💬 Quotes
It all came together…
Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.
💬 Jim Acosta
A Reminder About ‘Content’
… because it’s getting worse.
A strategic thinker wouldn’t call it content.
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.
To save the click through - in a nutshell …
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.
💬 John Philpin
And
It is not in the interests of any creator to allow that, so why allow their interests to define how we think?
💬 John Philpin
And
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. 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.
💬 John Philpin
So. What you going to do about it?
Every legendary startup started as a dumb idea. Until it wasn’t.
💬 Christopher Lockhead
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’.
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.
… except for Apple it seems. Why?
I suspect that it has a lot to do with Apple’s AI strategy of on-device processing first.
Don’t Get Me Wrong.
This isn’t a pivot. The broader swathe of my usual fayre will continue to be punched out onto keyboard or glass.
Music, Business, Humor, Tech, Observations et al … it will all continue.
But the ‘Politics Tab’? Yeah, that’s different - and I suspect will also subtly change the topics in those top level categories.
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men.”
💬 Dwight Eisenhower
The Sense of an Ending : Rishad Tobaccowala
“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”
💬 Julian Barnes
🚧 💬 Quotes. I collect them, so maybe a ‘collection’ application?
This is going to be a living , breathing kinda post.
And like all living, breathing things … it might die.
💬 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.
🔗 CNN: Gaetz investigation will be released - Kevin Drum
.. to channel @gruber ‘Finally
But Kevin’s take is most likely ‘why’ …
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.
💬 Kevin Drum
On this blog, February ’22 was 🔗 my first reference to …
Known sex trafficker Matt Gaetz
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?
💬 Seth Godin
The whole thing … 🔗 The fame/trust inversion
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?
💬 Kevin Drum
Yes
💬 John Philpin