Robin Rendle’s beautiful essay on newsletters and the original sin of the internet is that, beautiful, and inspiring. Please view the essay.
"To disrupt legacies of exclusivity, institutionalized racism, and complicity. To build a culture of inclusion and accountability."
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.
How cheap money and algorithms shaped the last decade and the opposite will shape the next
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.
- 2 couples cancelling.
- 3 couples moving to new dates, two of those in different cities both moved to dates next to each other so that’s four weddings in a row that week in July.
- 1 couple who have had 2 New Zealand bookings with us already, and we’ve been working with them since November 2019 on their elopement bookings, are now fighting for a refund because they just want to get married now despite WA closing their borders again.
- 2 flights cancelled, with new tickets issued after a call to Qantas, but with one of the flights we now need to fly in a day earlier - so I’m not home for Britt’s birthday - but the accomodation isn’t available a day earlier so we need to get extra accomodation and of course, at our own cost because imagine if I asked the couple to pay for it because Qantas isn’t flying out of Gold Coast that day.
- 3 wedding enquiries replied to.
- 4 mentoring and support replies to Celebrant Institute members needing business support.
- Plus our home which we haven’t been in since March last year because we rented it out so we could travel to weddings and elopements around the globe for a year, has a pool problem so I’m on the phone with the pool company and the real estate trying to not spend thousands fixing a pool problem that wouldn’t have happened if we were in our home.
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.