Meanwhile lie, over on another network, my response to some advice …
🎈108/366 Early Start to a busy day
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Substack is a unified media ecosystem. It encompasses both publishing and conversation. This duality is important, because ….. ramble ramble ramble
.. Hamish McKenzie over on Substack but I liked the first part and racking my brains to try and recall where I’d seen that idea before …
Intermittently and seemingly for no apparent reason my mouse pointer gravitates to the top or side of the screen - push it back and up it moves again. I lift and bang it and that fixes it - as if there is fluff in there? But not as far as i can tell after blowing. Anyone else see this - have ideas - bad software somewhere?
' Don Snorleone ' … 😂😂😂😂😂
🎲 Surprise Me! is now the phrasing in my single post footer - replacing ‘Random’ .. seemed more in keeping with the tone that I am trying to achieve on this blog - not to mention that it is consistent with the other places I reference this functionality.
🎈107/366 A Personal Knowledge Repository?
It is lost in the mists of time but I seem to recall a post by @brentsimmons from years ago - maybe even last century? The advice was to reply to emails as a post, so that when a second email comes, you can modify the material on your blog and send the link. (I more than likely have over simplified, taken it out of context, changed the essence if not meaning / idea - but that’s what we do right? The point is that the core thinking has stuck with me … write once - use many.
It’s good advice and indeed many corporate processes follow this idea. Think help desk, somebody asks a gnarly question, it isn’t available in your ‘knowledge repository’, so you reply with original thought and then publish that answer into the repository so that anyone else who has the question can find the answer.
BUT - when it comes to the personal blog, even I - who has this ingrained in my brain, still doesn’t do this as routine and - even more frustrating - when i do .. it gets forgotten about over time because I don’t have a real system to manage such things - and why would I?
So it is about memory - but also I have found the Micro Blog Search-Space PlugIn by @sod absolutely excellent for unpacking such posts'.
All this to say that I have just put up a page on my blog that is the start of attempting to provide help to others that ask.
Enjoy.
🖇️ Getting Started With Your Own Micro Blog
Wait … ‘Eclectic Ink’ @pimoore ? Did I miss the announcement?
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Not a new one. Just stumbled across it in ‘the collection’. It is real - took it myself - in Burford.
I’m feeling a clean up coming on me …
I think I just used my new Random (Surprise Me) Link more times in the last 10 minutes than it has ever been used in total.
OH. Now that’s a neat idea. (The ‘random’ button between the previous and next)
Was I talking about stumbling across things? Don’t think so, but an example of just that from a few months ago. No words needed to explain the images. Just click through.
🔗 Weekend Reading — Never Again Is Now — Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
It occurred to me watching a Martin Scorcese documentary about the life of George Harrison, how much people in music seek out opportunities to create with other musicians. In technology, it doesn’t happen, we don’t even look at each other’s software.
💬 Dave Winer
Long said that I speak three languages; English, Music and Math(s) .. sounds like @andysylvester is on a 🔗 similar track.
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I just sent this to Readdle.
I hit inbox zero and you invite me to share with x - as a Ukraine Company I am surprised that you would promote a space owned by someone who’s goal is to solve the war by handing Ukraine over to Russia.
If you must .. at least give your customers the chance to promote their success into a platform that we use or at least a free, fair, open platform - which that fiasco most certainly isn’t.
I am still running these words in my mind …
Starting right now we must invest time and resources to hone, sculpt and architect the six key skills will be essential in the future to complement machines, co-exist with change, and ensure continuous re-invention.
Three of these have to do with individual competence (Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity) and three how we connect with each other and the world outside our minds including new AI agents. (Collaborate, Communicate, Convince).
💬 Media Village
An Interview With An AI
There are so many of these things popping up (AIs that is), you need an AI to track the AIs.
Pi is one that caught my eye a while back, and I have had some noodles and doodles with it - when time allows. Clearly 🔗 David had a bit more time than me - because he sat down and interviewed them (?) .. or is it still an ‘it’?
Yes, as David explains at the beginning of the podcast, sometimes the flow is a bit stilted - and through my ears sounded robotic (though I think that is being fixed next week!)
The point is - which is the same point that David concludes with - yes - it is not there - but holy hell in a hand basket … the ‘interview was waaaaaay better than many I start, a darn sight more interesting and really - if you were to drop this in the middle of a bunch of reptiles … talking heads … politicians talking - who do you think is gong to hold the attention best - and I choose that particular category because they are used to being interviewed, to pitching, to telling stories. Some have even been trained ….
BUT
Even with the passionless voice - I found more passion and definitely more reasoning from Pi than a lot of people that puncture my days and nights.
Worried yet?
Have to say that were somebody to back me up against a wall - put a gun to my head and ask me 🖇️ who my top 10 artists - ever - were, XTC would be on that list.
Just lovely and a tremendous trip down memory lane.
I know politicians don’t like to think that they put themselves above their country - but we all know they do. But this is a case of a journalist essentially making the two things equal - and allowing them to get away with the decision … me or the country? Me or the country?
I remember the days when politicians … actually, I don’t.
Same as it ever was - except it is even worse and the media is compliant. Because of course they are.
Call them out I say.
