It’s totally normal that I have a long-running Google Gemini conversation about personal finance, with it using analogies to lean manufacturing theory, and tieing actions back to the GTD methodology, right? Everyone does this, yeah? 🤓
Episode 159 of Hemispheric Views podcast! The Australians are falling apart. @Burk is moving a million pounds. We try on a thought experiment. █████ is back! @martinfeld brings up a train, and by doing so, some trauma for me!
Cynicism, Gullibility and the Internet Era
The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic: We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled. This article, linked to by Kottke creates a new word, that might take off much as ‘enshittification’ did. This one is gullicism, noting that people seem now to be gullible about snake-oil salesman, and cynical about experts.
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It’s Day 1, but I’m super impressed by Inkwell, a new RSS reader developed by @manton as it ties nicely into my micro.blog infrastructure. I’m not typically a web app guy but this is pretty good.
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I had a dream that I discovered a colleague was using OmniFocus for the Web, and we bonded over our shared passion for GTD. I know this will never happen in real life. 💭
I’m wondering if 1Password and I are no longer strategically aligned.
App Review: Current
I talked about Terry Godier’s essay on RSS on Episode 156 of Hemispheric Views. I was blown away when shortly after, Terry reached out to myself, Martin and Jason. Turns out Terry is a listener of our show! He was honoured, we were honoured, it was a lovely moment in email! In rapid time Terry has since developed an RSS reader app, Current. He allowed me to participate in the beta even though my feedback was mainly limited to spotting typos in copy text.
I have been talking budgeting and financial forecasting with Google Gemini. It knows I like GTD, OmniFocus and lean manufacturing. So now the machine presents all its financial analogies using Japanese lean nomenclature. I, of course, love this. 🇯🇵💵🤖
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Together Alone by Crowded House is possibly my favourite album. I not only enjoy the music but I enjoy the memories it conjures of me listening to the music so long ago. 🎶
I’ve finished all 7 seasons of Sons of Anarchy. What a ride. 🏍️
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