💬 I miss him.
Good lessons ….
🔗 ‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’
Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit.
💬 John Gruber
.. he is sometimes very good at getting to the nub very efficiently.
🔗 Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?
I first wrote about the Rule of 40 in 2015. I’d heard a late-stage investor describe it at a board meeting - growth rate plus profit should add up to at least 40% - and the simplicity stuck with me.
💬 Brad Feld
🔗 AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken. - Cal Newport
Hinds was discussing a new survey of 6,000 digital workers, which included the following arresting statistic: although respondents claimed that AI saved them 11 hours a week on average, only 13% reported any improvement in company performance.
More in the comments.
🖋️ Using AI to Cut Costs is Valid - And Not New
But first ask the question - so you aren’t disappointed in the results.
🖋️ Is Human Agency important OUTSIDE of 'The Organisation'
Satya Nadella seems to be arguing that Human Agency is important inside the organisation and that ‘done right’ AI allows for real ‘Human Agency’. My take is that he is only talking about how humans serve the organisation. What about if you are ‘just’ a human?
💬 I guess ‘someone’ took this literally.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 15, 2026
"Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure
I like to try and not pick the obvious ones on the more famous bands - but how could you not pick this one when it comes to the Cure.

“Congratulations to all!” Trump wrote on social media as he celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday with a UFC cage match fight at the White House.
and then
“I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade,”
What can go wrong? Let me count the ways …
1️⃣ Iran signalled implementation would not start until the signing, which key mediator Pakistan said would occur Friday in Switzerland.
- Tяump then walked back saying the strait wouldn’t open until Friday’s signing - so he isn’t authorised?
2️⃣ Pakistan first announced the deal, with Prime Minister Sharif saying “both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
- Unclear how 5 days to signature is ‘immediate’ and how long ‘permanent’ is.
3️⃣ 60 days to resolve what to do about Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium and its atomic program. (That took years to resolve in Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.)
- Tяump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in his first term. (See also ‘2’ re permanent)
4️⃣ Israel’s continued hostilities with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs Sunday, nearly derailed the negotiations.
- Remains unclear whether Israel agreed to that term.
👁️ I wonder how many ‘foreign national Anthropic employees’ were involved in the creation of Mythos?
Considering how the day started.
It turned out quite nice.
Certainly the local ‘Petanquers’ thought so.
I had seen the clips - and ‘yeah - nah. But last night I watched: 🔗🎥 The Ballad of Wallis Island and for me it falls into one of my personal categories: ‘a little english film’ ★★★★
‘CAVEAT - any film can fall into this category - it’s nothing to do with being ‘English’.

@dave - in case you are listening - I know you want to enrich the feed, two things that would make it very useful
Author and ‘something’ that might provide context.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 14, 2026
"Boots on the Ground" by Massive Attack & Tom Waits
Hell yes. Only released a couple of months ago - played on rotation for a while there. It was posted in Crucial a couple of days ago - so electing to use my 'double down' card today.
🖇️ Posted on AlbumWhale back in April
For the life of me can't find the crucial entry again. All to say - go listen.
UPDATE: Literally One Minute Later: Wired Differently

👁️ Fable 5 - how would you define ‘temporarily'❓
Oh wait.
… that was Ted Gioia in July last year. Less than 6 months to go before the deadline (at least according to the headline)
Gartner: More than 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027
Although the copy reads:
More than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027
Is it just me that thinks before 2027 means Jan 1 - not Dec 31.
Either way - wonder where we are up to so far?
👁️🏗️ Finally into single digits. Only 9 categories left to either kill or emoji-fi.
Everything starts 🖇️ here … but it still all ends up elsewhere and maybe you follow me there. For The BlueSky aficionados amongst you - here’s a handy dandy thingy that apparently allows you to easily follow me there. Let me know how you get on.
