
New post format: a weekly rollup of links, comments on those links, activity updates and attempts at humor. The intention is quicker hits in addition to the less frequent big posts and more timely hammering on my favorite themes. This is my primary hangout until the contours of the post-Twitter world become clear. Be sure…

As an everyday exercise in self-discipline, I try to resist commenting on the New York Times’ banal and tin-eared OnTech newsletter, despite its impressive daily attempts to maintain a monotonic function of being “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”. I previously suggested some ideas to perhaps make the newsletter more lively and self-aware, and hoped…