🔗 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.
🔗🎵💿 Cambridge St/ation - Pink Floyd
The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
I’ve started a new AlbumWhale list (and I haven’t even finished the others! Still.) The new list is called ‘Formative Years’ …
I’m an ‘artist’ guy, then an ‘album’ guy and then a singles/track guy. I like my music ‘in context’ The lists in here are way behind what I see in my mind’s eye - BUT the topics provide a clue to how I relate them all.
This new list is all about albums that ‘formed me’ and contributed to the music world I am today. At the time I might not have recognised it - but in the rear view mirror - absolutely.
First Up: Odessey and Oracle By The Zombies
We are told that AI will assist us, that platforms will adapt to us, and that services will respect what we want. But we are not being asked what we want. We are being modeled, approximated, and acted upon. Once that system achieves high enough fidelity and the simulation of our intent is “good enough,” our actual presence becomes redundant.
This is not empowerment. It is erosion.
🔗 The whole piece is on LinkedIN - via Doc Searls.
Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.
But the reward on the other side is second to none; the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn don’t need to work anymore, he added. Microsoft purchased the professional networking platform for $26.2 billion in 2016.
.. so why is he still working?
🔗 If you are happy and need something to take you off your high … - don’t worry - its not that you don’t know l this - it’s just when you see it summarised and ending with …
But the public is too dumb and too uninformed to wake up and smell the coffee.
It ain’t morning in America, it’s closing in on midnight.
If you speak up, no one will rally to your defense, like the law firms sitting on the sidelines and refusing to defend 🔗 Perkins Coie
But you’ll compete with other influencers for the last buck, listening to mindless drivel .. happy that you’re still alive.
The Future Of Work
Interesting quote from Ollie Henderson’s book popped up this morning - which reminded me of a Jason Fried quote and they both tie to some fascinating work I am doing right now. Bob said it 61 years ago - not prescient - simply a fact The Times They Are (ALWAYS) A-Changin' …
🔗 ‘A Complete Disaster,’ Says Daniel Ives About Tesla Stock
The EV giant delivered 336,681 vehicles in Q1 – falling far short of Wall Street’s expectation of around 378,000. Even the more cautious analyst forecasts, hovering near 360,000, were missed by a wide margin. In all, Tesla missed consensus by more than 10% and underperformed even the lowest projections by about 20,000 vehicles. Deliveries also tumbled 13% year-over-year, the sharpest quarterly drop in the company’s history.
.. and then …
And yet, in a twist straight out of the Musk playbook, Tesla stock staged a comeback. After plunging as much as 6%, shares flipped positive – up 5% – on a Politico report suggesting Musk might step away from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Really? If he stops DOGE it’s all going to be ok? Where do these people live?
🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?'
Martin has a good list here of fundamentals, but ultimately, you know it when you see it.
💬 JohnGruber
.. like ‘pornography’ and ‘art’ then?
🔗 Daring Fireball: Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports
They might well just switch off the lights and lock the doors at MSNBC.
💬 John Gruber
He’s not alone with that thought. Comcast has been moving deck chairs for a while now.
But this is more a demonstration of another media company bending the knee.
🔗 Long Live RSS - Phil Windley - via Doc Searls
A timely reminder. It’s RSS in general - good, but Phil also writes specifically about Substack.
I found that if you enter
/rssafter the URL for an author or category page, you get RSS for that author or category.
Meanwhile Substack’s own help. - says to tack on ‘feed’ not ‘rss’.
I do find that both work - and sometimes neither - which is more often than not because of the beginning of the URL …
Replace “your” with the name of your Substack publication.
It isn’t always clear (to me at least) what that ‘your’ replacement should be.
Bonus - If you use Reeder
If you just put the URL https://
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
💬 Ernest Becker
… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview
🔗 Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds | ScienceDaily
.. not read it yet .. but wondering f the equation includes parameters around the phone that is inevitably in people’s hands, more often than not being looked at.
🔗Authoritarian Grift Meets the Grind of Justice
America (that country that promoted itself (past tense) as the beacon of democracy) continues to be the ONLY country in the world that does nothing to stop these kinds of people.
Why would anybody believe - ever - that America stands for democracy?
🔗 Pockets of Belfast - Gapingvoid
On 20th March, in celebration of the UN’s World Happiness day, the BBC’s Mark Easton conducted a little social experiment: dropping ten wallets (with money and his phone number inside) on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He got them all back.
Makes me happy - and today isn’t even World Happiness Day!
On Om
Om writes about the mediocrity of modern Google - for me most of what they do has always been mediocre because their UX sucks and the best (older) example would be why Google Sheets when you have Airtable? And the thing is with better UI Google was on pole positon to do Airtable before Airtable - and on acrsoo the entire product line.
🔗 Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
This is “managed decline,” – the art of overseeing failure with exceptional documentation. Managed decline hides under terms like cost control, risk minimization, and streamlining, but it guarantees one thing: job security for managers. The EU and UK exemplify this, where managed economic entropy and decline have become a boon for the managerial class. Managers multiply like Gremlins in water.
🔗 Division is easier than connection - Seth Godin - just reminding us all of good behaviour.