💬 Quotes
🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?
Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”
💬 Futility Closet
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expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.
💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,
When Can You Swear?
Leon reposted this 🔗 Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - because personally I had never heard of ‘walloper’ … Brit here with a ‘lifetime’ in the USA and 6 years .. so far … across the Tasman.
But then he moved on.
People will be more important in the future, not less.
💬 Mark Zuckerberg
Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t ~believe him~ think he knows what that really means.
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The Future - Very Important
To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
💬 Patrick Rhone
Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.
Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
💬 Joan Westenberg
Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?
🚧 Design Test
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.. sometimes it is a ‘blockquote’, like this:
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius sollicitudin consequat. Etiam cursus blandit nisl accumsan fermentum. Phasellus faucibus velit non porttitor tincidunt. Ut quis erat ac nibh auctor tempus. Sed a metus sed dui pulvinar dapibus pulvinar et nisl. Sed consectetur, magna sit amet vestibulum dapibus, augue orci dignissim nulla, nec interdum ligula nibh at dui. In in dolor sit amet urna tempor pulvinar. In ut odio et ligula faucibus placerat. Proin pulvinar ex et sagittis molestie. Vestibulum dignissim faucibus diam, quis lacinia lacus mollis et. In fermentum ex quis consectetur semper. Nullam ut metus quam. Suspendisse potenti.”
💬 Who Said it - as an attribution
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💬 Who Said it - as a cite
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🚧 Please - just ignore me - you know what this is … 🚧
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💬 the dude
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🚧 Please - just ignore me - you know what this is …
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💬 the dude
yet another test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test .. just give me a little more echo.
💬 not the dude
With the late-May release of 1Password for Safari, we will be increasing the minimum Safari version required to support 1Password for Safari to Safari 18.6.
💬 1Password Announcement
… which got me to wondering. Turns out I am on 26.4 - which despite the numbering is not that much newer. 18.6 was replaced by 18.7 in September 2025 - not even a year ago.
Thats a pretty aggressive upgrade stance. The predecessor to 18.6 - 18.5 was only May last year.
Then again if you are someone who uses a password manager, I guess your propensity to keep your software up to date is going to be high.
The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.
And for a related 🎵 interlude …
Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.
💬 Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.
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I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS”.
💬 Simon Willison
👁️ I think you can learn it at school. And at home. With your friends. It just isn’t really ’taught’.
“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”
💬 Warren Buffet
💬🏢 To be declared a category king .. you need to be taking 70 percent - ish of all revenue and profits of said category. If nobody in a category is making a profit does that mean there is no category king❓Wondering on behalf of Sam, Dario et al.
💬🏢 That still doesn’t mean free - which is where I think people get confused. And for an extended thought ‘free’ is too often measured in not spending money. Associate your time with money and you start to realise how much free costs.
👁️🚧 Experiment.
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
Which is why we all, as people who design culture whether we realize it or not, need to keep thinking about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and perhaps most importantly, how not to get too comfortable with where we currently are.
