Currently I have three of them.
Do you have a principle? I hadn’t thought about that before reading Justin Mikolay‘s Inventing on Principle: A Distillation of Bret Victor’s Extraordinary Talk About How To Live Your Life. And that’s just one of many things that have been written about Bret Victor, a guy about whom I knew almost nothing before reading what divydovy writes here about intent, citing Victor. Here’s where Victor is at now.
Years ago, one of my sons said something about a “river” that runs through each of us. It’s what we are each about. Might be anger, or love, or vanity, or feeding people, or something less describable. In The Soul’s Code, James Hillman writes about one’s inner acorn, or “diamon,” that contains and expresses our true and full selves. Something like that. I think Victor’s principle is similar.
I lost the spreadsheet.
Have you ever totaled up the costs of all the things you subscribe to?
More in the general than the specific senses.
This post from 2009 turned out to be prophetic.
About what’s on.
NiemanLab says public radio is playing an important role in covering shit that’s going down. Note: public radio in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Market has a 15.5 share. That’s very good.
Here’s what I wrote about public radio numbers in 2019. Back then, Santa Barbara kicked ass with a 23.4 overall share. It still does, with a 24.8 share. (Shares are percentages of total listening.)
Just what you’ve never wanted.
Keyords are dead, says Shalom Gonzalez in Search Engine Land. The new thing (with your Google searches, and much else) is “inferred intent.” Not real intent. Not you, expressing your will and your agency. Just Google’s constantly improving guesswork about you, and the auction block where those inferred intentions are sold to advertisers in real time.
Oh, and search is dead too. The Web is no longer something Google indexes, as it would a library. That hat is old and gone.
I can tell with my easter egg: a nonsense word buried in one of my writings that has been sitting in the same place on the Web since 1995. Google used to find it, but no longer does. To Google, the Web is not the library any more, with pages one authors, and posts on sites with locations and domains. No, it’s a vast fuck-all of tokens with commercial implications that can be made into useful information. That it gives us radically useful information (dig any NotebookLM podcast of a book—or of anything) masks Google’s commercial intent: to put your soul on its adtech auction block, where hints toward possible purchases ooze out of your captive pores.
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