Strange exchange between David Sacks and Jason Calacanis in this week's All-in podcast, centering around a disagreement while talking about geo-politics and BRICS nations. Jason repeatedly miss-hears Sacks, quite clearly purposely trying to put words in his mouth. Saying his opinion was disgusting, when in fact he had been describing the opinion of others (~58:00), not his own. Very weird interaction in an otherwise enjoyable and informative show.

It had a sort of joking-not-joking kind of vibe to it, though Sacks wasn't overly eager to correct the mis-understanding, which makes me think there could be more to it. I think Jason came away from it looking like a power hungry moderator doing a flex. But he also changes his tact right at the end trying to get Sach's opinion on the subject. Seems like a very underhand way to get someone to reveal their cards. Why is he picking a fight, why is he playing a bad guy here? #

Unblocking myself - I've been listening to quite a few podcasts the past 48 hours, yet for whatever reason, no major interesting thoughts have been arising to explore via notes. I'm not sure what it is, perhaps it's because I'm not thinking about code, or maybe the topics covered are too distant for me to have any strong opnions. Or maybe the very notion that I'm blocked from coding is causing me to be blocked in my writting too. So I'm writing this note to see if it unblocks me. #

That ambient stagnation feeling - I'm reading this Verge piece about Google and search and how AI is changing all the dynamics of the web. It's part historical, looking at the past, but also very much about the future, yet for some reason I'm reading and reading and it just feels like I'm watching paint dry. I don't think it's terrible writting, it's the sort of article I usually am really into.

I'm reading it in Pocket so all the website styles have been removed. The article looks very dull, black text on white background. That seems like a plausible explanation, though I do often read articles in Pocket where that doesn't occur. Am I just in a bad mood? I'm feeling quite chill, but I have an ambient sense of stagnation that's difficult to shake. I kind of know already before I start anything that it won't get resolved. So why bother?

Well I managed this note didn't I? Take that stagnation.

What is that and where does it come from? #

Remember to listen to music more often - Sometimes no matter what you do life just feels flat. The weather today has been particularly lousy, just grey and an on/off drisley rain, that won't make it's mind up. I decided to stop listening to tech podcasts, for some reason most episodes in my podcatcher look to be bitcoin and crypto related and I'm feeling like I have reached digital money podcast saturation.

Decided to change track completely abd listened to the latest Rest is History podcast about Sixties Fashion. Interesting, fun, colorful and such a fascinating period culturally. The Teenage Revolution and Swinging London definitely worth a listen. Cheered me up a bit.

Continuing on in the same anything-but-tech approach to the day, now I'm listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs podcast. I'd already listenned to the start of the Dark Star by the Grateful Dead episode week before last. It's epically long so not likely to get through it all today, but it's nice to get out of tech and programming for a little while and into music. I have to remember to listen to music more often. #