A Set Of Links Jun 1, 2020 💡 & 🔗 & 🎥 & 🥇 & 💬 & 🗒 & around.the.world There’s more, but publishing now to add to this living list. I am going to reference them in two or more short pieces. Hong Kong protests: deputy One Of Those Important Pieces Of Clarity That I Like To Read Jun 1, 2020 🗂 & observations “To raise … means to lift or move something or someone upward. It also means to increase.” whereas To rise … means to move upward or to What Is Normal Jun 1, 2020 ↩️ & 🥇 & 🔗 & 🖋 & humanity I wrote the following to something written by @cleverdevil over on MicroBlog. Normal Is A Privilege I have no disagreement with the threads of the On Empowerment May 31, 2020 quotes ”While Team Human may be compromised in the digital environment, team algorithm is empowered.” Douglas Rushkoff Read More : On the Internet of Back To Basics - it’s About Being Better. May 30, 2020 🥇 & 💡 & 🖋 & 🔍 & 🗒 & business.just.business The nature of people is that we want to get better and better things for less money faster and faster That is the landscape we are competing in. 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 Next page