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Month: December 2018

  • Snack Pick of the Week: 12/31/18

    Suuuuugggggggaaaaarr

    Published December 31, 2018
  • Sleeping Away From Devices, An Experiment

    My experiment with not sleeping near my devices.

    Published December 31, 2018
  • Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World

    Dr. Nathalie Maréchal in a very damning essay on targeted advertising has this brutal quote: “That’s all ‘AI’ and ‘machine learning’ is for these companies: getting better at guessing what ads to show you,” (Tim) Libert said. “Every tiny bit of data increases the chances they show the ‘right’ ad so they never stop, they […]

    Published December 30, 2018
  • Best of 2018

    Here are the best things I reviewed this year.

    Published December 28, 2018
  • Snack Pick of the Week — 12/24/18

    Buuuuutttttteeeeerrrrrrrr

    Published December 24, 2018
  • Why a passcode is better than biometric access

    This article actually prompted me to change to passwords in many places where I used biometric access before.

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Leadership is about coaching

    Michael Bungay Stanier: Coaching is an essential leadership behavior. Curiosity is the driving force in being more coach-like. Questions fuel curiosity. Be sure not to read ‘leadership’ as ‘management’. They are not the same. Most managers aren’t leaders. This lack of curiosity Stanier talks about is a dead giveaway as to which type of manager, […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Burnout and Shorter Work Weeks

    Emma Thomason: A recent survey of 3,000 employees in eight countries including the United States, Britain and Germany found that nearly half thought they could easily finish their tasks in five hours a day if they did not have interruptions, but many are exceeding 40 hours a week anyway – with the United States leading […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Zuckerberg Lie Files

    Kieren McCarthy: By any measure, Facebook as an organization has knowingly, willingly, purposefully, and repeatedly lied. And two reports this week demonstrate that the depth of its lying was even worse than we previously imagined.

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Microsoft was the real MVP

    It’s hard to argue with Raymond Wong, about how Microsoft really crushed it this year. They quietly ,add great stuff, reminded me a bit of Apple ten years ago. I had to chuckle at this line too: The Windows company started by Bill Gates and mismanaged by Steve Ballmer, has flourished under CEO Satya Nadella […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It

    Great read, and really shows how little we know about this.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

    Arno Schuetze: On the recordings, a man and a female companion could be overheard in his home and the magazine was able to identify and contact him through the recorded information, according to the report. That’s a pretty big “human error”. I’m so glad I don’t have one of these eavesdropping devices in my home.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook

    My personal favorite part, is the part where this still surprises anyone. Second only to the part that people still use this shit.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • Snack Pick of the Week: 12/17/18

    Ahhhhhmmmmmmmyummmm

    Published December 17, 2018
  • Tom Bihn’s Shadow Guide

    Hey-o, what a great backpack with a ton of room.

    Published December 17, 2018
  • Insisting on family friendly

    Ok, so there’s going to be some talk about Pornhub in this one, fyi.

    Published December 17, 2018
  • The Unwearable Lightness of Being: My Week Without a Smartwatch

    Lauren Goode: At the same time, the value of an activity tracker isn’t always proportionate to the burden of one. They all have these damn proprietary chargers, and you have to charge them all the time, and for what? So they can count steps? The more I thought about it, the more I needed a […]

    Published December 16, 2018
  • Every moment of every day, mobile phone apps collect detailed location data.

    That’s a way higher price than any monetary expense of paying for the app.

    Published December 15, 2018
  • I used all the best stuff for a week and it nearly broke me

    Speaking of the best. This was great.

    Published December 15, 2018
  • The best doesn’t exist. A psychologist explains why we can’t stop searching.

    Rachel Sugar: We have this sense that there is an objective best, and in virtually no area of life is that true. It’s not even that, “Well, there’s the best for me, and then there’s the best for you.” It isn’t even clear that there is a best for me. There’s a whole set of […]

    Published December 15, 2018
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