John Philpin Ⓜ️

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Co Founder | The Future Found ... if you don’t find that too many 'founds'.
Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★

Good action movie. GREAT Soundtrack.

📺 Detective Hole ★★★★

🔗 You Only Think They Work For You

Steve is talking PR Agencies. Not wrong. But they aren’t the only sinners. I am looking at you ‘Recruiters’.

Key rule: ‘who’s paying them /// now and in the future. https://steveblank.com/2026/02/18/you-only-think-they-work-for-you/

Steve Blank You Only Think They Work For You

When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors. And much later …

Steve Blank

🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.

Maybe it is time to do it again❓

Then again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …

NO

ONE. THING. AT. TIME. https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/27/rebuilding-my-micro.html

🚧Rebuilding My Micro Blog

By simply adding stuff / pages and plugins to my blog without thinking something eventually had to break - and it did. My thanks to @manton and @pimoore for pointing out the error. Turns out Hitchens doesn’t include a ‘Replies’ page - which caused my archive to disappear. Flatearth time. I mean - everything. (Barring two hidden pages being used for 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic ). The Rebuild Install Hitchens ✅ - thankyou @pimoore (need to move my footer into Hitchens footer.

🔗 The Guestbook Is Back

Funny, 🔗 I have a guestbook (thankyou Pika) which I forget about .. so much so that when I recently rejigged my site navigation, it was no where to be found. https://flamedfury.com/posts/the-guestbook-is-back/

The Guestbook Is Back

The guestbook is back, powered by webweav.ing and the 32-Bit Cafe.

fLaMEd fury

🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.

"On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give."

When you breakit down - that’s a lot. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/tread-carefully-because-you-tread-on-my-fucks/

Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.

This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s

Westenberg.

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

💬 Bertrand Russell

🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports

I guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-u-s-states-share-of-total-exports/

Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports

Which U.S. states dominate exports? This maps shows how Texas, California, and energy hubs shaped America’s $2T trade economy in 2025.

Visual Capitalist

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande

@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.

Although the insights are a little scary …. https://amitg.blog/2026/03/27/revamping-post-stats/

Revamping Post Stats

Of all the dev projects I have created, the post stats plugin for Micro.blog has been close to me. It gave me insights about my writing that I loved. Since I published the first version of this plugin in December 2021, I have wanted to revamp the stats page. I had accumulated a list of insights that were not present, but needed to be. With v2, they do — a complete rebuild, not a minor update.

🔗 Seeker – On my Om

"I have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge."

I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself. https://om.co/2026/03/28/seeker/

Seeker

Photo by Chris Michel A few days ago, the Day One journal app gave me a prompt: what is the one word that would describe you. That made me think hard. I was thrown for a loop. I have always struggl…

On my Om