🔗 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 only one thing today, click on this link and read. So funny.
🔗 Geoff Greer’s site: Gasoline Car Review
via John Naughton
🔗 Rihanna explains decision to reverse Super Bowl boycott
.. clearly a lot has changed in the past 4 years. The Kaepernick issue is obviously sorted - and what is left to do is now clearly best served by doing the performance that just four years ago was a non starter.
🔗 Congressman Ro Khanna: ‘The American dream has slipped away’
Don’t disagree Ro. Do not disagree.
BUT it’s not new news and it has only gotten worse.
Why ChatGPT Will Change the World, Lower Your Fees BUT NOT Raise Your Revenue (Unless You Differentiate)
Shel Israel writes : 🔗 How ChatGPT Will Change the World, Lower My Fees and Raise My Revenue
I get what he is saying - except I don’t.
His argument centers on his unit price dropping - but he will write more.
Back of an envelope calculations. Let’s say he increases his output ten fold and reduces his price by EIGHTY PERCENT.
This would double his revenue. All good nay … all great!
But if this works - he isn’t the only writer that will do this.
And if that changes broadly across the writing industry, that 80% will likely have to fall further - unless there is substantial differentiation.
The differentiation will vary - but will become essential. (It’s essential now - but that’s a different story.)
People that write ‘content’ have a problem.
The problem is that if you write content - how do you differentiate?
I’ve written about it before here and here and here and here and … well - you get the picture.
This is why for the longest time I keep repeating (sorry - I am going to have to quote myself) … though Will Arnett at least has caught on and so has Chris Lockhead
Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, anything will do kind of word. Which is why ‘content has no value. It is in the best interests of buyers of our sweat, labour, thought and time to keep price down. But our costs are not kept down. So our earnings suffer. And they are suffering badly.
Job One - Stop making content.
Job Two - Start writing blogs, articles, white papers, posts, scripts, essays …
The ultimate oxymoron: Strategic Content
““Over time players go where the money is. The money is here. Once Americans realize that the sport is moving west …. it’s going to stoke anti-American sentiment around the world. It’s something we need to be ready for.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🔗 Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Sorry. Didn’t notice. With good reason.
🔗 Her car died, so she walked to work. One day on the walk, she found $15,000.
Heart warming story, via John Naughton.
🔗 The hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections.
…. disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace.
Cough - well clearly not without a trace!
🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.
There is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call 🔗 ’English Progressive’ adding the specific words that “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.
This morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.
Thankyou - thankyou very much!
🔗 Why Do 50% of People Live in This Circle?
Absolutely Fascinating.
… and a great reminder of how small America really is.
🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
Listening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
Back in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
Listening without the jump just felt wrong.
New Zealand Declares A National Emergency For The Third Time In Twelve Years
That’s how bad it is getting .. and not just in New Zealand.
Bernard Hickey reporting that New Zealand has declared a 🔗 National emergency for Gabrielle. The massive storm and floods two weeks ago where 4 people died did NOT have the same focus. In fact, it’s only been enabled twice before. Though in fairness, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake in 1931 would have resulted in it being declared a National Emergency had there been such an organization and in later years, with other earthquakes, it was the Department of Civil Defence that was called into action.
That all said, these challenges do seem to be accelerating.
I have flown this route many, many times (sorry - Twitter), so when I read that 🔗 United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean, I explored.
Not reported at the time (this wasn’t news?) and revealed in The Air Current, an organ that surely everyone reads?
In light of my daily reading of 🔗 The Daily Stoic, this one seemed to connect to some recent themes I have been reading. Not the first time this 💬 has been on the site, but three years ago, it wasn’t as pretty.
Most people I know will resonate with this 🔗 video. A great example of ‘truth in humour’. And yes I know there are exceptions … which is why OUR fitted sheets are always perfectly folded!
Substack is designed for writers, not business owners.
💬 Ellen Donnelly
What she means is that Substack doesn’t have all the data tracking guff and stuff that comes with the marketing ESPs like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.
A set of links from Jono Hey’s 🔗 Sketchplanations where he uses his image talent to help us understand meanings, spellings and usage of words. Really good, something for everyone.
It all started here the old c or s question in spelling
Export from Overcast to OPML.
Import to iThoughts. (odd - right?)
Export to Markdown.
Post Markdown into an MB page.
… and voilà … 🔗 a list of podcasts I follow.
Next job is to work out how to automagically organize the list so it is easier for the average passer by.