5ish - The Clown Car Is Back, Baby
My only regret is that there’s work to do. Like actual work. Like meetings to be in. People to see. Life to live. I sincerely wish this whole Twitter fiasco had happened over a long holiday break so I could just follow it in real time. Because it’s the most entertaining the internet has been in some time. It’s like a goldmine of content that got dropped on a clown car. Yes, a large part of it remains depressing. A lot of people lost their jobs. But come on, none of those people could possibly be wanting to work through this. Would you? Would these people?! Everyone will find other jobs. The only downside is that those jobs will not have the eventual stories to tell that this one will, from just this week alone. To me, this all would still seem to follow “Elon’s Razor” — that is, the most entertaining scenario is the most likely. But my other, more dire, thought is currently this: what if Elon Musk, in realizing that he, in fact, would be forced to buy Twitter one way or another just resigned himself to cut costs as quickly as possible while trying to grow the user base as quickly as possible so as to flip it back to the public market with minimal loss of capital? I mean, there’s going to be a large loss of capital regardless, because the market conditions are just different from when the original offer came about. Still, it’s better to lose, say, $20B rather than $45B? But in trying to execute the above plan, everything is going wrong. It’s just a legitimate comedy of errors. The clown car is back, baby. The Good Stuff🎧 Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks But Apple Is in the WayApple continues to play their dangerous game with regard to their in-app payments cut. And it’s pretty clear that it’s going to backfire — likely sooner rather than later. They should be trying to get ahead of it, and engendering goodwill, but instead they’re digging in. Good luck. 👩💻 Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry's FutureSteven Levy asks us to take a step back to note that while always difficult, a downturn is a natural market occurrence and actually, all the companies we now know and love arose from the ashes of past downturns. This time will be no different, as hard as that is to see, in the moment. 🍺 Everyone Loves to Hate the IPAA fun history of the IPA — the pale ale which, yes, gets its name from India, but had little to do with the continent beyond the British soldiers drinking it en route to the country. The US, of course, has subsequently taken over the market in ways both good and bad. 🧠 Wealth is KnowledgeI like this framework from economist George Gilder:
✍️ Remote Work Highlighted the Importance of WritingThis is from almost a year ago, but seems perhaps even more important today: the pandemic highlighted many things about our lives and work before and it also charted a path for what should matter and what we should focus on. One of those things should be the written word. “Silver is an ethereal white. It almost has no colour – or every colour – while titanium or nickel are so very warm, and stainless steel is so very cold and blue.” — Jony Ive, with a very Jony Ive description of a natural material, to which he wrote a love letter, naturally. (I also enjoyed his guide to Jackson Square in San Francisco as part of his seeming Financial Times takeover.) The Quick Stuff
The Sounds of My YouthMy Stuff📽️ The Coming Movie Theater PurgeCineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags 👊 Remains of the GraySome thoughts on Netflix’s latest lackbuster ‘The Gray Man’ 🥶 A Song of Ice & IceInside the Reign of George R.R. Martin 😷 NineteenCOVID finally found me… 📲 Dynamic iSlandSome thoughts on Apple’s ‘Far Out’ iPhone 14 Event 🛝 The Apple SeesawWhat is up with the iPhone 14 Pro cases? That Awesome Adult Lego Set… |
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