🔗 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.
🖋️ If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?
Don’t click through if you are easily offended. Then again - if you are easily offended stop listening to POTUS
🏢 Interesting to read this today, because I have been writing similar things myself - albeit from a different angle. The words will be published soon and I will return and link later.
Your website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels.
Think of it this way: Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot.
💬 Tim Chambers
🔗 Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations.
The problem of course is that to be both a warehouse and a store is a very tall order - not impossible, but certainly not easy - because you need clarity on what you’re doing and why.
The website exposes whether you have it - and if you don’t - I’ll bet a pound to a penny that your web site designer/developer won’t.
That’s why we start at the opposite end - where websites are outcomes of clear thought, strategy and data architecture.
🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog
Successful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.
Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S
🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.
this takes a turn at the end.
💬 Mitch Wagner
Certainly does - because it fits so nicely into the emerging narrative about ‘craft’ and ‘artisans’ - and of course the Japanese would be where it would all start.
🔗 Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand
the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony.
💬 Mitch Wagner - I think.
The source was 🔗 here
🔗 How Not to Respond to Political Violence
I dunno Peggy.
- Three assassination attempts that nobody really talks about?
- Politicians living on military compounds because they are being threatened? (If I wanted to demonstrate to ‘the masses’ that the country is unsafe - I would choose to keep a few loyalists on military bases for their ‘protection’.)
👁️ Doesn’t really stack up for this bear.
🔗 Hey you, start communicating!
OK! Definitely taking on board Kev’s closing instruction …
So yeah, start communicating! 🙃
💬 Kev Quirk
And of course - because ‘everything is a remix’ - Kev’s post 🔗 was inspired by this one.
Meanwhile, also this morning 🔗 swissmiss shared this short poem.
point out the good
when you see it.in life,
in others,
in yourself.because the world
needs to remember
what kindness and
love look like.
💬 Topher Kearby
Which all goes to explain why random people out there are on the internet are going to start receiving email from me. The first one is going out in a minute. It won’t be daily. There will be a reason.
🔗 Features via Mission Alignment
When you use Micro.blog, you should never have to opt in or pay extra for something that is a core part of our mission.
💬 Manton Reece
Thank you @manton - very nice.
We do need a refresh, and I’ve been working with our friends at WordPress on that. The main constraint is that we need to base the site on a WordPress theme of some kind. I invite suggestions.
💬 Doc Searls
Do we though? Or are we attempting to ‘keep things simple’?
The stuff that @dave has been highlighting in his threads points to ideas that can still live in Wordpress. Personally I liked the design that 🔗 Devon came up with - why not go with that?
🔗 Routing around the algorithms
And what’s funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. But my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.
💬 AOC
The protocols belong to no one. They can’t be acquired. They can’t be taken public.
💬 Terry Godier
Reminds me of an old adage of mine - that these days sits in my 🖇️ Johnsim Library.
😂 McSweeney’s doesn’t always do it - but …
ANSWER: C. There were no thank-yous, and your child had an explosive tantrum because her Labubu was orchid pink, not pastel pink.
💬 Sara White and Lindsey Smith
That’s just one - I think you’ll find the whole piece resonates.
Reminding us all that even real writers. Prolific writers. Writers that write for a living - constantly question themselves.
We are now at the stage where it is not an issue of whether I can write, but whether what I’m writing about is worth reading.
…
I say this to you as someone who has been a full-time freelance writer since the 1990s, someone who tends to write and have published around two thirds of a million words per year.
💬 William Gallagher
🔗 Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
I get that Anthropic are severely compute-constrained, but in a world where the very existence of “AI data centers” is a red-hot political issue (see recent news out of Utah for a fresh example), signing up with this particular data center is a really bad look
💬 Simon Willison
The World: “That has got to be AI.”
Great Photographers Around The World: “Hold My Beer.”
🔗 Explore 25 Incredible Photos of the Milky Way Captured Around the World
There are so many on the click through - but of course I would highlight one (of two) from New Zealand.
Every year, this collection reminds us that photographing the Milky Way is not only about technique or planning. It is about curiosity, patience, and the desire to experience the night sky in places where it still feels wild.
💬 Dan Zafra
(Dan is the editor of ‘Capture the Atlas’ and curator of the annual contest.)
🏢 Moss just wrote: 🔗 The biggest leadership oversight in modern organisations
in many organisations, the “people piece” has been relegated to the HR function.
💬 Moss Burmester
‘relegated’ - not ‘delegated’ is an interesting choice of words and highlights a more general problem - more on that in the comments.
HR systems are built around compliance, process, and record-keeping.
….
Why does engagement matter? Because performance is produced when people are deeply engaged and aligned in the business strategy
💬 Moss Burmester
Sounds to me they should be building ‘Systems of Engagement’
I sometimes have a hard time putting into words that clearly explain my position and feelings on a topic. Take The Met Gala for example. Jax and I talking and I just couldn’t explain my contempt for it. Result - Jax writes it off:
Well you never like this kind of stuff.
💬 Jax
- I paraphrase
- True
- Not the point
No more struggles 🔗 Robert L Arnold clearly lives in my brain.