With ers Without You

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.

Still waiting for Big Audio Dynamite III

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

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.”