Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine.
I understand the ‘experts’ are of the opinion that it ‘won’t get that far’.
They’ve said it for years.
In 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019, 2020 and 2021 …
… about Trump.
It’s just the target that changed.
“Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as (Parklife)"
7th in the series of #MBMay
Photo by Bob Thomas used on Blur’s 3rd album - 🎶 Parklife.
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behaviour is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
💬 Warren Buffet
Makes total sense to me.
According to Michael Tsai … I am reading ‘yes’.
I decided that a 🎶 Freddy Mercury image was too obvious for silhouette
6th in the series of #MBMay
Photo by Chiamaka Nwolisa on Unsplash
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
Paging @pimoore - knowing how you keep an eye on these kinds of things ….
Runestone: A Streamlined Text and Code Editor for iPhone and iPad - MacStories
The Information reports …
Cameo, a Celebrity Shoutout App, Lays Off 25% of Workforce.
“Cameo … is laying off more than 80 employees, about a quarter of its workforce, according to one of the employees.”
You knew it was going to happen. Didn’t you?
🔗 Satanic group asks to fly flag at Boston City Hall after supreme court ruling.
Let us celebrate Eartha Kitt.
5th in the series of #MBMay
Photo: Whitehouse?
They say she was down to earth. She even had an 🎶 album to prove it.
Photo: (Album Cover)
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
1988 Apparently.
Toast Generally Lands One of Two Ways
“The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes… is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong… What the fuck!… This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.”
💬 Musk in America in April 2020 re lockdowns
Meanwhile …
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💬 Musk in China in April 2022 re lockdowns
Read The Whole Thing - spells out very clearly which side the bread is buttered on - and the struggles to ensure that the toast doesn’t land face down!
The Five Root Causes of Poor Sales Results
- Too little activity.
- Lack of effectiveness.
- Lack of leadership.
- Lack of accountability.
- Low standards.
Yup - that does it.
Why did we need this post again?
From 37 Signals to Basecamp to 37 Signals.
All good.
Unclear why I should care.
Jason Fried is capable of delivering far more interesting posts than this kind of corporate blather.
Every Bay Area House Party
Astral Codex Ten had me curled up on the floor in stitches ….
Man, it’s been a crazy few months. You hear I quit my job at Google and founded a fintech startup?”
“No! What do you do?”
“War insurance!”
“War insurance?”
“Yeah. We pay out if there’s a war.”
“Isn’t that massively correlated risk?”
“Yeah. The idea is, we sell war insurance to companies who do badly if there’s a war - tourist attractions and the like. Then we sell the same amount of peace insurance to military contractors. As long as we get the probabilities and costs right, we make the same profit either way.”
“Neat idea, how’s it going?”
“Great! Ayatollah Khameini just bought a ten billion dollar policy.”
“Of the war version or the peace version?”
“Can’t say, confidentiality agreement.”
Today 3 Years Ago - at the time I was thinking Uber - today I am thinking Web3.
The strategy remains.
The details change.
There is no other way to say it. Choosing today’s image was definitely a thorny problem.
4th in the series of #MBMay
Photo By : Mohamad Alhayek
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
The Marketoonist Nails Data Protection
I’m a fan of Experimental music, I just don’t think of it that way. For example, 🎶 Astronomy Domine seems so tame today.
3rd in the series of #MBMay
Photo By : Alex Weasley?
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
That moment when a smooth, delicious tune wraps its notes around the synapses of your brain, so you jump to YouTube to remind yourself of the entire immersive experience only to be met by a jarring 10 second jingling monstrosity of an ad for crap. #moodkiller