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Fabulous bike ride into the hills of the Duoro Valley. A bucolic weekend to break up our train tour of Iberian cities.
Please do.
Bye Porto. You are insanely pretty. And the food… oh my.
Now that IS funny.
Basque surf off Donostia/San Sebastian yesterday.
Spring has definitely sprung in Paris.
First visit to the Bridge Theatre for Into The Woods. It’s an impressive space.
Watched this last night and you deserve to watch it, too. Just stunning: youtu.be/H3yD78bYXjs
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social’s new album is out tomorrow, btw. Here’s a review from @louderthanwar.bsky.social
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Wonderful songwriting. Beautiful voice. Thanks Simon.
"The tone of a TV show, the culture of a business, the style of a brand; these are soft things that you have to be hard about."
Why CEOs can learn a lot from TV showrunners. The effective CEO is a "brandrunner".
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You make it sound like a problem...
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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Fabulous post by Martin Weigel, who isn't on here as far as I can tell. He's had some fun and learned a lot down a Buster Keaton rabbit hole.
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"The tone of a TV show, the culture of a business, the style of a brand; these are soft things that you have to be hard about."
Why CEOs can learn a lot from TV showrunners. The effective CEO is a "brandrunner".
newsletter.lowfalutin.co.uk/archive/the-...
A special Creative Mornings Edinburgh event today. Sophie Jones introducing Jenny Martin RSW (Royal Society of painters in Watercolour) and her talk about the society's work and its 145th annual exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Followed by a private view of the exhibition.
There is much truth here, exposed by the erudite savagery of Mr Earls.
You might like this @pd.pkm.social.ap.brid.gy
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Apologies to all of Hannah's customers!
Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️
It's lovely. Thanks. But Talking Heads are one of my all-time favourite bands, so I can't love this more. Sorry.
Name a cover of a song that you love more than the original.
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He eviscerated the use of AI for any kind of non-scientific creative endeavour. "It's the hu-man-it-ies."
George Saunders in Edinburgh last night, hosted by my local independent book shop. He's as good on stage as is he is on a *typewriter*.
Talking about the oil industry, he described his work as an "expro" engineer in Sumatra:
"Even the lunkhead I was then could see that we were oppressors."
Guy on the train talking about a “top top secret” pitch for a Scottish soft drink to make TV commercials for the Scotland World Cup team. Schoolkid error. Scotland is a village when it comes to things like this.
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The complete opposite when I was in Japan in November. And the conductors bow as they enter and leave each carriage.
Heffernan's post was prompted by reading Vigil, the latest book by George Saunders. I shall finish Vigil this evening, ahead of seeing him talk about the book in Edinburgh tomorrow.
"Today I think of wealth as a test. Unless you can answer the question ‘How much is enough’—and act on that answer—money will change who you are. What you do. Who you love. It’s when you can’t answer the question that you know you’re in trouble."
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Well argued. Well written. And generally useful for anyone who sells expertise for a living.
Available on iPlayer (BBC4)
