Today, I will mostly be playing rental car lottery in a regional city in Japan.

100% this. If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer. The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.

The second edition of Seinoza Walks is live! Have a read to learn how well-formed principles make making gnarly decisions second nature.

Grace Jones by Richard Bernstein, 1979

To say I’m excited about this upcoming R129 SL review would be an understatement. Undoubtedly another fabulous, entertaining review from Autodidakt on the horizon. Gentlemen start your timers! #R129 #SaccoEraBenz #SL #MercedesBenz #BrunoSacco #AutoDidakt youtu.be/Dp24ljwInu0?...

The first edition of Seinoza Walks, the behind-the-scenes look at how we're building our pilgrimage business, is live! We're making a very conscious decision to not shave off the edges and effort of talking a walk like this. We're also leaving space for magic. Have a read to learn about why :)

As @drewpasmith.com quite rightly pointed out, it’s a little bit too much “tits and teeth” but at the end of the day what’s not to love about an old school, seemingly quite rare Bentley Conti? #Bentley #Continental #Coupe www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...

Lush. Ise-Ujinkanokiricho, Japan. 04.11.25. #CarsSideOnMostly #CSOM

How do you find the balance between creative direction and micromanagement? youtu.be/TJhkM5S1Ues #coachingreflections #micromanagment #creativedirection

And the occasional cutie that defies classification.

Redoubtable. Asakusa, Tokyo. 03.11.25. #CarsSideOnMostly #csom (Mostly for @ryantomorrow.bsky.social)

Headed to Japan tomorrow to walk the Ise-ji — @tohirako.bsky.social and I are running a pilot of our April '26 small-group pilgrimage! Follow along! There'll be photos from the trail and all the mess and the magic of setting up a new business. Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/seinoza_walks/

So, my friend Kalia (@tohirako.bsky.social) and I have built a thing we'd love to share with you. It's called Seinoza, which is Japanese for "a place of stars". What's the offer? Small group pilgrimages through the quieter corners of Japan, starting in April '26. Here's the back story:

Margot goes camping. (Margot rarely goes camping…)

recommendation: love deeply. be honest. be a photographer. spend all your money on film. travel as much as you can. eat delicious sushi. drive a box truck across the country and drink gas station coffee for sustenance. thrift a soft sweater. let hot girls touch you. stop making yourself feel bad.

M119.960, obvs.

Guys! HEY GUYS! I found the promo video for that new Mercedes concept! It’s *awesome*!

“Now, we cut live to Nuremberg, where the Führer is taking delivery of a lovely little birthday gift from our friends at Daimler-Benz!”

I bought another 600SEL!

Make a band singular: The Cardigan

I feel like this woulda done a lot more for Toyota’s cred than chasing hydrogen fever dreams…

It passed.

Wegovy and a couple’a retreats in California earlier this year killed my desire to drink. Haven’t had a sip since my birthday back in May, and even then it was a sip and then a “hell no”. No taste for it. Zero interest in it.

Thank *you*, Michael, for an ever-delightful, lovingly-crafted experience. It's my daily must-read.

Something something pot something something kettle something something black something. Something. Something.

This is so freaking lovely to watch.

There is a difference between discovering and articulating problems and devising valid solutions. The latter doesn't validate the former, it's another job entirely. To expect both as an inseparable pair is to misunderstand design and innovation.

I never thought I’d laugh again until I saw the 2025 GLC

everyone who said the mediocre, milquetoast, mid concept car looked cool and was disappointed 2-5 years later when the production car is *the exact same underwhelming, overpriced thing* can bathe in boiling oil as they complain in the youtube comments about ‘so-and-so-and-so car design is dead’

Here's one I prepared earlier (including absolutely fierce outfit).

A Fish Called Gary.

So iPadOS 26 is a raging bonfire of bad decisions, I see…

Grilles!

Turbo!

Millionaire!

Choice!

Yellow!

Deceptive!

Doggo!

Corona!

Hello darkness, my old friend…

For all his *ahem* quirks of character, Piech oversaw some absolute bangers.

Listening to an interview with Jack Clark, head of policy at Anthropic. He sounds rather like a supremacist, given his unwavering professed belief that he and his handful of colleagues are *the* ones to to determine the shape of human existence from here on out. History rhymes, eh?

God, between driving people to psychosis and suicide and ripping off both our interiority and the world’s creative output, the AI gang are really doing a number, innit?

suzuki u so extra

it’s not just chatgpt - archive.is/2025.08.29-0... “ The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test, the bot planned joint suicide and then kept bringing it back up in ‭conversations.”

"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."

there is no "more self-driving," either the company takes legal responsibility for the system or it doesn't... and if it doesn't it's deeply irresponsible to call it "self-driving" because you're just enticing people to over-rely on it and get stuck with the consequences when it fails

The word “hit” doing the Lord’s work here… FML.

Saw this in traffic the other day and thought “Wow, *another* super-generic, mid-size Chinese SUV. How many can Australia take!?” And then I noticed the VW badge.