Poll: Should anyone be able to get a blue check mark on twitter as long as the identity of the person can easily be verified?#
Interesting comments on yesteday's braintrust query. I've never used Asana -- I don't qualify, but apparently it's used for managing projects the way I described. I have used Trello. What I described apparently is "Agile" -- which, to me, means paying attention to how your product is used and making it better based on what you learn. Scrum is where you apply what you learned when being agile. I've always done this, made software for myself first, paid attention as it was used by myself and then others, and devised methods to get users to tell me more about their experience. Interestingly the BTQ itself is a form of agile, I'm trying to learn how to evolve my outliner to make it better for people doing this kind of work, and to make its advantage more obvious.#I have more ideas than I can implement. It gets worse all the time. When I decided to give them away that's when I started blogging, as a means to give them away. #
OK, here's a free idea. I just read an audiobook written by a living author. I loved the book, and think he's a great writer. The author of the book could say what three books he recommends reading after his book and why they would be good choices. Having just read the book, I have an idea of what I'd like to learn about next. And the author's opinion would have a lot of value. I'd just spent a bit of time reading what they wrote. And of course the author could update the list, change which three books they recommend, and why. #
The first day of every month is great, because all the paywalls reset, and you can read anything you want, except for a few brutal paywalls that allow zero free reads.#
Why no public funding of journalism? 1. The government would have to define journalism. 2. Journalism will be forever frozen as no more than it is now. 3. Journalism is bound to politics. So it can't change either. 4. Neither empowers their user base.#
I want to delete all the episodes downloaded by Apple's Podcasts app. I've done it before so I know it's possible. Any clues much appreciated. [On Twitter, the best advice, which I used, was to delete the app and re-install. It saves the subscriptions but throws out the data. I had 31GB of downloaded podcasts. I needed none of them. Podcasts aren't like music, if you don't listen to one after a week (say) the app should just delete it.]#
I've heard it asked who wrote the best bit of journalism in the last decade? That answer is very easy. Evan Osnos in the New Yorker. #- In Sept 2016, he wrote a piece about what a Trump presidency would be like. He's the only one who did. It was unthinkable at the time that he'd win.#
- Why this was the best.#
- Osnos thought of doing it.#
- He didn't just dash it off, he thought, really learned about the subject. #
- The piece was chilling.#
- The artwork also.#
- And of course Trump did win, and now we're all experts in what happened next.#
- Writing about the unthinkable, that's when journalism can be great. #
- Here's my writeup of his piece, at the time. I called it the missed story of 2016.#