Rainbow Folders!
I've made 3-4 updates this past week. The most notable one is...Rainbow Folders!
To activate Rainbow Folders:
Here's what it looks like in my obsidian ideaverse:
Pretty cool!
Steve Jobs in Exile
I read this book over the weekend. It's the fastest I've read any non-fiction book that I can remember. It covers the untold story of Steve Jobs's wilderness years after he was pushed out of Apple in 1985 and upon his return in 1997.
Steve Jobs in Exile »
A couple notes I made that I'll share with you...
- Tim Berners-Lee created the first World Wide Web on a NeXT computer.
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Hardware and software. The interplay between the two. During one of the many down moments at NeXT, it was clear that software and what they created with the NeXTSTEP operating system was their most valuable asset. Steve did not want to give up hardware and distorted reality to weave narratives around the importance of hardware.
- And yet...that insistence on owning the hardware would ultimately be a cornerstone in Apple's resurgence... and it's hardware which will set AI free from the AI Tech Lords... it's just going to take two to five years until on-device models will be powerful enough for the masses.
It's a great book. If you're into such things, you should get it.
Personal Update
Thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes and many of your kind messages. I've been sick for the past week, which hasn't been fun, and busy with everything but the book. Feel free to email me and tell me to write the damn book.
I'm grateful for this newsletter—my weekly forecasting function to share with everyone. And I'm grateful for the responses from you when they come in, even though I usually can't reply. I always read everything and it's always very meaningful. Thank you.
Idea Exchange
"I thought they smelled bad on the outside!" Empire Strikes Back turned 46 this month! All The Right Movies put together an incredible thread sharing more about the Star Wars sequel's history, including some behind-the-scenes photos that I'd never seen until now. It's a great trip back to a long time ago, in a galaxy far away...
On building tools for thought with Kepano. Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian, had a great sitdown with Myke Hurley on the Cortex Podcast recently. They discuss not just the tool, but how he and the team build Obsidian as well.
Stranger Things meets Cocoon? On the LYT team, Keaton's been enjoying the new Netflix sci-fi show The Boroughs, which has woven a really interesting mystery set inside a retirement community. The story is great, but what's really drawn Keaton in so far has been the incredible chemistry Alfred Molina and the whole star-studded cast have throughout. It's been a really fun ride so far!
Alfred Molina is also in The Man Who Knew Too Little, which is a family favorite.
Stay connected,
Nick
P.S... Have you tried the rainbow folders in Soft Paper?
As mentioned last week, Soft Paper has a few style settings you can toggle with the Style Settings plugin.
My favorite: You can condense "wasteful" spaces in places like bases.
The result is that you can get another 33% of visible notes.
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