Reading Time: 4 minAI technologies continue to improve, as I shared a few months ago with my post about AI-generated art. Along with art, AI-generated text has been improving rapidly as well, and the new (currently free) ChatGPT has taken things to a whole new level. In short, it’s a chatbot that can create unbelievably solid text about […]
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The Kindle Scribe is great if you love the Kindle
Reading Time: < 1 minI alluded to this in my post about the Kindle Scribe a few days ago, but after a few more days of using it I think it’s even more accurate. The title may sound a little silly, but I’m finding it to be absolutely true. If you are a fan of the Kindle, and can […]
Innovation is defined by the market
Reading Time: 2 minBell Labs was a research and scientific development company that Bell (later known as AT&T) founded in 1925. It largely closed in 2007, though bits of it still exist today. Over the years, that group arguably produced more widespread innovations than any other group in the world. Among other things, they developed: The transistor Early […]
The Kindle Scribe versus the reMarkable 2
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve been a big fan of the reMarkable tablet over the past few years, as I find it an excellent way to take notes in various settings. Similarly, I’ve been a big fan of the Amazon Kindle for quite a few years now. I still read a good number of printed books, but most of […]
From Twitter to Mastodon?
Reading Time: 2 minWhile the Elon Musk + Twitter situation seems to get stranger by the day, many people are moving over to Mastodon instead. Whether it sticks or not remains to be seen, but it has potential to be a great solution. At it’s core, Mastodon is a decentralized social network that feels a lot like Twitter. […]
The power of Supertags in Tana
Reading Time: < 1 minI briefly mentioned Tana last month, which is a new note-taking app that I’m playing with. I’m finding it to be a very powerful tool, but their “Supertags” feature might be the best part. Rather than try to explain it to you, here is a short video that I created to show how it works: […]
Social Networking versus Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minIn conversations that I have, I tend to mix the terms “social networking” and “social media”. According to Ian Bogost of The Atlantic, I probably shouldn’t. With all of the recent chaos on Twitter, Bogost spent some time in a recent article to unpack those two words, and how our shift from Social Networking –> […]
We’re at peak USB-C; is the next adaptor simply nothing?
Reading Time: 2 minSeven years ago, I wrote a post saying that you were going to love USB-C ports, and I think it’s held up well. I’m at the point now where literally every device that I own can be charged with a USB-C cable: Pixel Phone iPad Chromebook reMarkable tablet Kindle Verizon hotspot There’s probably more that […]
The Pixel Watch goes simple and I love it
Reading Time: 2 minWhen Google first introduced their smart watches, they were fantastic. They didn’t do much, but provided great notifications without much fuss. In fact, when Apple first introduced their Watch, it felt to me like the companies made each other’s products. Google tends to overengineer things, yet made a simple watch. Apple tends to keep things […]
Are fossil fuels moral?
Reading Time: 2 minYou know that I love to challenge my existing beliefs to see if they’re solid or not, so when a friend gave me a copy of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” by Alex Epstein, I was excited to give it a read. I couldn’t understand why a book would have that title (other than […]