🔗 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.
.. Wayne is currently Auckland’s mayor .. been here for a while .. so why isn’t it fixed already?
Oh and suggest that before starting on Auckland - he fixes https://fixauckland.co.nz
🔗🎵 Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic
I had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late
My friend Claire is offering free discount codes on a set of books - and whilst not my world - who knows - could well be yours. If Bees and Apiaries are what tickles your fancy … read on. Dare I say that the offer is the ‘Bees Knees’?
‘Using an Enclosed Apiary is an interactive, narrated ebook that explains why enclosed apiaries are good for people and bees.’
The HoneyBower Maker’s Guide is a “how to” with step-by-step instructions for building a frame and making a form-fitted apiary enclosure.
Interested? 🔗 Go Here
First three uses of the code and the set is FREE
Just use the discount code BeesKnees-2021 at the checkout.
Feel free to share it with friends, family and bee keepers all over the world.
A good read .. that is channeling some other things I have been tapping into recently.
🎵 Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.
Back in the day ‘we’ had a line:
Oracle’s first platform for any `Product’ is always PowerPoint - and is written by LJE.
It stemmed from Larry’s penchant for announcing products in large public forums and nobody else seemed to have any knowledge of it.
Just read this:
🔗 The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
With this quote
Some Oracles never change.
.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.
When You Are Ahead Of The Curve It's Hard
Sometimes you can be so far ahead of the curve that when the curve does peak - the world has forgotten you. Take ‘Lyris’ and ‘vibe’ for example.
Four Tools I Use
When I tell others, they seem to find them useful.
Ikigai - look it up
Pay, Play, Passion and Purpose - a ‘Structured Thought’ Model
Collect and Curate, Connect and Communicate - think Gladwell’s Tipping Point (Maven, Networker and Communicator).
Core and Context - think Moore - but then add a touch of Structured Thought with a dash of #PeopleFirst
🔗 … and then there is Hunter’s Letter
I’ll be back with more links at some point.
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
Three links from my weekend.
🔗 Will data centers crash the economy? - by Noah Smith
🔗 Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won
🔗 I Drank Every Cocktail - Adam Aaronson - so I don’t have to? Meanie.
🔗 Marketing Flywheel Momentum: Why Every Flywheel Needs A Native Analog & Native Digital Duo - from the Lockhead world.
If you are trying to work out what to really do with Marketing in this modern age - he consistently makes sense. (Not on all - I grant - but on Marketing - yes.)