Bloglog

This is the kick-off post in a series in which I'm going to explore things that we could change about the Web. The odds are pretty good that I will be wrong, possibly even very wrong. You're going to dislike some, or perhaps all of it! My point isn't to jump straight into building these ideas — even though I do believe they point in a better direction and are feasible — but rather to break out of the incrementalist rut and stagnant vision that the Web finds itself mired in. It's not in a good place and I feel the need for more vision work and much more thinking about architectural interventions that can bring about radical change.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an avid reader of L.M. Sacasas’s Convivial Society which I feel offers some of the best thinking on technology while always remaining clear and accessible, with no sensationalism and an abiding humanity. So when Mike wrote in the latest instalment (III.9) that he was offering seven theses “less cautiously formulated” with the thought that they might elicit some responses, I found jumping in hard to resist.

I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months. Tracing back, I think it was since my covid infection.  I wasn't surprised to struggle with low...

Ever since I was old enough to be allowed outside without supervision I've taken to walking everywhere I could. First it was around my neighborhood, ge...

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.

We don’t need a manifesto.

With everyone running away from Twitter to go to other similar platforms, LinkedIn is still there.

Exploring the evolving landscape of the personal website. What are contrasts in content curation, the nature of personal blogging, and the concept of digital gardens?

The last two weeks living in Israel has been somewhat terrifying, especially the first few days of the war, when the whole thing hatched open with an air rai...

It's even worse than it appears..

It's even worse than it appears..

it was a beautiful day today. its the type of crisp late fall weather that makes you want to throw on a fat sweater and potentially a vest and take a nice wa...

Yes. It took me many times thinking about it and now I created a blog. So here comes a little bit of text about me, why I am here and anything else that come...

The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me now almost like a different species of consciousness. (It can only be so — if we don…

Every time I've tried to start a blog in the past I've failed. I realize now that this was because my motivations to do so were incorrect- I wanted to sell m...

Hey. For the last two months, I’ve been fairly depressed. It isn’t nearly as bad as it used to be, which is a godsend in its own right - ...

According to my iPhone Screen Time, I'm way under the average in terms of usage, but I still think I use my phone too much.

This past week was overwhelmingly busy, long, weird, and anxiety-inducing. I've tried to write a dozen times, but everything comes out disjointed and inc...

AI has the potential to run our lives. We shouldn't let it.

Even if you think you have nothing new to say, you can still blog about the old things.

This piece from Benedict Evans is wonderful — one of his best, I think — but I wanted to highlight a smaller and less consequential point than the one Evans ultimately makes toward the article’s end: Meanwhile, lots of people tried to build a better Craigslist and a better Twitter, but though a better product […]

Some of my thoughts on setting up a static blog.

Blogging is supposed to be super easy, low effort, and high reward. compare the effort it takes to produce a video for YouTube. Maybe how long it takes to code an application. Or publish an academic article. All of those make information you have to say publicly available, but how much work is put into it to get the content processed and over the finish line? For this reason, among many others, blogging is a form of self-promotion, of self-discovery, and of public navel-gazing (you didn’t think it’s all sunshine and roses, did you?

I’m seeing an influx of people talking about “everyone back to the office!” with responses like “lol, I moved. When should I expect the travel itinerary with accommodations you’ve booked?” I too have moved. I too would respond this way. I too believe if I am able to do my job well remotely, it shouldn’t friggin’ matter if you’ve spent millions of dollars on a state of the art office. Your poor investment is not my problem.

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