I’m in training all week this week and it’s fascinating to be reminded that not everyone is all in on the Apple ecosystem. 20+ people, me and 2 others on Apple.

You are not an aspirant. You are as complete as you can be today. None of us are finished. All of us are aspiring, so none of us are.

A Primer on the Parasocial Economy - Cybernaut

“One aspect of the creator economy I’ve found curiously under-explored is precisely why fans pay their favorite creators; both indirectly in attention”

Revenue generating idea for Facebook: I will pay lots of dollars a month, maybe even $3, for any of your apps to never show me a red dot or notification ever again.

Honestly, if you saw Nate become (redacted) in the season two finale of Ted Lasso you’re officially smarter than me.

Luna just found out that polar bears and dogs can be friends and it’s like that scene in Ted Lasso when the billionaire tells Banksy and Sam that they both just met a cool person.

I’ve been on the job hunt for a while now and I’m open to new roles that might benefit from a set of skills someone like me has. Here’s my resume … I figure that if you follow me here you might have insight into who I am and maybe that’s helpful?

Fairlane

Thanks

Ever since they named me Person of the Year 2006 I knew that this Time magazine thing might go somewhere

"The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become."

– James Clear

There are two ways of making a living. The familiar, predictable way, and a Pareto style payoff.

"This Pareto world is extremely competitive, random, and highly unpredictable.”

Tyre shop guy: we’ve got tyres in that size from brand blah blah we’ve got the bluh bluhs and from brand ughh we have their gobble gobbles and the crapshoots.

Me: I’ll take the whatsamacallits from whosiewhatsit, because trust me, I know a lot about tyres.

"Either we are the makers of our future or we’re the victims. And if we don’t understand these fundamental components of how the world works, our actions may undermine our goals as well as the people around us.”

Tools for modern citizens by Seth Godin

There needs to be some sort of 1300 Hotline situation for people whose partners and families are antivaxxers. They are dealing with so much bullshit it’s like fighting a bushfire. We need pamphlets people!

This website is doing god’s work canyonmid.com ... please enjoy

"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.”

Djuna Barnes to Emily Coleman, 1960, The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems.

If you’re wondering what it looks like when you take your wife’s keys and they’re on the Find My Network …

I would pay at least $5, maybe even $6, to be able to log in to my old ICQ account (49739400), IRC servers, or my old MSN Messenger account, and scroll through those awkward chat logs. I’m barely confident today. Back then I was a hot mess.

Why is it called a podcast? I love that the iPod hackers paved the way. Thanks @podnews for compiling everything together,

The Mind Body Prescription is blowing my mind. About to read the book and become "that guy”.

20 years ago in Australian tech news, Australian composers, Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond, copyright every possible phone number as a touch-tone tune. As reported in The Age at the time.

I’m no saint, but whenever I get a scam call I’ll lead them on for as long as I can just to annoy the scammer and to waste their time. I also ask them if they tell their mother what they do for work, that’s usually when they hang up. Making the world better one call at a time

Ten years on we’re all still bitching about iPhone launches, still looking for that 2007 iPhone feeling

Goldie, there’s nothing silver about her.

“Take the money and run” is the title of a blank canvas currently being exhibited that cost the museum $84,000 because the artist took the money, and ran

Harris Farm: Due to Covid-19 please do not touch the fish. Everyone: Due to everything ever please do not touch the fish until you’re buying it: and

This podcast episode by Rob Bell really helped me understand the antivaxx movement.

Palaszczuk, Berejiklian, quarantine. Words I still need to Google to make sure I’ve spelt them right. That will be my Covid legacy.

My top played songs ... a peek into who I am

For no real reason, here's the top three lunch-time radio station boardroom performances from my time on commercial radio.

1. Hanson - Mmmm Bop
2. Russel Morris - The Real Thing
3. Pete Murray - Beautiful

In the name of efficiency, why don’t we turn our Australian corruption bodies to finding politicians that aren’t corrupt and are without sin.

We could make it a game.

Australia’s Next Top Model Citizen.

My bet for today is that after yesterday being teased for not locking Southeast Queensland down because of the NRL Grand Final, Mumma Palaszczuk grounds us for a week with no TV privileges or something plus we have to mow the Outback.

The year is 2061 and your local “Golden Oldies" radio station is playing Limp Bizkit and honestly, I am here for it.

But for 2021, Wall Of Sound + Browny report on the latest Bizkit.

Wedding planning red flag: when the wedding venue/vendor refers to clients as "brides" instead of couples. Run for the hills.

Hey, just some personal news: if the rest of you could completely align with my values and not say anything asynchronous to them, that would make my existence so much easier. Please delete all internets that aren’t totally aligned with my biases.

[Happy 10th birthday @patrickc + Stripe](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1443289393695911938?s=21), about six and a half years ago we took the bold step to take credit card payments through our website, bold because almost no-one was doing it in the wedding industry. It worked out well.

Aside from making the world’s best weddings, I’m also the 3rd best photographer in my home, so I’ve decided to make the not-so-radical call & launch a print store.

Do me a solid & buy a print so that I can convince Britt that buying a DJI Mavic Pro 3 is worth it.

I’m becoming increasingly good at avoiding death by truck

Not so gold, Coast

My social media notifications are busy because I dare wade into anti-antivaxx conversations with “let's not be dicks to anitvaxxers" types of statements, and honestly, I'm probably ok with dying on this hill. Burn me at the stake for employing empathy please.

Law & Order Season 21, episode 1, opening scene: A restaurant in Chinatown and a CGI Detective Lennie Briscoe is checking vaccine passports on people's phones. This continues for the entire episode.

I'm just saying, if Sharon the team psychologist, and Coach Ted Lasso don't end up together romantically, I'm burning my AFC Richmond jersey in a symbolic disappointment ceremony that will be live-streamed on Bantr.

Some personal news, I’ve been photographing and filming construction projects for Zero 9 Construction and I’m getting addicted.

“The page loads, and a little video ad box rises from the bottom left of the screen and begins buffering. Then a big box pops up over the small one with an offer to subscribe to the paper at a special promotional rate. As you contemplate it, the video begins to play in a muted spasm. This throws a scrim of gray over the rest of the page, making it impossible to read.

Before you can deal with any of this, you’ll need to close this subscription box. You can achieve this by clicking either a tiny “x” or a passive-aggressive statement like “No, I don’t want great articles.” But while you’ve been triaging a second small video player has floated up into the middle left of the screen. A sedan silently snakes along a road hewn into a mountain and forces itself into your consciousness. It switches to a video of the Mets’ new manager, which you do not really want. Also, you now have to close a new rectangular ad at the bottom of the screen, advertising the same subscription offer as the first pop-up box.”

– David Roth