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• The internet doesn’t have to feel like this August 30, 2024
  Living online can feel…numbing. Bo Burnham perhaps captured that best with That Funny Feeling, a song made up of various unrelated phrases that simulate the feeling of scrolling. deadpool’s self-awareness/loving parents/harmless fun/the backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun On and on it goes, and on and on you scroll, until your thumbs (and soul) […]
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• Find small ways to feel like yourself August 22, 2024
  I’ve been freelancing as a journalist full time for two and a half years now, which feels great. I am occasionally exhausted, and sometimes miss the camaraderie of being on a team, but on the other hand I am no longer miserable. Pros and cons.  There are all kinds of reasons I was unhappy working […]
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• You’re doing great. July 27, 2024
  I want to talk to you, yes you, about any lingering sense of guilt you might have. Let it go. You're doing fine. Better than fine: you're thriving.
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• Tech is cool; business is boring. June 14, 2024
  AI isn't a solution looking for a problem—it's a market strategy made by people who aren't even thinking about problems.
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• Watch me be in three meetings at once June 1, 2024
  You can be forgiven if you have the impression that I hate AI. I do have profound concerns with the ways the technology is being rolled out, sure, but I’m still an enthusiast at heart and I love playing around with this stuff.  This week I wrote about a free transcription application that took a half-hour episode […]
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• Garbage in garbage out May 25, 2024
  Google put a box of AI-generated text at the top of their search results. If you don’t know what that means, I’m talking about the slow-loading colorful text box you’re seeing lately—it’s Google’s first step toward destroying the internet entirely (as I predicted last summer). I am yet to meet anyone who is excited about […]
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• “Number go up” isn’t everything May 4, 2024
  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’m not data-driven enough, that I needed to improve. My manager set up a dashboard I was supposed to check […]
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• The life changing magic of shutting up March 27, 2024
  Here’s a secret the people who run social media networks don’t want you to know—the one thing you can do to mess up their entire plan. You can, if you want to, shut the fuck up. It turns out, when something big happens in the news, you don’t have to react to it. You are […]
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• Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO January 4, 2022
  An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny. It’s okay to upset investors because they’re not people, just pools of money that long ago gave up on non-fiscal concerns like joy and human connection. You have their money—they […]
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• In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded March 15, 2020
  I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star Trek was, at some point, about a future where humanity had overcome its issues. There is no longer any war on earth. There’s no scarcity and money is a thing […]
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