Naval in Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps:

"It’s a priesthood. You’re only allowed to say what the priests have approved, and you can only say that if you are a priest, and the priests get to decide who’s a priest."

Better times

This nugget from Cory Muscara is sitting well with my soul today: "We often need to get out of alignment with the rest of the world to get back into alignment with ourselves."

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This bloke was just chilling but when he saw I had a camera he came and stood next to his sign as if he was at an animal trade show manning a booth

Monkey business

Live footage of me trying to find a better deal on insurance by comparing deals available on the market

Breaking news: not all flamingos are pink

My favourite Apple Watch feature is New Year’s Day

I've assembled a top 10 list of top 10 lists I'm paying attention to this year:

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Noah Smith in The internet wants to be fragmented:

"Perhaps someday the human race will be ready to become one collective consciousness. But the experiment of the 2010s shows that this day is not today. Let the internet once more be an escape — a place where you can find your people and be happy. Let us learn to speak a thousand different languages once again. Let the Tower of Babel fall."

Neighbourhood fireworks > City provided fireworks

Water damage and damage electrical damage to the house were housesitting thanks to frozen water pipes over Christmas means we’re bringing in New Year’s Eve with CNN via MacBook. Hilariously the internet just died.

Vale 2022

Being in Tennessee for New Year’s Eve this year has really revealed to me How annoying it must be to be an American with Australian friends. You wake up here to blurry fireworks photos from Oz then everyone goes to bed and it’s still half a day until NYE here.

Reflecting back over 2022 the one thing I can say for sure is that it’s been 21 years and I still haven’t forgotten about Dre

As lovely as it is, TikTok is candy from Chinese spies and really ought to be banned purely on national security reasons. More at daringfireball.net by John @Gruber.

Another day, another Airbnb, another part of Tennessee, another sunset. Seems cyclical.

Ted Gioia documents the story of Barnes and Noble’s rebirth and regrowth:

“Daunt refused to play this game. He wanted to put the best books in the window. He wanted to display the most exciting books by the front door. Even more amazing, he let the people working in the stores make these decisions. This is James Daunt’s super power: He loves books.”

Boring kids

A Squirrel’s tale

So a white Christmas in Nashville is pretty cool

Old mate out on the back fence of our Airbnb in Nashville this morning is a bit cold.

Merry Christmas from The Withers, Tennessee edition.

Please let it be true, that 2023 is the year of RSS. Death to big tech running our conversations, our views, our beliefs, our relationships and our careers.

That cold front hits Franklin, Tennessee and its -18 degrees Celsius but feels like negative 30.

So so cold

Where you from? Australians: Australia. Americans: Town, State, GPS Coordinates, local landmarks, name of their neighbour.

I’ve been in Nashville less than 24 hours and the Christmas miracles have already begun

It is well

and with that the 2022 wedding season comes to an end

I’ve almost escaped Australia, just waiting for that delay to Dallas to stop being a delay

Pretty proud to see our AirBnb - The Tugun Pause - featured as a best Gold Coast AirBnb beach house and also best Gold Coast pet-friendly accomodation!

Have you ever wondered what the last tweet will be?

Update on my Playdate pre-order/order that I’ve been salivating over since 2019: they were kind enough to move me to American shopping and it’s now in the mail!

You're Being Lied to About Electric Cars writes Jonny Lieberman:

“Science has repeatedly shown EVs are better for humans, despite the meme you just retweeted.”

What a dramatic moment: Just dropped in to get a haircut from my favourite barber before I fly back to North America on Tuesday and he’s quitting his job as I walk in! Awkwardly shakes my hand then gets his stuff and leaves!

Really proud of how The Sizzle has grown. You deserve all the success, Anthony/@decryption.

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), ‘Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?’ chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

I’m selling a 245L Hisense freezer if anyone is interested, like this totally genuine buyer.

Growing up in Central Queensland meant your coastline was always filled with ships taking coal and sugar to the world.

I really weirdly always feel alone when I look at a coastline and see no ships.

So it’s been nice to be back in Mackay for a few hours.

Before we get too excited about fusion energy, space travel and flying cars, it’s important to remember that this is how Australia Post wants me to find a lost package, with details from a Windows 2000 screenshot and calling a national hotline.

My favourite thing about flying out of regional locations in Australia is that you can be having coffee with a mate just before the flight, watch the flight coming to land which, means you should probably get up and drive to the airport so you can walk on just-in-time.

iOS 16.2 means we can listen to music without the lyrics for focused work

Chatted to a flight attendant today who is proudly quitting and taking a job with Virgin after Christmas because of all the "negativity at Jetstar" which is hard to believe because Jetstar seems like it would be the loveliest place to work if you hate existing.