“Number go up” isn’t everything
I have no idea how many people read my articles. I love it. This hasn’t always been true. When I worked at a culty tech company, I was forced to obsess over metrics. I was told…
I have no idea how many people read my articles. I love it. This hasn’t always been true. When I worked at a culty tech company, I was forced to obsess over metrics. I was told…
Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with each other. Facebook’s newsfeed is the most prominent example of…
All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA for the first time. The footage looked so…real. I couldn’t…
Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell your nephews’ name incorrectly. Now they’re starting to feel bad…
Sports metaphors are all over the English language, especially in North America. Here in the USA, most everyone knows what means to strike out, for example, or to score a touchdown – and people use…
Are you having actual experiences? Or do you do things simply for the sake of recording and sharing them? It may seem like a silly question, but it’s worth thinking about. This week comedian Louis…