📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 9 (23rd) : Baking

Replying To A LinkedIN Post https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/replying-to-a-linkedin-post.html

Today’s challenge is going to be .. hell .. IS .. HARD❗️

"For the last 15 years, many companies chased ‘digital transformation.’ But if we’re honest, most of us didn’t transform, we digitised. We took analog processes and made them digital. We moved pieces to the cloud. We modernised within silos. We upgraded the present - instead of redesigning the future for a digital-first world."

💬 Brian Solis

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I have a draft that I clearly need to finish that is exactly along this theme although I call it a ‘**data-lead people first world’.

A reminder from 🔗 Brian Solis - possibly a riff on John Caswell’s mantra - “the last thing you need near a problem is an expert”.

"When Steve Jobs was finally convinced to pursue the iPhone (and he had to be convinced), he gathered his inner circle and asked: Who should we bring into this project?

Naturally, the team responded like experts, they brought forward the “smartest people” in the industry."

Jobs exploded.

"“I don’t want anyone to work on the iPhone if they’ve worked on a phone,” he said (minus the expletives). “Because we’re not building a phone.”" https://briansolis.com/2025/12/were-not-building-a-phone-steve-jobs-leadership-lesson-for-reframing-the-future/

Rewatched 🎥 🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.

🔗 Fixed

At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.

Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.

I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/744653 https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/the-thursday-murder-club.html

Can New Zealand Win? No. Unless it redefines the game. https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/responding-to-bill-bennets-article.html

The Thursday Murder Club, 2025 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/the-thursday-murder-club.html

It’s 2025 - more than 50 years since The British Tabloids dubbed Andrew (formally known as Prince) ‘Randy Andy’. I continue to be surprised that people are surprised at how this all turned out.

I think it was @jsonbecker that wrote a post about 🔗 Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - which I am only just getting\g around to look at and wondering - anyone get this working against their photo library in Micro Blog? https://micro.blog/jsonbecker https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 8 (22nd) : Grinch

🖇️ Yesterday’s was the hardest to date. Looks like today’s is the easiest - at least so far. https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/21/a-different-way-of-looking.html

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 7 (21st) : Solstice

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 6 (20th) : Sparkle

From Burning Shed:

💯- of course it is - well deserved - love it.

🗺️ - wait what - need to go look that one up.

🎧 - need to revisit and remind

Have I missed non missable entries?

"And now, it’s that time of year again where we present the only chart that matters: the Burning Shed 2025 best sellers."

Steven Wilson - The Overview 💯

Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant

Jethro Tull - Still Living In The Past

Billy Bragg - A People’s History

Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII 💯

Big Big Train - Bard

BEAT - Neon Heat Disease Live

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary editions) 💯

Steven... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/19/from-burning-shed-of-course.html

Be interesting to read about @numericcitizen explorations with n8n .. on my list for the new year … jumping from IFTTT directly to there seems a big jump .. but then maybe not? https://micro.blog/numericcitizen

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 5 (19th) : Beard

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Wake Up Dead Man, 2025 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/18/wake-up-dead-man.html

🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms

"The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea." https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-weird-part-was-the-platforms/

🔗 Literal Enshittification: ‘Smart’ Toilets Play Fast And Loose With Your Pooping Data | Techdirt

… I’m glad someone is reporting on the important shit. (Pun intended). https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/literal-enshittification-smart-toilets-play-fast-and-loose-with-your-pooping-data/

Just discovered Jesse Wells

.. this just in from the #LivingUnderTheRockArchives

It seems odd that we aren’t hearing more about GOP states openly gerrymandering their districts in advance of 2026 - and nobody seems to be reporting on it - at least not very much. Shocked? Not really.

**Happy Birthday Dad - you would have been 101. **

I don’t think you would have liked this world - but at least you don’t have to pay attention any more.

💬 The conversation moves on, from the poached egg to the toast.

Back in the day ‘we’ had a line:

"Oracle’s first platform for any `Product’ is always PowerPoint - and is written by LJE."

It stemmed from Larry’s penchant for announcing products in large public forums and nobody else seemed to have any knowledge of it.

Just read this:

🔗 The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

With this quote

Some Oracles never change. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01k4nv5cz4fvkjxv0pxgfyhsbc

Uber Sucks

Four Tools I Use

When I tell others, they seem to find useful.

Ikigai - look it up

Pay Play Passion and Purpose - a Structured Thought Model

Maven, Communicator and Networker - think Gladwell

Core and Context - think Moore - but then add a touch of Structured Thought with a dash of #PeopleFirst