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What’s your most unnecessarily elaborate tech workaround?
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Plex keeps getting worse but Jellyfin, the main open source alternative, has a few real downsides. I break things down for WIRED:
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Cursive isn’t faster, and a few other handwriting myths I debunked over at PopSci:
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Rest is the most underappreciated productivity tool
Science shows rest makes you more productive (but that’s not why you should rest).
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Google is strip mining the web. Publishers might leave.
USA Today may pull their articles from search results to avoid feeding the AI machine. Other publications could follow.
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I spent way too much time thinking about a video game from 1993 and now you have to read about it. Sorry.
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Both Bluesky/ATProto and Mastodon/Fediverse posts show up on my posts, alongside traditional WP comments, and I can reply to them all in one place. Feels like the future, somehow.
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What’s an under-appreciated productivity tool? Non-AI answers only.
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Multi-tasking isn’t real, and other productivity myths I wrote about for PopSci:
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Zork and the social impact of design choices
A bad game from 1993 taught me that humanity isn’t necessarily doomed.
