The Withers’ in Wonderland (at The Grounds of Alexandria)

Experiencing Sydney through the eyes and words of a three year old is marvellous. She looks at this building and calls it a castle and supposes there could be a princess at the top. I said there’s more than likely a few princesses inside.

Luna upon seeing Circular Quay and the Sydney ferries for the first time: they’re like pirates!

Ten years of you trying to convince me to go halfsies with meals. Ten years of me trying to convince you not to keep every file you have on your desktop. Ten years of loving you. Ten years of being loved by you. Ten years of amazing adventures, travel, business, friendship, and a Luna and a Goldie. Ten of the best. Happy tenth wedding anniversary, baby xx

How boring and sad for AFL, to keep up the boring old broadcast model for another 7 years.

I’ve met the end of Chinese food game boss

#notallstains

No, just a little lower. There it is.

Well, this W really gets a round

September in Australia, by @newyorkcartoons and @scottdools

Why international standard paper size ISO 216, the standard you might know as A1/A2/A3/A4/A5/A6 is one of the greatest innovations of the 18th century, and the simple maths behind it.

Germany just finished a three-month trial of selling €9 monthly 'all you can eat' public transport tickets and not only did more than half the country take up the offer, they saw significant reductions in pollution. Now there are protests against ending the trial!

Epictetus:

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

Sydney this afternoon

The real conspiracy I’d like Qanon to tell me about is why Australians are denied eggnog. How does Big Nog continue to ruin the lives of everyday Australians?

Darryl Campbell in The Verge:

"There’s no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travellers any safer — so why does the theatre of airport security persist?"

Luna presents me with a self-portrait for Father’s Day. I say “noo-noo”.

Luna: discovers herself

Teaching Goldie how to identify a sucker

This Ars Technica article - Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot - - reminds me of how I got shareware games before the internet. The local Video Ezy had a for-money shareware kiosk you could bring floppy disks to and get fresh ‘warez.

Three year-old firstborn looks at me as I’m putting her to bed tonight and says “when you were a little boy I made you a daddy!”

It’s like she’s listening in on my therapy sessions.

11 weddings to go before Mexico!

It’s empowering seeing Ampol throw around the word “restaurant” so liberally. I’m going to erect a sign out the front of my house that says “male model”.

I make wedding photo

Things people have said to me tonight as I DJ a wedding I wasn’t even supposed to DJ:

Young female guest: Do you know who is playing right now? (Naughty By Nature and I instantly age 20 years)

Young male guest: What Spotify playlist is this?!? (I chose songs individually because it’s just more fun that way)

Middle aged female guest during a Missy Elliot song and just after September by Earth, Wind, and Fire have played: can you play more songs for us oldies, we don’t like this music and no-one’s dancing (I’m looking at a full dance floor).

A tip if you’re attending a wedding, save your requests for your drive home.

Someone on Hacker News found an unbelievable Wikipedia article about the Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – men's marathon

"While Fred Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race. The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating by the end of the race, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher, Andarín Carvajal, took a nap during the race after eating spoiled apples."

Steve Jobs:

"When you're young, you look at TV and think "there's a conspiracy." The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realise that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

That's a far more depressing thought."

“Hey honey comma oh this is a voice message sorry babe anyway” is how I start every voice message to my wife on my iPhone.

This Mavic 3 drone footage over and from Mount Everest is beyond amazing

Still waiting for Big Audio Dynamite III

No-one’s singing in the streets again, Mackay, Mackay.

Hey, you know, you can just do stuff, like you don't need anyone's permission or anything

100 ways to improve your writing

Manyun Zou, Russell Goldenberg and Rob Smith have done the hard work on The Pudding to report on how The Big Bang Theory is censored in the People's Republic of China.

This web app on Baseten was recommended to me to restore old photos and as you might be able to see with this ancient photo of yours truly, it works a treat!

Sunrise on a Sunday morning from Cabarita Beach, New South Wales

Someone was up at 4:30am and nothing would settle her.

Hint: it wasn’t Britt.

25 lessons learned from working at Clubhouse

Austin Kleon's Show Your Work, a summary:

1. Share your thoughts and your process and your work, online, for free.
2. You don’t need to be an expert to share your work - beginners can easily help other beginners.
3. By sharing your work online, you’ll attract an audience of people who care about the same stuff you do - this can change your life.

David Perell on the news:

"The paradox of news: By telling us to care about everything, the news leads to apathy instead of action."

I'm so unsubscribed from the news at the moment, it's so liberating.

If something important happens, please text me.

Rob Hardy on non-coercive marketing:

"The key ingredient in non-coercive marketing is the golden rule. We should market to others the way we'd want to be marketed to ourselves. Non-coercive marketing places full authority and trust in people. It creates the conditions under which they can make empowered decisions for themselves, and do so in their own time. It doesn't seek to persuade, manipulate, or pester people into a decision that's already been made for them. It merely opens new doors, tells the truth about what's behind those doors, then surrenders the outcome, trusting that the right people will step through when they're ready."

Introducing the next joshPhone. You can design yours on Neal’s website.

Patrick Collison has assemblers a fascinating list of questions, like:

Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

The end of social media and the rise of algorithmic media

The rising cost of living is actually encouraging us to spend more

The people behind Refind are doing something really interesting with the "here's a list of really interesting articles in an email" concept. If you like the idea of getting an email full of contextually interesting links, you'll really like Refind.

Thanks for the referral @qldnick.

Amelia Earhart​:

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.”

The guy who goes out of his way to hilariously grimace and loudly say ”good practice for your next marriage” at every wedding must be elated when he gets an invite.

Forever amazed at what people wear to weddings. It must be so beautiful to do that last gaze in a mirror at home before you leave for the ceremony and think ”damn I’m hot!”

Evan Armstrong supposes that if Steve Jobs knew how to speak finance (bs) he might have stayed CEO of Apple back in the 80s:

"If he had known to say to the board some version of “Q2 deliverables were only at 10% of forecast, but because of our LTV:CAC ratio and percentage of pipeline in mid-market, we should see full quota attainment by Q4,” maybe his problems wouldn’t have been so serious."