Michael Lewis
”Success is always rationalized. People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable.”
It must be me - more tech difficulties.
Technical Difficulties
Received from a friend who noticed a couple of typos in an email just as he hit the ‘send button’.
my mental autocorrect at the moment is set to Javascript and not “English”
… the challenges of dealing with multiple languages - and it’s worse that I thought:
These days I dream in json not in words
🎵 Pete Frame
Read all about him on Wikipedia or - pop over to his web site
I had two of his books a long time ago. Long gone / misplaced / lost. But, if you are interested in the music of the 60s and 70s, the books and trees inside contain a veritable cornucopia of visual information relating to the music of the day.
I have often thought that it would be interesting to see something similar done for the software industry - again starting in those heady days and how companies were gobbled up, grew, where the founders went to etc … I think the results would be fascinating.
Behavior
We can change the behavior of companies that do not support our belief system.
Vote with our feet.
🖋️📚 Question for the writing cognoscenti … specifically Ulysses users … what is the best way to write in Ulysses and then publish to micro.blog ?
Best I have found so far is to copy and paste - but links don’t seem to come over … what am I missing?
Airlines Will Need 637,000 More Pilots Before 2035
Extraordinary when you think that even today most planes traveling through the skies are on auto pilot.
Wise words from a colleague, in response to asking a group of people what they thought about a company that was new to me, but seemed to qualify for something I was looking for. I was seeking opinion as to whether what they were doing was actually what they said they were doing.
Always pays to follow the money both in terms of who invests funds and why
How they make their money
And their exit strategy
Applying those qualifiers, I think I was right to be suspicious. Then again … people can change.
Recording
📸 Recording
Newton’s Three Laws Of Getting Things Done
Newton’s three laws of motion can be used as an interesting analogy for increasing your productivity, simplifying your work, and improving your life.
The Full Article - it makes for a great read and a lot of sense.
Pinboard Commit
OK …
- commit to pinboard … check
- import old deli.co.us tags for posterity … check
- all 12,396 apparently … good grief!
- import Pocket history … check
- tie into Instapaper and Pocket … check
- publish the stream to a microblog page … check
- a tool bar short cut so I can push other stuff into the stream … check
##Still To Do
- import Instapaper - snafu - ticket logged
Anything else?
💥 no cross posting to twitter for this one … and loving the conversation swipe @Manton
Apparently the NHS sucks … and is so bad that Trump et al want nothing to do with it … even going so far as calling it an abject failure … but not so bad that they wouldn’t want access …
Theresa May has refused to rule out giving US companies access to NHS contracts as part of a future trade deal with Donald Trump’s White House.
Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans ....
John Lennon’s words came to my mind this morning driving on the 101 to a meeting.
Apparently Starbucks thought it was my birthday today ( it isn’t .. but that’s a different story). To celebrate the occasion I was offered a free ‘whatever I want’ to celebrate. So, totally out of the norm of my morning pattern, as I drove down the hill - I swung into the local Starbucks and ordered myself a check complementary Latte.
Fast forward to now as I write this post on my 📱 in the courtyard of a car wash I know. The car did need it - just been delaying it through some of the weather. Whilst getting it cleaned, they are also extracting one venti latte - less one sip - from the car’s carpet.
##Lessons
- there is no such thing as a free latte
- don’t pretend it’s your birthday
- stick to your routine
That’s all … enjoy your day … I’m going to … who knows maybe I just avoided a major accident resulting in my ability to even write this post!
🎬 3:10 To Yuma … on my list
3:17 To Paris … not on my list
Yes … I know it’s “15:17 To Paris” … but that spoiled the flow.
Maybe Why We Rebel Against Machine Learning?
Not my words … in fact, not sure whose they are … if I find out, I will come back and correctly attribute … until then …
Big data and machine learning (is) all oriented to one type of intelligence or a western view of intelligence. Mimic the brain, no heart. Instinct defined via algorithm. Maybe we struggle against this because deep inside we know its profoundly dysfunctional.
Who I Am
By the numbers there’s my driver’s license,
car registration, license plate, zip code,
various accounts, street address, birthdate
home, work, and cell phones, passport, credit cards
debit cards, PINs, social security
frequent fliers, internet passwords, stocks
checking, HMO, IRA, museums
library card, land and enneagram.
I know its a lot to remember, but
thank god i finally know who I am.
Jim Woessner - Box Poems