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General Petraeus : The Ukrainian Alamo
Time Magazine : It’s Time to Correct the Myths About the Battle of Alamo
Mitch McConnell: African Americans vote as much as Americans
… back in January … and essentially just “(oops I) did it again”!
“The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.”
Werner Erhard on Happiness .. and I know it’s wrong - but as I read it - 🎶 🎵Ken Dodd kept surfacing in my mind.
Buying some bread rolls - or at least buying some bread rolls if the real world behaved like the internet.
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. “I learn from other people’s.”
… or something like that. Lots of variations of this over the interwebs. Who knows if Otto was the real source. Regardless, I like it.
An interesting map …
“Perhaps ironically Really Simple Syndication has become anything but simple. Really. 💥”
One More Thing ...
I listen to my podcasts via Castro .. and every now and then revisit the occasional alternative in the hope of getting a missing piece of functionality.
Overcast just delivered.
Or is it that I just found the functionality in Overcast?
What I wanted?
When listening to a podcast just be able to add it to your playlist of choice … rather than leaving the podcast, going to the playlist to add a podcast, scrolling down the list to find the podcast and then adding it.
Overcast is now where I am listening.
Now - because we are never satisfied are we?
If only the smart lists were really smart and let me create a playlist purely of (say) any and all PBS and BBC podcasts for example? NO manual selection needed.
Notes Reminding Us About Notes
Two short posts that arrived almost back to back in the multivarious reading apps that seem to be multiplying on my iPad.
The first came from Derek Silvers about why we should write plain text files.
The ‘shouldness’of that instruction cant be more emphasised. All that he says I do know, but it’s good to be reminded. But, even then it still doesn’t stop me from writing a lot of stuff in a couple of the most proprietary formats out there .. Apple’s ‘Pages’ and ‘Keynote’.
YES Keynote … it isn’t just for presentations, I use it to create simple graphics and structured workbooks.
The second was Note-taking became a full-time job, so I stopped
Last year out of nowhere, I became aware and interested in Obsidian. I learnt about Zeitelkasten. I discovered that Obsidian was just the latest application that promised to be my salvation.
I haven’t stopped using it - but boy did that post resonate!
Important to 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
"If you rely only on tor to protect yourself, you’re going to get owned and people like me are going to laugh at you."
"The modern purpose of TK is that there are few words in English that contain these two letters juxtaposed in this way, so it’s super easy to use Word to search your manuscript.
“And did you know that America entered the war against Germany only after Hitler declared war on the United States? He did so right after Pearl Harbor, in solidarity with Japan.”
Yes. Yes I did.