πŸ”— I’m Going to Dig a Hole

He taught me that no one knows where inspiration comes from β€” only that it’s fragile, invaluable, and fleeting.


Meanwhile in LA - πŸ”— AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools.

I’ll let you click through to the quote that Bruce Schneier has on his site.


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Another From Seth

πŸ”— The Sorting

But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards.

Really great analogy - and IMHO - infinitely superior to the Pluribus analogy - at least my takeaway of same - although that is a different post.

That said - it would be so much easier if Seth not only came checked the story’s author - but maybe added a link?

So you don’t have to dive down the rabbit hole ..

πŸ”—πŸ“š The book (Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth) .. that contains the short story


And when they don't, we judge competence, take it personally, make assumptions, or shut down.

Guilty as charged. Going to try harder.


πŸ‘€ πŸ”— The Cost of American Exceptionalism

Absolutely eye opening and mind boggling.


You’ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎡musical part - πŸ”—πŸ“Ό just so good


Just discovered πŸ”—πŸ“š Linchpin by Seth Godin - and I wonder how I missed it - because I wonder if it is a twist on my ‘Blue Ocean of Org Charts’ - will try to find the post.


πŸ”— Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.

CORRECT

A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?


Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah

BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.

Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.

Which is why this πŸ”— Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.


πŸ”— Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore

The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly.

πŸ’¬ Seth Godin


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πŸ”— The 411)


πŸ”— Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk

I dunno John - just β€˜Jackass’ works fine.


πŸ”— You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?

This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at πŸ”— what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017

So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026


Seth writes - πŸ”— Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.

If you want deeper thought … πŸ”— Sangeet is your man


πŸ”— A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?


πŸ”— Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.

πŸ–‡οΈ Used this quote before.

There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.

πŸ’¬ Keisei Tagami

.. and as I have said myself

death defines life.


πŸ”— One From Patrick

I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.

πŸ”— A Follow Up From Patrick

If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then. We live there now.