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The times in my day where I don’t have a screen are rare. Showering, washing the dishes, running, driving, sleeping, talking with someone. Absent a few specific scenarios the screen beckons. It’s always ready, eager to serve up something interesting (and occasionally useful). I wrestle with this. I’

I’m a huge proponent of having time to work in quiet. I love deep work, despise useless meetings, and in general try to shape my life around having time to think and work on things that I find challenging and satisfy my curiosity. I’ve wasted not insignifcant periods

In a recent episode of Upgrade Myke mentioned that he’s been sleeping with Ozlo Sleepbuds. For the last few months I’ve been testing various ear plugs and ear buds for sleeping. The results have been mostly good. Loop does well with making everything a bit quieter. AirPod Pro

In UX design we often talk about dark patterns. Maybe it’s a cancelation flow that’s hard to get out of (looking at you NY Times). Usually it’s a digital product or service that tricks you into doing something you didn’t understand. These are bad. They make

My friend Saadia has been gently challenging me to try Apple default apps for as many things in my life as possible. He’s been right in every case. It started with Apple Calendar. I switched from Google to Apple, and suddenly most things worked better. Events showed up on

It’s 2025. Blogging was supposed to be dead years ago. WordPress market share is shaky. Social media continues to be all consuming as things have moved into short form video. Text form content isn’t doing great when it comes to the most popular forms of media out htere.

Field Notes Notebooks comes with a message, “I’m not writing it down to remember later, I’m writing it down to remember now”. This is, of course, a handy message for a company selling paper. They want you to write down more so you’ll buy more. And I

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of websites over the past few weeks. To save on costs I just shut down a WordPress server that I’d been running for 6-7 years. This was something that had been sitting in the back of my mind for