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We All Know Something Is Wrong
Charlie Warzel with an interesting thread on Threads: the bigger thing is it touches on a gut feeling we all have: so much has changed technologically in a short amt of time! We know this connectivity is working on us, …
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What do you want?
Sure, you can make the web boring, and it’s great for a bit. I experience renewed concentration levels and suddenly gain more inspiration for blog posts. There comes a point when you wonder why you ever use the social …
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Boring Street Photos
There is a tendency for me to not publish many of the photos I take. A high proportion of them end up in the bin, and many others just sit doing nothing in my Lightroom catalogue. I constantly compare the results of my …
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A Wallet Is More Than Payments
Matt Birchler in his semi response to the latest Vergecast on Apple: What this means in practice is that the thing all card issuers want is transaction counts and volumes to be as high as possible. You don’t do that by …
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An Examined Life With No Friends
I often catch myself in a relentless loop of introspection, pondering over the endless whys of my thoughts and actions. This internal dialogue leads me down a path where I’m labeled by some as overly anxious or neurotic, …
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Phone Boredom
It has been approximately three days since I began craving a step back from the web, choosing to remove Mastodon from my life to concentrate on being more present in the world and working more deeply than I have in a …
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But The Algorithm Did It
Om Malik, with a surprisingly popular, if reductive, take on social media: If our parents were not around, we saw a lot of movies (on VCRs) or binged on television. When cable came around, it was all MTV all the time. …
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Taking a Pause
I’ve realised I need a break from the digital world. Not a complete detachment—after all, avoiding the web entirely is nearly impossible—but I must recalibrate how I’m spending my time online. Since 2019, after moving on …
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Embracing the Right Complexities
Following my previous post, where I discussed how certain tasks seem too easy, it’s equally important to identify opportunities to simplify our lives for the better. When tackling any task, whether mundane or complex, …
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It’s Too Easy
The modern world is great. We live in a time that is the safest in known history. The healthcare available is phenomenal, and there is a plethora of technology available cheaply to make our lives easier. Yet, in many …
