Apple is clearly doomed!


I’m probably old school - but if an apps menu needs more than half the screen to display its top level menu - maybe the developer needs to rethink the design?


Reorganize your ‘T E A M’ and you get ‘M E T A’ .. noting that here now and wondering how long it will be before we see that thought in the wild.


“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

💬 Elbert Hubbard


Who else thinks Squid Game got the boiler suit and mask idea from Money Heist?



Just switched my micro blog design to Tufte - thankyou @pimoore - reminding myself of his great books.

There are some nuances to Pete’s work that I am going to have to get my head around for maximum effect.

It is also clear that cleanup from previous experiments is overdue!


Supply and Demand curve broken.

I would have thought that a $19 piece of cloth would have had low demand and therefore pretty much instantly available.

But no ….

Apparently a $19 piece of cloth will take until the end of November to deliver to you.


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“This year, S&P 500 companies have said the words ‘supply chain’ on earnings calls more than ‘synergy’ or ‘value proposition’ combined.”

.. and talking of Supply Chain - Great Read From Venkatesh Rao


“He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.”

💬 Richard Hamming


This is really clever …but I know I am not going to get round to using it.

Filed under ‘the law of diminishing returns’.


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Shopify Launches Global ERP Program

I love this. Kudos to Shopify who just keep innovating.


The new Rolling Stone: ‘More immediate, more visceral’ and tougher on Eric Clapton

Matt Taibi left in April of last year - surely he would have been a perfect fit for what Noah Shachtman is saying he wants to do.

Sadly over a year between Matt leaving and Noah arriving.


I don’t want unique ‘sounding’ … I want unique .. or not .. I just think ‘sounding’ sounds fake!



And these are just some of them …

 


Why Web3 Matters

I like the sound of it - but I don’t see the silos giving up that easily.


I started the timer, clicked Micro Blogs ‘post’, pasted in this sentence, clicked ‘Post’, turned to the browser and refreshed the screen.

This sentence was there at the top of the published blog page in less than 5 seconds.

Based on a Drummer Post by Dave Winer