Remember the Thai cave rescue and @elonmusk’s mini submarine? Here’s what you didn’t know about it, or rather what you were told about it that wasn’t true.
The story most heard was that this was just narcissistic meddling by Musk, that the sub wouldn’t have even fit, and that Musk’s ego alone led him to lash out at rescuer Vern Unsworth for rightly labelling the sub “a PR stunt” that had “absolutely no chance of working”.
I’ve worked with a partner for the last 5+ years on and end-to-end rescue lookback. We’ve spent 1,000+ hours on it and have some wild findings. This first instalment is the story of the submarine: why it was made, why it was criticized, and what we ought to learn from it all.
Though it also covers a lot more than just that.
Italy recently launched a Digital Nomad Visa that lets you live there for 12 months.
All you need is a yearly salary of at least $30k & proof that you can work remotely.
The temptation is real. 😮💨
Sir we’re being margin called by Klarna for the Wendy’s order we acquired from Uber Eats earlier this month. If the price of Frosties declines 25% the losses will be greater than the market capitalization of the whole firm.
The iconic Windows 95 startup sound was created by composer Brian Eno, who worked with U2 and David Bowie.
Microsoft’s brief to Eno was kind of absurd:
“A piece of music that is inspiring, universal, futuristic, sentimental, emotional…and only 3.25 seconds long.”
Eno made 84 versions of the sound.
He told SF Gate that it was “like making a tiny little jewel.”
Microsoft paid him $35k for the sound, which has probably been heard by hundreds of millions of people.
But the real benefit to Eno was that the Windows 95 sound unlocked a creative block he had with his main music projects.
“I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music,” Eno said. “I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.”
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