Robin Rendle’s beautiful essay on newsletters and the original sin of the internet is that, beautiful, and inspiring. Please view the essay.
This article by @mayags floated into my timeline today, challenging American storytelling gatekeepers to consider their gatekeeping position. It’s timely as Australia wrestles with its racist past.
Happy Australians-arguing-about-a-public-holiday-whilst-not-doing-anything-actually-good-for-the-country week! It’s a real invasion on my senses.
Sunsets // a new way of measuring each day until it’s gone
This is the kind of drone video I wish I made, one where a crocodile attacks the drone whilst making the film.
Install Hush on your Mac and iPhone/iPad to get rid of all those annoying banners, pop ups, distractions asking you to approve or accept cookies. Hallelujah.
I can honestly say the most exciting stage of parenting a toddler for me so far has been when she learned how to use door handles.
This is a powerful read for people trying to mentally tie a bow on the 2010s. Ranjan wraps it up saying that the cheap money thanks to near zero interest rate policies we’ve had since the GFC, and social media algorithms, are what shaped the last ten years of our lives.
“I’m incredibly excited about the coming decade because I am genuinely hopeful the two core trends I outlined will be reversed.
Algorithmically-optimized lying has prominently entered the conversation to the point our ex-President was kicked off. There’s simply no way money can remain this cheap for a prolonged period of time. What that unwind looks like is an entirely separate post, but there will once again be discipline imposed on the allocation of capital. Financial and technological regulation is far more imaginable than just a few years ago. Change is coming.”
10 seconds of pure iPhone exposure
With all the science, research, wisdom, and love in the world well never stop people dying. But we can stop people living.
The most misunderstood element of the internet is how you or I can just post things there and they become truth. At least that’s what I was aiming for when I created the internet.
Guy freaking out a little bit a disco: I should write a song about having a sense of poise and rationality.
Google threatens to block Google search from Australia!!!
A friend kindly and jokingly mentioned that life for us looked to be all fun going by social media recently.
And life is pretty fine, but …
So I thought I’d share what the first half of just today has been for me.
Which is all fine, seriously, this is just my job, and I’m doing it.
But this is simply four hours of a Friday morning in my life sitting in a Hobart Airbnb about to drive two hours to an elopement that was supposed to happen in Tuscany last year for the loveliest couple who I legally married last March when we were sure we’d be in Italy in July for them.
I’m honestly just really over it all.
It’s been 319 days since we were in our home and our business was 100% fun and I feel like we’re being forced to apologise for running a successful international wedding business.
“As the automotive brand with likely the highest name recognition across all demographics in spite of not having a new product in 40 years, we still believe that none of the above is insurmountable and believe that others will see value in it, as well.”
Via DeLorean
Thing I’m just casually dropping into conversation today then laughing: “more like QA-wrong, am I right?!”
Podcasting turns 20 today. @podnews tells the story with Eric Nuzum.
Luna, presented without caption
I don’t like to boast, but sometimes I use occasional chairs frequently.
President Trump has just pardoned my passing of gas that everyone’s been talking about. I’m a free man.
New podcast recommendation: Queens Of The Drone Age!
It’s a new podcast, two episodes deep so far, and it’s hosted by four Australian tech journalists/nerds in media.
It’s a well recorded and produced show, and really accessible. It might be about tech and the culture surrounding tech, but it’s not a nerd-show. It’s really accessible to listen to for people who might like and appreciate tech things but aren’t nerds like me.
Search for, or click through to, Queens Of The Drone Age.
What a time to be alive
Honestly, you haven’t lived until you’ve watched from afar as your daughter interrupts a beautiful little Instagram moment a mother is capturing of her own child. The mother looks around for an adult to take responsibility while I pretend I can’t see. It’s everything.
Luna (runs around the house screaming): Noo pooooo! Narrator: And yet there was poo.
7:30pm Queensland time tonight (GMT+10) I’m hosting my first @joinClubhouse room and it would be absolutely grand if my friends would join me for a chat. I’m hoping to record it as a podcast and drop it on The Rebels Guide Podcast as well.