I Hope This Email Finds YouI hope this email finds you wherever you should roam.
Patrick - SV Apsara
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禍兮福之所倚，福兮禍之所伏。
I hope this email finds you in unlikely places.
Trump learns that not everyone has a price
Janan Ganesh in the FT
Paywalled but a trial subscription is available at a token charge - well worth it.
https://www.ft.com/content/328b187e-384d-4322-83d7-8ad7edaa29d4
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#sailing
mhoyeI used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, but thanks to modern innovation the invention of llm summaries has automated the being-an-asshole process.
Somebody in a leadership position who uses language models to summarize what their reports tell them, and then send generated replies back is adding zero value to an organization and their dismissal will cost the company nothing.
The Tennessee Holler 
Working Class History#OtD 21 Mar 1991 it was announced that poll tax in the UK was to be abolished after widespread rioting and a mass campaign in which over 17 million people refused to pay that made the tax unworkable https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9411/abolition-of-poll-tax-in-uk
I hope this email finds you under obligation to give service or work in person for best results.
Adrianna TanThe ever prescient @kixes:
“Nobody ever told me that the hardest part of living under authoritarianism—especially Singapore’s insidious, “soft” version that seems to be becoming attractive to other governments around the world—is not what they do to you, but what they make you do to yourself and to the people around you”
https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/