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Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post.

In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience.

Get in, loser, we’re doing an old-fashioned conversation-by-blog-post.

Some of you know me because of a daily political newsletter project I ran in 2017-2018 centered on American politics.

In October I gave a talk at Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine, a small and intimate tech conference with a big impact in the industry.

I feel objectively worse than I did in 2016.

Omnivore is a read-later app.

I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately, for no reason at all connected to the news or the state of social media or the way we’ve constructed an economic sytem that allows petulant man-children to set billions of dollars on metaphorical fire beca…

The concept of “work” is a Rorschach test, an inkblot that you can project pretty much anything onto.

Sometimes it feels like there’s no point to writing unless I have a competely original idea.