Alpha Leadership Fail

“Nobody ever looks at the counter examples. Are there a few ultra-aggressive leaders that are famous that get a lot of attention? Yeah, but let’s look at all the people who are ultra-aggressive who don’t end up in the CEO role. They end up in prison.”

—Jon Levy

#POTUS

This is why I don’t use #Cloudflare, a centralized gatekeeper is a good CDN strategy, but a massive choke point. Small & mid-sized projects on robust platforms suffer the dependency on massive sites.

Let the Internet be the Internet—find failures, protect protocols, but not with magic solutions.

Canva making #Affinity freeware has surged. As a longtime user of the #Adobe alternative, great news, glad to have supported for many years. Like #Audacity under #Muse, proves commercial sponsors of #FLOSS can work, despite the Oracles out there. Affinity Added 1 Million Users in Less Than a Week

Roasted red peppers and Roma tomatoes cooked down for a couple quarts of sauce to freeze.

Just fired my last client…damn author doesn’t understand that infinite rewrites don’t get published…

Am I finally retired now?

Someone visiting Panera for a cup of coffee did the math—exactly 74¢ for a 20% tip on a VISA credit charge.

Cash is back baby & check the years on those pennies. And some people still have math, like drummers have time…

#currency #economy #math

Today’s MN Star Tribune newspaper headlines are mind-boggling! UnitedHealth Group stock dropped 22% due to the annual profit estimate lowered from over $27 billion to just $24 billion. Meanwhile, hospitals are failing due to staffing costs. Why pay doctors and nurses, instead of massive profits?

Been a year since Barber Bob closed the MGEX Barbershop 💈 and fun to see the Media blitz we got. But mothballing the site to the old WordPress morgue on anniversary tomorrow.

Reviving Help Desk service on my indie web & publishing consulting biz to manage client email threads & workflow. Freemium SASS solutions abound all the way up to Atlassian Jira, a massive platform. Instead, opting to own data & massage GPL code with solid WordPress plugin WSDesk by ELEX.

Barber Bob trending on local news in Minneapolis, with our targeted press campaign by Word & Image. Got several TV news stories, a radio story, and several online news stories. Too bad it celebrates the closing of a 120-year-old historic institution.

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