Tuesday, 15 July 2025

When companies take delivery, the results will be huge. The Cluetrain Will Run from Customers to Companies is about making The Cluetrain Manifesto come true 26 years after it was posted.

Redraw your own conclusions. Just one air travel adventure.

Cable is toast. And free TV from an antenna is crumbs. Nearly half of all TV watching is to streams. And Netflix counts for 42% of the gains. “Ginny & Georgia” led the way.

And how will you dispute it if the AI is wrong? Ding your rental car from Hertz and an AI thing will notice.

It’s okay if you fail. A short course on what happened to over-the-air TV channels over time.

It’s one of 23 others I’ve put up so far. My shot of the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant by the shores of Los Angeles, now has four faves. Took it outbound from LAX.

Your new help desk. This morning on a podcast, I heard an otherwise smart guy say that AI is overrated, adding something like “Okay, maybe it’s good for helping you write code.” This ignores all the practical things an LLM can do for Muggles as well. For example, today I used ChatGPT to diagnose and suggest a fix to a Finder problem in macOS (specifically, the Desktop folder kept disappearing from the Favorites collection in the Finder sidebar). For a second opinion, I asked Gemini the same question. Both gave great help. A few days ago, ChatGPT performed a similar service, which I described in Education 3.0. The answer, btw, was to throw away com.apple.finder.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/, and then to restart the Finder.



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