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2019
September
On Getting It Right
August
Just Some Links
Does Northern Ireland really hold the world record for the longest period without a sitting government?
On Knowledge
Free Product Placement - Surely That’s A Typo?
On Morals
July
No Names To Protect The Innocent
From their groundbreaking 2017 book, How Democracies Die.
The Man
Cute
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Defining Digital Identity
On Life
On Life
On Life
On Confidence
On On ‘The Essential’
June
The Mechanics Of Business
Sometimes You Wonder
An Early View Of A New Series
Dressed to Distress
Seen many of these over the years, but never this one - and certainly not one as long as this.
On Intelligence
May
On Words
A Data Manifesto
On Improvisation
On Direction
Sausalito
I started to write a response to this in the comments - but I obviously want on too long, and got cut off … so I am making a post, and will make it as long as I want!
Alan Jacobs asked in one of his recent newsletters ….
On Tourism
On Ambition
Read this if you’ve got ‘nothing to hide’
It’s A First - I Have Been Censored
April
On Change
On Language
On The British
On England
On Insults
On The English
On Empire
On The British
On Poems
Happy St. George’s Day
On Truth
On Reading
On Certainty
On Betting
On Trust
On Idleness
Truth
On Zero
On Fear
On Failure
On People
On Confusion
A Premonition?
On Morality
On Predictions
On Teaching
White People Have A Lying Problem
On Teaching
On Minds
A quote appeared in an article today that resonated deeply … and then it opened up some moments leading to a reminder of the Queen song … ‘Is This The World We Created.
Uber Alles
There’s an old poker adage - if you can’t work out who the sucker is at the table - you are the sucker.
iPad Mini (2019) Review
A Solution To Immigration Law
The Role Of Oracle’s Magic Suitcase’ In It’s Anti-Google Campaign
There Is No Limit To The Ugliness Of Facebook
On Offensive License Plates
On Time
On Thinking
On Pursuit
On Paradise
On Love
On Government
On Work
On Trump
On Sleep
On Happiness
On Minds
On Traveling
On Praying
On Writing
On The American Dream
On Flaws
On Creativity
Microblog featured in examples of ‘The Most Hyped Technology of Every Year From 2000-2018’
Job Disatisfaction … However You Cut it.
Twenty Six Billion Phone Calls Last Year
This is Not Your Father’s VC Uniform
Spotify And How They Will Make Money In The Future?
Why The New York Times did not sign up for Apple News+
On Writing
On History
On Truth
On Truth
On Religion
On Wars
On Management
On Desire
On Beer
On Artifical Intelligence
Is The ‘News’ In ‘Apple News’ A Misnomer?
Embarrassed? ‘Not’ Would Be My Guess. Sadly.
On Specialization
On Immigration
On Hunger
On Forgiveness
On Decisions
On What Counts
Living The Dream
On Grammar
March
Facebook and Google Can’t Even Track Their Own Money
IRA bomber names four men he says were responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings …
Doc Searls On ‘Markets’ and ‘Content’.
On Truth
On Education
On Men
On Wisdom
On Climate
On Service
On Poetry
Interesting ‘Laws’
Apple deserves kudos for doing right by workers
How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation
On Needs
5 Calendar Problems That Eat Your Productivity
On Magic
On Privacy
On Price
On Calm
On Politics
On Matter
A Letter From Groucho
On The Good Life
Rules To Live By
On Judgement
On Astrology
People First Tenets
Gig Worker, Freelancer, Independent Contractor … Whatever you call yourself - this is important …
Outsourcing Helps You Manage Your Business.
On Perception
On Humanity
The Demand of 2020: Law and Order
May is Utterly Unfit to Lead
On Digital
On Answers
On Dying
On Appearance
On Genius
Remaking the Servant Economy
Visualizing EV Sales Around the World
The Challenge Of Self-sovereign Identity In The Digital World
On Vegeterianism
CEO Pay Is Still Growing
Mike Trout Doesn’t Care About His Online Brand.
North Korea Warns That It May Restart Missile Tests
American Leadership on Air Safety Under Question Across the Globe
On Writing
On Strength
On Spirituality
On Politics
On History
On Evil
On Cricket
On Attitude
It’s Great Working For Trump!
Manafort has had it good so far, even without the new New York charges …
On Cooperation
Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages
The Great Realignment of Britain
How Beto O’Rourke Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Podcasts, Microcasts and now Snickelcasts
The Present Of Work
Work - There Has To Be A Better Way.
On Minds
On Being
On Google
The Incredible Story Of The Incredibles
If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
Trump - A Truly Excellent Business Person
Is Trump’s Economy Floundering?
On Silicon Valley
The Devil Is In The Detail
Scared Yet?
On What Matters
February
On Questions
On The Presidency
On Performance
On Democracy
On Capitalism
On Direction
On Protocols
On Experience
On Power
On Chairs
Welcome To The Machine
A Start to Solving The People Centered Economy
Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n.
On Success
On Curiosity
On Lies
On Response
On Silence
What Does It Mean to Be a Canadian Citizen?
On Fools and Fanatics
Science is a Liberal Art
It’s About The Oil
On Reputation Systems
We Are Thinking About The Future Of Work All Wrong
🎵 Who Was Major Tom
“For instance, onboarding training …..
On Life
The Economy
On Education
On Courage
On Knowledge
On Death
On Republicans
On Monsters
On Opportunity
On Integrity
Meaningful Work
Creating Value
Goals For A People Centered Economy
The Convergence Of The Phone And Laptop
On Man
On Creation
On Trouble
On Reading … And Writing
On Writing
In Praise of Idleness
The World Has Gone Mad … Part 2,384,456,216!
On Organization
On Beauty?
On Knowledge
On Conversation
January
What’s In A Name?
Tangential … or Random
The Acidification Of The Ocean
2018
December
Sign Of The Times?
Ace Ain’t No Ace
Clarification
On Time
On Minorities
On Genius v Talent
On England
The 7 Chakras 1
Taxi Chronicles - We’re All In It Together
Taxi Chronicles - Travis
Taxi Chronicles - Boris
Please - Do Not Call It Content
Pinboard Links For Posterity
One Of Those Important Pieces Of Clarity That I Like To Read
Introducing ‘The Taxi Chronicles’
Feedly To Blot To Micro Blog To The Stars
Are Millennials “Just Poor”?
Wisconsin Gerrymandering Was Awesome
The Yield Curve Has Inverted!
84% of stocks owned by richest 10% of Americans
“Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In are starting to look like Ivanka Trump and Women Who Work, just privileged posers and empty rhetoric.
On Blogs in the Social Media Age
“It’s not the most important thing in the world but after March I’ll need a visa to travel across Europe again.
What’s in a Name?
The Slippery Slope of Complicity
When Do You Stand Up And Say ‘NO’?
What’s Wrong with Tech? Late Stage Capitalism
SpaceX Announces First Private Passenger for Moon Trip
US Customs and Border Protection Sued Over iPhone Search and Seizure
Free Photo Resources
Introducing Living Notes For Better Timeliness
The Future of Work
News Is A Commodity
U.S. Slowdown at Uber and Lyft
Truth Isn’t Truth
Potential and Loss
2018: Halfway Through the Gauntlet
On Change
On Philosophy
On Teaching
On Pictures
On Pictures
On Words
Not Yet Attributed
Catching Up Or Cheating ?
AI and The Future Of Work
November
Panama Papers
Tsunamis vs. Waves
The Gig Economy
On Change
This Is Not America
End Of Worlds?
An Endless Black Friday of the Soul
The Deficit Didn’t Explode Because Trump’s an Idiot
Stopping Brexit?
On Seeing
Time for a New Type of Tech CEO?
On Life
On Anger
On Misbehaving
On Heroes
On Twitter
On Eternity
On Ethics
Israeli minister urges Airbnb boycott
Building Technology for Good
Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure
Can EU states block Brexit deal?
Day 670: Steadfast
With ‘Unlimited Funds to Lie’
Trump Tries To Explain
Send Me Home
Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office
On Writing
J.J. Abrams
Bond - As Done By Herzog
AliveCor Versus Apple Watch Series 4
Why I Stopped Listening To ’Tech’ Podcasts
Thinking
The Sound Track Of My Life
Recent Customer Service Response Times and Experiences
Debugging The Ulysses - Blot Interaction
On Anger
On Reading
🎵 Black Sabbath to be honoured by the City of Birmingham
On Opportunity
What’s Good For The Goose
America Could Use Some Deals
On Musicians
Owning Your Own Work
December 10th - Who Will Be There?
December 10th Celebrates 70 years of Our Freedoms
What Are You Doing On December 10th?
Stop Walmart Act
Facebook’s Dirty Tricks
Sweetbridge Network Operators
Using Metadata to Manage Posts and Articles In Blot
On Narcissism
On Predictions
On Writing
On Music
On Dan Rather
On Congress
On Bitcoin
A Party For Time Travellers
The Climax State
Perception .. Is It Reality? ..
Huxley On Propaganda
October
Putin Didn’t Make Us Racist
On Children
Making A Difference
I Am Using Micro Blog and Blot.IM To Replace Corporately Owned ‘Social’ Spaces. You Should Too.
England — So Close to The Continent
Freedom Requires Staying Outside. Remaining Uninvited.
Opportunism
Google Plus
The Gerontocracy is Driving America into the Ditch
The Magic Leap Con
The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
About That Facebook Video Portal
Salary Negotiation
Odd … Isn’t It?
Blot.IM Help
Kids .. they think of EVERYTHING
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip.
Streaming Services Are Not Good For Artists
Kurt Vonnegut on the Role of Artists in Society
Seriously?
Why It Can Happen Here
Why a conservative social network would fail
Vote. No Excuses. Vote.
Trump’s 4 Biggest Lies about Today’s Economy
Trump Is So Predictable
Top 7 Signs Willie Nelson Might not be a Republican
The Rise Of The Teachers
The Eye of the Hurricane
Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here
Right Wing Power Grabs
Resistance Is Not Futile
Report Confirms Trump Involvement In Moving FBI
No Argument
Mueller Investigation Has Already Paid For Itself
How Fred Trump turned ‘The Don’ into the monster he is now
Making Tariffs Corrupt Again
Make America Great Again
Koch-Backed Group Supports Restoring Felon Voting Rights
Ignorance Is Bliss … Until It Is Too Late
Hidden In Full Sight
Do You Dance Like An Ironing Board?
Dimwits. Halfwits. Idiots.
Desperate - Or Despicable?
Days of Fear, Years of Obstruction
Crap At Business, Great At The Con
Court Rules MEPs’ Expense Spending To Remain Secret
Congress Finally Stands Up to Trump
Colin Kaepernick and Nike
Colin Kaepernick and Nike
Bush Won’t Help Ted Cruz
Brett Kavanaugh and the Triumph of Movement Conservatism
Blame It on the Base
American Bar Association Reopens Kavanaugh Evaluation
America Winning …
Agreeing With Both Opposing Thoughts
Power To The People
Who Are You - Just In Time Advice
Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die
The Human API Manifesto
Snakes - Yes SNAKES - and Ladders
Proof
Death In Translation
Cavemen Cavities
On iA Writer
Blot Help
“To calibrate this consider that Facebook revenues for the last 12 months were $48 billion and it now has a market capitalization of $468 billion or 41% that of Apple whereas Services consists of about 14% of Apple’s total revenues.
The Markup - A New Journalism Venture
Sometimes you forget how far we have come
Run Windows apps on your Mac without Windows
A New Scam or Not Paying Attention?
On VCs
Meet The Woman Who Gives Nerdy Tech Execs A Makeover
Mary Meeker Is Leaving Kleiner Perkins
Ideal Clients
How the Platform Economy Is Reshaping Global Trade
How Adobe’s $4.75 Billion Acquisition Of Marketo Was A Huge Win For Vista Equity
Facebook Unveils ‘The Portal’
Engineers are fixing Silicon Valley
Dediu and Thompson Both Understand Apple …
Cop Pulls Tesla Model 3 Driver Over For ‘Computer’ Mounted On Dashboard
Chinese Authorities: Didi bears ‘unshirkable responsibility’ for passenger’s death.
Apple’s Position on OUR Privacy
About That Watch Alert Thing When You Fall …
Apple Looks Down On Ads, But Takes Billions From Google
Everyone Can Create
How Adobe’s $4.75 Billion Acquisition Of Marketo Was A Huge Win For Vista Equity
Adobe’s $4.75 Billion Acquisition Of Marketo
Is It Ok To Mount A Computer On Your Car’s Dashboard?
Comparative Valuations
York Solar System Trail
Who Kept the Dogs Out
The Queen’s Secret Code
‘Annihilation’ Event is Unfolding at Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico
On Maintenance
It Didn’t Have To Be That Way
September
Simon - The Genius In My Basement
The JFK Memorial at Runnymede
Trump Won’t Go Quietly
August
How Did We Get Here?
The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia
The Future of Privacy: Disinformation
Facebook’s Flawed DNA
Omarosa
Facebook v Feds
June
On Thinking
On Madness
March
On Platforms
February
Work. Though Not In Praise Of It.
Why Paper Jams Persist …
Whopper Neutrality
When Good Is Bad
What Might Have Been - Or Is?
Think About That
If It Feels Too Good To Be True
Tiny House Living As A Community
🎵 What Might Have Been
The Hoodie Kings
The Good Economic News Is Actually Bad
The Future Of Funding
Solar Power vs. Pumpkin
What Makes A Smart Speaker Smart?
Privacy Is Not Absolute
Let Them Eat French Fries
For People of Color …
One On Chuck
Investing In WW1
Has Trumphoria Finally Hit a Wall
Trump Repeats Nixon’s Fateful Panic
He’s Such An Idiot - But Still There
Has Anyone Seen the President
Guns For The Mentally Ill
Google Has Lost It
Do As I Say - Not As I Do
Constitutional Crisis
Constitutional Crisis in Slow Motion
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
An Open Letter To My Alumni
2017
October
On Time
August
On Yourself
2016
July
On Business
January
The standard footers
2015
December
On Revolution
On Power and Capital
On Oppression
On Next Year
On Control
May
On Powerful Ideas
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