🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021

I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.

💬 Lindsay Graham


“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”

💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)

🔗 via Austin Kleon

I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.


Here’s a clever thing that I noticed last night about 🍎📺 .. you watch and something critical was said - and you missed it. You wind back 10 - 20 seconds - it plays again .. with temporary subtitles - that then fade away - brilliant.


Your blogroll, anywhere - courtesy of Chris Hannah.

Only on free - but at 2 bucks a month - that could change very soon.

🔗 I am liking the potential of this a lot …


Thought For Today - read it carefully.


Thought For Today - read it carefully.



It’s been a while since I read him .. when I did .. absolutely loved .. as did many others .. and certainly not lacking in literary skills and abilities .. sold lots AND great plaudits from his peers - and yet today we hear nothing. Why don’t we see more of 📚 J.P. Donleavy❓


Accurate | Clever | Sad —- all at the same time.


… and what to do about it.


When NZ fully embraces AI and launches yet another government department to ‘help’ …. two pieces of advice.

1] Don’t (but they rarely never call be for advice .. so not holding my breath.)

2] Get some good marketing advice on the name.

—-

NZAI

Won’t be a good look.


Right then - which end of the sentence is true❓

Image grabbed from 🍎News


… and what to do about it.


Accurate | Clever | Sad —- all at the same time.


Right then - which end of the sentence is true❓

Image grabbed from 🍎News


🔗 The empathy of instructions | Seth

Yes and if you are in tech development - particularly indie developers ( not all ) this also means you. The assumptions made in help files, forums and even the products are extraordinary. I firmly believe this why really cool stuff doesn’t take off.


🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Fun graphic.

My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.

Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯


🔗 There’s a well-documented dynamic in fundraising that most founders _feel_long before they ever read about it.

Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.



via Mathew Ingram mathewingram.com