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AI giveth and taketh

News orgs, published authors, great artists, universities, want to retain ownership of their intellectual property and don’t trust the utility of AI chatbots. I’ve wrestled with this. I don’t love that AI chatbots can steal my writing (however inconsequential it may be). As a writer, of prose

The Apple TV remote

Seriously, I’ve been using the redesigned Apple TV remote since 2021 and I still have to look at it to remember where the mute and play buttons are because they’re not where I’d expect. 4 years of use and it’s still not muscle memory! The Apple

That will never work

And if you’re waiting for unanimous approval, you’re never going to ship that important work. Love this take. Earlier in my life I was looking to make sure people agreed before I did a thing. Now I realize that a thing that all agree on isn’t worth

Incorporating new things into daily life

When I first got online, via an AOL CD-ROM, I thought being online was the AOL homepage. And the only button that mattered was the kids only section. And the best game, of course, was Skunny. It wasn’t until over a year later that I discovered the browser. My

Messy comes first

In design, in writing, and in most creative fields, allowing yourself to create in a draft state opens up ideas and puts your brain in a safe mode. You can try this new thing, accept that new idea, make a happy little accident. One of the reasons that I push

Changing positions

As a child I gained strong ideas strongly held and clung deeply to them. That’s fine. It’s good to develop an identity and build beliefs around it—to a point. Not necessarily because those beliefs are right in the objective sense, but because childhood requires having a sense

Why we write

Writing is a weird thing. It’s this creation from our brains, composed of tiny figures that we’ve all mutually agreed are valuable. When I sit down to put words to the page I have an idea of what I want to write. But I’ve purposely chosen not

Passages of time

Passages in life aren’t specific dates. Passages are moments when we realize that something doesn’t work, needs to be changed and it is the best time to do something about it. Beautifully put. I appreciate Michał’s resilience and desire to keep pushing, despite the challenges. Beautiful essay

Tracking sleep apnea

Sleep apnea is a potentially serious disorder in which a person's breathing repeatedly stops and starts while they sleep. The built-in accelerometer on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 running watchOS 11 can "monitor small movements at the wrist&

The gods' patience

For centuries, the gods accepted humanity’s non-stop feed of foolishness, allowing their growing addiction to likes, shares, and the all too frequent fish-lip selfie. But there’s only so much a god can take. One day, after yet another viral trend—this time involving humans pretending to be squirrels