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  • The lost art of cleaning out your feeds and other stuff I wrote this week

    The lost art of cleaning out your feeds and other stuff I wrote this week

    March 28, 2025
    Stuff I Wrote

    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

    How to Tell If Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, Is In Your Signal Group Chat

    March 26, 2025
    Commentary

    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

    Playing modern games on an ancient TV and other stuff I wrote

    March 21, 2025
    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?

    Is constantly insulting your core customer base a good marketing strategy?

    March 19, 2025
    Commentary

    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

    Blurring out distractions and other stuff I wrote this week

    March 14, 2025
    Stuff I Wrote

    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

    Read local news instead of doomscrolling

    March 12, 2025
    Commentary

    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

    An app that shouldn’t exist and other stuff I wrote this week

    March 7, 2025
    Stuff I Wrote

    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

    Canada: it’s time to boycott American social media

    March 5, 2025
    Commentary, Internet

    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

    Make a 2025 MySpace page and other stuff I wrote this week

    February 28, 2025
    Stuff I Wrote

    Hi! Here are some things published in my name this week (they were published in my name because I wrote them). 

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  • Don’t get your news from social media

    Don’t get your news from social media

    February 26, 2025
    Commentary, Internet

    This is the second article in a series about how to function as a human person online in this clusterfuck of an era. You can…

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