Phil Dearson

301 Moved Permanently to the Fediverse @pd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pkm.social/@pd

@jspector Ouch. That hit me.

There are millions of people out there who believe what you believe. And you can serve them. But instead you’re spending your time trying to convince people to believe what you believe so that they’ll hire you. Focus on the ones you don’t need to convince.

“Biblical” flood eliminates humanity. But what are holidaymakers’ rights? 👆 Mainstream press today.

For readers who remember the pre-ecommerce web in the 90s there's Mastodon where people share tidbits and views simply because it's fun. Plus you learn cool stuff by accident. Bonus: the ratio of trolls to normal people is manageable.

Tomorrow's newsletter's working title is "It's not game-changing unless the game changes". You can get it below, if that tickles your fancy. dearson.co

@cortexfutura @ReadwiseReader @tana_inc Yes. 100%. This would be the perfect integration for me. I’m holding off on going “all in” on Tana precisely because it doesn’t exist (yet).

You know what'll be glorious? When @ReadwiseReader and @tana_inc have a tight integration. For serious readers, this will be a match made in heaven. Let me count the ways: Readwise is the 👑 of reading. We're at a point where anything I read online (okay, maybe just 90%) I read in ReadwiseReader. I'm not joking. The way they've nailed the "reading on a computer and mobile" experience is just unparalleled. I even bought an Android-based eInk reader so that I could read all the stuff I have stored there. (Boox Tab Ultra, it's meh tbh, but that's a limitation of eInk hardware that I'm willing to put up with for Readwise) In any case, from hundreds of PDFs and ebooks (!) to Twitter threads and articles on the web, anything goes into Readwise and when I have time to really sit down and work through that's where it happens. The typical workflow has me highlighting things, adding notes and, back from the Roam days, [[Square Brackets]] around key terms and things I want to link my thoughts to. Now imagine if all that went directly into Tana! Because as much as I love Tana, they're not going to build a polished ebook reading or PDF annotation workflow the way Readwise is. But imagine... Every highlight gets tagged as #highlight (or whatever supertag you choose), and the fields of the supertag auto-populated. AI fields in Tana let you save explanations for key terms that occur in a highlight. Notes where you mention [[Napoleon]], [[Ridley Scott]] or [[Whatever Else]] create new nodes in your Tana graph or directly link to them. If you have document tags or notes in Readwise, these get saved in document-level fields in Tana, also ready to be connected to anything else in your graph. Just as any other piece of metadata you have in Readwise. To be honest, I geeked out way too long on my Readwise export template for Roam back in the day, and I see the awesome things people come up with for their Obsidian exports and I'm like "I want that toooooo" 😁 Who else is basically married in Readwise Reader and Tana and wants them to be best of friends? 😉

@pascallaliberte Mastodon or Reddit

Question for you all: Where do you hang out (online) in those moments when you find Twitter (etc) are a bit too much? Where do you go to slow down the pace a little bit?

@newscientist What’s your fediverse account please?

@EA How many Mac-using parents do you think are trying to set payment limits for their Mac-using kids? I guarantee you’re leaving money on the table. Ask your UX team. I’ll wait.

Should joining Threads be a priority? Ask Strategenie. strategenie.io (The answer’s “no”, by the way)

Tomorrow’s newsletter is about Threads. Why it’s the same old unethical BS and what orgs should consider instead. dearson.co

@cortexfutura blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-t…

@cortexfutura Don’t think federation is active yet

Can someone on the new app test for me whether you can actually follow my existing Mastodon account? it's cortexfutura @ pkm . social Allegedly they are part of the Fediverse, and so this should work

@PaulLomax Majority of my clients are just disabling their Twitter integrations altogether.

The oembed API still works. Eg publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=htt… But the problem is more apps work on oembed discovery from the URL being posted. That’s what’s been broken by the removal of a tweet preview for logged out users.

When you posted links to Twitter on apps like Slack or WhatsApp you used to get a tweet preview. Now you just get a link, because Elon’s put everything on Twitter behind a login now. Slow hand clap. Now people will just share screenshots instead of links. Muppet.

You can check out the result of all that failure here strategenie.io

Fail

I finally have a successful digital product. Here’s what I did to make it happen.