thomasjbevan
Re:On Losing Work
on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:41AM (#31445206)
Thanks. I managed to see it as something of a blessing in disguise in the end but it took me a while to get there! Hahaha. Thanks for reading.
Non-Fungible Talent
Why Write?
How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart (1994) [pdf]
On Watching 'The Room'
Unsolicited Advice for Technology Writers (2014)
Zipcar Sucks and So Does App World
Re:Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue
on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:00AM (#27423354)
Interoperability is a dying concept sadly.
Why Are Investment Funds Obsessed with Old Songs?
Stop overstimulating your mind with digital entertainment
I Joined the Cult
Creativity Is the Smoke That Rises [pdf]
No Safe Level of Use: Strategies for Post-Social Media
Montaigne's Beams and the Right to Be Uncertain
Our Mimetic Culture
Stefan Zweig: Grand Budapest Hotel’s Inspiration
The Curse of Digital Creators
Guys to Avoid on Wall Street
Craft your own Renaissance with tips from Boccaccio’s Decameron
The organizational cost of insufficient sleep
Re:Man Against Marketing
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:58AM (#27193127)
They say the devils greatest trick was making humanity believe he didn’t exists.
And advertisers greatest trick is making you think that ads don’t work on you.
We like to think we are above it all (I know I do) but why do I drink one brand of vodka as opposed to another. Objectively they are all identical. Clearly at some point some piece of branding breached my defences, you know?
Re:Man Against Marketing
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:56AM (#27193120)
YouTube refs are great for music, but awful for any kind of ‘content’
Re:Man Against Marketing
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:55AM (#27193115)
Thanks for this.
Re:Man Against Marketing
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:54AM (#27193108)
There is more than a hint of ‘They Live’ about the whole thing.
Re:Man Against Marketing
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:53AM (#27193106)
Yeah, how Musk is generally a hero in the popular imagination of the internet rather than a Bond Villain is beyond me...
Man Against Marketing
No More Platforms Please
Oblique Strategies (Brian Eno’s card based method for promoting creativity)
Re:Science Has Been Corrupted
on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:19AM (#27129992)
Sadly it does bring to mind Pandora and her box.