Bloglog

I'm ashamed to say that I contributed to badger cruelty, and I feel horrendous because of it.

It has been heavily discussed already, and I probably don't have a lot new to add to the whole "ads as a revenue model" debate, but the apps that were my mai...

It seems ridiculous, but noticing what I was walking on changed something, at least briefly.

20 years ago, I joined the Hertz gold program back before Uber/Lyft existed and you had to have a car in almost every American city you flew to. Fast forward to 2023 and I hadn't regularly rented cars in a decade but recently I grabbed one and forgot how

Today, I notch another year around the sun. At 28, the big three-zero isn't just a distant thought anymore. It's funny; I remember viewing this age as distin...

My dad's currently looking at getting a new car, and he wants to get rid of the old car that he currently has. That car is pretty much my...

I've been getting lost in the whirlwind of life recently and am in a little bit of an upswing in mood. I'm still generally struggling but I've felt lighter t...

I debated sharing this. I wrote it last night (hence, ). It's Sunday night, and it's raining outside - or is it freezing rain? I'm not sure at this point. ...

Twitter's growth was fuelled by making it easier to publish micro blog posts there than on a website. That was a trap, and we fell into it.

the void is immense and uncaring, filled with cosmic horrors that boggle the mind.

my friends and i were talking the other day about how many of our parents and grandparents are borderline hoarders. to give a bit of context, we are al...

I use the British plural verb for singular nouns, but this is broadly unusual.

this weekend drained me. i dont know. friday was spent with a mild headache and the itchings of congestion. i remember telling my dad on friday that i had a ...

Seems like a good name for a startup

Since we were in college together, one of my friend groups has done an annual Secret Santa. These days it's pretty much the only regular groupwide event we d...

I need to renew my commitment to weight loss.

I recently have been feeling like I’m not a good person. I’ve been mostly feeling this, as I’ve just been pretty depressed, and have stop...

British English uses plural verbs, mostly.

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

I’ve been feeling pretty unmotivated and uninspired when it comes to writing the past few weeks. I’m ninety percent sure that this is due to the fact that it...

Who should do the heavy, tricky, fraught work of making and keeping our networks good? How should they work? To whom should they be accountable, and how can “accountability” be redeemed from its dissipated state and turned into something with both teeth and discretion?