💬 Quotes
“Big food sells us products that make us fat. Big pharma sells us products that makes us thin.”
💬 Dave Pell
I will share the recording link when it is available … but just listening to Doc Searls’ Ostrom workshop with Cory Doctorow .. if he’s half right … good luck with the future.
UPDATE, March 21st, 2023
“Alas, the beginning is missing due to a technical glitch.”
💬 Doc Searls
“Everything we do is scrappy. It’s fast, it’s inexpensive, character over spectacle.”
💬 Ryan Reynolds
Character over spectacle … nice.
“Technology only frees people from work if the boss, or the government, or the economic system — allows it. To allege otherwise is technosolutionism, plain and simple.”
💬 Derek Thompson, The Atlantic,
Society is way behind in adapting its rules to this new liquid culture. It makes everything precarious for everyone. Sam Bankman-Fried went from the Forbes 400 to a jail cell in a few weeks. I don’t think he has yet to get his head around how destroyed his life is. (Have a suicide watch ready when he figures it out.) There are a few industries that still resist this facet of Moore’s Law. Education is one. Health care is another. Law is a third. We have yet to see Trump’s perp walk, and legal delays make new infrastructure almost impossible to build.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
“I was not a great student in college. I liked learning, but not on someone else’s timetable.”
💬 Heather Cox Richardson
I like that. Reminds me of … let me see now … oh yes … me!
I just never managed to quite get it out in so few words.
“Britain is a far more valuable and important entity than Twitter. How depressing that it’s being run with equivalent incompetence.”
💬 David Mitchell
NAILED IT 😂😂😂😂
“The term ‘everything everywhere all at once’ seems a better description for the turmoil sparked by Friday’s failure of Silicon Valley Bank than for an incomprehensible movie that’s up for an Oscar tonight."
💬 Martin Peers, The Information
I dunno … it’s a fun analogy, but if he is serious that he really thought it was an ‘incomprehensible movie’ - I am not sure that he is in the best position to report on tech and SVB.
Am I wrong?
There’s an entire section in the bookshop called Self-Help, but there is no section called Help Others.
💬 Simon Sinek
”We’ve never had an efficiency focus in the company before.”
💬 Marc Benioff
“A big component of our growth strategy going forward will be improving productivity.”
💬 Salesforce President Brian Millham
Good to know chaps. Good to know.
“One last thing, as this seems somehow connected to the story – as I was walking up the hill to Rick Rubin’s studio that morning, I saw a handsome man, dressed in black trousers and a red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, leaning against the hood of a big American car, smoking a cigarette. The man looked like he’d stepped out of a movie. It was Joe Strummer from The Clash. Hi, Joe, I said. Hey man, he said, what are you doing here? I’m going to sing with Johnny Cash, I said. Joe nodded and smiled and sucked on his cigarette. Then he gave a little slow-motion wave as I went inside.”
💬 Nick Cave, Red Hand Files
“While writing the the Atlantic piece, I remembered that Dahl and Ian Fleming were friends - Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice, the Bond film where Sean Connery tapes up his eyes to pass for Japanese, and the viewer finally sees Blofeld’s scarred face.”
💬 Helen Lewis
Today I Learned so much, like two new things just in this single quote!
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside.”
💬 Ursula K. Le Guin
“Unnoticeable life. Noticeable failure.”
💬 Franz Kafka
Diary entry on February 20th, 101 years ago.
If only he knew.
(via Diaries of Note )
“Oracle, greatest company name ever, should be in the AI business. Their brand was born for it!
💬 Sam Lessin, The Information
“There is another one that goes something like “every time a door closes, another one opens.” Myself, I’d be looking at the draughts in that house.”
💬 William Gallagher