Bloglog

I posted a link the other day to this sobering essay about how the promised migration to Mastodon didn’t go as hoped. It makes some

On most days, I don't feel like doing anything. This non-feeling taken to the extreme, can also mean I may not feel like living. Everything including breathing itself can feel...

Behold! after nearly 18+ hours of work, the brand spanking new thejaymo.net using a new FSE Wordpress theme.

I've been reading a lot of Ivan Illich and Jacques Ellul lately, and it makes me wonder what the authors would say seeing today's internet. Despite al...

Yesterday, the academic excellence committee of the trustees of the University System of New Hampshire approved the President’s recommendation to promote me to Associate Professor with tenure. This…

Because of multiple factors my mind seem to be perpetually stuck in an unwanted state of sadness, fatigue and paralysis. I have learnt that it is possible to break out of this state though it is...

Organizing childcare as relative newcomers to an area has been really hard. We weren’t on any daycare waiting lists before our baby was born; we

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of comparisons between internet institutions – particularly various social media things – and premodern political forms and figures.

After I quit medicine and went corporate (as corporate as tech startups can be, which I guess depends on your vantage point; for me it was and is extremely corporate coming from doctoring), I got really into it and became particularly fascinated to learn how business leaders operate and spend their time (at work and in life) in order to be the most efficient and effective they can be. I guess a lot of people who came up in corporate work (and maybe the culture at large which is often dictated by creatives who may pooh-pooh the corporate life) think MASSIVE EYEROLL when they hear what the latest tech bro thinkboi has to say about optimizing their life and their time, but I actually found it pretty refreshing that in business a spade is called a spade and that spade is a dollar and nobody pretends that we aren’t trying to make money.

Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the learnings I had from them – read through my personal lenses, layered with the sentiments from my...

Unformed Thoughts by Amit Gawande.

Turns out you’re wrong if you believe autistic people have an innate difficulty when it comes to social communication. Who knew?!

I’ve worked alongside news and journalism for a long time - since helping the team at Latakoo to define and build their first products that

If you watch TV or movies, read a book or comic, generally ingest any story these days you may notice that, dare you look for any thoughts about it online things have gotten a little…wonky. You use…

RSS is still the way. I’ve written about the utility and idealism of RSS in the past, but I think enough time has passed for us to reflect on whether the anti-RSS decade we’ve just been through worked for anyone. Were consumers better off? Were publishers better off?

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Our baby loves dogs. His eyes light up as soon as he sees one. His arms extend outwards, his lips turn up, and it’s a matter

In Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra argues that the process of transitioning from one career to another is both usually and necessarily messy and disordered, more like playing than like planning.

Meta’s new social network is interesting: an obvious strategic shot at Twitter just as that network is running into trouble, as well as a way

Cam Pegg writes: I’m re-reading Michael Porter’s seminal article, The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy, and just had an OMFG-I-need-to-get-this-tattooed-on-my-forehead-so-that-everyone-I-talk-to-gets-the-message moment: A narrow focus on growth

I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my various life stages. For a long time it was tied to my identity which was tied to my work, and...

Over the past 2380 days, I wrote 321 blog posts on this site, including this one. That doesn't make me a writer. The act of writing itself doesn't …