John PHI⑊PIN publisher

Now the polymathic Trump is dabbling in naval architecture.

👁️❓ Did the people who are currently watching Ted Lasso four rewatch Ted Lasso one, two and three before starting? Asking for a friend.

🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for 'The Savant'

Given that it’s now the middle of August, I think that a July release is looking less and less likely by the day.

He does have a way doesn’t he?

Box? What box?

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🔗 Micro Monday is back (after a ’short’ pause.)

I guess in the overall scheme of the cosmos sure - ‘short’ works 😉

A great way of showcasing this little corner of the internet - still sitting in my Overcast feed - despite the passing of 4 years.

I knew it would comeback. One day.

It has.

🔗 Nudge or Sludge? — Gapingvoid

Want to know what a company actually believes? Skip their core values page. Try to cancel something.

🔗🎵 Apple Music weirdness

Apple likes to say that music is part of its DNA. I suggest they schedule some genetic counselling.

I agree, though I have never managed to articulate the prescription so succinctly.

Please enjoy: 🔗 sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com

🔗🕋 Structured Thought is catching on

This one from Evan Shapiro - who after producing 6 annual flat files of - well to be honest - interesting - but not very useful insights into the media landscape has just outdone himself.

Scott Brinker should do the same - similar idea in a different space - but 🔗 this one has been going now for 15 years!

‘Content’ is homogenous undifferentiated fodder that is poured into silos with pricing you would expect from any interchangeable commodity .. if that describes your writing, it might explain why nobody values it.

(🖇️🔎 Just in case you missed all the other similar utterances I have made along these lines on this blog.)

Wise people are already aware and can predict these warnings …

🔗 YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast

That said - where could you go to build a video following not called YouTube?

Meanwhile, so far, 🔗 the channel remains

Thought I'd take a look at Plume. Some shenanigans to get my blog to approve Plume - or the other way round - but twe got there - and this is my first post. Lets see where this goes.

🔗 A Node on the Web

Email was supposed to be an open, decentralized protocol. Instead, a handful of monopolies have effectively privatized deliverability: they decide whose mail is trustworthy, whose isn’t, and independent servers are guilty until proven innocent.

🔗 Why I left Mastodon - Justin Pot

.. or just use Micro.Blog

I just looked at: valid.rss.chat for john.philpin.com - and no dice ...

Turns out that my blog isn’t 'malformed', it is because Micro.blog’s RSS feed output does not currently conform completely to the RSS.chat interoperability profile.

I can wait.

Magical

🔗 Monumental Joyful Murals by Ella & Pitr Fill Urban Rooftops and Fields — Colossal

🔗 97th .. apparently

.. and happy to be here.

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If I include an URl an image might appear. If I add just an image it doesn't. Expected behaviour?

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🔗 All Maps Lie - Gapingvoid

.. an old drum of mine.

No comment.

🔗 Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right

This comes after Trump just a few days ago ordered the Navy to go back to steam-powered catapults (the thing that hurls the planes forward off the ship for takeoff) from the new electromagnetic catapults. He apparently wants to do this because he once talked to a catapult operator who told him the old kind was better.

“Lasting innovation is built on connections.”

So true … across;

industries ➕ sectors ➕ geographies ➕ disciplines

and time … continuously ➕ continually ... so that we keep in mind that we are in a marathon - not a sprint.

CONTINUAL creates the nodes of our community

CONTINUOUS forms the fabric that will sustain our community

TOGETHER ... not ‘and’ … ‘➕’

Ricardo Mendes: 🔗 Test post without Syndication

Test post without Syndication

.. picked up in NetNewswire - shared to John.philpin.com and will drop web mention link into RSSChat.

👁️ Claude was out on the razzle last night.

🔗 All Maps Lie

.. an old drum of mine.

For sixty years we have been building systems to manage what we know.

History - specific rules, behind firewalls, command and control thinking, dashboards, sales playbooks ... and do not get me started on the ‘sales methodology’ industry.

The world changed. Slowly. Then all at once.

Now we (they?) all talk about transparency, trust, openness, sharing, engagement …

All talk. No trousers - because even with all the talk there is little to no help with any systems needed to navigate this new landscape.

"But we do," I hear you say: support systems, ticketing, wikis, community spaces, websites, CRM, newsletters ....

"No we don't." you might hear me reply. If you are still reading. They are still all about history.

Take the CRM. Please. It's not a Customer Relationship Management system. It's a Customer Records Management system.

We say our customers are our most important relationships. And then we put targets on their backs (and fronts).

Language Leaks has been tenet of mine for over a decade ( 🖇️ me in pre covid days on the topic ) - the sales and marketing world is full of these problems.

• Dominate the market.-Take the hill.- Maximise share of wallet- Push leads through the funnel. ... and oh so many more that get used n the 'marketing war rooms'.

AND - the sales funnel is not the buyer's journey. We built it for us, not for them. And still act surprised when it doesn't work. We the people dont even know we are on your journey.

Even the 4Ps - and yes they are still referenced ... Price, Place, Product, Promotion - are a framework built for a world that no longer exists. Designed to broadcast at people. In an age when people talk back and we don't listen -much less respond.

We have sixty years of infrastructure for a conversation that only went one way. It's hard to change. But change we must - in talk and action. Important distinction - because I hear the words from leadership - i don't see the change in their methods.

Don't believe me? Look at your last 'customer communication'. Be honest as you ask your self

• was it too long?

• was it interesting - not to you - to the recipient?

• was it sent as part of a mass 'blast'?

• how easy is it for the recipient to get off that list - or to tune what kind of emails they might actually want?

Whats To Be Done?

We don't just replace the 4Ps with four new words and call it done. We replace the thinking behind them. In case you are wondering ...

• Essence. Not Product. Who you are and why you matter. Before you say a word about what you sell.

• Exchange. Not Price. The mutual value in every interaction. Not just money, but time, trust, and attention. Given and received.

• Ease. Not Place. How frictionless it is to find you, choose you, stay with you. Friction is where customers quietly disappear.

• Experience. Not Promotion. Every touchpoint, every interaction, every moment that either builds the relationship or erodes it.

The 4Es are not new systems. You don't need to rip anything out.

You need to look at what you already have - your CRM, your website, your support desk, your sales process, ask a different question and listen to the different answers.

Not "what does this system record?" but "what does this system enable?"

The infrastructure is not the problem. The thinking is. Change the thinking and the systems you have start working differently.

That's the shift. Sixty years of recording. Now we learn to engage.

How Pete Townshend’s drunken night with two Sex Pistols inspired The Who’s last classic song with Keith Moon.

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But if you aren't of that persuasion have no fear - what I really wanted t share was this:

🔗🎵📼 ... great song and 4 people enjoying themselves making the music.

🔗 Brian Alvey writes

🔗 Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc., calls Google an "intentional bad actor" for using the same crawler for both search and AI.

Question - is Neil Vogel the ‘best thing since sliced bread’?

(Little Kiwi humour there.)

Looks Looked like a really interesting idea until I got to this screen. It speaks volumes.

👁️ I either broke the internet again or LinkedIN is down❓

Why were all these people at Auckland Town Hall last night?

Well, not to get ahead of ourselves - 🔗📼 this is what they thought at the end of it all.

Turns out they were waiting to hear 'this guy' perform.

He did. His name is Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

🔗 You can read all about him here.

27 years old Nottingham lad with roots back to Bahrain - and pretty much 'the dude' when you are talking Classical Cello - watch out 'Yo Yo'. Seriously - BBC Young Musician at 17 and played at Harry and Meghan's wedding at 19.

Last night? Great stuff - along with the 🔗Auckland Philharmmonia conducted by 🔗 Elena Schwarz. Interested to learn that her own first instrument was the cello - so I suspect we got something even more special.

The orchestra in full flight

Taking their bow ...

Many thanks to Phil and The 🔗 BNZBA for the invite.

We loved it.

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🎥 I watched 🔗The Client again. It is over 30 years old - which explains why all the great actors in it look so young. I remember enjoying it at the time. Not so much on the second 'outing' - a little bit 'thin' IMHO. BUT - still worth ★★★

📺 Finished watching Season 2 of 🔗 Sugar last night and every bit as good as 🖇️the first series. Don't miss it. ★★★★

🔗 Daring Fireball: Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails

The fact is, a lot of people use apps like Gmail for email that aren’t private. When you use Gmail, Google learns everything in your email. Amazon sees this as a competitive problem for them, not a privacy problem for users.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

… and America it would seem.

🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas

The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.

Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.

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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.

That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.

🔗📼 What A Croc

🔗 The Price Of Waiting — Gapingvoid

The problem isn't the advertising you see. It's the tracking you don't.

💬 There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.

Listening to Kara talk with Steve Hilton. Yet to finish, so will come back later - but so far - ‘yeah … nah' - despite how ‘reasonable’ he sounds.

Me - back in May - 🔗 🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California

He also hasn’t (so far) answered very clearly why anyone in CA should trust him.

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What’s this about? Tell you later …

💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.

👁️ Personally I'm against vertical drinking. But who am I to tell others how they should drink? Particularly those that have been sat down at a desk all day and are looking to stand vertically for a bit. What a load of swaddle. (sic)

Meanwhile - a picture of Paul Swaddle vertically drinking.

🔗 FileRouter is out -- Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days)

…. 🔗 From Brett’s Post

.. and a couple of days later - yes - yes it is:

BUT

… and all power to him - but that isn’t quite what I thought he meant. What do you think.?

Why would I need to wait for SetApp to have if it is already in the App Store?

👁️ Just for Bluesky now - so don't get excited - yet.

⏰ A few minutes later

OK, now - IF you are on Bluesk and you are reading this - now might be the time to get excited.

Of course if you aren't seeing this on Bluesky - then you are none the wiser.