On my phone I do have a few social network apps installed, but all alerts are off and all the apps are hidden from the home pages … on my iPad I don’t even have them installed.
Wow … now there’s something for the ‘today I learned’ bucket …
Guy Kawasaki and Marc Benioff In Conversation
Guy Kawasaki was probably for first person in the business world with the title ‘Evangelist’ and coincidentally an old neighbour of mine.
Marc and I worked with each other back in my Oracle days.
This podcast has Guy interviewing Marc talking of his trajectory from 19 year old college kid to CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
While it might SEEM to be yet another Silicon Valley story - this one is presented through the lens of what makes Marc different to the average SV success story … which is his humanity and desire to give back. He’s doing it in spades around San Francisco. But elswhere aswell.
He’s also very big into meditation.
“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”
💬 Margaret Mead
First phase of the newsletter design is now in the can.
The Famine of 1932-33
I was talking to a long time friend of mine last night. She is of Ukrainian descent.
I knew about Stalin’s ‘Great Famine’, but did not know how much of this act of aggression occurred in Ukraine.
🔗 Ukraine - The famine of 1932–33 (Holodomor)
“Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians.”
Get off Twitter if you want to see your friends’ posts.
If proof is needed - this post will be routed to Twitter where it will languish and mostly not be seen by my friends - because most of my friends don’t go to Twitter to read what I am saying.
“The struggle is never between good and evil, it is between the preferable and detestable.
💬 Raymond Aron
ELEVEN years ago … and we are seeking to ‘take back the internet’ … clearly it didn’t work out. In fact since July 2011 it has become a LOT worse.
What went wrong?
Here’s an idea …
Ted’s ideas (are) worth spreading.
But we also need action.
🔗 I noticed this morning that 1999.io was getting a bunch of hits.
… @dave wondering who’s suddenly hitting his ‘1999’ servers.
Somebody in here?
You’d have thought that in the time he took to write the post he could have looked up his logs?
🔗 Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial ‘victory’ to Russia in Ukraine (Judd Legum)
The same Koch keeps their factories running along in Russia and has announced that they have no intention of closing them.
The same Koch that fuels the Rethuglicans agenda.
The same Koch … oh just go look them up ….
I don’t read a lot of Chris Brogan - though he did provide the impetus behind my annual ‘3 words’.
That said I think this summarizes why I don’t read him much.
“Blogs are dead.
Or are they?
That’s all you get. I’m writing it in my newsletters.”
💬 Chris Brogan
🎬 The Power Of The Dog: Meaning
… yeah - thought so. I am no bible scholar, but after watching it, I had concluded some version of that.
I looked it up because I felt that after all the hoohah - I must have been missing something.
I wasn’t.
Sorry - 6/10.
Massive thanks to @amit for help with my newsletter presentation. I clearly can’t even copy and paste correctly!
Presentation of today’s test will be a lot better thanks to his knowledge, skill and copious editing.
A few things left to do - but at least what I have now works!
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So that’s an hour of my life that I will never get back!
I’m talking CSS styling of my newsletter
By adding controls to make certain changes I needed, it seems to have broken stuff that was working two days ago 🤯.
This does not answer the question ‘how much are you going to charge me’?
🔗 Thiel Blasts Dimon, Buffett and Fink as ‘Finance Gerontocracy’ at Bitcoin 2022.
Buffett’s scepticism of bitcoin prompted Peter Thiel to call him a ‘sociopathic grandpa’.
Of course, Peter Thiel is such a lovely person, that I am sure we are all hanging on his every word.
I am unlikely to go back into the archive and update - but using more emojis in my posts going forward - to make it easier to surface them in the future … of course if you are reading this on Twitter - you probably don’t care :-)