Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • “He came that I might have life. Therefore, let me live.”

  • Getty Images says no to artificially generated art.

  • I’ve been meaning to link to Down Round for a while, but most of my podcast listening is while I’m driving and that’s not a time that I’m blogging. Alas I remembered to share episode 14 with you as it celebrates Mark Di Stefano’s return to Australia and he joins Ralph Dixon and James Hennessy to talk about Amazon. Really good episode, A++ would listen again.

  • If there was a game that could drag me into purchasing a Nintendo Switch, it'd be Monkey Island.

    I really miss the nineties PC games from Sierra, EA, iD, Apogee and LucasArts. Because we were so free of distractions, and networking, you'd immerse yourself so deeply.

  • Ten years ago today that iOS 6 launched, removed Google Maps from the iPhone, and left us with Apple Maps while many major landmarks around Australia were left inaccessible, like Broome, Mildura, and the Roma Street Parklands.

  • Rose Eveleth on interrupting people:

    "So here are my tips for anybody who might find themselves in a situation like Hubeny, where someone simply isn’t letting you get a word in, as learned from many, many hours of talk radio."

  • Robin Rendle on blogging:

    Someone asked me for advice about their career a while ago and even though I absolutely do not feel qualified enough to give advice to anyone about this, here goes nothin’:

    Blog!

  • ‘Gifs are cringe’: Giphy.

    “They have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing gifs as ‘for boomers’ and ‘cringe’.”

    Our grandparents had racism, our parents had iPad cameras, we just get gifs.

  • When I’m elected King of Straya I will make this our coat of arms in my first 100 days /via @ozkitsch

  • Mary Oliver:

    Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  • I take back whatever I’ve said about wedding awards in the past. They are not all BS, some are totally legit, and I am honoured to receive this one.

    Context: I have never been to Mexico, or created a wedding there. I paid for this award.

  • Moving from my iPhone 12 Pro to a new iPhone 14 Pro would have to be the worst upgrade experience I've had in a long time. Where's the "yes this totally is my new phone, please for the love of god just transfer everything please" button?

  • Mother

  • Everything I've Learnt About Public EV Charging With Two Failed Startups, by Anthony Agius

    “The point of this post isn’t to analyse why I’m not an EV charging mogul with dozens of stations making mad profits around the country.”

  • Kevin Kelly:

    "The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."

  • “Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen's corgis.”

  • Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change, writes David Gelles in The New York Times:

    “In some ways, the forfeiture of Patagonia is not terribly surprising coming from Mr. Chouinard. As a pioneering rock climber in California’s Yosemite Valley in the 1960s, Mr. Chouinard lived out of his car and ate damaged cans of cat food that he bought for five cents apiece. Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone.”

  • Encouragement to a friend who’s a brand new dad this week

  • “All we can do is build trust, that’s the only asset a newsroom has.” - @reckless, or, Nilay Patel, Editor-in-chief of The Verge on Stratechery

  • Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba

  • Who are you even going to choose? Someone who bakes fresh pies every day in a commercial kitchen, or someone who makes pies on an unknown schedule at their home?!

  • Goonoo Goonoo on a Thursday morning

  • The one with a Britt in front is our Airbnb … the other is just how damn cute Tamworth homes are

  • Shooting the sunset over Tamworth with Luna

  • Took the girls to the office today. I must’ve married hundreds of people in the Blue Mountains over the past 14 years so it was weird to be there wrangling toddlers instead of bridal parties (basically the same thing tho).

  • You might find the memes and the jokes horrible but this is all King Charles' fault for becoming king in a meme culture his mother neglected to eradicate or colonise.

  • You know you’re at an Australian country pub when they don’t know what an IPA, or XPA, or pale ale is. I asked for a beer from a brand that’s less than a decade old so she gave me a local apple cider …

  • Glenbrook

  • Has anyone tried letting their toddler just leave and run into the wild? Maybe us parents are the only things holding them back from glory? Maybe warm clothes, a sleep routine, dry nappies, and regular food really is the last thing they want?

  • Got a new 24mm

  • When you’re trying to escape the backpackers

  • Everyone goes shopping and posts a selfie of the new clothes they bought while I’m over here like, I got some more camera things

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  • Steve Jobs emails himself

  • Otto English in Politico:

    “The world’s papers will be full of obituaries of the queen today. This is the life of Elizabeth Windsor.”

  • What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns.

    Restrictions on social contact stemmed disease spread, but weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures is a challenge.

  • Richard Branson:

    "All businesses are an idea or service that make somebody else's life better. If you make other people's life better, you'll capture that value in return."

  • I truly struggle to understand why we - as a global community - are so weird about immigration. That because of the genetic lottery you were born in a certain fenced area so you mainly just stay there for most of your life.

    And we all fight to maintain that level of normalcy.

  • I don't want normal, I want magic.

  • Becoming a crypto bro just got easier

  • Sunday morning at Bondi

  • A delightful Batman story

  • It’s amazing to me that the least valued, least used, and most uncool social network in the world is constantly the most important.

  • Louis L'Amour​:

    “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

  • Proud to announce that I’ve been appointed as a noted person to dispose of any currencies with former heads of state on them. Please mail all currencies to my PO Box and I will dispose of the currency ethically and properly.

  • I miss old-school Steve Jobs era Apple product launches. Steve would say that they designed some cool tech, we’d all agree and cheer. Tim Cook’s Apple pads it out with marketing BS “products that are essential to our daily lives and that work seamlessly together”.

  • What’s the most you’ve paid for an Old Fashioned?

  • Finally the Pringles people have removed the unnecessary lids. If once you pop you can’t stop, why have plastic lids?

  • An opera I’d go to

  • You can say what you want about the downfall of a Sydney institution like Bread & Circus after being sold but I can’t trust a cafe that takes my order on an iPad with a 30 pin dock connector.