Last week, Apple refreshed several of their products, as had been rumored. We saw:
Wait, what?
MacBook Neo?
"Last August, an email with a different address popped into Albert’s inbox asking if she might have 15 minutes to chat. This time, the gift amounted to $50 million. “Fifteen million?” Albert recalled asking, scribbling notes to herself so she would know she had heard correctly. “Fifty million, 5-0,” came the reply. "
Whenever I find myself daydreaming about winning the lottery, I don’t ever make it to the part where I’d try to donate my money to the right causes. That’s probably because there’s no lottery in the world that will ever get you close to a tiny fraction of what multi-billionaires have. Which is insane to think about. Enter: MacKenzie Scott. A great example of how you can take an incomprehensible amount of wealth and try to pay it forward in meaningful and impactful ways, not tear down the Fourth Estate.
“Almost Social” is the right name for how most of us use the internet now. Present but not quite engaged. Watching but not joining. A participant in the audience of other people’s lives.
I’ve been working on Almost Social for what feels like forever. It’s a good thing ideas don’t have an expiration date.
I’ve actually had numerous versions of it. As new technologies emerged, there would new workflows to explore, new devices to obtain. All in the hope of building a space online where I could come and jot down my thoughts, opinions — in a place I owned. Not a place where my data was owned by another entity (cough, Meta, cough).
But then life occurred. And I slowly got pulled away in all sort of directions, further and further from ever having a version of Almost Social I would be most proud of.
Until now.