The only good newsletter
Tamara Shopsin's The Voyeur is absolutely the best newsletter and the most compelling current argument for micropayments.
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The Zero-Asset God and the broken mini dramas
I apologise for starting with Eno but he's like a stopped clock with extra hands; quite often right. He once wrote this: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video,
Paper CRM research
I'm working on a long, slow am-I-really-doing-it? project looking into the possible merits of putting digital business systems back on paper. (Contrary? Check!) In my head I call it Paper CRM. It might be that. A side effect is that I notice/get a
4764 on screen
The 4764 podcast grinds on. I still love it. The latest episodes are also built from video, if you'd like to look as well as listen.
BinTech and the agentic swarm
I was lucky enough to have another great internet chat the other day. This time with Tom Loosemore. We discussed bins, bin day, whenisbins and, as the literary non-fictionists would say, used that as a lens to talk about digital public services and AI. Tom has written words about