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🔗 I Hate Fish ~ Rands in Repose
I read this - and my mind drifted back to an old ‘Martini Shot’ podcast where Rob was talking about the exact same thing - though with a great deal more humour.
🔗 Anthropic Just Sent Shockwaves Through the Entire Stock Market by Releasing a New AI Tool
Engagement platforms amplify whatever thinking you’ve put into them. If the thinking is clear and explicit, they amplify coherence. If it’s fuzzy and fragmented, they amplify fragmentation - but at scale. Everyone having AI tools doesn’t create coherence. It accelerates fragmentation.
Be careful out there. It’s not easy.
🔗 Tesla Stock Plummeting Since Musk Busted in Epstein Files
.. can’t deny its down - but then isn’t everywhere right now?
.. and plummeting?
Call that a plummet?
… in case you were thinking that everything is ok.
🔗 Engagement Platforms as Coherence Infrastructure
A slight restructure of this post - and so a reissue.
🔗 Our Crazy Unhinged Now ~ On my Om
Sixteen billion smackeroos is a gigantic amount of money. If you were to stack that much money in $100 bills vertically, you would be well past the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes. Roughly 11 miles.
and yet
Waymo was the secondary story of the day.
🔗 Trumpland Ramps Up Attacks On Netflix Warner Brothers Merger To Help Larry Ellison | Techdirt
After Warner Brothers balked at Larry’s competing bid and a hostile takeover attempt, Larry tried to sue Warner Brothers. With that not going anywhere, Larry and MAGA have since joined forces to try and attack the Netflix merger across right wing media, falsely claiming that “woke” Netflix is attempting a “cultural takeover” that must be stopped for the good of humanity.
Pace Layers - Redux
Climbing the ‘pace layers’ leads to fewer and more specialized sources of information.
🔗 Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats
I still don’t get why he just doesn’t close it?
🔗 News Sites Are Bringing Comments Sections Back as a Paid Feature
… an idea lifted directly from Substack?
How Early Adopters Fall Behind
My thesis : In the late 80s, the slow adoption of computers and email outside of Oracle whilst annoying (at least to me) - also resulted in the fast adoption in the PC revolution - that Oracle was totally unprepared for and was left behind on.
🔗 Ranked: The Most Valuable Sports Teams in 2026
Is it wrong of me to suggest that it speaks volumes about America’s challenges when you learn that not only are 19 of the most valuable sports teams in the world American - but that 13 of them are NFL teams.
🔗 Will They Inherit Our Blogs? | Kev Quirk
I’d love it if my sons took up blogging when they’re old enough to (that, and riding motorbikes!). But they’re their own people, and may not want to. If that’s the case, I just hope they’ll agree to keep my waffle online for a little while once I’m gone.
I have been known to think about this myself. Not holding my breath for my work to remain online - then again - who knows?
But - like Kev - pretty sure it won’t be my daughter 🤔
Finally ….
developers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product
Hopefully that will not only be about Design and Interface, but also navigation and simplicity and all else that drives me nuts with too many apps. (Most if I am honest - some I stick with.)
In December 🔗🎙️Lenny talked with Elena Verna - head of growth at Lovable - and on the way through commented that ‘Minimum Viable Product’ is now table stakes - we need to be building Minimum Loveable Products.
Ok - self serving naming - but it is the same kind of thinking.
🔗 National Transport & Toy Museum in Wanaka | Atlas Obscura
It’s impossible to describe everything that’s here: cars spanning the Morris Minor to a Ferrari 400I, Air New Zealand airplanes, almost every type of Lego set, a Barbie section, and vintage items like cast-iron banks and typewriters.
Not sure I understand how typewriters fit into the museums theme … but it continues to amaze how much stuff like this floats around New Zealand.
🔗 UK ETA Strict Enforcement Begins 25 February
When you submit your application - you should always ask
What is the ETA for my ETA.
🔗 Ranking CFO Compensation: The Top Earners
Click through and you read
What a CFO’s Hour is Worth
It’s not the first time I have had cause to highlight the langauge problem … the graphic reveals what they are being paid.
That does NOT equate to what they are worth.
🔗 Scripting News: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
I don’t understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing the output of an app so other apps can use it as input.
I understand - it forms the foundation of one if my new modules in the Engagement Platform we are building.