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202 - How To Get Good (Question Mark) ❔❔

August 30, 2023

Hey there, ! A longer rant for today's post, just before I go on leave... TL;DR: Do things Reflect Adapt to that information GOTO 1 Just to be clear, I'm not...

201 - thailand 🐘🌦️🍽️

August 23, 2023

Hey there, ! Been in Thailand for a week for a friend's hens (congrats Lainey!). A selection of highlights: Top revelatory food experience - a Michelin star...

200 - 4️⃣ years

August 16, 2023

Hey ! It's been four years writing this newsletter, and a lot of things have happened over that time. It's pretty insane to think I've written 200 posts and...

199 - Life Update 🌓🔥🍗

August 9, 2023

Hey there, ! FILL IN THE ANNUAL SURVEY PLS - results next week :) I'm a bit late with it but, y'know, c'est la vie. It is what it is. Send it. Let's go: It's...

198 - books and science are BACK 📚

August 2, 2023

Hey there, ! Note before I start - I'm nearly at the big TWO HUNDRED posts which is kinda insane. So...anything you want to hear about? Any questions you...

197 - Australian Classics Tier List 🍪☕🍺

July 26, 2023

Hey there, ! prompt: "australian snacks" - I don't think we need to be worried about AI yet...or maybe I just suck at making these! Sungwon Cho aka ProZD aka...

196 - Resetting the mind 🧠🔥

July 19, 2023

Hey there, ! Reddit's dying, Twitter's aflame - these are good things, right? Hot take: I am kinda happy that there's been a forcing function for me (and...

195 - The Laws of Friendship Groups 👬🧑‍🤝‍🧑

July 12, 2023

Hey there, ! A NEW FRAMEWORK APPEARS - this time for group friendships #wearesoback. I thought it would be fun to think about what kinds of things contribute...

194 - Vince's Life Update 😍🖼️

July 5, 2023

Geez it takes so much longer to get to Life Updates every 4 weeks - I don't know why! I think I need some more headspace to think about some fun topics :D Or...

193 - I'm not superstitious...

June 28, 2023

...but I am a little stitious. Hey there, ! There have been a few things in the past few weeks and months that I've been a little...curious about. My mind...

192 - Omakase: Reloaded 🍣➡️🍗

June 21, 2023

Hey there, ! Omakase - translation: “I’ll leave it up to you” Generally, an omakase is a multi-course meal presented at a sushi restaurant, with the chef...

191 - Content: Overload 📺📈

June 14, 2023

Hey there, ! There's just too much to do. I don't know if y'all feel this as well, but there's just too many things going on that I want to do, and I feel...

190 - What's the deal with AI? 🤖

June 7, 2023

[Seinfeld at the comedy club] "I mean, isn't all intelligence artificial? What does natural intelligence even mean? Just the other day...I left the house...

189 - Happy Birthday...to me! 🎂

May 31, 2023

Dear you, Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in bloom. - Rumi I'm 30 today. It's been an incredible 30 years of life, and for many people...

188 - 30 predictions 🔮

May 24, 2023

Hey there, ! Predictions for next year once again, as it’s nearly my bday and I thought it would be better if it was anchored around another Year of Vince....

187 - A Low Effort Post

May 17, 2023

Hey there, ! Don't you just hate it when you see a TikTok (seen through the lens of Instagram Reels) that is a duet where the other person provides...

186 - The Fable of Vince's Ark 🚢

May 10, 2023

Hey there, ! A modern fable, a work in progress, I guess: The descendants of Kahn, Cerf and Berners-Lee had become evil and wicked, creating a polluted World...

185 - Darwin vibes ~

May 3, 2023

Hey there, ! Just came back from Darwin, here's a quick photo dump and notes on the trip :D Darwin is HOT. I think the average temperature while I was up...

184 - Life Update ☀️

April 26, 2023

Hey there, ! Let's get straight in: By the time you're reading this, I'll be back from a trip in Darwin. I don't know how it's gone, but I'm sure the hot 30+...

183 - A Melbourne Chicken Itinerary 🍗🍗🍗

April 19, 2023

Hey there, ! What if… I needed to introduce someone to the wonder that is chicken (not just fried chicken!) through a number of restaurants in Melbourne, and...

182 - Company Names, once again! 🏢🏢

April 12, 2023

Hey there, ! Inspired by myself - wanting to do it again! I used a random name generator - I wanted to do top 5 girl and boy names of 1993 (my year of birth)...

181 - I'm a nerdy dren, am I? 🐎

April 5, 2023

Hey there, ! Sorry for those who thought that I had called them out personally to all of my followers last week! A few of you got in touch; it's just a...

180 - Exploring the multiverse 🪞

March 29, 2023

Hey there, ! A poem I liked this week, by Rumi: Come to the orchard in spring. There is light and wine and sweethearts in the pomengranate flowers If you do...

179 - Life, what's it all about? 🌱

March 22, 2023

Hey there, ! Look, Ma, it's a pretty photo from home! We back at it again with the Life Updates - but this time around I don't have to start with the house...

178 - The Adult-ing Scale, Revisited 🧍📊

March 15, 2023

Hey there, ! For those playing at home, the answers to last week's poems: Vince Rumi ChatGPT Sanai Vince Closest guess was Kento as he also guessed the...

177 - The Art of Writing Poetry ✍️💭❤️

March 8, 2023

Hey there, ! I suck at poetry, and I’m trying to study new forms of writing, so here’s a challenge to you, dear reader: Which of the following poems were...

# 176 - Random Li'l Reviews 📹🥘🛏️

March 1, 2023

Hey there, ! Firstly, thank you all for your very kind words, emails, messages or otherwise from my last post. I think it’s been one of my highest engagement...

175 - A detour into mental health 😕🧠

February 22, 2023

Hey there, ! A longer, more serious note this week - I wanted to share a part of my own mental health experience 'cos I thought it would be interesting to...

174 - New year, better me 📈🦸‍♂️

February 15, 2023

Hey there, ! Back to some quick fire life updates! Renovation: complete! - As you saw last week, the renovation is complete. Kitchen, bathrooms, flooring,...

173 - Lessons from a Renovation 👷‍♂️🛠️

February 8, 2023

Hey there, ! This is more of a ‘personal lessons that Vince is going to take away from this renovation’ but if it’s good for you, then by all means take on...

172 - Checking in on Predictions 🔮

February 1, 2023

Hey there, ! I completely forgot about doing this, and I wanted to see what the results were. The timing is off by a bit (it was supposed to be in a year)...

171 - It's the Year of the Rabbit! 🐇🧧

January 25, 2023

Welcome back, ! We're starting the year off with a BANG! 恭喜發財! Happy Lunar New Year! Got a LOT to write as I've been busy setting up and moving into my new...

170 - Christmas Movie Nostalgia 🎅🎄

December 21, 2022

Merry Happy, ! I broke the model I trained and now it's all effed up - the prompt here was 'Vince as santa riding a sled pulled by reindeer' but I see no...

169 - L1f6 Updat9 🏡

December 14, 2022

Hey there, ! (On people’s request, more AI Vince! I tried re-training a model and it has broken something, but I’ll keep working on it :D) Anyway, on to the...

168 - Tweet Roundup 🗨️🐦

December 7, 2022

Hey there, ! Let's dive into the world of the BIRD - don't worry that it's been taken over by a weird fella (we all burn in the hellscape of the internet...

167 - VinceAI 🤖🎨

November 30, 2022

[VinceAI POWER ON…] [VinceAI TRAIN ON VINCE’S FACE] [VinceAI OUTPUT FACES] Hey there, ! Just like I told you in my life updates, I spent some time...

166 - Survey for One 📝

November 23, 2022

Hey there, ! This is more of an open brainstorm about a fiction idea I had: the one surveyed person. While building surveys for customer research, I wondered...

165 - Roll for Stealth 🤫

November 16, 2022

Hey there, ! “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance...

164 - lil life update 🌱

November 9, 2022

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163 - You got to BeReal 📸

November 2, 2022

Hey there, ! I’ve been using BeReal for a few months now - if you haven’t heard of it, it’s the new GenZ social network that works like this: Once a day at a...

162 - Bed 🛏️

October 26, 2022

Hey there, ! We're talking beds. Now, if you're in Australia, you're typically going to know about the classics: Single (92 x 188 cm) King Single (107 x 203...

161 - Working Memory of Society 💭🏢

October 19, 2022

Hey there, ! A stream of consciousness rant, because I’m tired. Hopefully I get around to editing this before I publish it. There’s some pretty intense shit...

160 - I'm also writing...fiction? ✍️✍️

October 12, 2022

Hey there, ! What are the stories that I've written on vincentjrx.blogspot.com recently? the bombs fell on tuesday - Inspired by the first two sentences...

159 - Life Continues On

October 5, 2022

Hey there, ! Life goes on, and continues to provide - an update from Vince's life :) Renovations - the bathroom is going in, the kitchens are getting there....

158 - Decipher my dream 😴💭

September 28, 2022

Hey there, ! Like Nebuchadnezzar in the biblical story, I’m looking for a Daniel to decipher my dream. Or Pharoah looking for Joseph and some dream with fat...

157 - The importance of slack ⌛

September 21, 2022

No, not the technology, , the concept of slack. Let me explain. “I’m so busy” I say this, so…damn…much. How are you going? Yeah, busy. How’s life been? Oh,...

156 - Centaurs vs Terminators: Who would win? 👨🐴💥🤖

September 14, 2022

Clickbait note: It’s about AI, not actually centaurs and terminators :D Hey there, ! I write a lot about AI art - DALL-E 2, Google Imagen, Midjourney, Stable...

155 - Getting into crime 🔒🖇️

September 7, 2022

Not actually crime, , don’t worry. But kinda? Through the last few years during lockdowns, YouTube has been a close, personal friend of mine. It’s difficult...

154 - Life Update 🗣️💬

August 31, 2022

Hey there, ! So soon to chat about my life again? Already?! Maybe this is too soon. Who knows. We're trying things. Let's see if they stick. Renovations -...

153 - Tweet Roundup Pt. 2 🗨️🐤

August 24, 2022

Hey there, ! The man takes on feedback and gives the people what they want (also it’s low effort but anywayyyyyy) LET’S GO: There’s an empty void in space so...