Hi! My name is Josh and this is my personal blog, my web log.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • Bond Can't Take On Beijing

    “No major Hollywood release has portrayed China’s government in a negative light since 1997’s Seven Years in Tibet, as analyst Matt Schrader has shown.”

  • QR898 B777 8 Oct 2021

  • Dear, tonight's hotel, two things.

    Firstly, thank you for taking some of the covidsafe precautions.

    Secondly, 75 emails?!

  • Can you recommend a relationship manager/app that’s very iOS/iPadOS/Mac/internet native.

    In particular, it’d be super cool if a contact was in the CRM and when they called, Phone.app would display the name because it integrated with the CallKit Call Directory app extension.

  • I’m still really proud of this photo. It was my first photo that “went somewhere” … it was printed on the side of a Queensland Rail Citytrain. Taken from what is now @hotagc.

  • Three years ago I pontificated that the future of the iPhone was the Apple Watch, @markgurman lent that way today in his Power On email … should’ve put some cash down on it

  • I’m in training all week this week and it’s fascinating to be reminded that not everyone is all in on the Apple ecosystem. 20+ people, me and 2 others on Apple.

  • You are not an aspirant. You are as complete as you can be today. None of us are finished. All of us are aspiring, so none of us are.

  • A Primer on the Parasocial Economy - Cybernaut

    “One aspect of the creator economy I’ve found curiously under-explored is precisely why fans pay their favorite creators; both indirectly in attention”

  • Revenue generating idea for Facebook: I will pay lots of dollars a month, maybe even $3, for any of your apps to never show me a red dot or notification ever again.

  • Honestly, if you saw Nate become (redacted) in the season two finale of Ted Lasso you’re officially smarter than me.

  • Luna just found out that polar bears and dogs can be friends and it’s like that scene in Ted Lasso when the billionaire tells Banksy and Sam that they both just met a cool person.

  • I’ve been on the job hunt for a while now and I’m open to new roles that might benefit from a set of skills someone like me has. Here’s my resume … I figure that if you follow me here you might have insight into who I am and maybe that’s helpful?

  • Fairlane

  • Thanks

  • Ever since they named me Person of the Year 2006 I knew that this Time magazine thing might go somewhere

  • Why You Should Stop Reading News

  • "The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become."

    – James Clear

  • There are two ways of making a living. The familiar, predictable way, and a Pareto style payoff.

    "This Pareto world is extremely competitive, random, and highly unpredictable.”

  • Tyre shop guy: we’ve got tyres in that size from brand blah blah we’ve got the bluh bluhs and from brand ughh we have their gobble gobbles and the crapshoots.

    Me: I’ll take the whatsamacallits from whosiewhatsit, because trust me, I know a lot about tyres.

  • "Either we are the makers of our future or we’re the victims. And if we don’t understand these fundamental components of how the world works, our actions may undermine our goals as well as the people around us.”

    Tools for modern citizens by Seth Godin

  • There needs to be some sort of 1300 Hotline situation for people whose partners and families are antivaxxers. They are dealing with so much bullshit it’s like fighting a bushfire. We need pamphlets people!

  • This website is doing god’s work canyonmid.com ... please enjoy

  • "There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.”

    Djuna Barnes to Emily Coleman, 1960, The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems.

  • If you’re wondering what it looks like when you take your wife’s keys and they’re on the Find My Network …

  • I would pay at least $5, maybe even $6, to be able to log in to my old ICQ account (49739400), IRC servers, or my old MSN Messenger account, and scroll through those awkward chat logs. I’m barely confident today. Back then I was a hot mess.

  • Why is it called a podcast? I love that the iPod hackers paved the way. Thanks @podnews for compiling everything together,

  • Deconstructing Christianity

  • The Mind Body Prescription is blowing my mind. About to read the book and become "that guy”.

  • 20 years ago in Australian tech news, Australian composers, Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond, copyright every possible phone number as a touch-tone tune. As reported in The Age at the time.

  • I’m no saint, but whenever I get a scam call I’ll lead them on for as long as I can just to annoy the scammer and to waste their time. I also ask them if they tell their mother what they do for work, that’s usually when they hang up. Making the world better one call at a time

  • Ten years on we’re all still bitching about iPhone launches, still looking for that 2007 iPhone feeling

  • Goldie, there’s nothing silver about her.

  • Everything will be hacked, today it’s roaming text messages for the last few years

  • “Take the money and run” is the title of a blank canvas currently being exhibited that cost the museum $84,000 because the artist took the money, and ran

  • Harris Farm: Due to Covid-19 please do not touch the fish. Everyone: Due to everything ever please do not touch the fish until you’re buying it: and

  • The final words of a newspaper man with 8 decades of published words

  • This podcast episode by Rob Bell really helped me understand the antivaxx movement.

  • Palaszczuk, Berejiklian, quarantine. Words I still need to Google to make sure I’ve spelt them right. That will be my Covid legacy.

  • My top played songs ... a peek into who I am

  • For no real reason, here's the top three lunch-time radio station boardroom performances from my time on commercial radio.

    1. Hanson - Mmmm Bop
    2. Russel Morris - The Real Thing
    3. Pete Murray - Beautiful

  • In the name of efficiency, why don’t we turn our Australian corruption bodies to finding politicians that aren’t corrupt and are without sin.

    We could make it a game.

    Australia’s Next Top Model Citizen.

  • My internet speed in 2021

  • My bet for today is that after yesterday being teased for not locking Southeast Queensland down because of the NRL Grand Final, Mumma Palaszczuk grounds us for a week with no TV privileges or something plus we have to mow the Outback.

  • The year is 2061 and your local “Golden Oldies" radio station is playing Limp Bizkit and honestly, I am here for it.

    But for 2021, Wall Of Sound + Browny report on the latest Bizkit.

  • Wedding planning red flag: when the wedding venue/vendor refers to clients as "brides" instead of couples. Run for the hills.

  • Hey, just some personal news: if the rest of you could completely align with my values and not say anything asynchronous to them, that would make my existence so much easier. Please delete all internets that aren’t totally aligned with my biases.

  • [Happy 10th birthday @patrickc + Stripe](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1443289393695911938?s=21), about six and a half years ago we took the bold step to take credit card payments through our website, bold because almost no-one was doing it in the wedding industry. It worked out well.

  • Aside from making the world’s best weddings, I’m also the 3rd best photographer in my home, so I’ve decided to make the not-so-radical call & launch a print store.

    Do me a solid & buy a print so that I can convince Britt that buying a DJI Mavic Pro 3 is worth it.

  • I’m becoming increasingly good at avoiding death by truck