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Cory Doctorow:

That presents a paradox: if the purpose of lifehacking is to mindfully choose your priorities, what can you do when that process leads you to a position where no more choices are possible?

Quinn Norton:

Technically Americans work slightly more hours per year than the Japanese, but neither of those numbers include unpaid overtime or extra work you’re supposed to do around and for your regular job. Uncounted, this work remains unreal, though its consequences are harder to dismiss. The Japanese have defined a form of death-from-productivity: karōshi. Karōshi is when you are so productive your heart or head break and you bleed to death inside yourself. Conversely, if those organs have persisted but the mind has not, karōshi can become karojisatsu: suicide from overwork.

Mike Allen, relaying a comment from Sean Parker:

“The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’”

Caroline Knorr:

What do the big tech companies say to the criticism that they’re designing addictive products? They typically give the business argument, that they’re creating products people love to use and are constantly trying to improve people’s experience (Facebook says it polls users daily to gauge success).

I was going to write some thoughts I have about the X, but Justin’s thoughts mirrors mine.

Gabe Weatherhead:

So here I am, 12 months later. I’m still saying “Fuck you Twitter” and I mean it more than I did in 2016.

Just posted a review of this on Everyday Wear, I love it. Also, it’s currently on a heck of a sale.

Shit.

Selina Wang:

“Anything we would do that would slow down signups, delete accounts, or remove accounts had to go through the growth team,” Miley said. “They were more concerned with growth numbers than fake and compromised accounts.”

I started a new website with my pal Steve — we are setting out to talk about better clothing. If you’ve liked my posts and reviews about clothes, you’ll want to follow the new site.

If you’ve been annoyed about my posts and reviews of clothing, then rejoice, you won’t see them on this site any more.

We’ve put a lot of work into a product directory and a series of guides we will be rolling out over the coming weeks. Do me a favor and check the site out.

This is a must read.

O’Leary:

Over the course of my career, I have shrugged off things that horrify me now. I learned to push through the routine humiliation. As an ambitious woman, I often ran an internal calculation about how much “trouble” I was willing to make. Should I fight about the story I want to do or the unwelcome remark about my legs? Time and time again, I went with the former. If I hadn’t, I don’t know if I would have been as successful. I’m not ashamed about wanting a career, but I can’t look back at some of my actions without wincing.

I never waste my time with non-Matthew Panzarino reviews of iPhones. He did yet another fantastic review.

Fantastic analysis of Apple’s strategy about their iPhone X review units.

Ryan Holiday:

Skilled copywriting and marketing was covering up an undeniable fact: There was basically nothing there.

I made a quip this morning on Micro.blog about doing reviews of how good a job people do at writing a review. The above is what I mean. Quite often you read a fantastically well written review, which doesn’t actually tell you anything.

While not particularly graceful in how I wrote it, this tells you something. Yet I’m not perfect as I wonder if my review of the Filson Briefcase has anything there.

Jannis Hermanns:

The iPad Pro with Apple’s Smart Keyboard in conjunction with a server running ZSH, tmux and neovim makes a fantastic portable development machine that leaves very little to wish for.