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Amazing interview. I know Steven Levy well and have been in various meetings and calls with Gates, and this conversation astonished me because they were willing to talk politics and name names. I could imagine them having this conversation in …

They asked that I expand on my TEDx talk and tell some other Steve Jobs stories that no one has heard. I have some that you couldn't write as fiction about Steve's return to Apple, the choice of microprocessors …

Well apparently he does want his face on Mt. Rushmore. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/trump-likes-idea-adding-his-face-mt-rushmore-possible/3333312001/

The economist did a nice piece on what a Biden presidency could mean: https://youtu.be/9UdZzFVC6XU

I’ve tended to believe what Damon Bell has to say about it: https://ezgreenscreen.com/srgb-vs-adobe-1998.php Unfortunately, with video, I don’t get to shoot RAW so everything is destructive.

Oh, that sounds right. Non-destructive processing ftw. But... shouldn’t we edit in the destination color space to see what our customers will see?

Another week, another Friday night massacre. This time for the post …

Is it just me or is anyone else left scratching their heads about Lincoln being the hero of the current Republican party? He defeated the confederacy and freed the slaves. Seems the opposite of what the party stands for now.

Thank you, Anton. Great review. I got curious about you and read several of your reviews, including the SmugMug site builder review. Your collection of screen savers and landscape photography from around the world is stunning. I've been editing on …

Well... I was torn between a 4K monitor, which has more vertical pixels, or the curved widescreen ones that have more horizontal pixels. The main thing for me is editing video in Premiere. A friend eventually talked me into the widescreen version …

I’m a big fan of Scott Galloway and yet I hate to be Debbie Downer but this is truly stunning: https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-our-nation-has-never-been-less-american-than-2020-8 I didn’t realize that deaths/day is far higher for …

Looks like the uncounted deaths are much higher than at least I imagined: https://www.mediaite.com/news/cdc-data-shows-207000-excess-deaths-during-coronavirus-pandemic-far-eclipsing-160000-confirmed-death-count/

I have always hoped white grievance wasn’t the unspoken thing that drove his election victory and isn’t the core of his current campaign strategy. But as depressing as that thought is, it would explain a lot about the demographic of his supporters …

That was seriously fascinating, Ben. But even Lichtman made it sound close. I love his end quote from Lincoln: The best way to predict the future is to choose it.

Stella Emmanuel has become quite a star on the right. I hate to say this, and everyone can feel free for taking me to task about it, but I was surprised that a black woman immigrant from a sh*thole country would become such a star on the right. …

Good questions! Having type A blood myself, I have a strong personal interest. This isn’t an area where I have any expertise, but my reading is similar to yours. They seemed like two good articles from very credible sources, mostly agreeing, but …

One of our biggest innovations was panels, but in our small community we got some pretty forceful pushback against them so we haven’t been doing them. There was a feeling of exclusion. I always felt that was a matter of scale. People would see the …

I have a friend who works for a biotech company in Silicon Valley whose well-to-do neighborhood has been hit by a couple of deaths due to Covid 19. They were middle aged men execs who work in biotech. A third guy has been battling the disease for …

Thank you. Living here in the Silicon Valley as I do and being involved in ADVrider and Flickr (somewhat), I think the golden rule of social networks is content discovery. If people can find that, they will come and stay and the moment they can't …

Yeah, I notice the approval of Trump among Mormon men remains at something like 65% — higher among older ones, lower among millenials. The church-owned Deseret News was cheerleading back in February, dunno if they still are. The current LDS …

Yeah, the new postmaster general is a Trump mega fundraiser who has few qualifications. He's been called to testify in congress in recent days about the slowdown in mail delivery. The worry is that Trump's distaste of the post office and mail-in …

It's a strange thing, at least to me, because we were terrified of Ebola. Donald Trump called for Obama to resign after 2 Americans died of it. Also, the death rate of heart disease in America is super high, much higher than Covid, everyone has …

Not looking good at all. https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1290656843031879682?s=21

One perspective, from a doctor who has worked both in the US and Canada, is the epidemic is made much worse in the U.S. because of our unique health care …

The thing about religion is it’s certain and never-changing, relying on ancient texts. Science is always on the move, constantly revealing things we didn’t know, correcting things we thought we knew. It’s hard for people of one mindset to …