Rough guess now … but I think there are 227 accounts on Micro Blog that are not being counted correctly.
Next time I will play Snooker … on this table.
(Apparently, on both occasions the Table was packed up and moved to the concert venue to be used backstage by the band.)
Played Pool for the first time in many years a couple of days ago.
My loss of 8 - 1 made up for the fact that I was playing on this table …
My Newsletter opening paragraph today:
This is the last newsletter from me until I sort out the layout issues that are plaguing what I am trying to do. That will only happen after the system I use to manage the process is updated. Until then, this is just too much work. Once the changes are made in how it works, I will re-engage.
“My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important.”
💬 Elon Musk
Twitter is trusted?
MicroBlog Newsletter - The Issues
It truly is annoying that I only have 3 hours per day to try out CSS edit changes on my MicroBlog newsletter - and I can’t even choose when those three hours are. The draft appears - and then the clock starts ticking.
I have got errors - and each day I get the draft and then I try to fix the CSS in the time available - provided that I have nothing else going on - until I can’t any longer because my time is up.
Right now I am wrestling down these problems
🔸 my centered HR SOMETIMES isn’t centered.
🔸 ‘>’ HIDES the actual quote, while ‘blockquote’ works as it says on the tin.
🔸 my ‘attribution’ line isn’t indenting.
🔸 the font size doesn’t work well on a phone.
I know it is me. That doesn’t make it any less annoying!
It also doesn’t end there - because once this is fixed, I do have some other ideas on styling.
Should be done by 2023.
Ezra Klein talking to Dan Olson.
🔗 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard.
🔗 Bonus Video from Dan that I haven’t (yet) watched - but now in the queue after listening to the podcast.
.. and then 🔗 there’s this, which is a piece in Time where a crypto expert responds.
🔗 The Kardashians Are Back. Why Should We Care?
…an excellent question.
Can somebody click through, read the article and give me the top 3 points.
Thankyou.
🔗 Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint.
He’s writing about Powerpoint, but he’s really talking about titleless blog posts.
And I agree.
People who responded said it'd never happen because Twitter's balance sheet was too weak to justify an acquisition. They missed that not all of Twitter's value shows up on its balance sheet.
💬 Dave Winer
That is the problem of all balance sheets - because it is only a financial tool.
… oh goody.
🔗 Texas Banned Homeless Encampments, So a Guy Made One on His Property (Apple News)
“If we fail, then nothing else is going to happen in this part of America for a long, long time. But if we succeed, the benefit could be monumental.”
Musk once told Jack Dorsey that it’s a bad idea to run two companies simultaneously.
We all thought he meant focus on only one.
He actually meant one per day… Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink … and now Twitter?
Oh!
A psychological evaluation after the fact.
Again.
One day somebody will cotton on to prevention.
The Four Natural Forces Applied To Business
I used the 4 natural forces model in my 📚recent book as an analogy for the 4 forces of humanity.
And then I read that 🔗 Fermilab has found a discrepancy with the mass of the W boson.
“The current 'standard model' of particle physics describes four fundamental forces. Three of those — electromagnetism, gravity and the strong nuclear force — push or pull things, broadly speaking. The fourth force — the weak nuclear force — doesn't really push or pull anything. Instead it makes one type of particle transform into another type of particle. In doing so we get the force responsible for radiation, and it's the force that drives nuclear fusion in the sun. So it's quite important.”
I’ll say it’s important. Now I will have to revisit some of the thinking in the book!
“Each of us are, in fact, the star of nothing that matters.”
💬 Dave Winer