Ezra Klein interviewed Mark Zuckerberg recently and fascinating to hear him evade (though clearly well prepared) the mess he finds himself and FB in. Especially interesting is his constant reference to FB user as “our community” and Apple as “rich” company that charges more.
I consider every visit to a barber as one where I assign a project to a sculptor. My only instruction to him is to make sure not to chisel away everything and what remains should be something he can proudly claim as his finest work.
I do not think they get it every time.
I have finished reading another fiction - review in progress. And I realise it is first time since long when I do not have another book waiting in the queue. So, this gives me a chance to try something different.
Any recommendations, not from mystery/thriller, humour fiction?
You tend to remember the things that went wrong, that were not easy to carry out the first time around. With experience, such failures, such roadblocks tend to grow on you, and mar one’s productivity, one’s creativity.
Experience can make you believe that nothing is easy.
My daughter servers me a dish of Play-Doh breakfast every now and then. Got served some colourful animal cookies today.
A great article on a recent event in cricket →
For all the ball-tampering madness, we can also see a team both out of touch and out of favour, and a vice-captain a million miles away from understanding what the game of cricket truly means to millions of people around the world.
Greens always mesmerise me - a velvety bed so serene for the flowers.
I have realised there’s a block worse than writer’s block - a reader’s block. It leaves your mind numb and leads to former. Sigh.
Most tech bloggers often dislike Apple because they tend to stay focused on a theme in an event. They just narrate their story, their perspective of the market they plan to talk about. Nothing more. That provides no juicy sound bytes.
Exactly the reason I just didn’t follow today’s event. Apple wanted it to be low key, there were clear indications.
They had informed they specifically want to talk about their, if I may, foray in education. I can’t really relate to the use case, so I can’t appreciate the worth of what they are going to offer.
Did they deliver? Will what they announced help them succeed in the education market? I will leave the judgement to commentators smarter than me.
But did they talk about anything else? About anything not part of the announced theme? Of course, not. Tech bloggers tend to hate Apple for that.
An alarming and distressing thread →
Want to freak yourself out? I’m gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it
This is crazy, of course they can accurately build a profile of you out of this.