🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 Manton - Anthropic self-improvement, pause
Our biggest problem isn’t speed, it’s vision.
‘Vision’ needs a qualifier. It’s not a lack of vision, we have that in Spades. The problem is lack of alignment and no one is successfully proving they have the right map. Sure, we get isolated pockets of brilliant arguments, but the broader hype machine has adopted a ‘flood the zone’ strategy.
In the old days of ‘move fast and break things,’ I used to call this chaotic energy ‘Brownian motion.’
Today, we’re dealing with the same random collisions, but ‘Brownian vision’ doesn’t sound right to me.
🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long list including Slack, Tableau and Mulesoft - which as you all know is software fundamental to all sales.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 6, 2026
"I'd Love to Change the World (1971)" by Ten Years After
Prompt: A song from college or early adulthood.
Today's offer happens to fit the prompt - so why not .. one of the other 'Lees'.
Google Sucks
🔗 Daring Fireball: Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?
I experienced this about 9 months ago - cant recall how I fixed it - but Google was definitely not on my ‘things to check’ list
👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.
🔗 The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses
Using a Meta platform to find people to hack a Meta device so you can surreptitiously record strangers. So perfectly Meta.
💬 John Gruber
Part of the problem is that we measure what’s easy, not what’s relevant. And part of the problem is that we have trouble explaining trust, while it’s easy to pursue ever more transparency.
💬 Seth Godin
🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious'
Manton suggests that Apple rarely builds anything now … ‘except the most obvious products’. I disagree, because that statement depends on two things … what is meant by ‘obvious’ and what is meant by ‘product’.
Pink Floyd has Nick’s ‘Saucerful’
Genesis has Steve’s ‘Genesis Revisited’
🔗📼🎵 Not Voyage 35 - and yet is.
It was announced a while back - but seems to beginning to take shape ….
Porcupine Tree now has Colin’s ‘Voyage 35’
👁️ Have to say when I look around at other services in film, shows, music and books - Letterboxd (sadly only film) seem to have it more right than the others.
🔗📼 The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum has been circulating around a number of places I tend to go, so gave it a whirl. So should you.
Of course it is about curiosity, discovery, history, inaccuracies, putting things right, timelines, typesetting, layout, design .. and more .. and you might think ‘l’m not that interested - yeah nah’. Which would be sad because it would be your loss and you would never know what a lovely man 🔗 Richard McClintock is.
Not only that, but you’d miss out on how just one dedicated person can have impact, no matter how seemingly small.
(Stick to the end to discover the deets.)
I’ve decided that it’s time to end the “Soft Opening” era of my new site/blog. Lots of folks discovered it on their own. I incorrectly supposed that by hiding it behind a mysterious URL identical to my last name, I’d be able to live-test the CMS and my customizations in secrecy.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
I have zero expectations that this is going to be my story - other than - ‘developing in plain site’ - now that I have been 🔗🔎 doing off and on for a while (recategorisation on going) - it’s just nobody notices because only I am there!
👁️ So with him.
🔗 The Enification of Enification
When there’s a change to a thing and you don’t like it or approve of it, you need to consider a frightening alternative possibility. Maybe it isn’t enshittification. Maybe it’s just change.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
🔗 Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
A lot of stuff covering the ongoing CBS dumpster fire - I think this @gruber post is a good summary - with links - so you don’t need to go anywhere else.
👁️ 🔗 We need a social web for nobodies. writes @dave
1] Every nobody is a somebody to somebody.
2] That is what we have … it’s just spoiled by tech bros, algorithms and loud mouths.
3] People typically have more pride in that which they own versus rent. I think this a core tenant of why ‘global town squares’ are not the future and instead an ever growing network of interconnected micro communities is.
🔗 We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there.
💬 Om
Trust isn’t something a brand builds with an ad campaign. It’s what’s left if the marketers don’t ruin it.
Curiosity isn’t simply what’s left after a complete education. It’s still there if the system doesn’t ruin it.
Musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it.
Customer delight isn’t something we add to our projects. It’s what’s left if we don’t ruin it.
Satisfaction in our work isn’t created by the boss. It’s what’s left if they don’t ruin it.
Reminds me of two connected thoughts that I have always liked …
How do you make a statue of an elephant? Get the biggest granite block you can find and chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.
💬 Too many people to name. [🔗 Why](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/22/chip-away/)
Music is the space between the notes
💬 Coltrane, Mozart, Debussy… take your pick ...
📺 Finally got a show I could watch from beginning to end - not the best - but compared to some others I have been trying out, 🔗 The Beast in Me is worth ★★★
🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.