hi you should talk to your friends maybe
Slang from the 1920s fascinates me. Why are good things “the bee’s knees” or “the cat’s pajamas”? Why is a drunken bender “a toot?” The past is a world I...
There's no such thing as trolls.
"Fuck you." That's what the notification says. Dozens more just like it follow. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, and so on and so forth, all from the...
your friendships are not a corporate asset.
This newsletter is brought to you by the feeling of relief you get by uninstalling Instagram, even if you’re just uninstalling it temporarily. Uninstalling:...
replacing algorithms with humans (music edition)
Lately I’m trying to replace the algorithms in my life with human curators. I’m starting with music. Spotify is very good at noticing what music you’re...
on bullshit
This Place Is Full of It: Towards an Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale is the actual title of a paper published in Psychological Reports back in late...
Tech is not the underdog.
Tech companies, and tech people, spend a lot of time trying to project an idea that they are Not The Man. That they are, in some meaningful way, underdogs....
hello and welcome to my brain
This week I witnessed Kathy, my wife, watch a webinar on her laptop while simultaneously listening to a meeting on her phone. She can do that sort of...