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2017

April 7
Mastodon: A Different Way to Think About Social Media (Social Media)
January 24
Winding Down (Site News)
January 4
Star Trek, Cyberpunk, Douglas Adams, and Our Technology Future (Technology)

2016

December 14
Fighting An Elephant With A Thumbtack (Technology)
December 8
Your Privacy is Worth More than what Tech is Selling (Technology)
December 7
From Gamergate To Pizzagate (Linked List)
December 6
The Racists Have Gamed Google’s Algorithm (Linked List)
December 5
The Great Medium Experiment (Social Media)
December 1
“Watch the Failson:” How the Internet is Radicalizing the Alt-Right (Social Media)
November 30
Om Malik on Tech’s “Empathy Vacuum” (Linked List)
November 17
Fear of Data (Technology)
November 16
What Was the Nerd? (Linked List)
November 15
Dismayed Democrats, Don’t Switch Parties, Fix the One You Have. Here’s Why (Current Events)
November 13
RIP My Menchies (Linked List)
November 9
What Happens Now? (Current Events)
October 28
Why I’m Making Time to Breathe with Apple Watch (Technology)
October 27
Microsoft Has a Big Problem Under its Surface (Technology)
October 20
The PC In The Coming Tablet Age (Technology)
October 5
The Tension of Encrypted Messaging (Technology)
September 29
Computing Is Dangerous Because We’re All Idiots (Even Me) (Technology)
September 27
The Coming iOS and Mac Unification (Technology)
September 16
Dongles and DRM in the Wireless Audio Future (Technology)
September 10
On Well-Worn iPhones and Upgrade Cycles (Technology)
September 7
The Golden Age of Wireless: A Personal Cloud (Technology)
September 3
Why the Apple Watch Will Never Have a Camera (Technology)
September 2
iOS 10 Makes Non-Streaming Music a Second-Class Citizen (Music)
September 1
The Fall of the Multi-Platform Instant Messenger Client (Social Media)
August 18
iPad-only is the New Desktop Linux… For Now (Technology)
August 17
Randi Harper on the Problem with Verified on Twitter (Linked List)
August 16
The Failed Experiment of Open Social Media (Social Media)
August 12
Charlie Warzel – “A Honeypot for Assholes” (Linked List)
July 27
Why Would Anyone Invest in Twitter Now? (Social Media)
July 21
Don’t Shit In The Punchbowl (Social Media)
July 20
Context Collapse (Creative Work)
July 19
Mindful Tech: The Full Series (Technology)
July 19
Mindful Tech, Part 10: Setting Your Own Terms (Technology)
July 18
Someone Always Pays (Technology)
July 11
Mindful Tech, Part 9: Beyond Disconnection (Technology)
July 5
Computer Says No, But A Human Taught It To (Technology)
June 28
Maciej CegÅ‚owski – The Moral Economy of Tech (Linked List)
June 23
The Unbearable Difficulty of Opting-Out (Social Media)
June 20
A Brief Thought on watchOS 3 and Context Aware Computing (Technology)
June 8
Am I Too Paranoid About AIs? (Technology)
June 4
Mindful Tech, Part 8: Where Our Data Lives (Technology)
May 25
Thoughts on the Coming Chatbot Revolution (Technology)
May 18
What We Lose In A Streaming Music World (Music)
May 8
Mindful Tech, Part 7.5: Our Data Trails, Ourselves Continued (Technology)
April 28
Mindful Tech, Part 7: Our Data Trails, Ourselves (Technology)
April 25
The Right Device for the Right Task (Technology)
April 14
Mindful Tech, Part 6: Mindfully Learning Technology (Technology)
April 4
Things I Don’t Get (Technology)
March 31
Mindful Tech, Part 5: Mindful Social Media (Technology)
March 29
Farming and the Social Web (Linked List)
March 23
Mindful Tech, Part 4 – Solving The Right Problem (Technology)
March 15
Mindful Tech, Part 3 – Mode Switching (Technology)
March 11
Mindful Tech, Part 2 – The Great Auditing (Technology)
March 10
Mindful Technology, Part 1 – The Low Hanging Fruit (Technology)
March 9
On That $25 Text Editor (Creative Work)
March 8
Pushing Back Against our Technology Skepticism (Technology)
March 1
To Fix Twitter, Break it Up (Social Media)
February 29
Who Has My Data, and Who I Trust With It (Technology)
February 21
Apple and the FBI: The Worst Case Scenario (Technology)
February 18
Fear Of A Cloudy iTunes (Technology)
February 17
Tim Cook on the All Writs Act (Linked List)
February 15
2Do for OmniFocus Users (Creative Work)
February 10
Getting the Little Voices Experience with Tweetbot (Social Media)
February 9
LOVEINT and Who We Trust with Our Data (Social Media)
February 8
Virtual Assistants Should Stand Up For Themselves (Linked List)
February 5
Doom, Gloom, and iPad Sales (Technology)
February 4
In Defense of Physical Media (Music)
February 2
What They Did, Not Who They Are (Linked List)
February 1
Against The Algorithm And The Feed (Social Media)
January 31
Living with Little Voices (Social Media)
January 30
Twitter Is An Unsafe Public Square, Facebook Is A Private Living Room (Social Media)
January 29
Anil Dash on “Don’t Read the Comments” (Linked List)
January 28
Online Harassment and Street Harassment are the Same (Linked List)
January 27
My iPhone Talks, I Listen (Technology)
January 26
Data Brokers See You When You’re Sleeping, They Know When You’re Awake (Linked List)
January 25
Taurus Moosa on How Not To Be An Asshole on Twitter (Linked List)
January 24
Finding a Place for iPad (Technology)
January 23
The Coming Fractured Landscape of Streaming Music (Music)
January 22
Another Reason Apple Defends Encryption (Linked List)
January 21
What The Heck Even Is the Technology Industry These Days? (Business)
January 20
Disposable Creativity and Disposable Creatives (Linked List)
January 19
Just Do The Thing: A Programming Project (Personal Life)
January 18
Support Comes With Benefits: The Untitled Sanspoint Newsletter Project (Site News)
January 17
Your Opinion or Your Life (Linked List)
January 16
Can UI Change How People Interpret Conversation? (Linked List)
January 15
Why New Features Win Out Over Fixes (Technology)
January 14
The Great Overwhelming (Social Media)
January 13
It’s Not That Tech Doesn’t Care, It’s That Tech Doesn’t Care About What We Care About (Technology)
January 12
Who’s To Blame for Toxic Ads? The Network. (Linked List)
January 11
I Am Not an Apple Pundit (Technology)
January 10
Anil Dash – â€œToward Humane Techâ€ (Linked List)
January 9
The Participatory Web (Technology)
January 8
Alice Maz on Twitter Randos and Splaining (Linked List)
January 7
Workflow: Health.app Data to Day One (Technology)
January 6
How Do We Put the Web on a Diet (Technology)
January 5
The Internet of Industrial Things (Technology)
January 4
Pop Culture Granfalloons (Culture)
January 3
Whitney Phillips: “Everyone you encounter on the internet is a person.” (Linked List)
January 2
Towards a Grand Personal Theory of Technology (Technology)
January 1
Can Empathy Scale to the Internet? (Social Media)

2015

December 16
My Top Five (or so) Albums of 2015 (Music)
December 15
Tech’s December Doldrums and The Bigger Picture (Technology)
December 4
Change The Schema, Not The User (Linked List)
December 1
Six Months With Apple Watch (Technology)
November 24
Apple’s UIs are Flawed, but They’re Not Unusable (Technology)
November 23
The EFF on Online Harassment (Linked List)
November 19
A Series Of Lead Tubes (Linked List)
November 18
The iPad of 2015 is the Mac of 1990 (Technology)
November 17
Review: Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents (Music)
November 16
Where “Free Speech” Collides With Liberty (Linked List)
November 11
Public or Private, it’s Not Binary (Linked List)
November 9
Owning Your Words (Creative Work)
November 8
Twitter is Not a Comment Sectionâ€”It’s Worse (Social Media)
November 5
Twitter Rearranges its Deck Chairs (Social Media)
November 3
Problematic Media and How to Live With It (Culture)
November 2
Rip It Up and Start Again? (Technology)
November 2
Inside The SXSW Debacle (Linked List)
October 28
Why Online Abuse Matters (Social Media)
October 28
How the Internet Has Changed Bullying (Linked List)
October 27
Arthur Chu Reveals SXSW’s Negligence on Harassment (Linked List)
October 21
KonMari for Social Media (Social Media)
October 20
The Great Notes Migration of 2015 (Creative Work)
October 15
Why Twitter’s Dying (Linked List)
October 14
The App Store is Not Flat (Business)
September 30
Fake Traffic and the Ad Reckoning (Linked List)
September 29
I’m Not Signing Up for Apple Music, and Neither Should You (Music)
September 26
I Work in Online Publishing and I Block Ads. Here’s Why. (Business)
September 21
How the Internet Saved an Introvert (Social Media)
September 16
“The Death of Thought” (Linked List)
September 15
The False Dichotomy of Tech and Arts (Linked List)
September 14
XOXO, Facets, and the Human Side of Technology (Creative Work)
September 12
iPad Pro and How We Get to the Tablet-Based Future (Technology)
September 2
Pizza Valley (Linked List)
August 30
Pen Support Won’t Save the iPad, But It Needs It Anyway (Technology)
August 24
“Means Well” Technology (Linked List)
August 20
Empathy Boot Camp (Linked List)
August 18
Saving the Web We Have (Social Media)
August 14
The Future of the Tablet (Technology)
August 2
The Future of Public Infrastructure in the “Sharing Economy” (Technology)
July 30
Apple, Privacy, and Tim Cook’s Homosexuality (Technology)
July 28
A Few Scattered Thoughts on Web Advertising (Business)
July 28
Mike Monteiro – In Praise of the AK-47 (Linked List)
July 22
Joining the Apple Music Dogpile (Technology)
July 21
Ben Hammersley on Politeness and AIs (Linked List)
July 20
That Time the Internet Sent a SWAT Team to My Momâ€™s House (Linked List)
July 16
The Anti-Social Web (Social Media)
July 16
Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet (Linked List)
July 14
Sarah Jeong â€” The Internet of Garbage (Linked List)
July 14
The Bias in Our Algorithms (Linked List)
July 12
Reddit and the Slow Suicide of the Social Web (Social Media)
July 7
For Hire (Personal Life)
July 7
An Update on my Sweet iPhone Setup (Technology)
July 6
My Sweet iOS and Mac Setup Interview (Linked List)
June 29
A Few Words of Explanation (Personal Life)
June 24
Productivity Ãœber Alles (Business)
June 23
“Itâ€™s OK to be multiplatform” (Linked List)
June 20
The Danger in Your Work-Provided FitBit (Linked List)
June 17
I Want to Know what Google and Facebook Know (Technology)
June 15
I’m Not Writing Up My Apple Watch Thoughts… Yet (Technology)
June 14
All the Red Dots (Linked List)
June 12
The Misfits of Reddit Aren’t Leaving (Linked List)
June 9
“Weâ€™re All Strangers” (Linked List)
June 8
A Privately Proactive iPhone (Technology)
June 6
The Music DRM Dark Age Isn’t Coming Back (Music)
June 3
The Valley’s Progress Myth (Linked List)
June 3
Copy of a Copy of a (Business)
June 2
A Reason Why I Trust Apple (Linked List)
June 1
Online Services and The Calculus of Trust (Technology)
May 29
Facebook is Hiding Things From You (Linked List)
May 27
Cooking, Coding, and Soylent (Linked List)
May 21
The Miserable State of Fitness Tracking on iOS (Technology)
May 13
I’m All In on Apple Watch (Technology)
May 11
Tech Shouldn’t Hurt (Technology)
May 8
The Scary Reason Why Brands Say “Bae” (Linked List)
May 7
Choosing Music to Stream is Deeper than Love or Hate (Music)
May 6
Reform of the Nerds (Linked List)
May 4
Facets 2015: People are More Important than Things (Technology)
April 29
The Tablet is Being Squeezed Out (Technology)
April 28
My iPhone Fitness Setup (Technology)
April 27
Healthy Living isn’t One Size Fits All (Culture)
April 22
Why I Put My Smartwatch In a Drawer (Technology)
April 21
I Sing the Music Electric (Music)
April 15
Why We Live In New York City (Linked List)
April 13
Best, Brightest â€” and Saddest? (Linked List)
April 10
Future-Proofing Photos (Linked List)
April 9
Casey Liss on Cameras and Elitism (Linked List)
April 9
A Camera Counterpoint (Linked List)
April 9
Mine Is Better Than Yours (Technology)
April 8
The Bronze Age of Wearable Technology (Technology)
April 8
The Ad Blocker Conundrum (Linked List)
April 7
Flickering the Gaslight: Tactics of Organized Online Harassment (Linked List)
April 6
I’m That Guy Who Doesn’t Have a TV (Culture)
April 6
The Dark Side of Your Fitbit And Fitness App (Linked List)
April 3
Why Your Fav is Problematic (Linked List)
April 1
The Empathy Gap (Social Media)
March 31
RFRA (Current Events)
March 29
The Urbanist (Culture)
March 26
RIP, The Synopsis (Linked List)
March 25
How to Properly Sort and Organize Your iTunes Library (Music)
March 22
Stop Hiding the Log In Button (Business)
March 16
Opinion Fatigue (Linked List)
March 15
I Unfollowed Everyone On Facebook and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next (Social Media)
March 11
Shitphone: A Love Story (Linked List)
March 10
Needy Apps, and How to Deal With Them (Technology)
March 8
Final Thoughts on the Eve of Apple Watch (Technology)
March 7
Pebble: The Not-So-Final Verdict (Technology)
March 4
The First Push (Self-Improvement)
March 3
How the iPhone Helped Federico Viticci Get Back in Shape After Cancer (Linked List)
March 3
In Praise of Cheap and Good Enough (Technology)
February 25
The Problem with Apple’s Price Tag Cheerleaders (Technology)
February 24
Pebble Time and the Role of the Smartwatch (Technology)
February 24
Adware, Crapware, and the Value of Trust (Business)
February 19
Eighteen Karets of “Why Should I Care?” (Technology)
February 18
“How does this person’s decision affect me?” (Linked List)
February 17
Left Brain/Right Brain – You Need Both (Creative Work)
February 16
Pebble: Straddling the Line Between Convenient and Annoying (Technology)
February 13
The Inevitability of Failure (Technology)
February 11
“They tell us theyâ€™re going to do better.” (Linked List)
February 11
Danger in the Age of Unicorns (Linked List)
February 9
Review: Jawbone UP Move (Technology)
February 8
The Great Smartwatch Experiment (Technology)
February 4
Streaming Music and “Blockbuster Syndrome” (Linked List)
February 4
“Progress” by Fiat (Linked List)
February 3
Rewarding Knee-Jerk Reactions (Social Media)
January 28
Barriers to the Meritocracy (Linked List)
January 28
Read First, and Hit the Send Key Later (Linked List)
January 27
The Rest of the World isn’t Silicon Valley (Technology)
January 26
Boxes of Change (Linked List)
January 23
Freedom from Notifications (Technology)
January 22
I’m Afraid (Personal Life)
January 21
“Not Everything is For You” (Linked List)
January 20
Beyond Patronage (Creative Work)
January 16
The Parable of the Megaphones (Social Media)
January 15
The Overwhelming Potential of Wearables (Linked List)
January 14
Of Fitness Trackers and Smart Watches (Technology)
January 12
The Dangers of Renting Media (Linked List)
January 10
Rumors of the Death of Cash Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Linked List)
January 9
Toll Booths on the Sidewalk (Linked List)
January 9
Thoughts on Physical Music in a Digital Age (Music)
January 8
“Move Fast, Break Things^WPeople” (Linked List)
January 8
What Bums Wedge and Me Out About the Tech Industry (Today) (Linked List)
January 7
The “Nice Guy” Problem (not just) in Music (Linked List)
January 7
The Great Unburdening (Personal Life)
January 6
iOS Automation for Complete Doofuses (Technology)
January 4
The Only Truly Intimate Online Experience Left (Linked List)
January 3
Reach (Social Media)
January 2
Ambient Noise, Ambient Intimacy (Linked List)
January 1
As Few Points of Failure as Possible (Technology)

2014

December 19
Rethinking iOS Power User Apps (Technology)
December 18
The Advertising Shadow War (Linked List)
December 9
False Transparency (Current Events)
December 3
The Right To Be Heard (Social Media)
December 2
Other People’s Home Screens (Technology)
November 21
Neither Revolution Nor Restoration (Technology)
November 19
The Untitled Sanspoint Podcast Project (Other Projects)
November 18
The Bubble of Self (Self-Improvement)
November 11
Patrick Rhone – A Time for Things (Linked List)
November 11
Another Task Management Journey (Creative Work)
November 6
Lottery Tickets (Creative Work)
November 4
The Noise of the Numbers (Business)
November 3
We Have the Tools to Stop Online Harassment, We Just Don’t Use Them (Social Media)
October 28
Couch Potatoes of the 21st Century? (Culture)
October 27
Whether iPad (Technology)
October 23
Beyond Obsession Times Voice (Creative Work)
October 22
In Defense of iTunes 12’s UI (Technology)
October 21
Lose Data Point: Trying to Fix iOS 8’s Health App (Technology)
October 20
The State My Data is In (Technology)
October 14
Crush On Radio Signs Off (Other Projects)
October 8
Kathy Sierra is a Hero (Linked List)
October 7
Technology’s War on Women (Current Events)
October 3
What The Next Great Social Network Needs (Social Media)
October 2
Cooking and the Advanced Beginner (Creative Work)
September 29
Why I’m Self-Tracking Again (Technology)
September 26
Ello? Hell No. (Social Media)
September 25
The Power of the Morning Cup (Food and Drink)
September 24
Jacket and Tie (Personal Life)
September 23
More Than Half a Life Making Stuff for the Internet (Creative Work)
September 22
The Social Interruptions (Business)
September 19
Falling Off The Notebook Wagon (Creative Work)
September 16
The “Sharing Economy” Reaches Endgame (Linked List)
September 16
It’s No Fun Growing Up (Technology)
September 11
The Great PayPal Email Hack That Wasn’t (Technology)
September 10
An Even More Personal Computer (Linked List)
September 10
Apple Watch and the Wearable Use Case (Technology)
September 5
Is There Really a War On Privacy? (Social Media)
September 4
Sometimes There Isn’t An Easier Way (Creative Work)
September 3
Privacy, Control, and Facebook (Linked List)
September 3
Facebook on My Terms (Social Media)
August 27
Against Coveillence and Surveillance Alike (Technology)
August 26
Always On (Social Media)
August 21
A Different Future of Our Home Screens (Technology)
August 20
Keeping Score (Self-Improvement)
August 19
Social Media Sabbatical – A Two Week Update (Social Media)
August 18
A View From Inside the Welfare System (Personal Life)
August 14
In the Here and Now (Personal Life)
August 13
Caught in the Middle (Linked List)
August 12
“Chop Wood, Carry Water” (Creative Work)
August 11
Let Me Go (Technology)
August 9
Simplify My iPhone (Technology)
August 8
The Silence and I (Creative Work)
August 7
What I Think About When I Think About Running (Personal Life)
August 6
Whether the Lean Lifestyle (Business)
August 5
“Going Analog” and Finding the Balance (Technology)
August 3
Social Media Sabbatical II: Electric Boogaloo (Social Media)
July 30
Making and Flinging Bits (Technology)
July 17
It Gets Worse, If You’re a Woman (Linked List)
July 17
Solving the Same Problems (Linked List)
July 16
Cloudy, Biased Echo Chambers (Social Media)
July 15
A Few More Thoughts On Self-Tracking (Technology)
July 14
Spying On Myself (Technology)
July 11
The Vicious Cycle of Stupid VC (Linked List)
July 11
Who Is Our Technology For? (Technology)
July 10
The Privacy of Luxury (Technology)
July 10
Why Jessica Ferris Left Facebook (Linked List)
July 9
What Systems Are For (Creative Work)
July 9
The Endgame of the “Sharing Economy” (Business)
July 8
Cognitive Overload and The Great Unbundling (Technology)
July 7
Appliance-ification (Technology)
July 2
When You’re Too Poor for Uber or Lyft (Linked List)
June 25
An Adjacent Possible iWatch (Technology)
June 24
Moving with Direction (Creative Work)
June 11
The Anger and The Gun (Current Events)
June 5
Thinking Outside the Startup (Business)
June 4
A Non-Developer’s Take on WWDC 2014 (Technology)
May 22
The Two-Factor X-Factor (Technology)
May 21
Paying in Data (Technology)
May 19
Filling a Notebook (Creative Work)
May 7
The Value of App.Net (Social Media)
May 5
Concert Review – CHVRCHES (Music)
April 30
Choosing Exploitation (Business)
April 25
Big Data, Little Context (Technology)
April 24
The Ethics Debate We’re Not Having (Technology)
April 23
The End of Bootleg Betas (Technology)
April 22
The New Old-Fashioned Music Buying Experience (Music)
April 17
Rdio Isn’t a Sound Salvation (or: Streaming, Revisted) (Music)
April 15
The Internet (Probably) Won’t Save the World (Technology)
April 12
Some Thoughts on Dropbox, Privacy, and Dr. Rice (Current Events)
April 11
Control Pays Off (Technology)
April 10
A Brief Update on Google Now (Technology)
April 9
What Are Our Gadgets For? (Technology)
April 8
The Darker Side of the Man-Machine (Music)
April 1
Mynd, Google Now, and the State of Context on iOS (Technology)
March 27
The Context Aware Future (Technology)
March 26
Location, Location, Location (Technology)
March 25
Don’t Host Your Own Email (Technology)
March 24
The Minority Report Problem (Technology)
March 19
The True Price of Music (Music)
March 18
Analog Planning for Today and Yesterday, Digital for Tomorrow (Creative Work)
March 17
Shared Knowledge and the Old-School Web (Technology)
March 12
Copycats Chasing Money (Technology)
March 5
Owning Music in a Streaming World (Music)
February 27
Adulthood and “Manliness” (Self-Improvement)
February 25
Digital Balance (Technology)
February 25
Bob Casale (Music)
February 24
Back to the Kindle (Technology)
February 22
Context-Aware Computing (Technology)
February 12
One Size Fits Some (Culture)
February 5
The Ghost Files (Linked List)
February 4
The Shortcomings of Becoming the App (Technology)
January 29
The Genre Tag Problem (Music)
January 22
Towards Good News (Social Media)
January 15
“On Demand” and The Stream (Social Media)
January 12
My Social Media Sabbatical (Social Media)
January 3
Building to the Builder’s High (Creative Work)
January 2
Project or Person (Social Media)

2013

December 12
Why I’m Afraid of Bitcoin (Business)
December 9
Support Sanspoint with WePay (Site News)
December 9
Inertia By Default (Linked List)
December 6
Why Technology Companies Don’t Understand People (Technology)
December 5
The Second Pop-Up War (Linked List)
December 4
Cheap Shots on an Easy Target (Linked List)
December 3
Everybody’s Working Overtime (Social Media)
November 28
Pono: The Latest in Audio Woo (Linked List)
November 27
A Week and a Half with Bullet Journal (Creative Work)
November 26
Some Thoughts on Entrepreneurship, Startups, and Venture Capital (Technology)
November 23
Coming Soon: Above the Runway (Other Projects)
November 22
Couchsurfing: What VC Touches, It Destroys (Linked List)
November 21
Supporting Sanspoint (Site News)
November 20
Moving for the Sake of Improving (Creative Work)
November 19
Snapchat and Ethical Safeguards (Technology)
November 18
Snapchat and Facebook: Some Things to Some People (Linked List)
November 15
Coin: One Card, Many Risks (Technology)
November 15
Easy Security Is Insecure, Good Security Is Hard (Linked List)
November 14
Reconsidering Analog Productivity (Creative Work)
November 13
Enough Of “It’s Like ___, but for ____!” (Technology)
November 12
Popping The Geeky Masculinity Bubble (Culture)
November 11
More Than An Engine Of Convenience (Technology)
November 10
“Better Ways of Living and Experiencing Music” (Culture)
November 8
You Can Devalue Music (Music)
November 8
Rolling With Reduced Motion on iOS 7 (Technology)
November 7
Tools That Help Us Work Better, Not Faster (Technology)
November 4
All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines (Linked List)
October 30
The Magic Elixir of Success (Creative Work)
October 24
Sudden Deceleration Trauma (Personal Life)
October 23
How Designers Destroyed the World (Linked List)
October 22
Enemies and Nemeses (Uncategorized)
October 20
Right Trumps Fast (Creative Work)
October 3
Why I’ve (Mostly) Stopped Pirating Music (Music)
October 1
This Shit Is Unacceptable, Internet (Linked List)
September 20
Gadget Fatigue (Technology)
September 19
Fear of Change (Technology)
September 12
Apple’s Priority (Current Events)
September 11
Biometrics Go Mainstream with Touch ID (Technology)
September 10
Notes From An Ex-Telemarketer (Current Events)
September 9
Same Shit, Different Year (Technology)
September 5
Multiple Personality Order (Social Media)
August 29
Technology Is Not Democratic (Uncategorized)
August 28
The World Needs More Than Just Programmers (Technology)
August 27
Teach a Man to Code… (Linked List)
August 26
Conversational Startups (Uncategorized)
August 23
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (Technology)
August 22
The Attraction to Prosthetic Distraction (Social Media)
August 21
Why I Still Use Google (Technology)
August 20
Our Job as Technology Writers (Technology)
August 19
Ted Dziuba – Mastering the Craft (Linked List)
August 19
Apple Works. Android Works. Windows Works. Just Maybe Not For You. (Technology)
August 15
Kids Can’t Use Computers? Depends What You Mean By “Use” (Technology)
August 12
The Problem of Content as an Ecosystem (Technology)
August 11
Crush On Radio, S2E11: My Glasses Fell Off (Other Projects)
August 5
Alexis Madrigal on The Machine Zone (Linked List)
August 2
Knowledge, Power, Corruption, and Lies (Current Events, Technology)
August 1
They Really Are Spying On You (Linked List)
August 1
Keeping It Separated (Creative Work)
July 31
Don Norman on Wearable Devices (Technology)
July 30
Lifehacking and the Quantified Soul (Self-Improvement)
July 29
The First Post-Google Reader RSS Casualty (Social Media)
July 27
Sanspoint Shirts, Take 2 (Other Projects)
July 26
Functional Constraints (Technology)
July 25
Digital Epicureanism (Technology)
July 18
To Understand Technology (Technology)
July 11
Tragedy of the Wikimedia Commons (Social Media)
July 10
A Statement of Purpose (Technology)
July 1
Fear of a Beeping Watch (Culture)
June 30
Crush On Radio, Season 2, Episode 9: “I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore” (Other Projects)
June 29
The Human Metronome Rests (Uncategorized)
June 28
Genetic Engineering is a Tool Not to Fear (Uncategorized)
June 27
Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89 (Culture)
June 27
Quantified Time and Knowing Thyself (Self-Improvement)
June 26
Air Guitar and the Craftsman Mindset (Creative Work)
June 25
Devaluing Content (Creative Work)
June 20
Mending and Making is Better than Ending (Culture, Technology)
June 14
“Girly” UIs, Beta Software, and “Doing It Wrong” (Technology)
June 13
The KÃ¼bler-Ross Stages of UI Grief (Technology)
June 12
Preventing PRISM 2.0 (Current Events, Technology)
June 4
Is All Of This Stuff Really Transforming Anything? (Technology)
June 3
Flipping the “Don’t Care” Switch (Personal Life, Technology)
May 24
Tumblr’s Victory (Social Media)
May 23
Make Believe Help for the Easily Distracted (Technology)
May 20
Teens arenâ€™t abandoning â€œsocial.â€ Theyâ€™re just using the word correctly. (Culture, Social Media)
May 17
The Un-Quantified Self (Self-Improvement, Technology)
May 16
Remember, There’s a Person on the Other End (Social Media, Technology)
May 15
Omnipresent Data, and the Wearable Computing Use Case (Technology)
May 14
Why Wearable Computing Won’t Go Mainstream (Uncategorized)
May 13
Apocalyptic Thinking (Uncategorized)
May 10
Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Algorithms (Social Media, Technology)
May 9
Some Thoughts on the Nature of Blogs via Kottke (Social Media, Technology, Writing)
May 7
How I use Drafts (Technology)
May 6
The Official Sanspoint T-Shirt (Site News)
May 6
How I Use Launch Center Pro (Technology)
May 3
In Praise of Apps with Learning Curves (Uncategorized)
May 2
Newspaper Reports That News May Be Bad For You, Film At Eleven (Culture)
May 1
Putting Users First (Social Media, Technology)
April 30
Synchronization Purgatory (Technology)
April 29
Internet-Enabled Things and Solving the Wrong Problem (Uncategorized)
April 25
Fame, the Internet, and Personal Boundaries (Uncategorized)
April 23
Why I Stopped Caring About the Numbers (Culture, Social Media)
April 22
Narcissism and the Backpat Delivery Machine (Culture, Social Media, Technology)
April 19
Rumoriffic (Technology)
April 18
Patience and Prudence (Uncategorized)
April 17
Engagement Counts in Small Amounts (Uncategorized)
April 16
Knowing, Communicating, and the Aftermath (Current Events, Technology)
April 15
In the Face of Disaster (Uncategorized)
April 12
Some Thoughts on Facebook Home and The History of the Smartphone (Technology)
April 11
A Battlefield Promotion to Social Media General (Personal Life, Technology)
April 8
Merlin Revisited: Workflows with Merlin Mann (Technology)
April 5
The Ratholes of Technology (Technology)
April 4
Like-Minded People and Internet-Enabled Subcultures (Uncategorized)
March 29
Quicksilver 1.0.0, or: You Can Go Home Again, but Do You Want To? (Technology)
March 28
Inertia, and Why We Hate Technological Change (Technology)
March 27
Automating 1Password Backup, and Other Computer Magic (Technology)
March 26
Google’s Misplaced Priorities and the Trust of Users (Technology)
March 25
Switching to NewsBlur (Technology)
March 22
What Makes SimCity Great (and Why the Sequel Disappoints) (Technology)
March 21
Why Kids Understand Tablets: UI, Touch, and Abstractions (Technology)
March 20
The Problem With Technology Evangelism (Technology)
March 19
The Little Tweaks (Uncategorized)
March 18
High Priest of App Design, at Home in Philly (Technology)
March 18
Skeptics and Naysayers (Technology)
March 15
Google Has Altered the Deal. Pray They Don’t Alter It Further (Technology)
March 14
The True Value of Technology (Technology)
March 13
Two Theories on The Wall Street Journal’s Recent Anti-Apple Focus (Technology)
March 13
Disconnecting While Staying Digital (Technology)
March 12
Why I’m Eschewing the Analog Workflow (Creative Work, Technology)
March 11
Old Music, New Media (Uncategorized)
March 8
Outrage Fatigue, or: Disconnecting from the News (Uncategorized)
March 7
Platform Partisans and Freedom of Choice (Technology)
March 6
Technology as Enabler (Creative Work, Technology)
March 5
Scams, Shortcuts, and Honest Work (Technology)
March 4
Once More Into the Data Breach (Uncategorized)
March 1
Find the Niche (Creative Work, Technology)
February 28
How To Stand Out In a Crowded Market (Technology)
February 27
Writing on the Subway: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Environment (Creative Work, Technology)
February 26
App.net is Choosing to Survive (Technology)
February 25
A Statement of Focus (Site News)
February 22
Dropbox Sync vs The Bad Old Days (Technology)
February 21
Antisocial Calendaring (Technology)
February 20
Whittling Down the Musical Backlog (Music, Technology)
February 19
What to Learn, What to Build (Technology)
February 18
Learning to Write Code All Over Again (Personal Life, Self-Improvement, Technology)
February 15
NYC Chief Digital Officer: upgrading a subway system is a lot harder than restarting a router (Technology)
February 15
Fiddling on the Inside (Technology)
February 14
Value What People Love (Uncategorized)
February 13
Walk (Creative Work)
February 12
Fear and Consequences (Self-Improvement)
February 11
Whether the Container or the Content (Technology)
February 8
Tim Krieder Talks Guns (Uncategorized)
February 7
App Review: Moves (Technology)
February 6
Know What to Quit, and When (Creative Work)
February 5
Notes on a Whisky Tasting (Food and Drink)
February 4
Why Bother With College? (Uncategorized)
February 1
Empty States (Technology)
February 1
Harry C. Marks: The iPhone Plus is a Potential Minus (Technology)
February 1
Some Thoughts on Corporate Communication (Writing)
January 31
Marco Arment: A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge (Technology)
January 31
A Personal History of Personal Computing, Part 3â€”PDAs, iPods, and iOS (Personal Life, Technology)
January 30
A Personal History of Personal Computing, Part 2 (Personal Life, Technology)
January 29
Porn on the Vine (Technology)
January 28
A Personal History of Personal Computing, Part 1 (Technology)
January 27
Crush On Radio, Season 2, Episode 1: Nerd Music for Nerds (Other Projects)
January 25
The Bygone Bureau – Facebook Yoga (Technology)
January 24
Networking is Hard (Personal Life, Technology)
January 24
Defining Success, or: I Don’t Understand How the Stock Market Works (Technology)
January 23
You Wanted a Hit (Technology)
January 22
Working in a Small Space (Technology)
January 21
Don’t You Have Anything Better to Do? (Creative Work)
January 18
The Price of a Good App (Technology)
January 17
One Way To Know When You’re Succeeding (Uncategorized)
January 16
Requiem for a MacBook (Technology)
January 15
Long Receipts, and Why Customer Service Surveys Suck (Technology)
January 13
Thomas Dolby’s “Invisible Lighthouse” (Music)
January 11
The Richard Disease (Personal Life)
January 10
Don’t Blame the Internet for Bullies (Uncategorized)
January 9
A Faustian Pact with the Social Devil (Technology)
January 8
Like a Rocket from the Tomb (Music)
January 7
Iteration to (Near) Perfection (Uncategorized)
January 4
Give Yourself Over to the Failure Inside of You (Self-Improvement)
January 3
Hearing an Album for the First Time, a Second Time (Music)
January 2
David Sparks: “Productivity is a Loaded Word” (Self-Improvement)
January 2
A Bug or a Feature? (Technology)
January 1
What to Say When You Have Nothing to Say (Uncategorized)

2012

December 31
One Day at a Time (Site News)
December 26
My Top Ten Albums (and one EP) of 2012 (Music)
December 16
The Difficulty of (Blog) Discovery (Technology)
December 10
Too Much Self-Help (Self-Improvement)
December 5
The Dopamine Problem (Technology)
November 28
A Place for Most Things, and Most Things in Their Place (Self-Improvement)
November 21
Knowing and Doing, Fixing the Flaw in my System (Self-Improvement)
November 14
You Get the iPad You Deserve (Technology)
November 7
Recovering From Disruption (Self-Improvement)
October 24
On App.net and Where the Action Is (Technology)
October 17
On a Great Haircut (Personal Life)
October 10
On Being Nice, Part 2: What Being Nice Means (Self-Improvement)
October 3
On Being Nice, Part 1: The Snark Problem (Self-Improvement)
September 26
On Why We Create (Creative Work)
September 19
On Collecting Versus Digital Hoarding (Technology)
September 12
On Writing Groups and Commitment (Creative Work)
September 5
On My Work Ethic, ADHD, and Real Lifehacks (Self-Improvement)
September 3
On Lift (Technology)
August 29
On the Road (Personal Life)
August 22
On Switching and Friction (Technology)
August 15
On Not Upgrading (Technology)
August 9
On Being Told No (Self-Improvement)
August 1
On Brain Damage (Personal Life)
July 25
On Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Creative Work)
July 18
On Ten Years (Site News)
June 26
On My Second Brain (Technology)
June 13
On Fear and Bad Motivators (Uncategorized)
June 8
On the Price of Free (Technology)
June 6
On Crush On Radio (Other Projects)
May 14
On Signal and Noise (Uncategorized)
April 2
On Identity (Uncategorized)
March 14
On Being Typecast as a Sales Guy (Uncategorized)
February 29
On The Big Move (Personal Life)
February 15
On Dressing the Man (Personal Life)

2011

October 24
On It Being Everywhere (Uncategorized)
September 1
On Doing Less, Better (Uncategorized)
August 25
On Aspiration Versus Action (Uncategorized)
August 2
On Cultivating a Superego (Uncategorized)
July 25
On Work as Opposed to The Work, Or: Making Bricks (Uncategorized)
July 15
On the Eye Game (Uncategorized)
July 8
On the Vocational Wheel and The Intersection of Work and Work (Personal Life)
January 6
On Kindles and Paper Books (Technology)

2010

September 8
On The Marriage of Two Friends (Personal Life)
May 23
On Ditching Facebook and This Whole Silly Social Networking Thing (Technology)
April 22
On Video Games as Art, Or On the Art of Video Games (Technology)
April 20
On a Project Post-Mortem (Personal Life)
March 18
On the Right Box (Technology)
March 7
On The Craft of Making a Mix CD (Music)
January 27
On Switching (Personal Life)
January 17
On Time Travel and Rock Concerts (Music)
January 14
On There Being Less of Me (Personal Life)
January 4
On Multiple Attempts (Uncategorized)