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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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The End of Windows 10 is coming (and other stuff I wrote this week)
More people use Windows 10 than Windows 11, but later this year Windows 10 will stop getting security updates. What does that mean? I explained…
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Get Minesweeper back on your PC and other stuff I wrote this week
It’s been over a decade since Microsoft removed Minesweeper from Windows. If you don’t go a single day without thinking about this loss you might…
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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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Transcribing UFO letters to the government (and other stuff I wrote)
I had a lot of fun learning how to volunteer online for The National Archive. I spent a few hours transcribing letters by a man who…
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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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See What’s On Your Hard Drive and Other Stuff I Wrote This Week
Over at WIRED I wrote a quick guide to visualizing what’s taking up room on your hard drive. I hope this empowers people to track down the large…
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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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Stay private while browsing and other stuff I wrote this week
Last week I explained how to tell if Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of the The Atlantic, is is your group chat, which is obviously among he most…
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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.