The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions-but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from “I should do this” to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you’re not just accomplishing more-you’re operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and outer life are in a constant, tight, conversation.

💬 Derek Sivers

… via 🔗 Swiss Miss via 🔗 Instagram


🎥 I touched on this in an 🖇️ earlier post. 🔗 Outcome … Yeah … Nah Nah Nah.

I have tried it. Final effort was earlier tonight. Sorry Keanu … ★

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🖇️ Review Ratings


Earlier I wrote 🖇️ this - after reading 🔗 this from Alex Hyett who in turn referenced 🔗 this from Brennan Day. It all came after seeing a post in my feeds from 🔗 Ton Zylstra

💡**I was Inspired. **

If you are keeping up, you will know that I have been wrestling with Web Mentions off and on for nigh on 8❓years.

Q - can that really be right?

A - apparently yes according to Mars Edit ….

As of today - no longer. I am ready and able to receive web mentions.

Now - a little like Alex - I need proof - so here I am.

I’m also just a guy, standing in front of the internet, asking it to show him.


🔗 Setting up webmentions | Alex Hyett

I have tried this so many times and something always seems to go wrong.

That said, Alex has inspired me … 🫰🏼 And who knows - this might be the test he has been looking for?

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.


🔗 ‘China’s Apple’ is in free-fall – Asymco

Selling cars, eh? 19% phone unit sales drop contributed to the story but cars are a disaster. A phone maker selling cars is a bad idea. Almost as bad as a car maker building robots.

Who could he be talking about?


“The president’s like a box of chocolates,” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican, said Wednesday. “You never know what you’re going to get.”

He’s probably thinking about Forest Gump.

🔗📼 I’m thinking more Monty Python


Ben writes:

🔗 Signs you’re a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines

Collectively, the justice department argued that these convictions are proof that anti-fascists are terrorists, which should also give us pause. The precedent here is obviously very dangerous for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy in America.

And in turn cross links to ‘The Grauniad’


🔗 The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance

“Your CIA was good at this,” Dmytro said. “You bastards knew how to use sex.”


🔗 The AI Conversation CEOs Are Not Having Out Loud.

The topic was AI. But the real conversation was leadership.

💬 Brian Solis

The myth that CEOs ‘know’ is exactly that.

The bad ones play into that myth.

The good ones build trusted teams around them.

Same can be said for Presidents.


🔗 Leon Mika

The name I use for one of my test accounts is “Shouting Loudly.”

.. and he goes on to write that he can’t recall where it came from.

I regularly use ’Thinking Aloud’ and ’Thinking Allowed’.

.. me too.


🔗 Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal

McGucken delves specifically into the study of the fourth dimension, drawing on Einstein’s 1922 book The Meaning of Relativity, in which the renowned scientist illustrated a “light cone” that represented “the deep, physical relationship between space, time, and the velocity of light,” McGucken says. This almost hourglass-like shape, with two cones that meet at their tips, forms the basis of Spacetime Light Cone Sculptures dx4/dt=ic.


🔗 Parliament Street in Exeter

According to a nearby plaque, the city claims this is the narrowest street in the world (though this claim has been disputed). It is, though, the narrowest street in Britain.

Another US/UK ‘differality’.

If that street was in the US it would be dubbed something to do with

blah blah blah … ‘Capital Of The World’

And nobody would bat an eyelid - let alone question it.



🖋️ A One Man Army

Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.




Crucial Track 🎵 June 24, 2026

"Dancing in the Street (2002 Remaster)" by David Bowie & Mick Jagger

Listen on Apple Music

**So great. Such fun.**

I mean sure - you could pop over to your music player and have a listen - but there's also the video for twice the fun.

🔗📼 David and Mick

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I always knew that ‘soccer’ actually had English origins BUT had never heard the story of where it came from until today. (In the link - about half way down).

🔗⚽️ Why Do Americans Call Football Soccer? Does it Matter?


I have definitely posted this link to Jason Fried’s post in the past and it keeps coming to mind as I read so much about our new ‘Trillionaire’ who went public on a vision with the smallest public float in the history of IPO’s.

🔗 PRESS RELEASE: BASECAMP VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - Signal v. Noise

But you should see the spreadsheet models we’re making up. Really breakthrough stuff,” said Mirage.

🔗📼 Related … Trevor