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The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s lif

Eight and one-half years. After eight and one-half years I felt it was the right time to take hiatus from writing essays, short stories, and poems to post on my Dispatches from a Northern Town blog…

Tikehau is a ringworld in the South Pacific. In these notes, I explore the stories, the wildlife and the future of this Tuamotu atoll.

A photo essay documenting a day at the market, in the prep kitchen and through service with chef-owner of Eater London’s restaurant of the year 2021

Sehmus Erginoglu began clearing a waste site in the historic southern city 26 years ago. Today it is home to thousands of trees.

While bikepacking across the Bolivian Altiplano, Michael Dammer learns that a handful of coca leaves can open many doors.

Reddit discussion with 100 comments here. Summary: in this post I explain why you should start a blog (to help others and to help yourself), what to write about, and how to start it. I hope to persuade you that you should start a blog even if you feel that you have nothing to say and even if almost nobody will read it. What to write about I looked over all of my writing and determined that it all originated from one of the following: I repeatedly gave the same advice to my friends Why You …

Kid Koala released a superb album in 2003 called …

As a creator, you should call yourself what you are. Content is a trivialising and demeaning term for your work.

Tyler Freeman wrote a script to analyse the tweets he's shown in his algorithmic Twitter timeline. 90% of his friends (i.e. the people he chose to follow) ever made it to the main feed. The diagram below shows the 90% in grey, withthe people he follows in orange, strangers are in blue, and ads ar

You should start a blog, now!

How to get more people small-b blogging?

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I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new or interesting while exploring a city. I was with my friend Tyler, who conspicuously does not take photos while exploring a new place. I asked him why,......

When we left Sonoma County, we'd hoped to camp somewhere in the North Bay, but as it turns out, many campgrounds had complicated rules and closures due to Covid. Even though camping spaces sat empty and unbooked in a very popular areas, we were turned away from staying in two different locations. We did get to see a few more Redwoods, but the drive was a little different from what we expected.We then faced the very likely option we would have to drive through San Fransisco with Cosmo - and that, we basically did. While we were able to skirt the city's crazy hills, we still faced traffic (especially in Mill Valley) and crossed the bridge.

Comments about boondocking in the Arctic Fox

Sometimes I want to abandon any pretense of a normal life and live like a drifter. I could drop the burden of ordinary work, friends, relationships, property, and just go to unusual places, see unu…

It's not just Google. The world of search engines is not motionless as you could imagine at first sight. In recent years, several search...

A personal website

I don’t really know Mr. Levi. He’s a correctional officer at the prison where I spent 9 months of my incarcerated journey but he was never assigned to my particular units or zones.  I g…

Relax. This is just a blog post. You’ve posted before. Over a thousand times, actually. You’re a little rusty, sure.  It’s been over 400 days since you so much as glimpsed the int…

Blog commenting is the not-so-secret weapon to building your brand and authority, letting you cut through the clutter and tap into the attention of creators.

What’s the right way for a blog—or a newsletter—to die?

Here is my complete blogging workflow from how I manage ideas all the way to publishing and sharing.