Founder of the Social Media Escape Club
Electronic tickets are awful, and this just proves it even more.
One out-of-state fan shared her frustration: “We pulled up the tickets on Saturday through the Detroit Lions app, Ticketmaster, and even the wallet, but no barcode showed up. They told us to go to the box office after security, but there’s a long line.”
I’ve been intentionally walking 10 miles per day for about 42 days now. By “intentional” I mean not just walking around the grocery store, or picking a parking space very far from the store entrance, but by clicking start on my watch and walking 3-5 miles at a time, a few times per day.
When I worked my first job in the city, and walking a mile from the apartment to the 7 train (and back) every day, I didn’t track that. Heck, the iPhone didn’t even exist yet!
But these days I am getting up early or getting up away from my computer and going for a long walk as often as I can.
I try to get in three miles before 8am. Five miles by noon. That makes it easier to get in a smaller walk in the early afternoon, and wrap up the days walking by evening. Somedays I have to get in 4.5 miles after 5pm, which I don’t much care for. Other times, though, I get out for two extra miles after 6pm, hitting 11 or 12 miles for the day.
Today is the 19th, and I’ve walked 209.8 miles, an average of 11.05 miles per day.
Spotted here in town. Would totally make this my next vehicle.
This theme came up in a recent Zoom meeting I was in:
“I took a sabbatical from my work as a photographer last year but I have a feeling my time as a commercial photographer might be coming to an end. I’ll always love photography and I’ll always be a photographer, but I feel my life force pushing me in different directions. When I tell my friends I might stop being a commercial photographer, they ask, but what will you do! And I realise how interesting that question is, and how we can limit ourselves and others when we think change is hard and things always have to be a certain way. In fact change is core to a vibrant, meaningful life, and we should expect change at any moment, without notice.”
From “reprogramming” by Rebecca Toh.
I was gifted a 60″ television, something I would have never bought for myself.
It was older, which is part of the reason it was a gift, but it didn’t age well. It died this past week.
You don’t just “toss” a 60″ television though. It’s not really something you can leave on the curb, and there’s also e-waste recycling things to deal with.
Today, though, the TV is gone, and my life feels a little bit lighter. When off, it’s just this black monolith taking up space, mentally and physically.
I used the 1-800-GOT-JUNK folks, and they were great. Sure, a wee bit overprices for the TV and the other few items they took away, but it’s all gone, and the guys were super nice. Literally like, had a good laugh with them.
In a round about way, thinking less about televisions and “entertainment” and more about people. Bummer that it took the death of this giant TV to arrive at that place, but it was a good lesson learned.
Say no to gifts over 60″ in size.
Since getting hurt over the summer from running, I’ve turned to walking. Lots of walking. Basically 10 miles per day of inentional “start my watch and go” sort of walking. This week I walked 82 miles.
This is so spot on, from JA Westenberg, from their piece “There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.”
Social media rewards visible bursts of activity. You can post about your new productivity system, your ambitious goals, your monk mode month, locktober etc. You get likes and followers for performing optimization. But you don’t get progress.
When I think of how I started a music blog in 2001, I sometimes get confused, like… wait, was it really that long ago?
All the different people I worked with, the oppurtintues that came up, the things I fucked up, made up, and made right… I can’t believe that next year it’ll be 25 years of somehow still being in the game.
It’s absolutely not about arriving, or outrunning a bear – you just have to run faster than you friends, and never stop, I guess.
(link via Bradley Spitzer)
Listened to this on mydrive home today, and it was just fun hearing all the different zigs-and-zags on the subject of AI, particularly that a lot of writing that used to be on a subject (like “how do I write a good newsletter?”) can now tailored via AI to be specific about the platform you want to use, the style in which you want to write it, and all sorts of other hyper-specific points in a way that no single “how to” article could ever provide.
And that’s fascinating to me.
Finding this post from Jeremy Maluf is gonna be bad.
If you didn’t know, there was a point in my life where I was “The Bike Nerd.” I had a Tumblr for it, where I would post photos similar to the above.
One morning in 2010, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I woke up, took my bed apart, left it on the curb, and rode away. I rode to Rutherford, NJ that day, about 31 miles, on my single speed bike.
I’m not saying I have the itch to get rid of everything and bike across the country again, but I’m not not saying it, either.
October 1st is here, along with crisp morning air, a long walk, and coffee from a local joint called Four Monkeys.
This time of year is magic for me. Since I’ve been working in the “music biz” since the mid 2000s and all, things always slowed down around this time. The flow of press releases, big news, tours, the overall volume of information kinda calmed down, and I always try to form these months around that, even though it’s a different era.
The world ain’t gonna form around my vibes, so I will bring the vibes I need, in both work and personal life, and that means being more present, more morning walks, less stressing about the things I have no control over.
