🔗 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.
🔗🎵 Instagram promo to 🔗🎵 The Village, narrated by David Tennant.
Welcome. The stones and the birds will decide if you belong among us.
Doc and I might not be the same age - but we lived in the same world.
Personally of the view that the story that he writes about is symptomatic of why we have problems as a society.
Agree? Wondering what I am talking about?
Truth in Humour ..
🔗😂 Daring Fireball: The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison
‘The Creator Economy’ is over and ‘The Affinity Economy’ is here.
I don’t live in the ‘xyz economy’ worlds - 🖇️ far too many to keep track of. BUT for a while now I have been talking and writing about the global movement from ‘Systems of Record’ to ‘Systems of Engagement’ - and the need for people and businesses to not throw away all of their systems and ‘drop in a new stack’ - but rather to start to think differently about what they already have and how to use that to ‘engage for the future’ and not ‘broadcast history’.
On that we seem to be aligned.
Over at 🔗 eg Innovations .. they have been thinking about ‘team alignment’ .. this short analysis tool is an interesting gateway to getting to answers as well as getting a better understanding of your own environment.
One person’s answers give you a data point. Ask your infrastructure, operations, application, service delivery and workplace teams to complete it independently, and you may find everyone has a different view of how well your monitoring actually performs. That gap between answers is the insight.
🔗📼 I just received this from my friend Randall on Maui .. you might not know the name Steve Grimes. I did not. (Maybe @jsonbecker has?) - but clearly a great friend of Randall, a highly talented Luthier … and a lovely video to boot.
When I watched this video, it made me proud to live on Maui in Hawaii … with little thought of “America”.
💬 Randall Rospond
🔗 The first surgical Apple Vision Pro application approved by the FDA
… because of course the Vision Pro is useless and nobody wants it.
#AppleIsDoomed
I’ll just let this settle here ….
🔗 George W. Bush still sucks. - Exploding Comma
YUP. I dropped a comment to this effect in a couple of places earlier this week - posting here again to amplify the reach.
each of them in turn just ratcheted it up - they are all complicit.
Dear Google
This is how it is done…
🔗 MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing ‘Lake America’ Change - MacRumors
🔗 MINIATURE CALENDAR … always clever, sometimes quite brilliant … like this one.
It’s not all going up …
Noting that the new 🍎 🔗 Polishing Cloth costs less than the old one. It’s still overpriced by around $9.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for ‘The Savant’
Given that it’s now the middle of August, I think that a July release is looking less and less likely by the day.
He does have a way doesn’t he?
🔗 Micro Monday is back (after a ’short’ pause.)
I guess in the overall scheme of the cosmos sure - ‘short’ works 😉
A great way of showcasing this little corner of the internet - still sitting in my Overcast feed - despite the passing of 4 years.
I knew it would comeback. One day.
It has.
🔗 Nudge or Sludge? — Gapingvoid
Want to know what a company actually believes? Skip their core values page. Try to cancel something.
Apple likes to say that music is part of its DNA. I suggest they schedule some genetic counselling.
I agree, though I have never managed to articulate the prescription so succinctly.
Please enjoy: 🔗 sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com
🔗🕋 Structured Thought is catching on
This one from Evan Shapiro - who after producing 6 annual flat files of - well to be honest - interesting - but not very useful insights into the media landscape has just outdone himself.
Scott Brinker should do the same - similar idea in a different space - but 🔗 this one has been going now for 15 years!