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🎆 End of the Year Blowout! (Newsletter #96)
Hello and welcome to the first brand new issue of The Birchtree Newsletter! The back end has been swapped out,
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Critics vs "Real People": Rotten Tomatoes (and Letterboxd) Data Tells All
A thing I've seen crop up over the past few years has been people lamenting how film critics
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That Sounds Way More Creepy
Jesse Pujji in a Twitter thread on why Facebook isn’t “always listening” to you and why they don’t
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Why we Argue About Die Hard
Is [REDACTED] a Christmas Movie? - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Because of the dreaded incentives of social media, we force debate upon
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Sewing Doubt
Tim Harford on The New Bazaar podcast:
Cigarettes smokers are going to eagerly grab onto any evidence they can to
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Housekeeping on the Newsletter Change
I wanted to address a couple things that I didn’t mention in my original post announcing the newsletter changes.
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🎄 That's a New Look! (Issue #95)
Hello and welcome to the new and improved newsletter! Long story short, the look is a bit different, the name
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Where do You Post Ephemeral Thoughts?
Finding the Right Place
There’s a type of content, that I can’t quite put my finger on what
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Let’s Pretend the Last 20 Years Never Happened
Ben Thompson writing for Stratechery:
Skeptics argued for years that “That’s fine for Ben”, the insinuation being that I
Improve Your Pitch, Don't Just Tell People They Don't Get It
Yesterday I tweeted out a remix of a video Elon Musk tweeted out. The original was a video of Jason
Photography Needs to be Fun
I was very high on Glass, a new photo sharing app this summer, but my enthusiasm for it has dropped
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My Interview with Craft VP of Engineering on Craft 2, Extensions, the Web App, and More
Craft 2.0 released a few weeks ago, and it had some things I really wanted more details about, so
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AirPods 3 Review
This has been a draft for over a month and I haven't known what to say, so here&
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What Should I Do With My Newsletter?
Let's do some open sharing of information…here's my subscriber count for my Birch Bark newsletter
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Share What You Know
There's an old joke that on the internet no one knows you're a dog. It'
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The Model is Being Pushed to Its Limits
The Verge has some new reporting that includes emails between Microsoft and Apple, negotiating what could be done to bring
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Overly-Invasive Employee Work Tracking
Here’s a snippet from Out of Office (I’m listening to the audiobook, so this was transcribed using Draft’
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Glass Added a Like Button!
Me 2 months ago on why Glass should add a like button:
Maybe this is a terrible idea and I&