🔗 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.
🔗 Enough is enough | Thought Shrapnel … is where I found this ..
Yeah … no
… that’s not what it’s about.
… Iraq worked out so well.
… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
… the Ukrainians.
… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
… it’s about the oil … read history.
… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.
#Winning
💬 Charlie Sheen
A Zurich court is expected to rule on the case in March. Whatever the outcome, Palantir has already lost the only contest that matters: the one for public perception. For a company that sells the ability to see around corners, they apparently never thought to search “The Streisand Effect.”
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.. I can’t sign it - but maybe you can?
Congratulations on saying the biggest number, Paramount. $111B for a company that a year ago had a market cap of around $20B. For a company that shrunk in their most recent quarter, and in fact, for the entire year, with revenue down 5% to $37.3B. Paramount may not be buying the Titanic, but only because they already own that IP.
I wrote yesterday that I’d give you the links …
If you prefer reading - 🔗 My Dinner with Jeffrey - by Douglas Rushkoff - but really - though I am a ‘read first - listen maybe’ kinda guy - listen.
Suddenly I have the lens where it all makes perfect sense. Sad - but finally …
When I diagram I often default to circle and spirals and avoid triangles.
Maybe I have unknowingly been channeling my inner Omoiyari❓
🔗 LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords - Schneier on Security
Password generation seems precisely the thing that LLMs shouldn’t be good at. But if AI agents are doing things autonomously, they will be creating accounts. So this is a problem.
We’re screwed aren’t we?
🔗 How close are we to a vision for 2010?
What strikes me most about the possible futures discussed isn’t their optimism nor their missteps - it’s that most of these things could be possible today if there were sufficient open standards which the public and private sector adopted.
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Anyone who has read “The Entrepreneurial State” knows that these things take significant public investment. We’ve reached a point where the private sector has generated wealth from previous public research, but seems unwilling to invest in any long-term research itself. That’s short-changing our future.
🔗London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc
M A R V Y ❗️
🔗🤓 Times New Resistance - Abby Haddican
Too good - though I think we can provide many more to build out the list.
🔗 Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion
If you believe the future is agent management, you’ll build tools for orchestrating fleets of specialized bots. You’ll create dashboards for monitoring your marketing agent separately from your sales agent separately from your dev agent. You’ll recreate Salesforce, but for robots.
If you believe the future is unified execution, you’ll build tools that let one person express intent and get outcomes across every domain from a single surface. The interface collapses. The abstraction layers disappear. You don’t manage agents any more than you manage the individual transistors in your laptop.
I need to revisit - I mean she’s talking org charts.
🔗 Careers are jungle gyms, not ladders
Real careers look more like jungle gyms. You climb up, move sideways, drop down, hang upside down for a while, and sometimes jump across to something new entirely. Progress isn’t measured only by elevation, but by agility, strength, and perspective. The value comes from how many dimensions you can move in, not just how high you can go.
💬 Guy Kawasaki
In case you were wondering where this …
… came from. It came from here:
🔗 Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases
Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
💬 Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
I would go further.
It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.