Babysitting Yourself

After more than 40 years (yes, I am old) I am well aware of needing massive barriers in the way of my bad habits. I have very little self-control when it comes to dopamine boosting things, and my phone is the worst. I realise how pathetic that is. Over the

Don’t Forget Too Quickly

There’s an old adage: today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper. For anyone outside the UK, it essentially means that news—and the attention it garners—moves on fast. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to products, influencers, and technology. That said, some topics tend to

See Into Sam Altman’s Soul

There is nothing I enjoy more than an insightful discussion on notebooks, and hearing Sam Altman on the How I Write Podcast was a fascinating listen. I made a few notes whilst walking the dog this morning, but before I got a chance to go over them, this excellent rebuttal

Brokenness Is Awesome

Cory Dransfeldt loving the fact that Social media's broken: > Find your space and don't feel obligated to participate in any of it. Like Cory, I have my website (I check in on the social bits of micro.blog sometimes although I wish I could turn

The Importance Of Dopamine

Ali Abdaal in the video How To Reset Your Dopamine: > nudging your balance away from instant gratification things that just let you experience joy and reward in the present moment more towards slower things that actually can help improve your life in the long term Not only is the

Finding A Third Place

Federico Viticci in his iPad Mini review where he talks about it being a ‘third place’: > I’ve been thinking about the idea of a third place lately as it relates to the tech products we use and the different roles they aim to serve… The iPad Mini is

Justification To Yourself

Since my early days of being online, I have been fairly easily influenced into making a tech purchase. It only required a few people talking about a new phone, or a picture of a Pepsi can from Kurt Colbeck, to make me go out and buy a new Android phone.

I'm A Blogger

Chris Wilson writing about his happiness being an unprofessional blogger: > About 10 years ago, I wanted to be a professional blogger. Now I’m happy to be an unprofessional blogger. Well, most of the time at least. I, too, tried this thing called making money on the internet. At

What Zuckerberg Thinks About Your Posts

Alex Heath from The Verge spoke to Mark Zuckerberg after Meta connect and there are numerous takeaways from it. I recommend you to give it a listen if you are at all interested in technology, or even if you just use Meta platforms. The episode is pretty concise to a

Dull, cold day

Dull, cold day. And then I was chased off my racists (don’t ask)