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Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
It’s been a week and all my gear dried out. Rain and wet forced me out of the water. I broke out the sewing machine and fixed my wetsuit bag. Today I got back in. The berms are coming down and Spring is coming away. The inexorable march of time continues. My blog turned 25...
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
This year at Automattic has been intense. We kicked it off with two weeks of in-person AI enablement training, and there’s a great post about it now. I’ve been so impressed and inspired by my colleagues leaning in to learn and grow together in the most consequential time in software development in the past 40 … Continue reading Enablement →
Just got bitten by a dog, which kinda sums up this Thursday.
This upcoming book about Steve Jobs during the NeXT years sounds really good, via John Gruber:
With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius.
I got my first Mac during those years. Steve was legendary, NeXT machines felt almost mythical, and I’m not sure I ever considered that he would return to Apple. What an extraordinary life.
Sometimes when I’m walking and look up at trees or buildings moving past me, I imagine the world in layers like an old multiplane camera, or as seen through Tarzan’s deep canvas. If this programming and AI thing doesn’t pan out, I need to find my pencils. My brain is still wired for animation.
Kiki’s Delivery Service back in theaters next month:
More than three decades after it first enchanted audiences, Kiki’s Delivery Service is returning to North American cinemas in a newly remastered 4K presentation, heading exclusively to IMAX theaters on March 13.
One of my favorites. 🍿
If you want to heal the country, watch out for ways you add division, and stop. It's probably the biggest power any of us has.
Decided we should do a beta for the new RSS thing, starting this weekend and running about a week. If you’re interested, sign up on this form. You’ll get an email tomorrow. So excited to share this.
Recommended: When ICE buys a warehouse in your town.
Also: New Yorker interview of Conan O'Brien. I love that both O'Brien and Remnick agree that podcasting liberated them as artists. That was the point! When you think about decentralization, the most successful protocol we have is podcasting. By design it was hard for silos to usurp. Now think about how you would repeat that pattern with text. I've been working on that for almost three years, and it works now. We'll be testing it soon on my blog, and then everyone's. This should be the grand slam home run of my career. That's how it feels to me now. And O'Brien tells some great stories including one about his father, who noted that Conan had found a way to get paid for his insanity.
You can tell from the OpenClaw meetups how much this thing has captured people’s attention. There are of course a lot of dude programmers out there using it, but maybe it’s reaching more people… On the How I AI podcast, an interview with Jesse Genet who has bots helping organize her homeschool.
“To send my rhymes out to all the nations
Like Ma Bell, I got the ill communication”
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Especially in an age where generating words is cheap, when you come across truly great writing, it really stands out. I want to pull two quotes from The Economist’columnist Charlemagne’s article Luxury goods are Europe’s global tax on vanity. Flogging luxury goods is one of the few fields of business in which Europe excels (if … Continue reading Great Writing →
How many Jeffrey Epstein’s do you think there are?
