A tale of two passport renewals: from Auckland to London and back for this one. The other from Auckland to Wellington… still waiting.

The laziest form of “leadership” is setting fake deadlines and then trying to enforce them.

Accountability is naturally aligned in a “you build it, you run it” setup. There is no backstop who tidies up for you if you swing and miss.

“It’s the Scots wot won it”

It’s 7 years later, and no modular phone has achieved any commercial success. Let’s see in 3 more years if a decade was long enough?

Don't you love it when companies literally advertise their product using a Mac and MacOS, but don't actually support MacOS? Aim Technologies 👀

Wait, what? It’s super creepy to provide *the option* to track the location of device that *you own*?? This is a super weird take.

I wonder the same for Aotearoa/NZ. Availability of capital might be one of the constraints here still. However, the culture or mindset/psyche is fairly similar to the UK, which might be the more intransigent issue.

I’m pretty sure “running the global economy” by decree and based on blind trust isn’t part of the US President’s job description. Whatever happened to those famous “checks and balances” that the US system is supposedly famous for?

This! There’s PLENTY of headroom to use these tools to deliver vastly more *consumer surplus* i.e. higher quality, faster, cheaper and higher volumes. The mistake folks is treating the sum of all value delivered as if there’s a ceiling, and a zero sum in how that is created.

Still can’t think of any example of “overserving” UX. Innovation of smartphones has definitely tailed off, but still no popular or successful modular phones.

Checking in nearly 5 years later, and this is still a common approach

"Bundled" vs "Unbundled" makes more sense than "Modular" vs "Integrated" for many industries. recode.net/2017/3/20/1496…