newsletter

08
Dec

Big, clumsy, hairless cats

After my last Grinch-who-stole-Substack post, I thought I would lighten the mood a little and take it down a notch
2 min read
04
Dec

So long, and thanks for all the bile

This was my last post on the Substack platform. If you received this in your email inbox, nothing will change
6 min read
25
Nov

Fix your broken UI before you build your shiny AI

I attended a couple of conferences over the last week-and-a-bit. They were good. Good content, good speakers, good side conversations,
4 min read
14
Nov

The culture that changes the culture

I’m writing on a different topic from the one I originally had planned this week. My thoughtfully curated content
9 min read
06
Nov

Circling back, doubling down

Hello dear reader, I hope all is well. This week’s dispatch is a tiny bit more opinionated than previous
6 min read
28
Oct

My musical immersion (Taylor’s Version)

So this is a bit of a deviation from the norm for me (can you even have a norm after
4 min read
23
Oct

Finding the joy in enforced delay

In my less successful moments as a parent, I’m prone to stumbling into the it-wasn’t-like-this-when-I-was-your-age trap. I say
5 min read
13
Oct

The last, greatest, totally harmless social network?

One of my favourite chapters in Ben Smith’s Traffic, crucial reading if you’re interested in how the web
4 min read
07
Oct

This newsletter will, literally, change very little

‘Automation’ is one of those words that sets me on edge. Maybe it’s because my brain immediately associates it
3 min read
28
Sep

Overlong, overwrought intro

It’s an undeniable fact that there are already too many words on the Internet. In an age of a
4 min read