Naive? Or Ahead Of His Time?
We live in a world where knowledge, experience, thoughtfulness, kindness are really not valued. Just look around if you need proof.
There is also far too much emphasis on short term thinking, instant gratification, cheap at any cost …. both at an individual and corporate level.
So Chip Conley writing How We Combat Ageism Is By Valuing Wisdom as Much as Youth. makes me wonder … which is he?
For Posterity
Steadily working through the snippet collection backlog … and decide to drop these in here.
Will England ever get its own Parliament? - BBC News
… they should.
15 Signs That The Middle Class In The United States Is Being Systematically Destroyed
… only 15?
Retailers can’t out-Amazon Amazon, but they can change the rules
… but few will.
… we do.
40 Senate Democrats Join GOP to Send $717 Billion Military Spending Bill to Trump’s Desk
In other news, Putin reputedly spent around $100,000 on disrupting the West.
Is Russia or America demonstrating the better thinking?
Not Just A Corner … what @burk says is important to remember. If only the media would understand this.
(this posted to micro.blog directly from Feedbin.)
VERY Cool
there are certain people in the micro.blog community who I want to track as writers, thought provokers, clever, humorists … whatever catches my fancy.
the timeline is not good for that.
so this morning I started to subscribe to those feeds in feedbin.
The Bullshit Web — Pixel Envy is a good read that I picked up from The Loop this morning. Click though, you won’t regret it.
Movie Pass added to my growing list of failed companies.
Not just failed. Spectacularly failed.
“The credits have rolled. The music has faded. The curtains are closing…”
… and sadly so common it barely scrapes into the news cycle.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union.
Superb List … and so true.
W00T - IndiePaper working on MacOS and iOS. Coupled with Reeder and Feedbin, moving towards a one stop reading shop, though have to say the Feedbin web experience on the Mac is richer and more immersive than Reeder. Next stop kill Feedly completely?
Synch micro.blog site with MarsEdit. Thankyou @danielpunkass
Search for term in MarsEdit.
Identify post.
Use post date to scroll through archive. Thankyou @manton
Post located.
More true as each day passes.
And you wonder why we have problems in the USA …
This surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way.
and
”certificate-of-need laws might have made sense back when health care was treated more like a public utility.”
say what? did I miss that?
”Look, I know you’re tired of the Trump news. And I know this stuff makes you sick. Believe me, I’d rather be making quirky remarks about entertaining articles. But this is a very real and increasingly dangerous problem. We can’t just look away.”
Dave Pell - Next Draft
… and I couldn’t agree with him more.
Apparently 🔗 micro.blog handles Webmentions out of the box.
Maybe I have a different box?
“Our industry has forgotten about persuasion, and has become obsessed with promotion.”
John Hegarty
Thanks to @cleverdevil I enabled ‘on this day’ yesterday. Today, it picked up 4 posts from 2016 including;
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how to write a good blog post from Om Malik
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a short piece on Criminal Justice Reform and
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trying to answer just who was the most famous band from the 60s.
“Once you start caring less about punctuality and showing up on time it gets increasingly difficult to fix.”
.. am I alone in thinking that this malaise affects much of the population?
And that it is getting worse.
Daily.
“First Lady, backed by Mr President, is working with Greenpeace.”
… now while that sentence might seem odd, it is absolutely true.
Strictly Speaking There AreTwo Charts, but otherwise click through and read this:
One chart that shows how much worse income inequality is in America than Europe.
People: Rebecca
“I live about 30 minutes North of here. There really isn’t any work up there. My husband is a mechanic from Mexico. He has his own auto repair business and helps me look after the children. I drive down here to work. I like it, the hours are flexible so it makes the family side easier.”
“I have 5 children. My firstborn is 15, the youngest is 2. It’s good because my mom helps, particularly with my eldest. He likes her and she likes him. It’s a good relationship and they bonded at birth”.
She will miss him when he moves away.