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Brown noise. It’s essential to helping me sleep. Even though iOS has this built in now I still prefer Dark Noise and just turn on the Brown Noise option at medium to high volume. Also, it’s better than white noise, or pink noise. It started as a kid,

Watching Apple’s WWDC demos of Apple Intelligence, I too had my brain racing with the concept of just asking my phone to do things and have it go into apps and services to get it done, but I also can’t help but feel like we’ve been here

There's a sound. There's a note that begins everything. But before the note there is silence, silence is where everything begins. There's a blank page before the words appear, there's a white canvas before the picture materialises. There's space and

Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format. Ok I’m intrigued. I’

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, I used to write about / really care about digital reading. A whole chapter of my life / career pivoted around digital reading and books, what could be, and I travelled the world (?!) talking about this stuff. I lectured at Yale for

One thing is abundantly clear to me: the skills that made people good at building websites are readily transferable and even sought out skills in other fields. Not just the code or the pixels, but the ability to organize, to project manage, to break a big goal down into discrete

After a year of publishing Fractional we finally hit some numbers that Lance and I were excited about, a recent episode hitting 2x the numbers of any previous episodes. We don’t really know why—we’ve loved meeting with so many fantastic guests before and look forward to talking

For years—like actual years—I avoided TikTok. I was convinced the format would be short-lived and not impact how the rest of us were doing content. Then, on a whim, I used the bloody thing. Its algorithm and “For You Page” hooked me. That has been me with Threads

Long ago I learned the trick to helping my brain remember something. Whenever I learn something that feels important I’ll make sure to immediately capture the thought in some form. That usually involves a screenshot, writing it down, sending a voice memo to a friend, taking a picture of

I’ve been following M.G. Siegler for a long time; back in the days of Techcrunch. I remember back then posts about the struggles with movie theatres. In his recent post (requires a paywall) he touches on multiple points of why movie theatres are struggling, and will continue to