🔗 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.
🔗 🎙️ 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.
🔗 Trump Organization Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama.
… well that explains THAT.
🔗 CNN: Gaetz investigation will be released - Kevin Drum
.. to channel @gruber ‘Finally
But Kevin’s take is most likely ‘why’ …
Now that Gaetz no longer matters to Donald Trump, I guess at least a few Republicans screwed up the courage to do the right thing.
💬 Kevin Drum
On this blog, February ’22 was 🔗 my first reference to …
Known sex trafficker Matt Gaetz
The simple question worth asking is: That piece of media or interaction or investment you’re making – is it to earn trust or simply find attention?
💬 Seth Godin
The whole thing … 🔗 The fame/trust inversion
🔗 iOS 18.2 Mail is a misfire. … until I am allowed to adjust whatever the system is that controls where what ends up -💯
🔗 Montana Supreme Court affirms decision in Held, historic youth climate case (Apple News - but the headline is the important bit and definitely NOT click bait)
Maybe this will motivate more action around the world?
🔗 🎙️ How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - from Freakanomics - its an update old one.
.. who knew?
So building on 🔗 this … just asked why every table in the room was booked ( the bar is full(Ish) but the rest of the place is empty) .. turns out Monday night is ‘Blues Night’.
LATER - turns out Bonomassa himself has haunted that tiny stage a few times …
🔗 Foreign students warned: Get back to America before Trump takes over.
I am not a student - but I had been thinking about this whilst down in New Zealand - but wasn’t in a rush - until November 6th.
Hello SoCal - looks like I was thinking straight.
Just discovered 1440
Why 1440?
The printing press was invented around the year 1440, spreading knowledge to the masses and changing the course of history. More facts: In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. We’re here to make each one count.
Over the past couple of years I have increasingly disconnected from Galloway. Always used to like his insights and takes - but over time he seems to have become very blustery and grand standing. Sean Illing however? I put him up there with Sam Harris. So this one proved a conundrum. Sean won as he and Scott talked about the struggles men are facing today.
🔗🎙️ Sean Illing and Scott Galloway
.. well worth it. No bluster. Considered. Thoughtful. AND IMHO Spot on.
Just shows how a show host really can shape how their guests come off. It’s definitely a skill.
Mathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity.
【 🔗 New Scientist at Apple News 】
Good grief, it was only in my last newsletter when I was talking about the eternal debate re Math(s) .. ‘Discovered or Invented’ and during the journey drifted over towards ‘infinity’ and Cantor and then for some reason changed course, though the point was more to do with …
A good PURE mathematician is exactly this kind of person. They like to look at something that is a known irrefutable fact - and then refute it.
Good news - no need to update my newsletter around ‘infinity’.
Hegseth does a 180 on women and gays in combat - POLITICO
“I’m sorry .. what do you want hear .. there you go .. satisfied? .. now give me the damn job so I can get on with my purge.
When are people gonna wake up?
🎵🎙️So talented and humble. One of my favorites - and interviewed by Terry Gross to boot.
[🔗 Beethoven meets Jazz meets The Blues](overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNG…
🔗 Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment.
Good idea. Should have thought about it myself …
Oh wait I did — zero response, just like most of my posts.