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đź’¬ John Philpin

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Pretty sure I have shared this before - but it does bear repeating …

đź”— A quote from Eric Meyer

It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.

đź”— The empire always falls

But companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.

(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)

Joan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.

đź”— Followup on the future of AI

Nobody knows anything.

@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.

BUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.

Once you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.

It all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.

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