Death, Mortality - you know - that sort of stuff.

But you get older. 
The horizons get closer and closer as the years go by. 
You live long enough, you start to lose people, friends, family.
You lose connections. Your eyesight goes and your hearing.
You hurt. Goddamn, how you hurt after a while.
The world speeds up and you slow down,
things change, complexity increases,
it gets harder and harder to keep up until you just can’t any more.
You become more and more distanced from the world. 

💬 Stonekettle Station

A Hatred of Immigrants by Immigrants?

A veritable conundrum - or maybe it can be explained.

🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.

There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.

💬 Joan Westenberg

🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!

With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.

💬 William Gallagher

Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.

I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.

🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband

Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.

💬 Om

Abba - Meet Pink Floyd

I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.

I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.

I just read Lou’s review:

Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For

That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.

💬 Lou Plummer

🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir.

So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”

💬 Jim Groom

… via 🔗 Stephen Downes

I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;

  • no explanation
  • appending a little commentary
  • surrounded by a lot of commentary
  • in a sentence
  • with snark
  • a little more cryptic than some would like

… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.

‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

💬 Bertrand Russell

.. via John Naughton

🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful

Thanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline. I’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a neighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood. Particularly when that leader has followed up similar statements about other nations with military action. I could probably work around that. But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. I have a family to support and really can’t afford that risk. I still consider myself a friend of your organization, and one with strong opinions about the subjects scheduled for discussion; my regrets about having to decline are entirely sincere.

💬 Tim Bray

Slight edits depending on context. For example if you are English, switch to English spelling.

🔗🤯 A Seat on the Rocket Ship

The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.

💬 Parker Molloy

🔗 The four pillars of modern media

A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.

💬 Adam Tinworth

Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.

Inventing the modern world while pretending not to ...

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for the modern world. Or did it?

🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden

a meeting _without_biscuits.

💬 The UK's Civil Service

😂 Perfect - only the British.

BUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.

Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?"

💬 Carroll Bryant

It’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.

🔗📼Which is why it is also important to watch this.

You Don't Get Your Teeth Back

Sartre warned us about procrastination. He was talking about the human condition - but it equally applies to how organizations move, how people engage, and why waiting for ‘perfect’ means you never move. And by then, your bite has gone.

A variation on ‘walk anywhere in a hospital with a white coat and clipboard’.

When you don’t ask for permission, people read it as a sign that something is already underway.

💬 Matthew McConaughey

Charity Is Doomed To Fail argues that traditional charity reacts to symptoms instead of addressing causes of issues like trafficking. The author calls for a proactive, well-funded, business-driven approach as embodied by The Future Found, highlighting Dan Pallotta’s point that new thinking, capital, and strategy are needed for real change - shifting from reactive aid to tackling root problems at scale.

💬 Sadly - unknown - so far

I need to go find the source, because someone talking about Dan Pallotta in the same breath as 🔗 The Future Found is definitely someone I need to talk to.

I think it might be who you hang out with

Brit here - and though Björk does not sit at the top of my favourite artists - she certainly is no where near the bottom and I do not recall that particular refrain ever being that common - which might explain her Wikipedia entry.

🔗 LLCs essentially create a precedent for AIs

Companies can own property, sign contracts, sue, be sued, spend money, and shape elections. But companies cannot be killed nor can they go to jail. They have many of the rights of people. They are not people.

💬 Brad Barrish

I guess Mitt forgot to tell us that?

A question of understanding - because when I first read this post - I was attempting to reconcile zip (as in zip code) with ‘incompatible’ - confused because I had never heard of such a thing. As I am shuffling out my Drafts it dawned on me - of course - he’s talking Zip formats. 🤦🏼‍♂️

🔗 Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?

how the fuck can a ZIP be incompatible??

💬 Kev Quirk