Invention is concerned with things and ideas, innovation is all about people and relationships.

"You have to frame the world in order to interact with it. Chaos is what you see when you don't know what you are looking at." Jordan Peterson in "2017 Personality 15: Biology/Traits: The Limbic System (minute 42)" youtu.be/AqkFg1pvNDw?si=gOf2…

This gets more true with time

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Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

Skye Talavera dropped by a May Bootstrappers Breakfast @bootstrappersand recommended this newsletter forstarters.co/ I find it offers practical stories from bootstrappers on getting started. If you are looking to renew your gumption these stories will encourage you to stand up and take a step forward.

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"Tom Peters: These Playmobil toys of yours… they do amazingly well, all over the world. So what’s their secret? What do they do that’s so interesting? Horst Brandstätter: It’s not what the toy does that’s interesting. It’s what the child does with the toy that’s interesting." Recounted by Hugh Macleod in "The Product Does not get to be Kick Ass Until the User Kicks Ass" and his ebook  "Authenticity is the New Bullshit" (2013) web.archive.org/web/20110218…

Flying under the radar due to other news, but two of the UK's highest-ranking defence officials, the Armed Forces Minister and Defence Secretary, quit today over the chronic underfunding of the British military.

About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it.

“When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.” Pema Chodron in "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times"

One more post on the subject of the Irish getting their dander up. The Irish Troubles (a continuous low level insurgency) lasted from the 1960s to 1998. But they were the continuation of 'Troubles' stretching back to the 1800s. 1998, that's a bit over 25 years ago. Both sides in the Troubles, the Catholics and the Protestants, are one generation away from a civil war that lasted for TWO GENERATIONS. The Gen Z men of today were raised on the stories of the heroism and patriotism of their fathers and grandfathers and THEY HAVE HAD NO SIMILAR OUTLET. The IRA did not invent the vehicle borne IED. The Vietnamese used it before them. They just invented a cocktail from their name as well as a drinking song. 'Former' IRA weapons dealers are still some of the top illegal weapons dealers in the world. 1/10th of 'British' SAS come from Ulster. A significant fraction of the British infantry as well. Many of them served in GWOT so they have a recent master's class in insurgency. And now Keir Bloody Starmer and the Irish Government have given BOTH SIDES a reason to start again, but this time UNITED. We may be about to get a glimpse of what a civil war in the US looks like up against a massive surveillance state. Take notes.

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that @elonmusk buying twitter has righted the badly listing ship of the West. We must get it back to shore.

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After Bosnia, Northern Ireland is literally the last Western country where I would try cutting off a citizen's head.

"Actions have consequences. So does inaction." Frank Sonnenberg "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." Neil Peart "A decision unmade is a decision made to stay the same." Mignon McLaughlin “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” William James

Lean Culture Event tomorrow! Subscriptions aren't one thing. They're a category of mechanics, and the right one depends on your product, margin structure, and how your customers actually buy. In this session, Igor Krasnykh explores the main subscription engines CPG brands can apply (replenishment, curation, access/membership, build-your-box, and hybrid models) with real examples of who each one works for and the operational tradeoffs behind them. meetup.com/lean-culture/even…

Every AI chat starts from zero. Nothing remembers what you already learned. That's not a product limitation. It's a decision-debt accelerator. If your AI advisor resets each session, it can't tell you when your evidence contradicts your plan. It just generates the next answer from scratch.

I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test