Michael Garrett

Usually traveling, always curious, views are my own

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Do more, work harder. - @CaseyNeistat

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

A cup of coffee and a Leon Bridges vinyl on the turntable might just be the best way to start the day.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Found my next project

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME

he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying.

then projects them onto his ceiling in real time

when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination

pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible

but he didn't stop at planes

it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time

so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO

there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter

vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

This remains true >3 years later, for the record.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

If you think about it, cupcakes are just muffins with loud personalities.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Apparently the market agrees with me - $RACE

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Blasphemy. https://t.co/XcLBqoN2C2

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

How did a catfish get access to the clay model is what I’d love to know

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

This is objectively hysterical.

[Chris Madden @chrismadden_]

A humanoid robot just boarded a @SouthwestAir flight with its own ticket.

Crews reportedly weren’t sure if it counted as a passenger or luggage.

That sounds funny.

But it also shows how unprepared public systems are for robots entering everyday life.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Follow up: this technology continues to impress me. If @Apple can deliver 80% of this functionality with new Siri locally/on Private Cloud Compute, we’ll be in business.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

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[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I’ll show myself out (you know, once we get to a gate hopefully in Chicago)

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Good news: Can now say I’ve been to Omaha.

Bad news: Supposed to be in Chicago an hour ago, but @AmericanAir flight diverted b/c we didn’t load enough fuel to hold for weather in Chicago. Weather that we had known about for the past 24h. @United flight made it on time though.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Oh- and now we’re delayed an hour due to weather delays into Chicago. Remind me again why we didn’t load enough fuel for this clearly unexpected series of events?

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Omaha’s skyline is better than expected, though.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

The fact that the @Chase Sapphire Lounge in PHX was serving lemon pound cake today tells me that someone on their team has an under-appreciated sense of humor. Nicely done.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Nearly 10 years since I pinned this one, and I’m proud of 10-years-ago Michael for the insight.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Do more, work harder. - @CaseyNeistat

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

@AmericanAir, great FA up front on 3205 tonight to Phoenix. Please pass along my appreciation?

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

Heard a pretty cool mantra this week from a leader at work: “Don’t confuse your platform with your purpose.”

More to come.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

I get to do a lot of cool stuff for work. Seriously, I have the best job in the world on a near daily basis. Somehow, nothing beats getting to look down at home from the air when I return home every week.

[Michael Garrett @mgarrett96]

In 7 years of traveling ~weekly, I’ve never seen O’Hare this much of a disaster without a winter storm.

Great news- there’s a winter storm warning starting at 9:00pm so we aren’t setting any new records!