I’ve been keen to listen to the wisdom of Warren Buffett more and more lately. I’m not too sure why that is, but there is something very soothing and enjoyable about listening to his ideas and thoughts about life and success. He has a way of speaking in a way that’s very easy to understand [...]

Just a quick share today. Rose came home and shared this video from TEDMED with me today and it served to remind me that big goals are helpful when it comes to figuring out what I will _do_ with my life. As Diana says; “how else do you deal with the existential angst?” Enjoy.

Today is Australia Day. Rose, Kyle, Marty and I started off the day with a swim in Sydney Harbour, called the Great Australian Swim. It was a 750 meter swim, out and back, starting from the Opera House. Of course, we swum it in our Australian swim wear and even managed to make the full [...]

There’s a group of young people who have just recently formed a group whose mission is something I think deserves a lot more support than it currently gets. The organisation is The Young Centenary Foundation. Science, as we all know, is a fairly important part of our society. Science informs many of the behaviors and [...]

Reading the Quarterly Essay the other day has stirred in me many of the thoughts I came to when reading Stuart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline a few months ago. One of the things that Brand mentions a lot in that book is the amount of fear that is generated by people that don’t actually know [...]

A few days ago, I posted about how the presence of frogs in a wetland helps to show the health of that ecosystem. When I took that photo, I was on a walk on the property that hosted Railscamp. I took another photo that day, which I also thought I would share here. On this [...]

Dad posted me the latest Quarterly Essay this week and I had some time to sit down and read through it this afternoon. I don’t normally get a chance to read these, although enjoy it when I do. I like the dedicated nature of it, where one author gets to write a long essay on [...]

As some of you may know, I have a younger brother. Nothing totally surprising about that. This weekend, Kerry is up in Brisbane playing in a Starcraft tournament. Of course, because he’s my brother I know nothing about the tournament or what it’s called, so I can’t link to it. I wanted to use this [...]

Today, I spent the day co-working at Vibewire. I was pleasantly surprised, because when I got there it turned out that Omar Samad and co had organised a Jelly there. I love heading along Jelly’s that take place and have not really made a great habit of it since moving to Sydney a couple of [...]

One of the most fantastic pieces of news came through this morning. Amit Gupta, of Photojojo and Jelly fame, has found a donor for the bone marrow transplant he needed to help him in his fight against Leukemia. I was really shaken when I read the news about Amit having Leukemia. I was on level [...]