Go borrow some sugar from your neighbor
Channeling Outkast a bit here, but for good measure. Continue Reading
Human Connections
Stop and think about what makes you human
I don’t mean to get super deep here or anything. You’re theoretically alive and reading this and human and you have day-to-day responsibilities and people you interact with and friends and family. Most people don’t think about it much deeper… Continue Reading
Buffer, a social media startup, let the world know all its salaries. That’s gauche, right? Or maybe it’s genius…
A little over a month ago, Buffer — a startup that, among other things, lets you schedule your social media postings — decided to publish its salary format and the salaries of all its current employees on its blog. You could… Continue Reading
On Eli Pariser and the algorithm bubble
Eli Pariser, who’s currently the chief executive of Upworthy, wrote a book in 2011 called The Filter Bubble. A nine-minute TED Talk on many of the same topics is embedded above, but essentially, the idea is that personalized search — i.e. the… Continue Reading
In which I actively consider quitting Facebook and the pros and cons therein (alternate title: the downfall of Americana)
I’ve been thinking about quitting Facebook a lot recently. In the last 2-3 weeks, it’s become almost more of a when, not if scenario. I still have some hesitations, which I’ll attempt to outline below, but I figured this was something worth discussing… Continue Reading