Caveat

The source of this post is a separate blog where I am experimenting with a new AI app we are building. In other words, for now, no guarantees of the veracity of the contents.

🔗 🎙️ Rushkoff - Corleone Style Diplomacy - 20 minutes, well worth a listen - a ‘theory of everything’. https://overcast.fm/+AArOlmzQj7Y

🔗 🎙️Behind the founder: Marc Benioff on Lenny’s Podcast

I don’t listen to all Lenny’s stuff - but he’s a solid podcaster if you are in the tech startup / scaleup world. AND he is getting some really high profile guests. Benioff the latest (and maybe the highest profile to date?)

"Your customers are your best salespeople."

Sidenote - at times I snipe from the gallery re Salesforce but have to hand it to Marc - he stands apart from so many of the tech bros (maybe because he isn’t?), is trying to do better and is an awesome ‘Guerilla Marketeer’ … 🔗 he learnt from the best. https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1HrHiSI https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/behind-the-founder-marc-benioff

My thanks to Jason for clarifying how this post that starts on Philpin.com gets to display on John.Philpin.com … so I might need to append a content warning when I start up with the real posts.

It’s a little bit odd, because back in The People First Days, I am sure the links went back to People First .. w... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/my-thanks-to-jason-for.html

🖇️ Globalisation Defined -18 Years Ago 😂 https://john.philpin.com/2006/04/09/globalisation.html

About that word ‘top notch’.

As a Brit I associate it with ‘times past’. (The 19th century specifically). I used to (maybe a couple of decade ago) associate the phrase as spam - a way for snake oil salesmen and spammers to attempt to elevate itself above its actual class of ‘worthless shit’.

I looked it up …

"The phrase “top-notch” can indeed be associated with spam emails. It is listed among various words and phrases that spam filters commonly flag as potential indicators of unsolicited or promotional content"

Recently, I felt that it had disappeared, at least from my world … until 2024 - wher... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/about-that-word-top-notch.html

One More College Try … https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/one-more-college-try.html

Is This Thing On? https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/25/is-this-thing-on.html

🚧 💬 Quotes. I collect them, so maybe a ‘collection’ application?

This is going to be a living , breathing kinda post.

And like all living, breathing things … it might die.

About that walk around the hood.

Thought I might try out ‘collections’.

Spotted on my walk around the ‘hood today. It might seem odd with no snow - but my guess it is closer to reality when you think about where all this started. (Admittedly tho’ more focussed on SC, less so on JC.)

Happy Holidays

So Reeder .. the new one. Was trying to work out if it can work off the same source file on iCloud as the old reeder. I seem to have two distinct backends?

Good grief .. as long as I have been with Micro.blog …

TIL that there is an RSS FEED for all the people you follow on Micro Blog.

But Wait. There’s more …

TIL that the Reeder allows you to cut straight through to microblog to interact with posts.

Thankyou @Aeryn https://micro.blog/Aeryn

🔗 Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional. … sense prevails - in Arkansas! https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-books-librarians-obscenity-lawsuit-c05fc196fe4ba9c6ffe83d3287bc0d2f

🔗 The Word for 2025 is Fragility - by Dana F. Blankenhorn

… I always have ‘three words’ for a year. Reminds me. I need to get on to that. https://open.substack.com/pub/danafblankenhorn/p/the-word-for-2025-is-fragility?r=2d79

🔗 The Riddle of Luigi Mangione. makes for an interesting read. Sounds like Gurwinder was his last online interaction and he also became a customer of ReadWise. https://open.substack.com/pub/gurwinder/p/the-riddle-of-luigi-mangione?r=2d79

🔗 Trump Organization Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama.

… well that explains THAT. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-panama-canal-threats-hotel-taxes-court-filing-2005079

Over here on Micro.Blog emojis are used .. a lot. Even categories are emojis ..which is fun, if not altogether a block on real discovery.

Meanwhile, there is an even darker side to emojis emerging that we might want to be aware of and be careful with.

💬 it’s an older quote and analogy .. but it got me to wondering how the Muskrat, Andreesen, Thiel category fits in? Parasites? I think worse.

💬 Frum seems to have successfully reduced the issue to a single sentence.