🔗 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.
📚The Cellist by Daniel Silva
Just finished reading: 🔗 The Cellist by Daniel Silva 📚
Definitely a good read … kept me turning the pages … though I take issue with him being described as ‘the new LeCarre … or am I just being overly defensive of one of my ‘4 Johns’.
That all said, the most amazing thing about this book is that following Jan 6th 2021 he revised the book top to bottom in 6 weeks. Not that this should cause you to read it … but absolutely testament to his desire for realism in his books.
This was my first Silva … but it won’t be my last.
Ezra Klein talking to Dan Olson.
🔗 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard.
🔗 Bonus Video from Dan that I haven’t (yet) watched - but now in the queue after listening to the podcast.
.. and then 🔗 there’s this, which is a piece in Time where a crypto expert responds.
🔗 The Kardashians Are Back. Why Should We Care?
…an excellent question.
Can somebody click through, read the article and give me the top 3 points.
Thankyou.
🔗 Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint.
He’s writing about Powerpoint, but he’s really talking about titleless blog posts.
And I agree.
People who responded said it'd never happen because Twitter's balance sheet was too weak to justify an acquisition. They missed that not all of Twitter's value shows up on its balance sheet.
💬 Dave Winer
That is the problem of all balance sheets - because it is only a financial tool.
… oh goody.
🔗 Texas Banned Homeless Encampments, So a Guy Made One on His Property (Apple News)
“If we fail, then nothing else is going to happen in this part of America for a long, long time. But if we succeed, the benefit could be monumental.”
The Four Natural Forces Applied To Business
I used the 4 natural forces model in my 📚recent book as an analogy for the 4 forces of humanity.
And then I read that 🔗 Fermilab has found a discrepancy with the mass of the W boson.
“The current 'standard model' of particle physics describes four fundamental forces. Three of those — electromagnetism, gravity and the strong nuclear force — push or pull things, broadly speaking. The fourth force — the weak nuclear force — doesn't really push or pull anything. Instead it makes one type of particle transform into another type of particle. In doing so we get the force responsible for radiation, and it's the force that drives nuclear fusion in the sun. So it's quite important.”
I’ll say it’s important. Now I will have to revisit some of the thinking in the book!
Remember when Jack made an NFT out of his first tweet?
🔗 NFT collector gets $280 top bid for the Jack Dorsey tweet NFT he bought for $2.9 million last year
Guy Kawasaki and Marc Benioff In Conversation
Guy Kawasaki was probably for first person in the business world with the title ‘Evangelist’ and coincidentally an old neighbour of mine.
Marc and I worked with each other back in my Oracle days.
This podcast has Guy interviewing Marc talking of his trajectory from 19 year old college kid to CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
While it might SEEM to be yet another Silicon Valley story - this one is presented through the lens of what makes Marc different to the average SV success story … which is his humanity and desire to give back. He’s doing it in spades around San Francisco. But elswhere aswell.
He’s also very big into meditation.
The Famine of 1932-33
I was talking to a long time friend of mine last night. She is of Ukrainian descent.
I knew about Stalin’s ‘Great Famine’, but did not know how much of this act of aggression occurred in Ukraine.
🔗 Ukraine - The famine of 1932–33 (Holodomor)
“Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians.”
🔗 I noticed this morning that 1999.io was getting a bunch of hits.
… @dave wondering who’s suddenly hitting his ‘1999’ servers.
Somebody in here?
You’d have thought that in the time he took to write the post he could have looked up his logs?
🔗 Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial ‘victory’ to Russia in Ukraine (Judd Legum)
The same Koch keeps their factories running along in Russia and has announced that they have no intention of closing them.
The same Koch that fuels the Rethuglicans agenda.
The same Koch … oh just go look them up ….
I don’t read a lot of Chris Brogan - though he did provide the impetus behind my annual ‘3 words’.
That said I think this summarizes why I don’t read him much.
“Blogs are dead.
Or are they?
That’s all you get. I’m writing it in my newsletters.”
💬 Chris Brogan
🔗 Thiel Blasts Dimon, Buffett and Fink as ‘Finance Gerontocracy’ at Bitcoin 2022.
Buffett’s scepticism of bitcoin prompted Peter Thiel to call him a ‘sociopathic grandpa’.
Of course, Peter Thiel is such a lovely person, that I am sure we are all hanging on his every word.
~🎵🎶 Who knew that Rick Astley’s formative years had him as a Prog Rock / Drummer type. First concert ever? Supertramp or Camel - he can’t quite remember!
“If you hurry to get to the future, you always get a punishment for it. For example, instant coffee.”
💬 Alan Watts
🔗 Artists in Ireland to receive 325 Euros per week
UBI for Artists? Well maybe ‘IBI’ for Artists.
Interesting watch
🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
The real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
But if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
🔗 Top 50 Cybersecurity Influencers
… are you on the list?