🔗 WWW
Systems of Record are transitioning to System of Compliance while Systems of Engagement are still on the whole being ignored.
🔗 Om on content, it’s as if I wrote it - not with the natural flow of Om - but definitely 🖇️🔎 the subject matter.
🔗 Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack (Apple News)
I quote for posterity - but unless I’m missing a very subtle nuance of differentiation … ‘yeah - no’
“This is the first case we’ve worked where you have an attacker that’s extremely far away and essentially broke into other organizations in the US in physical proximity to the intended target, then pivoted over Wi-Fi to get into the target network across the street,” says Adair. “That’s a really interesting attack vector that we haven’t seen before.”
🔗 Antitrust Enforcers Block the JetBlue-Spirit Merger
… earlier this year for sure and still I wonder how this gets blocked when Hawaiian and Alaska just merge without so much as a by your leave.
Thank you Google. I don’t care if the government breaks you up or keeps you whole - BUT 🔗 I do care about you continually breaking the Internet.
Please stop doing that.
Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment
(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of all things.
💬 Sara Hendren
(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)
It All Makes Sense - until it doesn't. We are passed that point.
A few of today’s reads all came together this morning …
First up (which I am not even going to bother linking to) lead with something like … “how corporations can create emotional connections to their customers at ‘scale’.”
What the fucking what - do not even get me started. Do these people even think about what their words mean when they spew them out?
Anyway - onwards - and as so often happens Hugh over at Gaping Void says it the best …
🖇️ My highlights on the companion article
Meanwhile …
(Talking of ‘creating emotional connections at scale - one of those silent companies that you know the name of - but wonder what they do is Palantir (remember Cambridge Analytics - who paid the price?) .. yeah, Palantir was the ‘power behind the throne’ - who not only avoided paying the price - but have gone on from strength to strength.
Anyway, 🔗 over in Dana land .. he’s looking at the next 4 years - and pointing a very large finger at one 🖇️ Peter Thiel … you know the guy that really runs Palantir (all due respect to Karp), but to remind you who he really is …
The New Zealand Herald did quite a job on that topic - do take a read - eye opening - even if you think you know all about him. (Pro tip - if you have ‘reader mode’ - use it if you really want to read it.) .. and at the end…
According to building consent records, his Queenstown Plasma Screen holiday home last year suffered a serious fire, causing more than $500,000 in damage. Building consents for the repairs filed with the Queenstown Lakes District Council in May show Thiel took this opportunity to rebuild and repurpose a walk-in closet. Plans now describe this nook as a panic room.
.. a panic room. In Queenstown? .. and this is the guy who is quietly influencing the US Govt?
And then there is ‘Ted’s Take’ on the changing nature of communication.
Are we doomed?
I guess not until this happens …
(The New Yorker)
Received via John Wunderlich - 🔗 work by Randall Munroe - XKCD
🔗 National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT
Dear Christopher (Luxon) .. I know Washington DC is a long way a way .. but there are some lessons there .. you can watch in real time the future of New Zealand .. at least the future based on the current trajectory.
🔗 The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets. .. a perfect home.
“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”
So I will plant this post in various places across the inter webs as I reach out to find those customers that need what I do.
The link is worth clicking on, but that’s not really what this is about. Except, in a way, it kinda is… let me explain.
This part of John’s business model is a weekly sponsorship. He sells them upfront. He can sell two on the same week. And if one becomes open suddenly
Here’s the deal: my calendar is showing some similar gaps. Now, I don’t operate exactly like John Gruber—heck, we’re not even in the same space—but at the core, the goal is the same.
And honestly, for-profit organizations aren’t as different from each other as we might like to think.
I like to imagine every organization as a magic box. It takes inputs—people, capital, resources—and transforms them into outputs: products and services that are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.
These are sold to customers. Ideally, every window of time is filled with something that generates revenue for the business.
This urgency is one reason why so many rush to create products that can “make money while you sleep.” The aim is to replace perishable inventory with non-perishable. And while that’s a great approach, it’s not what I do, because—despite what I just said—every organization is unique.
So here I am, reaching out to the internet to help fill those gaps.
If you have a business—or know someone who does—that’s struggling to boost revenue, let’s chat. I’ve got frameworks, methods, and a book that’s gotten some praise from fellow writers worldwide.
Over the years, I’ve tried it all: flywheels, funnels, category marketing, guerrilla sales, challenger sales, social selling—you name it, I’ve probably experimented with it.
Here’s the biggest takeaway:
It’s all about the synergy of teamwork and a shared purpose.
If you’re ready to turn those inputs into something extraordinary, drop me a line. Let’s make some magic happen.
This version aims for a conversational tone while still driving home the main points and inviting engagement.
“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”
💬 Yuval Noah Harari
🔗🖇️ Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.
🔗 Learn the Order of Adjectives in English.
Not sure I ever ‘learned’ this - but intuitively it is what I do.
Over on Substack I published 🔗🖇️ this …
At first blush, it might seem to be about maths and it certainly connects, but it’s really about those who challenge the status quo, see something different, push boundaries, which, not coincidentally is exactly what great startups do.
Love to know what you all think?
🔗📼🎵 Revolution … Did it happen? Is it happening? Will it happen?