Design May 30, 2020 💬 & 🔗 & observations “If you care about design, I would posit that the most pressing evolutionary challenge it faces is not design systems or design-to-code or even On Time May 30, 2020 quotes ”All we have is the time we have left.” Dave Winer Raising Money in the UK v the US May 29, 2020 💡 & 🖋 & 🔍 & business.of.tech I’ve used versions of these words in several emails over the past couple of years, so decided to publish for posterity. If you seek to raise money There’s Teams That Work - And There’s Teams That Don’t. May 28, 2020 💡 & 🔍 & observations The nature of what I do finds me working (all be it remotely) with different teams. Turns out that different teams - are different kinds of teams. The ability to change, and to grow, and to confound. May 27, 2020 🎵 & 💡 & 💬 & 🔗 & 🖋 & humanity I think that for some of us it is almost impossible to have a cohesive identity or, rather, there are some whose inconsistent and conflicted sense Growing My Newsletter List May 27, 2020 💡 & 🔗 & 🖋 & 🗒 & business.of.tech My Newsletter celebrated its first birthday a couple of weeks ago. It was important to me, because one year ago I had tried several times to start Why Aren’t Micro Payments Used In The Publishing Industry May 26, 2020 💬 & 🔗 & business.of.tech “Why is the only way news orgs will accept money from readers subscriptions? Before the net I could buy a single edition of a newspaper or magazine We’ve Got What We Deserve May 25, 2020 💬 & 🔗 & observations “In The Atlantic Tom Nichols writes that Trump is not a manly president. I don’t particularly care for that approach, I think honor and modesty are On Truth. May 24, 2020 🎵 & quotes ”The only truth is music.” Jack Kerouac On Destination May 24, 2020 📚 & quotes ”One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” Henry Miller … Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch On Language May 24, 2020 quotes “Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits language and language is its body.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty … From On Knowing May 24, 2020 quotes “I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your On Life May 24, 2020 📚 & quotes ”The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." Frank Herbert - Dune The Fisherman Meets An MBA | ANON May 24, 2020 📜 & humanity A vacationing American businessman standing on the pier of a quaint coastal fishing village in southern Mexico watched as a small boat with just one The Guest House | Rumi May 14, 2020 💬 & 📜 & humanity This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected No Job Is Safe May 14, 2020 💡 & 🔍 & observations In the early days of the internet; “If you can deliver your work, value, ideas, product … through the internet - so too can your competitors.” … and Second Guessing Your Key People May 14, 2020 💬 & 🔗 & observations “The reason America can’t handle the Coronavirus is the same reason we can’t do anything else right. We don’t let the people who do the work have The TipShitShow May 14, 2020 🔗 & business.of.tech Matt Stoller writing on How the Pandemic Is Launching the Era of Online Platform Regulation. We know that Google and Facebook disinter-mediated the The 4 Lessons May 14, 2020 💬 & 🔗 & observations The Elephant in the Airport Tom Evslin on why we should focus on single issues at our peril. He concludes with 4 lessons : Pilots are taught never British Pub Culture | ANON May 14, 2020 📜 & observations NOT my original words. They came to me through the ether and the only credit I have thius far found is : ‘KJMB’, for now planted here for posterity. Next page