This is a new effort to capture some of my daily raw thoughts. It’s a callback to the old-school blog approach. Back in the day, web logs were a way for developers to capture changes to their projects over time. They were a series of quick notes in reverse chronological order. This made it easy […]
Part 2 — The Machine The algorithms aren’t trying to inform you. They’re not even trying to entertain you. They’re trying to activate you. That difference is why you can spend two hours on your phone and come away feeling like you should have accomplished something when you accomplished nothing. In Part 1, I told […]
Part 1 — The Problem When I was a kid, I spent most of my time in the library. It was not uncommon for me to leave with books stacked so high that I could only use my chin and the length of my arms to carry them out. Why no one ever got me […]
Scrolling social media, you see the same pithy adages: be consistent, show up and do the work, you don’t want it bad enough, no one is coming to save you, discipline is the ice that forges the fire of willpower (I made that one up), you get the idea. We all just came off the […]