🎵 Alan is probably right - but it is certainly mine - so off to see what else I can discover.
🏢 He’s treading in ‘Chasm’ territory - so of course it all makes sense. Another future post?
The second circle is out of your direct control, and it’s tempting to ignore it. But the second circle unlocks the change you seek to make.
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
😂😂😂😂 🔗 Stave off repetition | Self Distract
Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff’s. To be precise, they said: “He’s not as good as Rachmaninoff.”
🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
🔗 Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
thumbs, the system would still be gamified by developers, rewarding, as Godier aptly puts it, not the best apps but instead the apps that are best at “review prompt execution”. Apple should remove the APIs that allow apps to prompt for reviews, and forbid the practice of prompting for them.
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan
You unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
💬 Peggy Noonan
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.
Fucking A
🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
This has annoyed me forever but never bothered to talk about it because;
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who cares?
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who would listen?
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nothing would change?
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surely there are bigger issues to resolve?
But delighted that someone is picking up the mantle.
👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
💬 not sure when I captured this one .. but in my notes, clearly in a ‘phlippant’ mood, I wrote: “Give them phones to scroll!”
💬 a classic that flowed into my daily feeds this morning, reminding all Kiwis and Brits to be careful out there.
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To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level… They’re the 4D chess crowd.