🔗 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.
Gruber and Malik commenting on Skype and Microsoft
Om nailed it in that second quote: “Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.” (I was one of those immigrants.)
If you are a Craft Lover / User and are missing web clipping - problem solved. 🔗 HERE
Just installed - works fine - 3 clips per day for free - and then there is premium.
You are welcome.
🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer
No plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …
[🔗📼 Searing Pie - don’t watch if offended by bad language.]youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_…)
🔗 Anti-Elon Musk Poster “Don’t Buy a Swasticar” in London Goes Viral. (Hollywood Reporter on Apple News)
The photo is taken from the moment Musk, also the founder of SpaceX, made
what looked likea Nazi salute at Trump’s January inauguration rally, drawing criticisms from all over the globe. The poster dubs Tesla “The Swasticar.”
My edit because it’s important to get the facts right.
Peter Thiel - Another Loser
Peter Thiel - remember him? The guy with the bunker in the South Island of New Zealand. Yeah, he’s outta here - and good riddance. Except there are lessons that the Kiwi Govt should learn from as they prepare to attract more billionaires, still believing that trickle down economics works.
Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.
🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys
🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys
If these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.
I keep coming back to this visual .. because the other one makes me feel sick.
🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital
Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.
💬 Hunter Walk
I know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.
BUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;
- Connect the dots
- See the ocean
- Provide the context
- Understand the big picture
- Make the leaps
I worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.
Which Is Why
I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back.
🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.
Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
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An astonishing coincidence I’m sure.
💬 Braindump
First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information.
But Stiglitz suggested the only way the president’s policies would positively contribute to that goal was by running the US into the ground. “The inflation from the tariffs is going in the wrong way, and the only thing that is going in the right way for Bessent is his efforts to crater the economy,” he said.
“In supporting Trump’s economic policies, Bessent is helping to get the yield curve down by crashing the US economy – not a good policy, I would say.”
🔗 Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
🔗📸 Well. Who knew? - and ‘just’ down the road apparently.
