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When it Works, it's Invisible
Katelyn Jetelina writing for her excellent Your Local Epidemiologist:
One of public health’s biggest challenges is that when it
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Solving Solved Problems
Ben Thompson in a subscriber update:
There was an incident with not totally legit NFTs being sold on OpenSea, and
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Introducing Quick Reviews, a Website for Making Beautiful Micro-Reviews for Books, Movies, or Whatever
Check it out here!
What is This?
Every few weeks I post something like this on Twitter:
This was a
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Apple’s Biometrics Should be Multiple-Choice
Apple’s new iPad Mini is becoming a powerful healthcare tool, by Niel Smith
The Powerful A15 Bionic chip with
So Far, Only the Good Guys are Here
A not so gentle intro to web3 - Koos Looijesteijn
Anybody can ‘mint’ an NFT of any piece of art
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What Will Replace the Smartphone?
John Gruber in response to the sugestion VR headsets will replace smartphones:
VR headsets will never replace phones. I highly
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Side Project Revenue Breakdown for 2021
2021 was easily my best year for side projects ever, and as I sit here at the start of the
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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