On "dabbling" and "doing"
(Another old draft ...) A post by Mark McElroy encapsulated my own troubles and intentions over the years: I’ve always been a magpie of ideas. I’m drawn to the new, the bright, the shiny. I scoop th…
Audiobook Price Comparison
Here's something I listened to recently, "The Coddling of the American Mind", as available for purchase across different platforms: Audible (Amazon) is selling it for $12.60 (or 1 credi…
On Hacking
A profound transcript, dating to March 1990. "Is Computer Hacking a Crime", from Harper's Magazine https://faculty.weber.edu/apainter1/Readings/Hacking%20a%20Crime.pdf Need to digest…
Choosing an e-reader
I shared this recently, so more on this below I had the “keyboard kindle” 12 years ago, and used it a lot At that time, all that existed was the Kindle (and a Sony model, which is a separate note…
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In praise of the URI
DPK argues that the thing that made the early web "click", the thing that allowed it to "break out" in the 1990s, was not HTML, not HTTP, but the standardization on URIs as "a…
Suits and Bluey
TikTok brain
Yeah, not good. Not good at all. There should at least be an opt-out for kids!…