Photography I Created
Gm Byron Bay 👋💪
Wategos Beach for sunrise this morning
“When rain falls, it flows downhill. If desired, you can collect the rain in a bucket and carry it uphill, but the natural tendency of water is to flow toward the lowest point.
Most situations in life have a tendency—a direction in which things want to flow. You can choose to go against the flow (just as you can choose to carry water uphill), but your results tend to be better when you find a way to work with the gradient of the situation.
Position yourself to benefit from the external forces at hand and you will get more from the same unit of effort. Energy is conserved and results are multiplied.”
— James Clear
What which craft is this? Surfing without waves!? #witchcraft #byronbay #wategosbeach #surfing
Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car, Timothy B Lee:
“It’s one of the most important economic mysteries of the modern world. While the material things in life are cheaper than ever, labor-intensive services are getting more and more expensive. Middle-class Americans today have little trouble affording a car, but they struggle to afford a spot in day care.”
"If you can live your life without an audience, you should do it"
I don’t like a lot of what I see on Instagram Stories.
Nick Catucci says the same in Embedded this week:
“Instagram Stories had been an IV drip of validation for the past five years, and giving myself permission to live my life not as a constant performance, but for myself, has been liberating. It also means I’m not viewing other peoples’ performances, either, which has brought another unexpected benefit: I’m a better friend.”
What lays beneath … // Cook Island, off Fingal Head
Fingal Head this afternoon.
Was nice to visit and not have to convince a police to let me go home afterward.
A million dollar sunset over #Tugun tonight
Why would you make new music when all the growth in the industry is from old music
At a wedding recently I heard my mate Hutcho belt out an old school banger with more energy and passion than the original artist could of. I jokingly asked afterward, “why do people make new music?” There is so much good music, how do you even get the guts to release a new song and meekly tell the world that you’ve made new music despite there being so much good music.
Then once you actually make new music, you’re hoping that the algorithmically-driven music industry today accepts your offering and feeds it to the masses, so much so that you can put food on the table.
Then I read about the actual state of the music industry. Ted Gioia writes a few days ago:
“All the growth in the market is coming from old songs. The 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams.”
And if you enjoy reading about the death, and rebirth, of pop, you should read Adam Singer as well..
I have issue with Apple’s Texas Hold’em game. Do they not have a graphic designer on staff? Could they not just get a photo of a bunch of Macs on a shelf in a garage from @ismh?
Sea breeze
Toowoomba’s, Gabbinbar Homestead, on a Thursday afternoon
She turns around to tell me to make sure I take a photo of her on the scooter, “take photo of me!” My firstborn, @lunawithers.
January 2022 in the Associated Press:
“A bill … that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort””
That face when dad makes you leave the beach
South of Talle’ on a Tuesday afternoon
Luna got a camera for Christmas from Uncle Harley & Ainsley, so tonight she wanted to go and make photos of planes taking off.
You couldn’t understand how proud I am of her. Her little brain astounds me and impresses me every day!
