🔗 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.
If you do one thing today 🔗📼 Watch This … it is only 10 minutes. If you aren’t inspired to keep going after one - then stop.
Things on the internet can be forever, but you can’t assume someone else will keep them going, especially when it’s stuff like video, which costs real money to host. If you love something, try to get a local copy and store it on a hard drive you control.
💬 Matt Birchler
That Old Argument That AI Won't Replace ‘Whole’ People
I agree with Matt on this one - and then go on to explain why I disagree. Trust me … it will make sense.
[🔗 Birchtree](birchtree.me/blog/chat got-still-hasnt-taken-all-those-jobs/)
I continue to think that these generative tools are good for augmenting certain workflows, but replacing whole people is going to be very unusual. We’ll see, though.
💬 Matt Birchler
I would agree - but that isn’t what is going to happen.
If you have thirty people in a department’ and AI makes you 10% ‘more efficient’ - a company now only needs 27 people.
Repeat.
Across all departments, Across all companies. Across all industries.
Of course some departments are going to be more affected than others. For example If you are working on a help desk where your job is to answer questions in a call center … well - firstly, that 10% estimate is going to be a lot higher. So - what do you think is going to happen?
🔗 Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries - it’s like Libby for Film.
If you are keeping up, you will know that I use 🔗 to highlight links to other places on the web. This morning I am introducing 🖇️ to highlight links to this blog. Like here. - there will need to be a limited amount of revisiting older posts to ‘make it so’. But the ‘rule’ is already in place.
I killed Wordpress on 🔗 Philpin.com this morning - and now hand crafting my own HTML and CSS. Don’t get too excited - my work is not rocket science.
🔗 Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city. … because of course they are.
The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.
Not clear how very much each put into the pot - but to remind - Andreesen is very big into land and property development. (🔗 Me back in August last year referencing his stake in ‘WeWork redux) - and who his wife’s dad was.
Surprised not to see Thiel there.
Surprised to see Lauren there.
🔗 🎙️ More Musk Manure … interview with Ronan Farrow after his New Yorker piece.
🔗 Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser.
Oh FFS … just what we need …
🔗 I do like what Montaigne does - but I have no idea how I might really use it.
Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer ‘hot’ (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to ‘sing along’ - 🔗 🎵 there’s a web site for that.
Spectacular idea of how just one person can stand up and be counted.
Apple Pay can’t beat Visa and can’t touch PayPal for popularity
I expected more from William Gallagher. And myself for that matter.
Please Read Comments Before Spending Time Reading This.
I could have deleted it - but leaving it as a reminder to be more careful.
🔗 I am exploring this more (Medium - sorry)
pUNk doesn’t ask for permission or seek forgiveness.
pUNk is and does. It is who we are in our being and our thinking and our action.
Yes — pUNk is notoriously brash but we need brashness now more than ever. We need the crazies, the ones who are positively disrupting, the thoughtful ones who are not hidebound by tradition or phased by the unknowns.
More to come as I bottom out where this is headed - but is one of three separate groups of people that have passed through the ‘Philpin Philters’ this week.
🔗 Kremlin denies Putin ordered plane crash to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin
… well they are hardly going to put their hands up and say “it was us” are they?
In just one week - another domain in my life is not renewed and the work there archived … not to the 🔗 BIG archive … no … 🔗 right here