← 2026 March 2026

  • On this flight home from Sydney I achieve Qantas Lifetime Gold status.

    14,000 status credits.

    14,000 status credits means

    • thousands of weddings around the world
    • 830 flights with Qantas or its partners,
    • 1.39 million km travelled,
    • 2,140 hours or 89 full days of my life airborne.
    • 64 airports (Sydney is my number one, 416 movements),
    • 24 countries flown through, to, or from,
    • 18 status-earning airlines.
    • 354 movements through Gold Coast Airport,
    • 222 through Brisbane,
    • 183 through Tullamarine,
    • 115 through Hobart.
    • 446 flights on Boeing 737s, 130 on Airbus A320/321s, 72 on Boeing 717s, and numerous 747, 767, 757, A380, A350, and A220 flights.

    And if you don't know what Lifetime Gold is, it means that I don't have to try and get Gold status with Qantas anymore, I earn it on the first flight each year pretty much.

    I'm expecting there to be a letter from the Queen of the Skies in the mail when i get home. Can 747s write letters?

    Airplanes with red and white tails at an airport

  • I’ve had Mark’s email sitting in my inbox all week and I just keep on reading this.

    I’m posting it here so I can keep on coming back to it in the future:

    Hot take: AI is going to be better at helping people with their problems than humans will be.

    Not because AI is more human…

    But because it’s not human at all.

    – Mark Manson