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🔗🎵 Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found. I still remember sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown.
🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermartket https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html
And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.
🔗 Link with my highlights
🔗 The Original
https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/heard-on-a.html https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j27scnakh4exsm63vjprc838 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-turn-into
Heard on a show last night ….
"The myth of California right? You are who you say you are."
Another step backwards? I was wondering why Apple Books highlights weren’t synching with Readwise .. turns out a change in the system .. and it now requires me to share the highlights I want to share with Readwise individually. Pretty sure that this is not a Readwise decision.
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Somebody is clearly feeling grumpy. So I just deleted and moved on. No point In engaging.
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Changing it up from the usual Sunrise.
"Microsoft has told employees in China that starting in September they can use only iPhones for work, not Android phones, as part of a new security effort."
Via The Information.
On It.
News from 🇬🇧
The guy who owns the key cutting business is in charge of prisons.
📺 Hijack (includes a very light ‘spoiler’ alert)
What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
Well - at least until the final episode.
Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/hijack-includes-a.html
See What I Mean?
Serious question .. can you imagine politicians (established or aspiring) doing this in America for the better good?
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🔗 Heather Cox Richardson from last Friday.
🔗Same with my highlights
🔗🎙️Heather talking to Kara … long, but oh so worth it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-5-2024-friday https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j25s5vt6f7jpgra2k9mc1sxz https://overcast.fm/+7_XQXroek
💬 I would argue that the thought is far from ‘heretical’. What say you?
