Facebook is Run by Entitled Idiots
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My first interactions with Facebook were wonderful, I used it to find a high school friend only to find out they lived an hour away and had got back together with their high school sweetheart who was also a friend. I connected with them and we had dinner where they got to meet my wife.
Nora Loreto’s Advice to Fight Power in a Digital Age
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We read this for January 2026 book club. Join us for weekly content on books. While Nora Loreto’s book is specifically focused on feminism in Canada, the principles of activism in Take Back the Fight apply broadly to all activism in today’s digital world. Both feminism and freedom (see next months book At a Loss
Why Your Productivity Systems Collapse
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Sure the Internet is amazing. You can start today with a tool like Obsidian then head to r/ObsidianMD or YouTube and find many creators willing to show you their note system, including myself. Unfortunately this also brings along complexity to the beginner who doesn’t need the solutions being pedalled as they start their note journey.
How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode
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I use Org Mode to manage my tasks but Obsidian to manage my research notes and writing. That often means I have an Obsidian link embedded in a .org file and I need to open it. Out of the box Org Mode has no idea what a link beginning with obsidian: means but with the
Can Scott Galloway Teach You To Be a Man
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Many words have been written about the male loneliness epidemic, as well as the rise of the manosphere with its myriad toxic personalities who pedal fixes for the lack of manly men, which often involves putting down women and lean into misogyny if they don’t outright support misogyny. Into this world Scott Galloway steps with
When Power Defines Speech, Dissent Becomes Terrorism
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Free Speech is an idea ingrained in much of the democratic world, or at least it should be. The problem with free speech is that it is defined by those in power. Those in power are almost always white men, who find reasons to define any activism that might threaten their power as terrorism. The
Note Cards vs Obsidian – The Friction You’re Missing
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In response to my recent post on slow note taking Robert asked about the note card method supported by Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday and a number of other writers. If I think that friction is good in taking my notes on books, why isn’t greater friction in my notes better? Won’t touching the note cards
Did Bezos say the quiet part out loud?
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Not according to Matt who did take the time to listen to the whole interview (I haven’t) and form his own conclusions on what was said. I get it, I easily fall into the idea that Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and their ilk are asshats and they often are. But not everything they say is anti-consumer
Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow
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In my productivity system post I talked about a custom view I use to track tasks than need to be talked about in my weekly meetings. I use two different tags to accomplish this: Today we’ll take a look at how this works by first showing the whole chunk of code, then working through it
Cory – Blocking Countries because of scrapers
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What the title says, Cory is blocking countries due to misbehaved scrapers. We do a bit of this at work, blocking misbehaving countries when they flood our sites with traffic. There is very little reason that anyone should be visiting the website of a city unless they live in the city, maybe the city next
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