If you are into this kind of thing - two great reads.
Are blockchain-based DAOs really a utopian revolution in the making?
SXSW: four people shot in downtown Austin during festival
Is nowhere safe anymore?
Of course ‘Gunless’ New Zealand has its own problems. Shooting in the center of Auckland just last week and are the police really fatally shooting people at ten times the rate of the UK?
As a reader … I am liking the substack app.
As a substack writer … I still THINK I like it .. but it isn’t clear that it is an open and shut case.
Finished reading: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 📚🎶🎼🎵
A proper review needed, but I tend not to do those … but someone definitely at the intersection of two personal passions - People First and M U S I C
Makes sense?
Discuss?
Inside the Palace With Mohammed bin Salman
“You Americans think there is something strange about a ruler who sends his unqualified son-in-law to conduct international relations,” one Saudi analyst told me. ‘For us this is completely normal.’"
Is the President a ‘ruler’?
I need an app that understands all the tv/movie services I subscribe to … and don’t … where I can have one ‘watch now queue’ … and where to watch it … as an extension here are the other shows you could watch if you had these services.
Linktree | The Only Link You’ll Ever Need
… except haven’t we seen these services before … About.me anyone?
What’s different about LinkTree that warrants a $152 million investment - much less a $1.3 BILLION valuation!
There are countless more alternatives.
Wordle, 15 Million Tweets Later / Robert Lesser / Observable
.. in case you were wondering!
🎨🖌I wish Procreate had iCloud synch.
iPad Gripe from @Gruber - Yeah, Me Too
"My biggest gripe remains unchanged from all recent iPad models: the front-facing camera placement is awkward when the iPad is oriented in landscape, but landscape is how the iPad is oriented when it’s in a Magic Keyboard or propped up using a folded Smart Folio cover — and those are the natural ways to use an iPad for a video chat at a desk or on a counter. It’s a great camera (and the M1 has an excellent image signal processor), but horizontally, you wind up with a high-quality image of yourself from a bad angle. The camera is too low and off to the side. If you look at the camera you’re not looking at the screen, and if you look at the screen the camera makes it look like you’re not looking at the screen. I don’t know what the solution to this problem is, but Apple hasn’t found it yet."
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Observational Commentary
Words of wisdom from many years ago that are even more true today. #crossingthechasm
A quote for our times from Douglas Rushkoff and Team Human.
Cute little Vespa store … totally devoted to Vespas.
I went in, but apparently, my hair isn’t organic 😂
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