Olivia Laing in 2015 on the future of loneliness:
“the cure for loneliness is not being looked at, but being seen and accepted as a whole person”
The most disappointing element of modern society is the insistence that all stories (including the news, and celebrity or sport stories) must be completed as soon as possible so we can establish tribal battle lines and figure out if our tribe is winning or losing.
Most stories require hours, if not weeks, or years to bake in the story oven.
It’s highly likely that the stories you’re reading or hearing are actually half-baked and require a lot more time in the oven.
Reject half-baked stories. Reject the need for every story to have a tweet or post attached to it. Embrace slow stories where the storyteller has spent time researching, listening, asking, and they’re delivering a well baked story.
Not some bullshit your mate or a politician tweeted.
In 1931 ceilings in movies was impressive.
A group of enterprising and nostalgic nerds want to take Blockbuster back.
“Our mission is to liberate Blockbuster and form a DAO to collectively govern the brand as we turn Blockbuster into the first-ever DeFilm streaming platform.”
There are only 25 blimps in the world, but this guy is trying to bring them back. Can you imagine standing in front of a venture capitalist telling them that you’re taking blimps back.
The Australian people for the last 30 years: “We want - and will vote for - smaller and governments, with lower taxes, which means less tax revenue, so less money to spend.”
The Australian people in 2020, 2021, 2022: “Arghhh, our government is so small and useless!”
The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible, McSweeney’s:
“It’s as if this Small Child was not designed with accessibility in mind”
Week one of writing an email about life on the southern Gold Coast is that poor that @revue isn’t sure how to communicate it to me.
“Yeah, no-one really cares, kid.”
I don’t understand magazine publishing in 2022. Today, January 4, a few minutes ago, someone published a pdf to Apple News and it’s about Macs released on November 10 with a release date of next month.
One more Tokyo memory. No man has ever made me as happy as this man, as he handed me the nicest coffee my body has ever experienced. Japan is missing from me.
Whenever Brittany talks about having more kids, I start thinking about buying us a children buggy like this mum in Tokyo I saw in 2019.
I think about this bloke I saw out the front of a Tokyo train station in November 2019 reading a book with a magnifying glass quite a lot.
Making art is a form of madness – we slip deep within our own singular vision and become lost to it. There is no musician on Earth that is as committed to their own derangement as Kanye, and in this respect, at this point in time, he is our greatest artist.
The trick with life is you have to actually mean it, which can be the hardest part.
I’ve got an old friend and we share ideas with each other. Then years later we share a news article about how someone “stole” our idea.
James Clear’s distinction between our sharing ideas and working on them, stings:
“If you’re not working hard, ideas don’t matter. The best idea is worthless without execution. If you’re already working hard, ideas are crucial. Most effort is wasted on mediocre ideas.”