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Now with a full USB-C power connector for a full 1.2A of juice.

A very European planner gave a talk about how we have to stop thinking short-term and realize that brands are built by long-term strategy. Those who focus on the short-term will disappear in the long-term. (Then she hurried out to see how many tweets her talk got.)

Bob Hoffman: Dying At Cannes

Taxidermy is an utterly fascinating field of work.

[Via BBC]

Next up: A CSS-based domain name system resolver faster than Cloudflare. Or maybe a command-line browser written in node.js which doubles up as a P2P repo. Or a cloud-connected bread slicer remotely controlled by a fax machine.

We’re on the verge, I tell you.

[…] technology gets its power through control of data. Data at the micro-personal level gives technology unprecedented power to influence. Data is not the new oil – it’s the new plutonium. Amazingly powerful, dangerous when it spreads, difficult to clean up and with serious consequences when improperly used. Data deployed through next generation 5G networks is transforming passive infrastructure into veritable digital nervous systems.

Jim Balsillie

A doyen among the PC component retailers in Sim Lim Square, Cybermind has closed shop. Reading the news made me feel a little sad and also got me wondering…

• If there are still people paid to shove price lists in your face at Sim Lim these days?
• How long before Sim Lim Square itself gets consigned to nostalgia?
• When a place is marked as “Permanently Closed” on Google Maps, is it memorialised forever (like late people on Facebook)?

I’ve always liked reading Jonathan Wilson’s footy writing. They are thoughtful, well-researched pieces with good insight which always make me feel smart.

His book on the history of football tactics, Inverting The Pyramid, is a challenging but fulfilling classic. It now has an American-ised edition with ‘soccer’ blindly replacing ‘football’ in the text. Total Soccer sounds like a farcical end result of a rushed publisher’s simplistic find & replace job.

A scroll down memory lane with Visual Basic.

From the Project Gutenberg eBook “Little Dramas for Primary Grades” by Lillian Nixon Lawrence and Ada M. Skinner originally published in 1913.

Part of me admires anyone who can turn pregnancy into yet another product of our consumerist and patriarchal society, endorsing the idea that being 38-weeks pregnant is no reason not to be photogenic and high-achieving. But a much, much bigger part of me believes the kindest thing you can do for women is tell them the unfiltered truth. Nothing reveals the gap between social-media fantasy and reality more strikingly than pregnancy, so Amy Schumer has been an overdue antidote to all of the above.

I’m off to have a baby, and I’m taking no tips from the new pregnancy influencers

(It’s really easy—with the hubbub of everyday life—to lose track of how utterly rad our world is today.)