"I fear that, faced with the current shit show in the tech world, going back is the only sane way to survive."

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I have a strong feeling that a series of interconnected bad decisions are responsible for something that has turned almost everything to a worse version of itself.

“I don’t have anything of value.” I hear that a lot when I give tips about fire and burglary protection. When a customer said it recently, his girlfriend didn’t miss a beat: “You have me.” Touché. It was a joke, but also a truth. We take so much for granted: Family Friends Home Health Freedom We often only notice the value when it’s gone. But we don’t have to wait for that.

It's serendipitous that I discovered and decided on Bear as the home for my thinking through of publication practices. Though I'm working specifically on pri...

How self-tracking became self-incrimination

Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.

Holding onto silence as a way to steady myself in the noise.

"Forget about word counts. Set aside a bit of time every day to write — whether it becomes a blog post or not. Experiment. Explore. Play. That’s what personal blogging is all about."

html/template might not be a good programming language.

hi, i'm jenn schiffer and this is my lifestyle blog

I shoot street photography almost every day here in Oslo. Sometimes I'm on holiday and a tourist. Still, I think like a street photographer. The result is that I often come home from holiday with pictures of strangers instead of pictures of old buildings or beautiful nature.

"One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time."

"But here’s the thing... The friendships that survive adulthood’s chaos are almost always worth the effort. You are not friends because you sit in the same classroom or live on the same block. You are friends because you made the decision to invest in each other despite all the other demands on your time."

"I write knowing it may disappear. I highlight books knowing the highlights will fade. I trust that what matters will return, will find its way to the surface. I no longer worship the permanence of text."

For roughly 20 years, from the 1990s to the 2010s, the family computer (always a desktop) was the household symbol of modernity in Brazil…

While clicking through my RSS feeds, I found my way to Jay’s post titled “ Do blogs need to be so lonely?”. It’s an interesting post, especially …

Loneliness in blogging isn’t always what it seems. Even when we don’t hear the claps or see the likes, there may still be a quiet audience out there, listening.