SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.

We lived on Waiheke for a year and the daily constitutional was along the beach on Oneroa.

I found this a related and interesting read …

🔗 The Disappearance of the Public Bench – Pixel Envy

A bench is one of the few places you can sit and spend time for free. Their absence in so many public places is notable for what it says about who we consider part of the public.

All along one half of the Oneroa beach there are chairs to sit in. On?

They don’t belong to the houses. This is not a council service. This is just the love of a single person who noted that on such a vast and beautiful beach there was no place to casually sit - which particularly affects older / infirm people so took it upon themselves to keep the sitting places well populated and goes down twice a week to keep to add and restock the chairs. Yes I know who it is. No I won’t tell you. They travel under the radar.

Side note - the Rotary Club has placed (to date) 58 Public Access Defibrillation Units across Waiheke - so maybe it’s an ‘island thing’? Though I don’t recall one such machine on Maui when I lived there.

👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question … 🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight

👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.

Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.

🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus

(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)

👁️ Reality …

🔗 The Path to Success Isn’t a Straight Line.

🖥️ This explains so much.

🔗 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude’s older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive.

👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …

🔗 Taking the Apple Agents Concept Even Further with Shortcuts, a Store, and Access Anywhere - Parker Ortolani

Thanks for the link @numericcitizen

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🔗 WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS”.

💬 Simon Willison

👁️ I think you can learn it at school. And at home. With your friends. It just isn’t really ’taught’.

“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”

💬 Warren Buffet

👁️’ Xitter’ seems to be the new name in town which makes sense in writing … but how do you pronounce it❓

Easy.

‘X’ is pronounced ‘Sh’

👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.

🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog

RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.