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14
Nov

Education's role in business communication dysfunction

Business communication is broken. We send so much time talking and writing (emails, text messages, Slack and Teams, etc.) but
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13
Nov

Creative vs. generative

What qualifies as creativity? How much work does one need to put into something before he can consider himself creative?
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12
Nov

Killing more trees faster

On this blog, I recently made the case for why writers should kill more trees. That sentiment doesn’t apply
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11
Nov

Make art, not friends

We’re on the fast track to THE END. Or, so some people will tell you. Especially after the latest
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01
Nov

Sam Bankman-Fried and the imperfect calculus of effective altruism

I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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28
Oct

Will either presidential candidate challenge Big Tech?

If I were a single-issue voter in 2024, I’d vote solely on how I felt the presidential candidates would
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27
Oct

Why we hate the tech industry even though we love tech

So many of us love tech yet have fallen out of love with the companies which comprise the tech industry.
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21
Oct

Is generative AI the best use of the world's electricity?

In a clip that starts a recent episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, Sam Altman acknowledges generative
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12
Oct

Living in a post-growth world

Economic growth is a hell of a drug. But what do you do when the well’s run dry? The
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10
Oct

Simplicity - The lost art we must discover

21st-century living is complicated. But must it be? When you look around you, it’s easy to feel as if
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