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The Hidden Complexity of Static Sites

The Shaping Power of Words

The Unreckoned

Not Knowing What We Don’t Know

Defaults instead of Habits

Buddhism at War

A Non-Compete Clause with your Phone

Book Notes: Wanting

Mettā at War

The Star Wars Prequels Are Actually Pretty Good

Book Notes: Dune

Public and private selves

Chickens coming home to roost

The paper of record

Book notes: Snow Crash

Corona and Western Consensus Thinking

The Star Wars periphery

Western Consensus Thinking

Since we’re all talking about Twitter

Timeless tales

Techniques and philosophy

Audience lock in

The imperialism of Chomsky

Theater of the absurd

The temporal limits of knowledge

The truth will set you free

Book review: the End of Eternity

Digital tidying: the links

Lying with the facts

Salt losing it’s savor

Making time to think

Book review: The Gods Themselves

Journalism

An Ideology, a Product

Designing Cages

A Month in the Netherlands

Quantitative Book Rankings

Rage, Parallel Societies and Compliance

The Long Stroad Home

Interesting Reads October 2021

On Burnout, Values and Uncertainty

Ubiquity

Knowledge and the Unknowable

What’s Worse than Death?

UX Certification from NN/g

Think of the Children

The News as Entertainment

The 5 Daily Reflections

Life around the Universe, Part II

Atheism and Epistemological Humility

No Opinion

The Numbing Agent

The Remote Productivity Myth

Kobo, the Almost Competition

Obviously Wrong Medical Advice

The Basecamp Drama

The Fading Index Fund Dream

People Who Buy Software

Not Going Viral, Not Making Money

Permission Management

Learning to Say No

Ignoring Second Order Effects

The Internet as a Physical Thing

Fixing Culture the Wrong Way

Meditating Like a Scotsman

The Price of Freemium

Dropping the U-Word

Some Perspective on 2020

Translation vs. Localization

Afición

The Digital-Physical Divide

Questioning the Digital Narrative

The Cathedral of the Open Web

Eudaimonia as the Goal of Buddhist Practice

Bringing New Life to an Old iPad

Bandcamp vs. Spotify

The Paucity of Good Design

Hey, the App I Wanted to Love

Reframing the Discussion

Remote is More than WFH

The Anthropology of Illness

The Language of Quarantine

Peak Google: From Utility to Rent Seeking

The Curious Case of Bauhaus without Tel Aviv

K--v is the Capital of Ukraine

Dark Mode Revisited

Antifragility Beyond Taleb

The Just So Story of a Pronoun

Keeping Politics Out of Identity

My Midsummer Reading List

Life around the Universe

Why B2B Marketers Shouldn't Growth Hack

What I'm Reading: Early 2019

Socialism: What's in a Word?

Democracy on Life Support

Bloggers, Managers and Marketers

Shame, Tribes and Dispersion

Apple's Creeping Ads

Meditation Retreat at Dipabhāvan

The Curated Internet

The Era of Minority Rule

The Mythology of Silicon Valley

I Didn’t Opt In

Centered Text Is Lazy

Archiving Bullshit

The Joy of Fiction and Useless Things

Subscriptions and Tech Medley

Ghosting and Digital Culture

The Bullshit of Modern Work

Spiritual Frameworks

The Tyranny of Libertarianism

The Keyes Constant

Deleting Facebook

Intellectual Laziness

Technology Won't Solve Political Problems

Free Will in the Era of Alternative Facts

Deep Work is the Reward itself

Staying Informed without the News

Bitcoin, Ethics and Dopamine Hits

How to Make a Tag Page in Jeykll

Feeding the Mind

Ten Days of Meditation at Suan Mokkh

The Need for Darkness

Non-Theistic Spirituality

Reclaiming a Love for the Elements