"In your dreams, all we see are the gold drenched days laid ahead"

~ Moreno, Chino, metal dream, 2025

2025 has turned out to be a very good year. Well, musically at least.

Sam Fender...

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#deftones #music #OnRepeat #PeopleWatching #PrivateMusic #SamFender #status

~ Hugo, Herman, Pia Desideria, 1624 (via. Lapis Luna Wines)

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#HermanHugo #inspiration #motivation #resilience #status

“Open to Work”

❗️ After dedicating six years to The St Leonards Academy as Vice Principal, I have decided that it is time to look for new opportunities.

⭐️ I am a skilled and...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/09/o

#opentowork #jobsearch #deputyhead #viceprincipal #education #leadership #reachingout

New blog post, ready to be read by 0.00000001% of Bluesky: dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/09...

“Open to Work”

❗️ After dedicating six years to The St Leonards Academy as Vice Principal, I have decided that it is time to look for new opportunities.

⭐️ I am a skilled and...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/09/o

#opentowork #jobsearch #deputyhead #viceprincipal #education #leadership #reachingout

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

When life throws you a ‘bouncer’

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional”

~ Crawford, Roger

As I often find with words of wisdom, they have a tendency to crop up just when you...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/07...

#challenge #cricket #decisions #life #philosophy #work

When life throws you a ‘bouncer’

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional”

~ Crawford, Roger

As I often find with words of wisdom, they have a tendency to crop up just when you...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/07...

#challenge #cricket #decisions #life #philosophy #work

It was about time, so I spent the last 3 hours on my phone and then my laptop putting together a Colophon page

dougbelshaw.com/blog/colophon/

First Set Mindset

The “First Set Mindset” flips the script: treat your first set (and every set) like it’s your only set.

~ Schwarzenegger​, Arnold, The Muscle Principles, 2025

Sound advice...

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#fitness #guidance #mindset #philosophy #productivity #weightlifting

I don’t wear the shoes I used to walk in.

~ Fender, Sam, Crumbling Empire, 2025

IMHO, Sam Fender has released the album of the year. 48 minutes of soaring, working class, confessionals that are as joyous to sing along with as...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/03...

#music #PeopleWatching #SamFender

I don’t wear the shoes I used to walk in.

~ Fender, Sam, Crumbling Empire, 2025

IMHO, Sam Fender has released the album of the year. 48 minutes of soaring, working class, confessionals that are as joyous to sing along with as...

jamesmichie.com/blog/2025/03...

#music #PeopleWatching #SamFender

This account doesn't exist

As you can see from the image above, I am no longer on Twitter/X.

In actuality, I’ve eschewed the dumpster fire that is Twitter/X since Elon Musk acquired it in 2022. But I decided that 2025 is going...

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#blogging #productivity #status

Showing up every day and having integrity about the way you live your life: that’s really the magic, because the ending and the beginning and the expectation and the outcome—all that stuff is nonsense. It really is. I know so many people who work really...

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#status

you can't beat death
but you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.

~ Bukowski, Charles, The Laughing Heart, Betting on the Muse (1996)

jamesmichie.com/blog/2024/12...

#status