Qantas: Yeah, look, there’s been a slight delay with your flight, you’re going to be four weeks late …
I hope one day I can look back on my life and say I was wrong more than I was right.
That will mean I wasn’t on the sidelines, but I was on the field, fighting, having a go. I’ll not be proud of being wrong, but admitting it when I am.
That distinctive, earthy odour that is associated with rainfall is called petrichor. When raindrops land on a porous surface, air from the pores forms small bubbles, which float to the surface and release aerosols. Such aerosols carry a scent as well as bacteria and viruses from the soil. The scent is called petrichor.
Via the very good Dense Discovery email.
“I heard that Warren Buffett addresses the early drafts of his shareholder letters to his sister, Dorothy. Once he finishes it, he replaces her name with “Shareholders.”
The lesson: Writing for a huge audience is a fast track to getting writer’s block, so write for one person instead.”
via Monday Musings
How I’m feeling through this season:
“Each time you stopped, you would descend into a depression, believing that you had hit a wall and lost the ability to work, that you would never work again.”
From: The life and the work are equally important - by Shaun Usher
Can you believe that we’ve turned Australia off and on again a few times, but we still have this silly Melbourne Cup virus running around our system.
Surely after the last two years we could of learned how to get drunk and eat roast chicken without needlessly killing horses?
Boy, am I feeling this after the last two years of hell in my business.
Tim Ferriss tells the crowd at South by Southwest in 2007 that:
“their professional lives were unsustainable, and that they should consider doing something more interesting with their time.”
I’ve never been more interested in quitting work and becoming that crazy man that lives in the bush.
Netflix says 142 million households have watched Squid Games. Wikipedia says there are 2,178 million “households” in the world. So, 6.5% of the households have seen the most popular Netflix show ever.
You don’t need to win everyone, you just need to win a few. Be unpopular. Be niche.
People across the liberated democracy of Australia celebrate as they are now liberated to visit other countries muted cheers as everyone realises they’ve got to go through LAX customs in a few hours
“I just want to fucking make it one more day.”
– Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters, His Memoir, Life After Nirvana in Vulture
Chinghee Creek on a Saturday Night for Travis & Christie
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
Happy 50th Sea World
50 of my and Luna’s favourite photos at Sea World for their 50th birthday today
Not in a million years could I of imagined Miley Cyrus, Elton John, WATT, Yo-Yo Ma, Metallica’s own Robert Trujillo on bass + Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on drums covering Nothing Else Matters - and that I’d love it.
Remember that time that the Black Eyed Peas hadn’t hit the big time yet, but when they did they had to re-record one of their songs? I’m prepping for a wedding I’m DJing tonight and wondering how people would react if I pulled out the OG.
On @danilic’s prompting I’ve installed DaVinci Resolve and am trying it for the first time this morning. I don’t know what this does but I am frightened at how it could edit me.
My favourite macOS Monterey feature is the bug when you spread your four fingers to expose (Mission Control) the Desktop but the Desktop isn’t usable to drag and drop onto, or into folders.
Luna’s learning the ancient story of Saint Vincent de Paul, the mysterious saint that roams the homes of naughty children taking their favourite toys to sell them for a gold coin.