🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.

There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.

💬 Joan Westenberg

🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!

With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.

💬 William Gallagher

Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.

I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.

🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband

Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.

💬 Om

So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”

💬 Jim Groom

… via 🔗 Stephen Downes

I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;

• no explanation
• appending a little commentary
• surrounded by a lot of commentary
• in a sentence
• with snark
• a little more cryptic than some would like

… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.

‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both.

🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful

Thanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline. I’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a neighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood. Particularly when that leader has followed up similar statements about other nations with military action. I could probably work around that. But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. I have a family to support and really can’t afford that risk. I still consider myself a friend of your organization, and one with strong opinions about the subjects scheduled for discussion; my regrets about having to decline are entirely sincere.

💬 Tim Bray

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🔗🤯 A Seat on the Rocket Ship

The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.

💬 Parker Molloy

🔗 The four pillars of modern media

A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.

💬 Adam Tinworth

Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.