May 24ths
5/24/1949 (Kerouac Journal) "...Someday perhaps I myself will look back on those days (before selling [On the Road]) with the same kind of wonder..." 5/24/2000 The proliferation of wireless internet is a great opportunity for marketing music: They can listen to it, but not necessarily download it. Fascinating documentary on PBS,”Sahara”. Great soundtrack of Arabic music. It reminds me how much I love this music. [5/24/2025: PBS has been hugely valuable to me, and probably to most everyone living. Of course, we are flooded with DIY content, but not how PBS has produced it historically]. On the Cluetrain Manifesto : I’m generally against the idea of manifestos because 99% of the time they’re too “culty”. This one has some interesting and useful things to say: Don’t wait for someone to show you how; [5/24/2025: This morning I riffed on how skills are being redefined by new technologies and we don’t necessarily need for people to show us how–we just teach ourselves. This started...
