Weeknotes: Jan 4 – 10, 2025

Reilly shared this blog tag game and Dom tagged me so I’ll join in! 1. Why did you make this blog in the first place? My domain had sat stagnant as a hand-coded HTML site for many years as I had it in my head that I needed to design websites from scratch, and I […]

An oldie (2006) that I rediscovered as I’ve been cleaning out my music collection — this is the mellowest song on the album, Never Had a Chance is fun, I also liked the song Free.

Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day says content moderation died on January 6, 2021: [T]he Insurrection was the first time Americans could truly see the radicalizing effects of algorithmic platforms like Facebook and YouTube that other parts of the world, particularly the Global South, had dealt with for years. A moment of political violence Silicon...

Ingrid Fetell Lee with the wisdom in her email newsletter: Progress is the tangible evidence that we’re moving closer to our goals. We’ve been conditioned to measure success in terms of progress… Growth is a subterranean shift, not what you made or did, but a change in who you are. It’s hard to measure, harder […]

Add friction to the activities you’d like to change, and remove friction from the things you’d like to do more of. This is usually applied at a personal level, but we can think of it across communities, too: Where is there friction in our community that blocks people from participating in the ways we’d like? […]