Category: Commentary
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Tech is making things easier—just not for you
“Technology makes everything more complicated,” an elderly relative said to me. It’s hard to argue with. In this specific situation she had paid to reserve…
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Mark Zuckerberg sees loneliness as a market opportunity
The internet used to be exciting—its potential to make the world better seemed endless. In the early 2010s it felt inevitable that innovation would make…
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You can use your laptop as a desktop computer
The more you learn about a subject the less capable you are of understanding what the average person knows about it. In journalism this can…
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We buy too much crap anyway
If you want to understand America, spend some time in thrift stores. These are monuments to our collective excess—a museum of the things we’ve collected…
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Practice Is The Point
Writing isn’t just my job—it’s how I think. When I’m not sure what I feel about something I start typing. I put down ideas, contemplate…
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Extrinsic motivation is ruining everything
It’s one of those patterns you can’t stop noticing once you think about it.
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How to Tell If Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, Is In Your Signal Group Chat
Only you can protect your privacy from Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic
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Is constantly insulting your core customer base a good marketing strategy?
Imagine a Budweiser Super Bowl ad where the Clydesdales can talk and they spend the entire two minute ad discussing how much they despise country…
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Read local news instead of doomscrolling
How does one exist online, right now, without being a constant mess of anxiety? It’s what I’ve been working on lately. I’ve told you about…
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Canada: it’s time to boycott American social media
The dumbest trade war in world history is underway and Canadians are responding to the idiocy by changing their spending habits. American liquors have been…