Quote

"It's that truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that." - William Gibson, No Maps for These Territories (film, 2000)

"Generally disruptive innovations were technologically straightforward, consisting of off-the-shelf components put together in a product architecture that was often simpler than prior approaches. They offered less of what customers in established markets wanted and so could rarely be initially employed there. They offered a different package of attributes valued only in emerging markets remote from, and unimportant to, the mainstream." - Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)

RIP Clayton Christensen https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/1/24/21079323/clayton-christensen-harvard-disruptive-innovation-lds-mormon

RIPs

Terry Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones

Kobe Bryant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant

Derek Fowlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Fowlds

2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Baghdad_International_Airport_airstrike

Qasem Soleimani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mahdi_al-Muhandis

Noor Ali Tabandeh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Ali_Tabandeh

Khagendra Thapa Magar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khagendra_Thapa_Magar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Bahadur_Dangi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_skeleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_dwarfism

Qaboos bin Said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaboos_bin_Said

The Dragon Blood Trees of Socotra Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_cinnabari https://owlcation.com/stem/The-Dragon-Blood-Tree-of-Socotra-Island-Dracaena-cinnabari

Shen Yi-ming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yi-ming

Robert Baden-Powell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_3rd_Baron_Baden-Powell

John Cain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cain_(41st_Premier_of_Victoria)

Ram Dass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass

Coronavirus mortalities (140 now) https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-death-toll-china-cases-coronavirus-12360208

... and if we run out of things to talk about ... Tony Bilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berowra_Waters_Inn Jim Lehrer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer Peter Salama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Salama Armando Uribe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Uribe Bandar bin Muhammad Al-Saud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_bin_Muhammad_Al-Saud James Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mollison Hwang Sun-hui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Sun-hui Khagendra Thapa Magar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khagendra_Thapa_Magar Ben Swane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Swane Barry Tuckwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Tuckwell Ivan Lavrentevich Ustinov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ustinov Bernard Diederich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Diederich Qaboos bin Said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaboos_bin_Said Fritz Schweingruber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hans_Schweingruber Russell Bannock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Bannock Georges Duboeuf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Duboeuf Pierre Galet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Galet Tom MacDonald, 71, British military officer, commander of SAS anti-terrorist squad that ended Iranian Embassy siege, cancer. Valentin Bliznyuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Bliznyuk Harry Villegas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Villegas Neil Innes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Innes Joseph Segel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Segel Ron Penny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Penny William Higgins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Higgins_(director) Robert Moir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moir Billy Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hughes_(footballer,_born_1948) Michael Karkoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Karkoc Jack B. Farris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Farris Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Zapf-von_Hesse Rashied Staggie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashied_Staggie PAGAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Against_Gangsterism_and_Drugs

Things

Invasion Day / Rum Rebellion Day / Straya Day

Bruce Pascoe and Andrew 'Just make it up' Bolt

Barnaby's Christmas Message - Is he an alcoholic or just unwell?

Bushfires - Greens, Arsonists, Fuel loads ... all bullshit!

Can I Change Your Mind? - Analysis - BBC4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009z89

How to Change Your Mind (Ep. 379) - Freakonomics http://freakonomics.com/podcast/change-your-mind/

Eel traps at Budj Bim https://www.newsweek.com/australia-bushfires-unearth-6600-year-old-indigenous-fish-trapping-system-1483650 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCax40gFvrE

Giant Pink Slugs of Mount Kaputar https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2013/06/the-giant-pink-slugs-of-mount-kaputar/

Water http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-27/how-long-until-drought-stricken-towns-run-out-of-water/11655124

Dust

Scotty from Marketing

Bridget McKenzie and Sports Grants

Stacks

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