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Winter Wonderland
Just a few , too busy to take many shots though
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Authorship And The Web
Don’t worry, this isn’t the usual post about AI and it stealing everyone’s content. That’s true, of course, but this post is a bit different — although still AI-adjacent. As is customary around this time of year, I start …
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YouTube: Information vs Entertainment
On a recent Vergecast, Nilay and David were chatting about the very real idea that the current state of streaming services is just cable TV all over again. Of course, they are correct, but they also kept coming back to …
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A Fresh Sheet
The best feeling in my online life is when I have inspiration for a post and I open a fresh sheet in Ulysses. Just then, right before I start typing my garbled English onto the sheet and ruin the whole thing, that is an …
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Babysitting Yourself
After more than 40 years (yes, I am old) I am well aware of needing massive barriers in the way of my bad habits. I have very little self-control when it comes to dopamine boosting things, and my phone is the worst. I …
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Don’t Forget Too Quickly
There’s an old adage: today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper. For anyone outside the UK, it essentially means that news—and the attention it garners—moves on fast. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to products, …
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See Into Sam Altman’s Soul
There is nothing I enjoy more than an insightful discussion on notebooks, and hearing Sam Altman on the How I Write Podcast was a fascinating listen. I made a few notes whilst walking the dog this morning, but before I …
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Brokenness Is Awesome
Cory Dransfeldt loving the fact that Social media’s broken: Find your space and don’t feel obligated to participate in any of it. Like Cory, I have my website (I check in on the social bits of micro.blog sometimes …
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The Importance Of Dopamine
Ali Abdaal in the video How To Reset Your Dopamine: nudging your balance away from instant gratification things that just let you experience joy and reward in the present moment more towards slower things that actually …
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Finding A Third Place
Federico Viticci in his iPad Mini review where he talks about it being a ‘third place’: I’ve been thinking about the idea of a third place lately as it relates to the tech products we use and the different roles they aim …
