💬 QuoteWise
Still quotes - but quotes that emerge from my long history with a great little service call Readwise.
Back in the day âweâ had a line:
“Oracleâs first platform for any `Productâ is always PowerPoint - and is written by LJE.”
It stemmed from Larryâs penchant for announcing products in large public forums and nobody else seemed to have any knowledge of it.
Just read this:
ð The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
With this quote
Some Oracles never change. readwise.io/reader/sh…
ð¬ On the Road was published nearly seventy years ago .. just to remind us all that history rhymes .. and arguably never changes.
💬 On the Road was published nearly seventy years ago .. just to remind us all that history rhymes .. and arguably never changes.
Jax and I took a little tiki tour of our ' âhood favourites â on Saturday - including an extended session in my âfavourite of the favouritesâ ⦠The Tinted Rose ⦠who have extended their range of available ð Lady H Gins. ladyhspirits.com
Jax and I took a little tiki tour of our ' ‘hood favourites ’ on Saturday - including an extended session in my ‘favourite of the favourites’ … The Tinted Rose … who have extended their range of available 🔗 Lady H Gins.
ð¬ Listening to ððï¸this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
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💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
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💬 I sometimes use a personal guide to ‘people’ based on MSOffice (a clue to how seriously I take this). Everyone is part Powerpoint, part Excel and part Word.
- PPT is the ‘creative’
- XLS is the ‘logician’
- DOC blends the two
Percentages will vary. Came to mind when I saw this recent Gaping Void.

The Boss released his first album in â73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that âBorn in the U.S.A.â wasnât quite the all American anthem they thought - including âRonnieâ, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the âpeople that donât pay attentionâ.
Clearly not.
“Bruce Springsteenâs anti-Trump comments divid… john.philpin.com/2025/06/0…






