Move a reading app to your phone's dock. Put it exactly where the app you reach for reflexively currently lives, Kindle, apple Books, Libby, whatever you prefer. The goal is to intercept an existing behavior at the last possible moment and redirect it. You're accepting that the reaching will happen and arranging for it to land somewhere useful rather than trying to stop it all together...

Amy Poehler winning the first Golden Globe for podcasting is so on brand for an industry that looked at the most democratised medium in history and said “but what if we still gave awards to famous people.”

Started mentally adding a wet fart sound after everything Elon Musk says. Highly recommend. Improves the user experience by 1000%

Free speech is when you let people say controversial things. Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service. I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet. I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.

All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“all models are wrong but some are useful” i say about the model that just confirmed all my existing prejudices. extremely useful. love this model. Can I interest you in my course about this model

I'm not going to talk about politics anymore. I'm just going to focus on the economy, the cost of living, rental prices, climate change and - GODDAMMIT

“think for yourself” always seems to end with “and arrive at my exact conclusions or you’re a sheep.” very liberating framework

sorry but if your reaction to “the US bombed venezuela” isnt immediate horror youre a fucking psychopath and i hope you step on legos forever​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement. It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

Westenberg.

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to compl...