24 hours in … the recalibration needed to use Spark3 is hard.


I could open a store with the number of new Makita Power Drills that I seem to have won.

I wonder if I could earn enough from selling them to allow me to ‘settle (my) debts to avoid additional fees’.

Judging by the notifications they are apparently building up. 🤪


If you keep doing UTurns, you will get dizzy and fall over.


Interesting how 🎬 Amsterdam and 🎙️ Ultra seem to be connected by the same true story.


One Year of Readwise


🎥 Blackout, 2022 - ★★½

Just like the character in the movie … I really can’t remember much. The script is out of some script hopper and this is the latest version of it,

I have a streaming cold … so in that respect perfect, too hard to switch off, and not much to track.


Night after night, this is my view, regularly delivering extraordinary sunsets. I decided it would be a perfect photo for the 24 hour challenge, so I waited all day.

Behold, the exception that proves the rule 🥹

Photo taken, Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:52 PM - Auckland time.


🎥 I Used to Be Famous, 2022 - ★★★★

Watched on Friday October 14, 2022.


🎥 Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992 - ★★★★½

30 years ago. Seriously? It feels just like yesterday. Of course … it could have been. The script is timeless.


The web has been broken … absolutely brilliant - you won’t be disappointed - except that most sites you normally got to do exactly this … which is of course - disappointing!

via Noreen Whysel - who also writes;

“Don’t forget to click on the search results.”


I wonder what you would speak if you didn’t speak words?


Seriously Bill? Et tu?

A different Bill.


Barrister casts doubt on Suella Braverman’s CV claim.

The extent of her involvement was menial, indicated Kolvin, who said that “on one occasion I asked her to do some photocopying for the book, which she did”.


Methuselah Foundation is promoting the idea that in 8 years time 90 will be ‘the new 50’.

My math(s) concludes that if you are 82 today then in 8 years time you will feel like you have taken 40 years off your life.

Something is not adding up.



It’s been a long time coming - but just noticed that it is finally here.

Shantaram is arriving on Apple.

No apology - I loved the book - not so much the sequel. Be interesting to see how it translates.


New Zealand drowning in mānuka honey after a boom in beekeeping.

You wouldn’t think that based on what they want to charge you for in the Supermarket.


I don’t always remember to put up the readwise quotes that catch my eye when I see them - so here’s a collection for you

Fareed on Education

Fareed Zakaria Quote
Fareed Zakaria Quote
Fareed Zakaria Quote
Fareed Zakaria Quote

Geoffrey Moore

No comment on increasing disorder at all levels!

Geoffrey Moore Quote
Geoffrey Moore Quote

Robert M. Pirsig

Something to bear in mind on the ‘journey to the top’.

Robert M. Pirsig Quote
Robert M. Pirsig Quote

Douglas Rushkoff

A corollary to finding the problem for your solution?

Douglas Rushkoff Quote
Douglas Rushkoff Quote

Venkatesh Rao

Venkatesh Rao Quote
Venkatesh Rao Quote

George Orwell

Explains some decisions by certain people.

George Orwell Quote
George Orwell Quote

J. R. R. Tolkien

Well - yes - maybe in his day. Is it just me that thinks this no longer holds true? (That is the younf asking questions. Or am I just cynical?

JRR Tolkien Quote
JRR Tolkien Quote

As I understand it Superhuman is an email client …


Thinking