💬 Quotes
“My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.”
Two Posts - Many Coins
This post, by Dave Rosenthal caught my eye this morning. It's long, it’s deep and is written with authority and knowledge.
Who is David Rosenthal? In his words
I worked with James Gosling on CMU's Andrew project in the early 80s. I was a DE with him at Sun later in the 80s working on window systems including X, and file systems. I quit to be employee #4 at Nvidia where Curtis Priem and I did the basic I/O architecture, then was an early employee at Vitria, the second company of founders of Tibco. Before I start talking about cryptocurrencies, I should stress that I hold no long or short positions in cryptocurrencies, their derivatives or related companies.
David Rosenthal
It obviously also caught Cory Doctorow's eyes, because he went on to write a post as well. To many Cory's will be more readable - I guess helped by him being a professional writer and Dave's original post actually being a summary of notes and slides he presented at Stanford's EE380 Whether you read Dave’s or Cory’s - if not both, the conclusion is the same ...
The Links
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/14/externalities/#dshrhttps://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html
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"I think we are past peak Rishi."
🔗 Rands in Repose … writing about Zoom Meetings.
“Do you want to know why you’re fatigued at the end of a long day of video conferences? It’s because your brain has been straining to collect essential information that is no longer there.”
“After his shocking exit from CNN, the TV executive's legacy will come into focus. And his most fateful decision will be the attention given to Donald Trump and its lasting fallout.”
Funny - it’s not in the copy - but I love that file name : jeff-zucker-donald-trumo-cnn
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human knowledge more available, populists and liars are in such pressing demand.”
“If, at the end of your show you say “Available where you get podcasts,” then my friend, you have a podcast. If you have to say “Only available on Spotify” (or some other exclusive service), good for you, but it’s not a podcast.”
💬 Dave Winer
… and I very much agree with him.
Language is important … and I am done with Corporates hijacking language so to appear better than they are.
True Dat
In fact coincidentally just about to put out three different offers over the next two weeks.
“As I've said a bunch before, I think that crypto will have a place in the future, but I think the applications of it right now feel like they're solving solved problems worse than the existing solutions.”
Source : Solving Solved Problems
Creativity isn't about starting something.
It's about making something.
Making requires sustained effort, and sustained effort requires fuel.
That fuel is optimism.