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  • 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
  • Walking in Silence

    Have you ever developed new habits or changed existing ones without realising it? There isn’t an abrupt shift, but rather a gradual evolution in your subconscious mind. You suddenly ‘wake up’ to this change with a sense of surprise. This realisation hit me today when I went for my daily walk with my dog and my headphones died. I’m not even sure when I began to wear them for my walks, but their sudden absence made me acutely aware of my new routine.
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    25 Nov 2023
  • My Big Flip Phone Failure

    I have been trying to write this post for a very long time. Trying to outline my experiment of using a flip phone again because it is the culmination of a few years of wanting to try it, knowing I can’t and then slowly walking myself back from the edge. This time my wife pushed me over the edge with words along the line of “stop talking about it and do it” with comical results and some realisations along the way.
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    22 Nov 2023
  • The Search For A New Interface

    There are numerous tech things I am intentionally quiet about. Not because I don’t have thoughts about them, but because I would rather not add to the noise of initial emotion blog posts and hot takes. The Humane AI Pin was one of those things, and while I don’t see it catching on, I think it is a fascinating device because of what it signals. For years now, technology commentators have been theorising on what comes after the smartphone.
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    18 Nov 2023
  • 🔗 Apple’s flavor of RCS won’t support Google’s encryption extension

    According to a report from TechRadar, Apple won’t adopt proprietary extensions like the one made by Google that adds end-to-end encryption to RCS. Instead, Apple intends to work with the GSMA to add encryption to the RCS Universal Profile.

    RCS is already a fragmented mess.

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    17 Nov 2023
  • The Walls That Keep Me In

    I spotted an interesting post by Nick Heer this morning while catching up (also, you should be reading his blog; it’s great). He presents the idea that sometimes hardware is as much of a barrier to switching platforms as software is, which is often overlooked by those considering doing so. The barrier to switching from, say, an iPhone to Android is usually thought to be software — iMessage, for instance, comes up frequently.
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    15 Nov 2023
  • 🔗 Humane pins its hopes on AI - by Casey Newton - Platformer

    employees stressed to me the convenience of not having to dig a device out of their pocket to perform quick tasks. The pin has a speaker of its own and connects to headphones and earbuds via Bluetooth, making it an ideal computer for bike rides or just walking around town, they told me. 

    Just like… a smartwatch?

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    13 Nov 2023
  • 🔗 Meta’s doing another referral traffic bait-and-switch

    I know for a fact that to do well on algorithmic platforms you have to make content in the particular way a platform wants you to. And I like what I do here in Garbage Day and I like how I do it. I don’t particularly want to eat ice cream out of a toilet bowl for views.

    That what I said!

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    13 Nov 2023
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