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Contextual Computing
One path to being more productive is to avoid searching for the information you need when starting a task....
One path to being more productive is to avoid searching for the information you need when starting a task....
Keepsake is a new literary zine about journalling and documenting life. I have a small essay published in the...
I tried hard to find the positives in Generative AI. Increasingly, I’m unsure there are any. At least for...
This blog began in 2004. Back then, my life was changing fast, and I was dreaming of a future...
When we embark on ambitious projects we hope our friends will support us. It doesn't always turn out that...
Do we ever outgrow our origins? It’s a question I ponder in a recent essay published at Across The...
Critics used to play an important role in popular culture. But many people think we’re better off without them....
Something is wrong with the way we communicate. We’ve lost control. And we’re drowning in misinformation as a result.
The latest edition of Writerly contains an essay I wrote. Publishing in journals like this is part of a...
Masculinity has been scrutinized a lot lately. Rightly so. In particular men struggle to do friendship well. There's a...
For the past six months, I’ve been on the Granta Writing Memoir Workshop. It’s been one of the most...
An Instagram ad got me thinking about what it means to grow old with style.
I've tried to avoid thinking about writing during this holiday. But today I failed and the day on the...
Each year I choose a word as my theme for the coming year. In 2024 that word is frequency....
Is any year normal anymore? 2023 was an odd year that seemed to pass in a flash. My theme...
State of the Apps is a yearly review of the technology I use regularly in my life and work.