iOS 17 Idea: Screensavers for iPhone. Specifically After Dark.
She did this all on her own 🍆
Posting this photo because I’m simply pretty proud of it. I’ve been carrying this 16mm lens around for a while in-case I was stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to get an interior shot. But yesterday I challenged myself to use it all afternoon.
99% of asking for advice is just confirming what you already wanted to do.
‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation. Imogen Kars in the Guardian:
“The lack of instant feedback is important”
It’s whack to think that 329 million people’s identity and culture is built on a document written by a few rebellious 29-year-olds wearing wigs in 1776.
Friday afternoon in Wentworth Falls, NSW
Josh Spector on writing a newsletter that helps you sell:
“You’ll never become the center of a community by only talking about yourself.”
The world as 100 people over the last two centuries. Spoiler: things are looking good.
This is the weakest take. (See screenshot)
A groom’s role in a wedding is in equal nature to the other person being married.
A wedding is not a “bride’s day” or a single person’s day.
A wedding is an event hosted by the couple - together, where they actually do get married, but more importantly, they broadcast to their closest friends and family that this is who they are. That people like us, we celebrate and commemorate important things like this. You’re erecting a billboard in your community that tells everyone what your values are and what kind of life you are building for yourself and your family.
In this Quora post David is saying that exact thing. When important things happen to him and his wife, he closes his mouth, and doesn’t look regretful, so his wife can be happy for just a moment, before she returns to her boring life where she has to put up with this downtrodden husk of a man.
This is the actual real-life manifestation of toxic masculinity.
"The world is a museum of passion projects"
Three collected thoughts on what the world, all this around us, is:
“As you become an adult, you realise that things around you weren’t just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalise how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.”
– @collision
“Everything requires maintenance to avoid decay, and this ongoing cost is commonly underestimated and unappreciated by the inexperienced, ambitious, or distracted. Hence the virtue of focus and humility.”
– @saylor
“That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
– Steve Jobs
“Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.”
— @natfriedman
It’s Time to Bring Back the Away Message, Lauren Good in WIRED:
I miss Away Messages. This nostalgia is layered in abstraction; I probably miss the newness of the internet of the 1990s, and I also miss just being … away. But this is about Away Messages themselves—the bits of code that constructed Maginot Lines around our availability. An Away Message was a text box full of possibilities, a mini-MySpace profile or a Facebook status update years before either existed. It was also a boundary: An Away Message not only popped up as a response after someone IM’d you, it was wholly visible to that person before they IM’d you.
And Away
Today in Sydney
It’s now Six Guys, I’m that invested
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”
— K-Hole
It’s really nice to see the Queen finally make Platinum, but I thought @Qantas would’ve just given her an honorary frequent flyer status considering who she is.
Whose pockets is Big Honeydew in so tht honeydew continues to be included as a token fruit salad filler. (Six months later I have an investigative podcast on this topic)