🔗 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.
🔗 The Case for the Executive Chair
I annotated this in the middle of 2024 with the intention to share, it’s pretty damming.
Only one or two directors on the typical 11-member board say they understand industry economics and how the company makes money. Two or three say they have little or no understanding.
Exactly in line with my observations - failure to understand leads to a focus on history, compliance and not losing - because they don’t even understand how to grow and win.
🖇️ You might not be surprised to learn that I have a fix. It’s called The Business Equation
🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’
the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.
🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.
As always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now?
Which reminds me.
When you engage with your LLM of choice, do you say ‘good morning’, ‘thankyou’, ‘please’ … all that nicety stuff?
Bonus question .. regardless of your answer have you tried doing it the other way?
Do the results seem better or worse?
Been reading headlines like this
🔗 Trump coverage needs to change and here’s how - Press Watch
since at least 2020 - like this one from … checking … 2020.
🔗 Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America
More maybe should be written like this one …
Nine years ago - remembering eleven years before that - and I still miss him.
Slowed me down for a second. Great - but how the hell do you find a record shop?
Ahmet moved on from planet earth nearly 20 years ago, so the quote pre dates that by a few more — so makes more sense, but still I think Bob’s quote machine needs more relevance.
Failure to elect a speaker by Jan. 6 could delay Trump’s Electoral College certification. (🔗Politico … which completely explains why Mike has t Rump’s ‘full’ backing.
Can’t help thinking (hoping?) that Nike’s 🔗 ’told you so’ ad’ is aimed (just a little bit) at a certain segment of voters.
🔗🎙️A Geopolitical Check-Up - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Short and Excellent.
🔗 Yellen: Extraordinary measures; to avoid US debt by default.
It seems that deadline will happen around Jan14?
See earlier post at the challenge looming to even get ducks lined up for Jan 20?
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Just stumbled on August 2023 .. in plain sight
My daily ‘Sill’, delivers a set of the most popular links shared by the people I follow on (for the moment), Mastodon and Bluesky. It tends to be what you might expect, until today.
All links are crackers, number 5 will be of particular interest to the typewriter brigade.
🔗 🎙️ Rushkoff - Corleone Style Diplomacy - 20 minutes, well worth a listen - a ‘theory of everything’.
🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast
I don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)
Your customers are your best salespeople.
Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best.
🔗 Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional. … sense prevails - in Arkansas!
🔗 The Word for 2025 is Fragility - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
… I always have ‘three words’ for a year. Reminds me. I need to get on to that.
🔗 The Riddle of Luigi Mangione. makes for an interesting read. Sounds like Gurwinder was his last online interaction and he also became a customer of ReadWise.