I have two things on my mind tonight.
First: the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers, far from the first or even the fiftieth murder by police so far this year.
Second: active shooter drills in schools, which aren’t proven to save lives but do lead to anxiety ...
January 28, 2023
Quick PSA:
A podcast is only a podcast if you can listen to it anywhere.
Just like a newsletter isn’t a newsletter if you can’t subscribe using any email address, the point of a podcast is that you can listen to it in any podcast app. It just works.
If your podcast only ...
January 27, 2023
I wanted to understand what’s involved in setting up an online store, so I’ve created an Etsy store to accompany my website. Everything is made and fulfilled by Printful, which seems to work pretty well.
Anyway, this is my favorite item in the store right now:
I’ll add new stuff from time ...
January 26, 2023
I’ve been wondering about adding more organization to my site. As of right now, the homepage is a mix of long-form posts, short thoughts, and links I consider interesting, presented as a stream. It’s a genuine representation of what I’m reading and thinking about, and each post’s permalink page looks ...
January 24, 2023
American TV is saturated with copaganda: media intended to sway public perception in favor of the police. Even in a world where it’s become clear that the police disproportionately kill people of color and otherwise enforce adverse power dynamics for oppressed communities, we see show after show after show where ...
January 22, 2023
I had an idea for an online science fiction literary journal.
First: it’s on the web and free to access on beautiful, standards-based, responsive, blazing-fast web pages. Nobody ever needs to pay to read its content. It’s all out there, paywall-free, and anyone can link to it and share it. That ...
January 21, 2023
I really like the maxim, which apparently originated in stand-up comedy, that you should always punch up:
Jokes are funny when they mock the powerful. They are not funny when they mock the powerless. […] Jokes are not funny when they have victims. Some of the tricks played by PR would ...
January 21, 2023
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, in an interview I’ve linked to before:
Layoffs often do not cut costs, as there are many instances of laid-off employees being hired back as contractors, with companies paying the contracting firm. Layoffs often do not increase stock prices, in part because layoffs ...
January 21, 2023
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, which is definitely an organization we should be listening to about the future:
Jamie Dimon said working from home “doesn’t work” for younger staff or bosses, the Wall Street titan’s latest salvo against remote work. […] Dimon also said remote work can “help women,” given ...
January 20, 2023
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January 19, 2023
Back when I used to help run the Matter Ventures accelerator for media startups (which I really miss doing!), Pete Mortensen ran the program in San Francisco while I ran investments. (Over in New York, Josh Lucido and Roxann Stafford were our counterparts respectively.)
I think it was Pete who introduced ...
January 13, 2023
The next The 19th Live event is happening on Thursday, Jan. 26. We'll hear from a group of experts about the state of reproductive rights on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade.
Speakers include:
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta: Chair, DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force
Jurnee Smollett: Actor ...
January 12, 2023
Colin Devroe on blogging:
Oh man am I happy! People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up and published to again. And popular news outlets are publishing articles about ...
January 11, 2023
It’s my birthday. Improbably, I’m 44 years old. That’s what the calendar says. I certainly don’t feel 44 years old. But at the same time, the facts point to yes: I was born in the seventies. I can remember the Challenger disaster really clearly. My first computer was a ZX81. ...
January 7, 2023
Chris Coyier on blogging:
You know what the one big valid criticism is of all this “write on your own site, not on walled social media sites” is? It’s boring. It’s not very social feeling. You’re “talking into the void,” as someone recently put it to me.
I have to (slightly) disagree! ...
January 5, 2023
From the Wall Street Journal’s account of workers becoming “less ambitious”:
Many white-collar workers say the events of the past three years have reordered their priorities and showed them what they were missing when they were spending so much time at the office. Now that normalcy is returning, even some of ...
January 1, 2023
I’d been having real trouble finding truly green web hosts: places to host a website that directly use 100% renewable energy. But they’re out there - so I decided to pull them together into a single-page guide following the style I built for Get Blogging.
Please check out Get Green Hosting ...
January 1, 2023
This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2022. Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!
Apps + Websites
Labor
Picket Line Notifier. “An open-source browser extension that alerts you when you navigate to a website belonging to an ...
January 1, 2023