Recapturing the dream of open social media
It’s hard to imagine now, but the web once meant far more than Google and Facebook. In the early days, […]
What I learned in college
I was one of those students who did very well in high school and college, and then, once I graduated,
Field Notes
#firstsevenjobs
Assistant proofreader
Paperboy
Babysitter
Roadside weed whacker crew
Sandwich cook/pizza maker/pizza delivery guy
Door-to-door canvasser
Photocopy machine operator
Rough Drafts
Altamont
Driving down from the Altamont Pass, the highway curves through a long, shallow, descending valley on its way down to
Rough Drafts
Motivation and inspiration
It’s been almost exactly a year since I left a salaried job and went independent. This is now the third
Slot machines, magicians, and app designers
Around the turn of the century, people started talking about the “attention economy.” A natural outgrowth of the ad-supported Web,
My brain was begging me for relief from social media
Taking control of your social media use may be the most rewarding life hacking technique I know of, given its ratio of benefit to effort. I
31 days of writing
Like many people, my attention is fragmented and my concentration broken. I’m going to try working my way through this with the skills I know best: Writing and editing.
Rough Drafts
The people who believe themselves to be white
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Between the World and Me, repeatedly refers to “the people who believe themselves to be white.” This curious phrasing opens up the possibility of hope in what for me, as the father of two black children, is otherwise a terrifying and disturbing book.