Category: Writing
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Apple’s Post-iPhone Era
The Vision Pro, Apple’s version of augmented reality goggles, was recently announced at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). At $3,500, it is not a B2C device. Keep in mind, it was announced at a developer conference. Keep in mind, it is effectively, a Mac on your head (at this point). Apple is relying on…
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Painting History
Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall received the deal of a lifetime when Scholastic, the publisher for books aimed at younger audiences, offered her a contract. Under this deal, her book “Love In The Library” would be distributed to schools nationwide, but with one condition: she had to edit the word ‘racism’ from her introduction. It was the…
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Troubled in Paradise
NPR’s Terry Gross interviews Mike White on his fantastic HBO series The White Lotus. White writes damaged characters, scraped with all the asphalt of our own humanity. They careen through their lives inflicting emotional violence on one another. They feel misunderstood, they judge one another, all to disservice a broader narrative. It sounds ugly but…
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Exodus
Cal Newport writing for The New Yorker: These people are generally well-educated workers who are leaving their jobs not because the pandemic created obstacles to their employment but, at least in part, because it nudged them to rethink the role of work in their lives altogether. Many are embracing career downsizing, voluntarily reducing their work…
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Age of Anxiety
This is the Age of Anxiety for the reason of the electric implosion that compels commitment and participation, quite regardless of any “point of view”. The partial and specialized character of the viewpoint, however noble, will not serve at all in the electric age. At the information level, the same upset has occurred with the…
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Protection
David McCabe and Cicilia Kang writing for The New York Times: A second provision [of President Biden’s executive order] will encourage the Federal Trade Commission to write rules limiting how the tech giants use consumer data, a response to criticism that companies like Amazon can leverage what they know about users to gain the upper…
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The Work Identity
In an interview with The Creative Independent, Jonny Sunn, author and illustrator, offers It’s related to that feeling of constantly needing to work on something or constantly needing something to fill your plate. I don’t know if I would say how we’re pressured to define ourselves by our work, or how we do define ourselves…
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Digging The Hole
My shovel is old, ragged, the wood protesting loudly in its conversation with the stubborn, packed dirt of our backyard. Schluct … schluct … I found my Cocker Spaniel, Sadie, lying by my nautilus equipment. I hadn’t seen her for the better part of the day and was a little concerned. She was old. 18…
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Distributing You
Mark Weidenbaum writing for Disquiet: Social media is “social.” Blogs are “web logs.” Social media expects feedback (not just comments, but likes and follows). Blogs are you getting your ideas down; feedback is a byproduct, not a goal. As a content creator on social media, you do not really control the channel. You do not…
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Blocked and Broken
Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck reporting for the Washington Post: Experts in free speech and technology said … issues are connected to a broader problem: overzealous software algorithms that are designed to protect but end up wrongly penalizing marginalized groups that rely on social media to build support. Black Americans, for example, have complained…