I'm struggling with this, too, but... if all of us creatives spent more energy improving ourselves and less time being angry about or envious of others... we'd be more successful and happy. Are there no-talent people who have lots of fans, fame, and fortune? Sadly, yes.

About 3500 photos & videos taken, 90 miles walked, and a connecting flight made w/ 4 minutes to spare (!). It was another adventurous, delicious, and picturesque if not especially relaxing Japan vacation 🙂 My more "compact" Japan Favs 2025 album (175 pics): photos.app.goo.gl/9rZJNrj4TNkn...

I did not have the best French toast being in Japan on my 2025 bingo card, but it's true. It's like a cross between bread pudding, egg custard, and, er, I guess regular French Toast. Practically melts in your mouth!

Huge 👍🏼 recommendation for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" musical now playing in NYC, despite the unwieldy title. Both the music and book are awesome, and this performance in particular is outstanding!

Next time someone asks me "Why are you vacationing in Japan *again* when there are so many places you haven't visited?!" I think I'm gonna show them this photo I took today.

The correlation between the quality of a thing and the quality of its *marketing* is pretty damn loose. I think people forget that a lot... whether it's movies, restaurants, or areas of tech.

Today's heartfelt Life Advice from old-guy-not-yelling-at-clouds: Make recurring joy! More specifically, find something you can (and will!) do at a set time (at least every week!) that makes you happy. A pottery class, date night, volunteering, walk-with-a-friend, etc. [...]

Grateful for the clarification!

Criticism and satire are vital parts of public discourse. Threats of violence are not. We've developed bad behaviors online, saying things behind screens that we'd never say irl. Joking or not, it's a slippery slope. This is about maintaining a space for fierce disagreement.

Person1: "I recorded all the Osaka subway stop announcements" Everyone: ❤️ 🥰 Person2: "I recorded the relentless and cringey Safeway announcements" Everyone: 🤬🤮

Life tip: Update Zoom well before your meeting. Nothing worse than showing up on the dot for your job interview or other critical meeting only to be delayed by a mandatory Zoom software update.

Hot but sincere take: We mostly don't need to 'manage' our email better, we just need to be smarter about email subscriptions. Unsubscribing from most things or filtering 'em into a "for searching only" folder/label = WIN! You're welcome. Signed, Guy who achieved inbox zero & reduced email stress

Just saw the first two episodes of "Plur1bus" and -- as impressive as it is -- I'm frankly pining for another "The Good Place" or "Ted Lasso".

A very sobering and worthwhile read and, yes, somewhat ironic to post here. I've definitely reduced my social media time drastically in the last years, but maybe I need to do more reducing :\ www.tommydixon.ca/p/how-to-end...

Random person: [rants at length about deeply hypothetical or super-duper-edge-case privacy/security risk] Me: "Do you reuse your passwords?" Random person: [silence]

And now for some (literal) harmony in otherwise oft-unharmonious times! Listen to me and 150+ other people sing "Breaking Free" from "High School Musical" :-) www.instagram.com/p/DPwI0Igj1kE/ #acappella #music #singing #sf #sanfrancisco #bayarea #toomanyhashtags #dothesethingsevendoanythinghere?