🎵 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.
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
It dawned on me last night that Tяump clearly hasn’t watched the TV series Tehran …
💬 not sure when I captured this one .. but in my notes, clearly in a ‘phlippant’ mood, I wrote: “Give them phones to scroll!”
