With ers Without You

Patrick Collison has assemblers a fascinating list of questions, like:

Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

The end of social media and the rise of algorithmic media

The rising cost of living is actually encouraging us to spend more

The people behind Refind are doing something really interesting with the “here’s a list of really interesting articles in an email” concept. If you like the idea of getting an email full of contextually interesting links, you’ll really like Refind.

Thanks for the referral @qldnick.

Amelia Earhart​:

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.”

The guy who goes out of his way to hilariously grimace and loudly say ”good practice for your next marriage” at every wedding must be elated when he gets an invite.

Forever amazed at what people wear to weddings. It must be so beautiful to do that last gaze in a mirror at home before you leave for the ceremony and think ”damn I’m hot!”

Evan Armstrong supposes that if Steve Jobs knew how to speak finance (bs) he might have stayed CEO of Apple back in the 80s:

“If he had known to say to the board some version of “Q2 deliverables were only at 10% of forecast, but because of our LTV:CAC ratio and percentage of pipeline in mid-market, we should see full quota attainment by Q4,” maybe his problems wouldn’t have been so serious.”

Letters of Note:

“In June of 1460, news reached Pope Pius II of an orgy which had recently taken place in the gardens of Giovanni di Bichis’s palace in Tuscany. To his dismay, it had been attended, and to some extent organised, by the vice-chancellor of the Roman Church, Cardinal Rodrigo de Borja.”

I can’t believe no-one has been celebrating Digital Radio’s (DAB) 13th anniversary in Australia.

It’s like DAB doesn’t mean anything to anyone.

Matt Damon very simply and succinctly explains why we don’t get the movies like we used to - and it’s all to do with the death of the DVD.

Wow, I didn’t know this but you can use your $50 Qantas voucher like a power-up mid-flight so the flight attendant doesn’t smash into your elbows with the drinks cart, or to be allowed to push the seat in front of you back up when the passenger puts it down.

Seeing the #SolidarityWithSanna posts reminds me of something that happened 10 years ago next week: Alan Jones and Barnaby Joyce on the radio proclaiming that “women are destroying the joint” 1:29 into this audio. Some people struggle with female leadership.