Writing is more than words
Writing is easy. All you do is string together a bunch of words.
Will there be enough AI?
These days, people are worried about AI taking their jobs. And who can blame them, with all the stories circulating about AI’s great accomplishments. (P.S. If you’re looking for a counterweight to the hype, read Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. And subscribe to Gary Marcus’s Substack while you’re at it.)
Be here now
Introverts make up at least one-third of the population—maybe as high as one-half—yet in so many ways the world feels as if it’s made only for extroverts. How can it be that our social systems benefit one type of person while alienating the other?
Calculating the costs of convenience
As long as there are people, there will be questions about the human condition. How are people doing? What are their greatest struggles and fears and joys? And what does it mean to be a real human being at any point in time?
Digital Minimalism and philosophy in tech
I’ve been rethinking my relationship with technology since I started reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.
The Copywriter's Handbook by Robert W. Bly - An overview
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The Pilot Kakuno over Pilot Metropolitan for a starter fountain pen
The Pilot Metropolitan tops most lists of starter fountain pens.
The Metropolitan is a good pen. But it’s not even the best starter fountain pen within its own brand. That honor belongs to the Pilot Kakuno.
Social media engagement algorithms and the illusion of choice
So many of us, over the last couple years, have been rethinking our relationship with social media and the internet at large.
My own wonderings about technology have seen me dabbling into using only open source operating systems and software. But I’ve recently realized that while I appreciate open source and like the idea of all technology being open source, I am not an open source purist or absolutist. Like so many digital citizens, I have concerns about privacy and security. But in these areas, again, I am not a purist.
Marketing on a post-Web2 internet
The end of the year is a great time to look at what lies ahead. Because I prefer asking important questions over making bold predictions, I’ve lately been wondering: What will digital marketing on a post-Web2 internet look like?
The simple math of Web3
What if Web3 isn’t an evolution but a move to something like the web’s original form? Not an arrival but a return. A regression of sorts. A devolution in the most positive context.