The Most Important Thing To Know About Your Podcast

From Tom Webster’s new book, β€œThe Audience is Listening.”

Transcript


I bet the first person to try opening a watermelon was super pumped to realize they weren’t just good for holding things down in the wind.


Yesterday I saw a hot air balloon up close as it floated by on the river in our city. It felt really close and low, but nobody on the balloon seemed worried so I guess it was all cool.


“Did you unsubscribe by accident? Click here to resubscribe!”

In the history of the world, how many people have ever unsubscribed from an email newsletter by accident? It’s gotta be less than 10 right?


Me thinking I’ll have a nice chill Friday catching up from a couple days off.

CRA leaving a voicemail asking about my 2022 income tax return says the heck you will. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ


“This will fix me” - and it’s just me adding a fourth cheese to my pasta to make it extra fancy.


This permissions update to macOS Sequoia is borderline insane for anyone who uses screen recording / screenshot apps with any regularity.

Tell me the lawyers have infiltrated your software engineer team without telling me…


Wordle was weird today.

Wordle 1,145 6/6

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Descendants: The Rise of Red, 2024 - β˜…β˜…

Watched on Tuesday August 6, 2024.


Hanging on to the Saskatchewan long weekend a little longer….

A can of Rebellion Brewing beer on the dock overlooking a lake.

Today’s Wordle was stupid. πŸ˜‚ 😀

Wordle 1,138 5/6

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Tim Sweeney (Fortnite / Epic CEO guy) with the weirdest take on Apple’s Find My. It’s remarkably easy to turn it off on a device you own or have bought off someone. Defending the privacy of thieves is such a weird angle to take.


What does luck have to do with your career? (this is focused on tech, but I think it applies more universally)


I finally sorted out the artwork bug and got my micro.blog podcast (micro-cast?) set up at the popular places. Details on how to subscribe are here if you’d like to hear mostly unedited thoughts I speak out into my phone and publish. Kind of like the rest of my social media experimentation. πŸ˜‰


Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½

Watched on Monday July 29, 2024.


Deadpool 2, 2018 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Sharknado joke is top tier.


Parenting tip: eat the leftover pizza for lunch before your kids remember it’s there. Saves fights over who gets the last pepperoni piece, and you get all the yummy leftover pizza. Win win. πŸ˜‹


If Apple can’t make Apple TV+ content work without ads being inserted, I feel like just shut it down. Maybe they do need to say no to directors and show runners on big budgets and get back to telling good stories. Or open up the war chest and spend even more if that’s what it takes. Just no ads.


Happy Sunday funday 🍻

Rebellion Beach Life beer can on a table at a cabin

My dad brought this android spyware IPTV box into the cabin and now I have to burn down the network. πŸ˜†

A IPTV box and a remote siting on a table.