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It’s been a few weeks since I last posted on social media and there have been developments. Twitter is now officially gone, replaced with X. For some reason, the symbolism of this move seems …

epistemic disclaimer: I’m not an expert on this, and I’m not sure who would be. Largely speculative.

It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be easier if I had a symptom diary....

TL;DR: I'm starting a new weekly series called

Unformed Thoughts by Amit Gawande.

As you may remember, I’ve been looking for a new four-legged family member. It’s a tough situation because there isn’t a dog I don’t like, and I have a hard time choosing one over another. And I ce…

One weird trick for hacking the space-time continuum.

A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how transient life can be, and she thought of me because I was one of the first people she knew who actively...

Africanfuturism Africanjujuism

A few months ago someone popped up on the Singapore reddit and started posting photos of old Singapore from the 1950s-1970s. He is the grandson of Ivan Polunin, a medical doctor who fell in love...

I am creative.  I am powerful.  I am woman, hear me roar.  I am also just a tad forgetful.  Like “forget what I had for breakfast while the fork is still in my hand” forgetful.  I need to document …

I was walking the dog this morning and I was reflecting on how the things we build on the digital world seem to mirror what we build on the physical …

A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health trends from the health app: Obviously this is because I had covid: being sick itself and...

Open source licenses fall short of modern needs.

Second in the News Commons series. How do people get news where you live? How do they remember it? For most of the industrial age, which is still with us, newspapers answered both those questions—a…

Let's support tightly-focused, independent newsrooms.

I love the idea of the Bird Buddy. Somebody was like: what if a Ring doorbell camera except a bird feeder? Then totally did it. But they went the extra mile by making the app that shows you visitin…

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

I think there are many types of

My technology thesis is this: All technology should punch up, not down. It should connect the disconnected. It should empower the disempowered. It should inform the uninformed. It

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

Sometimes I read the last post in my Mastodon feed, and pull to refresh, and there’s nothing new to see. Other times I’ll read everything in my RSS feeds, so there’s nothing in my queue. Then there are places like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Reddit, and many

This is the 2nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Rachel …

Social media is fucking us all up. I'd love to go back to the days of forums, where there was no popularity contests, or

A cross-functional approach isn't bad.

I bought my friend a vinyl record today. I don't own a record player myself, but I love buying him records. There's something indescribably fun about sifting...