How to Tell If Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, Is In Your Signal Group Chat
Signal is a secure communications app somewhat infamous for responding to FBI subpoenas for data by saying they don’t have it. The nonprofit that runs Signal...
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 music,...
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 rejecting anxiety...
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...
Don't get your news from social media
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 read part one, about rejecting...
Think before you click.
The past month has been the longest year of my life. I’m sure I’m not alone on this. It is impossible to ignore the onslaught of bad news, which I’m not...
They don't respect you.
You’re a person—I hope this is obvious to you. It’s not obvious to tech companies. Tech companies see you as a number. I used to work inside one that was...
The internet doesn't have to be like this
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...
Small ways to feel like yourself
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...
You're doing great.
I've been exhausted lately, wondering why I'm not getting more done. Then I reviewed my invoices for the year. It turns out I've written almost as much this...
A few links and such
Hi! I hope you've been enjoying the summer. I have, which is why I haven't put out a newsletter lately, but I have been doing some writing. Here's a few...
Tech is cool; business is boring.
I love technology. I've spent most of my career writing about it and I don't want to do anything else. But there's a negative tone that runs through my...
Watch me attend three meetings at once
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...
Garbage in garbage out
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...
"Number go up" isn't everything (why "3 body problem" is bad)
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...
I refuse to apologize
Hello! This is the space where I traditionally apologize for not writing a newsletter lately. I could hypothetically mention that travelled recently, and...
The life changing magic of shutting up
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...
Hi. I've been writing.
Hello! It's good to see you again. I've been busy. I started writing at Lifehacker around a month ago and am having a lot of fun with it. I thought I'd...
use technology to do things
It feels a little ridiculous to say my writing has a core theme. I'm just a guy who writes technology tutorials—step-by-step guides to doing specific things....
Are the tech bros, like...okay?
I was scrolling through Product Hunt the other day because I was in a good mood. I've been satisfied with my life lately, which means I'm not writing...