Collecting Book Ideas in Obsidian
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About once a month I’ll write a blog post and the idea will stick with me for a day or two. The most recent time this happened was with the post We Own Nothing – The Broken Promise of the Information Age, I think that idea has legs to it. I have a personal story…
Framework Fan is Buzzing
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I still love my Framework laptop, but for some reason one of the fans has developed a loud buzzing sound. It would seem that I’m not alone and that Framework is sending out replacements. So my support request is in and here’s hoping a new fan is coming my way soon.
Unsurprisingly People Who Profit off the work of Others Don’t Want to Pay For it
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Andreeson Horowitz says that Ai companies won’t be profitable if they have to pay the workers for the content they’re currently taking for free. I find it galling that Ai companies think they should get input for free, and then sell the output of our own work back to us. It’s like social media companies…
Library as Serendipity and Writing is Thinking – PKM Weekly Issue 096 for Nov 12 2023
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If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. The Library is…
The Hardest Podcast to Record
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The video above is by an excellent creator I follow called Beau Miles and is the story of a very inconvenient adventure to get to record a podcast. I particularly liked the line at the end about how we rarely do things that are inconvenient. But maybe we should. Maybe we should do something hard…
If Books Could Kill – 48 Laws of Power
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If Books Could Kill just took a look at 48 Laws of Power and came to basically the same conclusion I did back in 2020. The book is mostly about how to be an asshat and not make any meaningful caring relationships. Just extract as much power out of people as you can. You can…
The Ad Based Internet is Dying – But You Can’t Afford Subscriptions
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Today we discuss how the Internet will slowly stop being so “free” and we’ll have to start paying for stuff because ads just don’t work. If you want to read this post become a member..
The Web has become Corporate
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I enjoyed this rant about how business focused/corporate the internet has become. Yes, most blog post prompts are all about business/traffic and it seems that more people want to turn everything into their full-time gig. Going down that road leads to chasing SEO, chasing hot topics, and burnout. This is why I just keep writing…
Cory Doctorow breaks down how MyQ Garage Door Openers go so bad
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Great post from Cory, as usual. You lost access to the API for your garage door opener because of a Private Equity roll up strategy. We need to start pushing the politicians around us to put out the proverbial rat poison that Doctorow is calling for. The tools are there, we just haven’t use them…
Paris Marx – We’re Distracted by Tech Fantasies
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Paris Marx has an excellent look at the fantasy of self-driving cars. I particularly like the idea near the end that the longer we let ourselves be distracted by tech fantasies, the worse off we’ll be. I enjoy technology, but so much of what Venture Capital companies try to push on us is merely a…
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