Reading Time: 3 min Google is no longer the darling that it once was. While it’s still clearly a huge, powerful and (generally) helpful company, it’s trending the wrong way. Business Insider compares Google to lumbering giants like IBM, and last year I shared how Google’s treatment of RSS ended up being horrible for the health of the internet […]
The Serendipity Vehicle
Reading Time: 2 min Serendipity is one of those things that just seems to kind of happen on its own, similar to luck. However, just like luck, you can do things to make those random bits of serendipity happen more often. David Perell feels that writing can be the best kind of networking, and I tend to agree. In […]
The Sunday Summary: High ranking blogs, crypto scams, and finding the nuance in the middle
Reading Time: < 1 min In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, March 11: Just do itIf I take the time to think “should I work out today?” or “should I blog today?”, the answer might be no. Instead, I […]
20 years of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min 20 years ago tomorrow, on March 17, 2004, I published my first blog post. Or least, it’s the oldest that I can find. WordPress was less than a year old, and my first post regarding WordPress came just a few weeks later. I’ve been hit or miss over the years. There were some very slow […]
Nuance is almost always correct
Reading Time: < 1 min As we head into this election season in the U.S., political nuance is likely to continue to be absent. As I shared a few years ago, moderate viewpoints tend to squashed, as it’s much easier to pick an “us” and a “them” and just fight. That also leads to very few people that are willing […]
Pig butchering for cryptocurrency
Reading Time: 2 min It’s a weird-sounding name, but you’ve likely seen it happen. You get a weird text from an unknown number, with something fairly innocent like “how are you doing?“, and it slowly evolves into a full conversation. The text is from a scammer, and over the course of a few days they try to build a […]
Processes over routines
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently shared more thoughts on have routines instead of goals (“Just do it“), but in some cases processes can beat routines. For exercise and learning, I think routines can be great, but if your life is more varied it can be hard to stick to a routine. In those cases, processes can take over […]
Blogs are still among the highest-ranking pages
Reading Time: < 1 min While it’s been well-established that users don’t click on the “blog” page for most sites, having those posts can still be incredibly valuable. The purpose of most blogs (not this one) are to drive people to the website via Google search, and then lead them to the pages that matter (registration, purchase, etc). For those […]
Just do it
Reading Time: < 1 min As time goes on, I’m finding it easier and easier to “just do” things rather than considering whether they should be done today or tomorrow. This blog is a good example; I don’t even consider whether I’m going to publish each morning, I just do it. The same goes for studying Anki cards, working on […]
The Sunday Summary: New habits, bad recommendations, and billionaires who read a lot
Reading Time: 2 min In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, March 4: In the last five years, what new habit has improved your life the most?“When I’m old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel […]