🔗 QAnon candidates are on the ballot in 26 states (Apple News)
.. and if that wasn’t depressing enough ….
“QAnon candidates receive support from GOP megadonors like Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, casino mogul Steve Wynn and San Francisco Giants owner Charles Johnson.”
Sometimes Old Posts Just Don't Hold Up
🔗 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate
It dates back to 2006 - and no need to read it, because in the opening paragraph they highlighted three US business leaders that we needed to pay attention to.
- William Ford Jr., Chairman and CEO - Ford
- Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO - General Electric
- Steve Ballmer, CEO - Microsoft
I think around that time there was a phrase bandied around …
#winning
📚The Cellist by Daniel Silva
Just finished reading: 🔗 The Cellist by Daniel Silva 📚
Definitely a good read … kept me turning the pages … though I take issue with him being described as ‘the new LeCarre … or am I just being overly defensive of one of my ‘4 Johns’.
That all said, the most amazing thing about this book is that following Jan 6th 2021 he revised the book top to bottom in 6 weeks. Not that this should cause you to read it … but absolutely testament to his desire for realism in his books.
This was my first Silva … but it won’t be my last.
In all the various debates about open sourcing twitter and alternatives like Parler … not sure why I not read more about Mastodon .. why not? Or am I reading the wrong people?
Not doing the newsletter, not publishing a podcast … so wondering if I should cut back my subscription level .. thoughts?
“As long as the device is not tampered with or damaged, it presents no hazard to public safety,”
💬 David Allard, Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection
… ummm …
Easter should happen every day …
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?