Writing

Long-form essays on technology, business, design and human behaviour.
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29 Aug 2024The Depths of Ren Gill’s “Hi Ren”Ren Gill’s “Hi Ren” is an extraordinary confrontation with the self, using music and performance to explore illness, doubt, creativity and the voice inside.Psychology
12 min 28 Aug 2024The Real Cost of Fast FashionFast fashion made clothing cheaper and faster by externalising the real costs onto workers, waste and the environment. Cheap clothes are rarely truly cheap.Marketing
3 min 23 Aug 202435 on the Way to 35Thirty-five lessons gathered on the way to 35: ideas borrowed from people smarter than me, shaped by experience and revisited as another birthday approaches.Thoughts
11 min 14 Aug 20247 Conversation HacksSeven practical conversation habits for meetings and social situations, from listening more carefully to asking better questions and making people feel.Psychology
3 min 17 Dec 2023Talk to MeTalk to Me succeeds largely because of Sophia Wilde’s intense performance, turning a supernatural horror premise into an unsettling portrait of grief and.Movies
1 min 14 Nov 2023Symbiotic Relationships in TechTechnology companies often exist in symbiotic relationships, building businesses around larger platforms while remaining vulnerable to the host changing the.Business
9 min 02 Nov 2023Server Screw-UpA routine attempt to add a backup drive to my home server became a chain of mistakes, recovery work and lessons about storage, backups and respecting the.Homelab
5 min 14 Sep 2023Kindnessas a Signifier of intelligenceJ.B. Pritzker argues that kindness is a sign of intelligence because empathy requires curiosity. It is a perspective that has resonated more with me as I grow.Psychology
2 min 14 Sep 2023Jon Prosser on Marques BrownleeJon Prosser’s tribute to Marques Brownlee captures why MKBHD matters: fair reviews, exceptional production and a level of taste that has influenced an entire.Film
1 min 08 Sep 2023Atlas VPN Linux Zero-Day Vulnerability LeakedA leaked Atlas VPN Linux zero-day could expose a user’s real IP address through a local API, a serious privacy failure for software whose entire purpose is.Security
1 min 08 Sep 2023Apple Acquires Classical Music Specialty Label BIS RecordsApple’s acquisition of BIS Records adds a respected 50-year-old classical label to its music ecosystem and strengthens its growing investment in classical.Business
2 min 01 Sep 2023Misbehavior in Robot TaxisRobotaxis create a strange new private-public space, and riders are already testing its boundaries with sex, smoking and other behaviour normally hidden from.Technology
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