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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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The lost art of cleaning out your feeds and other stuff I wrote this week
I regularly go through everyone I’m following on social media and remove accounts I’m not enjoying or learning from anymore. I’ve been doing this for…
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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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Playing modern games on an ancient TV and other stuff I wrote
I recently wrote about why new tech only feels good for a short time over at PopSci. It’s a little bit outside my wheelhouse—it’s about tech, yes, but…
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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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Blurring out distractions and other stuff I wrote this week
This week, over at Lifehacker, I tried a simple Mac application that blurs all but the currently open window. I find it sincerely useful when I’m trying…
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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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An app that shouldn’t exist and other stuff I wrote this week
Writing is a big part of how I’m coping with the world right now. It’s working for me. I’d love to hear how you’re all…
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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…
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Make a 2025 MySpace page and other stuff I wrote this week
Hi! Here are some things published in my name this week (they were published in my name because I wrote them).