We see some flexibility emerging as to WHERE people work - but not very much around WHEN they work.

Even then, given the changes in the WHERE and WHEN - we need to urgently start conversations around what that in turn means for HOW we work.

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… thoughts emerging from 🔗 Ollie Henderson’s LinkedIN post

🔗 Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’.

… and you are the man to stop him?

Or have you just woken up?

🔗 Individual Empowerment and Agency on a Scale We’ve Never Seen Before.

I wonder … I see where Doc is headed - but we still have mediators.

Did you know that the 🔗 Four Yorkshiremen sketch was not a Python original?

I’d never heard of him until this morning - 26 - and dead, but what an enormous legacy.

🔗 Frank Ramsey (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

🔗 Frank Ramsey = Wikipedia

🔗 The New Yorker … apparently he died of a liver infection.

🔗 Disney Is Buying Hulu: Here’s What’ll Happen Once It Owns It All.

.. no mention nf Apple then buying Disney - something I do not see … and yet more and more people keep jumping on that bandwagon.

🔗 DX is the new UX - by Sangeet Paul Choudary

… do you agree?

Farewell Suella … but, say what?

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, 🔗 told the Mail on Sunday in June: _"_Cleverly is a total wet rag who wants to fly out to China to kiss the backside of a regime responsible for shocking abuses of human rights."

Ok .. it’s the Mail .. but still …

Somewhere over on Facebook Johannes Ernst was promoting 🔗 InkWELL …talking about the Fediverse and Indieweb .. and featuring our very own @manton .. home page quotes Cory D …

As Cory Doctorow says, corporate platforms like Facebook and X have business models that are based on holding users hostage and leveraging their attention and their data for profit.

Just mentioning it because I spent way too much time attempting to pull the real URL out … free of FB crud to share with you all. Oh the irony!

🔗 Not fulfilling your potential? You’re focusing on the wrong things

The secret to achieving mastery and fulfilling your potential requires using your mind to focus only on the things you have 100% control over. Seeking acceptance holds you back as it inevitably means compromising on what’s really important to you and what you believe.

‘Straight outta ComptonThe Stoics

I have a draft of a piece about ‘an experience(?)' in London that ended the night with us riding in a ‘🔗 Paddy Wagon’, the story evolved because of some combination of Oxy, Meth and Alcohol.

Just read that 🔗 Meth is cheaper than beer in Laos .. my instant reaction … ‘probably in London too’.

🔗 An unusual newsletter from me - connecting to unusual subject matter (for me) in my Substack.

Enjoy?

🔗 ‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’.

Boris … so powerful, so caring, so concerned … so Boris.

Now THERE is a little bit of history on 🔗 Flatiron’s web site @danielpunkass

… originally home to Pearson Weekly and the first ever crossword published in the UK ….