My Substack went a little bit quiet in 2023. For good reasons IMHO.
I am firing it up again. If you want to take a read 🔗 you can.
It’s a little bit more personal than usual - which I have been told is a good thing. If you vlick through - hope you like.
Trying to speak to Edison Electric.
To maximize efficiency, I am logged on to my web account so ready with my information when they answer.
Apparently I have been on the web site so long without activity, that my web session just disconnected.
Tell me about it!
🎈033/366 | 🥇 And The Winner Is …
This 366 project is officially one month in, so I thought I’d take a look at how we are doing on the ‘view’ front .. I won’t use ‘read’ (no assumptions here 😀).. so, without further ado, and for your delectation, coming in at Number 5 …
5 : 🖇️ 013/366 ⌨️ Typewriters .. and more.
And so on down the line …
4 : 🖇️ 026/366 | 🆔 The ‘entity’ in Identity.
3 : 🖇️ 004/366 | 🏢 Demonstrating The Pace Layer).
2 : 🖇️ 003/366 | 💬 A New Purpose.
And the winner - at least for this month, coming in at number …
1 : 🖇️ 002/366 | ♟️ Is There Planning In Strategy❓
Thoughts
Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are respectively the 2nd, 3rd and 4th posts in the series, so not surprised.
I am surprised at the 26th post coming as high as 4th, after all, It only had 5 days to get there.
By the time you get down to Number 5 - well, it’s a topic that resonates, and had a full half month to ‘move on up’, so once again, no real surprise.
I will run the numbers again next month, for February - and again for January - and will also provide a ‘year to date’. Be interesting to see the comparisons. (BTW, I am specifically running the data between specific dates - in this case for example Jan 1 to Jan 31 - not just ‘last month’.)
I am also interested to see if this posts gives a jump on these particular posts, so I will check the data in 7 days.
That’s all for now - except to say, my many thanks to 🔗 Vincent who wrote and maintains the 🔗 tinylytics app that in turn produces the data I need to write this email. Couldn’t do without it.
🎈032/366 | 🥽 The Vision Pro
So it is out in wild and the reviews are in … and this is not another ‘one of those’.
‘My man’ Om 🔗 also posted about Vision Pro - he himself also highlighting that his post was not one of those. A big difference between us (as if there were just a few - there are not - there are many) is that he has actually tried one out! So there is that.
In his post he talked about 4 magic moments on day one of owning his new toy. This is the fourth on the list.
My last magic moment came when the Vision Pro became what I have always wanted — the future of television (and video.) A screen like none before. I opened up the Apple TV app, and picked an immersive video film of highliner Faith Dickey. I watched Dickey walk across a highline across the cliffs of Norway, but I felt as if I was there. It was so breathtaking — and in that moment, I thought maybe someday this is how all movies, televisions, and even home videos are going to be made for all to experience them live.
And?
And it got me to thinking about that last sentence (that is my bold in the quote that you see).
Christopher Nolan famously produces movies for iMax first Sure, you can watch them in other spaces … but the real experience can only be found on iMax - and not any old iMax .. the best iMax.
Obvious question … how long before the first movie is made that is ’tuned’ for ‘Vision Pro first’?
To clarify … (‘this new movie’ will be to ‘Vision Pro’ as as ‘Oppenheimer’ is to ‘iMax’)
My predictions
1] ’Such a’ movie will be released in 2025. Maybe early 2026.
- (Confidence 70 to 80%)
2] It won’t be a GREAT movie - like Oppenheimer. The timeline for that? 2030.
- (Confidence 25% - 75% lots of variable in this one - because ‘Great’ is hard to calibrate AND also the demand needs to connect to there being sufficient headsets out there for the story of success to work.)
3] It will be financed by Apple.
- (Confidence 100%. Because it is totally in their interests and are already funding movies and can give the makers a LOT of help well beyond dollaroos.)
What do you think?
@donnydavis - a little help on your drafts action please.
I have just been reassigning and reorganising my tags in drafts
See image below.
As part of my sorting - I have removed all the posts under your action and starting again.
BUT - whatever I do - I can’t delete that domain:https tag - even though all those drafts that used that have been deleted from my system. I even deleted the action itself. Still there.
Any ideas?
🔗 People that know Fripp talking about Fripp and the King Crimson Movie
These kind of comments add up to so much more than a lot of rubbish you read from people that only have opinion.
🔗 Pakistani military use age-old tactics to keep Imran Khan away from election.
Any pretence of due judicial process being followed was abandoned entirely at both cases where Khan was sentenced this week. Instead of an open courtroom, the trials were conducted inside the jail where Khan is being detained and his lawyers were not allowed to choose or cross-examine any witnesses.
😂🤣👀💬
💬
I think he has …
It’s definitely corruption, I’m just not convinced that the people who have been sentenced to 14 years are the corrupt ones. But heh … what do I know?
Nothing! I hear you cry,
🔗Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules.
A line in the sand has been drawn.
That said - not quite where the 🖇️‘limitareanists think it should be drawn.
But it is a start.
Career Advice
1 awesome Luxury Brand with a diverse portfolio of subsidiary brands is clearly the way to go, rather than a random collection of hyped up tech brands.
It also helps to not be a self serving, messianic lying, despot with all the grace and culture of one of the other guys handbags.
📸
When Smartless moves to SiriusXM - will it still be a podcast?
And more importantly, will it still be available …
‘on all the places we listen to podcasts?
Over on LinkedIN Chris Lockhead posted something about politicians need to meet ‘in the middle’.
I knocked this up as my single image reply and now I can’t find the original post - BLOODY LinkedIN.
Decided to post it here, so I will at least be able to find it when I need it in the future‼️
🎈031/366 | 🚚 Moving In
A lot going on today - net net, 🎵 📼 this came to mind.
When all is said and done and after it’s all come together I’ll come back and explain in the comments.
If you can’t wait - there’s a clue in both audio and visual.
Until then. Enjoy …
LATER
1st February
Teejay and om
categorypirates.substack.com/p/annual-…
Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.
Later
Finished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.
Listen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia
🔗 Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches
Wait, What?
If they quit Smartwatches - don’t they just stop doing business?
TIL that Fossil offer a vast range of fashion accessories that I knew nothing about.
Next question.
I noticed this
… which got me to thinking. Do Fossil need that partnership any longer now that Mickey is out of copyright? Wouldn’t they make more money?
🔗 Where Logos Meet Album Covers: Designer Ivan Chermayeff
Its a Substack about a designer of iconic logos that turned his hand to (not so iconic) album covers.
I like some of them - but probably not iconic because the artists of the albums aren’t as big as the corporates either the logos.