💬 Quotes
QE2 Obituaries That Are Different
I am sad for the loss of the Queen, but ….
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
That said, most of what I am reading and seeing leave me cold. Nobody knows the private story of the woman. Nobody.
This is brought home when reading the 4 articles on the click throughs … four different links that tell the story in very different ways and are not the usual fodder.
The Guardian: When we asked the Queen to tea with Paddington, something magic happened.
Gaping Void: 8 Lessons from QE2
David Frum: How she did it
Things Aren't Always What They Seem
Harder Than It Looks, Not As Fun as It Seems is a short neat article on this very topic.
Reminds me of what my mum used to say to me …
“If you only judge your friends by their photo album of course it will look like they have a great life.”
💬 My Mum
or as Morgan has it ….
“It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.”
💬 Morgan Housel
That all said I think I disagree on this ….
“no matter what your role in a company is, your ultimate job is to help sales.”
… ‘revenue’ maybe - but not sales. I think there is a difference.
Again, look at that blank sheet of paper. What’s the overriding question that continues to haunt you?
- Who am I?
- Why am I here?
- How do I find meaning in meaning?
💬 Julian Summerhayes
On iCloud Shared Photo Library
“I look forward to taking a sabbatical to combine my photo library with my wife’s.”
💬 Stephen Hacket
😂😂😂😂
I do so know what he means!
“One way to make that less confusing is to embrace the metaphor from Finder’s Column view (Steve Jobs’s favorite view!) and let the app get wider, displaying multiple levels of hierarchy.”
💬 Jason Snell
Who knew that ‘Steve’ and I shared a favorite finder view!
The Flow Of Liquid
The title is not representative of the piece which is actually about ‘Google Maps’ and ‘personal memory’ but is pulled from the quote.
“The best-case scenario for Peloton shareholders is that Amazon will use the distribution deal to get a sense of the demand for Peloton products from its customers, helping it figure out the right price to pay in an acquisition.”
💬 The Information
.. of course there is no way that Amazon would use such a clear and unfair advantage to do this and if they did, the FTC would surely step in?
‘#SomeHope
Most Jobs Fall Into 3 Major Categories
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - a person takes money, hands you an object; liquor store clerks, cashiers, bank tellers, etc.
𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - taxis, aeroplanes, trucks, etc.
𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 - people that watch things. But this extends to people that tweak small things (on par with wiping a baby’s arse) like pool repair, HVAC repair, etc. They take the diaper off, they wipe it down, they put the diaper back on; janitors, gardeners, farmers, painters, security guards, testing, stockers, etc.
Every single one of these will be replaced by a robot, and pretty soon.
💬 Reichart 'Ki' Von Wolfsheild
“Trump didn’t steal classified documents, he was just holding onto them for safekeeping."
💬 Rudy Giuliani
… via Bess Levin at Vanity Fair.
”If you give talented people the opportunity to create wealth, they will do so. If you give talented people the opportunity to extort wealth, they will do so. Don’t credit me with saying that. It’s Libertarianism 101.”
💬 Arnold Kling
“What, pray tell, would Trump have said at this dinner, in order to convey that he was willing to bury the hatchet he spent the entire campaign swinging at Hillary’s head?”
💬 Bess Levin
“It’s summer, and I got a note that politely encouraged a few forays into brevity.”
💬 Brian Morrisey
It could equally well have been directed at me!
“We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.”
💬 Alfred Marshall
The Machine Internet
“I started talking about the Machine Internet nearly 20 years ago, before it was even called “the Internet of Things.” Sensors and motes, tied to an analysis by wireless networks. Anything whose performance can be adjusted can now be monitored and controlled by a central intelligence. You can monitor the condition of parts and schedule maintenance before things break. This matters if the part is your heart, and its breaking could kill you.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
I’ll take that claim and raise you by a few years …
A group of us started talking about the topic in the mid 90s.
We had the obligatory startup … Flypaper … with a back end we called ‘The Megaserver’ - and without getting into the details - the system allowed us to render a website - ‘just in time’ - by assembling components out of a database. Our message at the time … the website only exists when somebody is visiting it.
It lead to some interesting developments and conversations.
I can still remember one scenario where we envisaged every car having its own website, assembled from thousands of components that each mapped to specific things and functions in the car … this is mid-90s… people didn’t get it.
And then came the DOT BOMB. And oblivion swooped in.
Still very proud of what ‘we’ built.
Definitely ahead of its time … I mean think about the tools we had in the mid-90s to build this thing!
“Find a writer you like and read them. If you can’t find the writer whose work you want to read, become that writer. That’s what I did. It’s great.”
💬 Cory Doctorow
“My spidey-sense feels good about it. If everyone registers, if everyone votes, if all the votes are counted and reported fairly, most people will be satisfied with the outcome.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
I think Dana is very … very … wrong.
Unless by ‘most’ he means the majority … which by definition of the setup he describes is a self fulfilling prophesy.
But we all know that what he describes is not going to happen.
It’s that word ‘everyone’.