“I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts the government down is me, which is kind of cool.”
... Mick Mulvaney
“Good Grief”
... John Philpin
An Experiment
This is a bit of an experiment. I am writing using Editorial
#Inspiration
Thanks to @frankm who was considering drafts to publish to micro.blog
#Idea
Use editorial … since I don’t use drafts and see what happens.
#Delivered
Well …. let’s see
… because this is really just an experiment
“Nothing underscores wealth inequality like paying someone to hold your place in line”
... Elaine Ou
Do platforms like Uber empower or exploit workers?
Read for yourself - but I would argue that Platforms like Uber do not … but not all platforms are like Uber.
A Mathematician’s Lament
A friend of mine sent me this, written by Paul Lockhart. I don’t have time to read it in its entirety at the moment - but I have read sufficient of it to know that I do want to read it.
Posting here and a couple of other places to keep it top of mind.
The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such.
Part of the problem is that nobody has the faintest idea what it is that mathematicians do.
... Paul Lockhart
I will come back to it at some point.
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Oh my …. Stairway To Heaven like I have never heard!
Well worth a click through and listen ….
Arguably the entire micro blog warrants a Micro Monday … purely on the basis of this post! Many thanks for the share @Jacob
🎵 3/10 Dark Lyrics. Happy Tunes.
An Apple Store Experience From Hell — And It’s Clear There Are Larger Problems With Apple’s Retail Presence
… by Avery Hartmans, Business Insider
Journalism and Platforms
It’s time for journalism to build its own platforms
I think we can all agree on that one … I know @Dave in particular has been saying that for a while.
Here’s the thing … if ‘we all’ can see the benefits of ‘roll your own’ why can’t the media ..
That’s rhetorical.
🎵 2/10 Revisiting this one today on the recommendation of @laurentboileau
Did a search for ‘Mac’ … 23 accounts came up …. over half listed as zero posts … that’s not good.
Wait … what?
NYT - Hawaii Governor knew that the alarm was false in two minutes
What the hell was going on for the next 36 minutes!
Cough!
For those of you that follow 📚 and read with a device rather than paper …. you might find BookBub both interesting and useful.
Integration and Aggregation
Capturing this link now and will come back to it later.
Micro.blog Help - Replies and @-mentions
Bottom line I will be tying three external Wordpress blogs into my Micro Blog instance … and am excited to see how it can / might / will develop into a single place for aggregation and distribution.
Time will tell … but that’s the goal.
Just discovered the 3D Touch option to post on Micro Blog … very nice.
Naturally, This posted via The 3D Touch option 👀
Quiet. Nice and quiet.
I love how you can add a twitter handle in Micro.Blog which is inactive on Micro.Blog but becomes a hot link when the post routes through to twitter - such as over here .@TheBusEquation #Nice
🎵 1/10 It will become clear. Probably in 11/10 This was the first …
