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ShareOpenly is now on Tedium

Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

19 May 2024

I adore the way ShareOpenly has been added to Tedium:

You can see it for yourself on all its posts, including this great one about the decline of the ball mouse. Its founder, Ernie Smith, told me: “figured I had to have fun with it”.

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Telomeres at the end-caps of an X chromosome

Telomeres, my son, and me

I bawled my way through Nowhere Special, a 2020 movie about a terminally ill man who needs to find a new family for his four year old son. I’ll be thinking about it for years. It’s the story of a window cleaner with a terminal illness who needs

04 Oct 2025

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

Many of our colleagues' communities are being directly targeted by an increasingly authoritarian, anti-immigrant regime. As managers and leaders, we have a duty of care. It starts with listening.

03 Oct 2025

Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news

It turns out that "we're protecting democracy and our industry is dying, please pay us money" is not a great sales pitch.

03 Oct 2025

The One-on-One Gift Exchange

This simple, repeatable framework for building a culture of open feedback has been a part of my toolkit for over a decade.

02 Oct 2025
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Ben Werdmuller explores the intersection of technology, democracy, and society. Always independently published, reader-supported, and free to read.