🔗 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.
🎈033/366 | 🥇 And The Winner Is …
This 366 project is officially one month in, so I thought I’d take a look at how we are doing on the ‘view’ front .. I won’t use ‘read’ (no assumptions here 😀).. so, without further ado, and for your delectation, coming in at Number 5 …
5 : 🖇️ 013/366 ⌨️ Typewriters .. and more.
And so on down the line …
4 : 🖇️ 026/366 | 🆔 The ‘entity’ in Identity.
3 : 🖇️ 004/366 | 🏢 Demonstrating The Pace Layer).
2 : 🖇️ 003/366 | 💬 A New Purpose.
And the winner - at least for this month, coming in at number …
1 : 🖇️ 002/366 | ♟️ Is There Planning In Strategy❓
Thoughts
Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are respectively the 2nd, 3rd and 4th posts in the series, so not surprised.
I am surprised at the 26th post coming as high as 4th, after all, It only had 5 days to get there.
By the time you get down to Number 5 - well, it’s a topic that resonates, and had a full half month to ‘move on up’, so once again, no real surprise.
I will run the numbers again next month, for February - and again for January - and will also provide a ‘year to date’. Be interesting to see the comparisons. (BTW, I am specifically running the data between specific dates - in this case for example Jan 1 to Jan 31 - not just ‘last month’.)
I am also interested to see if this posts gives a jump on these particular posts, so I will check the data in 7 days.
That’s all for now - except to say, my many thanks to 🔗 Vincent who wrote and maintains the 🔗 tinylytics app that in turn produces the data I need to write this email. Couldn’t do without it.
🎈032/366 | 🥽 The Vision Pro
So it is out in wild and the reviews are in … and this is not another ‘one of those’.
‘My man’ Om 🔗 also posted about Vision Pro - he himself also highlighting that his post was not one of those. A big difference between us (as if there were just a few - there are not - there are many) is that he has actually tried one out! So there is that.
In his post he talked about 4 magic moments on day one of owning his new toy. This is the fourth on the list.
My last magic moment came when the Vision Pro became what I have always wanted — the future of television (and video.) A screen like none before. I opened up the Apple TV app, and picked an immersive video film of highliner Faith Dickey. I watched Dickey walk across a highline across the cliffs of Norway, but I felt as if I was there. It was so breathtaking — and in that moment, I thought maybe someday this is how all movies, televisions, and even home videos are going to be made for all to experience them live.
And?
And it got me to thinking about that last sentence (that is my bold in the quote that you see).
Christopher Nolan famously produces movies for iMax first Sure, you can watch them in other spaces … but the real experience can only be found on iMax - and not any old iMax .. the best iMax.
Obvious question … how long before the first movie is made that is ’tuned’ for ‘Vision Pro first’?
To clarify … (‘this new movie’ will be to ‘Vision Pro’ as as ‘Oppenheimer’ is to ‘iMax’)
My predictions
1] ’Such a’ movie will be released in 2025. Maybe early 2026.
- (Confidence 70 to 80%)
2] It won’t be a GREAT movie - like Oppenheimer. The timeline for that? 2030.
- (Confidence 25% - 75% lots of variable in this one - because ‘Great’ is hard to calibrate AND also the demand needs to connect to there being sufficient headsets out there for the story of success to work.)
3] It will be financed by Apple.
- (Confidence 100%. Because it is totally in their interests and are already funding movies and can give the makers a LOT of help well beyond dollaroos.)
What do you think?
🔗 People that know Fripp talking about Fripp and the King Crimson Movie
These kind of comments add up to so much more than a lot of rubbish you read from people that only have opinion.
🔗 Pakistani military use age-old tactics to keep Imran Khan away from election.
Any pretence of due judicial process being followed was abandoned entirely at both cases where Khan was sentenced this week. Instead of an open courtroom, the trials were conducted inside the jail where Khan is being detained and his lawyers were not allowed to choose or cross-examine any witnesses.
🔗Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules.
A line in the sand has been drawn.
That said - not quite where the 🖇️‘limitareanists think it should be drawn.
But it is a start.
Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.
Later
Finished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.
Listen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia
🔗 Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches
Wait, What?
If they quit Smartwatches - don’t they just stop doing business?
TIL that Fossil offer a vast range of fashion accessories that I knew nothing about.
Next question.
I noticed this
… which got me to thinking. Do Fossil need that partnership any longer now that Mickey is out of copyright? Wouldn’t they make more money?
🔗 Where Logos Meet Album Covers: Designer Ivan Chermayeff
Its a Substack about a designer of iconic logos that turned his hand to (not so iconic) album covers.
I like some of them - but probably not iconic because the artists of the albums aren’t as big as the corporates either the logos.
🔗 Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (Apple News)
If it is 5 years for this and 4 months for Navarro;
1] are the punishments commensurate?
2] If so what the likely total sentence time will be for the Orange clown?
🎈030/366 | 🔗 Just A ‘Few’ Links
Still battling with my ‘in process’ (I am being generous) archive that 🖇️ I referenced here. Tucked away I had literally hundreds of links - some of which I have no clue why I saved them to drafts - rather than 🔗 Raindrop (a far more logical place). This is a random election from said list. Trust me - you don’t want the whole thing!
- Together - A social reader.
- An app.
- The Connecticut CyberHub Initiative.
- Provides a pipeline of talent to fill security jobs.
- National Cyber Group.
- A national version of same.
- John Wooden - Wikipedia.
- It’s funny who gets places named after them, a bar/restaurant in LA I frequented in the early part of 2023 had a John Wooden room. Famous apparently. I had never heard of him.
- Is “stream” as a design paradigm over?.
- One of ‘Om’s’ - I started to write about ‘Streams’ at the time.
- Streams of Consciousness · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer.
- So did Matthias.
- Adactio: Journal—Home stream.
- …and Jeremy.
- Organizing my blog - Ben Werdmuller.
- Ben on - well - organizing hi blog, which is what I was doing at the time. Still am! Witness this 366 entry.
- Every Company Disney Owns: A Map of Disney’s Worldwide Assets.
- Always loved these kind of visuals.
- Reflect.
- An app
- Andrew Corser.
- a small blog by a long time family friend that I didn’t even know had a blog.
- Geyerhof StockWerk Grüner Veltliner, Kremstal 2021
- Organic wines anyone?
- Sky Bridge.
- A bridge - twixt Mastodon and BlueSky.
- AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief.
- A Guardian Article
- Obsidian ✍️ A new take on notes .
- A newsletter.
- Grupa Trias.
- a company I met in Poland.
- Personal Digital Agent - Google Slides.
- It is what it says on the tin.
- Motion | Pricing.
- An app.
- The Great Cash For Carbon Hustle.
- Is it? I am mixNo doubt it makes a lot of money for people - but we all know thatisnt right - don’t we.
- Micro.blog Feature Requests - Developers - Micro.blog Help Center
- MicroBlog feature requests.
- Struck | No Mercy / No Malice.
- A link I have saved for a future post - not yet. I think (know?) he is wrong.
- Seven Gigabytes.
- Robin Rendle.
🔗 Still struggling with emojis on my site - (The link takes you to a quick conversation with ChatGPT).
Most of them render correctly - but odd ones don’t … like this one for example : ❓
In my book that should be red?
🔗 The True Blue Ocean – ProjectVRM (2020 - I know - another old one!)
To understand the problem here, it helps to hear marketing talk to itself. Customers, it says, are targets to herd on a journey into a funnel through which they are acquired, managed, controlled and locked in.
This is the language of ranching and slavery. Not a way to talk about human beings.
Four years later nothing has changed.
🎈029/366 | 🎙️ Is Honesty The Best Policy❓
Don’t worry - this isn’t what you think it is.
If you are married or single, a writer or manager, paid for what you do or just for the love, delivered or received feedback, good or bad this is worth every minute of the 11 minutes and 44 seconds it will take you to listen to it.
I think this is my absolutely favorite podcast.
- Short - so there is always time to listen
- Good story telling, to keep your attention.
- Serious points made with humor.
W H A T - I S - N O T - T O - L O V E ❓
Sometimes There Is No Pleasing People
Another old note, that deserves to see the light of day. I have 🖇️ written before on my position (a fan - not a fanboy), still …
The Masses:
“Apple hasn’t produced anything new since the iPhone.”
But surely: …
- Apple TV
- AirPods revenue roughly equivalent to Netflix
- Apple Watch
- A whole new range of Apple Silicon
- Apple Services …
The Masses:
“Yeah yeah yeah … but nothing like the iPhone. Nothing innovative.”
Apple … hold by beer.
Behold, not just a new product, a new category that we call ‘Spatial Computing’, to give you an idea of what we mean.
The Masses:
“Yeah - that sucks it is going to fail.”
A couple of links.
This is about ‘that’ Andreesen post/ But first … context, because I know - life has moved on.
I am in the process of trying to catch up on a massive backlog of notes that I am steadily
- deleting
- filing in Obsidian
- posting to 🖇️John.Philpin
Not sure if this will end up taking longer than the 🖇️ category deletion. We will see.
This one is in the third category. The news has been and gone now - but my opinion hasn’t changed.
Some of you might have stumbled across Andreesen’s Substack :
TL;DR .. who cares.
Despite what he wrote, he’s wrong … not least of which being that word ‘world’ .. it will be fine - regardless of what Marc thinks. People? Yeah - that’s different. Anyway …
What you might NOT have stumbled across are these;
🔗 Alan Jacobs (pdf)
Just read that …
Hilton, together with 🔗 11:11 (Paris Hilton’s agency) launched a Roblox experience where players can earn 🔗 real-world travel rewards
.. and in all honesty I really do not care, except to say that in case you ever have any doubt … it really is a case of it’s not what you know - but who you know.
📺 Fool Me Once
I have watched a lot of the Harlan Coban mini series on Netflix. The early ones used to be really good … and then somehow I think the way was lost. This latest, while not the best, certainly represents a turning of the order for ‘good story’.
That said .. final episode .. last 5 minutes? Yeah … No. Totally unnecessary.
Fool Me Once on 🔗 Reelgood
🔗 Private Public Letters - I am guessing that it is fully subscribed?
🎬 🔗 Netflix Has The Best Assassin Movie of 2024 — Why Is It Being Buried? (Apple News)
Never heard of it. But then it isn’t coming out until June. Added to my list for sure. But why is it being ‘buried’? Well first we have to ask is it being buried? I am not sure it is?
🔗 Matt Gaetz Reveals Narcissistic Reason He Pushed Out Kevin McCarthy (🍏 News) - one day they will nail him. Funny how little old George was cast out so ‘quickly’ (life is rrelative) - and yet this predator has been hanging out in the hallowed halls for years.