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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
💬 Ursula Le Guin
Conversation with an American about English vs American pronunciation.
American
“I mean ‘zed’ - not ‘zee’ - whats up with that?”
“Hell - it’s pronounced zeebra - isn’t that a clue?”
Me “Actually - in England we call them Zebras.”
Look of blankness.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
💬 Voltaire
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.
💬 Annie Dillard
Is it just me?
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📸 Just another day in the desert.
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You know how sometimes stupid little things you can clearly see for years before it finally happens and yet other times a seismic shift happens in an instant ….
🔗 OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
2023 | 11 | 17
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Having observed my co traveller lugging a 1000 page opus around with her recently … 🔗 this resonated (Instagram Reel
We see some flexibility emerging as to WHERE people work - but not very much around WHEN they work.
Even then, given the changes in the WHERE and WHEN - we need to urgently start conversations around what that in turn means for HOW we work.
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… thoughts emerging from 🔗 Ollie Henderson’s LinkedIN post
🔗 Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’.
… and you are the man to stop him?
Or have you just woken up?
I have never seen so many tech CEOs come to town to wine, dine and opine.
💬 Jessica Lessin
(On Joe and Xi hanging in SFO.)
The Golden Globes seem to have sunk like a Lead Gold Balloon.
I think this is more marketing than a limitation … what say you?
The ‘dear algorithm’ posts on Threads … they are clearly a thing .. but does it work?