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🔗 Product Design and Conway’s Law by Marketoonist

.. and there you have it.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

… via John Naughton.

🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier's previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he'd then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.

🔗 'Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens' Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG...) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.

🔗 Worlds Colliding

🔗 Throbsday – Doc Searls Weblog

AI writing is AutoTune for the human kind.

The Apple Vision Pro is a failed dead/dud product

🖇️ Such as Wired back in 2023 - which I always rail against if I have a spare moment.

This is why …

🔗 Apple Vision Pro in Surgery: Asymco

🔗 Excellent News - @manton - thank you.

🔗 Micro.blog News -

@manton - seeing this makes me think that the whole page that manages ‘sources’ in the world of ‘aggregate’ and ‘syndicate’ could be managed in a much better way. I am probably (again) an edge case - but for me it is a confusing cacophony that I have to recalibrate my brain for every time I go 🔗 here.

If you are thinking about it at all - would be happy to summarise my thoughts for you. No point in doing that if you aren’t 😉.

Been a Sangeet follower for years - but don’t often share his wisdom. Not sure why. BUT - here’s an exception - one of those posts that connects disparate area of personal interest. Enjoy.

🔗 Scarcity and strategy - Misreading AI the way Hollywood misread streaming

💬 Events compound in unfathomable ways.

👁️ OH - wait .... hello 'me' 👋🏼

just talking to myself - but confirmed it does. I tried Dave's app earlier - wriging there - routes to my blog - which syndicated to BlueSky - amongst others - and safely arrived. As did a reply from Masto - back in. Was wondering if RSC was going to behave the same way - and it did - full round trip confirmed. Well 'full' is foing some heavy lifting there - more testing needed - but need to work out first what I am testing for :-)

😂 Talking of the creative application of maps …

If you live in Clacton

Make Your Vote Count

This post started over in DaveLand ... got federated to my accounts via Micro.Blog (thanks @manton) to which I replied and now sharing that reply from Ricardo's 'RSC' (Really Simple Conversation) .. the world always was wacky .. it's now getting easier to be wacky .. and potentially generate ECHOES of ECHOES of Echoes of echoes of ech ...

Indeed .. I wonder if this will work the same way❓

Well look at that @dave .. it worked .. taking the same route as you .. just in a different truck … here to Micro.blog to BlueSky … and Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr et al .. thanks to @manton.

LATER THIS MORNING:

Saving for posterity - this what was orgianlly posted and somehow broke because of html and markdown trying to work in the same space.

Just an FYI @dave and @manton

Yes … despite the proclamation .. logo once again gone. I know why. I know how to fix it. I just need to actually do it!

Following some breadcrumbs.

Jax won't say anything - so taking a few minutes out to sing her praises.

Last week she was talking with someone who is on their way to ‘new friend’ status when the conversation inevitably arrived at the ‘so - what do you do’ question - and the conversation took off.

A young man (related to new friend) was listening in.

This text received the next day.

Praise doesn’t often come from teenagers, but (name redacted) was loving listening to our conversation and said “I never thought I’d meet someone like her, someone who is switched on but also doing something about it“ 😊

The most telling part of this is that a lot of people who should know better simply do not understand her work - just nod their heads and move on. Why?

• Too hard. (No - it isn't.)
• Doesn't apply to me / doesn't happen here. (Yes it does and yes it does.)
• Assumes wrongly that others are already fixing this.(No - they aren't.).

**Very proud of Jax and all that she is doing in this tortured world. **

🔗📼 A Banger from Binface

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"Govinda" by Kula Shaker Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Apparently they are still going ... who knew? This had my ears at the time - as did [🖇️ the album](https://john.philpin.com/2026/08/08/k-by-kula-shaker.html) - and still does. I can't fail to listen to Govinda and not feel uplifted. View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist

Released in 1996 in the middle of ‘Brit Pop’ - yet curiously Oasis, Blur and Pulp all did NOT release and album that year. Not sure they fit into the BritPop category - but no less great for it.

👁️ Normal service has been resumed. Again. My posts were once more failing to find their way on to the blog - much lesss out to the world.

FIXED - but this one was down to me.

I am officially now classed in 'Myers Briggs' as 'EEJIT'.

🔗 EchoFeed is Shutting Down

I hadn’t heard of Echofeed before, so no comment - other than isn't the vast majority of what it offered built right into Micro.Blog? Misunderstanding❓ Missing something❓

💬 Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without.

💬 the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.

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👁️ Heh @AndySylvester - look what I just 🖇️ rediscovered ❗️

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💬 Life is defined by change, chance, and choice.

👁️ oh no … not Airtable.

🏗️⛑️ Interested to see an error suddenly pop up on my blog for a post that has been there for over three years. Never touched since.

I investigated - found the error - fixed.

I guess Micro.Blog is becoming less forgiving about amateur hour?

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

Time to do this in Auckland.

👁️ How long before the Shopify uprisings begin?