Gm Byron Bay 👋💪
Wategos Beach for sunrise this morning
“When rain falls, it flows downhill. If desired, you can collect the rain in a bucket and carry it uphill, but the natural tendency of water is to flow toward the lowest point.
Most situations in life have a tendency—a direction in which things want to flow. You can choose to go against the flow (just as you can choose to carry water uphill), but your results tend to be better when you find a way to work with the gradient of the situation.
Position yourself to benefit from the external forces at hand and you will get more from the same unit of effort. Energy is conserved and results are multiplied.”
— James Clear
Name a banger more bangish than Orgy’s Blue Monday. I’ll wait.
What which craft is this? Surfing without waves!? #witchcraft #byronbay #wategosbeach #surfing
If you’re interested in joining my new rectangle scheme we just give each other the same amount of money for doing nothing. Plus we get name badges.
You know how we’d all hate a guy who annually celebrated the anniversary of that time he raped someone. Now think about January 26.
Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car, Timothy B Lee:
“It’s one of the most important economic mysteries of the modern world. While the material things in life are cheaper than ever, labor-intensive services are getting more and more expensive. Middle-class Americans today have little trouble affording a car, but they struggle to afford a spot in day care.”
A story of hope, that the old internet might be coming back, the old internet was when the internet was a wonderland. Not a computer generated echo chamber.
Brian Koppelman:
“To an artist, rejection, at first, feels like death. That’s how personal the work is. And that’s why we’re afraid to do the work. Because then we have to show it. And then they might reject it. But rejection is only a death if you let it stop you from doing the work the next day.”
"If you can live your life without an audience, you should do it"
I don’t like a lot of what I see on Instagram Stories.
Nick Catucci says the same in Embedded this week:
“Instagram Stories had been an IV drip of validation for the past five years, and giving myself permission to live my life not as a constant performance, but for myself, has been liberating. It also means I’m not viewing other peoples’ performances, either, which has brought another unexpected benefit: I’m a better friend.”
It really bothers me that Logan City Council uses Lobster font for its entry to the region motorway signage.
What lays beneath … // Cook Island, off Fingal Head
Fingal Head this afternoon.
Was nice to visit and not have to convince a police to let me go home afterward.
A million dollar sunset over #Tugun tonight
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was At The Center Of Life? asks The Atlantic.
A relationship is about inventing your own language, says Céline Sciamma:
“You’ve got the jokes, you’ve got the songs, you have this anecdote that’s going to make you laugh three years later. It’s this language that you build. That’s what you mourn for when you’re losing someone you love. This language you’re not going to speak with anybody else.”
Is a LIDAR capture of a person a photograph? Wired asks what is a photograph.
This is nuts:
“CoreLogic’s Quarterly Auction Market Review shows 42,918 properties were taken to auction across the combined capital cities in the three months to Dec 2021, an 85.1% increase from the previous quarter and more than double (109.5%) the Dec 2020 figures.”