Ten Things that Occurred to Me #24
America has been, is, and will certainly continue to be, great. No need to make it great again.
Here’s something I’d love to be able to do. I’d love to be able to “tip” a blogger or a forum person who answered my question. I’d like to Google, find the answer I need on a blog, and tip the person a dollar or whatever.
Thing I Don’t Understand of the Week: Why do telephone hold systems feel the need to break in every thirty seconds and repeat the “your call is important to us, blah, blah, blah” message? I got it after the first 23 times.
To folks who worry that tech companies are “monopolies,’ I say stop worrying. Google, a supposed unstoppable behemoth, is about to be completely disrupted by things like ChatGPT. Will be fun to watch.
Do people really call, say, a Gastroenterologist if they are having a medical emergency so often that said doctor's office needs to remind everyone calling to hang up and dial 911?
I once met a guy with "Right to Bare Arms" tattooed on his....arm. The irony was overwhelming. I’m guessing he had “no ragrets.”
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but it wasn't all that long ago when I realized that life is so much nicer when you're just friendly and pleasant to strangers.
Pet Peeve of the Week: Tiny typing boxes that won’t size vertically. Totally unacceptable to have to scroll to see what you typed for like a two-sentence response.
I just realized that I don't have the slightest idea where Genesis ends and Phil Collins begins.
This thread on Twitter is interesting if you are interested in venture capital and the tech business. But what I find more interesting is that the author chose a Twitter thread as the medium. Clearly, this is an article or blog post or something not normally delimited into 280-character chunks. This is common, and I wonder why folks don’t just put it into a blog. I’m guessing that it is because Twitter followers are easier to come by than blog followers.