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Photos from the 41st IIW. Also from the first Agentic Internet Workshop. Many pix among them are of our group working on MyTerms, which I believe will be the biggest advance for the Web since the Web* itself.

Nitin Batjatia: The Coming Illumination: When AI Reveals How Work Really Happens. Related, from an Amazon earnings call, how Amazon will grow while shedding employees.

Yesterday I was on an important call that didn't welcome interruptions. So, naturally, I got four calls from unknown numbers while the call was on. I was sure they were all spam calls, because that's the way to bet. After the call ended, I found that most of the interruptive calls were from a guy tasked with delivering the bag that didn't make my last flight, trying to find my house.

I have an informal rule for conversation among fellow geezers: hold the organ recital (reports on health issues) to five minutes. While writing the last sentence, I was reminded of Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself, by Lewis Grizzard, who died at 47, only five years older than Elvis in his latest year.

*The Web should always be capitalized. So should the Internet. Both are proper nouns. That they have been commonized by the AP and the Chicago Manual of Style does not mean that doing so was the right move. Both those institutions are wrong, because the Web and the Net both matter utterly. They also have names. We capitalize those. IM(not H)O. Oh, and yes, I know that taking a definite article (the) makes the Web and the Net "weak" proper nouns, but they are proper nonetheless. Same with the Rockies, the Netherlands, and the Bronx.