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So much good news today … just hope action emerges.
As a new friend suggested tonight … love ‘Ted Talks’ … if only we could have ‘Ted Action’.
[New reports reveal wider role for Barr and Pompeo in impeachment scandal.](www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…]
Couldn’t happen to nicer chaps.
Scripting News: Sunday, September 29, 2019
Que? Anglo-American, Italian-American, Irish-American ….
Remember back in the day millions of kids started to wear denim because they didn’t want to conform.
Simple times.
WeWork - 'uck 'em
I wrote this over three years ago about We Work - and they have been high on my list of ‘FTW - you gotta be kidding' posts since along with my old buddies Uber, Theranos and yet to be confirmed
Of course the ‘metaphorical’ hit the ‘rotating blades’ this past week and all kinds of words from Monday morning quarter backs are popping up through the woodwork.
I posted this yesterday linking to a couple of posts from people that have also been calling BS for a while.
But this one from Matt Stoller came out a couple of days ago and I missed it - but definitely worthy of addition.
Highlighting because it in turn highlights that same lay off over three years ago - **and then reporting on the after party … **
”Mass layoffs followed by an expensive alcohol fueled party hosted by a celebrity reflects a problematic leadership style, to put it mildly.
As Galloway wrote …
”The boards of Theranos and WeWork included former and future Secretaries of Defense, Supreme Allied Commanders, and billionaire CEOs of iconic firms. These individuals can assess geopolitical markers, troop movements, and business trends better than anybody on the planet, maybe in history. But put a young woman from Stanford in a black turtleneck, or a guy with great hair, in the same room, and these global leaders couldn’t recognize blatant fraud.
I can explain it all …. as I wrote in one of my many groups earlier today …
… “this - just like Theranos - is more greed than stupidity … and ‘they' wonder why ‘they' are increasingly viewed with suspicion.”
Oh look at that Mojave ‘Notes’ synching with Catalina ‘Notes’ … now that wasn’t hard - was it Apple?
Now how about we do the same for ‘Reminders’ ….
Halcyon Days. Someone let me know that the link was broken.
But the Internet Archive extension offered me to view it in the archive.
That only had a description - but then I could search for that expression and I got the correct link.
Thirteen years later … enjoy!
NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million … hard to believe isn’t it?
Use a pen to write on a piece of paper and explain how a flushing toilet works.
Take as long as you like, use as many words and pictures as needed.
Once done, realize how bad that explanation is and how little you really know about that topic.
Not mine - but source lost.
LATER : Maybe it was Feynman … thankyou @muncman
On that Welsh Brexit thing …
English people living in Wales tilted it towards Brexit, research finds
As I wrote when I read this about WeWork
Really,
”If SoftBank or JPMorgan executives had been honest”
is all you need.
Scott Galloway in August and again this week.
Me last year - on similar frauds that arise because of greed and band wagoning.
”SoftBank was reportedly considering propping up the IPO with $750 million in share purchases at the offering price. If that’s the case, shouldn’t they want to invest billions more at the now low-low 80%-off price? Or simply looking to pump and dump?”
Scott Galloway
Couldn’t understand whey BusyCal was on SetApp and not BusyContacts - that’s just changed.
Not saying that some kind of penalty isn’t deserved, but when will prison sentences be served on corporate leadership that are guilty of far worse. I’m looking at you Tim Sloan. And you Richard Sackler.
And is Devon eight times as bad as Felicity?
The Safari update on Mojave crashes every 10 minutes.
Safari on Beta Catalina … no problem.
First World problems - I know … but still.
