MacStories and AppAdvice both with pieces on a new app (Mela) that manages recipes.
I am not a recipe person - but if you are - this application looks remarkable. Definitely revealing thinking of real world implementation of core iOS functionality.
Clever stuff.
Email received today;
How To Make People Buy
That isn’t what I want at all. I want people to buy because they want to buy.
Good copywriting is a dying art form. Mainly because (like sales and marketing) it’s being done by amateurs.
Business moves at the speed of trust.
More on the trust … and kindness … of strangers.
JP riffs on trusting people.
“The result was a heaving haystack of fuck-all.”
Doc Searls riffs on what www ‘couldabeen’.
points picked up this morning
- A war of 20 years or 20*1 year wars?
- Britain … Russia … America … next please!
- The army was trained in the ways of the US military … without the air cover or intelligence!
”Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”
💬 Graham Greene
”If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
💬 John von Neumann
Resonated :
“We didn’t get rid of narratives completely, but we sold our faith in the grand narratives to buy into the much smaller stories of the self and self-improvement. If the image of the era of grand narratives is the image of the mass of mankind marching behind a flag, then the image of the post-grand-narrative human is that of the solitary jogger with their headphones on, focused on the story of self-empowerment, pushed on by the narrative of self-improvement and by the texts of self-help.
Until the COVID-19 pandemic, we’d been living through the ‘believe in yourself’ and ‘be all you can be’ narrative for two decades. The story-of-the-better-self is really individuals living without any greater or more abstract “stories to live by” deciding to make their idea of a future self the story they will tell themselves. A new self, a younger-looking self, a more attractive self, a healthier self, a self with a new ‘identity,’ a more driven self, a new style, a new sexuality, a new diet, a more ecological and self-sustaining self, a self that believes in itself. We have privatised stories to live for: the story of promotion, of artistic achievement, of higher sexual market value, of the better home, of admiration in the eyes of others, of being seen to be the most eco-savvy, of having the latest tech innovation, of striving to be more positive and optimistic, of discovering some deep essential source of ‘self-worth."
Psychology Today
Full Story
Priti Patel gains (and loses) security minister role while Johnson dithers.
Patel in charge of ‘security’ should never have been a sentence.
“The alternative, that he made his decision without even realising that his Home Secretary is herself a security risk is horrifying.”
Bought a new lamp which was delivered yesterday - sans bulb. Quick visit to a couple of stores and no - the wrong wattage .. a second night with no light.
Reminded of Jobs on the iPod - delivered with a full battery so immediately useful.
Fast forward to iPhones with everything you need to get you going immediately including contacts, browser and calendar.
… at least until the legislators have their way and you get your lump of glass for 100s - if not 1000s of dollars and it is useless until you spend the next ‘n’ days working out what apps you need.
Let’s keep going backwards …
Both Om and @gruber writing positively about Glass … great respectable publicity.
As words are to Micro Blog… so images are to Glass.
It also reminds me how easily is forgotten the importance of good marketing. A lesson that is too often forgotten - or an afterthought at best.
July was the hottest month ever recorded, NOAA says … Apple News link …
Clearly this was measured in the Northern Hemisphere. By all accounts New Zealand temperatures are way down on normal and the rain is worse than an English Summer!
Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app.
“The root problem is this: 1Password, originally a Mac-forward software developer, has simply decided that the Mac isn’t important enough.”
Yet another move that has happened post their latest ‘enterprise’ investment.
I am not tech enough to be for or against Electron … but as someone who uses Slack, Discord and on occasions Skype (apparently all Electron apps) - they are not good apps.
I will watch - but with where Keychain is these days - I might just reverse out altogether.
How Media Consumption Evolved Throughout COVID-19
Another example of why I hate generational categories.
It would also be useful to flip so that I can see media category - and then who is ‘consuming it’ - allow me to self manage my generational fit!
This Summer, Beer Goes Soft-Serve
Wrong - at so many levels!
… now this looks like a place I want to visit next time I’m in town.
Question for ‘those that know’.
If I create a doc in pages … I can export to ePub .. but in Keynote there is no such option.
Is there a technical reason or is it just an oversight?
And is there a way that could work?
“It sucks that our kids need to wear masks. It’s also mostly the fault of those fighting to prevent them from being required to.”
💬 Dave Pell
If you are interested in Obsidian but are finding the learning curve particularly steep ( I am ) .. you might find Federico Viticci’s article useful.
My Obsidian Setup, Part 1: Sync, Core Plugins, Workspaces, and Other Settings.
Analog Pens, Apple’s Pencil & Talking Machines: writing & its future
“Why writing’s future is complicated.”
💬 Om
Apparently, it’s not just the future.