I’ve assembled a top 10 list of top 10 lists I’m paying attention to this year:
1-10: .
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
