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2023
- 23rd September - A trickle, a ripple, a slow rush
- 23rd September - If LLMs are puppets, who’s pulling the strings?
- 22nd September - Bad historical maps
- 22nd September - More treasures and secrets from ancient Egypt
- 22nd September - Death, wrecks, and harsh weather
- 21st September - Microcast #98 — Endorsement
- 20th September - Virtual spaces for learning and collaboration
- 20th September - The Social Media Archipelago
- 20th September - This isn’t working. Can we talk about that?
- 19th September - Constructs, meta-constructs, and shared cognitive spaces
- 19th September - Research shows people in most countries are anti-capitalist
- 19th September - What’s good for us is also good for the planet
- 18th September - The Empty Boat
- 18th September - Maybe it makes sense to talk to plants after all
- 18th September - Noise and working from home
- 16th September - Shrinkflation, sizes, and shaming
- 16th September - Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn
- 16th September - Good news on Covid treatments
- 15th September - Navigating the landscape of Digital and Media Literacy
- 15th September - Ducks, prompting, and LLMs
- 15th September - The supermarket is a panopticon
- 14th September - Microcast #097 — What do we mean by ‘consensus’?
- 13th September - Piracy and the art of cultural archiving
- 13th September - Greatest films of all time?
- 13th September - Fandom and AI generated music
- 12th September - Saving the world using a 2×2 matrix
- 12th September - The complexities of distraction
- 12th September - Developing your niche
- 11th September - Monday morning feeling
- 11th September - The burnout curve
- 11th September - Status detection systems
- 9th September - Job crafting, identity, and fulfilment
- 9th September - AI writing detectors don’t work
- 8th September - Microcast #096 — Getting back in the saddle
- 8th September - Non-places
- 8th September - TikTok’s algorithm and its effect on migration
- 8th September - Walking 1,000 miles across Europe
- 7th September - Cooling down is hotting up
- 7th September - Indigenous knowledge, sustainable design, and long-term thinking
- 7th September - Some advice for readers
- 6th September - Generative AI, misinformation, and content authenticity
- 6th September - On the need to measure productivity
- 6th September - The declining relevance of Google search
- 5th September - An end to rabbit hole radicalization?
- 5th September - Crypto is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time
- 5th September - B Lane
- 4th September - Money does not solve disasters like this
- 4th September - The Atlantis of the North Sea
- 4th September - Reconstructing Tenochtitlan
- 2nd September - Taking screenagers to the forest
- 2nd September - Disaster capitalism, climate change, and agriculture
- 1st September - Eating the rich is optional, taxing them is mandatory
- 1st September - How does doing what I need make time for everything else?
- 1st September - Note taking tools and processes
- 31st August - Poverty is expensive. Cash helps homeless people.
- 31st August - It’s all about the DMs
- 30th August - A philosophy of travel
- 30th August - Using semesters for goal-setting
- 30th August - The uninhabitable earth
- 25th August - AI and bullshit jobs
- 25th August - We need to talk about AI porn
- 24th August - Raising the average level of creativity using AI
- 24th August - CAPTCHA is an arms race we’re losing against AI bots
- 23rd August - Structural insecurity
- 23rd August - Emoji, we salute you 🫡
- 23rd August - Hacking the vagus nerve
- 22nd August - Reality and the templated life
- 22nd August - Temporarily Abled
- 21st August - On ‘Executive Function Theft’
- 21st August - Jobs, AI, and human worth
- 18th August - Did people in the past look older for their age?
- 18th August - Ask culture vs guess culture
- 18th August - Life in 2050
- 17th August - Context is everything, especially with books
- 16th August - Income Level 4
- 16th August - AI sports recruitment
- 16th August - Secret family recipes (on the side of containers)
- 15th August - Quake II remaster brings online LAN gaming
- 15th August - Introducing Homo naledi
- 15th August - Landmark ruling in climate trial
- 14th August - The tyranny of efficiency
- 14th August - Calendars as data layers
- 14th August - Your personal time management strategy sucks
- 14th August - Giving advice online without mansplaining
- 14th August - Saying “I don’t know” is a privilege
- 14th August - Actions speak louder than words
- 12th July - Marginally Employed
- 24th May - Meredith Whittaker on AI doomerism
- 24th May - Playing the right game
- 19th May - Bad work
- 19th May - Digital wallets for verifiable credentials
- 19th May - AI generated art aesthetic
- 18th May - Bad coffee
- 18th May - Ungrading the university experience
- 11th May - Switching to Arc
- 11th May - The sleight of hand of crypto
- 11th May - AI writing, thinking, and human laziness
- 9th May - Taxing land rather than labour
- 9th May - AI and work socialisation
- 8th May - Arc browser is pretty nifty
- 8th May - Kanban > Scrum
- 6th May - Just this cold beach that nourishes you
- 6th May - On co-operative dynamics
- 6th May - Comportamento Geral
- 3rd May - It’s time to strictly regulate vaping
- 3rd May - NYC 🫶 renewable energy
- 15th April - The ‘value’ of a degree
- 15th April - How to hold a ‘preferendum’
- 14th April - An urgency to somehow bend the algorithms
- 14th April - The web is fragmentary
- 13th April - The patchwork progress of maturity
- 13th April - Fitting LLMs to the phenomena
- 13th April - Žižek on ChatGPT
- 12th April - Relationships and therapy-speak
- 12th April - More on why billionaires should not exist
- 12th April - Negative UK growth
- 11th April - The laziness of helicopter parenting
- 11th April - Spaced repetition, newsletters, and book-writing
- 11th April - Curiosity, projectories, and AI
- 10th April - Imaginary friends for adults
- 10th April - Battles over human rights are not ‘culture wars’
- 9th April - The progress of AI art
- 9th April - Purpose, positioning, proposition
- 9th April - Lifehouses, not churches
- 22nd March - Hiatus
- 28th February - There are just bodies, just us
- 28th February - Smoking as an analogy for unthinking phone use
- 28th February - Living your best life
- 8th February - Britain is screwed
- 8th February - Synesthetic xkcd
- 8th February - Bad Bard
- 8th February - Buying when the market is selling
- 7th February - The party’s over for office-based work
- 7th February - Sad Ben Affleck
- 7th February - One place to rule them all?
- 30th January - Covid and heart attacks
- 30th January - Hiring people without degrees
- 30th January - Reasons for not writing
- 28th January - Woke, broke, and complicated
- 28th January - The art of Battle Royale-style video games
- 26th January - Cambrian governance models
- 26th January - Tax and/or eat the rich
- 26th January - Logging off from AI?
- 23rd January - Retro audio player
- 23rd January - Paying less attention to the attention economy
- 23rd January - Async work isn’t just cancelling meetings
- 20th January - Sixteen hours on, eight hours off.
- 20th January - Getting serious
- 20th January - On the economic pressures of Covid
- 12th January - Facial recognition and the morality police
- 12th January - U.S. Army Corps releases cat calendar
- 12th January - Getting your book published in 2023
- 11th January - Good writing is good writing
- 11th January - Update your profile photo at least every three years
- 11th January - Let’s make private schools help pay for state schools
- 8th January - Chameleon e-ink car
- 8th January - Level 3 busy-ness
- 8th January - Nick Cave’s plans for 2023
- 3rd January - Walking around like Lionel Messi
- 3rd January - Spreading joy in 2023
- 3rd January - Preparation is everything
- 3rd January - This is 2023
2022
- 12th December - That was 2022
- 3rd December - ‘Nightfall’ meteorite contains new and unusual minerals
- 2nd December - No benefits to post-Brexit deregulation
- 2nd December - Four forces that constrain our actions
- 29th November - French views of Brexit
- 29th November - Who wants to live forever?
- 29th November - Japanese miniature dioramas
- 29th November - (Partially) visualising the Fediverse
- 28th November - Collectively-owned Fediverse instances
- 28th November - Prestige and associational value
- 23rd November - Richard Hammond’s near-death experience
- 21st November - Some tips for adding winter cheer
- 21st November - Convivial social networking
- 11th November - Mourning what we’ve lost
- 11th November - Second-order effects of widespread AI
- 10th November - Hyperbolic discounting applied to habit-formation
- 10th November - Rituals for moving jobs when working from home
- 10th November - Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself
- 31st October - A cluttered desk is a sign of genius
- 29th October - Decentralising online learning
- 29th October - Presenteeism, overwork, and being your own boss
- 29th October - Hyperfinancialisation has taken over UK politics
- 29th October - An anarchist take on the Twitter acquisition
- 29th October - Twitter the disaster clown car company
- 25th October - AI is coming for middle management
- 25th October - Being ‘quietly fired’ at work
- 25th October - Jacobin reviews the creator of Ethereum’s new book
- 25th October - What does work look like? (redux)
- 25th October - It’s time to move on from Twitter
- 30th September - Bridging the divide
- 30th September - AI everywhere in education
- 30th September - Apple Watch Ultra vs The Scottish Highlands
- 30th September - Our range of legible emotions is being constricted
- 30th September - Censorship and the porn tech stack
- 30th September - Google Stadia as pandemic fever dream
- 30th September - Brexit Britain = hungry kids
- 28th September - Your brain rewires itself after age 40
- 28th September - Gaming on the go (or anywhere)
- 28th September - You don’t have to be the best to be valuable
- 28th September - Teaching kids about anonymity
- 28th September - Sharing can be hard (online)
- 27th September - Hierarchy is bad for business
- 24th September - ‘Even over’ statements
- 24th September - The unintended consequences of photography
- 24th September - The 2022 Drone Photo Awards
- 18th September - Forbes on federation
- 18th September - Forbes on federation
- 18th September - Forbes on federation
- 18th September - A philosophical approach to performative language
- 18th September - A philosophical approach to performative language
- 18th September - A philosophical approach to performative language
- 18th September - Technological Liturgies
- 18th September - Technological Liturgies
- 18th September - Technological Liturgies
- 17th September - Organisational design: the floor is lava
- 17th September - Organisational design: the floor is lava
- 17th September - Organisational design: the floor is lava
- 17th September - Three components of the public sphere
- 17th September - Three components of the public sphere
- 17th September - Three components of the public sphere
- 17th September - What is ransom capitalism?
- 17th September - What is ransom capitalism?
- 17th September - What is ransom capitalism?
- 16th September - Professional try-hards
- 16th September - Professional try-hards
- 16th September - Professional try-hards
- 16th September - WFH from anywhere
- 9th September - Paying it forward
- 9th September - CDNs are not phone books
- 9th September - Ad-free urban spaces
- 9th September - Ad-free urban spaces
- 9th September - Ad-free urban spaces
- 2nd September - You should only ever be busy on purpose
- 2nd September - The art of a cup of tea
- 2nd September - Against ‘talkocracy’
- 1st September - Cultivating (your) serendipity (surface)
- 1st September - Life product tiers
- 1st September - AI art is, well, still art
- 29th August - Learning through pathways
- 29th August - Personal, portable heating solutions
- 29th August - Potentially the cheapest way of generating clean energy?
- 27th August - Population ethics
- 27th August - Conversational affordances
- 27th August - Lessin’s five steps and the coming AI apocalypse
- 26th August - Dealing with mental pain
- 26th August - The UK is in crisis
- 26th August - The UK is in crisis
- 26th August - Development without critique
- 9th August - Working from home
- 9th August - Mathematical models of evolution
- 9th August - Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- 9th August - Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- 9th August - Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- 9th August - Being busy isn’t a badge of honour
- 9th August - Being busy isn’t a badge of honour
- 9th August - Being busy isn’t a badge of honour
- 4th August - The importance of being yourself
- 4th August - Generating a logo using an AI drawing model
- 30th July - Algorithmic Anxiety
- 30th July - Naming heatwaves
- 25th July - Finish what you start
- 25th July - You don’t need a personal trainer
- 25th July - Foregrounding externalities
- 23rd July - Slack emboldens the meek
- 22nd July - Discourses of Climate Delay
- 22nd July - On GitHub Achievements
- 19th July - Social-first searching
- 19th July - Chromebooks banned in Danish schools
- 19th July - Productivity is the enemy of creativity
- 15th July - Spring ’83
- 15th July - No more low-speed fart sounds for Teslas
- 15th July - Unintended consequences of smart thermostats
- 13th July - (Machine) Creativity
- 12th July - Personal Publishing Principles
- 12th July - The future is the least renewable resource
- 12th July - Amazon as a dumb pipe
- 9th July - Ian Bogost on hybrid work
- 8th July - Steaming open the institutional creases
- 8th July - Steaming open the institutional creases
- 8th July - Steaming open the institutional creases
- 8th July - Life cannot be organised
- 8th July - Life cannot be organised
- 7th July - This bus ain’t growing wings
- 5th July - The Digital Dark Ages
- 5th July - Criticism vs praise
- 29th June - The corrosive nature of captalism
- 27th June - Crypto clowns
- 27th June - Counting the cost of Brexit
- 27th June - Making adulthood more desirable
- 24th June - Losing followers, making friends
- 24th June - The omnishambles of Brexit
- 24th June - Moonshine-enabling cow shoes
- 22nd June - GNOME <3
- 22nd June - Worker-owned co-op federation
- 22nd June - Psycho-Geography
- 21st June - Abandoned places
- 21st June - One sentence per line
- 21st June - Travelling light
- 19th June - The ultimate act of self-denial
- 19th June - Muting the American internet
- 19th June - Muting the American internet
- 19th June - Muting the American internet
- 18th June - Living forever
- 17th June - Artificial metrics are flying by instrument
- 17th June - Audrey Watters says goodbye to EdTech
- 13th June - Getting out of a rut
- 13th June - Yes, parenting matters
- 13th June - EaaS : Employee as a Service
- 10th June - ‘Slack’ and work
- 9th June - Art gallery mode
- 9th June - The new digital divide
- 8th June - Good ideas become colonised and domesticated
- 7th June - Testing a 4-day work week
- 7th June - Coffee and its impact on fitness
- 7th June - Billable hours and the psychology of work
- 5th June - Updating our worldviews
- 5th June - Developing your own style (and archive)
- 4th June - Distro-hopping like a cynic
- 4th June - Distro-hopping like a cynic
- 4th June - Distro-hopping like a cynic
- 4th June - #AbolishTheMonarchy
- 4th June - Epic UK walking trails
- 4th June - Epic UK walking trails
- 4th June - Epic UK walking trails
- 4th May - Space of possibilities
- 27th April - The Climate Game
- 27th April - 14 Common Features of Fascism
- 27th April - Are we really calling it #Elongate?
- 21st April - Literally shitposting
- 20th April - Assume that your devices are compromised
- 20th April - What technology means in late capitalism
- 19th April - Using DICE instead of RA(S)CI
- 14th April - The value of a liberal education
- 14th April - ‘Live Forever’ mode
- 14th April - The rise of first-party online tracking
- 13th April - The triple-peak work day is a worrying trend
- 12th April - Are we in a post-album era for music?
- 11th April - Warren Ellis’ work day routine
- 11th April - Virtual Photographer Of The Year awards
- 25th March - The future of the web, according to Mozilla
- 25th March - Historic aerial photos of England
- 25th March - How to be a darknet drug lord
- 24th March - Do NFTs tend towards dystopia?
- 22nd March - Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
- 22nd March - Cancel Technology
- 22nd March - Declining trust in society isn’t just a ‘vibe shift’
- 20th March - Antartica used to be covered in rainforest
- 20th March - San Francisco is built on the carcasses of old ships
- 15th March - Solarpunk and five climate futures
- 15th March - If you believe it’s over, maybe it will be
- 15th March - Challenging capitalism through co-ops and community
- 13th March - Some fairy tales may be 6,000 years old
- 13th March - A weird tip for weight loss
- 13th March - The week as an human construct
- 8th March - The Un-Grammable Hang Zone
- 8th March - What if I never change?
- 7th March - Switching from Telegram to Signal
- 7th March - AI-synthesized faces are here to fool you
- 7th March - Lizard brain vs infinite scroll
- 1st March - Xero starts using consent-based decision making
- 1st March - What makes writing more readable?
- 25th February - Offline for 3 days
- 25th February - Facebook is dying
- 25th February - The hard part of the work is doing the work
- 24th February - AI cannot hold copyright (yet)
- 24th February - Technology and productivity
- 24th February - Hacking the application process
- 23rd February - You cannot ‘solve’ online misinformation
- 23rd February - The life run by spreadsheet is not worth living
- 23rd February - The benefits of taking Wednesdays off
- 19th February - Dark patterns and gambling
- 17th February - Speeding up a Chromebook by allocating zram
- 17th February - Stone Age culture in the Orkney islands
- 17th February - Upgrading an iPod Video for use in 2022
- 16th February - Digital to analogue and back again
- 16th February - Chrome OS Flex
- 15th February - OKRs as institutional memory
- 15th February - Nesta’s predictions for 2022
- 15th February - Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- 8th February - Blockchain and trusted third parties
- 8th February - On hobbies
- 4th February - The burnout epidemic
- 4th February - Check your perspective
- 4th February - Productivity dysmorphia
- 1st February - Twitter’s decline into right-leaning hellsite
- 1st February - Explaining ideas
- 1st February - BBC Archives and the changing of history
- 31st January - Private schools having charitable status is an absolute scam
- 31st January - Your attention was stolen
- 26th January - Control and responsibility
- 24th January - Spatial Finance
- 24th January - Health surveillance
- 24th January - NFTs, financialisation, and crypto grifters
- 23rd January - Tether and crypto price manipulation
- 23rd January - Co-ops and DAOs
- 23rd January - Hype levels
- 23rd January - Individualism and collectivism in decentralised networks
- 22nd January - Web3 and Ed3 are both problematic
- 22nd January - Is QWERTY a really bad keyboard layout?
- 22nd January - A low-tech solution for personal warmth
- 21st January - Kids need life on the highest volume
- 21st January - Paying for everything twice
- 21st January - Ancient cynicism
- 20th January - E2EE is for everyone
- 20th January - The life-changing difference of an internet connection
- 20th January - Abusing AI girlfriends
- 19th January - Pix and digital payments in Brazil
- 19th January - Nine planetary boundaries
- 19th January - Optimism about the future
- 18th January - Reading is useless
- 18th January - Matching work activities to mind modes
- 17th January - Does Not Translate
- 17th January - How to be useless
- 17th January - Your accusations are your confessions
- 13th January - Web3, the metaverse, and the DRM-isation of everything
- 13th January - Persistent Practices and Pragmatism
- 12th January - Meetings and work theatre
- 12th January - Vaccine Hesitancy as part of a Plague Anthology
- 12th January - Let’s Settle This
- 10th January - Signal’s CEO on ‘web3’
- 10th January - Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- 10th January - Laptops aren’t what they used to be
- 7th January - Covid immunity and medical breakthroughs
- 7th January - Jam tomorrow
2021
- 21st November - Everyone has something to teach
- 21st November - Ignore the sociotechnics at your peril
- 21st November - Wealth is a product of luck
- 19th November - Unsolicited advice might not be so bad after all?
- 19th November - Peeking around corners with holographic cameras
- 19th November - The impact of a plant-based diet on migraines
- 18th November - Information is not knowledge (and knowledge is not wisdom)
- 18th November - Start Often Finish rArely
- 18th November - Pain, suffering, and scuba diving
- 13th November - Introspections on timewasting
- 13th November - Freedom for the few vs. freedom for the many
- 12th November - Games as a cultural, educational, and predictive force
- 12th November - Momentum over details
- 10th November - Aimless wandering in search of the unknown catalyst
- 8th November - Surveillance vs working openly
- 8th November - A Timeline of Earth’s Average Temperature
- 8th November - Platform power and infrastructure
- 7th November - Proving endemic racism and sexism in the world of football
- 7th November - Just Don’t Do It
- 7th November - Carbon emissions per km
- 5th November - Whitelabelling Stadia tech
- 5th November - Build your ‘castle’ on land you own and control
- 5th November - Retro football gaming FTW
- 4th November - How to communicate remotely
- 4th November - Exploration pays long-term dividends for your career
- 4th November - Is this a Signal backdoor?
- 1st November - Taking the long view on weekly working hours
- 1st November - Climate optimism
- 29th October - Why large tree-planting initiatives often fail
- 29th October - Securing your digital life
- 29th October - The permanent mask
- 23rd October - Brand-safe influencers and the blurring of reality
- 23rd October - Psychological hibernation
- 23rd October - Twitter acknowledges right-wing bias in its algorithmic feed
- 22nd October - Otters vs. Possums
- 22nd October - What are microcredentials?
- 22nd October - Walking the Covid tightrope
- 18th October - Kith and kin
- 18th October - Bring Your Own Stack
- 18th October - Fall Regression
- 15th October - Reducing long-distance travel
- 15th October - Time millionaires
- 15th October - On the digital literacies of regular web users
- 12th October - Sports data and GDPR
- 11th October - Precrastinators, procrastinators, and originals
- 11th October - Why commute to an office to work remotely?
- 11th October - On ‘sportswashing’
- 11th October - On the dangers of CBDCs
- 11th October - Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- 11th October - Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- 11th October - Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- 8th October - Opting out of capitalism
- 8th October - Blissed, Blessed, Pissed, and Dissed
- 8th October - The Stability Fantasy
- 8th October - Singapore is turning into a dystopian surveillance state
- 8th October - Good decision-making
- 8th October - Carbon offsets are pure greenwashing
- 8th October - Six Causes of Burnout at Work
- 8th October - Facebook isn’t just anti-competitive, it’s anti-consumer
- 8th October - Who wants a metaverse created by Facebook?
- 9th September - Microcast #095 — Rewilding your serendipity surface
- 8th September - Microcast #094 — Solarpunk vs technocratic pharaohs
- 7th September - Microcast #093 — Boring hot dogs
- 6th September - Microcast #092 — Drinking in the sunlight
- 4th September - Microcast #091 — Arguing in circles
- 3rd September - Microcast #090 — Doing what you love in an angry world
- 2nd September - Microcast #089 — Circumvention
- 1st September - Microcast #088 — Spontaneous fluctuations
- 31st August - Microcast #087 — Back in the game!
- 19th August - Moral outrage and social media
- 19th August - Motivating people who don’t need a job
- 19th August - 100% inheritance tax?
- 17th August - Culture is in a state of constant flux
- 17th August - The Great Reckoning
- 17th August - Brains melted like butter in a microwave
- 12th August - What is ‘solarpunk’?
- 10th August - Global temperatures: 1980-2021
- 10th August - Five-hour workdays
- 9th August - The Cult of the Upper Classes
- 9th August - The Cult of the Upper Classes
- 9th August - The Cult of the Upper Classes
- 9th July - Internal Google comics
- 7th July - Skills-based hiring vs universities
- 7th July - Mr Bingo’s Zoom backgrounds
- 6th July - On Twitter addiction
- 5th July - Main-Character Energy
- 2nd July - Hemp captures more carbon than trees
- 2nd July - Giving work oxygen
- 29th June - Algorithmic work overlords
- 29th June - What exactly is ‘hybrid work’?
- 29th June - The most sustainable foods?
- 25th June - Decentralised organising
- 25th June - AI for auto-generated landscapes
- 24th June - 95% of fish are ‘dark fish’
- 23rd June - New network of sleeper trains
- 23rd June - Why going slowly speeds teams up
- 22nd June - How to stop being a perfectionist
- 22nd June - There’s a word for everything
- 21st June - Leadership is contextual
- 20th June - How becoming a father changes men
- 19th June - Online personas and liquid modernity
- 19th June - The ideology of e-s-c-a-p-e
- 18th June - Improv as a tool for building better products
- 18th June - “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy”
- 18th June - Information means nothing by itself
- 18th June - Value and liquidity of skills
- 17th June - Organic Maps
- 17th June - The Puritan Class
- 17th June - Monetizing stupidity?
- 16th June - Open Badges Verifiable Credentials
- 16th June - Criminals’ right to be forgotten
- 16th June - The end of cookie banners?
- 15th June - Positive deviance in the workplace
- 15th June - Generative art
- 14th June - Social media is done
- 14th June - Conceptual integrity
- 14th June - Dunbar’s friendship circles
- 12th June - No more simplified URLs in Chrome
- 11th June - The end of petrol stations
- 10th June - Health and sanity before profit
- 10th June - Rationalising work for the 40+ brigade
- 9th June - Anti-social media
- 8th June - The end of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
- 8th June - Briar now does pictures
- 8th June - Who’s the pet? Tarantula or tiny frog?
- 7th June - More US electoral chaos to come in 2024?
- 7th June - Epistemological chaos and denialism
- 7th June - You don’t have to monetize your joy
- 7th June - Peer review sucks
- 6th June - How to recover from burnout
- 6th June - Portals to another world (or town)
- 5th June - How to organise your fridge
- 5th June - A cure for depression and boredom
- 5th June - Killer robots are already here
- 5th June - Nostalgia, friction, and read/write literacy
- 5th June - Interoperability for browser plugins
- 4th June - Novelty, brains, and new experiences
- 4th June - Taking breaks to be more human
- 3rd June - Virtual brands and ghost kitchens
- 3rd June - Male bias in scientific trials
- 3rd June - Degrees of Uncertainty
- 2nd June - Screenshot culture
- 2nd June - The world’s most popular websites, mapped
- 2nd June - Sky pool awesomeness
- 2nd June - “Alexa, disable arbitration”
- 2nd June - Meetings as exercises in power
- 1st June - Quitting instead of returning to the office
- 1st June - The End of Literary Criticism
- 1st June - Opportunity costs
- 1st June - Anxiety and performance
- 1st June - Twitter reactions
- 1st June - Deepfake maps
- 1st June - Net Zero Democracy
- 1st June - Human and computer memory
- 1st June - Professor goes to ‘TikTok University’
- 1st June - Social studying
- 28th May - 3 ways to live a happier life
- 27th May - Maplessness
- 26th May - Sky explosion
- 26th May - The impact of decision fatigue
- 26th May - Wherefore art thou, privacy?
- 26th May - Badges everywhere!
- 26th May - GCHQ violates our privacy
- 26th May - Rat Race 2.0
- 26th May - Volcano-powered electricity
- 26th May - A web-based commonplace book
- 25th May - Mastering a 5,400-character typewriter
- 25th May - Working from near home
- 25th May - Life should contain novelty
- 6th March - ‘The individual’ is an idea like other ideas
- 6th March - Of all lies, art is the least untrue
- 27th February - One should always be a little improbable
- 20th February - Life is a great bundle of little things
- 19th February - Criticism, like lightning, strikes the highest peaks
- 13th February - Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible
- 8th February - Taste ripens at the expense of happiness
- 4th February - Continuous eloquence is tedious
- 30th January - Mediocrity is a hand-rail
- 29th January - The certainties of one age are the problems of the next
- 22nd January - You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism
- 9th January - Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled
- 5th January - One can acquire anything in solitude except character
- 4th January - Seeing through is rarely seeing into
2020
- 30th November - See you in 2021!
- 27th November - A world without apps?
- 23rd November - What kind of world do we want? (or, why regulation matters)
- 17th November - A candour affected is a dagger concealed
- 17th November - Slowly-boiling frogs in Facebook’s surveillance panopticon
- 12th November - ‘Prepper’ philosophy
- 9th November - Much will have more
- 9th November - Philosophical anxiety as a superpower
- 2nd November - Ethical living
- 31st October - Reafferent loops
- 29th October - Hiring is broken, but not in the ways you assume
- 28th October - Why we can’t have nice things
- 26th October - Collaboration is our default operating system
- 26th October - Everything intercepts us from ourselves
- 22nd October - Fighting health disinformation on Wikipedia
- 21st October - Seeing through is rarely seeing into
- 21st October - Perceptions of the past
- 19th October - Gatekeepers of opportunity and the lottery of privilege
- 18th October - Tedious sports
- 18th October - Biometric surveillance in a post-pandemic future
- 17th October - Ethics is the result of the human will
- 17th October - Forward momentum above all things
- 11th October - Scenario planning, climate change, and the pandemic
- 9th October - Reducing exam stress by removing pointless exams
- 3rd October - Face-to-face university classes during a pandemic? Why?
- 2nd October - ‘Rulesy’ people
- 1st October - The importance of co-operation
- 28th September - How to give advice
- 25th September - The crisis in professional sport is one of its own making
- 24th September - The discourse of disruption
- 24th September - Let’s talk
- 23rd September - An ounce of good sense is worth a pound of subtlety
- 20th September - Entirely predictable
- 19th September - Privilege and pandemic
- 19th September - The future of closed, proprietary technology is within your body
- 18th September - Pandemic microaggressions
- 17th September - The most radical thing you can do is stay home
- 17th September - Consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance
- 15th September - One nation under Zuck
- 15th September - Things Come Apart
- 13th September - More advice on perfectionism
- 13th September - To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
- 13th September - ‘Recycling’ plastic is an oil industry scam
- 11th September - Lifequakes
- 9th September - Inside your pain are the things you care about most deeply
- 8th September - The world needs less philanthropy and more equality
- 8th September - Marcus Aurelius on troubles
- 6th September - Enforced idleness
- 4th September - Perfectionism is more toxic than you imagine
- 4th September - Rethinking human responses to adversity
- 3rd September - 85 megapixel photo of the moon
- 3rd September - Pandemic-induced awkwardness
- 1st September - What man of energy does not find inactivity a punishment?
- 1st September - Some changes to Thought Shrapnel
- 25th July - Saturday spinnings
- 18th July - Saturday sailings
- 10th July - Friday fadings
- 4th July - Saturday shakings
- 27th June - Saturday shoutings
- 20th June - Saturday scrapings
- 13th June - Saturday soundings
- 30th May - Saturday shruggings
- 23rd May - Saturday signalings
- 16th May - Saturday shiftings
- 9th May - Saturday seductions
- 2nd May - Saturday scramblings
- 29th April - The old is dying and the new cannot be born
- 25th April - Saturday sandcastles
- 21st April - Thus each man ever flees himself
- 18th April - Saturday scrubbings
- 10th April - Friday fashionings
- 3rd April - Friday forebodings
- 27th March - Friday flickerings
- 13th March - Friday fumings
- 6th March - Friday filchings
- 28th February - Friday fluidity
- 21st February - Friday facings
- 19th February - Thought Shrapnel Vol.1: Personal Productivity
- 17th February - New to Thought Shrapnel? Try this!
- 14th February - Friday feelings
- 7th February - Friday flaggings
- 31st January - Friday featherings
- 29th January - Microcast #085 — Extensions for Mozilla Firefox
- 24th January - Friday festoonings
- 20th January - How you do anything is how you do everything
- 17th January - Friday foggings
- 16th January - Microcast #083 – Ambiguous in Kuwait City
- 14th January - Given things as they are, how shall one individual live?
- 10th January - Friday flurries
- 8th January - Microcast #082 – Nodenoggin
- 3rd January - Friday fertilisations
- 1st January - Microcast #081 – Anarchy, Federation, and the IndieWeb
2019
- 9th November - Quick update!
- 1st November - Friday fablings
- 30th October - Microcast #080 – Redecentralize and MozFest
- 25th October - Friday facilitations
- 22nd October - Microcast #079 – information environments
- 18th October - Friday flowerings
- 17th October - Microcast #078 — Values-based organisations
- 11th October - Friday fawnings
- 4th October - Friday flexitarianism
- 27th September - Friday fluctuations
- 23rd September - It’s not a revolution if nobody loses
- 21st September - Saturday strikings
- 16th September - All is petty, inconstant, and perishable
- 13th September - Friday fermentations
- 9th September - If you change nothing, nothing will change
- 6th September - Friday feudalism
- 2nd September - To refrain from imitation is the best revenge
- 30th August - Friday floutings
- 28th August - The best way out is always through
- 23rd August - Friday flinchings
- 19th August - It is the child within us that trembles before death
- 2nd August - Friday fizzles
- 29th July - The best place to be is somewhere else?
- 26th July - Friday fidgetings
- 19th July - Friday federations
- 12th July - Friday ferretings
- 5th July - Friday frustrations
- 28th June - Friday feeds
- 25th June - Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- 25th June - Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- 21st June - Friday fancies
- 20th June - The world is all variation and dissimilarity
- 14th June - Friday feastings
- 13th June - Even in their sleep men are at work
- 11th June - Situations can be described but not given names
- 10th June - There’s no perfection where there’s no selection
- 7th June - Friday fathomings
- 6th June - There’s no viagra for enlightenment
- 5th June - Wretched is a mind anxious about the future
- 31st May - Friday fabrications
- 30th May - Men fear wanderers for they have no rules
- 29th May - We give nothing so generously as our advice
- 24th May - Friday fumblings
- 23rd May - One can see only what one has already seen
- 17th May - Friday finds
- 15th May - Form is the possibility of structure
- 10th May - Fascinating Friday Facts
- 3rd May - A little Friday randomness
- 1st May - Remote work is a different beast
- 30th April - Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- 29th April - Things that people think are wrong (but aren’t)
- 26th April - Cutting the Gordian knot of ‘screen time’
- 25th April - The benefits of Artificial Intelligence
- 24th April - The drawbacks of Artificial Intelligence
- 23rd April - Opting in and out of algorithms
- 20th April - How to subscribe to Thought Shrapnel Daily
- 5th March - Giving up Thought Shrapnel for Lent
- 5th March - Giving up Thought Shrapnel for Lent
- 1st March - Human societies, hierarchy, and networks
- 1st March - The introvert’s dilemma
- 1st March - Success and enthusiasm (quote)
- 25th February - Foldable displays are going to make the future pretty amazing
- 23rd February - So you think you’re organised?
- 23rd February - So you think you’re organised?
- 22nd February - Blockchains: not so ‘unhackable’ after all?
- 22nd February - Blockchains: not so ‘unhackable’ after all?
- 22nd February - Open Badges and ADCs
- 22nd February - Open Badges and ADCs
- 22nd February - On anger (quote)
- 22nd February - On anger (quote)
- 15th February - What UK children are watching (and why)
- 14th February - Individual steps to tackle climate change
- 13th February - Games (and learning) mechanics
- 13th February - Games (and learning) mechanics
- 13th February - Is edtech even a thing any more?
- 12th February - Optimise for energy and motivation
- 12th February - Process and product of change (quote)
- 9th February - Tenacious will (quote)
- 8th February - Why the internet is less weird these days
- 7th February - Dis-trust and blockchain technologies
- 5th February - Why it’s so hard to quit Big Tech
- 5th February - Why it’s so hard to quit Big Tech
- 4th February - Let’s (not) let children get bored again
- 3rd February - The robot economy and social-emotional skills
- 31st January - Make art, tell a story
- 31st January - Make art, tell a story
- 31st January - Fun smartphone-based party games
- 31st January - Fun smartphone-based party games
- 29th January - Cal Newport on the dangers of ‘techno-maximalism’
- 29th January - Staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing (quote)
- 25th January - Through the looking-glass
- 25th January - Surfacing popular Google Sheets to create simple web apps
- 25th January - Federico Leggio’s type animations
- 23rd January - Volume of work
- 23rd January - What did the web used to be like?
- 23rd January - Hong Kong shutter art
- 22nd January - True test of intelligence (quote)
- 21st January - Hierarchies and large organisations
- 20th January - Exit option democracy
- 18th January - Drink Talk Learn
- 18th January - Implicit leverage
- 18th January - Blockchain is about trust minimisation
- 18th January - Forging better habits
- 18th January - A reminder of how little we understand the world
- 18th January - The quixotic fools of imperialism
- 15th January - Noise cancelling for cars is a no-brainer
- 15th January - Going your own way (quote)
- 14th January - Location data in old tweets
- 11th January - Remembering the past through photos
- 10th January - Acoustic mirrors
- 9th January - Unpopular opinions on personal productivity
- 8th January - Confusing tech questions
- 8th January - Feeling good (quote)
- 8th January - Creativity as an ongoing experiment
- 7th January - Murmurations
- 5th January - Fanatics (quote)
- 5th January - The problem with Business schools
- 4th January - Working and leading remotely
- 3rd January - Rules for Online Sanity
- 3rd January - Baseline levels of conscientiousness
- 2nd January - The endless Black Friday of the soul
- 2nd January - Blockchain bullshit
- 1st January - Social mobility
- 1st January - Looking back and forward in tech
2018
- 30th November - See you in 2019!
- 22nd November - Routine and ambition (quote)
- 20th November - Credentials and standardisation
- 20th November - Are we nearing the end of the Facebook era?
- 17th November - Asking Google philosophical questions
- 15th November - Gamifying Wikipedia for new editors
- 14th November - Daily routine (quote)
- 13th November - The many uses of autonomous vehicles
- 9th November - Open source is as much about culture as it is about code
- 7th November - What are ‘internet-era ways of working’?
- 7th November - What are ‘internet-era ways of working’?
- 5th November - Is UBI ‘hush money’?
- 5th November - Is UBI ‘hush money’?
- 4th November - Issue [#323]: 46 hours in transit
- 1st November - Nature of things (quote)
- 1st November - Identity is a pattern in time
- 1st November - Identity is a pattern in time
- 31st October - An app to close down your workday effectively
- 31st October - An app to close down your workday effectively
- 30th October - Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- 30th October - Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- 30th October - CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- 30th October - CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- 28th October - Time’s brevity (quote)
- 28th October - Issue [#322]: Back-to-back
- 25th October - Openness, sharing, and choosing a CC license
- 25th October - Tennessee Williams on the problems that come with success
- 25th October - Time flies (quote)
- 23rd October - Designing calm products
- 23rd October - Wishing and planning (quote)
- 22nd October - Is planning just guessing?
- 22nd October - Is planning just guessing?
- 21st October - Issue [#321]: Small talk and tiny conferences
- 18th October - Absorb what is useful (quote)
- 18th October - Decentralisation and networked agency
- 18th October - Are tiny conferences and meetups better than big ones?
- 17th October - Small talk and sociability
- 14th October - Issue [#320]: The power of appreciation
- 12th October - The majority (quote)
- 12th October - How do people learn?
- 12th October - Reappropriating the artifacts of late-stage capitalism
- 11th October - Venture beyond the expected (quote)
- 11th October - Myths about children and digital technologies
- 11th October - Myths about children and digital technologies
- 9th October - GAFA: time to ‘ignore and withdraw’?
- 9th October - Graceful conduct (quote)
- 8th October - Issue [#319]: Operation Twilight
- 8th October - Issue [#319]: Operation Twilight
- 5th October - Example and opinion (quote)
- 4th October - Insidious Instagram influencers?
- 3rd October - The end of ‘meritocracy’ at Mozilla
- 3rd October - The end of ‘meritocracy’ at Mozilla
- 3rd October - Is Google becoming more like Facebook?
- 2nd October - Bullshit receptivity scale
- 2nd October - Listen well (quote)
- 1st October - Seven coaching questions
- 30th September - Issue [#318]: Blisters a-go-go
- 27th September - Why desk jobs are exhausting
- 27th September - Microshifts are more effective than epiphanies
- 25th September - An incorrect approach to teaching History
- 25th September - Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, monopolies, and decentralisation
- 25th September - Airbnb wants to give out shares to its superhosts
- 24th September - Experimenting with turning on comments for a week
- 23rd September - Issue [#317]: The Path to better social networks
- 21st September - Why badge endorsement is a game-changer
- 21st September - Internalising the logic of social media
- 20th September - The Digital Knowledge Loop
- 19th September - Kindness and courage (quote)
- 19th September - The rise and rise of e-sports
- 18th September - Online conformity (quote)
- 18th September - A portal into a decentralised universe
- 18th September - (Educational) consulting for the uninitiated
- 16th September - Blogging and content marketing (quote)
- 16th September - Issue [#316]: Is that better? 🙄 🙄 🙄
- 14th September - Charity is no substitute for justice
- 14th September - Creativity (quote)
- 13th September - Audiobooks vs reading
- 13th September - What the EU’s copyright directive means in practice
- 11th September - Working (quote)
- 10th September - 6 things that the best jobs have in common
- 10th September - Invisible turmoil (quote)
- 9th September - Simple sustainable stories
- 9th September - Issue [#315]: Minimalism FTW
- 8th September - What do happy teenagers do?
- 8th September - Burnout-prevention rules
- 8th September - Feedback from the community
- 7th September - Expertise and knowledge (quote)
- 7th September - Fluency without conceptual understanding
- 6th September - Dealing with the downsides of remote working
- 6th September - Natural light as an ‘office perk’
- 5th September - Choice (quote)
- 4th September - The importance of marginalia
- 3rd September - We’re back (with lots of new links!)
- 30th July - A Stoic (quote)
- 30th July - Tracking vs advertising
- 30th July - Keeping track of articles you want to read
- 29th July - Issue #314: Final Holiday Countdown 🏁 ⏲️ 🏖️
- 27th July - Introverts, collaboration, and creativity
- 26th July - Busyness and value creation
- 26th July - Original work (quote)
- 25th July - Not my circus (quote)
- 25th July - When we eat matters
- 25th July - LinkedIn: the game?
- 23rd July - Data transfer as a ‘hedge’?
- 22nd July - Issue #313: Mootivation
- 20th July - Childhood amnesia
- 20th July - Childhood amnesia
- 20th July - You cant escape your problems through travel
- 20th July - You cant escape your problems through travel
- 19th July - Don Norman on human-centred technologies
- 18th July - Be good for something (quote)
- 17th July - Work and play (quote)
- 17th July - Work and play (quote)
- 15th July - Issue #312: If it’s not one thing, it’s another
- 13th July - Break the rules like an artist (quote)
- 13th July - On ‘radical incompetence’
- 13th July - Populism today (quote)
- 12th July - Blogging in the Fediverse with Write.as
- 11th July - On living in public
- 11th July - On living in public
- 11th July - Artistic value (quote)
- 11th July - Artistic value (quote)
- 8th July - Issue #311: Under canvas
- 7th July - Wisdom and experience (quote)
- 7th July - Shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies (quote)
- 6th July - The dangers of distracted parenting
- 6th July - The dangers of distracted parenting
- 5th July - On ‘unique’ organisational cultures
- 1st July - Issue #310: Moodling about in Barcelona
- 30th June - Fear (quote)
- 30th June - Reduce your costs, retain your focus
- 30th June - The link between sleep and creativity
- 28th June - Attention scarcity as an existential threat
- 27th June - Our irresistible screens of splendour
- 27th June - Rethinking hierarchy
- 27th June - Freedom (quote)
- 24th June - Issue #309: Different
- 18th June - Crawling before you walk
- 17th June - Issue 308: World Cup(cake)
- 16th June - Higher Education and blockchain
- 16th June - On ‘instagrammability’
- 15th June - F*** off Google
- 12th June - Seed of good (quote)
- 12th June - Where memes come from
- 11th June - The seductive logic of technology (quote)
- 10th June - Issue #307: Home on the range
- 9th June - Mediocrity (quote)
- 9th June - Git yourself off that platform!
- 8th June - All the questions (quote)
- 8th June - Blockchain was just a stepping stone
- 7th June - Living with anxiety
- 4th June - Systems change
- 3rd June - Issue #306: Bachelor lifestyle
- 1st June - No opinion (quote)
- 31st May - On ‘academic innovation’
- 31st May - Criticism (quote)
- 31st May - Protocols for the free web
- 31st May - Encumbered by civilization (quote)
- 31st May - Paywalls and Patreon
- 27th May - Good, hard work (quote)
- 27th May - Issue #305: Sprinting into the distance
- 25th May - Wielding your pension fund for good
- 25th May - First tea, then revolution
- 25th May - Sensible people
- 24th May - Useful mental models
- 23rd May - Nobody is ready for GDPR
- 23rd May - Measuring ability and greatness
- 22nd May - Estonia goes for free public transport
- 22nd May - The toughest smartphones on the market
- 22nd May - The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- 22nd May - The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- 20th May - Issue #304: Grateful Dead Public Radio
- 18th May - Schedule your priorities
- 18th May - On blogging
- 18th May - On blogging
- 18th May - Peace of mind
- 14th May - Trust and the cult of your PLN
- 14th May - Trust and the cult of your PLN
- 14th May - The role of Lady Luck
- 14th May - The role of Lady Luck
- 13th May - Issue #303: Rest your weary head
- 11th May - Altruism
- 10th May - Nothing better to do
- 10th May - The virtue of rest
- 9th May - Tolerating uncertainty
- 5th May - Alexa for Kids as babysitter?
- 4th May - Getting on the edtech bus
- 3rd May - Bootstraps
- 2nd May - Space as a service
- 30th April - Blockchain as a ‘futuristic integrity wand’
- 29th April - Profit vs benefit
- 29th April - Issue #302: Read aloud for maximum effect
- 28th April - Escaping from the crush of circumstances
- 27th April - The benefits of reading aloud to children
- 26th April - You need more daylight to sleep better
- 26th April - On the cultural value of memes
- 25th April - The résumé is a poor proxy for a human being
- 25th April - OEP (Open Educational Pragmatism?)
- 24th April - Everything is potentially a meme
- 23rd April - How to be super-productive
- 22nd April - Thinking outdoors
- 22nd April - Issue #301: Endless horse
- 21st April - Clickbait and switch?
- 21st April - Read for freedom
- 21st April - Soviet-era industrial design
- 21st April - Conversational implicature
- 21st April - Ryan Holiday’s 13 daily life-changing habits
- 20th April - Valuing and signalling your skills
- 17th April - Intimate data analytics in education
- 17th April - All killer, no filler
- 17th April - All killer, no filler
- 16th April - Do what you can
- 16th April - Systems thinking and AI
- 15th April - Issue #300: Tricentennial
- 14th April - The four things you need to become an intellectual
- 14th April - Craig Mod’s subtle redesign of the hardware Kindle
- 13th April - Profiting from your enemies
- 13th April - The root of all happiness
- 13th April - Long-term investments
- 13th April - Deciding what to do next
- 13th April - Designing for privacy
- 12th April - Multiple income streams
- 12th April - Multiple income streams
- 11th April - In praise of ordinary lives
- 11th April - In praise of ordinary lives
- 11th April - Issue #299: Jersey shore
- 11th April - Issue #299: Jersey shore
- 7th April - Alienated life
- 6th April - All that is gold does not glitter
- 6th April - The death of the newsfeed (is much exaggerated)
- 6th April - Absentee leadership
- 5th April - Social internet vs social media
- 5th April - Social internet vs social media
- 5th April - Truth
- 5th April - Truth
- 4th April - Blockcerts mobile
- 4th April - Blockcerts mobile
- 2nd April - Mozilla’s Web Literacy Curriculum
- 2nd April - Mozilla’s Web Literacy Curriculum
- 1st April - Issue #298: Easter treats
- 31st March - Albert Camus quotation
- 31st March - xkcd on conversational dynamics
- 30th March - Not everyone is going to like you
- 29th March - No-one wants a single identity, online or offline
- 29th March - Contentment
- 28th March - The spectrum of work autonomy
- 28th March - Ignorance and dogmatism
- 28th March - Survival in the age of surveillance
- 27th March - How to get hired
- 26th March - Alternatives to all of Facebook’s main features
- 25th March - Issue #297: Springing forward
- 24th March - The only privacy policy that matters is your own
- 24th March - Co-operation
- 23rd March - Support Thought Shrapnel on Patreon
- 23rd March - OERu has a social network
- 23rd March - Anxiety
- 22nd March - Moral needs and user needs
- 22nd March - On struggle
- 21st March - Going deep
- 21st March - Superficial and imperfect knowledge
- 20th March - Bridging technologies
- 20th March - How to choose an open license for your project
- 20th March - Mystery of life
- 19th March - Decision fatigue and parenting
- 19th March - Tech will eat itself
- 18th March - Issue #296: Goodbye winter blues
- 16th March - On playing video games with your kids
- 16th March - Browser extensions FTW
- 15th March - The tenets of ‘Slow Thought’
- 15th March - Wisdom and riches
- 15th March - Different ways of knowing
- 14th March - Beginning and middle
- 14th March - Slack’s bait-and-switch?
- 13th March - The security guide as literary genre
- 12th March - Do the thing
- 12th March - Memento mori
- 12th March - Microcast #005
- 11th March - Issue #295: A wee problem…
- 10th March - Living an antifragile life
- 9th March - The end/beginning
- 9th March - Archives of Radical Philosophy
- 8th March - Do the tools you use matter?
- 7th March - Microcast #004
- 7th March - Masterpieces
- 6th March - Microcast #003
- 6th March - 30,000 hours of sleep
- 6th March - Teaching kids about computers and coding
- 5th March - Microcast #002
- 5th March - Building a bridge
- 4th March - Microcast #001
- 3rd March - Issue #294: Snowmaggedon ❄️
- 3rd March - Happiness
- 3rd March - Microcast #000
- 3rd March - Tact
- 3rd March - Geek social fallacies
- 1st March - Google’s new Slack competitor
- 1st March - 10 breakthrough technologies for 2018
- 28th February - The moon is getting 4G
- 28th February - Possible – impossible
- 28th February - Your best decisions don’t come when you demand them
- 27th February - Some great links for Product Managers
- 26th February - Firefox OS lives on in The Matrix
- 25th February - Issue #293: Making cheese grate again
- 23rd February - Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- 23rd February - Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- 23rd February - Small ‘b’ blogging
- 23rd February - Small ‘b’ blogging
- 23rd February - What we can learn from Seneca about dying well
- 23rd February - Light and deep
- 23rd February - Anonymity vs accountability
- 21st February - The Goldilocks Rule
- 20th February - Showing off
- 18th February - To lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves
- 18th February - Issue #292: Is there a cure for Tasmania? 🇦🇺
- 17th February - Does the world need interactive emails?
- 17th February - Does the world need interactive emails?
- 16th February - The Kano model
- 15th February - Is the gig economy the mass exploitation of millennials?
- 15th February - Humans are not machines
- 14th February - Legislating against manipulated ‘facts’ is a slippery slope
- 14th February - Obvious
- 14th February - Why we forget most of what we read
- 14th February - Should you lower your expectations?
- 14th February - Trust
- 14th February - Why do some things go viral?
- 13th February - Humans responsible for the Black Death
- 13th February - The world’s most nutritious foods
- 12th February - Audio Adversarial speech-to-text
- 12th February - Sounds and smells can help reinforce learning while you sleep
- 12th February - Every easy thing is hard again
- 11th February - Issue #291: Necessary koalafications 🐨
- 9th February - Why good parents have naughty children
- 9th February - Lost
- 9th February - Telegram cryptocurrency
- 8th February - Rock piles and cathedrals
- 8th February - Platform censorship and the threat to democracy
- 7th February - Alzheimer’s is a kind of ‘type 3’ diabetes
- 7th February - Puertopia
- 7th February - Worth the risks?
- 7th February - Creating media, not just consuming it
- 6th February - GDPR, blockchain, and privacy
- 6th February - Living in a dictatorship
- 6th February - Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- 6th February - Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- 5th February - Are cows less valuable than wolves?
- 5th February - How we get influence backwards
- 5th February - How we get influence backwards
- 4th February - Issue #290: Unscathed
- 3rd February - The punk rock internet
- 3rd February - The punk rock internet
- 3rd February - The origin of the term ‘open source’
- 2nd February - Optimism
- 2nd February - The Project Design Tetrahedron
- 2nd February - The Project Design Tetrahedron
- 2nd February - Promising everything
- 1st February - Designing social systems
- 1st February - Irony doesn’t scale
- 1st February - Web Trends Map 2018 (or ‘why we can’t have nice things’)
- 31st January - So, what do you do?
- 31st January - The military implications of fitness tech
- 31st January - Audrey Watters on technology addiction
- 30th January - No cash, no freedom?
- 30th January - Depression as an evolutionary advantage?
- 30th January - Product managers as knowledge centralisers
- 29th January - Using VR with kids
- 29th January - Augmented and Virtual Reality on the web
- 29th January - The horror of the Bett Show
- 28th January - Issue #289: Loooooong week
- 27th January - More haste, less speed
- 27th January - Ethical design in social networks
- 26th January - Reading the web on your own terms
- 26th January - Favourable winds
- 26th January - Technology to connect and communicate
- 25th January - Are conferences a vestige of a bygone era?
- 25th January - A useful IndieWeb primer
- 25th January - Three most harmful addictions
- 25th January - More on Facebook’s ‘trusted news’ system
- 25th January - Living in capitalism
- 25th January - Anxiety is the price of convenience
- 25th January - Different sorts of time
- 24th January - Some podcast recommendations
- 24th January - DuckDuckGo moves beyond search
- 24th January - Facebook is under attack
- 23rd January - Where would your country be if the world was like Pangea?
- 23rd January - Amazon Go, talent and labour
- 23rd January - WTF is GDPR?
- 22nd January - Decentralisation 2.0
- 22nd January - First step
- 22nd January - First step
- 22nd January - The rise and rise of niche newsletters
- 22nd January - The backstory of Apple’s emoji
- 22nd January - The backstory of Apple’s emoji
- 21st January - Tribal politics in social networks
- 21st January - Some advice for a happy family life
- 21st January - Issue #288: Socially and emotionally unavailable
- 20th January - A world without work
- 20th January - Few wants
- 20th January - Film posters of the Russian avant-garde
- 19th January - Atlas of Hillforts
- 19th January - Gendered AI?
- 19th January - Imprisoned in prejudices
- 19th January - Barely anyone uses 2FA
- 19th January - Courage
- 19th January - Using your phone wisely
- 19th January - The wilderness of intuition
- 19th January - Can you measure social and emotional skills?
- 19th January - Bullet Journal like a Pro
- 18th January - Choose your connected silo
- 18th January - Game-changing modular wheels
- 18th January - Game-changing modular wheels
- 17th January - The full complexity of life
- 17th January - From Homer to texting and Twitter
- 17th January - Would you be nuked?
- 16th January - Where did ‘Å’ come from?
- 16th January - Getting better at using tools
- 16th January - Cool decentralisation resources from MozFest
- 16th January - This isn’t the golden age of free speech
- 16th January - Open source apps for agile project teams
- 15th January - Robo-advisors are coming for your job (and that’s OK)
- 15th January - Opposite of manliness
- 14th January - Thought Shrapnel #287: My bad
- 12th January - Reasons to be cheerful
- 12th January - Attention is an arms race
- 12th January - Barcelona to go open source by 2019
- 11th January - In a dark place
- 11th January - How to build a consensual social network
- 11th January - Bigger the dream…
- 10th January - Money in, blood out
- 10th January - Venture Communism?
- 10th January - Fake amusement park
- 9th January - Questions to ask before taking your next job
- 9th January - Dreamers who do
- 9th January - You get paid what other people think you’re worth
- 8th January - Meltdown and Spectre explained by xkcd
- 8th January - Meaningless work causes depression
- 7th January - Thought Shrapnel #286: New beginnings
- 7th January - Social media short-circuits democracy
- 7th January - Spain is on the wrong timezone
- 7th January - Foucault understood the power of ambiguity
- 6th January - Fridays are a social construct
- 6th January - Privacy-based browser extensions
- 6th January - Twitter isn’t going to ban Trump, no matter what
- 5th January - Charisma instead of hierarchy?
- 5th January - Education is about the journey, not the destination
- 5th January - Mozilla is creating an Open Leadership Map
- 4th January - Life in likes
- 2nd January - Capitalism can make you obese
- 2nd January - How to prevent being ‘cryptojacked’
- 2nd January - Fred Wilson’s predictions for 2018
- 2nd January - Albert Wenger’s reading list
- 1st January - Data-driven society: utopia or dystopia?
- 1st January - Are social networks a public health issue?
- 1st January - Commit to improving your security in 2018
- 1st January - Now are the Olympics
- 1st January - How to run an Open Source project
2017
- 31st December - The internet needs distributed DNS
- 31st December - Succeeding with innovation projects
- 31st December - Facebook is an instrument of the state
- 31st December - The importance of downtime
- 30th December - Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- 30th December - Caulfield’s predictions for 2018
- 30th December - The best album covers of 2017
- 30th December - Moving down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs using OER?
- 30th December - Potentially huge wind farm proposed in the North Sea
- 30th December - Few possessions
- 30th December - Few posessions
- 30th December - Few posessions
- 29th December - Is that you, Mother?
- 29th December - Lunatics
- 29th December - How to defuse remote work issues
- 29th December - The benefits of decentralised decision-making
- 29th December - It’s called Echo for a reason
- 29th December - Your New Year’s resolution for 2018? Ditch Facebook.
- 29th December - The Horizon stops here
- 28th December - Does it take Trump to make badges go mainstream?
- 28th December - How to get people to pay you what you’re worth
- 28th December - Building a home online
- 28th December - Purely technological answers to human problems don’t work
- 27th December - Nobody likes a goody two-shoes
- 27th December - Life in the outrage economy
- 26th December - Decentralised projects to explore in 2018
- 26th December - Brexit Britain means food prescriptions on the NHS
- 25th December - What to tell your kids about Santa Claus
- 24th December - 2018: the year of Linux on the desktop?
- 24th December - What you read determines who you are
- 24th December - The immorality of retaining wealth
- 24th December - Sticks and stones
- 24th December - Blockchains are boring
- 23rd December - The upside of kids watching Netflix instead of TV
- 23rd December - Human Extinction
- 23rd December - How to be a consultant
- 23rd December - Ethical business means fair pay (and co-ownership?)
- 22nd December - Reputation on the dark net
- 22nd December - Is it pointless to ban autonomous killing machines?
- 22nd December - Your brain is not a computer
- 22nd December - High-performing schools in England less accessible since 2010
- 22nd December - Silicon Valley looking to skills from the Humanities
- 21st December - Problems with reputation in the gig economy
- 21st December - Digital literacies and ‘proximal depravity’
- 21st December - How ‘flu kills people