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

💬 Ted Gioia

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

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

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.

💬 Doc Searls

I love those two sentences.

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

‘<’ should look the same as ‘blockquote

And

With and without ‘attribution’

Test One

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

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

Test Two

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

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

💬 John

Test Three

<blockquote> this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’</blockquote> and the attribution tag on a different line

p class="attribution">💬 John</p>

this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’ and the attribution tag on the same line

💬 John

Test Four

<blockquote> meanwhile, this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’</blockquote><p class="attribution">💬 John</p>

this is a blockquote using an html attribute ‘blockquote’ and the attribution tag on the same line

💬 John

Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment

(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of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

💬 Sara Hendren

(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)

💬 Civil War In New Zealand?

💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.

“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?”

💬 Yuval Noah Harari

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

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