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Real life's a mess
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Real life's a mess

A lunch goes sideways when a guest’s emails spark a mix-up. It’s a lesson in life’s uncertainty vs. digital’s fake ease. On embracing the mess.
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R-ght to Canopy
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R-ght to Canopy

A brief catching up. Fourteen months ago I left Mural, my work
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Apps are traps
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Apps are traps

The usual frame is that there's an app for anything you'd want to do. But that frame hides a cost.
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Conspiracy is a system

An update to Hanlon's Razor that accounts for systems.
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Uncertain thoughts
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Uncertain thoughts

An exploration into uncertainty.
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Going cyborg
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Going cyborg

Is it inevitable that mankind must merge with machine?
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Improving the world by staying silent

Sometimes, as Paul Portesi puts it, you have to get small.
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Frontier, stagnation, cycle
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Frontier, stagnation, cycle

Thoughts on the cyclical nature of exploration and exploitation.
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Creativity and constraints

I've long held that creativity requires constraints. Putting these thoughts down.
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The Age of Too Much

Have you noticed you have an attention problem? There are only so
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How Normal People Are Turned Into True Believers
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How Normal People Are Turned Into True Believers

Could You Join a Cult? You've likely never worried about
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To exist is to aggress
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To exist is to aggress

Pacifism is the belief that violence is unjustifiable under any circumstances, and
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