Dear Claude, Look at these numbers (providing screen grab of list in my spreadsheet). Tell me which entries add up to 102.79 (the difference between my bank balance and my estimate). 10 seconds later - 3 numbers, total 102.79 - counted twice on my sheet. I hate when things aren’t exactly right.

🔗🎬 Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever. Me … 🤯 (Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )

9to5Mac

Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever - 9to5Mac

After touting Pluribus as its biggest drama launch ever, Apple has now confirmed another milestone for the hit series.

🔗🎶 Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck) One of ‘my’ guys playing the music of one of my mum’s (and so another one of ‘my’) guys.

🔗 Rocket Lab Secures New Defense Contract … writes ‘Memorandum’. Are we sure? 🔗 As I remarked on LinkedIN a couple of days ago The order is for .. "the manufacture (of) 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture." (My bold)

Memorandum

Rocket Lab Secures New Defense Contract

SoftBank races to fund OpenAI, tech giants warn visa holders on travel, Trump criticized over Epstein files, and Shein expands amid backlash.

US Space Architecture Program Update | John Philpin posted on the topic | LinkedIn

> Not everyone’s going to be onboard with the customer ... well, no and probably even less on the

🔗 How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 We will see. We will see.

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🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport "In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would ​set you back​ between $2.50 and $3.00." Meanwhile in the UK, founded fully four years earlier, Penguin didn’t need the ‘qualifier’ preceding ‘the publishing industry’. "Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence... john.philpin.com

💬 John Philpin

🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Bo...

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 9 (23rd) : Baking

Replying To A LinkedIN Post

Replying To A LinkedIN Post

Linear sales funnels oversimplify reality and fail to account for the complexities of customer journeys and the importance of data in optimizing bu...

Today’s challenge is going to be .. hell .. IS .. HARD❗️

"For the last 15 years, many companies chased ‘digital transformation.’ But if we’re honest, most of us didn’t transform, we digitised. We took analog processes and made them digital. We moved pieces to the cloud. We modernised within silos. We upgraded the present - instead of redesigning the future for a digital-first world." 💬 Brian Solis ** I have a draft that I clearly need to finish that is exactly along this theme although I call it a ‘**data-lead people first world’.

A reminder from 🔗 Brian Solis - possibly a riff on John Caswell’s mantra - “the last thing you need near a problem is an expert”. "When Steve Jobs was finally convinced to pursue the iPhone (and he had to be convinced), he gathered his inner circle and asked: Who should we bring into this project? Naturally, the team responded like experts, they brought forward the “smartest people” in the industry." Jobs exploded. "“I don’t want anyone to work on the iPhone if they’ve worked on a phone,” he said (minus the expletives). “Because we’re not building a phone.”"

Brian Solis

“We’re Not Building a Phone”: Steve Jobs’ Leadership Lesson for Reframing the Future - Brian Solis

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Can New Zealand Win? No. Unless it redefines the game.

Can New Zealand Win? No. Unless it redefines the game.

🔗 Responding to Bill Bennet’s article. The dependencies are clear - but if the EU, with 450 million people and deep talent pools, is only ...

Rewatched 🎥 🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it. 🔗 Fixed At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high. Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much. I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.

The Movie Database

The Thursday Murder Club

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

🎥 The Thursday Murder Club, 2025 - ★★★

I watched this when it first came out - with great anticipation - being a fan of the books and all - and ... sadly disappointed. Nice enough. If th...

The Thursday Murder Club, 2025 - ★★★

🎥 The Thursday Murder Club, 2025 - ★★★

I watched this when it first came out - with great anticipation - being a fan of the books and all - and ... sadly disappointed. Nice enough. If th...

It’s 2025 - more than 50 years since The British Tabloids dubbed Andrew (formally known as Prince) ‘Randy Andy’. I continue to be surprised that people are surprised at how this all turned out.

I think it was @jsonbecker that wrote a post about 🔗 Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - which I am only just getting\g around to look at and wondering - anyone get this working against their photo library in Micro Blog?

Micro.blog - @jsonbecker

WebKit

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 8 (22nd) : Grinch

🖇️ Yesterday’s was the hardest to date. Looks like today’s is the easiest - at least so far.

💬 John Philpin

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 7 (21st) : Solstice

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 7 (21st) : Solstice

📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 6 (20th) : Sparkle