”A long time ago my friend Doc Searls and I agreed that you don’t make money from a blog or podcast, but you can make money because of a blog or podcast. It’s a subtle but important difference.”
Dave Winer
”Joe Biden Makes Shocking Announcement: None of His Children or Grandchildren Will Be Named Senior Advisers to the President.”
Vanity Fair
I THINK I have shared this before - but better to see it twice than not at all - right?
”Zuckerberg is a pretty shallow thinker on anything outside of Facebook.”
Steve Schmidt
I agree, just happy to finally hear - and hear I did - someone say it.
Just lost a bet - I was convinced between the mmmms it went ba ba ba
It actually goes do do do
🎼 came across this guy last night
Hawaii based dude breaks down progressive music
watched his one on porcupine trees anesthetize. Unclear to me if he really doesn’t know that steven wilson is the leader or that Gavin Harrison is on drums - still fun for all of that.
Shifting the People First Newsletter Format.
Every Tuesday - ask a question.
Every Friday (10 days later), provide a summary of the aggregated feedback with ‘personal opinion and annotation’ for AN answer.
This Week …
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Excellence In UI Design
Notice How you can’t press ‘Next’ until you have accepted the ‘terms and condition’s’.
Notice how you can’t accept the ‘terms and conditions’ because the ‘Next’ frame is covering the ‘accept terms and conditions’ check box.
Nice work @citi / @citibank
”The billionaires are the system itself. They cannot act with autonomy; they can only do whatever it is they think will make them money. The introduction of lulz into their world means that there are now conscious, autonomously acting humans. Our moves make no sense to the algorithms or the market makers because they are not motivated by the rational, short-term self-interest of individual market players. No, it only makes sense in terms of a human collective, looking to overturn a financial system that has been devised to extract the value from our world, and deliver it to an increasingly small group of billionaires at the expense of our livelihoods, our futures, and our climate. Game on.”
”The guys at Reddit aren’t using time, and some of them are going to be burned as a result. But they know that. They’re not going to be asking for a bailout if they lose. Wall Street will be, and it’s been bailed out too many times. In 2008, and in 2017, Washington threw trillions at Wall Street and Wall Street ran to the dog track with it. Wall Street promised to create jobs with it. They didn’t. They just built a casino that was “heads I win” and “tails you lose” with it.”
Dana Blenkenhorn
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn’t going away … is well worth a listen/
Vox’s Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism.
It is going to get much worse, because there is no penalty.
“Right now, large investors are scared of what small investors can do, and conversely.
Arnold Kling
It’s been clear to anybody watching that if small investors weren’t scared of what the large investors could do, they clearly didn’t understand the rules.
The difference is that for the first time large investors are ‘taking it’.
Ch ch ch changes ..
Matt Krantz, Investors Business Daily, 14 October, “Apple’s New iPhone 12 Gets The Worst Reception Ever:
”I did not hear the thud.”
John Gruber
Inside Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s Epic Bromance
… “be it Epstein’s Coney Island, Trump’s Queens, or Robert Maxwell’s Eastern European origins — they had all come from the wrong side of the tracks. And at some point in their lives, Robert Maxwell, Trump, and Epstein all had ties to foreign intelligence agencies, arms dealers, and the sex trade.”
”We’re applying $4.99 in credit to your Apple ID each month you’re subscribed from February through June to keep enjoying Apple Original shows and movies. That’s it — no further action is required."
Wow - that’s great … but why?
🎼 At 84, Kristofferson has decided to retire.
”I don’t think hedge fund books need any help, let them taste their own medicine.”
Brian Barrish
If Wall Street can be ‘brought down’ by a bunch of ‘novice investors’, don’t you love the pejorative words that get used?
It would say a lot about Wall Street and Professional Investors.
I will also take advice in the future from the Novice investors … at least they think.