Pining for a Simpler Internet
It could have been mere coincidence. As I was settling into an evening of going through saved articles on Matter[1], I noticed that much of modern online discourse frames our present state of technology...
Rant
Review: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and...
The Cost of Process Evolution
There's a genre of "don't I sound smart" type of personal improvement insight that draws from the same well as the old joke, "In Soviet Russia, television watches you!" which looks something like, Control your schedule; don't let your schedule control you. I'm...
The Reinventions of Final Fantasy
My in-game counter says it took me about 47 hours to finish my first play-through of Final Fantasy XVI. It's been 6 years since the last mainline Final Fantasy[1], and compared to...
Meeting Culture
Meetings are terrible, right? Certainly, meetings get bloated with too many participants—the stereotypical "this could have been an email" type of get-together that always feels like it'd run better with half as many folks. It's common enough that Shopify auto-deleted all meetings with more than 2 people earlier...
Screw that Guy
There is, supposedly, an evolutionary advantage to tribalism. The phenomenon where we readily identify with members of an in-group, while at the same time shun others who aren't as an exclusionary out-group, was...