I’ve always wanted to be able to watch planes land from my toilet. Now that our bathroom renovation is finished, I can!
A few more hours of doing absolutely nothing for a week in Cairns until I go back to figuring out how to convince someone to sell their house with me, plus doing all the postponed weddings from Covid and the floods
Substack’s idealogy by Nathan Baschez in Every:
“The history of modern publishing (can be traced) back to the decision in 1833 of a guy named Benjamin Day to offer his newspaper, The New York Sun, for a sixth the price of his competition.
His strategy was to focus on sensational journalism to get broad reach, and make up for the losses in subscription revenue through advertising.
That model has dominated media to this day, except it’s now broken, because Facebook and Google and Craigslist took all the advertising revenue.
The answer is to build a new ecosystem where individual writers or small teams offer hyper-focused subscription products that add genuine value to readers’ lives, rather than merely trying to trick them into clicking.”
What a novel idea. News media that adds value instead of tricking people.
“We believe that journalistic content has intrinsic value and that it doesn’t have to be given away for free. We believe that what you read matters. And we believe that there has never been a better time to bolster and protect those ideals. Now, more than ever, publishers of news and similar content can be profitable through direct payments from readers. In fact, we are so convinced by this notion that we have started a company to accelerate the advent of what we are convinced will be a new golden age for publishing. The company is called Substack.”
Good news, the iOS Photos Look Up feature now works in Australia.
Bad news, it can’t see crocodiles.
At what point can I add photograoher for @DealStreetAsia on my LinkedIn?
For everyone that’s thought Apple iCloud email didn’t have server-side rules/forwarding, they apparently do now.
Great. Now I’m part of the “use a correct aircraft type” problem.
Qantas doesn’t fly Boeing 717s to New Zealand m8.
Haycock Island
Smile from a crocodile
Smile at a baby crocodile
A morning on the Daintree River with some baby, and not-so-baby crocodiles
Can confirm, the Canon EOS R5’s eye-autofocus for animals, does not work on baby crocodiles
That’s it, I’m done. I’m moving to Mars.
Apple event March 2023: We’ve put an M1 in the Polishing Cloth and it’s available for pre-order this Friday for $229.
From where you’d rather be, if where’d you rather be is a tropical paradise in the middle of a really rainy week
Home for the next few days // Clifton Beach, Qld
People who like to party on ice have moved to my neighbourhood
Hanging the boots up
