💬 Quotes
💬 On the Road was published nearly seventy years ago .. just to remind us all that history rhymes .. and arguably never changes.
💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
SYNCH
💬 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.
- PPT is the ‘creative’
- XLS is the ‘logician’
- DOC blends the two
Percentages will vary. Came to mind when I saw this recent Gaping Void.
I would pay extra for cable service to have none of my money go to Fox News.
💬 Dave Winer
Me too.
Oh wait - I don’t have a cable service.
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’.
Clearly not.
Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans
💬 The Guardian
The Guardian? Hell fire!
It got me to thinking how true is that?
My thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration.
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
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.
💬 'JP'
About Those PE Companies
If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I never 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. Today’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
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.
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.
Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
💬 Paul Nurse
Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
Oh well. We can dream.