No pictures - so no embarrassment.
One guy on the ladder nailing a bit of wood to a beam.
4 guys on ground, who I assume are;
- the ladder stabiliser
- design lead - โleft side needs to go up a bit mateโ
- health and safety
- supervisor
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๐ฌ content = slop. END OF.
But if you present me an essay, book, article, video, pithy comment, observation, slice of humour .. that broadens my mind, my thinking or entertains me .. Iโm all over it.
Cannot wait for the filters to arrive. To allow me to train my AI to throw content into the trash. 
๐ฌ Just a reminder. 
๐ฌ Content - the miracle worker โฆ 
Dear Kiwis .. a true story
๐ Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported.
Holy mackerel .. German kids on a world adventure, fly from New Zealand to the U.S.A. .. port of entry .. Honolulu โฆ and are arrested, handcuffed, locked up and deported .. the crime seems to be that they hadnโt firm-plans ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/22/dear-kiwis-a-true-story.html
"โI was saved by God to make America great againโ"
๐ฌ Tัump
Maybe. Then again โฆ
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
๐ฌ attributed to Sinclair Lewis - but actually unknown'
Related โฆ.๐ A poem from 2011 by Terry Ehret
A Public Policy Framework
๐ The Thought
Another doc prompted by something on LinkedIN - this one around a twenty year old doc called โPublic Policy Framework for the New Zealand Innovation Systemโ
I was curious as to
how well we had done - not well.
how well we could do - hard - but not impossible
ho... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/21/a-public-policy-framework-the.html
Stop Calling It Content
๐ The Thought
Contentย is a non differentiated, horrible, generic, cheap, replaceable kind of word.
Content is stored in silos - with grains and other commodities.
Content has minimalย value.
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The Resistance โฆ
"Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month."
Michael Moore: ๐ PROTEST EVERYWHERE โ Saturday, April 19
The NYT: ๐ Whatโs Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
The Guardian: ๐ Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda. - an ENGLISH newspaper
Join In: 50501 โ 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
The US PRESS continues to ignore it [๐ Sundayโs Front Pages] - congrats Anhorage! 
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Good read from Jason Fried โฆ
๐ Doing what you think, not what you thought
Extending the thought as a Haiku
Good read from Jason Fried
Plans fade, but now is clearer
Decide in the breeze. https://world.hey.com/jason/doing-what-you-think-not-what-you-thought-60bb5bef
๐๐๐๐๐ For Kiwiโs everywhere โฆ.
๐ Maybe There Is an I in Team - Now I Know - writes Dan Lewis. He clearly doesnโt follow me. A reminder for all โฆ.
"There might not be an โIโ in โtEaMโ .. but there is definitely a โMEโ"
๐บ Severance โ โ โ โ https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/20/severance.html
๐ Will this be the Chinese Century?
"Probably yes, though that may not mean what people expect."
๐ฌ Noah Smith https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-this-be-the-chinese-century?triedRedirect=true
Had a play with ๐ AI Site Builder from Wordpress. Itโs going to take some tunings and prompts to make it really play nice - requiring time I have not got for a project I do not have. Still. Interesting. https://ma.tt/2025/04/ai-site-builder/
๐ฌ 
Time To Self Medicate
๐ The Thought
Is Silicon Valley a destination, or just part of the journey?
โฆ and where is it anyway?
โฆ oh and why, despite the best attempts, countries all over the world seem to fall short of replicating it.
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Pattern Breakers | Breaking The Mold
๐ The Article
I donโt particularly recommend books.
I recommend people.
Mike Maples is one of those people.
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๐ Charity Is Doomed To Fail
If you donโt know who Dan Palotta is - you should.
This is a short introduction to him, his ideas and his work and how it ties to something I wrote nearly 10 years ago.
We built ๐ The Future Found with these principles at core.
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