Web3's Instant Rush to Centralization
Moxie Marlinspike has written my new favorite piece about the modern crypto bubble. Read the whole thing, but a few
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Apple
So, About the MacBook Pro Notch…
I’m here to say that yes, I notice the notch on the 2021 MacBook Pro every single time I
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Gear Does Matter
Two Cameras: Two Uses, by Greg Morris:
My smartphone needs to have a good camera to capture all of life&
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The Erosion if the Common Good
Anita Sreedhar and Anand Gopal writing about vaccine hesitancy in the U.S.
Public health is no longer viewed as
Apple
Fitness+ is Adding the One Feature That Could Bring Me Back!
Apple Newsroom:
Time to Run on Fitness+ is a new audio running experience designed to help users become more consistent
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What It’s Like Working at a Large Company
Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do? | Hacker News
At this point I
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The Best Book of All Time Is… (Newsletter #97)
Happy Friday! Let's roll into the weekend with a blow-out collection of links and other goodies!
The
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Dear God, I’m Writing About Star Wars
Spencer Kornhaber for The Atlantic, Why Star Wars Keeps Telling the Same Stories:
Mesmerizing fights and tasty twists will no
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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
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 (whether
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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