I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, after my daughter dropped her porridge this morning.
So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, and men don’t like being told not to be unpleasant by a razor brand.
Could I pick a different alternative reality now? This one isn’t living up to expectations.
Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from stolen images: Bonkers Post Making Up Stuff About Female Microsoft Developer Advocate Backfires Big Time
It’s just light streaming from glass…
So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our lives staring at and responding to, we would do well to remember what they are. They are light streaming from a bit of glass. Nothing more, nothing less. What they mean and how we feel about them is made up. It is up to us.
The only thing you really have any control over is you.
I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they misunderstand how long it took for them to notice the most recent wave of innovations that defined the 2000s.
Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters Institute’s 2019 journalism trends and predictions report.
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