The Sense of an Ending : Rishad Tobaccowala

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

💬 Julian Barnes


🔗 Yellen: Extraordinary measures; to avoid US debt by default.

It seems that deadline will happen around Jan14?

See earlier post at the challenge looming to even get ducks lined up for Jan 20?

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Just stumbled on August 2023 .. in plain sight

🔗 John Philpin


Nice try Facebook … no you can’t have my cell number and I don’t need my stinkin' chat history.


Nice try Facebook … no you can’t have my cell number and I don’t need my stinkin' chat history.


Stood in the freezing cold for 30 minute waiting to get into a restaurant.

When we got in - the line behind still had 4 to 5 tables worth of people in line.

Inside the restaurant - enough empty tables to seat all the people.

They offered all day breakfast - which I decided to go for - IF the soup of the day in the sourdough bowl was anything EXCEPT ClamChowder.

Clam Chowder was the soup of the day - BUT they had run out of sourdough bowls Cornbread?

NO

Any other kind of bread?

Sure - ‘white’ or ‘brown’

Sound like that is just sliced bread

It is

Ok - I will have the All Day Breakfast then.

We stopped the all day breakfast at 12

(No irony in her face that I could spot.

Thought more. OK - cheese sliders.

4 overcooked patties that had been shown some cheese at some point and the kitchen clearly lacks knives because all 4 bread rolls on the sliders were still attached to each other - you know - like they come straight our of the plastic bag?

Underwhelmed?

Sure.


🍿Will the Orange Clown be certified in time? If not, in case you thought he had passed his due date .. how about 91 year old President Chuck?


🪦 Too soon Olivia. Sorry.


So the acting dude is impeached for slowing down the impeachment of the elected dude. #Meta! #LessonsForAmerica


My daily ‘Sill’, delivers a set of the most popular links shared by the people I follow on (for the moment), Mastodon and Bluesky. It tends to be what you might expect, until today.

🔗 Linkfest #28,

All links are crackers, number 5 will be of particular interest to the typewriter brigade.


🎵 Riverside, Tim Bowen, Pineapple Thief, Gong, Luantic Soul, Gazpacho, Trifecta, Mars Volta, Gentle Giant, Opeth, Anathema, Haken, Gazpacho …


How good would it be if people ignored, dismissed and laughed at t Rump like the rest of the world does?


My Three Words ..

I’ve been doing this every year since 2019. My 7th will be out in a few days time.

The History

2024 - substack.philpin.com/p/here-we…
Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic)

2023 - substack.philpin.com/p/its-tha…
Focus | Flexible | Fabulous

2022 - substack.philpin.com/p/take-th…
Clear | Closer | Choice

2021 - john.philpin.com/2021/01/0…
Transform | Transition | Transcend

2020 - substack.philpin.com/p/take-th…
Believe | Move | Ascend

2019 - substack.philpin.com/p/here-we…
Uncertain | Less | Different


Caveat

The source of this post is a separate blog where I am experimenting with a new AI app we are building. In other words, for now, no guarantees of the veracity of the contents.


Intelligent John?


Caveat

The source of this post is a separate blog where I am experimenting with a new AI app we are building. In other words, for now, no guarantees of the veracity of the contents.

🔗 🎙️ Rushkoff - Corleone Style Diplomacy - 20 minutes, well worth a listen - a ‘theory of everything’.


Caveat

Caveat | The source of this post is a separate blog where I am experimenting with a new AI app we are building. In other words, for now, no guarantees of the veracity of the contents.


🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast

I don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)

Your customers are your best salespeople.

Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best.


My thanks to Jason for clarifying how this post that starts on Philpin.com gets to display on John.Philpin.com … so I might need to append a content warning when I start up with the real posts.

It’s a little bit odd, because back in The People First Days, I am sure the links went back to People First .. will take a closer look,.