January 19th.
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The Podcast queue is definitely not good … started and stopped 5 so far … and this is after the triage. Maybe it’s my mood today?
🎵Great artists, in no particular order, that make up the genre I call ‘English Progressive’.
Steven Wilson - and if you want a great place to start exploring, look no further than Grace for Drowning.
January 18th.
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White House calls on McCarthy to publicize details of deals with conservatives
Of course - but the more interesting question is WHY he is allowed to make very private deals to secure his position as a very public politician. Rhetorical. Because #America
That moment you realize that being worth over $15 billion dollars/pounds doesn’t get you into the list of the world’s top 100 richest people.
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About a decade ago, it was possible to visualise your LinkedIn network.
I remember that - I even have my image stored somewhere - pity it went away.
January 17th.
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🎵 Disappeared down the Cat Stevens / Yusuf rabbit hole this past weekend as I connected dots around Jeff Beck. It all goes back to the Yardbirds - famous for being ‘the start’ of three world class guitarists and Renaissance/Illusion and Paul Samwell Smith
🎵 It’s a work in process - and definitely more to come - but two personal music lists you might enjoy
Big Albums From Artists You Might Not Know
Thankyou AlbumWhale and @bjhess
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
While wealth distribution follows a power law, the distribution of human skills generally follows a normal distribution that is symmetric about an average value. For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.
Wealth distribution is a recurring topic - this is a clean summary of why it’s a problem.
Is it just me? I want Chrome on my Mac for when I need it. I do not want it to open at startup. I change my preferences accordingly but every time they do an update, or maybe it is something else(?) - it once again adds itself to my ‘open at startup’ settings. Friggin' annoying!
🤖 360 ChatGPT Marketing Prompts To Swipe
I wonder if he used ChatGPT to generate the newsletter?
No mention that I could see - sorry I didn’t read in detail - advising anybody actually using these prompts to check for … well anything really!
📚Just bought Work/Life Flywheel by Ollie Henderson for 99 cents on the Kindle store … launch promotion.
I’m not sure why Chris Licht is looking to have a comedian headline one of its shows.. under his guidance the whole network is becoming a laughing stock.
🪦 If my dad were alive today … he would be sad. R.I.P. Gina.
How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees.
.. and great lessons they are …
“When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.”
“The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
via the inimitable Maria Popova