📸 Hobbits only … though to be honest, we seem to be a few miles north of their natural habitat.
🔗 Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet!
By the time the public gets to participate, the $20 million has become $182 billion on paper. The $900 million has become $120 billion. The risk has been taken, absorbed, and rewarded many times over before the first share is sold on the Nasdaq. Public investors are not funding the bet. They are paying for it after it won.
💬 Om
… Public investors are not funding the bet. They are paying for it after it won.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 7, 2026
"Everybody's Hustlin" by Heads, Hands and Feet
The Third Lee - Albert.
👁️ Got to say Marked 3 is just awesome.
📺 Finished 🔗 Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 last night .. and every bit as good as Season 1. Everything all nearly wrapped up .. with lots of new hanging chads for Series 3 to pickup on. Great job. Well worth ★★★★
📸 I suspect that this was once a proud Foo Dog guarding someone’s property at the gate.
🔗🎵 Music of the Spheres - different ones.
Listening to Mother Earth as tectonic plates move past each other.
Art ➕ Science | Art and Science
.. they aren’t the same as I wrote the other day riffing on Roger
[@bradenslen](https://micro.blog/bradenslen)
I think the two sides issue is the problem - which goes beyond politics.
It is - as Roger had it - the problem of ‘Us and Them’.
The original piece was called ‘Us and Them’, but on Roger’s ‘Us➕Them’ tour - the name subtly changed …
Can’t find an exact quote - but the essence was that ‘➕’ transforms the concept from ‘binary opposition’ to ‘mathematical unity’.
Paraphrasing:
Instead of ‘us versus them’ it becomes ‘us plus them = one humanity’ … a call to action to ‘pool our love’ and recognise we’re all ‘ordinary men’ who should work together.
🔗 Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26) - The Public Domain Review
🕋 Structured Thought from a 100 years ago.
Good piece from Bob Cringely - 🔗 Detection Is Not a Strategy
🔗 A quote from Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media
The new statement no longer stated that “it’s critical that we maintain humans in the loop'.
🔗 Manton - Anthropic self-improvement, pause
Our biggest problem isn’t speed, it’s vision.
‘Vision’ needs a qualifier. It’s not a lack of vision, we have that in Spades. The problem is lack of alignment and no one is successfully proving they have the right map. Sure, we get isolated pockets of brilliant arguments, but the broader hype machine has adopted a ‘flood the zone’ strategy.
In the old days of ‘move fast and break things,’ I used to call this chaotic energy ‘Brownian motion.’
Today, we’re dealing with the same random collisions, but ‘Brownian vision’ doesn’t sound right to me.
👁️ Any person in the USA with something like a 401K will shortly be an owner of SpaceX. I predict that on the other side of the IPO, any noise from nay sayers about the company will be used by the Muskrat as proof that they are UN-American and working against the good people of the nation.
🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long list including Slack, Tableau and Mulesoft - which as you all know is software fundamental to all sales.
👁️ Vinod Khosla talking with Sam Harris. Only the free bit - so maybe he changes his tack after the 15 minute mark. But I doubt it. Yeah Nah.
👁️ Corporate Governance is apparently all the rage. Not sure why - it seems to be as toothless as the Democrats on the Hill.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 6, 2026
"I'd Love to Change the World (1971)" by Ten Years After
Prompt: A song from college or early adulthood.
Today's offer happens to fit the prompt - so why not .. one of the other 'Lees'.
👁️ … 🤯😬 … more to come.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 5, 2026
"Andmoreagain" by Love
WEIRD - I wrote this most yesterday - and posted it - yet nowhere to be found. So here we go again.
Back in 'my day' there were three 'Lees' - Albert, Alvin and Arthur. This music is from Arthur, the image below is one of the others.
👁️ The good news is that my drafts count continues to go down. A few weeks ago just shy of 300 - today below 60. And yes - I know that people keep thousands of drafts in that world - but I am not one of those. To me it is the first stage of any text that will pass through any number of workflows. If it is in Drafts - it’s in my ‘inbox’ and needs to be dealt with. Like the next one.
Google Sucks
🔗 Daring Fireball: Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?
I experienced this about 9 months ago - cant recall how I fixed it - but Google was definitely not on my ‘things to check’ list