If you know The San Francisco Bay Area, then you might have passed through Redwood City and recognise this sign - or at least the ‘strap line’.
The line dates back to the twenties!
Short little podcast from KQED that explains why that line is a pile of codswallop
I still think The Doors should have produced the Windows ‘sound brand’ for Bill Gates.
Sometimes Dave Winer really comes across as miserable. Hope he finds salvation soon.
I have just been awarded the Obsidian Basic Badge - have to say, suffering a little from imposter syndrome on that one!
I’m worried. They don’t even have digital vaccine certificates and their Covid app i just won’t use ( though I do carry a pen to sign in manually ).
I just kept nodding my head!
New terms that I like
BOAT - Block Of Atomic Thought
MoC - Map of Content
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
💬Franklin Jones
”Before having a second brain: “That’s important, I’ll keep it in mind” “After having a second brain: “That’s important, I won’t keep it in mind”
💬Tiago Forte
”Everything interesting begins in the “unimportant and not urgent” quadrant. Eliminating it is the dumbest thing you can do and the worst advice Covey gave.”
💬Venkatesh Rao
Really enjoying Nick Milo on his Linking Your Thinking YouTube channel. If you are trying to learn Obsidian he has a nice style and delivers in easily manageable chunks.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
💬 William Faulkner
“I will die on this hill. Web apps are not as good as native apps. Even apps made on top of web technologies feel worse. I’m looking at you Electron.”
💬 Mcdrifter
“Only one of us now sits on the Supreme Court. By all accounts, he and four of his colleagues — all appointed by Republican presidents, three by a president who instigated a coup against the United States — are getting ready to violate state decisions and, judicial precedent.”
💬 Robert Reich
Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Warren Buffett And The S&P 500 : NPR
It makes total sense.
“Among the unvaccinated, the virus travels unhindered on a highway with multiple off-ramps and refueling stations. In the vaccinated, it gets lost in a maze of dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs.”
💬 Craig Spencer
Writing in The Atlantic
Apple Updates Pages with Screen View, Numbers with Pivot Tables, Keynote with Live Video …
Numbers gets Pivot tables.
Finally?