Remember these names. #DINOs

"Ultimately, Schumer was joined in voting to advance the measure by Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Gary Peters of Michigan, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats."

🎵 Day Zero. It’s here.

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Anita Roddick

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Roddick https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

[🔗🔎 You know how I hate that word ‘content’](john.philpin.com/search-sp… .. it’s getting worse. https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Content%5D

🔗Who is Jasmine Mooney? ICE detains Canadian entrepreneur at US border, sends her to Arizona facility ‘in chains’ - Hindustan Times

I am finding this story being reported in a number of places .. though no where in US media.

More to come as I triangulate. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-jasmine-mooney-ice-detains-canadian-entrepreneur-at-us-border-sends-her-to-arizona-facility-in-chains-101741888909428.html

Trying to understand Starmer’s tariff response - don’t. But I’m sure he has a cunning plan. (#baldrick .. I wonder if Rick really is bald?)

I don’t know this for a fact but that post from John Gruber about AI must be close to one of his longest - saved for later.

A different view of the Windmillls

B-Bye now. Thanks for the hang.

‘Dear Leader’ is not just a sign of enforced affection .. but in the UK, is also an expression that signifies the overall cost to both people and country.

"“Ooh they’re dear.”"

.. a Brit might say when looking seeing the price of eggs in the U.S.A. #LanguageEfficiency

I think I’ll leave the muskrat to kiss your dad’s feet Lara - of course - your dad will definitely have to return the favour .. I mean it’s what the President expects.

Took in some Desert X the other day .. my favourite from the ones I saw. Will try to post some more later.

2 Days To Go.

Are you the same at work as you are at the pub? - Gapingvoid

"Personality isn’t permanent"

🖇️ More Gaping Void Nuggets https://www.gapingvoid.com/are-you-the-same-at-work-as-you-are-at-the-pub/ https://john.philpin.com/categories/gaping-void/

🔗 Early Impressions of the M4 MacBook Air - On my Om

"Arc Browser, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Google Drive, Telegram, Zoom, Microsoft Word, Marsedit, ChatGPT, Claude, Quill Desktop, and MacWhisper."

Kudos @danielpunkass one of just 12 apps Om installed on a ’fresh build’ Mac. https://om.co/2025/03/11/the-new-m4-macbook-air/ https://micro.blog/danielpunkass

🔗 Big Tech: Proceed with Caution - Gapingvoid

"Imagine a ‘connect-the-dots’ (Ed: playbook). The people in an organization are the dots. Their relationships are the lines connecting them. That complex web represents an organization. And culture, which occurs in the spaces in between, is the picture that emerges based on how those dots are connected. If you erase 10,000 dots, what happens to the picture?"

🖇️ More Gaping Void Nuggets https://www.gapingvoid.com/big-tech-proceed-with-caution/ https://john.philpin.com/categories/gaping-void/

🔗 Culture Got Us Into This Mess - Gapingvoid

"Over the last few decades, while China created a world-class manufacturing capability, we created the Rust Belt. We bled our manufacturing capability dry."

🖇️ More Gaping Void Nuggets https://www.gapingvoid.com/culture-got-us-into-this-mess/ https://john.philpin.com/categories/gaping-void/

🔗 Charlie Munger’s Greatest Lesson - Gapingvoid

"The reason why there are thousands of quotes across the internet from Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Maya Angelou, Henry Ford, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, is because their ability as communicators is what drove their success."

🖇️ More Gaping Void Nuggets https://www.gapingvoid.com/charlie-mungers-greatest-lesson-communication/ https://john.philpin.com/categories/gaping-void/

🔗 Control is an Illusion - Gapingvoid

"The map is not the territory."

🖇️ More Gaping Void Nuggets https://www.gapingvoid.com/control-is-an-illusion/ https://john.philpin.com/categories/gaping-void/

"This is more challenging than it looks. That’s okay. That’s why we need you to do it."

💬 Seth Godin

🔗 Two kinds of instructions https://seths.blog/2025/03/two-kinds-of-instructions/