💬🏢 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.

💬 🔗 Going Electric

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. 

💬 On the packaging front:

Apple completed the transition to 100 percent fiber-based packaging last year, fulfilling its pledge to remove plastic from packaging by 2025. Over the past 10 years, Apple engineers and designers have developed alternatives to common packaging components, replacing plastic screen protectors and trays with versions made with recycled or responsibly sourced paper. They also innovated to make packaging more recyclable, designing the largest boxes, like for the new Studio Display XDR, to collapse into smaller pieces that fit into a home recycling bin. Apple avoided more than 15,000 metric tons of plastic in the past five years alone – the equivalent of about 500 million plastic water bottles.

💬 I just checked hell .. it still seems to be the usual inferno .. so I guess he sees what is coming and starting his pivot spin. You’ll see a lot of it this year.

👁️💬 I just rediscovered - but cannot recall where I found them … John Naughton❓Alan Jacobs❓When I find out - will come back and adjust.

💬🏢 Don’t just ‘Think Different’. Be Different.

💬🎵🏢 Careful what you measure … life is a game .. life is gamed.

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💬🏢🕋 People - Process - THEN - Technology

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💬🏢 I often reference Brand’s ‘Pace Layers’ when attempting to reconcile ‘the speed of tech’ with the ‘speed of government’. It helps.

💬🏢 Written a while back and even more relevant today.

**Extension thought:**The ‘buyer’s journey’ is not the same as the ‘customer’s journey’ and both are totally different to whatever sales process that someone in your business has mapped out.

🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …

🔗 Try it in the Car

The collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.

💬 Matthew Lyon

Thank you sir.

💬💯 Sometimes quoting someone is just not enough. This is one such occasion ….

A quote by L. Jeffrey Zeldman on a warm gradient background reads, The hardest thing to write is less. A quote by L. Jeffrey Zeldman discusses the overproduction of words by machines, leading to a loss of meaning. A quote by L. Jeffrey Zeldman discusses the difficulty of knowing when to stop and the importance of trusting the reader, the idea, and the white space. A quote by L. Jeffrey Zeldman titled The Courage to Stop emphasizes the importance of brevity and thoughtful communication.

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🔗 The Courage to Stop - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.

🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.

Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.

💬 John Gruber

👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.

  1. Using AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts

  2. Using ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t

  3. 🔗 At AI Dinners - Template Suggestion

LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.

💬 Hunter Walk

💬🏢 It’s not easy … got the t-shirt and everything … but I am sure that the other way is not right. Then again, different for the sake of different is even worse. You know what I’m talkin’ about❗️

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