🔗 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.
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.
There must be close to a couple of thousand hand curated links in 🔗Indieseek -
‘a human edited, Indieweb directory’
… painstakingly put together by @bradenslen
Well worth a visit and a click around - no slop allowed. I mean I’m not sure it actually says that - but knowing what I know of Brad, I think it would be safe to put money on it.
But there’s more - you can also submit your own indie site.
There are other places around that does this but they do seem to move in fits and starts. Indieweb seems to be steady, been around a while and gently growing.
Enjoy.
I am on a bit of a rant at the moment …
Over time, my initial reaction sharpened and what started as a critique became a little more spiky … then decidedly more tongue-in-cheek. Because while everyone else was raising a glass of shareholder Kool-Aid, I couldn’t ignore the inconvenient truth: efficiency with fewer people and more profit in a single corporation is ‘competitive edge’. BUT implementing that efficiency at scale is a problem for society without a counter balance. And ‘we’ are doing this - at massive scale - across the planet.
🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my 🔗 albumwhale lists
not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted should be.
In the Age of Experience, perhaps it’s time we stop translating and start developing new, more direct ways to meaningfully measure what matters. (NEWSFLASH - that is not coming out of ‘The Valley’ any time soon.)
This short reflection is my way of shining a light on that moment. Because sometimes a single sentence can unlock a whole new way of thinking.
🔗 I wrote a lot more about Jony Ive’s sit down with Patrick Collinson here.