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.

  • Byron Bay, Australia // Wednesday

  • The trick is to never, ever let it make you cynical

  • Inspiring Elon Musk read via Electrek

    Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world. Soon, they will all be better. This is not enough. We will keep going until the Model 3 build precision is a factor of ten better than any other car in the world. I am not kidding.

    Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.

    Some parts suppliers will be unwilling or unable to achieve this level of precision. I understand that this will be considered an unreasonable request by some. That’s ok, there are lots of other car companies with much lower standards. They just can’t work with Tesla.

  • I ❤︎ Patterns

  • Ev Williams: Now that the ad-only experiment has decidedly failed, quality information providers will be able to build strong businesses, and consumers will be better served than ever

  • I spent most of Ready Player One trying to figure out who was voicing i-R0k. Erlich Bachman, of course.

  • If you ever want to fall down a rabbit hole of wonder, just think about how someone loves you ... and how that doesn’t make sense, but they love you for you. Thank you for loving me, Britt xx

  • 📽 Ready Player One 💯

  • At the age of 36 I’ve found out that my last name is an “Old Norse personal name Viðarr, composed of the elements víðr ‘wide’ + ar ‘warrior’”. Joshua Wide Warrior. Ancestry dot com is the website equivalent of a high school bully.

  • If you’re booking VA flights here’s a 10% off economy and 30% off biz seats promo code valid for the next week: KLT69

  • The Blue Mountains // Sydney // Australia

  • When I’m president I’m going to regulate the pillows that serve no purpose industry. They’re out of control.

  • If you're wondering about the exotic dream life of a marriage celebrant, last night I spent the entire night in my dreams trying to find a hotel room in Bundaberg because in my dreams I was performing a wedding there ...

  • Proud to announce that "Navigating Sydney roads with an Apple Watch because the phone is in for repair" is the title of my next horror movie production.

  • Will tablet computers replace desktops/laptops? This analogy from Steve Jobs pretty much sums it up.

  • sunset.friday.sydney

  • I'm travelling for six nights with an iPad only, if that kind of thing interests you, read this

  • How are more people not freaking out over the Australian government's facial recognition deal

  • Qantas vs Virgin

  • According to the ABC Quiz, I'm not that fancy

  • Thursday In Port Douglas

  • On the off chance anyone cares I wrote a little piece for #TheSizzle about how I’m taking a step back from Facebook and going all in on Micro.blog

  • Vodafone thinks its mobile network is better than the NBN for lots of Australians #guffaw

  • Australian wine region, the Hunter Valley “set” to become the new, New Silicon Valley of Australia /sarcasm

  • This sequel to The Social Network doesn’t seem to have the consistency and production values as the first movie.

  • record scratch freeze frame yup. that's me. so you're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation

  • Can’t believe I forgot to celebrate Rex Manning day this year

  • Very GC #GC2018 #GoldCoast

  • Oddly proud to see the Gold Coast light up this week. It’s not the ghost town it was last week. #GC2018

  • Ok, I hope you’re sitting down for this banger: Chicken salt, the musical. And someone call Hugh Jackman, he’s needed back home for a career defining role in Peter Brinkworth.

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  • It’s like the Skype product team have realised that the only reason people use Skype anymore is for recording podcasts

  • Look, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but if you delay feeding a cat by 30-60 minutes they get super affectionate.

  • I’m unsure if the Scam Artists Industry will ever recover from Tony Robbins misogyny.

  • African news crew in my #GC2018 car this morning asked what the crime rate on the Gold Coast was, and “where is the ghetto?” I’ve never considered how low our crime rate was, nor how blessed we are to live here.

  • Roy & HG praising the #GC2018 merchandise on the radio this morning: “I love the Peter Beattie doll, you wind him up and he just starts talking!”

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  • David Letterman with Malala Yousafzai is so beautiful. ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ is a 10/10 show!

  • Proud to see the Gold Coast featured in the Monocle magazine's daily email

  • What are weddings for? A piece by me on Medium.

  • Billion dollar business idea: a restaurant with all the markings of a hatted restaurant, but when the menu comes out, there's only Coco Pops available for dinner. Rare, medium, or well done? Soy, almond, or full cream milk?

  • Anyone in any good Slack groups they think I should be in?

  • Reading Jonathan Kim’s Medium piece on the three stages of April criticism and all of my anti-Apple mates come to mind. Read this, you'll love it.

  • I think @agenda might be the calendar/notes combo app I've been looking for, once there's a good iPad/iPhone app. Khoi's review is pretty much what I would say about it.

  • What do people not on social media get anxious about?

  • A year ago today, Stevie went more viral than any of us

  • Do these #GC2018 opening ceremony bongo players with Delta Goodrem have the required permits?

  • Jingeri #GC2018

  • Someone recently asked me what makes me who I am, why would people invite me to fly around the globe to be their marriage celebrant?

    I think it’s because I care. I believe that your marriage matters, that it’s a once in a lifetime kind of love, and I think your wedding ceremony matters. But I think your marriage should be better than your wedding. And I think that the best part about a wedding is the ceremony.

  • Today's the day #GC2018