20/oh-thats-interesting.html", "content_html": "

💬 Oh that’s interesting

\n

In 1936 …

\n\"\"\n

George Orwell published 1984 in 1949

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-07-21T12:10:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/20/oh-thats-interesting.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/18/the-microblogging-ecosystem.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The microblogging ecosystem post Twitter

\n
\n

There won’t be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform’s decline has opened up the world of microblogging.

\n
\n

💬 Adam Tinsworth

\n

Nice summary from @adders on the state of whatever it is that the ‘Twitter Wars’ are all about. My take - he’s not wrong. I often reference Timothy Ruff on this …

\n

\"Protocols

\n

.. though he in turn says we should thank Mike Masnick for the wisdom. Either way, what we all should be rooting for includes ‘open’, ‘portable’, ‘transparent’, you know … all the stuff that people should care about - but somehow the vast majority seem not to.

\n

Protocols are the answer. The trick will need the corporations to give way on their walled garden mentality and the engineers building this brave new world to understand that the other 99.999999999% of the world won’t do it if it is ‘too hard’ - and ‘too hard’ means for the average person - not the MIT rocket scientist.

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-19T04:59:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/18/the-microblogging-ecosystem.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/14/145010.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-07-15T09:50:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/14/145010.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/14/074414.html", "content_html": "

📼 💬 Fran Drescher’s speech

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-07-15T02:44:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/14/074414.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MyYouTubes","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/10/popular-phrases-in.html", "content_html": "

Popular phrases in my world …

\n
\n

I play the guitar - I am not a guitarist

\n
\n

and

\n
\n

I write - I am not a writer

\n
\n

… so I read Manu’s 🔗 new post with interest.

\n
\n

I am not a speaker and chances are you’re not one either. And yet you’re probably speaking with other people constantly in your life without giving it a second thought.

\n
\n

💬 Manuel Moreale

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-11T04:00:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/10/popular-phrases-in.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/07/085402.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-07-08T03:54:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/07/085402.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/on-the-state.html", "content_html": "

🔗 On the state of the web

\n
\n

I don’t know what’s going to come out of this moment but I do hope more people realize that human connections are still available out there. You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people. You can still set up a forum dedicated to something you’re passionate about and create a community with 50 other people, even if Reddit turns to shit. Things can live on the web simply because enough people care about them and pour time and love into them. And that is what makes the web special.

\n
\n

💬 Manuel Moreale

\n

Reminded me very much of What Is The Small Web

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T09:50:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/on-the-state.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/03/they-lied-about.html", "content_html": "

🔗 They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

\n
\n

Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago? Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power? Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral? Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy.

\n
\n

💬 Chris Hedges

\n

Somewhere on this blog there is a link that connects to this.

\n", "date_published": "2023-07-04T09:42:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/03/they-lied-about.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/24/robert-f-kennedy.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Robert F Kennedy Jr is a flake of Cadbury proportions.”

\n
\n

💬 John Naughton

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-25T04:57:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/24/robert-f-kennedy.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/23/my-news-readers.html", "content_html": "

\"I'll

\n

… my news readers to understand that I do not want the same news from so many sources over and over again. And yes, I have heard of Feedly.

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-24T03:53:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/23/my-news-readers.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/18/100740.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-06-19T05:07:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/18/100740.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/18/if-at-first.html", "content_html": "

If at first you don’t succeed ….

\n

🔗 The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)

\n
\n

Cormac McCarthy’s first 5 novels were totally ignored. . . . Even Blood Merdian—now widely considered a modern classic of American fiction—got remaindered after only selling 1,883 copies.

\n
\n

💬 Ted Gioia

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-19T04:41:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/18/if-at-first.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/over-on-the.html", "content_html": "

Over on The Grauniad

\n
\n

In a world in which the creator of the Oculus headset claims to have invented a new virtual reality system – called NerveGear – that kills players for real when they are bumped off in a game, it is clear that Black Mirror has its work increasingly cut out.

\n
\n

💬 Lucy Mangan

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T03:45:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/over-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/075954.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-06-16T02:59:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/075954.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/meanwhile-over-on.html", "content_html": "

Meanwhile - over on Scripting.com …. 🔗 Uncle Sam doesn’t “ask”

\n
\n

This isn’t Macy’s

\n
\n

💬 An IRS Agent

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:50:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/meanwhile-over-on.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/13/220745.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-06-14T17:07:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/13/220745.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/10/115633.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-06-11T06:56:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/10/115633.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/09/now-that-is.html", "content_html": "

Now THAT is rather nice …

\n
\n

“Finally, Notes will add Pages compatibility in the fall. If you begin a document in Notes, you’ll be able to open it in Pages to take advantage of Pages' more extensive set of styling tools. That will allow you to do things like use more fonts, resize graphics incorporate video, and more.

\n
\n

💬 John Vorhees

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\"Will

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-10T04:54:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/09/will-ai-benefit.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/05/identity-paradigms-by.html", "content_html": "

🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5

\n

Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.

\n

‘Identity’ mind you, not just ‘online identity’.

\n
\n

What does this all mean?  Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.

\n
\n

💬 Alan Mayo

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-06T04:11:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/05/identity-paradigms-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/identity-paradigms-by.html", "content_html": "

🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5

\n

Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.

\n

‘Identity’ mine you, not just ‘online identity’.

\n
\n

What does this all mean?  Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.

\n
\n

💬 Alan Mayo

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T04:45:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/identity-paradigms-by.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/04/politicians-have-always.html", "content_html": "
\n

Politicians have always lied, but they don’t bother putting any effort into it any more.

\n
\n

💬 William Gallagher

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-05T04:38:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/04/politicians-have-always.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/03/on-january-i.html", "content_html": "
\n

On January 1, 2011, I only had 68 Twitter followers. I had been on Twitter for 16 months, and there were pet canaries with a larger social media presence than me.

\n
\n

💬 Ted Gioia

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-04T04:59:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/03/on-january-i.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/31/slow-is-smooth.html", "content_html": "
\n

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

\n
\n

💬 Navy Seals

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-01T04:29:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/31/slow-is-smooth.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/i-do-remember.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I do remember this security guy saying something nice about Corden until I grimaced, said I’d met him once at a work thing and within half a second wished I hadn’t. Boom. All professional politeness was gone and the guard vented about that man. ()I think I saved him a therapy session.)

\n
\n

💬 William Gallagher

\n

I have no idea if there is any truth in what I read about ‘our James’ and how his soft cuddly exterior does not reflect his true self. But I read it more and more - and Gallagher is not in the ‘rumour mill’ business.

\n

Shame really. There I was thinking you can be nice and ‘make it’.

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\n

“That premium in turn has allowed the company to keep selling fresh stock, which allows it to keep paying out dividends, and on it goes, a self-licking ice cream cone that works until the stock price falls, which it now has.”

\n
\n

💬 Liz Hoffman, Semaphor

\n

“self-licking ice cream cone” … aaah the visual.

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-31T11:36:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/that-premium-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/lemons-do-they.html", "title": "Lemons - Do They Exist - Or A Cunkstion?", "content_html": "

Anyone else worried that this is even a question? Or that it needs to be asked?

\n
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Anyway, I don’t have an answer about lemon origins except to say that they are at least as real as babies, and if they aren’t real then what the fuck did I just eat?

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💬 The Bloggess

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To be clear, this is not a Bloggess origin story … but rather a debate that seems to have emerged on the inter-webs somewhere about ‘Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence’ - with people pointing out that Lemons ‘do not occur naturally’ … so are artificial … so not ‘real’ … at least in ‘that’ sense of the word.

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First, if that is true, then total news to me. But put that aside, because the quirkiness of the debate tickles me. It’s ‘the other thing’ that has slipped quietly under the radar, that I am worrying about, because at some point in the online world, ‘real’ has become synonymous with ‘exist’.

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That is … if it is not real - then it does not exist.

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Really?

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Now, I am not a philosopher - so the existence of a lemon I leave to people further up the pay grade scale than I, but I did get to wondering whether this is a ‘Cunkstion’1, or at least Cunk like?

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Can someone higher up the pay scale have a think and reply please?

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Read More From The Bloggess: 🔗 When life may or may not give you lemons

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    Cunkstion - a contraction of ‘Cunk Question’ - which is one of those innocent, easy ‘obvious’ questions that nobody has ever asked - but when you do - the expert finds themselves tied up in knots for one of three reasons …1) it is just plain stupid, 2 a non sequitur or 3) a deeply profound question demonstrating great insight (if on occasions - accidentally). ↩︎

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Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.

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💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information

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One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.

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💬 John Gruber

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I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-25T04:01:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/24/one-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/23/there-is-no.html", "content_html": "
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“There is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search,” a combination of the difficult economic environment as well as the challenge that Neeva had found in persuading people to sign up for its search engine. “From the unnecessary friction required to change default search settings, to the challenges in helping people understand the difference between a search engine and a browser, acquiring users has been really hard.”

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💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan

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The Headline:

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Neeva Shuts Down Search Engine Ahead of Snowflake Deal

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The report is so dry it makes the Sahara look like a rainforest.

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💬 Martin Peers

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-24T09:41:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/23/the-report-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/20/cnbc-google-has.html", "content_html": "

CNBC

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“Google has this backwards. They should force all their engineers to use Chromebooks, and let everyone else continue using MacBooks. Maybe then they’ll turn ChromeOS into something useable for real work.”

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💬 John Gruber

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“I think you should know in what surroundings you do your best work and solve for that.”

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💬 David Sparks

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💬

\n\"Words\n

 

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Soon enough, the traditional 10 blue links on a search engine results page will seem as archaic as dial-up internet and rotary phones.

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💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy

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Sridhar is the former head of Google search and co-founder of Neeva, a new search engine powered by AI - so of course he would say that … wouldn’t he?

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As the hype around BlueSky builds, I am reminded of the hype that surrounded Clubhouse. Looks like that’s what Charles has been thinking.

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Velvet rope: it tells you that the people who got past it are special. Unlike you.

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💬 Charles Arthur

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🔗 Read the whole thing.

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“Standards are like toothbrushes - most people don’t want to use someone else’s.”

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💬 David Bray

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The most recent proposal from the WGA concerning AI is the following: “Regulate use of artificial intelligence on [Minimum Basic Agreement] covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI.” And, as it currently stands, the response from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is a big wet fart of an offer for “annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology.”

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💬 Ryan Broderick

\nWho goes on to write;\n
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Their counter, put another way, is actually: “we do not want to commit to anything until we know if this technology will be good enough to replace whole writers rooms.”

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… Which was my thought on reading that first paragraph, but Ryan summarizes more eloquently and efficiently.

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-05T05:17:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/04/the-most-recent.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/04/spending-less-money.html", "content_html": "
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“Spending less money and making more would’ve been something I would’ve worked on.”

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💬 Ben Smith

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… Ben is the founder of Semaphor, a new publication with a stable of great writers that I presume cost a lot of money to run. The countless newsletters that come out of Semaphor .. daily … are totally free.

\n

Anyone else confused?

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-05T03:43:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/04/spending-less-money.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/the-fallout-from.html", "content_html": "
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“The fallout from our cultural obsession with personal rights is that we too easily forget about personal responsibility. If I demand my rights and you demand yours, we end up butting heads again and again and again.”

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💬 Yonason Goldson

\n

Read it all here

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-04T10:23:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/03/the-fallout-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/03/google-searches-for.html", "content_html": "
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“Google searches for ’VPN’ have skyrocketed in Utah this week for one reason: You can no longer visit Pornhub from a Utah IP address.”

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💬 Morning Brew

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💬

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🔗 Are large language models intelligent? Are humans?

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:36:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/103643.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/save-the-kindles.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Save the Kindles

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What if Amazon offered used readers, in bulk, to people in states that are banning books, and in school districts that are limiting what kids can read? What if it offered special deals on banned books, and brought titles to young people some of their “betters” are forbidding for them, to encourage reading?

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💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T05:18:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/save-the-kindles.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/01/popped-up-in.html", "content_html": "

Popped up in my archives today …

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”If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”

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💬 Harry S Truman

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Quote Investigator

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At the risk of repeating something about repetition ….

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“History doesn’t repeat - but it sure does rhyme.”

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Not to mention

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“Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.”

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💬 Kahil Gibran

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-01T09:40:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/30/yesterday-is-but.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/30/hate-speech-on.html", "title": "💬 Hate Speech On Core Intuition", "content_html": "

🔗 Just finished listening to the latest Core Intuition.

\n

At one point in the conversation @manton and @danielpunkass were talking about community guidelines, social norms et al. Hate speech on Bluesky was specifically brought up. Apparently they have a way to add tags to posts so that posts can be marked as ‘hatespeech’, ‘not safe for work’, etc.

\n

Sounded a pretty neat solution to me - but apparently someone over on @mastodon suggested that this meant BlueSky was allowing hate speech.

\n

Have to say, one of the common threads running through a lot of Mastodians I observe is the ‘superior’, ‘better than thou’, ‘my way or the highway’ attitude … even down to comments like ‘if you don’t ‘alt text’ your images - I will unfollow you'.1

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But, ‘allowing’ hate speech? There is no agreement what constitutes hate speech, so I guess this individual is judge and jury? Don’t get me wrong … I think most ‘decent people’ can bucket up the obvious extremes … it’s when it gets to the grey areas it becomes difficult. Like art - we can’t define it - we just ‘know it when we see it’.

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I was reminded of a well used amorphism

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“One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”

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This also ties into something I wrote just yesterday

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1] I wonder if Mastodon is filling up with ‘snowflakes’. (Back when my mum was alive she used to rail on ‘do gooders’ … a term that seems to have fallen out of use these days - but the sentiment remain in these ‘behavioural vigilantes’.

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2] I wonder whether the meek have inherited the earth … at least in terms of public discourse?

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3] Has the pendulum swung too far? Satire and parody has lost meaning and too many people are cancelling themselves for fear of public admonishment and worse - retribution from the herd.

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What do you think?

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    Too late - I have already unfollowed you. (Not that I disagree with the need to do it - and I try - but it doesn’t always happen and life is too short.) ↩︎

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Daring Fireball: More on GM Dropping CarPlay

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“I’ve been mithered over a novel for months. I wrote a 100,000-word one over COVID and then threw the lot away immediately afterwards because it was, in technical terms, utter shite altogether.”

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💬 William Gallagher

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100,000 words ‘binned’ … would we all had that kind of courage.

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You can read the whole thing here.

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Galloway sets the scene for the context and scale of what is going on. What follows is not so much a ‘TL;DR’ - as a flavor of what you will find within …

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More About NEOM

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This Is NEOM

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Progress Report - January 2023

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Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.

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Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing?\nProbably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops.\nCNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.

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💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-26T06:28:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/25/cable-news-dana.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quote","? RIP","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/24/count-me-in.html", "content_html": "

Count me in the camp of ‘well now - there’s some new news’ ….

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”The prevalence of Vin Diesel’s exposed upper arms may be associated with box office and critical success. According to this really important analysis from a Reddit user, the movies in which Vin Diesel wears four sleeveless shirts and spends 14–15% of the film wearing them are better liked by critics and make more money than movies in which he wears fewer sleeveless shirts for less time. Vin Diesel averages 1.95 sleeveless shirts per film and wears one in 16 of his 23 films, the analysis claims. Reddit is undefeated.”

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💬 Morning Brew

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“All of this is to say, Mastodon has its flaws and Twitter has its flaws. And, as I read in Dan Diamond’s newsletter, leaving Twitter also has its flaws. But you know what? I’m on Substack RIGHT NOW! And Substack has just introduced “Notes”. Why not investigate ITS flaws?”

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💬 Mike Pesca

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-25T04:20:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/24/all-of-this.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/23/theres-a-lot.html", "content_html": "

There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites ….

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“Music making is like progressive enhancement in that you start with your drums (HTML), add the bass guitar (CSS), and then sprinkle screaming and synths and solos on top it all (Javascript).”

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💬 Robin Rendle

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I’m doing research on alien life, so I thought I’d start in America.

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💬 Jim Woessner

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💬

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💬

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💬

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🔗 Daring Fireball: WhatsApp, Signal, and Other Secure Messaging Platforms Write Open Letter to the UK Government Defending End-to-End Encryption

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I’m glad to see these companies defending end-to-end encryption, but this letter dances around the repercussions of this proposed legislation in the U.K. What they mean in the third paragraph quoted above is that if the legislation passes, people in the U.K. won’t be able to use WhatsApp or Signal or any other end-to-end encrypted service. Apple isn’t a signatory of the letter, but I think iMessage would be banned too.

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💬 John Gruber

\n

There is so much idiocy in the UK government these days.

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💬

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💬

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“As a punishment for being the worst owner in sports–terrible teams, allegations of sexual harassment, and financial improprieties, Dan Snyder will sell the Commanders for more than any other sports team has ever been sold. Let that be a lesson to you.

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💬 Dave Pell (I think)

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-18T02:09:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/17/as-a-punishment.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/17/the-most-compelling.html", "content_html": "
\n

The most compelling question regarding Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman who just got arrested for leaking classified documents to his gamer bros on a Discord server is how the hell a guy like this had access to the material and was able to share it so easily.

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💬 Dave Pell

\n

It was the first thing that I asked myself.

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The second most compelling question is, well, wait, so knowingly taking classified documents to your home or resort and sharing them with anyone you want is a crime? Interesting.

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💬 Dave Pell

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Interesting indeed. 🍿

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-18T01:56:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/17/the-most-compelling.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/17/contempt-for-the.html", "content_html": "
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Contempt for the other tribe, rather than affection for one’s own, is now many Americans' animating passion.

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💬 George Will

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… so much to say … not going to bother.

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🔗 Having your cake and eating it.

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I don’t want to live forever … I just don’t want to die.

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\n", "date_published": "2023-04-15T10:20:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/14/having-your-cake.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/14/you-become-the.html", "content_html": "
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“You become the noun by doing the verb.”

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💬 Ellen Burstyn

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Nice find Daniel .. thankyou.

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“The line between a fire tweet and the incoherent ramblings of a madmen is thinner than ever.”

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💬 Ryan Broderick

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🔗 Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? - people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

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🔗 I showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like it. - I look forward to this new series.

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I am a cult author, asked in the street maybe five times a year: “Are you Emma Forrest?” And I am Emma Forrest. But it’s a surname invented by my grandfather to combat anti-semitism, so there are other more legitimate Emma Forrests, some with their own internet fame, like the Scottish judo star or the woman, also Scottish, who consumes 3,000 calories of fizzy drinks a day.

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💬 Emma Forrest

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“Very happy to clarify that I am one of the journalists who would have pushed back on Hitler. Status-obsessed virtue-signalling twat that I am.”

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💬 Helen Lewis

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💬

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\"How

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💬

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\"Quality

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🔗New Zealand loses appeal to rich foreigners as investor visa numbers plunge..

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Maybe they have been reading Rushkoff’s book - and don’t want to be put in the same bag as Peter Thiel?

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It was bizarre. I do get called out a lot to do these talks for businesspeople about the digital future. So, it was one of those where they paid me a bunch of money to convince me to spend some jet fuel and leave my home and pontificate, but then instead of taking me out onto the stage, they brought these five guys into the green room and sat around this table and started asking me all these very binary questions about where they should place their bets for the digital future: Bitcoin or Ethereum; VR or AR; and finally, New Zealand or Alaska—where should they invest in land to put their bunker for “the event”?

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💬 Douglas Rushkoff

(my bold)\n

But still ….

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It’s not just rich foreigners not arriving - it’s ordinary people leaving … again.

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All kinds of reasons - but just from my own peculiarly tight Kiwi circle

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    me - of course - though I haven’t abandoned the country completely!

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    a kiwi friend and his wife moved to Portugal in January.

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    a highly networked and successful tech entrepreneur who has built his businesses in New Zealand for the last 30 years, very well connected, recognized by many for his contribution to the country has hit a wall and is looking at the US and The Far East as new opportunities. His words;

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“In New Zealand there is zero appetite in thinking beyond the shores of the country.

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  1. an internationally successful VC who had spent the last two years in New Zealand seeking to kick start an incubator and accelerator wrote to me last week;
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My overall experience in NZ shows that it is a country that is too small and internally focused to get meaningful traction as an innovator, not impossible, just a smaller pond and appetite …. I plan to build connections in Australia and further regionally in Asian markets this year.

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  1. a good American friend who has lived in Aotearoa for the last 8 years. Again, accomplished and connected and still can’t get local traction, yet without trying is fielding calls from Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.
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But there’s more. COVID saw a lot of Kiwis returning ‘home’. COVID has ‘moved on’ (well - we all know it hasn’t - but it is clearly now manageable), net result, the Kiwis are back out on the road again.

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Example - just like the UK, there is a severe shortage of healthcare professionals just one of many articles .. a shortage of 4,000 people (this in a country of 5 million people). If a similar ratio were applied to the US, there would be a shortage of over 1/4 million healthcare workers!

\n

Here’s the rub … in my three years in New Zealand I lost count of trained healthcare professionals (and accountants and engineers for that matter) who were driving for taxi companies and Ola. (I am sure that the same applied to Uber - but can’t speak to that, because - well - Uber ). Why? Because New Zealand requires them to go through all their training again. (Not just pass exams - but actually retrain.)

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Meanwhile - a Kiwi trained Healthcare professional can fly out of Auckland, land in Sydney, get paid more and have a lower cost of living.

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There’s a lot more around the challenges that New Zealand face - which I’ll save for another day - just to leave you with a couple of quotes from Bernard Hickey - a Kiwi journalist and political commentator based in Wellington. (again - my bold.)

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Wayne Brown is actually simply expressing a view held by most asset owners and investors in Aotearoa-NZ’s economy, or as I call it, a housing market with bits tacked on. That deeply held and and so-far-extremely-profitable investment strategy is that owning shares or investing in businesses in Aotearoa is vastly inferior to owning land, especially leveraged residential land, and even better if it is residential-zoned land that remains banked and undeveloped. The

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Wayne Brown (ed - the new major of Auckland) is being exactly what he is: a property developer who has actually made most of his personal money from land price appreciation on land made valuable through rezoning and paying for water connections at a lower-than-full cost.

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\"more

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Other parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’

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The Atlantic seems pithy today …

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“The auto rickshaw is more or less a motorcycle in the front and a party in the back.”

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💬 Emma Marais - The Atlantic

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“He kept calling this Trump-catalyzed mass subversion “tremendously exciting,” but to me, it sounded exciting only in the sense that breaking the seventh seal from the Book of Revelation would be a wild ride.”

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💬 Graeme Wood - The Atlantic

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“The only way you get higher is if you step out of line, that’s the only way. Seriously. Unless you’re untalented … and then you should stay in line.”

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💬 Kara Swisher

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“In Germany, the comparable retirement age is 65. In Italy, it’s 67. And in the U.S., the retirement age is NO,”

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💬 John Oliver

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💬

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“Virgin Orbit is laying off 85% of its staff, or roughly 675 people. The company will cease operations “for the foreseeable future,” Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart told employees.”

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💬 CNBC

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“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh-and-blood object [are] up against the thing that isn’t. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happens in a flash.

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To me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you—so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that’s what I think we do when we’re interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is, [is] not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. [It’s] a state of affairs that we’re assessing.”

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💬 Phyllida Barlow

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🔗 Read More

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A ‘bank-run by idiots’ rather than a ‘bank run by idiots’.

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💬 Matt Klein

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“Big food sells us products that make us fat. Big pharma sells us products that makes us thin.”

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💬 Dave Pell

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I will share the recording link when it is available … but just listening to Doc Searls’ Ostrom workshop with Cory Doctorow .. if he’s half right … good luck with the future.

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UPDATE, March 21st, 2023

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🔗 YouTube Link

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“Alas, the beginning is missing due to a technical glitch.”

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💬 Doc Searls

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💬

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“Everything we do is scrappy. It’s fast, it’s inexpensive, character over spectacle.”

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💬 Ryan Reynolds

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Character over spectacle … nice.

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“Technology only frees people from work if the boss, or the government, or the economic system — allows it. To allege otherwise is technosolutionism, plain and simple.”

\n
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💬 Derek Thompson, The Atlantic,

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\n

Society is way behind in adapting its rules to this new liquid culture. It makes everything precarious for everyone. Sam Bankman-Fried went from the Forbes 400 to a jail cell in a few weeks. I don’t think he has yet to get his head around how destroyed his life is. (Have a suicide watch ready when he figures it out.)\nThere are a few industries that still resist this facet of Moore’s Law. Education is one. Health care is another. Law is a third. We have yet to see Trump’s perp walk, and legal delays make new infrastructure almost impossible to build.

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💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n

🔗 Everything is Liquid

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“I was not a great student in college. I liked learning, but not on someone else’s timetable.”

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💬 Heather Cox Richardson

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I like that. Reminds me of … let me see now … oh yes … me!

\n

I just never managed to quite get it out in so few words.

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“Britain is a far more valuable and important entity than Twitter. How depressing that it’s being run with equivalent incompetence.”

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💬 David Mitchell

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NAILED IT 😂😂😂😂

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“The term ‘everything everywhere all at once’ seems a better description for the turmoil sparked by Friday’s failure of Silicon Valley Bank than for an incomprehensible movie that’s up for an Oscar tonight."

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💬 Martin Peers, The Information

\n

I dunno … it’s a fun analogy, but if he is serious that he really thought it was an ‘incomprehensible movie’ - I am not sure that he is in the best position to report on tech and SVB.

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Am I wrong?

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💬

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There’s an entire section in the bookshop called Self-Help, but there is no section called Help Others.

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💬 Simon Sinek

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🔗 The Help Others Industry

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”We’ve never had an efficiency focus in the company before.”

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💬 Marc Benioff

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“A big component of our growth strategy going forward will be improving productivity.”

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💬 Salesforce President Brian Millham

\n

Good to know chaps. Good to know.

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💬

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💬

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“One last thing, as this seems somehow connected to the story – as I was walking up the hill to Rick Rubin’s studio that morning, I saw a handsome man, dressed in black trousers and a red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, leaning against the hood of a big American car, smoking a cigarette. The man looked like he’d stepped out of a movie. It was Joe Strummer from The Clash. Hi, Joe, I said. Hey man, he said, what are you doing here? I’m going to sing with Johnny Cash, I said. Joe nodded and smiled and sucked on his cigarette. Then he gave a little slow-motion wave as I went inside.”

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💬 Nick Cave, Red Hand Files

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“While writing the the Atlantic piece, I remembered that Dahl and Ian Fleming were friends - Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice, the Bond film where Sean Connery tapes up his eyes to pass for Japanese, and the viewer finally sees Blofeld’s scarred face.”

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💬 Helen Lewis

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Today I Learned so much, like two new things just in this single quote!

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“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside.”

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💬 Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Unnoticeable life. Noticeable failure.”

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💬 Franz Kafka

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Diary entry on February 20th, 101 years ago.

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If only he knew.

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(via Diaries of Note )

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“Oracle, greatest company name ever, should be in the AI business. Their brand was born for it!

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💬 Sam Lessin, The Information

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Doors opening and closing

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“There is another one that goes something like “every time a door closes, another one opens.” Myself, I’d be looking at the draughts in that house.”

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💬 William Gallagher

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I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘the end’.

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I guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.

\n

Because I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘The End’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.

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This is the end
\nBeautiful friend
\nThis is the end
\nMy only friend, the end

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Of our elaborate plans, the end
\nOf everything that stands, the end
\nNo safety or surprise, the end
\nI’ll never look into your eyes again

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The Full Lyrics

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“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood."

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💬 Jim Morrison

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If you want a really good cry, the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …

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🎥 Apocalypse Now

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If you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …

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🎵 The original recording

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If you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had The Isle of Wight …

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🔗 Live at The Isle of Wight in 1970

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💬

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Not to generalize to all techies - and of course - none of you in here … but it’s not just about being too smart to be sexists #discuss

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💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-18T14:23:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/182328.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/085937.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-17T04:59:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/085937.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/085501.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:55:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/085501.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/085445.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:54:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/085445.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/soccers-america-problem.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Soccer’s America Problem

\n
\n

““Over time players go where the money is. The money is here. Once Americans realize that the sport is moving west …. it’s going to stoke anti-American sentiment around the world. It’s something we need to be ready for.”

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:39:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/soccers-america-problem.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/14/charleys-paia-maui.html", "title": "🎵 Charley’s, Paia, Maui is no more", "content_html": "

If you know Charley’s, this is not new news.
\nIf you don’t know Charley’s - then why should you care?

\n

This just in from my good friend Randall Rospond … number 25 in the image below, right beside another friend Tom Conway.

\n

Randall’s friend and Maui artist John Woodruff is the artist, the painting features many Maui Musician Regulars on stage with many of the Charley’s staff and regular patrons.

\n
\n

“Although this famous live music venue in Paia is no longer … the history will always stand.”

\n
\n
\n

I saw numerous Willie Nelson shows, Neil Young w/ Promise of the Real, Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Steven Tyler and Pat Simmons and so many more.

\n
\n

💬 Randall Rospond

\n
\n

Randall’s performances at Charley’s included opening shows for;

\n\n

(Sadly the resolution of the image of the index is not good enough to always get to the ‘numbers’.)

\n\"\"\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-15T09:21:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/14/charleys-paia-maui.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/14/man-is-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

Man is a problem-solving, skill-using, social animal. Once he has satisfied his hunger, two main kinds of experiences are significant to him. One of his deepest needs is to apply his skills, whatever they be, to challenging tasks — to feel the exhilaration of the well-struck ball or the well-solved problem. The other need is to find meaningful and warm relations with a few other human beings — to love and be loved, to share experience, to respect and be respected, to work in common tasks.

\n
\n

💬 Herbert Simon

\n

❤️‍🔥Happy Valentine’s Day💓💘💝💕

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-15T03:59:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/14/man-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/in-light-of.html", "content_html": "

In light of my daily reading of 🔗 The Daily Stoic, this one seemed to connect to some recent themes I have been reading. Not the first time this 💬 has been on the site, but three years ago, it wasn’t as pretty.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T06:39:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/in-light-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/103505.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-14T06:35:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/103505.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/12/why-im-leaving.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Why I’m leaving Substack.

\n
\n

Substack is designed for writers, not business owners.

\n
\n

💬 Ellen Donnelly

\n

What she means is that Substack doesn’t have all the data tracking guff and stuff that comes with the marketing ESPs like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-13T17:09:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/12/why-im-leaving.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/11/a-few-days.html", "content_html": "

A few days after the conversation started, someone (1) wrote;

\n
\n

“all I need now is a technical person that is interested in writing the plugin.”

\n
\n

Voila.

\n

Person🔗 identified.

\n

Project started.

\n

P U M P E D

\n

(1) Was it @sod? Can’t find the comment that is in my head anywhere!

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-12T13:44:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/11/a-few-days.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/11/071447.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-12T03:14:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/11/071447.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/motivation-innovation-and.html", "content_html": "

💬 Motivation, Innovation and Education

\n

\"Motivation\"

\n

\"Innovation\"

\n

\"Education\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T07:43:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/motivation-innovation-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/10/quote-bonanza-today.html", "content_html": "

💬 Quote Bonanza Today - The Theme is AI …

\n

\"Rao

\n

… Venkatesh does not like Mr. Brooks.

\n

\"Rao

\n

… part of an excellent series of articles on how ‘this time it is different’.

\n

\"Kelly

\n

… that’s one hell of a guarantee!

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-11T07:40:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/10/quote-bonanza-today.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/161045.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T12:10:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/161045.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/08/131647.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-09T09:16:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/08/131647.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/matt-on-artifact.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Matt on Artifact

\n
\n

“Don’t expect a TikTok style UI or the ability to subscribe to specific sites like you can in an RSS reader.

\n
\n

💬 Matt Birchler

\n

Artifact didn’t make it to my ‘must try’ list. The implication of 100% AI crosses it off my list completely.

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:53:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/matt-on-artifact.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/07/i-dont-believe.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I don’t believe writing for an audience means giving in to the system. I do believe you have to write for yourself, but you have to do it with the intention that there will be a reader at the end.”

\n
\n

💬 William Gallagher

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T06:13:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/07/i-dont-believe.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/06/read-more-than.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Read more than you write, live more than you read.”

\n
\n

💬 Junot Diaz

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-07T07:01:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/06/read-more-than.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/03/the-republicans-have.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The Republicans have accepted violence among Congress members.”

\n
\n

💬 Heather Cox Richardson

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-04T03:52:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/03/the-republicans-have.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/31/david-fisher-has.html", "content_html": "
\n

David Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.

\n
\n

💬 Wayne Hickey

\n

The article ….

\n

🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.

\n

… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-02-01T04:32:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/31/david-fisher-has.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/29/is-the-stream.html", "title": "Is The Stream As A Design Paradigm Over?", "content_html": "

Om asking the question as he weighs in on Ben Werdmuller’s post asking whether the ‘stream’ needs to give way to a new way of organizing?

\n

I think no - but I understand the challenge, which is why I have been going back over my old posts and trying to get rigorous with

\n

Categories and
\nSearch

\n

.. so that I can find stuff (and I recognize that it is really only me that looks to navigate the 7,000 plus posts (I know - I know)).

\n

This is also why I am looking for ways to bulk manage my posts - so i can recategorize, without going one at a time …

\n

2023 post Jan 8th

\n

2023 post Jan 15th

\n

2019 post 1st July

\n

AND - I am not the only one, @dave also posted this today

\n
\n

Would someone please make a ChatGPT product that can be pointed at specific websites, and allow intelligent queries against the contents. I’d love to explore the site I’ve been writing for 28.5 years, scripting.com. Let me know. It’s worth $ to me.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

I have not been blogging for 28.5 years and what I have got has been - well, lets call it ‘distributed’ - but slowly bringing it all together to make more sense and a flow.

\n
\n

By the way - the reason I think that the stream should not go is because it works. It’s how the social world works, its how places like micro blog work - and it makes sense. You go to that person’s blog and you find the very latest thoughts right there at the top of the page.

\n

I know that it is not only one way to organize your thinking - but if we also tag, categorize, highlight posts we want to share more and and and … anything else that you may want to use - it all helps - but no single process works because you don’t know what the person visiting your blog is looking for - so you can’t organize in anticipation.

\n

Streams controlled by algorithms or selectively highlight just part of ‘the hose’ or offer no other way to get at the thinking - yeah - not good. But as a first port of call - I cant see a way to improve - until we all have our own person AI that can make sense of our blathering - no point in me asking - hopefully someone will listen to Dave:)

\n

// @dave @benwerd

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-30T13:40:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/29/is-the-stream.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/28/wise-words-from.html", "content_html": "

💬 Wise words from a wise bloke who wrote about what he saw around him. Sadly, despite being a widely read author, what he saw around him then you can still see around you now.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-29T16:53:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/28/wise-words-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/28/i-have-referenced.html", "content_html": "

💬 I have referenced this before, but the #ReadWise quote popped up today - so for posterity. The key point is that until now - we had been training AIs to be ‘the best’. Now we are training them to be ‘good enough’.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-29T16:49:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/28/i-have-referenced.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/28/204732.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-29T16:47:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/28/204732.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/27/weather-in-new.html", "content_html": "

‘Weather’ in New Zealand

\n

Last night …

\n
\n

“A record amount of rain had fallen on Auckland in 24 hours - by 1am, the region had recorded 249mm of rain, smashing the previous 24-hour record of 161.8mm, back in February 1985. And monthly records have also been broken - the wettest January recorded at the Auckland Airport weather station until now was in 1986 with 20cm”

\n
\n

💬 The Met Office

\n

The warnings started at 3pm - and it took Wayne Brown another 4 hours to issue a ‘shelter in place’ advisory - just before Elton John was taking the stage for his final tour …

\n

Colossal failure of leadership in the mayors office — the nature of Brown is money first .. I wonder if he will be held to account?

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-28T12:34:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/27/weather-in-new.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/25/the-why-of.html", "content_html": "

🔗 The Why of the Guns

\n
\n

This is how Jim Crow rolls on in the 21st century. Yes, it’s about the guns. But the guns are about the racism. If my fellow men weren’t so damned racist, so scared of “the other,” they wouldn’t be getting killy, fewer people would be getting killed, and de-escalation could begin.

\n
\n
\n

As it is, you’re safer in Kyiv.  

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-25T12:24:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/25/the-why-of.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/24/shared-understanding-without.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Shared understanding

\n
\n

… without a shared understanding of where we are in life and what words mean to us, there’s no room for constructive interactions."

\n
\n

💬 Manuel Moreale

\n

No argument.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-24T07:33:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/24/shared-understanding-without.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/23/the-day-we.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The day we started counting and displaying views was the day everything changed. Social circles were now judged by views and size—not actual engagement.”

\n
\n

💬 George Oates

\n

Not here on MicroBlog. Here we “blog like it’s 1999” as @dave had it.

\n

(Who is George?)

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-23T13:56:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/23/the-day-we.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/22/new-zealand-after.html", "title": "New Zealand | After Ardern", "content_html": "

Written before Hipkins won the leadership.

\n
\n

“My current view is this cements the likelihood of a National-ACT victory on October 14, with no fundamental change in tax, Government spending or social policies, other than the reversal of Labour’s interest deductibility and bright-line measures, along with the truncation of Three Waters, the removal of the clean car rebate scheme and no follow-through on a levy on farm emissions.”

\n
\n
\n

“From a purely political and financial view, it’s more likely to lower interest rates, increase residential land prices, increase net migration, increase nominal GDP, lower the Budget deficit, lower net debt-to-GDP, further restrict productivity growth, slow real wage growth and increase the emigration of young New Zealanders who come from renting families.”

\n
\n

💬 Bernard Hickey

\n
\n

Other parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-22T11:27:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/22/new-zealand-after.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/22/watching-history-repeat.html", "content_html": "

Watching history repeat. … this from 5 years ago …

\n
\n

“I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts the government down is me, which is kind of cool.”

\n
\n

💬 Mick Mulvaney

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-22T11:03:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/22/watching-history-repeat.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/21/the-meaning-and.html", "title": "New Zealand | Thankyou Jacinda", "content_html": "

The meaning and tragedy of Jacinda Ardern’s time as PM

\n
\n

“In the end, she deserves our utmost respect and thanks. She was instinctively extraordinary with her responses and leadership after the Christchurch attacks and the arrival of Covid.”

\n
\n

💬 Bernard Hickey

\n

I can only agree.

\n
\n

Other parts of the New Zealand ‘MicroBlog Storm’

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-21T12:43:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/21/the-meaning-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/20/122329.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-20T11:23:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/20/122329.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/17/122053.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-17T11:20:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/17/122053.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/17/121852.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-17T11:18:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/17/121852.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/17/121754.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-17T11:17:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/17/121754.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/15/a-hardcore-group.html", "content_html": "
\n

“A hard-core group of 20 have so far stopped Mr. McCarthy, but 10 times that number supported him, including moderates, centrists, old- and new-style conservatives. The 200 have to find a way to re-establish their power and face down the fringe.”

\n
\n

💬 Peggy Noonan

\n

Read More

\n

P.S. - I do agree - but really, they haven’t so far have they? And there has been plenty of opportunity.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-15T15:31:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/15/a-hardcore-group.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/13/225945.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-13T21:59:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/225945.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/13/do-people-like.html", "title": "🎵 Do 326 people 'like' Jeff Beck being dead?", "content_html": "

There has been a lot of traffic on Micro Blog about ‘like’ buttons - as in should there be one? Some of those conversations have been repackaged and moved into other places - like this one from Dave Winer.

\n

The challenge is that writers tend to see the like as a ‘nod’ of agreement with what they have written .. or at least as some kind of feedback …

\n
\n

“In real life there’s all kinds of non-verbal communication. you can nod your head, smile. We’ve come up with a similar language online, I don’t think there’s any more meaning in this. We’re being human. Not a huge surprise.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

I’m not so sure. I am far from consistent as to how I use likes and I am guessing I am not alone. BUT … But the point of this post is not to provide a counter argument - but rather highlight the inadequacy of the like button a measure of popularity.

\n

You won’t have missed yesterday’s news of the passing of Jeff Beck.

\n

Patti Smith used her newsletter to share the news and a link to just one example of Beck’s extraordinary guitar playing.

\n

As of this morning she has 326 likes and 59 comments …. it is clear from the comments the sentiment - but the likes?

\n

What are they liking?

\n\n

To be clear, I have no horse in the race. IF [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton) added like buttons here -

\n\n

Back to Jeff … one of the best comments was a simple

\n

💔

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-13T07:34:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/do-people-like.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/11/if-you-enjoyed.html", "content_html": "
\n

“If you enjoyed following the fracas in the House of Representatives last week, but found it too dignified, too respectful of a hallowed institution — well then, the Sussex vs. Windsor chronicles are for you.”

\n
\n

💬 Ben Smith .. Semafor

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-11T11:30:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/11/if-you-enjoyed.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/11/prescient.html", "content_html": "

Prescient

\n

\"An

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-11T11:27:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/11/prescient.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/09/write-without-fear.html", "content_html": "

Write Without Fear. Edit Without Mercy - words we can all relate to - if not even aspire to!

\n

If you would like an introduction to Dennis - let me know.

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2023-01-09T16:06:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/09/write-without-fear.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/08/a-very-current.html", "content_html": "

A very current old observation.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-08T08:04:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/08/a-very-current.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/07/i-ignore-polling.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind, an inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows. Whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You’re not a leader.”

\n
\n

💬 ​Lee Kuan Yew

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-07T14:36:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/07/i-ignore-polling.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/06/neither-do-i.html", "content_html": "

Neither do I … but the Unions have been systemically destroyed for years … so it isn’t surprising because we live in a #me world

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2023-01-06T10:01:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/06/neither-do-i.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/04/we-have-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

“We have a chance, collectively, to avoid the mistakes of the last decade and a half. We have an opportunity to not put ourselves (and our data) onto someone else’s farm. I absolutely loathe terms like “surveillance capitalism” or the phrase “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” (because I think both are misleading), but I am perplexed at people who make both of those claims about Facebook and Twitter… and now rush to sign up for some brand new company based on the same sort of model, with the same sorts of risks.”

\n
\n

💬 Mike Masnick

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-04T13:40:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/04/we-have-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/03/a-quote-from.html", "content_html": "

A quote from my ‘funnest’ Christmas read …

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2023-01-03T16:05:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/03/a-quote-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/03/its-not-about.html", "content_html": "
\n

“It’s not about speaking up … it’s about being heard.”

\n
\n

💬 Yuval Noah Harari

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-03T13:00:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/03/its-not-about.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/28/advice-that-many.html", "content_html": "

Advice that many of us might take.

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2022-12-28T07:48:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/28/advice-that-many.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/26/my-christmas-carol.html", "content_html": "

🎙️ My Christmas Carol - by Rob Long

\n

I like his podcast. I like his newsletter.

\n

Merry Christmas.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-26T08:04:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/26/my-christmas-carol.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","MyPodcasts"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/20/the-trouble-with.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think and they don’t do what they say.”

\n
\n

💬 David Ogilvy

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-20T10:52:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/20/the-trouble-with.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/18/it-begins-with.html", "content_html": "
\n

“It begins with the pleasure of hearing a familiar song and it quickly morphs into a state of nostalgic gloom when you realize you’re now old enough to be the target listening audience for shopping music.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Pell

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-18T10:53:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/18/it-begins-with.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/17/134416.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-17T12:44:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/17/134416.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/12/music-was-my.html", "title": "🎶🎵 Music Was My First Love", "content_html": "

Music was my first love
\nand it will be my last.
\nMusic of the future
\nand music of the past.
\nTo live without my music
\nwould be impossible to do.
\nIn this world of troubles,
\nmy music pulls me through.

\n

💬 John Miles

\n

🎶🎵Interesting to see the albums that appear roughly daily in Matt Birchtree’s feed where he celebrates a different album each day. So far, I am personally not inspired - but that is the beauty of music. It is all different. We are all different.

\n

It might also be that there just isn’t enough context around a post to make me think why I should be bothered - particularly when on the whole - the artists he posts that I do know, just ‘don’t do it ‘ for me. All good. I know it’s me — BUT

\n

I do think this quote needs refinement.

\n
\n

“I love music, and even at the stage in life where most people seem to listen to the same artists they did when they were decades younger, I’m still prowling the new releases every week to see what’s new. I’m obsessed with music.”

\n
\n

💬 Matt Birchtree

\n

‘What’s New’ can’t come from an established artist?

\n

Surely it depends on the artist and what they are producing?

\n

I would agree that there are people who hit a formula and then repeat over and over and are really un interesting - and then there are others who keep evolving … keep changing … refusing to fall into that trap, to pick on a few ….

\n\n

Most importantly - if you never listen to music from artists that have been around - you’d never have heard Bowie’s Blackstar.

\n
\n

I would also argue that a true music aficionado would explore the roots of music. When you listen to real musicians talk, to understand their influences, their history - WOW. To trace the roots of how artists get to where they are is fascinating.

\n
\n

For my part, I am building a few lists in Album Whale that I hope might provide insight into the music I like - and how I came across it … it’s a different spin on ‘best of’ … and more to do with the interconnectedness and relationships in music - and me. When they are ready I will be back.

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-12T09:47:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/12/music-was-my.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/09/weve-laid-down.html", "content_html": "
\n

“We’ve laid down all of the infrastructure for a very important change coming soon :)”

\n
\n

💬 ReadWise

\n

I am excited to learn about the next development in this awesome app.

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-09T11:28:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/09/weve-laid-down.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/06/the-bottom-line.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The bottom line is this. Andy Jassy has the charisma of a damp squib. He needs to be hidden away.”

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n

Source

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-06T13:00:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/06/the-bottom-line.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/173715.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-05T16:37:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/173715.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/my-feeling-was.html", "content_html": "
\n

“My feeling was previously that Mastodon was more alive, it’s good to have a number to put behind that.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

I know what he means. I could go for months on the bird site with zero interactions. On Mastodon I’ve had actual conversations.

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-05T13:51:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/my-feeling-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/tough-news-for.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Tough news for folks who insist that blockchains' obvious use case is for supply chains: IBM and Maersk have discontinued their private blockchain-based TradeLens platform due to lack of interest.”

\n
\n

💬 Molly White

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-05T13:48:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/tough-news-for.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/02/we-dislike-biden.html", "content_html": "
\n

“We dislike Biden so much, we pettily focus on his speaking difficulties, sometimes strange behavior, clear lapses of memory, and other personal flaws. But in the end Biden’s record speaks for itself: The Biden team had one of the best first term off-year elections in history. They were not repudiated.”

\n
\n

💬 New Gingrich

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-02T11:21:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/02/we-dislike-biden.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/30/day-safety-the.html", "content_html": "

Day 30: safety

\n
\n

“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”

\n
\n

💬 Dudley Moore

\n

All my MicroBlog Vember 2022 posts

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-30T09:40:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/30/day-safety-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MB 2022 11"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/29/open-ai-announcement.html", "title": "Open AI Announcement", "content_html": "
\n

“We’re excited to announce the release of the newest addition to the GPT-3 model family: text-davinci-003. This model builds on top of our previous InstructGPT models, and improves on a number of behaviors that we’ve heard are important to you as developers.”

\n
\n

💬 Open AI

\n

So of course I had to go try ….

\n

The Prompt

\n

Please write 4 paragraphs about Stop Child Traffic Foundation which is a non for profit organization that responds to refugee crisis, and uses technology and innovation to prevent harm to vulnerable populations like refugees and women and children.

\n

The Response

\n

_The Stop Child Traffic Foundation (SCTF) is a non-profit organization that works to prevent harm to vulnerable populations such as refugees and women and children. The foundation works to ensure the safety of these vulnerable populations by responding to refugee crises and using technology and innovation to prevent their exploitation. The foundation was established in 1999 and is based in London.

\n

The SCTF works to protect vulnerable populations by responding to refugee crises and using technology and innovation to prevent exploitation. The foundation works with governments, non-governmental organizations, and other partners to develop innovative solutions to address the exploitation of vulnerable populations. The foundation focuses on prevention and early intervention, such as identifying and responding to cases of trafficking and exploitation. This includes providing support and resources to vulnerable populations and raising public awareness of the issues.

\n

The foundation also works to improve the lives of vulnerable populations by working with partners to develop innovative programs and services. This includes providing access to education, healthcare, and employment opportunities. The foundation also works to ensure the safety of vulnerable populations by advocating for improved legislation and policy, monitoring human rights violations and supporting legal aid for vulnerable populations.

\n

SCTF has achieved many successes including the launch of the first online platform designed to enable vulnerable populations to access resources and support._

\n
\n

The words aren’t QUITE right - but as a straight out of the box summary of the Stop Child Traffic Foundation - I am seriously impressed.

\n
\n

PS - More about Stop Child Traffic to come.

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-29T16:56:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/29/open-ai-announcement.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/26/112154.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-26T10:21:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/26/112154.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/26/112103.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-26T10:21:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/26/112103.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/24/like-having-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Like having a child, you forget the pain of having that child three months later, a year later. We want to be in a dream business.”

\n
\n

💬 Doug Leone

\n

Doug’s knowledge of childbirth can only be observation. Not experience.

\n

Just like Sequoia’s pain after the FTX fallout?

\n

Source

\n\"Photo\n", "date_published": "2022-11-24T16:44:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/24/like-having-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/24/truthy.html", "content_html": "

Truthy.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-24T15:46:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/24/truthy.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/24/halcyon-days.html", "content_html": "

Halcyon Days.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-24T15:46:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/24/halcyon-days.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/24/listening-brands-was.html", "content_html": "

Listening Brands was published late 2015. We had regionally based (and placed) ads then.

\n

I guess he is talking about fully personalized ads, where I see an ad for music, and my neighbour sees one for sport. That still isn’t here on TV and won’t be for a while. If ever.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-24T15:45:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/24/listening-brands-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/24/what-you-remember.html", "title": "What You Remember Isn't Always What Happened.", "content_html": "\n

Some context to this post, because it really isn’t just about memory (that’s the back story). It is really setting the scene for what I think will be a series of posts that I will link to from here that is exploring whether Geoffrey Moore’s chasm thinking can be applied to a country. Still not sure it can - but we will see as the journey unfolds.

\n

In a different life I spent a year as a trainee Chartered Accountant and in the first course I attended I learnt the rudiments of double entry book keeping. You know the drill… debit on the left, credit on the right … Except I was taught that ‘debit is on the side nearest the window’. At the time it made perfect sense, except of course it didn’t if I moved to a room where the window was on my right!

\n

‘Don’t worry’ said the instructor, ‘I’ve got your back. When thinking of debits and credits, you will always think of this room.’ And you know what? He was right.

\n

Much as older people might remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, or when those astronauts landed on the moon and younger ones recalling where they were when the Twin Towers in NYC were attacked, I - and I suspect others in my basic accounting class - will always remember that room.

\n

Another room that has stuck in my memory is when I first met Geoffrey Moore. It was at the end of 1991/beginning of 1992 … in a funny little meeting room in Redwood City in Northern California. Despite moving in to the first of ‘the towers’ in 1989, a lot of the company was ‘elsewhere’ at the time - and a bunch of marketing wonks hanging with Geoffrey - well clearly that wasn’t important enough to be in the ‘shiny tower’.

\n

Geoffrey was talking about his new book ‘Crossing The Chasm’ and it’s applicability to Oracle - at the time, there was strong argument that Oracle was well over the chasm … but that didn’t mean some of the products in the portfolio were.

\n

It’s funny how memory works. I can still see that dark miserable room in my mind’s eye. I can only remember a couple of other people attending the session - but at least that is a couple of people more than I remember in my accounting class!

\n

By the way this podcast from Malcolm Gladwell is a great listen around this very topic. Highly recommend.

\n

Anyway, ’Chasm’ is a book that rapidly became the ‘bible’ for software marketeers. You might not have read the first edition, but maybe the second? The third? That last revision was in 2014 and by then, though the subject matter was still firmly grounded in software, it has become one of those classic marketing texts that has crossed the boundaries into other markets.

\n

So why am I writing about this thirty years later?

\n

Easy … I have been talking to a lot of people and companies down here in New Zealand ( a lot ) and have come to the conclusion that the country of New Zealand is pre chasm. (To be clear, being ‘pre-chasm’ is not a bad thing, what’s bad is that if you are and don’t recognize it.)

\n

But even before I get to that dicussion, I was wondering if anybody had thought this way. (Applying ‘chasm thinking’ to a country that is.)

\n

So I checked in with Geoff and asked …

\n
\n

Are you aware of anybody that has taken your Chasm work and applied it to an entire country? I know it’s a leading question - but the more I think about it, the more I wonder if your work could be applied to a country and not just to a company and if it could - has anyone done it?

\n
\n

And almost by return, he wrote a long email which contained this nugget …

\n
\n

“Technologies, products, platforms — why not countries? The whole point of the model is how social systems negotiate disruptive innovations. The question is, whether New Zealand a disruptive innovation, or are we talking about New Zealand as a social system that will process a disruptive innovation? If the latter, then what is the disruptive innovation to be processed? Once we answer those questions, we can proceed.”

\n
\n

💬 Geoffrey Moore

\n

I haven’t yet answered the question - that is kind of what the series of posts is about, but my starting position is to think of ‘New Zealand as a social system that will process a disruptive innovation’.

\n

Back to my drafts.

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\n

“Mastodon will never be Twitter and vice versa. Each are their own thing. What matters is the people.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-18T08:56:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/18/mastodon-will-never.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/17/not-one-of.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Not one of FTX’s 86 investors took a board seat at the crypto exchange, highlighting the exchange’s lack of oversight.

\n
\n

💬 The Information

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-17T13:31:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/17/not-one-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/12/sam-bankmanfried-whom.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Sam Bankman-Fried, whom my son now calls Bank Man Fried, as in French fries.”

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-12T14:12:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/12/sam-bankmanfried-whom.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/12/could-a-rebranded.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Could a rebranded MAGA movement continue by just replacing the frontman? Is it still Journey without Steve Perry, or the Grateful Dead without Jerry Garcia? In a way, yes. MAGA could Jefferson Starship itself indefinitely as long as the crowds keep vibing. But without the original magic the venues tend to shrink, the fans get old, and it all starts to seem a little pathetic.”

\n
\n

💬 The Bulwark

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-12T12:45:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/12/could-a-rebranded.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/12/amazon-shake-out.html", "content_html": "

Amazon Shake Out

\n
\n

Amazon’s devices unit had operating losses of more than $5 billion annually in recent years. Amazon’s Echo smart speakers appear to be mostly used for playing music and setting timers, not online shopping, as Amazon had hoped.

\n
\n

💬 The Information

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-12T06:04:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/12/amazon-shake-out.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/11/162225.html", "content_html": "
\"Team\n
Team Human Quote
\n
\n", "date_published": "2022-11-11T15:22:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/11/162225.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/10/i-think-whats.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I think what’s going on in crypto in the last few days, is going to scare people, and is going to scare regulators into action.”

\n
\n

💬 Larry Summers

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-10T12:58:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/10/i-think-whats.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/10/the-podcast-is.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The podcast is about using FeedLand to write, not just read. About the connection to micro.blog and hopes for connection to Mastodon. And leveraging Markdown in your feeds, how to do it with no breakage.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

Source

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-10T08:08:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/10/the-podcast-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/06/day-echo-just.html", "content_html": "

Day 6: echo

\n
\n

“Just give me a little more echo.”

\n
\n

💬 Apocryphal Elvis

\n
\n

All my MicroBlog Vember 2022 posts

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-06T09:13:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/06/day-echo-just.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MB 2022 11"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/03/return-on-effort.html", "title": "Return On Effort", "content_html": "
\n

\"This time he was here to help us understand some truths about how we really run the business, make decisions, and value what's worth doing. When I say value, I don't mean a list of generalized \"values\", or the bullshit phrase of \"adding value\", but how we attribute value when evaluating our options and making tradeoffs.\"

\n
\n

💬 Jason Fried

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Read The Whole Post

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-04T14:16:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/03/return-on-effort.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/03/coordination-costs.html", "title": "🚧 Coordination Costs", "content_html": "
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The Stripe co-founders were candid about their failure to predict where the economy was heading. They also said they overspent on things like “coordination costs.” That’s not a term I’ve heard before, but I suspect it is a reflection of getting too big and too inefficient.

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💬 Jessica Lessin

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It's a new term to me aswell - BUT recently on LinkedIN there was a meme running around - which used this graphic.

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\"Coordination

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It's pretty self explanatory. The formula is that for every person you add to an organisation, the number of potential conversations increases - a lot. If 'n' is the number of people in an organisation, the number of potential conversations is n-1 + n-2 + n-3 .... in other words ...

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3 people ... 2 + 1 = 3\n4 people ... 3+2+1 = 6\n5 people ... 4+3+2+1 = 10\n6 people ... 5+4+3+2+1 = 15

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And adding 1 person to a 10,000 person organisation adds 10,000 possible new lines of communication.

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-04T14:07:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/03/coordination-costs.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/01/ravages-of-age.html", "content_html": "

“Ravages of age,” really? That phrase has got to go.

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“Language matters. Journalists need to stop relying on offensive, misleading phrases like ‘ravages of age’ and we need to keep calling them out until they do.”

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💬 Ashton Applewhite

\n", "date_published": "2022-11-01T09:58:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/01/ravages-of-age.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/29/chuck-schumers-been.html", "content_html": "
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“Chuck Schumer’s been in Congress so long that medically he’s considered a pre-existing condition.”

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💬 Peggy Noonan

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-29T12:03:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/29/chuck-schumers-been.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/29/if-youre-producing.html", "content_html": "
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“If you’re producing an event, you want the best person you can get. And then inevitably, you have to settle for the best person you can get.”

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💬 William Gallagher

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-29T11:55:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/29/if-youre-producing.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/18/at-this-rate.html", "content_html": "
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“At this rate, the next PM will be the chasm where Suella Braverman’s soul should be.”

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💬 Frances Ryan, The Guardian

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-18T21:42:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/18/at-this-rate.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/18/trumps-team-took.html", "content_html": "
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“Trump’s team took the 5th so often it should be called taking the 45th.”

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💬 Dave Pell

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Josh Bershin writes that we are becoming a power skills economy.

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In other words, automation did not eliminate work at all – it created new jobs, better jobs, and an acceleration of our workforce into what we now call the “service economy.” We are essentially shifting to the right in this model.

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💬 Josh Bershin

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BTW, in case you are wondering, ‘Power Skills’ is the 'new' name for ‘Soft Skills’. To be fair, it did need a new name. It’s also fair to say that whilst he’s not wrong, he fails to mention that in the last 15 years (where he references 2007) no mention that the average income of people is flat and that real income is declining.

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But that's a different opportunity.

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Oh - and maybe not so 'new' Josh was talking about this back in 2019 - and gave us a few clues as to what he was talking about, this is one of his graphics.

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\"What

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Here's My Take

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1) Becoming? I think it is really more like that we are starting to recognize these skills. They have always been there - and though not necessarily recognised or even understood - I bet if you find successful people in that 'old' economy - they would demonstrate a lot of these traits.

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2) Josh is not alone in highlighting these skills and their importance. What nobody is doing is organizing these skills into a taxonomy - much less an ontology.\n(What's the difference you may ask) Stan Garfield has a very simple explanation)

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Taxonomy

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Ontology

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... except now there is.

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More of this to come, but have to say, very excited by a company I have been talking to that has not only done a lot of research into these skills, but also which skills are most important - and why, depending on what you are trying to do.

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Not only that, but they are releasing an app that will allow anybody to

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As I said - more to come. Just to say - the cavalry is on its way.

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Featured Image by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

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I don’t always remember to put up the readwise quotes that catch my eye when I see them - so here’s a collection for you

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Fareed on Education

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\"Fareed\n
Fareed Zakaria Quote
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\"Fareed\n
Fareed Zakaria Quote
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Geoffrey Moore

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No comment on increasing disorder at all levels!

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\"Geoffrey\n
Geoffrey Moore Quote
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Robert M. Pirsig

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Something to bear in mind on the ‘journey to the top’.

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\"Robert\n
Robert M. Pirsig Quote
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Douglas Rushkoff

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A corollary to finding the problem for your solution?

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\"Douglas\n
Douglas Rushkoff Quote
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Venkatesh Rao

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\"Venkatesh\n
Venkatesh Rao Quote
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George Orwell

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Explains some decisions by certain people.

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\"George\n
George Orwell Quote
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J. R. R. Tolkien

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Well - yes - maybe in his day. Is it just me that thinks this no longer holds true? (That is the younf asking questions. Or am I just cynical?

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\"JRR\n
JRR Tolkien Quote
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\n", "date_published": "2022-10-13T12:01:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/13/130120.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/07/dave-winer-gives.html", "content_html": "

Dave Winer gives a shout-out for our very own Manton Reece.

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“And I look forward to reading his book.”

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💬 Dave Winer

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Even Dave was waiting!

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The Fog of Global War, Dana Blankenhorn

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“This is also no normal midterm election. This is an existential battle between democracy and fascism. Major media try to both sides it, but that’s increasingly impossible. Every possible -ism is rising against democratic compromise and common sense – sexism, racism, fascism, Christianism. All the evils bedeviling the rest of the world have come here to roost because Vladimir Putin invited them in.”

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and concludes ominously

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“I do know that, around the world, compromise is no longer possible. This world cannot continue half slave and half free. It will be all one thing or all the other.”

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“Every possible -ism …”

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Everybody’s talking about\nBagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism\nThis-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism

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💬 John Lennon

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Different Times.

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If Adam’s grandfather was alive today - I wonder how he would negotiate the virtual office. Remote work. Fractional and Interim people.

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💬

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💬

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OUCH

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Secret life of Gerald: the New Zealand MP who spent a lifetime crafting a vast imaginary world

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Not even Gerald O’Brien’s wife of 60 years knew of the countless hours he spent drawing and writing stories of his parallel world.

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These are the kinds of secrets I would like more people to have. Such a welcome change to the usual. What an extraordinary man.

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“I talked to him for a year … about all sorts of things, but the imaginary world never came up and it pisses me off that I didn’t know,”

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💬 Lucien Rizos - his nephew

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😂😂😂

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“I could have put the lists into a spreadsheet, but that would mean the client would have to open the email and then open the attachment. If you knew the level of computer literacy my clients have, you would understand why I wanted to avoid that and just have the lists in the body of the email.”

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💬 Robin Rendle

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“Innovation is about shifting from a culture of management to a culture of leadership.

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💬 Brian Solis

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“The debate is done: the SPAC fad is over.”

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“676 trading SPACs haven’t yet found a mate according to SPAC Research. Of that group, 80% are likely to liquidate, predicts Jay Ritter, a finance professor at University of Florida.

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💬 Akash Pasricha - The Information

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As I look around the world, he seems to have nailed a truth.

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I am sad for the loss of the Queen, but ….

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There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.

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💬 Keisei Tagami

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That said, most of what I am reading and seeing leave me cold. Nobody knows the private story of the woman. Nobody.

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This is brought home when reading the 4 articles on the click throughs … four different links that tell the story in very different ways and are not the usual fodder.

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The Guardian: When we asked the Queen to tea with Paddington, something magic happened.

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Gaping Void: 8 Lessons from QE2

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David Frum: How she did it

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Politico: The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor

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Harder Than It Looks, Not As Fun as It Seems is a short neat article on this very topic.

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Reminds me of what my mum used to say to me …

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“If you only judge your friends by their photo album of course it will look like they have a great life.”

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💬 My Mum

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or as Morgan has it ….

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“It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.”

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💬 Morgan Housel

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That all said I think I disagree on this ….

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“no matter what your role in a company is, your ultimate job is to help sales.”

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… ‘revenue’ maybe - but not sales. I think there is a difference.

\n", "date_published": "2022-09-13T08:46:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/13/things-arent-always.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/10/again-look-at.html", "content_html": "

Again, look at that blank sheet of paper. What’s the overriding question that continues to haunt you?

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💬 Julian Summerhayes

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On iCloud Shared Photo Library

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“I look forward to taking a sabbatical to combine my photo library with my wife’s.”

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💬 Stephen Hacket

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😂😂😂😂

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I do so know what he means!

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“One way to make that less confusing is to embrace the metaphor from Finder’s Column view (Steve Jobs’s favorite view!) and let the app get wider, displaying multiple levels of hierarchy.”

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💬 Jason Snell

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Who knew that ‘Steve’ and I shared a favorite finder view!

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The title is not representative of the piece which is actually about ‘Google Maps’ and ‘personal memory’ but is pulled from the quote.

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“I can remember the party where I watched two men I’d never heard of standing in the back yard, drinking lager at the same time they were pissing into the drains. There was something about the flow of liquid in and out, much the same colour at either end, that made me fine with not knowing them.”

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💬 William Gallagher

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Source

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“The best-case scenario for Peloton shareholders is that Amazon will use the distribution deal to get a sense of the demand for Peloton products from its customers, helping it figure out the right price to pay in an acquisition.”

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💬 The Information

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.. of course there is no way that Amazon would use such a clear and unfair advantage to do this and if they did, the FTC would surely step in?

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‘#SomeHope

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\n

𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - a person takes money, hands you an object; liquor store clerks, cashiers, bank tellers, etc.

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𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - taxis, aeroplanes, trucks, etc.

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𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 - people that watch things. But this extends to people that tweak small things (on par with wiping a baby’s arse) like pool repair, HVAC repair, etc. They take the diaper off, they wipe it down, they put the diaper back on; janitors, gardeners, farmers, painters, security guards, testing, stockers, etc.

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Every single one of these will be replaced by a robot, and pretty soon.

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💬 Reichart 'Ki' Von Wolfsheild

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Source

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“Trump didn’t steal classified documents, he was just holding onto them for safekeeping."

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💬 Rudy Giuliani

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… via Bess Levin at Vanity Fair.

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”If you give talented people the opportunity to create wealth, they will do so. If you give talented people the opportunity to extort wealth, they will do so. Don’t credit me with saying that. It’s Libertarianism 101.”

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💬 Arnold Kling

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“What, pray tell, would Trump have said at this dinner, in order to convey that he was willing to bury the hatchet he spent the entire campaign swinging at Hillary’s head?”

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💬 Bess Levin

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“It’s summer, and I got a note that politely encouraged a few forays into brevity.”

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💬 Brian Morrisey

\n

It could equally well have been directed at me!

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“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

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💬 Alfred Marshall

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“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.”

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💬 Alfred Marshall

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“We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.”

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💬 Alfred Marshall

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Bad News is Good News.

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“I started talking about the Machine Internet nearly 20 years ago, before it was even called “the Internet of Things.” Sensors and motes, tied to an analysis by wireless networks. Anything whose performance can be adjusted can now be monitored and controlled by a central intelligence. You can monitor the condition of parts and schedule maintenance before things break. This matters if the part is your heart, and its breaking could kill you.”

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💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n

I’ll take that claim and raise you by a few years …

\n

A group of us started talking about the topic in the mid 90s.

\n

We had the obligatory startup … Flypaper … with a back end we called ‘The Megaserver’ - and without getting into the details - the system allowed us to render a website - ‘just in time’ - by assembling components out of a database. Our message at the time … the website only exists when somebody is visiting it.

\n

It lead to some interesting developments and conversations.

\n

I can still remember one scenario where we envisaged every car having its own website, assembled from thousands of components that each mapped to specific things and functions in the car … this is mid-90s… people didn’t get it.

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And then came the DOT BOMB. And oblivion swooped in.

\n

Still very proud of what ‘we’ built.

\n

Definitely ahead of its time … I mean think about the tools we had in the mid-90s to build this thing!

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-16T09:28:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/16/the-machine-internet.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/13/144331.html", "content_html": "

💬

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\n", "date_published": "2022-08-13T14:43:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/13/144331.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/11/find-a-writer.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Find a writer you like and read them. If you can’t find the writer whose work you want to read, become that writer. That’s what I did. It’s great.”

\n
\n

💬 Cory Doctorow

\n

The Full Story

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-11T10:43:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/11/find-a-writer.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/09/my-spideysense-feels.html", "content_html": "
\n

“My spidey-sense feels good about it. If everyone registers, if everyone votes, if all the votes are counted and reported fairly, most people will be satisfied with the outcome.”

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n

I think Dana is very … very … wrong.

\n

Unless by ‘most’ he means the majority … which by definition of the setup he describes is a self fulfilling prophesy.

\n

But we all know that what he describes is not going to happen.

\n

It’s that word ‘everyone’.

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-09T09:58:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/09/my-spideysense-feels.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/i-mostly-watch.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I mostly watch, read and listen to news to keep track of how they’re screwing us.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

😂😂😂😂😂

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T14:33:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/i-mostly-watch.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/free-content-marketing.html", "title": "Free Content Marketing = Content Free Marketing ", "content_html": "
\n

“The Content Marketing category is almost $700 billion. Almost every company is working on content and increasing their content marketing investments. And yet, when was the last time you got a piece of content marketing and you said that was legendary? Let’s dig into how the marketing world got duped into content free marketing, aka saying nothing everywhere, and why this is one of the largest opportunities hiding in plain sight.”

\n
\n

💬 Chris Lockhead

\n

He’s not everyone’s cup of tea - but he often makes very good points - AND - he knows how to talk about a topic on his podcast in under 15 minutes rather than three hours (though this podcast at 1 hour is an exception). Still, worth a listen … or just buy his book - since he is essentially doing a Doctorow - reading his own book!

\n

I THINK it was Hubspot that pretty much lead the way on ‘Content Marketing’ (defined the category as Lockhead would have it). It felt wrong then … still does … maybe finally some sanity will prevail?

\n

A boy can hope - can’t he?

\n

Podcast

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T14:29:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/free-content-marketing.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/if-had-been.html", "title": "If 911 Had Been Treated As A Crime ...", "content_html": "
\n

“The 9/11 attacks could have been dealt with as a crime. This would have been sane and consistent with precedent. When lawbreaking occurs, we seek the perpetrators, rather than starting wars with unrelated parties. When the IRA set off bombs in London, nobody called for air strikes on West Belfast (or on Boston, where a great deal of IRA funding came from). When the Oklahoma City bombing was found to have been perpetrated by a white supremacist associated with ultra-right militias, there was no call to obliterate Idaho or Montana. Instead, the attacker was searched for, found, apprehended, brought to court, found guilty, and sentenced.”

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“This was not the approach taken by the Bush administration. Rather than seek out and punish the guilty—and only the guilty—it swiftly launched a “global war on terror” that led to the deaths of millions.”

\n
\n

💬 Noam Chomsky and Nathan J Robinson

\n

Read What Do We Owe Afghanistan?

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T14:09:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/if-had-been.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/has-apple-forgotten.html", "title": "Has Apple Forgotten How to Market?", "content_html": "

Questions about Apple and its TV+ marketing

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\n

“Marketing during the era of peak TV is hard, but as someone who lives dead center in Apple’s ecosystem, I hadn’t even heard about “Black Bird” until last week, when Tim Cook mentioned it on the analyst call and I saw an extended trailer for it on last week’s “Friday Night Baseball.”

\n
\n

💬 Jason Snell

\n

Odd. Any time I switch to 🍎📺 - Blackbird is front and center. I wonder why that is not the case for Jason?

\n

As for

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\n

‘It is interesting that Apple, a master of product marketing, is perceived as struggling when it comes to promoting its entertainment shows.”

\n
\n

Are they?

\n

Are they really?

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T14:04:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/has-apple-forgotten.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/in-case-you.html", "title": "In Case You Aren't Yet Convinced Of The Mess We Are In ...", "content_html": "

Two examples - In one email.

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\n
\n

False Online Reviews

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\n

“Bounty, a startup that pays users for posting reviews to select products on TikTok, raised $4.7 million in seed funding from consumer venture capital firm M13.”

\n
\n

💬 Mahira Dayal - The Information

\n

and

\n

In case you need another reason to get off Twitter ….

\n
\n

“Twitter donated $25,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which is raising funds for the anti-abortion movement, newsletters Popular Information and Platformer together reported. The association is using its resources to elect attorneys general that will enforce abortion bans in various states.”

\n
\n

💬 Mahira Dayal - The Information

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T10:22:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/in-case-you.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/02/the-bluestocking-vol.html", "content_html": "

The Bluestocking, vol 244

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\n

“I don’t know about you, but my enjoyment of the Tory leadership election has increased a thousandfold since I realised that Rishi Sunak reminds me of Niles Crane.”

\n
\n

💬 Helen Lewis

\n

ROTFLMAO - is that still a thing?

\n

It should be!

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-02T17:23:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/02/the-bluestocking-vol.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/02/instagram-walks-back.html", "content_html": "

Instagram walks back its changes.

\n
\n

“Users serve Instagram, not the other way around.”

\n
\n

💬 Casey Newton

\n
\n

“Like all of them.”

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-02T17:21:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/02/instagram-walks-back.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/30/know-your-value.html", "content_html": "

Know Your Value So You Can Charge What You're Worth

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-31T17:13:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/30/know-your-value.html", "tags": ["? Quote","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/31/the-problem-with.html", "content_html": "

The problem with Facebook.

\n
\n

“I am unsure what direction Apple wants to take us, but I can bet my last dollar; I don’t want to be in the future of the Internet that Zuckerberg is trying to build.”

\n
\n

💬 Om Malik

\n

What Om said.

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-31T16:26:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/31/the-problem-with.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/27/i-believe-that.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”

\n
\n

💬 Umberto Eco

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\"\"

\n
\n

Come gather 'round people\nWherever you roam\nAnd admit that the waters\nAround you have grown\nAnd accept it that soon\nYou'll be drenched to the bone\nIf your time to you is worth savin'\nThen you better start swimmin'\nOr you'll sink like a stone\nFor the times they are a-changin'

\n
\n

💬 Bob Dylan

\n
\n

With the financial problems ricocheting around the world - I see occasional headlines from 50 years ago.

\n

Three day work week - bad.

\n

\"\"

\n

Fifty Years Later : Four day work week - good.

\n

\"\"

\n

I get the subtle shift in the back story, just an observation.

\n
\n

Thinking Allowed

\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n\n", "date_published": "2022-07-26T10:34:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/25/the-times-they.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/26/reducing-the-bottom.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Reducing the bottom line is a great way to create the illusion of top-line growth.”

\n
\n

💬 Douglas Rushkoff

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-26T07:32:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/26/reducing-the-bottom.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/24/epidemic-sound-sues.html", "content_html": "

Epidemic Sound Sues Meta for Massive Copyright Infringement

\n
\n

“Meta is the king of, ‘we know this looks bad, but here’s why we’re actually saints’”

\n
\n

💬 Matt Birchler

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-24T15:38:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/24/epidemic-sound-sues.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/23/161743.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-23T16:17:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/23/161743.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/22/if-someone-is.html", "content_html": "
\n

“If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a pyramid scheme.”

\n
\n

💬 Kevin Kelly

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-22T16:20:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/22/if-someone-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/21/worried-one-in.html", "content_html": "

Worried?

\n

One in five US adults condone ‘justified’ political violence

\n
\n

“Most alarmingly, 7.1% (of Americans) said that they would be willing to kill a person to advance an important political goal.”

\n
\n

💬 UC Davis Survey

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-21T12:03:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/21/worried-one-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/20/i-had-cause.html", "content_html": "

I had cause to check out Jerry’s Brain today and stumbled on this quote at the top of his site;

\n
\n

“Reopening is an opportunity. Trust is the lever.”

\n
\n

💬 Jerry Michalski

\n

Why did I have cause?

\n

Because I was writing this

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-20T15:06:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/20/i-had-cause.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/19/data-is-the.html", "title": "Data Is The New Soil", "content_html": "

\"\"

\n

In 2013, Mark Cameron wrote

\n
\n

‘Data is not the new oil, it is the new soil.’

\n
\n

He concludes;

\n
\n

"Generating business value from consumer data isn’t about technology at all. It’s about how you use data to create a fantastic experience for your customers. If you can help your customer get value from their own information they will reward you for that effort. If you continue to use data to spam your customers or provide value to your company, you may find yourself wondering where everybody went."

\n
\n

💬 Mark Cameron

\n

IMHO it's a soft article with most of the cleverness centering on the (S)oil pun.

\n

Data is the new .... was the theme of an article I wrote for BizCatalyst a few years ago; Time To Terminate Analogies

\n
\n

"Sure, we wrap the idea up in customer care and nurturing, just as one does when growing plants in a garden, but at the end of the day Cameron’s argument – which seems to emerge from the work of David McCandless who writes at Information is Beautiful is simply a clever play on ‘(s)oil’ and sits squarely in old thinking. "

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n
\n

“The soil analogy is certainly better than big oil but to me, it’s still about personal data being something that’s owned and used by marketers, rather than recognizing that data is used by all of us – both individually and collectively.”

\n
\n

💬 StJohn Deakins

\n
\n

But It Just Got Better

\n

The other day an interview with Jerry Michalski appeared in one of my feeds, where he talked about Data Is TheNew Soil - nice piece - though no mention of Mark Cameron (rightly probably).

\n

I still think the analogy needs to die - but there was a lot more insight and thinking around the idea (definitely not surprised - Jerry is a thinker). I can highly recommend the whole article which isn't just about the (s)oil pun, but includes many other topics, including these that tickled my particular fancy.

\n\n

and a whole lot more.

\n

Do take some time out and have a proper read.

\n
\n

Post Script

\n

In case you were wondering .. yes this is the same Jerry that runs Jerry’s Brain. I am even in there - though it is clear that a few updates are needed!

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-20T13:16:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/19/data-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/19/030015.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-19T03:00:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/19/030015.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/14/twoway-rss-such.html", "content_html": "

Two-way RSS

\n
\n

“Such a site insists that I do all my writing on there. That’s a deal-stopper because I already have my best writing tool and I do all my serious writing in that tool. It’s as if a radio station insisted that I use their guitar to play music.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-14T15:50:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/14/twoway-rss-such.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/07/nothing-you-create.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.”

\n
\n

💬 Nick Cave

\n

 

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-07T12:12:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/07/nothing-you-create.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/06/the-original-governmental.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The original governmental draft was so bad that I thought that at least it couldn’t get worse …. I was wrong.

\n
\n

💬 Anonymous

\n

Extracted from a private group - but I think it is applicable to many scenarios, in many countries.

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-06T10:19:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/06/the-original-governmental.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/06/i-want-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I want to make absolutely clear that there’s no place in this government for anybody who is predatory or who abuses their position of power.”

\n
\n

💬 Boris Johnson

\n

Seriously BoJo? You should try a little self-examination!

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-06T10:15:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/06/i-want-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/04/the-future-of.html", "content_html": "

The Future of the Metaverse – Imagining the Internet

\n
\n

“While the number of people occupying immersive virtual spaces may exceed half a billion by 2040, what we’ll have is a lot of meta but not yet much verse.

\n
\n

💬 Doc Searls

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-04T10:50:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/04/the-future-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/01/i-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I had a theory years ago that Apple were going to disinter-mediate the carriers … and zilch.

\n

How they do it … I don’t know … but it has to be on their radar.

\n
\n

“While Apple’s stated goals will be only iMessage and Find My, followed by IoT, in the longer run Cupertino plans to dis-intermediate the mobile carriers — becoming themselves a satellite-based global phone and data company. That will require shifting over additional Globalstar bandwidth plus launching another 300-600 satellites, so it is several years away but IS coming.”

\n
\n

💬 Robert Cringely

\n

Apple’s Space Ambitions are Real

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-01T09:51:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/01/i-had-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/01/trump-voters-need.html", "content_html": "

Trump Voters Need a New Direction

\n
\n

“ I never meet Americans who love America more than Trump people do. They really love it—its history, what it means in the world, what it’s done.

\n
\n

💬 Peggy Noonan

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-01T08:56:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/01/trump-voters-need.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/28/everywhere-you-will.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

\n
\n

💬 Peter Kropotkin

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-28T12:05:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/28/everywhere-you-will.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/26/there-is-a.html", "content_html": "

🎬 🎵 There is a new movie from New Zealand coming out … the entire dialogue is gibberish

\n

My mind went back to 1969 when Eric Sykes launched Rhubarb on to the world.

\n
\n

Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.

\n
\n

💬 Nick Cave

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-26T09:22:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/26/there-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MyFilmReferences"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/23/215806.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-24T16:58:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/23/215806.html", "tags": ["? Quote","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/23/go-through-all.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Go through all the sessions on the official program and you’ll see lots of talk about Web3, the metaverse and uplifting stories of Ukraine, but you won’t find anybody holding a microphone talking about China, about data misuse, about ad fraud.”

\n
\n

💬 Mark Di Stefano

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-23T18:48:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/23/go-through-all.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/22/212132.html", "content_html": "

\"The

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-23T16:21:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/22/212132.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/12/114649.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-12T11:46:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/12/114649.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/03/a-passwordless-future.html", "content_html": "

🔗 A Passwordless Future Needs Portability

\n
\n

“We definitely need to get there because telling users that they may not change from Android to iOS or vice versa because they won’t be able to log into anything is not a good situation.”

\n
\n

One more example of why Silos need to die.

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-03T15:13:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/03/a-passwordless-future.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/03/a-tale-of.html", "content_html": "

A tale of two @-signs: How to get alternate versions of font characters.

\n
\n

“Amazingly, this is a macOS feature that I’d never encountered in all my years of using the operating system”

\n
\n

💬 Dan Moren

\n

Not just Dan. That said I haven’t ever felt the need to do it, but now I know ….

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-03T15:11:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/03/a-tale-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/31/everyone-but-me.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Everyone but me seems to have forgotten that MicroStrategy once floated on the Internet Bubble.”
\n“Now they are floating on Bitcoin.”
\n“Caveat Emptor.”

\n
\n

💬 Arnold Kling

\n

[KlingOnStrategy]arnoldkling.substack.com/p/michael… (sic)

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-31T18:10:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/31/everyone-but-me.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/30/the-largest-shareholder.html", "content_html": "
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“The largest shareholder in America’s largest gunmakers isn’t a reclusive billionaire or a 2A rabble-rouser with a heavy Reddit presence. It’s BlackRock, the investment giant that talks Wall Street’s loudest game on social duty."

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💬 Dan Primark

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Source

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-30T16:59:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/30/the-largest-shareholder.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/30/balance-is-a.html", "content_html": "
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“Balance is a myth. There are only trade-offs.”

\n
\n

💬 Scott Galloway

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-30T16:56:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/30/balance-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/24/its-quotes-like.html", "content_html": "

It’s quotes like this that give me a reason to think that the world isn’t quite yet coming to an end ….

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“While the Court does not begrudge the defendant’s apparent business success while on pretrial release, his international travel to harvest the bounties of such success will need to wait until he is no longer facing felony charges arising from ill-advised domestic travel in January 2021."

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\n

💬 Justice Howell

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😂😂😂

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-24T10:28:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/24/its-quotes-like.html", "tags": ["? Quote",":'D Humour"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/22/hard-to-argue.html", "content_html": "\"\"\n

Been pointing this out for years - as has Rushkoff.

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AND

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Although we all know that ‘wealth’ is not generated from ‘hours worked’, this additional argument compounds the problem.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2022-05-22T18:01:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/22/hard-to-argue.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/22/interesting-words-from.html", "content_html": "

Interesting words from Frankopan. They got me thinking that I will need to write more about.

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2022-05-22T17:57:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/22/interesting-words-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/19/web-is-my.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Web3 is my favorite new blog in years. Everything about it is just perfect.”

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n

I agree with @gruber

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-19T12:34:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/19/web-is-my.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/18/propaganda-for-good.html", "content_html": "

Propaganda for Good

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\n

“The Putin threat to this nation is still alive. It can still win. That’s because Trump was never Putin’s most dangerous puppet.

\n
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\n

Rupert Murdoch is.”

\n
\n

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-18T09:10:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/18/propaganda-for-good.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/18/we-were-promised.html", "content_html": "
\n

“We were promised bicycles for the mind, but we got aircraft carriers instead”

\n
\n

💬 Jonathan Edwards

\n

Bike - a ‘tool for thought’ from Hog Bay Software.

\n

I assume the name emerges from the quote, but for thirty bucks not sure what it adds to the existing note/outliner world.

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-18T09:09:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/18/we-were-promised.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/14/i-thought-it.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I thought it might have been known in the office that after 34 years and 20 books I knew certain things about writing and didn’t want a copy-editor’s help with punctuation or the thing called repetition …

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\n

💬 V. S. Naipaul

\n

Every writer has his own voice.

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-14T16:24:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/14/i-thought-it.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/10/if-you-dont.html", "title": "If You Don't Add Value - Why Are You There?", "content_html": "\n
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It is telling that someone like Doug Rushkoff can write these words;

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Only individuals who create value for the company are awarded new stock proportionate to their contributions.

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💬 Douglas Rushkoff

\n\n

... without questioning the principle.

\n\n\n

The corollary is of course that there are people that work inside a company that don't add value, which for yours truly is of course like a 'red rag to a bull' - because as the title of this post suggests, if you are employed by a company and not adding value to that company - then why are you there?

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Stakeholder capitalism (apparently) 'solves' the problem.

\n\n
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‘Stakeholder capitalism’ is the buzzword du jour for business practices that strive to achieve more than profits and a high stock price.

\n
\n

💬 McKinsey

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If you want to read more - you can:

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Putting stakeholder capitalism into practice.

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To be fair, the idea of 'Stakeholder Capitalism' has been around for several decades, although who actually coined the term is up for debate, with names including Klaus Schwab (Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum), Peter Drucker and Tom Peters.

\n\n\n

Still wondering? This is not a bad primer.

\n\n\n

So yes - it is not a new idea - it's just that as the world's conversation is moving into fairness and equality, as we see a (kind of) resurgence of Unions and as 'capitalists' are pushed into the corner of 'defending their position' ... the term is emerging and arguably being positioned as the logical next step for a 'sustainable economy'.

\n\n\n

I wrote about this over three years ago when I shared a Ted Talk from Nick Hanauer. Today, that video has had over 5 million views. At the point of 'first discovery', I had not heard of Nick - but as I pointed out, the principles of what he was talking about are engrained in People First thinking.

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Today, you can hear the same language when people talk about DAOs in the world of 'Web3' and quite a few other places.

\n\n\n

But then many steps before 'Stakeholder Capitalism', there was something called 'The Cooperative Movement' which got its start in 1844 in Rochdale a small town in Lancashire, England.

\n\n\n

So far, I have not read anything that clearly articulates the distinction between Stakeholder Capitalism and Cooperatives and which and why each might be better or worse than the other. Sometimes I wonder if 'cooperative' is too 'radical' in this world - so we keep inventing new words to describe the same thing.

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I have always liked the New Values/Old Values - New Power/Old Power model originally developed by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms nearly ten years ago.

\n\n\n

So, picking on a random target company like Uber, which despite hanging its hat on 'the sharing economy' is actually 💯 an 'old thinking' capitalist company.

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Now consider a company called ATX Coop Taxi - a cooperative taxi service based in Austin that has been around for over 5 years. NO - they aren't as well known - but their service is a 'cooperative'.

\n\n\n

The question is why hasn’t it taken off?

\n\n\n

That is for another time.

\n\n", "date_published": "2022-05-11T14:19:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/10/if-you-dont.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise","? Posts","LongForm","People First","?????"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/07/digital-transformation-is.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.”

\n
\n

💬 Marc Benioff

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-07T17:05:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/07/digital-transformation-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/06/its-better-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behaviour is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”

\n
\n

💬 Warren Buffet

\n

Makes total sense to me.

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-06T12:43:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/06/its-better-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/04/toast-generally-lands.html", "title": "Toast Generally Lands One of Two Ways", "content_html": "
\n

“The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes… is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong… What the fuck!… This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.”

\n
\n

💬 Musk in America in April 2020 re lockdowns

\n

Meanwhile …

\n
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""

\n
\n

💬 Musk in China in April 2022 re lockdowns

\n

Read The Whole Thing - spells out very clearly which side the bread is buttered on - and the struggles to ensure that the toast doesn’t land face down!

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-04T18:59:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/04/toast-generally-lands.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/30/all-dads-dress.html", "content_html": "
\n

“All dads dress in the style of the last good year of their lives.”

\n
\n

💬 Jerry Seinfeld

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-30T13:59:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/30/all-dads-dress.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/28/spotify-has-long.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Spotify has long been an awful business. Investors are only now waking up to that reality.”

\n
\n

💬 Martin Peers - The Information

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-28T12:43:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/28/spotify-has-long.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/28/the-senate-has.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The Senate has become a theater of performative behaviors by senators decreasingly interested in legislating, and preoccupied with using social media for self-promotion.”

\n
\n

💬 George Will

\n

Yes George. Yes. It’s clear. Has been for a while now.

\n

As for

\n
\n

“Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency.”

\n
\n

Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-28T11:14:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/28/the-senate-has.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/28/if-we-dont.html", "content_html": "
\n

“If we don’t figure out how to allow people to talk in the public square without being threatened or lied to by clowns with megaphones, it won’t matter who ‘owns’ the megaphones.”

\n
\n

💬 Stowe Boyd

\n

More

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-28T11:11:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/28/if-we-dont.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/the-book-in.html", "content_html": "

‘The Book’ in Readwise.

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T20:04:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/the-book-in.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/lore-what-is.html", "title": "Lore - What Is It Good For?", "content_html": "

Apparently - absolutely everything, (with apologies to Edwin Star). That said, a really GREAT series of articles by Venkatesh Rao on ‘Lore’ The Index To The Series

\n

This is Part 7 of 7 : 🔗 Towards Management Metamodernism , from which I quote;

\n
\n

Just as Wallace noted, in 1993, that literary writing was increasingly substituting TV-watching for observation of life (which, as he pointed out, was understandable, since life itself was about sitting on a couch watching television), by 2007 or so, on the threshold of the global financial crisis, “external reality” to leaders meant the output of the literary-industrial complex.

\n
\n

💬 Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm

\n

(My bold reminding me of the UK series Gogglebox - an entire show where we the viewers watched other viewers watch television!)

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T14:50:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/lore-what-is.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","MyYouTubes","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/does-anybody-know.html", "content_html": "

Does anybody know Robin Rendle?

\n

They should call him and tell him about Blot.

\n
\n

As I was reading this post from Jim about his setup I got wildly, incomprehensibly jealous; he writes about having a folder on his desktop that he can just throw stuff into and it publishes to a website. This, to me, is the absolute dream. The ultimate writing setup.

\n
\n

💬 Robin Rendle

\n

Source

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:41:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/does-anybody-know.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/vibe-shifts-are.html", "title": "Vibe Shifts - Are You Part Of Them?", "content_html": "

I never made the switch from photography to illustrations on my web properties, but I do very much remember when Unsplash seemed to suddenly be the ‘defacto choice’ for photography on many sites. More recently seeing Craft and others add the service right into their apps, I have felt for a while that I need to discover a new source of visual inspiration.

\n

Was that due to that acquisition, or is it the uniquity of images from the Unsplash library? Are they related?

\n

Case in point …. how many times have you seen this image?

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Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash

\n

According to Unsplash it has nearly 150 million views and has been downloaded 1,225,278 times - not recorded are the 2,397 sites I have visited that use this image!

\n

So yes, I have noticed that I am struggling to find images on Unsplash that work for what I am writing about. Which is why I am eagerly waiting for my access to DALL-E 2 and … Midjourney … because I already have plans to change the illustrative approach to my blogs and social sharing.

\n

I thought it was just me - until I read this today;

\n
\n

Sometime around 2015 there was a mysterious vibe shift in web design. It came so suddenly, and with so much decisive force, that it stood apart from the normal ebb and flow of aesthetic trends. It was like an invasive species taking over an ecosystem from a weaker competitor.

\n
\n

💬 Nathan Baschez

\n

🔗 DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

\n
\n

I think when Unsplash (the free photography website) was founded in 2013 it killed the old vibe by democratizing access to great photography, and thereby ruining its function as a costly status signal. Companies then started using custom illustrations in their brand aesthetic because illustrations suddenly became much more rare and expensive relative to photos.

\n
\n
\n

I’m interested in this little piece of design history because today I think history is on the brink of repeating itself. Now that we have DALL·E 2 (and other AI image generators), a huge portion of visual vibes will become democratized. What Unsplash did to photography, DALL·E 2 will do to illustrations, 3D renderings, and eventually all visual styles.

\n
\n
\n

In other words: a vibe shift is indeed coming.

\n
\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:20:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/vibe-shifts-are.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/me-i-know.html", "content_html": "

Me?

\n
\n

“I know nothing.”

\n
\n

💬 Private Schultz

\n

But I have just been working through 🔗 Elon’s Giant Package … which is an alternative take on what is going on with today’s news.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T09:46:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/me-i-know.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/we-really-need.html", "content_html": "
\n

“We really need to start treating people’s time as being more valuable than the organisation’s money.”

\n
\n

💬 Mark McArthur-Christie

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-26T07:15:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/we-really-need.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/25/how-about-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

“How about a rule that only stories that are not behind a paywall will be considered for a Pulitzer prize.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

… it’s a thought.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-25T12:51:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/25/how-about-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/20/loving-the-lore.html", "content_html": "

Loving the Lore thinking of Venkatesh Rao.

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2022-04-20T11:25:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/20/loving-the-lore.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/19/i-dont-believe.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”

\n
\n

💬 Arthur C. Clarke

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-19T13:23:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/19/i-dont-believe.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/17/as-long-as.html", "content_html": "
\n

“As long as the device is not tampered with or damaged, it presents no hazard to public safety,”

\n
\n

💬 David Allard, Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection

\n

… ummm …

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-17T23:07:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/17/as-long-as.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/16/my-strong-intuitive.html", "content_html": "
\n“My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important.”\n
\n

💬 Elon Musk

\n

Twitter is trusted?

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-16T08:59:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/16/my-strong-intuitive.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/15/musks-twitter-people.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Musk’s Twitter

\n
\nPeople who responded said it'd never happen because Twitter's balance sheet was too weak to justify an acquisition. They missed that not all of Twitter's value shows up on its balance sheet.\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

That is the problem of all balance sheets - because it is only a financial tool.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-15T13:02:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/15/musks-twitter-people.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/14/each-of-us.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Each of us are, in fact, the star of nothing that matters.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-14T14:26:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/14/each-of-us.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/13/never-depend-upon.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

\n
\n

💬 Margaret Mead

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-13T07:52:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/13/never-depend-upon.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/12/the-struggle-is.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The struggle is never between good and evil, it is between the preferable and detestable.

\n
\n

💬 Raymond Aron

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-12T10:35:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/12/the-struggle-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/10/i-dont-read.html", "content_html": "

I don’t read a lot of Chris Brogan - though he did provide the impetus behind my annual ‘3 words’.

\n

That said I think this summarizes why I don’t read him much.

\n
\n

“Blogs are dead.
\nOr are they?
\nThat’s all you get. I’m writing it in my newsletters.”

\n
\n

💬 Chris Brogan

\n

🔗 On the Occasion of my 52nd Birthday

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-10T14:15:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/10/i-dont-read.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/09/144847.html", "content_html": "

💬

\n

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\n", "date_published": "2022-04-09T14:48:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/09/144847.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/07/om-malik-if.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Om Malik

\n
\n

“If you hurry to get to the future, you always get a punishment for it. For example, instant coffee.”

\n
\n

💬 Alan Watts

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-07T12:37:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/07/om-malik-if.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/06/162949.html", "content_html": "

 

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\n", "date_published": "2022-04-06T16:29:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/06/162949.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/06/162927.html", "content_html": "

💬

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\n", "date_published": "2022-04-06T16:29:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/06/162927.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/04/is-it-the.html", "content_html": "

Is it the industry, or is it ‘the new kids on the block’?

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\n

“One of these decades the tech industry is going to grow the fuck up and stop insisting on being the boy wonder and respect what has been accomplished before they showed up. Then we won’t have to constantly be retooling and ripping up the pavement and starting over.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer ( [@dave](https://micro.blog/dave) )

\n

Coincidentally I ended this post ruminating on generational questions ….

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“Boomers created the internet and the web and did not turn themselves into money-grubbing billionaires - like GenX and Millenials do today.”

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“Now, who’s destroying the world?”

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“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union,”

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💬 Chris Smalls

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Shoshana Zuboff calls this development The Coup We Are Not Talking About. The subhead of that essay makes the choice clear: We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. Her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, gave us a name for what we’re up against. A bestseller, it is now published in twenty-six languages. But our collective oblivity is also massive.
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💬 Doc Searls (my emphasis)

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Hear her speak

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I often listen to a podcast or read an article and at the end of it my reaction is 'yes … and' or 'yes … but’.

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IF I feel sufficiently moved - a link might get posted to my Thought Stream, together with a pithy observation - and I move on.

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\nThe Thought Stream\n

On the stream I offer a randomized link, that takes you to one of the posts. the oldest of which dates back 2005!

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Sometimes though … just sometimes … what I am reading or listening to, triggers more than a few synapses and I am prompted into writing something more substantial. This is one such occasion after I listened to ‘The Thoughtful Leader’ - a podcast hosted by Mindy Gibbins-Klein when she was talking with Steve Sanders.

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Full disclosure - whilst I don’t really know either Mindy or Steve - we have talked, exchanged ideas and generally feel we are on the same playing field. All three of us happen to belong to a tight network that runs out of the UK, but in my language, I wouldn’t say I ‘know’ either of them ‘well’ (yet), whatever that means. That said, they both come across as very good people that I will get to know better over time.

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So to that podcast.

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First - Mindy - my thanks for the People First call-out - at least that is how I am taking it 😀 … I know you weren’t connecting it to my work - but I’ll take whatever I can get - just like when Zuckerborg (sic) borrowed the phrase, I know he wasn’t talking about me - and in fact, I don’t believe him - but nothing wrong with pushing the image to remind people!

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Steve - good job and on topic - as we explored when we recently talked. I think we might be cut from the same cloth, even though our suits might be different.

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I certainly do not disagree with anything you said - but I do have a couple of observations.

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One - Generational Differences

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I agree on the challenge of focussing on generational differences. I know 15 years olds that are 80 and 80 years old that ‘remain’ teenagers. I get why business has this need for categorization - I reject that people need to adopt it.

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The New Yorker seems to agree.

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\nWhy do people adopt corporate language and thinking that is at odds with what is good for us?\n

\nFor example;
I reject the use of that horrible corporate word ‘content’ that people spend so much time working to deliver into the platformed silos of LinkedIn, Facebook, TicToc, Snapchat, Instagram, What’s App and all the rest.
If your work is homogenous, un-differentiated, fodder written to feed the algorithm and garner clicks, hearts and whatever other little badge of honour the corporates regard us with - then perfect.
I would hazard a guess though that most creators don’t think that their posts, articles, essays, photographs, books, images, poems … are anything but that … but that is what we are reducing our IP to.
And of course, because anything that is an homogenized undifferentiated commodity - the price that gets paid is not on value - but how cheap an alternative might be.
.. and do not get me started on Marketing War Rooms!

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But let’s keep the plot front and center.

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I have been looking and commenting on these supposed generational differences for years and am not quite as optimistic as Steve when it comes to how fast this is going to change. More of that in a minute. But first - let me put my hand up in the air and emphasize that Steve is not alone in his optimism. Who am I to disagree with the findings of Accenture, who in this report seem to support the idea that we are moving towards this new world faster than any of us might think.

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Esteban Kolsky is one of the few analysts that picked up on the survey - and in his post reminded us of the vagaries of such surveys!

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… “let’s say you are not truly convinced that they WILL actually do what they say they may in a survey (something about an unconscious bias towards being liked makes most of us answer as expected, not as the way we will act, etc.).”

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He goes on with this advice …

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… “read while wearing rubber gloves and use thongs to “flip pages” if you want to avoid contact – hehe – but definitely read this about how consumers are changing, because outside of the flawed data-collection, the trend is real and well documented.”

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… and it is my job as CCO (that’s ‘Chief Contrary Office’) not only to question the findings that were discovered when Accenture surveyed

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… “more than 25,000 consumers across 22 countries, with follow-up focus groups in five countries.

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(I’ll forgive the language - it’s Accenture, they can’t help it, but I prefer to survey people.)

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… but indeed anything that sits oddly that is, in turn, being shared under the banner ‘common wisdom’.

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The bottom line is optimism. Don’t get me wrong - even I am optimistic, it’s just the speed of adoption that I am questioning - which brings me to part two.

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Two - The Speed of Transformation

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First, I hope I am wrong. But, the evidence I am seeing suggests different.

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I could highlight so many examples that might suggest how slow this is going to be - but let’s choose three.

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Supply Chain Inequality

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We have been able to buy ‘$1 throw away ‘designer’ t-shirts’ for decades. Stores like Primark despite pages like this exist because when it comes to action - as opposed to feeling, we turn a blind eye.

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Just think for two seconds about the profit behind a $1 t-shirt being sold in a large department store on Oxford Street and other cities around the world. It surely points to inequality and sometimes exploitation somewhere (if not everywhere) in the supply chain.

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Exploitation that we all hate and rail against - but we are complicit in our purchase.

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What age group does Primark serve

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”Whilst in-store customers may differ slightly, Primark’s social audience fall within the 17–24-year age demographic (depending on platform) and are over 90% female.

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The very age group that we are pinning our hopes and dreams on to change corporations.

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Ease of Transaction over Moral Compass

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Uber Eats, Doordash, GrubHub et al make their profits through food delivery.

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The mechanics of the transaction has 30% of the food order at your favourite takeaway magically being extracted from the local economy - only to appear as revenue in a company in Oakland, California.

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It’s clear. But we continue to do it.

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So much for being aware of social issues and forcing corporations to change.

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A similar argument can be applied to Uber itself because it is ‘oh so convenient - and cheap … even though even in London there are apps that compete like Gett … so people who ‘say’ they are demanding Corporations to do better - vote with their thumb when it comes to the short term benefit of saving a buck. Principles are gone!

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Don’t believe me? Consider this which headlines with;

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“Black cabs roar back into favour as app firms put up their prices.”

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Meanwhile - over in the USA …

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DC AG Sues Grubhub For Sneaky Fees, Screwing Over Local Restaurants | Techdirt

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“But Grubhub didn’t fully cover the costs of these discounts. Instead, it passed most of the costs of the discounts along to the already-struggling restaurants. Grubhub also forced the restaurants to pay their full commission on the discounted orders based on non-discounted prices. This promotion severely cut into restaurants’ already-small profit margins, and misled DC residents who believed their orders through Grubhub would help their favourite restaurants.”

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Yikes.

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Where is the outrage? Where is the socially aware youth?

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Cryptocurrency

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16% of Americans say they have ever invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency - depending on which site you visit, the numbers vary for the US and in different countries, but there is no doubt that a lot of people have jumped onto the bandwagon - despite the apparent danger of it being a highly volatile gamble in something that I would guess (no science here), some 90% of those people could not even start to describe how cryptocurrency works.

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But that isn’t what this bit is about.

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Lets start with another podcast that asks Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin? - it’s an hour long - but well worth a listen - and it contains some eye opening stories.

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One of the many stories - American towns competing with each other to offer massively discounted power to ‘crypto miners’ where the workers earn $20 per hour, and the owners - well - it’s the usual story.

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Scott Galloway nailed it in one of his pieces;

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and

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“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”

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So how do you reconcile the crypto movement with the climate change crowd …

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… “almost half of all American men ages 18 to 29 say they have invested in, traded or used a form of cryptocurrency.”

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SOURCE

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Maybe its just that the ‘modern youth’ are massively intelligent …

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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

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But I am not yet convinced.

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No research yet - but as the funds spring up supporting this brave new crypto world and our children are apparently eschewing investment in the ‘extractive industries’ - we find this headline;

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Exxon Mobil reportedly gets in on Bitcoin mining

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Follow the money babe - follow the money.

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Three - Altruism

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Riddle me this … why are boomers generally seen as the ‘bad guys’. This just 5 days ago : Boomers responsible for nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions, study suggests. Really, do some google searching - it is clear that boomers are positioned as 'the problem'.

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I have no idea how true that is (full disclosure - I am a boomer)

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\nBut It Gets Worse\n

\nI am a Boomer
I am English
I am Male
I am Straight
I am White
Single handidly - most of the ills of the world might fall at my feet if you listen to the common narrative.

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I do however know enough that the same data can produce very different conclusions.

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But consider this;

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Vint Cerf and Bob Metcalf’s work gave us TCP/IP - the internet wouldn’t work without that protocol

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Tim  Berners Lee’s work gave us the worldwide web.

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So as to avoid confusion (and please note - this is a real image - not a photoshop .. I was there when it was taken.) …

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\"Vintandtim\"

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Let’s write that in a different way.

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Baby Boomers Vint Cerf (78) and Bob Kahn (83) hold the join honorary title of ‘Godfathers of The Internet’. Tim Berners-Lee (66) came up with the World Wide Web and none of them are millionaires in the ‘millionaire sense’ - and certainly not billionaires.

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It’s also telling that I more than likely need to provide context as to who these people are - but that when we move on to other generations, no explanation is necessary. We just somehow know their names.

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Jeff Bezos at 58 sits at the cusp of Boomer and GenX, the other names you will be familiar with include;

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GenX

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Jack Dorsey (45)
Sergey Brin (48)
Larry Page (49)
Elon Musk (50)

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Millenial

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Mark Zuckerberg (37)
Evan Spiegel (31)
Zhang Yiming (38)

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The web was created by Berner-Lee as a place of equality - where everyone had a publishing press and/or microphone - if they chose to use them.

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But the money was made by ‘post boomers’.

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The cesspit of corruption, bias and fake news - Fakebook was created by a millennial. The other one, Twitter, by a GenXer.

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I could write it another way;

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Boomers created the internet and the web and did not turn themselves into money-grubbing billionaires - like GenX and Millenials do today.

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Now, who’s destroying the world?

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Bottom Line

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No matter the indignation we feel, or how loud our screams for a fairer society, the fact is that when it comes down to it, the further that happens from your wallet and/or physical presence - the more easily it is forgotten - or even ignored.

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The t-shirt situation occurs because they are made on the other side of the world - too far away for me to affect. Besides - if I don’t buy them - others will - what difference does what I do make?

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Uber, is an identical situation - except the person you are now stealing (what word would you use) from might be your neighbour!

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And it is all because people, on the whole, do not understand. They don’t think - why should they - life is too busy!

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As a result, corporations will continue as they do and won’t be challenged as they transition their businesses into spaces to make even more money - at whatever cost.

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Yes - there are exceptions. Consider Patagonia, a retailer that takes its values to heart. Revenues of $1Billion - not chump change - but that’s less than Primark’s pre Covid annual profits - interesting to note that Arthur Ryan who founded Primark is of the Silent Generation as is Yvon Chouinard who founded Patagonia.

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If we are really going to compare generations through the lens of ‘business oligarchs’ - it looks like the world might have got better with Boomers - and it has been going downhill ever since!

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Conclusion

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And, this is all written with a bit of tongue in cheek because I do so object to behavioural classification based on age.

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But it’s also asking why we think everything is suddenly going to be different - and different quick - just because we hear how ‘woke’ and ‘aware’ the youth are - when it comes to global challenges. ‘the youth’ are coming to save us.

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You might not remember the sixties (if you do - you probably ‘weren’t there’), but that generation had hopes, ideals and aspirations. They were also going to  change the world for the better. Did they? Was it for the better?

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To borrow a ‘sign off’ from my friend Geoff Moore - that’s what I think … what do you think?

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one more test with feeling

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💬 ME

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a second test with more feeling
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💬 ME again

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No One Is Coming to Save Us

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”You want a better nation, be a better citizen. ”

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💬 Jim Wright

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testing testing

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💬 ME

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“The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.”

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… or something like that. Lots of variations of this over the interwebs. Who knows if Otto was the real source. Regardless, I like it.

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\n\t\t“Perhaps ironically Really Simple Syndication has become anything but simple. Really. 💥”\n\t\t

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How to be a darknet drug lord

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“And did you know that America entered the war against Germany only after Hitler declared war on the United States? He did so right after Pearl Harbor, in solidarity with Japan.”

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Yes. Yes I did.

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Source

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“A lot of the current hype around NFTs consists of the belief that the rest of the world will follow the same rules as NFT art. But of course part of the point of art is that it doesn’t follow the same rules as the rest of the world.”

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💬 James Grimmelmann

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Grimmelmann is a professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech - directing the Cornell Tech Research Lab in Applied Law and Technology.

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🚧 I wanted to write this post as a permanent test of applying ‘footnotes’ on my blog.

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Here in the time line it is almost certainly going to look weird if there isn’t a title - but the idea is to improve the reading experience on the site - and then of course explore what it might look like in an RSS feed.

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Post Posting

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The footnotes aren’t coming through hyperlinked. YET!

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Hitchens Specific

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Makes sense?

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Discuss?

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iPad Gripe from @Gruber - Yeah, Me Too

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\n\"My biggest gripe remains unchanged from all recent iPad models: the front-facing camera placement is awkward when the iPad is oriented in landscape, but landscape is how the iPad is oriented when it’s in a Magic Keyboard or propped up using a folded Smart Folio cover — and those are the natural ways to use an iPad for a video chat at a desk or on a counter. It’s a great camera (and the M1 has an excellent image signal processor), but horizontally, you wind up with a high-quality image of yourself from a bad angle. The camera is too low and off to the side. If you look at the camera you’re not looking at the screen, and if you look at the screen the camera makes it look like you’re not looking at the screen. I don’t know what the solution to this problem is, but Apple hasn’t found it yet.\"\n\t\t

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\n", "date_published": "2022-03-19T07:39:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/19/083915.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/19/a-quote-for.html", "content_html": "

A quote for our times from Douglas Rushkoff and Team Human.

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\n", "date_published": "2022-03-19T07:17:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/19/a-quote-for.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/15/as-i-was.html", "content_html": "

As I was reading this article by John Naughton in The Guardian this morning, I had this feeling of dejavu.

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And now I know why. Saved a month ago - with attribution to Cal Newport …

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I now need to work out where the errors are.

\n", "date_published": "2022-03-15T13:12:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/15/as-i-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/15/the-true-delight.html", "content_html": "
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\n“The true delight is in the finding out, rather than in the knowing.”\n\t\t

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💬

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\n\n", "date_published": "2022-03-15T10:28:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/14/152847.html", "tags": ["? Quote","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/04/what-is-past.html", "content_html": "
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\n\t\t“What is past is prologue.”\n\t\t

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\n", "date_published": "2022-03-04T11:53:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/04/what-is-past.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/01/science-describes-accurately.html", "content_html": "
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\n\t\t“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside, [and] both celebrate what they describe.”\n\t\t

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\n\t\t“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”\n\t\t

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\n“The only way to solve this is by creating new systems that start by equipping customers with their own standardized ways to interact with any service function on the sellers' side, at scale. We actually have tools for that called phones and browsers, but we need to advance on both.”\n\t\t

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\n“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”\n\t\t

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\n“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”\n\t\t

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\n“My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.”\n\t\t

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\n", "date_published": "2022-02-23T08:42:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/23/094239.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/20/two-posts-many.html", "title": "Two Posts - Many Coins", "content_html": "\n

This post, by Dave Rosenthal caught my eye this morning. It's long, it’s deep and is written with authority and knowledge.

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Who is David Rosenthal? In his words

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I worked with James Gosling on CMU's Andrew project in the early 80s. I was a DE with him at Sun later in the 80s working on window systems including X, and file systems. I quit to be employee #4 at Nvidia where Curtis Priem and I did the basic I/O architecture, then was an early employee at Vitria, the second company of founders of Tibco. Before I start talking about cryptocurrencies, I should stress that I hold no long or short positions in cryptocurrencies, their derivatives or related companies.

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David Rosenthal

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It obviously also caught Cory Doctorow's eyes, because he went on to write a post as well. To many Cory's will be more readable - I guess helped by him being a professional writer and Dave's original post actually being a summary of notes and slides he presented at  Stanford's EE380 Whether you read Dave’s or Cory’s - if not both, the conclusion is the same ...

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 The Links

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https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/14/externalities/#dshrhttps://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html

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Featured Image Copyright: Copyright by MaxPixel

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Nice way to think about it. To phrase it.

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\n", "date_published": "2022-02-16T07:16:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/16/081636.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/15/i-think-we.html", "content_html": "
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\"I think we are past peak Rishi.\"

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\n 💬 ‘An Anonymous Member of Parliament’\n
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‘Past peak Rishi’: Why Conservative support is ebbing from Sunak as favourite to replace Boris Johnson

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\n", "date_published": "2022-02-14T10:11:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/14/111140.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/13/rands-in-repose.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Rands in Repose … writing about Zoom Meetings.

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“Do you want to know why you’re fatigued at the end of a long day of video conferences? It’s because your brain has been straining to collect essential information that is no longer there.”

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“After his shocking exit from CNN, the TV executive's legacy will come into focus. And his most fateful decision will be the attention given to Donald Trump and its lasting fallout.”

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\n 💬 Margaret Sullivan - WaPo\n
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Funny - it’s not in the copy - but I love that file name : jeff-zucker-donald-trumo-cnn

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Read More

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“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

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\n 💬 Stephen King\n
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“One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human knowledge more available, populists and liars are in such pressing demand.”

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\n 💬 John Le Carre\n
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\n", "date_published": "2022-02-09T09:52:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/09/one-day-somebody.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/08/if-at-the.html", "content_html": "
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“If, at the end of your show you say “Available where you get podcasts,” then my friend, you have a podcast. If you have to say “Only available on Spotify” (or some other exclusive service), good for you, but it’s not a podcast.”

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💬 Dave Winer

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… and I very much agree with him.

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Language is important … and I am done with Corporates hijacking language so to appear better than they are.

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🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.

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💬

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\n", "date_published": "2022-01-29T12:37:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/29/133725.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/25/true-dat-in.html", "content_html": "

True Dat

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In fact coincidentally just about to put out three different offers over the next two weeks.

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\n", "date_published": "2022-01-25T08:59:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/25/true-dat-in.html", "tags": ["MyReviews-Books","? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/23/expanding-readwise-niceties.html", "content_html": "

Expanding Readwise niceties into articles …

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“As I've said a bunch before, I think that crypto will have a place in the future, but I think the applications of it right now feel like they're solving solved problems worse than the existing solutions.”

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\n 💬 Matt Birchler\n
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Source : Solving Solved Problems

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“I like any company that’s focused on making the best, not the most.”

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\n 💬 John Gruber\n
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\n", "date_published": "2022-01-22T18:26:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/22/i-like-any.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/21/creativity-isnt-about.html", "content_html": "
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Creativity isn't about starting something.
It's about making something.
Making requires sustained effort, and sustained effort requires fuel.
That fuel is optimism.

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\n 💬 Jason Fried\n
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Creativity requires optimism

\n", "date_published": "2022-01-21T11:13:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/21/creativity-isnt-about.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/20/read-and-highlight.html", "content_html": "

Read and highlight in Matter … which automatically synchs with Readwise - so you can then create a neat little graphic - like this for example.

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Time to explore whether Matter can replace StoopInbox.

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\n", "date_published": "2022-01-20T10:50:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/20/read-and-highlight.html", "tags": ["? Quote","Quotewise"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/12/opensea-web-and.html", "content_html": "

OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation Theory.

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\n\t\t“At the same time, this doesn’t mean that companies are any less dominant; rather, their means of dominance has shifted from the technical to the sociological.”\n\t\t

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Which I think is way more worrysome!

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\n\t\t”Cooking is a minor art. I cannot imagine an hilarious soufflé, or a deeply moving stew.”\n\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t💬 Kenneth Tynan\n\t\t\t\n\t\t
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Seven dangers to human virtue:

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  1. Wealth without work
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  2. Pleasure without conscience
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  3. Knowledge without character
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  4. Business without ethics
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  5. Science without humanity
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  6. Religion without sacrifice
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  7. Politics without principles
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💬 Mahatma Gandhi

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Via (and thanks to) Jo Wong

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\"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.\"

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💬

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\n\t\t“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”\n\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t💬 Salman Rushdie\n\t\t\t\n\t\t
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\n", "date_published": "2021-12-30T14:21:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/12/30/one-of-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/12/29/web-web-etc.html", "content_html": "
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\n\t\t“web1, web2 etc, you can make the story come out any way you like, but RSS, blogging and podcasting were part of the Web 2 story and they are all about decentralization.”\n\t\t

\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t💬 Dave Winer\n\t\t\t\n\t\t
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\n\t\t“Mark Twain and I are in very much the same position. We have to put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.”\n\t\t

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\nIf you want endless repetition (in your life), see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.\n

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\nWhat happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over.\n

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\nYou can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love. It’s hard work, though, and a lot of people run at the first sign of trouble. You’re with this person, and suddenly you look like an asshole to them or they look like an asshole to you — it’s unpleasant, but if you can get through it you get closer and you learn a way of loving that’s different from the neurotic love enshrined in movies. It’s warmer and has more padding to it.\n

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\n\t\t“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”\n\t\t

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💬

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\n\t\t“I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.”\n\t\t

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“I’ll have a better understanding of why in a year,” he said, “and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.”

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💬Jason Sudeikis

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💬

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“The cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

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💬 Federico Fellini

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“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

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💬 Martin Scorsese

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💬

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Notes on newsletters

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“my own theory was that, again, you couldn’t really write enough by yourself to justify $5 or $10 a month when the Economist or New Yorker paywall cost much the same for vastly more.”

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💬 Benedict Evans

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“In tech we don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, we stand on their toes.”

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💬 Dave Winer

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“Everything is data, but data isn’t everything.”

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💬 Pauline Bart

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“Life is a constant process of dying.”

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💬 Arthur Schopenhauer

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“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”

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💬 Chuang Tzu

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”Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon”.

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💬 Woody Allen

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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

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💬 Elbert Hubbard

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💬

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“He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.”

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💬 Richard Hamming

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💬 

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“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”

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💬Franklin Jones

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”Before having a second brain: “That’s important, I’ll keep it in mind”\n“After having a second brain: “That’s important, I won’t keep it in mind”

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💬Tiago Forte

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”Everything interesting begins in the “unimportant and not urgent” quadrant. Eliminating it is the dumbest thing you can do and the worst advice Covey gave.”

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💬Venkatesh Rao

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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

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💬 William Faulkner

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“I will die on this hill. Web apps are not as good as native apps. Even apps made on top of web technologies feel worse. I’m looking at you Electron.”

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💬 Mcdrifter

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“Only one of us now sits on the Supreme Court. By all accounts, he and four of his colleagues — all appointed by Republican presidents, three by a president who instigated a coup against the United States — are getting ready to violate state decisions and, judicial precedent.”

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💬 Robert Reich

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“Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs.”

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💬 Craig Spencer

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Writing in The Atlantic

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”Last September in Europe it cost €119 ($139) to buy enough gas to heat the average home for a year and the continent’s gas-storage facilities were brimming. Today it costs €738 and stocks are scarce.”

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💬 The Economist\n

… via John Naughton

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“No true compassion without will, no true will without compassion.”

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💬 John Fowles

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”How do you build a social media that functions like a healthy, diverse, equitable neighborhood?”

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💬 Gregory Manni

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Via ‘Manu’ on Social platforms

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Unpublished from 2008

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”All this made me think that now that we have a handful of activities identified, blogging, bookmarking, clicking, chat, email, etc. one could start from scratch and design a computer that just did these things without layers at all.”

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💬 Dave Winer

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“ I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

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💬 Le Corbusier

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“There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

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💬 D. H. Lawrence

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From Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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”There is no money in poetry; but then there is no poetry in money, either.”

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💬 Robert Graves

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“The FTC’s narrative is that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t very good at developing technology, so he built a monopoly instead.”

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💬 Matt Stoller

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“How we spend our time is how we spend our days. How we spend our days is how our life goes. How our life goes determines whether we thought it was worth living."

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💬 Keith Yamashita

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“We no longer interact. We transact.”

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Om Malik

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​”To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.”

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💬 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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On Finding The Miraculous In The Mechanical

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“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

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💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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via the inimitable Maria Popova

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Original Link

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💬 Dorothy Parker

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Interesting thread re Electron if you are tracking the 1Password debate.

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“I think the history of tabs serves as a fascinating case study of how Apple’s neglect for its own UI frameworks assisted the rise and acceptance of cross-platform frameworks."

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💬 Francisco Tolmasky

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-20T14:59:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/20/interesting-thread-re.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/20/humor-can-be.html", "content_html": "
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“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”

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\n

💬 E. B. White

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(via Stowe Boyd)

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-20T14:55:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/20/humor-can-be.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/20/074439.html", "content_html": "

💬 Ansel Adams

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\n", "date_published": "2021-08-20T07:44:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/20/074439.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/18/companies-transitioning-from.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Companies transitioning from full-time employees, or opting to use freelancers instead of hiring full-time employees, are not doing so because freelance talent is more skilled or talented than employees. It is a massive cost-saving measure.”

\n
\n

💬 Stowe Boyd

\n

Exactly Right.

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-18T17:03:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/18/companies-transitioning-from.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/15/media-is-a.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”

\n
\n

💬 Graham Greene

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-15T18:20:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/15/media-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/15/if-people-do.html", "content_html": "
\n

”If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

\n
\n

💬 John von Neumann

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-15T18:19:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/15/if-people-do.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/13/it-sucks-that.html", "content_html": "
\n

“It sucks that our kids need to wear masks. It’s also mostly the fault of those fighting to prevent them from being required to.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Pell

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-13T12:46:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/13/it-sucks-that.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/12/analog-pens-apples.html", "content_html": "

Analog Pens, Apple’s Pencil & Talking Machines: writing & its future

\n
\n

“Why writing’s future is complicated.”

\n
\n

💬 Om

\n

Apparently, it’s not just the future.

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-12T15:01:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/12/analog-pens-apples.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/12/open-platforms-are.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Open platforms are more favorable. If you want to perform a new style of music in Central Park, you can. If you want to do it in Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, you need to get the approval of a lot of rich people.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-12T14:58:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/12/open-platforms-are.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/11/i-go-to.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I go to the pantomime only at Christmas.”

\n
\n

💬 W.S. Gilbert

\n

… on being asked if he had seen Sir Henry Irving in Faust.

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-11T17:45:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/11/i-go-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/09/men-only-learn.html", "content_html": "
\n

“Men only learn from history how to make new mistakes.”

\n
\n

💬 A.J.P. Taylor

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-09T17:23:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/09/men-only-learn.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/30/create-an-environment.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Create an environment that tolerates misfits, rewards actual creative behaviors, and embraces people following their own interests. Companies that don’t will suffer the fate of Ford, IBM, and the other former giants that focused on short-term efficiency at the cost of long-term innovation.”

\n
\n

Stowe Boyd

\n

(I think)

\n", "date_published": "2021-07-30T17:21:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/30/create-an-environment.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/28/if-people-do.html", "content_html": "
\n

”If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

\n
\n

John von Neumann

\n", "date_published": "2021-07-28T18:10:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/28/if-people-do.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/28/it-is-a.html", "content_html": "
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“It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

\n
\n

Aldous Huxley

\n", "date_published": "2021-07-28T18:10:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/28/it-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/29/love-is-the.html", "content_html": "
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“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”

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\n

J.D. McClatchy

\n

More at Brain Pickings

\n", "date_published": "2021-06-29T15:29:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/29/love-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/29/my-idea-of.html", "content_html": "
\n

”My idea of a good picture is one that is in focus.”

\n
\n

💬Andy Warhol

\n", "date_published": "2021-06-29T15:25:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/29/my-idea-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/25/never-express-yourself.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Never express yourself more clearly than you think”

\n
\n

💬 Niels Bohr.

\n", "date_published": "2021-06-25T16:09:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/25/never-express-yourself.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/24/my-considered-opinion.html", "content_html": "
\n

”My considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted to the United States.”

\n
\n

💬 John M. Woolsey

\n", "date_published": "2021-06-24T14:12:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/24/my-considered-opinion.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/18/the-difference-between.html", "content_html": "
\n

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.”

\n
\n

Earle Hitchner

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-18T19:50:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/18/the-difference-between.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/18/once-were-thrown.html", "content_html": "
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“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”

\n
\n

Leo Tolstoy

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-18T19:48:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/18/once-were-thrown.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/16/i-wont-insult.html", "content_html": "
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“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”

\n
\n

William F. Buckley, Jr.

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-16T11:52:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/16/i-wont-insult.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/16/its-so-beautifully.html", "content_html": "
\n

” It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”

\n
\n

Julia Child (on Nouvelle Cuisine)

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-16T11:52:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/16/its-so-beautifully.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/16/frequently-on-administrative.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Frequently on administrative forms, the options for marital status are single, married, and divorced. (How is ‘divorced’ a status? Isn’t that just single?)”

\n
\n

Scott Galloway

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-16T11:48:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/16/frequently-on-administrative.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/03/21/cancel-culture.html", "title": "Cancel Culture", "content_html": "\n

Matt Taibbi on the Topic

\n\n\n

The media business keeps trying to ruin Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, and they keep prospering. On the loony Substack controversy, and the paradox of moral panic in media.

Matt Taibbi
\n\n \n", "date_published": "2021-03-22T12:14:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/03/21/cancel-culture.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/02/07/joe-biden-makes.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Joe Biden Makes Shocking Announcement: None of His Children or Grandchildren Will Be Named Senior Advisers to the President.”

\n
\n

Vanity Fair\n", "date_published": "2021-02-07T09:27:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/02/07/joe-biden-makes.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/01/27/for-the-party.html", "content_html": "

2021

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“For the party to move forward, we got to move the party with Donald Trump. There’s no way to be a successful Republican Party without having President Trump working with all of us and all of us working with him. That’s just a fact. And I think we got a decent chance of coming back in 2022. But we can’t do it without the President.”

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Lindsay Graham, 2021

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2016

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“If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”

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Lindsay Graham, 2016

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UPDATE - 26-01-27

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🖇️ Here

\n", "date_published": "2021-01-27T13:07:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/01/27/for-the-party.html", "tags": ["? Quote","? Links","Updated"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/01/23/the-last-couple.html", "content_html": "
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”The last couple of years has seen a slight resurgence in the personal blog and I hope 2021 continues that trend!”

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\n

Chris Bowler

\n

Amen

\n

Read It All.

\n", "date_published": "2021-01-23T07:52:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/01/23/the-last-couple.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/01/07/it-used-to.html", "content_html": "\n

It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24–7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of our lives to keep private.

Ben Schott - 2010 - TEN YEARS AGO
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Read More.

\n\n", "date_published": "2021-01-08T04:57:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/01/07/it-used-to.html", "tags": ["? Quote","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/11/03/its-just-business.html", "content_html": "\n

It's just business, never personal

Chevy Woods ... just one of millions
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But that is wrong. It is always personal.

\n\n\n

Business IS Personal. We just talked about it on one of our podcasts.

\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2020-11-04T18:34:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/11/03/its-just-business.html", "tags": ["? Quote","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/09/28/trust.html", "title": "Trust", "content_html": "\n
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CX in the age of privacy and trust, part 3: Can we rebuild trust?

Tim Walters
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Fits nicely into something I read recently from Union Square Ventures .... Trust is offence (trust gaps create opportunities for startups) as well as defence (trust is a moat).

\n\n", "date_published": "2020-09-29T14:33:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/09/28/trust.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/09/08/judge-a-man.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

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\n

Voltaire

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… reminded of this in today’s Stowe Boyd newsletter, which in turn reminded me … (now don’t judge me) … but boy - do I have some questions !

\n", "date_published": "2020-09-08T10:46:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/09/08/judge-a-man.html", "tags": ["? Quote","P F Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/07/23/technology-quotes-and.html", "content_html": "

Technology Quotes and Sayings

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A wealth of wise words and wisdom in quote form.

\n", "date_published": "2020-07-23T12:30:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/07/23/technology-quotes-and.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/07/21/in-the-future.html", "content_html": "
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”In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

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💬 Andy Warhol

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I’ve just done the calculations. It will take around 225,000 years of 15 minute fame slices to work through the entire population of the planet.

\n

Now I know why the days seem so long.

\n", "date_published": "2020-07-21T12:30:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/07/21/in-the-future.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/30/the-user-experience.html", "content_html": "
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“The user experience angle only matters when the buyer of a product is also the user..”

\n
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Ben Thompson

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Read More

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-30T09:25:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/30/the-user-experience.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/29/the-shit-is.html", "content_html": "
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”The shit is about to hit the fan, not a second wave, but a second order wave.”

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-29T10:33:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/29/the-shit-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/24/i-wonder-if.html", "content_html": "

I wonder if Trump has ever read Locke?

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”Who lies for you will lie against you.”

\n
\n

💬 John Locke

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-24T12:28:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/24/i-wonder-if.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/24/in-january-not.html", "content_html": "

In January 2020, not a single CEO, government leader, politician or consultant let alone futurist, futurologist, sociologist, FoW expert, forecaster, strategy planner or pollster … wrote or talked about what we should do 6 months later when the world was in the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu, suffering the deepest financial depression in nearly a hundred years with a global #BLM movement provoking civil unrest that threatens the global power structure that has been in place for centuries.

\n

 

\n

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

\n

💬 Oscar Wilde

\n

… we clearly no longer have a ‘thoroughly modern intellect’.

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-24T12:13:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/24/in-january-not.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/22/that-we-allow.html", "content_html": "
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”That we allow Nuclear Weapons to exist in a world controlled by deranged sociopaths is, in itself, a deranged arrangement.\"

\n
\n

💬 Roger Waters

\n

Two Suns In The Sunset

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-22T19:34:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/22/that-we-allow.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MyYouTubes"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/20/bob-dylan-a.html", "content_html": "
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”Bob Dylan, a Genius Among Us”

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💬 Peggy Noonan 🎵

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One for @ron

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-20T09:23:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/20/bob-dylan-a.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/20/scripting-news-with.html", "content_html": "

Scripting News

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With Twitter’s new voice tweet feature, I’d like a simple way to post a voice message to RSS … I have lots of working code for dealing with feeds …. let’s make podcasts super easy for the people.

\n
\n

💬 Dave Winer

\n

Thinking about what @manton has done on Micro.blog

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-20T09:15:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/20/scripting-news-with.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/20/elite-cia-hacking.html", "content_html": "

Elite CIA Hacking Unit Failed

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”Keep this story in mind the next time the FBI and DOJ start barking about their being trustworthy with the secret keys to encryption backdoors they want built."

\n
\n

💬 John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-20T09:00:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/20/elite-cia-hacking.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/18/track-warbles-sweeter.html", "content_html": "
\n

“5-Track warbles sweeter than lost’n’lonely Neil Young during ON THE BEACH, almost as self-satirizing as the very Reverend Roky Erickson and … appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States’ next phase.”

\n
\n

💬 Julian Cope 🎵

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-18T17:33:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/18/track-warbles-sweeter.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/14/i-know-i.html", "content_html": "
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”I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.”

\n
\n

🎵 💬 MSP

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-14T12:55:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/14/i-know-i.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/09/riots-or-uprising.html", "content_html": "

Riots or Uprising? If this Turmoil were in Iran, Trump would be Cheering on Arsonists and Dreaming of Regime Change

\n

💬 Juan Cole

\n

… just as we in turn are all dreaming of a regime change.

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-09T13:32:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/09/riots-or-uprising.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/09/this-country-was.html", "content_html": "
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This country was built on unconscious racism. We have to consciously decide to take it into another direction.

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💬 David Frier

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(🔗 Source)

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I don’t often disagree with Frier, but;

\n
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… the country was built on unconscious racism …

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\n

Really? Unconscious?

\n

Being blind and ignoring it is not unconscious.

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-09T13:23:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/09/this-country-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/09/as-democracy-is.html", "content_html": "
\n

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

\n
\n

H.L. Mencken

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-09T13:05:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/09/as-democracy-is.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/04/nazi-germany-was.html", "content_html": "
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”Nazi Germany was born from the weakness of the Weimar Republic.”

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💬 Tom Evslin

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Read More

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-04T15:49:25+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/04/nazi-germany-was.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/02/in-robert-novak.html", "content_html": "
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“In 1965, Robert Novak wrote a book called ‘The Agony of the GOP, 1964’ - about Goldwater’s takeover of the Republican Party. That resulted in an immediate electoral disaster, but without long-term damage to the Republicans. 2016 may have been the reverse.”

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\n

💬 Arnold Kling

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-02T09:57:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/02/in-robert-novak.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/02/with-trump-there.html", "content_html": "
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”With Trump, there is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume the worst is yet to come.”

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\n

💬 George Will

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-02T09:47:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/02/with-trump-there.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/30/a-steady-change.html", "content_html": "

A steady change ongoing over at my blot site. Any piece of writing has to fit into one folder … any and all additional tags will only be emoji - so far I have identified these :

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🥇, 🎥, 🎵, 💡, 💬, 📚, 📜, 🔗, 🖋, 🗒, 📃, 😂, 🔍

\n

🔗 All Explained Here

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Not there yet - but it is the right thing to do.

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\n

”Will a spider rebuild its web (if destroyed by nature) in exactly the same place? No. It will relocate. It might even find no web is needed, because it knows how to live inside the porch light.”

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💬 Stuart Robbins

\n

(a good friend I was rapping with last week on ‘the new normal’)

\n", "date_published": "2020-05-24T12:36:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/24/will-a-spider.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/24/i-salute-audible.html", "content_html": "
\n

“I salute Audible for continuing not to call them ‘podcasts’ — if you can’t listen to them in whatever app you want, they’re just shows, not podcasts.”

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💬 John Gruber

\n

I particularly like the use of ‘just’.

\n", "date_published": "2020-05-24T11:40:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/24/i-salute-audible.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/16/a-quote-for.html", "content_html": "

A quote for the times of COVID

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\n

“All human plans are subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”

\n
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💬 Arthur C. Clarke

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\n

”I’ve started - so I’ll finish.“

\n
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💬 Bamber Gascoigne

\n

I do so wish I had that discipline.

\n", "date_published": "2020-05-15T11:50:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/15/ive-started-so.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/30/sympathy-is-often.html", "content_html": "
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“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”

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Sophie Scholl

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via the inimitable Maria Popova

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\"\"
Day and Night - M.C. Escher, 1938
\"A masterful demonstration of symmetrical opposites.\"
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What's Next? It's a question being asked all the time. The answer? It depends. What does it depend on? YOU!

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Read The Whole Article.
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“\n“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”\n”

\nBuckminster Fuller\n
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-22T12:01:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/21/whats-next.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/31/value.html", "title": "Value.", "content_html": "\n
\"\"
Value.
What Is It?
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We need something to help people understand if something truly is of value to them because as we journey through these strange times, I have a deep belief that value - and ‘our values’ - are going to bubble to the top of what we and collectively ‘society’ holds important.

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Read The Whole Article.
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“Years later I find myself paying monthly for a storage container in the city of York, England. Total monetary value - not a whole hell of a lot. I have easily spent more on keeping the container than the monetary value of all of everything inside. In total. Why? Because to me, it is all valuable. Irreplaceable. Just like that wooden carving, which is just one of the items stored in the container.”

John Philpin
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\n", "date_published": "2020-04-01T16:22:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/31/value.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/17/people-first.html", "title": "People First!", "content_html": "

People First!

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Why would it be any different?

\n

Why People First? It’s a question that I am often asked. Why not? If not people, then what should be first?

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🔗 Read The Whole Article.

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The questions being asked by mainstream media are primarily about how markets and business will recover - few ask how people will recover.

\n
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💬 John Philpin

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\"\"
Technology!
O.M.G. Technology!
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\nWe live in the thrall of technology. ‘Shiny Things’, that deliver 'squirrel’ interruptions into our daily lives. Nothing wrong with that, with all the usual caveats that we read about. BUT …\n

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Read The Whole Article.
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“\nOMG - Technology … all

Owned

Managed and

Governed

Not by you - but by the very companies that 'sold' you the ‘bill of goods’ to begin with.\n”

\nJohn Philpin\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-02-26T19:12:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/02/26/technology.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/02/23/men-have-no.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”

\n
\n

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

\n", "date_published": "2020-02-23T16:38:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/02/23/men-have-no.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/02/07/math-is-not.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Math is not about memorizing formulas without meaning, but rather about learning how to reason logically through precise statements"

\n
\n

Dr. Po-Shen Loh

\n

He’s even proved it

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Edmund Burke 200 years ago:

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”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

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”The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”

\n
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”Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

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.. and many more.

\n", "date_published": "2020-02-03T12:32:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/02/03/edmund-burke-years.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/01/26/victorious-warriors-win.html", "content_html": "
”Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
\n

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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\n

”The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

\n
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💬 Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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”If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.“
\n

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
\n

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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\n

“Just remember folks that life is not a rehearsal, so you better get on with it.

\n
\n

Tommy Emmanuel

\n

One of Four Performers Featured

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“Better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note.”

\n

Robert Fripp

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🎵

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\n

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

\n
\n

Issac Asimov

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\n

”Trump Doesn’t Have The Integrity To Be A Mob Boss”

\n
\n

Paul Krugman

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\n

”The world is not as impressed with Silicon Valley as Silicon Valley is with itself.”

\n
\n

💬 Scott Galloway

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\n

”Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.\nGive a man a bank and he can rob the world."

\n
\n

Tyrell Wellick (character from Mr. Robot)

\n

… many thanks for the research @nitinkhanna

\n", "date_published": "2019-09-17T10:35:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/16/cant-pin-down.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/09/12/john-bercow-ill.html", "content_html": "

John Bercow: I’ll stop Boris Johnson breaking the law on Brexit.

\n

There is a spine in politics!

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🎵

\n
\n

”I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”

\n
\n

Roger Waters

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“How did a man you wouldn’t trust alone with your own sister come to be trusted with the entire country?”

\n
\n

Jeremy Paxman

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\n

”If property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds?”

\n
\n

[John Perry Barlow](https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=dltr)

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I have had versions of this article on a number of different blogs and publications for years. The time has come to formalize it, since content, its ownership and how we think about it, is central to the principles of People First.

\n

A recent question from someone in one of my many groups ...

\n
\n

\"Why is it so difficult to find a freelance writing gig?

\n
\n

My reply ...

\n

Because the people who pay for writing have no clue of the value, which is why they call it ‘content’ which we know has no value and is homogenous ‘filler’ that can be swapped out at a moments notice.

\n

My Content Rule ...

\n

'Don't Call It Content'

\n

.... book, novel, short story, article, white paper, promotional piece, advert, painting, sculpture, song, opera, photograph, image, graphic art, poster, fine art … anything … anything but ‘content’.

\n

If you want a general catchall phrase, how about material? It's the words that creative used to use - it meant something. Stood for something. It had value.

\n

\"\"

\n

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

\n

Why?

\n

Because as long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using low cost, homogenous, non-descript words like 'content' to describe our work, our soul, our passion, our beliefs then our work will continue to be viewed as ’free - to - cheap - to - low - cost’, as ‘homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’. Moreover, we then only have ourselves to blame and the resultant payment for your art, your thinking, your ideas, will continue to race to the bottom.

\n

It is not in the interests of any creator to allow that, so why allow their interests to define how we think?

\n

Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, 'anything will do' kind of word. Which is why 'content' has no value. It is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the buyers of our sweat, labour, thought and time to keep their price down. But our costs are not kept down. So our net earnings suffer. And they are suffering badly.

\n

And it has to start with you - the creator, because it isn’t in the interests of buyers to change their behaviour and vocabulary - 'they' want great work at no cost.

\n

From a while back now - but well worth repeating ....

\n\n

 

\n
\n

It's the amateurs who make it tough for the professionals

\n
\n

💬 Harlan Ellison

\n

I wonder if that is how this kind of thinking comes about? As I wrote when I first saw this ...

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\"\"

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\n

For all those of us attempting to get paid for value by people who wouldn’t get value if it smacked them between the eyes.

\n
\n

💬 John Philpin

\n

Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word. Which is why ’content’ has no value.

\n
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“I draw and paint on paper using pen, ink, and watercolor. I then scan and publish my work on this web site. People then visit and read this graphic novel, or if you prefer, webcomic. Occasionally, I write a blog post like this one. There is art and there is commentary, but there is no content and there are certainly no consumers.”

\n
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💬 Don Macdonald - August 24th, 2011

\n

All Creators Should

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STOP using THEIR words to describe OUR work. OUR soul. OUR passion. OUR beliefs.

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A N D

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START using OUR words to describe OUR work. OUR soul. OUR passion. OUR beliefs.

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Trading my time for the pay I get (up!)
Living on money that I ain't made yet (up!)
Gotta keep goin' gotta make my way (up!) 
But I live for the end of the day (up!)

The Vogues
\n\n\n

Written in 1965 - and nothing has changed. This newsletter introduced you to the 4P model of People First ... Pay, Purpose, Play and Passion.

\n\n\n

With a more open, enlightened recruiting process there is so much more that people could do in any company if they were given the chance. The answer is to stop job filling and start fulfilling.

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\"\"
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You can read the whole of Issue Number 8 here.

\n\n", "date_published": "2019-07-17T06:04:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/16/worklife-balance.html", "tags": ["? Quote","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/12/paraphrasing-someone-doc.html", "content_html": "

Paraphrasing someone - Doc Searls I think.

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\n

”To suggest that by adding up the total set of known and unknown data about an individual provides an understanding of that person is akin to suggesting that by adding up the components that make up a car means you understand the car.

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There's some fucking guy, scientist or something. Real sick bastard. Says he measured out the remains, the cremated remains of a dead man. Measured out the, uh, minerals left behind, you know? The iron phosphates, the ... whatever it is we're made up of. Says he added it all up to the cost of $4.40.

$4.40. Burnt down man's worth less than a fucking Big Mac.

Michael Grey played by Liam Cunningham in The Numbers Station
\n\n\n

I caught The Numbers Station over the weekend, and that is the opening dialogue. It resonated. I know nought of the truth - but it does seem about right.

\n\n\n

After last week's newsletter, and the responses, I have thought about it more and more. How we as a society spend so much ... too much ... time reducing anything ... everything ... to a value based on the component parts.

\n\n\n

We know that the click bait mongers of the internet write stuff like this - to save you the click through it’s all about adding together the cost of the sum of the parts of an iPhone - and thus by extrapolation conclude that Apple is - as we might say in England ... 'Aving A Larf'. Total BS and nonsense but there are still people who argue that SApple are riping us off.

\n\n\n

No - this is not a defence of Apple - but to ask a question.

\n\n\n

Isn't this exactly what businesses do every day week, month and year to people. You earn a salary or wage based on what they consider is your worth to them while they rent you for the 40, 50, 60 hours each week that you are in their service?

\n\n\n

But it's worse. The value is not just for the sum of your component parts, but actually for the sum of your component parts that they think they need, and everything else is ignored. Your component parts are what they have defined are needed to do the job that they have defined needs to be done. Everything else is of zero value.

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\n

Thinking Allowed

\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n\n", "date_published": "2019-07-02T05:38:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/01/the-value-of.html", "tags": ["? Quote","MyFilmReferences","LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/19/you-dont-often.html", "content_html": "

You don’t often see truth in straplines but I just did …

\n
\n

”There must be security for all, or no one is secure.”

\n
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-20T11:43:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/19/you-dont-often.html", "tags": ["PeopleFirst","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/19/everyone-were-changing.html", "content_html": "
\n

”Everyone, we’re changing everyone,
\nyou name them all,
\nwe’ve had them here,
\nand the real stars are still to appear.

\n
\n

🎵

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Our fourth Newsletter just dropped. The focus this week .. People!

\n\n\n

Hamid Ulukaya - founder and CEO of 'Chobani Yoghurt' presents his plan - 'the anti-CEO playbook'. A fascinating journey through the early days of the company - and how it's success can be reduced to .... people!

\n\n\n

Secondly, A reminder that when you build systems and make changes in your organization, it's

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\"\"
\n\n\n

Finally, for a while now, I have been writing about why we should stop using the word 'Content' to describe our ”book, novel, short story, article, white paper, promotional piece, advert, painting, sculpture, song, opera, photograph …. you get the point.

\n\n\n

This week Om Malik and Khoi Vinh have both written about that very topic. Personally delighted if finally this message is catching on and gettingg through.

\n\n\n

As long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using ‘their’ words to describe our work, our soul, our passion, our beliefs as ‘content’, then our work will continue to be viewed as ’free - to - cheap - to - low - cost, homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’.

John Philpin - People First
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\n

“Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even when the plan is horrifying”

\n
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The Joker

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”George RR Martin writes on an ancient program called Wordstar 4.0 on a dos computer. He is selling more books than nearly anyone on the planet and his computer can’t even send an email. … So often we think that we need more to be successful.”

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Kyle Westaway

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“There will be ways to protect against being ‘faked’ by doing things like wearing a live cellular automaton tie.”

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Stephen Wolfram

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”America reached its zenith as a world power when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and entered its decline with the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Fareed Zakaria

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Read The Whole Thing

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”For each new millionaire household the San Francisco Bay Area has produced, there are at least four new people living below the poverty level. San Francisco’s property crime rate has spiked to the highest in the nation."

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Dave Pell

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Wow. Stark Reality.

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via Futility Closet - and well worth quoting

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“Success Story”

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I never got on good
\nrelations with the world
\nfirst I had nothing
\nthe world wanted
\nthen the world had
\nnothing I wanted

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A.R. Ammons

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🎵

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”Congratulations The Cure – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2019! Are you as excited as I am?”

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Excited Interviewer

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“By the sounds of it, no.”

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Robert Smith

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The Full Story\n", "date_published": "2019-04-02T11:20:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/01/congratulations-the-cure.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/27/125214.html", "content_html": "\"\"\n", "date_published": "2019-02-28T08:52:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/27/125214.html", "tags": ["? Quote"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/09/uk-usa-differalities.html", "content_html": "

UK - USA Differalities (2) : Tea

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“Listen and learn, son. Tea is a herb that’s been dried out so to bring it back to life, you have to infuse it in boiling water. That is boiling water and everywhere I’ve been in this country, they slap down a cup of tepid nonsense, you know, with the tea bag lying beside it, which means I’ve got to go through the ridiculous business of dunking it in the lukewarm piss waiting for the slightest change of color to occur. And at my age, I haven’t got the time.”

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💬 Muriel - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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\"straight

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One of an occasional series of posts commenting on ‘Differalities’ (the ‘commonalities’) that divide the UK and the US.

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See them all here, along with other ‘Johnisms’ here.

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Emails Show Facebook Is Well Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy.

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”The Facebook executives who approved this ought to be going to jail. Facebook is to privacy what Enron was to accounting."

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John Gruber

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The Full Story

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”If you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.”

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Cal Newport

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The Full Story

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W.H.O. calls to reclassify weed.

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”If the changes are adopted, it would serve as an admission by world governments that they were wrong about marijuana."

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Kevin Urgiles

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🔗 The Full Story

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”We think as we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”

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\n💬 John Fowles \n

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Jeff had worked in Somerset for 4 years. Emma's mother was born in England. Now they lived in America. Together.

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We found ourselves talking over a couple of brews about the benefits of America over the UK. That with the current uncertainty of America, where would we rather be? More importantly, what would we do if the US continued this way after November of this year.

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We agreed that the UK probably wasn't the solution.

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\"It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.\"\nThe Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.' And so the expression soon fell into disuse, and the Shaltanacs had little option but to become terribly happy and contented with their lot, much to the surprise of everyone else in the Galaxy who had not realized that the best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it.\"
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💬 Douglas Adams

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Thinking Allowed

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Definition of A Mellotron?

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“A synthesizer in a drinks cabinet”

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(Source unknown and the origianl video no longer available. 😞

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🎬 The Hundred Foot Journey

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I saw something this morning float by in the stream claiming that France has the ‘best restaurant in the world’. Quite apart from a personal objection to applying words like ‘best’ to something that is a qualitative opinion … I was reminded of this exchange from the movie.

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Madame Mallory

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”What is this flavor that is fighting against the chicken ?”

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Hassan

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”I added some spices for flavor to the sauce, and coriander for garnish and freshness.”

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Madame Mallory

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”But why change a recipe that is 200 years old ?”

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Hassan

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”Because, madam, maybe 200 years is long enough.\"

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A piece by Robert Scoble on 🔗 ‘Why Tim Cook better worry’. Scoble opens with his take on ‘the fourth visible user interface of the personal computer era.’

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The first was character mode. MS-DOS.
\nThe second was the GUI, graphical user interface. Macintosh and Windows.
\nThe third was touch. iPhone and Android.
\nThe fourth is spatial computing.

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…. and then goes on to suggest that Cook ‘doesn’t get it’ and Apple should be worried.

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He seems to forget that Apple.

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And - remember this piece was 🔗 written by the guy that wrote that he would never take his google glass off … and was generally THE world’s leading advocate of same. But that was in 2013.

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Then last year he wrote;

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Last night before Skrillex at Coachella came on two guys were talking next to me. One said ‘I want to get away from the Google Glass guys.’ I turn around and there are two guys wearing Glass. Google does have a problem here. I haven’t worn mine at all this weekend. What is going on here in a world where I am carrying around a camera and EVERYONE uses their phones or a GoPro but Glass feels freaky and weird? Google has launched this product poorly, is what. But wearable technology needs a different set of skills than Google has. What? Empathy.

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and just last week;

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Yes, Google Glass had its problems, but that’s because it was released too early. It was a misunderstood product that could stand up to neither expectations nor criticism.

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Meanwhile - Apple’s R and D spend is running close to 10 billion a year - do we really think they aren’t working on interesting, game changing, futuristic ideas ?

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As Asymco’s Horace Dediu wrote;

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While other companies make a bigger show of their projects, ‘Apple’s’ work is in secret. It is substantial and calibrated by market opportunity.

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Update - June 2nd - 2016

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Funny - this just in today - from a piece called ‘When Should Apple Introduce Its Innovations’. (Sorry the mangling - see below - lost the link)

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A couple of choice quotes;

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What Apple’s critics stubbornly fail, or refuse, to acknowledge - even though the evidence before them is overwhelming is that it’s not first that matters, it’s first to get it right. The critics want Apple to invent the next big thing. But Apple doesn’t invent. They never have invented. They reinvent.

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and

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Everything at Google IO so far: Here is our answer to a rival’s product. Ours is way better. It will be out later this year.

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💬 Farhad Manjoo on Twitter

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#word

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Update - Jan 24th - 2024

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I rediscovered this post on Jan 23rd, 2024 it having been imported from one of my other blogs a while back. It had clearly got severely mangled in the process. So I have just demangled it - including moving out of that ‘special’ Wordpress HTML that we all ‘love’ so much and reformatted with Markdown and added some of my little emojis for better discovery in the future. Otherwise what you read above is what went live way back then.

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I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.

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💬 Noel Coward

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  1. The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, ‘If you were  my husband I’d give you poison,’ and he said, ‘If you were my wife, I’d drink it.'

    2) A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the  gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ ‘That depends, Sir,’ said Disraeli, ‘whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'

    3) ‘He had delusions of adequacy.’ - Walter Kerr

    4) ‘He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.’ -  Winston Churchill

    5) ‘A modest little person, with much to be modest about.’ - Winston  Churchill

    6) ‘I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.'- Clarence Darrow

    7) ‘He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to  the dictionary.’ - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

    8) ‘Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big  words?’ - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

    9) ‘Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time  reading it.’ - Moses Hadas

    10) ‘He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.’ - Abraham Lincoln

    11) ‘I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I  approved of it.’ - Mark Twain

    12) ‘He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.’ - Oscar Wilde

    13) ‘I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;  bring a friend…if you have one.’ - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

    14) ‘Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.’ - Winston Churchill, in response.

    15) ‘I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.’ - Stephen Bishop

    16) ‘He is a self-made man and worships his creator.’ - John Bright

    17) ‘I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.’ - Irvin S. Cobb

    18) ‘He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.’ - Samuel Johnson

    19) ‘He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.’ - Paul Keating

    20) ‘There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.’ Jack E. Leonard
     
    21) ‘He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.’ - Robert Redford

    22) ‘They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.’ - Thomas Brackett Reed

    23) ‘In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.’ - Charles, Count Talleyrand

    24) ‘He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.’ - Forrest Tucker

    25) ‘Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?’ - Mark Twain

    26) ‘His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.’ - Mae West

    27) ‘Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.’ - Oscar Wilde

    28) ‘He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts…for support rather than illumination.’ - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

    29) ‘He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.’ - Billy Wilder

    30) ‘I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.’ - Groucho Marx
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ITS.A.JOKE.PEOPLE

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Originally Posted On Humor.Philpin.com - a now defunct site. I moved the content here for posterity.\nThe date of this post is the date that it was originally published on that site.

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