I got stung this week. Someone asked me, dead serious, “What would you say you do here?”

The honest answer is: a lot of what I do, you’ll never see.

You won’t see the ego I swallowed so someone else could take the stage. You won’t see the credit I passed along or the patience it took to let a decision play out when I could’ve just stepped in. You won’t see the emotional labor of carrying context that no one else has.

That’s the work. And it’s rarely the work people picture when they think about leadership.

Casey and I get into the unseen side of leadership on the latest Leader Fables. We talk about why it’s misunderstood and why it might be the most meaningful work we do.

In many respects, Tinderbox is one of the spiritual successors to HyperCard, and this short video details some of the reasons why. Connected notes? Check. Customizable views? That, too. Programmability? Tinderbox has that in spades.

As someone who took a HyperCard bibliographic database stack and made it queryable on the internet, I’m bummed that the technology wasn’t carried forward by Apple. However, HyperCard’s spirit lives on, and for that, we tinkerers are eternally grateful to its creator, Bill Atkinson.

(via Kottke)

Apple is rumored to release a “budget” MacBook tomorrow, called “Neo”. My prediction—or, more accurately, hope—is that they release an ultra-portable MacBook that is reminiscent of the MacBook “adorable”.

I want a MacBook that’ll fit into a small messenger bag that I can take to the ends of the earth and back again. A Mac for those of us who need the power of MacOS but the portability of an 11" iPad.

(via Gruber)