💬 Quotes
💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.
🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.
💬 John Gruber
🔗 ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG…) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.
💬 John Gruber
The Apple Vision Pro is a failed dead/dud product
💬 Too many people - who should know better.
🖇️ Such as Wired back in 2023 - which I always rail against if I have a spare moment.
This is why …
💬 Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without.
💬 the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.
Headline: ‘Appears to Blast Trump on Epstein Files’
The Reacher and War Machine action star seemingly blasted President Trump over the Epstein files during an eye-opening f-bomb filled rant …
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“I think people are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon,’ and I’m not," Ritchson began, a bit ironically. “I’m just saying the shit that everybody should say if they give a shit about humanity. Everybody else should feel like I feel”
💬 James Hibberd - The Hollywood Reporter
So no … not at all would be my take.
🔗 Is the Market Overvalued? Four Perspectives – Asymco
Data, data everywhere but not a conclusion in sight.
💬 Horace Dediu
Exactly the foundation of our thinking - which is why we build not just with a view to DIKW - but DIKIWI.
🖋️ Nilay Patel and Bart Butler - CTO of Proton - Talking
Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about choosing - not a quote - but that is absolutely the thread running through this Podcast - encryption, jurisdiction, age verification, AI. Bart keeps returning to ‘control’ as the definition of privacy, not secrecy.
The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson Welles or the punchline to an old joke.
💬 Jeffrey Zeldman
Another ‘life truth’.
It gets even worse when the sport is only played in one country and the metaphor attempts to cross the ocean … and yet - even I am on occasions - guilty.
I am looking at you ‘🖇️ playbook’.
I allow it because the original meaning of the term is even older than the USA - let alone ‘American Football’ - and yes I made that discovery was made years after I started using the term - but I’ll still take it 😉.
🔗 Lens distortion | Self Distract
All of which is a long-winded way to say each to their own. But telling me that because I’m a writer, I am incapable of knowing whether I’ve enjoyed a film or not, that is some intense bollocks there.
💬 William Gallagher
Concur.
Could be applied to many aspects of life …
Do not judge me based on your prejudices.
🔗 Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You
we can have our cake and eat it.
💬 Kevin Quirk
I agree … AND
There are ways they can work together. If you really feel this way - you don’t have to push everything into RSS, just drop in tasters … and then bring people back to your ‘place of beauty and serenity’.
At this point in my life, I just want my shit to work well and get out of my way.
💬 Kevin Quirk
You and me both Kev. Although ‘this point’ of ‘my’ life has been a line for as long as I remember.