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  • The Ups and Downs of My Notebook Habit

    This past April, I hit a bit of a snag with my journaling. I had this idea in my head that I’d be one of those people with a notebook always at hand, filled with insightful notes and daily reflections. Ready to write the best blog posts you’ve ever read — but the truth is, it wasn’t working out like that. I went on holiday this summer and didn’t miss scribbling in my notebook, which made me stop and think.
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    14 Dec 2023
  • The Joy Of The Ramble

    Can I come straight out and say it? I love reading, and books are my favourite. That gets all the disclaimers out of the way and makes my probable bias obvious right from the start. However, there is something about reading books that not only entertains me but means I learn more along the way, and the web will never replace that. Books receive a lot of criticism. Even perceived intellectuals, like the now-disgraced crypto guru SBF, fail to see the value in books.
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    14 Dec 2023
  • 🔗 ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet Into Plumbing

    At its core, generative AI cannot distinguish original journalism from any other bit of writing; to the machine, it’s all slop pushed through the pipes and splattered out the other end.

    Ai trained on any of my drivel is going to suck, big time.

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    14 Dec 2023
  • Don’t Fear Failure

    Perhaps I have listened to too many bro-podcasts over the last few days, but I am led to believe that a massive fear of failure exists in people. I fail at so many things that perhaps I am desensitised to the whole experience, but there is absolutely nothing to fear from not getting the result you wanted. I should preface this with a warning about taking unneeded risks and not ruining things that make huge changes to your life — but outside this, fail hard and often.
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    12 Dec 2023
  • When The Pursuit Of Less Becomes More

    If you’ve read more than 2 of my blog posts, you will know I yearn for a simpler time. A time pre-smartphone, where everything didn’t rely on my having a computer in my pocket — whilst also loving technology. There is no getting away from the feelings, but I have become to realise that if you are not paying attention, how ridiculous the pursuit of less can become. One of my favourite sub-Reddits is r/dumbphones, it is wonderful to see the phones people are still using and the ones available if you look hard enough.
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    11 Dec 2023
  • 🔗 The Imperfectionist: You can’t hoard life

    we make ourselves miserable, not just by railing against bad experiences, or craving experiences we aren’t having, but by trying too hard to hold onto the good experiences we are currently having.

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    08 Dec 2023
  • 🔗 You are more interesting than you think.

    The trust was always about the person behind the index.html file, not the information itself. We gave that up in the years since. We put our trust in algorithms. Look how they’ve paid us back.

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    07 Dec 2023
  • My Words When I Am Gone

    There’s a line I hear a lot when people get preachy about being online too much or using social media. “When you’re on your deathbed, you will wish you weren’t on your phone so much” or some paraphrase of this is reeled off again and again. Mainly because it’s probably true. I’ve written before about longing for the things you hate when they’ve gone, and it often causes me to pause and think about my blog.
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    06 Dec 2023
  • 🔗 An Update on December 2023 Organizational Changes — Spotify

    I realise that for many, a reduction of this size will feel surprisingly large given the recent positive earnings report and our performance

    But we’ve decided we want to make more profit next year.

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    04 Dec 2023
  • 🔗 gr36 — Write.as

    Do I want to be a blogger? Am I already a blogger? Why can’t I seem to spell simple words correctly? Do others worry about the amount of things I worry about?

    I still think about these things. I feel like reverting back to a blank page and a free ‘blog’. Everything else seems pointless.

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    30 Nov 2023
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