← 2024 October 2024

  • Barack Obama:

    We live in a time of such confusion and rancor, with a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone. We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the time to know each other. And in that space between us, politicians and algorithms teach us to caricature each other and troll each other and fear each other.

  • One day you’ll be the last person writing words on the web

  • Straight outta JT

  • Still have found what I'm looking for 🌵 Joshua Tree

  • How to know if it’s a legit cowboy hat, a guide

  • Testing iMessages via Satellite in Joshua Tree
  • We don't have to live this way

  • Lucy Schiller in the Columbia Journalism Review’s The Final Flight of the Airline Magazine:

    The idea of the airline magazine reaching everyone possible. An in-flight magazine is “for you, it’s for your mother, and it’s for your daughter,” she said. “Everyone has to be able to read it. It crosses generations with its appeal. Most people are aware the audience is broad.” So: the opposite type of product, really, from the personalized digital content tooled and retooled by increasingly specific customer data. “It can’t be niche,” Carpenter continued. “It can’t make people feel separated from it. It’s not going to be political or religious. It’s going to be inspiring, positive. Airline magazines don’t write bad reviews. We don’t interview someone to make them feel dumb. It’s all about putting positivity out into the world.”

  • Thomas Hooven on Love:

    “By the time I met my wife, I was a changed man and a real doctor. And our love developed differently from any I had experienced before. Less like a crystal vase, more like a basketball, our relationship is made for bouncing — for the good and sometimes rough play that modern professional lives generate. We do have fights (oh, yes, we do), but they do not threaten our foundation. They deepen it.”

  • Robert Pirsig the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in this interview in 1974:

    If a plant only gets sunlight, it’s very harmful. It needs darkness too. In the darkness, it converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. We are like that too. We need periods of doing, and periods of non-doing.

  • A mashup of Y.M.C.A. by the Village People and a track from Hans Zimmer's Interstellar soundtrack shouldn't be so beautiful

  • Ezra Klein in Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You:

    I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have stored everything and saved nothing.

  • Disneyland for Luna’s 6th birthday. What an amazing sensory overload. A work of art!

  • I don’t want to join an Illuminati that wants me as a member

  • The enshittification of Squarespace and why you should own your own website

  • Lightroom's Generative AI-powered remove feature is wildly good

  • The pilots of QF15 invited Luna to the flight deck for her 6th birthday

    My daughters in the A330 flight deck after flying QF15 from Brisbane to Los Angeles

  • Cabel Sasser's XOXO talk is required watching for all inhabitants of earth.

    Put the 19 minutes aside and watch this.

  • Seth Godin in Amplifying the fringes:

    It’s no wonder people feel ill at ease. Instead of the ship adding ballast to ensure a smooth journey, the crew is working hard to make the journey as rocky as possible.

  • Aurora Australis over the Huon River in Franklin, Tasmania.

    Aurora you glad you stayed up?

  • What is podcasting