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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.
The cranes in the port of Oakland, CA inspired George Lucas to create a certain ‘machines found in Star Wars … these ones are in Auckland.
Only one berth had a ship in place.
When people talk about supply chain constraints in New Zealand .. they mean no ships and no containers.
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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🔗 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.”
True Dat
In fact coincidentally just about to put out three different offers over the next two weeks.
Read and highlight in Matter … which automatically synchs with Readwise - so you can then create a neat little graphic - like this for example.
Time to explore whether Matter can replace StoopInbox.
