It’s About The Thing, Stupid,
It seems to me the only way to change a thing is to find new people who are just focused on the thing and not on how to get rich from the thing.
Source: It’s About The Thing, Stupid - Writing By Frank McPherson
Jonathan Chait,
Judging by Niskanen’s overview of the landscape, it is difficult to identify any aspect of public policy in which the Republican Party is making the world a better place.
Source: I’ve Seen the Future of a Republican Party That’s Not Insane
Winner Of The The Nobel Peace Prize – People First John Philpin,
And when I ask myself ‘what can I do to be like them, I look at Xanthe … to all intents and purposes, growing up in the same village, knowing the same people, going to the same kind of schools …. I was like ‘them’. It’s just that Xanthe focussed her life in that direction. I didn’t.
Source: Winner Of The The Nobel Peace Prize – People First
If you like to read stories, and open to learning, I recommend John Philpin’s People First project.
It would be really cool if I could print a shipping label directly from Google Contacts.
Started the day drinking Peete’s Holiday Blend and now i am listening to Christmas music. I guess the Christmas has arrived.
It probably starts with listening to hear rather than listening to respond.
True today, true tomorrow.
Now that I my micro.blog has rolled over a year I am seeing the benefit of On This Day and it is one of my favorite features because it reminds me of what I wrote about in the past.
Does one need to quit Facebook or merely change how one uses Facebook? It’s like nobody has self control. When my smartphone rings I am capable of not picking it up to answer it, truly. It’s not that hard.
Chrome OS 71 is now on my Pixelbook. Most noticeable feature is the partnering of my Pixel 2 with the Pixelbook and the simplification of messaging as part of that set up.
Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy - Big Think
I see a couple of problems in this article. First is an assumption that happiness is “the goal.” Another is that the article seems to equate being happy and having a meaningful life and the two are not necessarily the same. I submit that there is more.
Came close to a repeat and rematch fantasy football super bowl, but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. Another ffb season is in the books.
The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times Siobhan Roberts,
With more than one million copies in print, “The Art of Computer Programming” is the Bible of its field. “Like an actual bible, it is long and comprehensive; no other book is as comprehensive,” said Peter Norvig, a director of research at Google. After 652 pages, volume one closes with a blurb on the back cover from Bill Gates: “You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.”
At first this background image removal tool looked cool but then I tried it and found it only works on pictures in which there are people.
According to Spotify these are my top tunes of 2018. The problem with the list is, there are some songs in it that I don’t recognize, so I don’t know how Spotify creates it. It looks like a mix of some songs I do play frequently and potential matches. It’s an eclectic mix.
I’ve been groking Federated Wiki and building my site, but I am starting to wonder whether it is still actively in development.
A Simple Proposal for Killing Comments with Annotated Links - Hapgood
I am surprised that Dave never added a “commenting feature” to his blogs where the way for one to add a comment to a site was to place a titled link to their own blog post at the bottom of the page.
Achievement unlocked:
Alexa, turn on the Christmas tree
Paper Thoughts and the Remix Hypothesis, Mike Caulfield,
“We’re computer users thinking paper thoughts” – Bret Victor
Google has released the first update to Chrome OS since I’ve owned the Pixelbook and so far it has not appeared. I’m a bit surprised, I would expect Chrome OS updates to hit Pixelbooks first.