💬 Quotes
“The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.”
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. “I learn from other people’s.”
… or something like that. Lots of variations of this over the interwebs. Who knows if Otto was the real source. Regardless, I like it.
"If you rely only on tor to protect yourself, you’re going to get owned and people like me are going to laugh at you."
"The modern purpose of TK is that there are few words in English that contain these two letters juxtaposed in this way, so it’s super easy to use Word to search your manuscript.
“And did you know that America entered the war against Germany only after Hitler declared war on the United States? He did so right after Pearl Harbor, in solidarity with Japan.”
Yes. Yes I did.
“A lot of the current hype around NFTs consists of the belief that the rest of the world will follow the same rules as NFT art. But of course part of the point of art is that it doesn’t follow the same rules as the rest of the world.”
💬 James Grimmelmann
Grimmelmann is a professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech - directing the Cornell Tech Research Lab in Applied Law and Technology.
Experimenting With Footnotes
🚧 I wanted to write this post as a permanent test of applying ‘footnotes’ on my blog.
Here in the time line it is almost certainly going to look weird if there isn’t a title - but the idea is to improve the reading experience on the site - and then of course explore what it might look like in an RSS feed.
Post Posting
The footnotes aren’t coming through hyperlinked. YET!
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💬 Joe Blow
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iPad Gripe from @Gruber - Yeah, Me Too
"My biggest gripe remains unchanged from all recent iPad models: the front-facing camera placement is awkward when the iPad is oriented in landscape, but landscape is how the iPad is oriented when it’s in a Magic Keyboard or propped up using a folded Smart Folio cover — and those are the natural ways to use an iPad for a video chat at a desk or on a counter. It’s a great camera (and the M1 has an excellent image signal processor), but horizontally, you wind up with a high-quality image of yourself from a bad angle. The camera is too low and off to the side. If you look at the camera you’re not looking at the screen, and if you look at the screen the camera makes it look like you’re not looking at the screen. I don’t know what the solution to this problem is, but Apple hasn’t found it yet."
As I was reading this article by John Naughton in The Guardian this morning, I had this feeling of dejavu.
And now I know why. Saved a month ago - with attribution to Cal Newport …
I now need to work out where the errors are.
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside, [and] both celebrate what they describe.”
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
💬 P. J. O'Rourke
“The only way to solve this is by creating new systems that start by equipping customers with their own standardized ways to interact with any service function on the sellers' side, at scale. We actually have tools for that called phones and browsers, but we need to advance on both.”