🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.
The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.
And for a related 🎵 interlude …
Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.
💬 Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.
🔗 Software Eats Its Own – On my Om
The people who build software are busy wiring up the machines that will build software in their place. Call it automation. Call it augmentation. Call it whatever makes you sleep. What it actually is, is software industrialization, happening right in front of our eyes.
🔗 Rosabeth Moss Kanter is decribed by Wikipedia as
“The Thinking Woman’s Michael Porter".
Maybe more accurately Michael Porter is
“The Thinking Man’s “Rosabeth Moss Kanter”.
I mean Rosabeth was born 4 years before Michael.
🖋️ SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.
Waiheke rersidents and visitors enjoy the ability to site along Oneroa beach thanks to one person’s initiative to create casual seating for beachgoers.
👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question … 🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight
👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.
Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.
🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus
(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)
🖥️ This explains so much.
🔗 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude’s older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive.
👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …
Thanks for the link @numericcitizen
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I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS”.
💬 Simon Willison
👁️ I think you can learn it at school. And at home. With your friends. It just isn’t really ’taught’.
“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”
💬 Warren Buffet
👁️’ Xitter’ seems to be the new name in town which makes sense in writing … but how do you pronounce it❓
Easy.
‘X’ is pronounced ‘Sh’
👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.
🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog
RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
🎥 Big Fish, 2003 ★★★★★
When I first saw this film … film, not movie - film … I logged it as one of my top, personal favourites of all time.
My opinion hasn’t changed.
📸 🚧 I know this thing is on - but is it working …
👁️ WeWork - the gift that keeps giving.
💬🏢 To be declared a category king .. you need to be taking 70 percent - ish of all revenue and profits of said category. If nobody in a category is making a profit does that mean there is no category king❓Wondering on behalf of Sam, Dario et al.
💬🏢 That still doesn’t mean free - which is where I think people get confused. And for an extended thought ‘free’ is too often measured in not spending money. Associate your time with money and you start to realise how much free costs.
