Reading Time: 2 minOver the past few years I’ve shared thoughts on how the world is much better than people think. Murder rates are down, reports of missing children are down, school shootings are down, the economy is doing great, etc. Things are far from perfect, and we always need to be working to make things even better, […]
Technology
Really owning your email
Reading Time: 3 minIn all of my talk over the years about owning your website with WordPress and owning your notes with Obsidian, I’m well-aware that I had a big hole in that philosophy when it came to my email. It was all in Gmail, where I have zero actual ownership of my account. The problem is that […]
Stay focused or stay available?
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve noticed that when I meet someone for coffee or lunch, they behave in one of two ways: I also see some of this from the other side: It’s a matter of deciding what’s important. I certainly hate to not respond to people while I’m in the middle of a meeting, but it’s almost always […]
Gmail turns 20
Reading Time: 2 minI mentioned a few days ago that I’m not super happy with Google lately, but a few days before that I shared how I just can’t shake Gmail. The math says I shouldn’t use it, but that’s much easier said than done. It was exactly 20 years ago today, April 1, 2004, that Google introduced […]
The four ways Google is failing
Reading Time: 2 minThe list of ways where Google is falling short continues to grow, and none of them have to do with AI. Well, maybe some do, but none that I’m talking about today. As I recently shared, Google’s approach over the last few years is very clearly aimed at shareholders instead of users, and it’s going […]
The challenge of owning your data
Reading Time: 2 minFor many years, I’ve been a big proponent of people keeping control of their digital assets. There are three main buckets for this: All of that stuff is great, and I fully believe in it, but it’s much easier said than done. I thought about this the other day when I went to leave a […]
Swipe right on Android to see why Google is heading the wrong way
Reading Time: 3 minGoogle is no longer the darling that it once was. While it’s still clearly a huge, powerful and (generally) helpful company, it’s trending the wrong way. Business Insider compares Google to lumbering giants like IBM, and last year I shared how Google’s treatment of RSS ended up being horrible for the health of the internet […]
Pig butchering for cryptocurrency
Reading Time: 2 minIt’s a weird-sounding name, but you’ve likely seen it happen. You get a weird text from an unknown number, with something fairly innocent like “how are you doing?“, and it slowly evolves into a full conversation. The text is from a scammer, and over the course of a few days they try to build a […]
2: What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life?
Reading Time: 2 minToday we’re going to dig into the second question (here are all of the questions) from Tim Ferriss’ book “Tribe of Mentors”, which is: What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)? My readers love specifics like brand and model, where you […]
The new jargon that comes with AI
Reading Time: 1 minPerhaps more than any other area, changing technology generally brings with it a slew of new acronyms and terms. We have things like HTML, DNS, SEO, HTTP, PHP and dozens of others that are used nearly every day in tech-related fields. The explosion of AI is bringing a new set of words and acronyms for […]