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I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.
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About Those PE Companies
If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I never even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do. Today’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
All is revealed.
Apparently if you delete the space - so the two words run in together.
THEN
Add a space - between the two words.
That fixes it.
A… and you wonder why us ordinary people get confused with ‘tech’.
🔗 Here’s a funny thing. Now THERE’s a funny thing …
(Before you click on the link - where do you think it goes to?)
Friend of mine pinged me this morning re a typo on a web site. Basically two words running in together. likethis.
Checked the issue - yup, so sent it on to ‘flag and fix’ - but issue ‘couldn’t be replicated’.
So I looked again - still there.
Checked it on my Mac, iPad and iPhone - still there.
On my Mac with Arc, Safari, Chrome and Firefox - still there.
Looked at ‘view source’ - not a problem - there were the two words - with a lovely space twixt the two.
Must be a ‘Mac thing’ they said.
My friend who did the original flagging?
YUP. Mac.
So yes, clearly a ‘Mac thing’ - but how to fix it?
Not so clear!
I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._
Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post
Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.
Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.
Thank you @hawaiiboy who wrote;
Really like this Car-Free Community. Not Arizona, but the idea.
The host has a nice style. The video is great and some marvellous zingers from interviewees, like
‘when I came back from Tokyo I realised that the way we live in America is just stupid.
🪦 Builder.AI
Imagine if all that money had been given to someone who is trying to make a difference in the world - someone like, oh - I don’t know …. 🔗🙋🏼♀️ Jax Harrison? … instead the money is just chasing mo' money.
🔗 This is why I am with Jony Ive on the state of Silicon Valley.
Apologies if I have already shared this - but I’d rather share it twice than not at all.
🔗 Business Thinking … resurfacing this post from 2020 - because sometimes we need to remind ourselves.
Where we have got to is not normal.
To change it is fully in our power.
The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
A bit of a ‘catch up’ post. Across various domains I often reference Venkatesh’s work. Once more today, which prompted this post - because I realised that for whatever reason - I hadn’t ever captured the essence of his ‘mediocrity’ series - and thought I should.
This morning’s song on rotate … 🎵🍎🔗 Thankyou Jarvis
🔗📼 Hamish on The Future of Media @ Ted
I remain a fan of what they are trying to do. There. I said it.
I published 🔗 Why Design Matters a few days ago tying the Ives/Collinson interview to some of the stuff I rattle on about.
I also referenced hesitations I have about Altman.
Today I watched the Ives/Altman video after that multi-billion …
- acquisition (as Altman calls it)
- merger (as Ives calls it)
As I added to that piece just this morning:
I remain mixed about Sam - it’s the odd inconsistencies that aggravate me - but - the fact that he and Elon are on opposite sides is a good signal and that he and Jony are on the same side gives me hope.
From an article by Noah Smith that I need to come back to and write more. I find those three groupings quite fascinating.
Added Later … sorry not helpful - right?
🔗 Is the U.S. in a ‘high-level equilibrium trap’? | Noah Smith
🚧 Still more to come.
