breffni

Honoured & privileged to host @tim_cook at the @hostelworld Dublin office today, great honour for our iOS team, company & #hostels #ios #apple #meettheworld

St. Patrick’s Day around the world is a day rooted in community, humanity, friendship and fellowship. Conor McGregor’s remarks are wrong, and do not reflect the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, or the views of the people of Ireland.

@ClearMobileIRE hello, can you please contact me. I've been locked out of an account online, trying to pay a bill and the password reset doesn't work. The chat button never has customer service available.

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI just released 128k context GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price. This means GPT-4 is cheaper, faster, and can now read a prompt as long as an entire book. The announcement comes with additional huge news for developers: - New Assistants API for Code Interpreter and Retrieva - GPT-4 Turbo updated knowledge cutoff to April 2023 - New GPT-4 Turbo Vision API - New Dall-E 3 API - New text-to-speech API (6 preset voices to choose from & insanely realistic voice) - A new Whisper V3 model coming soon - Slashed rate limits (cheaper development costs) Prepare for a whole new wave of AI tools.

TIL there is an entire section and newsletter of the WSJ dedicated to bankruptcy. & it looks like WeWork is going to file for bankruptcy. It had raised $22B in total and was valued at $47B by Softbank in 2019.

Fantastic addition to @Spotify 👏

@2ndtotheright_ @TMIrelandHelp It doesn’t work anyway, I’ve tried two laptops and two phones. Two different browsers on each.

@TMIrelandHelp Who has more than one phone? I shouldn’t have to try another device. You also suggest using one device. Think it’s your end, other people have the same issue

@TMIrelandHelp it’s not letting me join the waiting room for Taylor. When I click join it just refreshes the page

@TMIrelandHelp @nikaczewska This doesn’t work

@nikaczewska Hi. Please clear your cache/cookies and ensure you aren't using any VPN software on your device/WiFi. If this doesn't help, please try using a different browser/device or using mobile data instead of WiFi. Thanks!

@TicketmasterIre @TMIrelandHelp I'm literally just trying to get tickets for the past 4 hours. This is ridiculous #TaylorSwiftTheErasTour

@TMIrelandHelp Doesn’t work.

@breffnih HI clear browsing history, shut down all browsers and reopen only one chrome works well. Thanks!

@TMIrelandHelp I am getting a browser blocked message when trying to access your site - can you help? thanks

@TMIrelandHelp I’ve done all of those steps. None of these work. Two computers, two browsers, wifi and mobile data.

@breffnih Hi. Please clear your cache/cookies and ensure you aren't using any VPN software on your device/WiFi. If this doesn't help, please try using a different browser/device or using mobile data instead of WiFi. Thanks!

Shortly after Steve Jobs returned as the CEO of Apple in 1997, he met with Jony Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of industrial design. Apple had 40 products on the market. “Jony, how many things have you said no to?” Jobs asked. Ive was confused. “You have to understand,” Jobs said, “There are measures of focus, and one of them is how often you say no.” “What focus means,” Jobs taught Ive, “is saying no to something that you—with every bone in your body—think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you're focusing on something else.” Jobs walked up to a whiteboard and drew a 2 x 2 grid. On top, he wrote “Consumer” and “Professional.” Down the side, “Portable” and “Desktop.” Four products—meet Apple’s new radically focused product line, Jobs said. After that meeting, over the next two decades, Jobs and Ive—focused on making a few high-quality products while saying no to everything else—transformed a dying, near-bankrupt company into one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth over $2.9 trillion. Takeaway 1: The philosopher Marcus Aurelius pointed out that the focus of doing less “brings a double satisfaction.” You get the satisfaction of having fewer things to do. And…you get the satisfaction of doing those fewer things at a higher level. You get “to do less, better.” During Steve Jobs’ first visit to Jony Ive’s design studio, he looked around, and then he said, “Fuck, you’ve not been very effective, have you?” It was clear to Jobs that Ive was full of ideas and potential he wasn’t able to execute or fulfill under Apple’s previous leadership. In the Jobs era of “doing less, better,” Ive was very effective. Some products he designed include: iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Takeaway 2: Even though he slashed the product line down to four products, Jobs loved to have and hear ideas. “Steve used to say to me,” Ive said, “and he used to say this a lot, ‘Hey, Jony, here’s a dopey idea.’ And sometimes they were: really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air from the room, and they left us both completely silent.” It made me think of what Jerry Seinfeld identifies as the ultimate skill of the artist: “taste and discernment.” “It’s one thing to create,” Seinfeld says. It’s one thing to have ideas. “The other is you have to choose. ‘What are we going to do, and what are we not going to do?’” What are we going to add to the product line, and what are we not going to add? “This is a gigantic aspect of [artistic] survival,” Seinfeld continues. “It’s kind of unseen—what’s picked and what is discarded—but mastering that is how you stay alive.” - - - “Everything just got simpler. That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity.” — Steve Jobs Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

A great read on Apple Vision stratechery.com/2023/apple-vis… via @stratechery

@carlosyllobre @ManaKatarina Amazing news, congratulations to you both 💕

My wife @ManaKatarina and I are starting the most important project of our lives, being parents. This is the exact moment I fell in love again with mi pequeña Elisa! 💛

@adrianweckler I think this sums it up nicely 😆 via @mds

Astonishing fuck up: Twitter has now reversed all ‘official’ check marks and abandoned the system.

@emilyscasey podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/thi… with @mollywood is a good one

What are the best pods on tech/innovation/vc by women? Love you tech bros but seems like the vast majority, at least of the mainstream ones, are by men It came up in 3 seperate convos yesterday Need more women's voices - literally

@GField17 @TwitterComms So sorry to hear this Gareth, I’ve no doubt something brilliant lies just around the corner 💪

Woke up to the sad news that I’m no longer a Tweep. I loved every single moment working on the global @TwitterComms team, collaborating with and learning from an outstanding group of talented people. Thank you to everyone who made it so special. #OneTeam #LoveWhereYouWorked

@NadineORegan Did you buy the mattress originally on a credit card? Maybe the transaction could be tracked via credit card statement ? #clutchingatstraws

Wow 🚀 #figma

Are you a freelance audio producer, skilled in Adobe Audition/Pro Tools, with capacities in imaginative sound design for storytelling in podcasts? If so, I’d love to hear from you for potential @businessposthq project work. DM me with samples and thank you😊 RTs appreciated.

@NadineORegan Purple rain (if it meets the short criteria!) 💜

Favourite short albums? Yes, it’s for a thing.