The Heavyweight podcast from Jonathan Goldstein is back on a new network after being lost in the shuffle of Spotify acquiring Gimlet Media.
I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
I work hard at my job, but nothing can compare to how hard I will work on redirecting a stream at the beach. I will dig in the hot sun until my hands are blistered.
The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from getting through the first day.
The second day of school is harder than the first.
This week YouTube started showing me an ad with an obviously (to me) fake video of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asking people to sign up for some AI program. The link points to a form hosted on TypeForm.
I’ve reported this ad as a scam at least three or four times, yet YouTube continues to serve it to me.
I can see how it would be infeasible for YouTube to screen every video they host – but as soon as they accept a penny from an advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
I would also expect that some facial-recognition might be in order for a G7 world leader.
Shame on YouTube.
Did you know there was a super-group that released an album in 2009 that consisted of:
Weird but true. Enjoy Kind of a Girl by Tinted Windows.
Update: I learned from Wikipedia that the guitar play from the Lemonheads also performed with Tinted Windows. And the Lemonheads have a great new song out.
I learned this week that the Annotations feature in Figma is not accessible for people with free accounts. Instead, you need to have a paid account with Dev Mode access.
This is a major hindrance and disincentive to use the feature. While I understand that Figma will want to drive subscriptions, and I’m happy to pay for the tool, this is one more stone on the “Figma alternatives” side of the scale.
It was even more frustrating to learn this after our team had been using annotations for a while. I’m sure the documentation and announcements of the feature may have explained the paid-account requirements, we missed this and you may have too.
I feel that this six second clip of Jason Schwartzman reacting to someone taking too long a drink of orange juice in the movie Mountainhead will come in handy.
You know how in many design apps you can select an object and move it with the keyboard arrow keys? Often, if you hold SHIFT while using the arrow keys, the object will move at larger increments. Until recently, Google Slides had the opposite behaviour – with large move increments by default and the SHIFT modifier for smaller increments. It was an outlier, and annoying.
Well friends, all that changes today (or earlier this week – I don’t know). As of today, Google Slides how has the de facto standard move keyboard behaviour (small increments by default, SHIFT for larger increments).
Thanks!
As a self-declared upper-middle manager at a technology & design company, I have a mantra that I repeat slightly more often than is appropriate:
The greatest risk to our company is falls.
It’s not market instability, or hackers, or inadequate planning. It’s falls.
Your company is made up of people. People are made up of sticks and meat. When we fall down, we break. Be careful out there.
I wouldn’t be an effective executive if I didn’t follow-up my risk warning with some solid strategy, so here you go: Take two trips.
You’ve got one too many grocery bags? Don’t carry it all in at once. Take two trips.
You’ve got a coffee, a laptop, and a door to open on your way out to the deck this morning (hypothetically speaking) – take two trips!
Oh, and watch out for mulch.
My shower-thought today: ChatGPT can write a book for you, but it can’t make you a person who wrote a book.
Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.