Hunter Walk has a fun post about indie software he pays for. I'd like to broaden my definition to include indie content, too.
Here's my list. I'd love to see yours!
Indie software
Ulysses: A simple, markdown-based text editor that allows you to organize written content into groups. I also have a paid ...
February 25, 2019
We all want to be happy, and few of us are.
It's an unavoidably growing trend: more and more business leaders are talking about their ways to find happiness, while products like Calm continue to grow in the market. Groups like the Center for Humane Technology are explicitly battling addiction and stressful design ...
February 23, 2019
Social media is stressing me out.
Last Thanksgiving, I decided that this was becoming an important enough issue in my life to go cold turkey. I spent the rest of 2018 away from the social networks. Instead, I wrote more on my blog, and read more long-form content. It was transformative: I immediately ...
February 21, 2019
There's been a lot of talk so far this year about venture capital funding as an agent of harm. This is both good and bad.
For the first time in a while, alternatives to venture capital funding are being seriously discussed, which I think is a really positive development for the ...
February 12, 2019
Years ago, someone broke into my home and stole my laptops while I lay in bed upstairs. I had left them out on the dining table, and the burglar broke their way into my back garden and smashed through one of my rear windows with a brick. This was Oxford ...
February 6, 2019
Books
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A visceral, stunningly-written insight into the brutal reality of a lived experience we’re all complicit in.
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, by David Golumbia. I don't agree with all of his arguments, but he makes some good points about the ...
February 1, 2019