When NZ fully embraces AI and launches yet another government department to ‘help’ …. two pieces of advice.
1] Don’t (but they rarely never call be for advice .. so not holding my breath.)
2] Get some good marketing advice on the name.
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NZAI
Won’t be a good look.
🔗 The empathy of instructions | Seth
Yes and if you are in tech development - particularly indie developers ( not all ) this also means you. The assumptions made in help files, forums and even the products are extraordinary. I firmly believe this why really cool stuff doesn’t take off.
🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Fun graphic.
My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.
Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯
Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Truth From Ted - not that one.
via Mathew Ingram mathewingram.com
🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet
Not to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.
There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.
💬 Dave Winer
🔗 Dead Center | Futility Closet
In a shooting match, Andryusha, Volodya, and Borya each fired 6 shots, and each totaled 71 points. Andryusha’s first 2 shots earned him 22 points, and Volodya’s first shot earned 3 points.
Click through for the actual puzzle - one that had me for a minute building a pretty complex table of scores. And then I solved it in 2 seconds. NO tables needed.
via Mathew Ingram
Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.
Surprised they never became a movie series.
🔗 The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
But the overwhelming majority of Apple users — especially iPhone users — just let their devices update automatically. They might like iOS 26’s changes, they might dislike them, or they might not care or even notice. But they just let their software updates happen automatically — and they will form the entirety of their opinions regarding iOS 26 after it’s running on their iPhones.
💬 John Gruber
Have to say I need to adjust my feeds that seem to be swamped with how bad xxx26 is. Talk about ‘first world problems’.
🔗 Setapp ignored (rejected?) an app for not using AI
… is not something I expected to read today - triangulation needed.
🔗 Keynes’s Bancor idea needs revisiting in wake of Trump
Personally - I would say ‘in wake of Trump’ is not a qualifier.
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Bretton Woods was 80 years ago - things have changed - even without Tяump - like when Nixon killed it.
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Keynes ‘wanted something other than the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency because he knew that it would bestow on the US an “exorbitant privilege” - turns out he was right.
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‘There would be a separate system of “use it or lose it” pressure designed to force wealthy nations to spend their surpluses on imports from debtor nations, stimulating global trade rather than letting capital sit idle.'
AND TIL: History really does rhyme;
Harry Dexter White, a US Treasury official who was later accused of espionage for Russia. He dominated the 1944 conference, and his plan prevailed.
Any democratic congressman or senator voting no to whatever inane thing the thuglicans are up to IS NOT … OR AT LEAST SHOULD NOT … be news.
When the thugs start to turn … that is news.