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Blogging For More Than A Decade

This website, and also gr36.com, has taken on many forms over the years. I often look back at the internet archive and marvel at how undecided I have been about it. It has been a business website, a personal blog, and at some points a place that I have

My New App: Micro Shelf

I blame Matt Birchler for numerous things in my life, but this time it’s something very positive. By writing about his new app, Quick Notes, he kicked me in to top gear to get mine in a better shape. It is Micro Shelf. One of the biggest things I

Power Adapters And Markets

Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power adapters meant for things like phones, and wind up with

The Truth Doesn’t Matter

Nick Hilton commenting on Steven Bartlet and posted to LinkedIn: Content being interesting and provocative is more valuable, to creators, than it being accurate or instructional. We’ve known for a long time, stupid headlines get clicks, and this is an extension of that for the video centric world we

Beware The Hidden Middlemen

Within the first feewpages of reading Enshitification by Cory Doctorow (spoiler alert don’t waste your time, the book is literally a long rambling blog post) I began to think about the word platforms. He describes online platforms as “a business that operates a two-sided market, that is, a system

Are These Reviews True?

As with most things I write about, something triggers a thought that starts during away in my brain. Once it reaches a critical mass, I either go looking for more information, or other things I consume start triggering the same feelings. I try hard to avoid conformation bias, so more

Buy My Course

Curtis McHale in Productivity as a Fetish edition of their newsletter 3 Threads: Many of the people touting their system actually have a team behind them getting most of the work done. Their only job is to show you the productivity system, not sit in the morass of expectations that

Free Content

Les Orchard (@lmorchard) on Mastodon: Folks pouring so much effort into a thing they seem to think is theirs and absolutely never will be. Doesn't matter how much noise or how many petitions or how many shitposts. You can't own a social network by just occupying

Moving Again

As you may have read already, I have moved my blog to Ghost. After using it extensively in 2020, I switched to something more simple and personal on micro.blog. Whilst this is fine, I have found myself in a place where I don’t really want to use any

Algorithm & Adverts

Social platforms, ones that allow people to communicate, share ideas and find common ground, can be a net benefit — but its the platform part thats the issue