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Going Into the Office to Zoom with Colleagues
Anne Helen Petersen:
On college campuses across the United States, staff are back in the office. More specifically, they’re
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Give Me More $20 Games I Can Beat in a Weekend
PS5 Boss Wants Future Games To Be As Popular As Music
“Right now, we are narrowing ourselves down into genres and sequels and certain types of games,” Shawn Layden, former CEO of SIE Worldwide Studios, told GamesIndustry.biz in July. “Favourites like my own, like Parappa and Vib-Ribbon, those things don’t seem to
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Facebook’s PR Landslide
Why Facebook is spiraling - by Casey Newton - Platformer
And so once again, even when the details are wrong, I think the scrutiny is broadly right. How does Facebook affect our mental health? How does it affect our politics? What does it know about itself that it has so far declined to share?
These strike me
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What Happens to All this Rage?
What Do We Do With All This Rage? - Charlie Warzel
When I walk around public spaces now — no matter where — I find myself thinking about the vaccination status of those around me and whether some reckless person will turn me into a vector for disease that will get my father-in-law or my friends&
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It’s All About Storytelling
Life by anecdote | Seth's Blog
“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind?”
The honest answer to this question is usually: “I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now.”
Stories are way more powerful
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Consumerism as Patriotism
How 9/11 convinced Americans to buy, buy, buy:
This version of patriotism — consumer patriotism — was on full display after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 in 2001. The message from political leaders was that the way for Americans to move past the
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I'm Not Sure Anything's Different This Time
Changing The Facebook Conversation - Charlie Warzel
And what Haugen is doing here is articulating a very powerful point that many Facebook users still take for granted: What you see on Facebook is not organic presentation of information. It is the result of decisions made for you by the company’s software, which follows its leaders’
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Ted Lasso is No Superhero (he's even better than that)
Ted Lasso is No Superhero - Sophie Gilbert
One character alone can’t fully rid pop culture’s masculine paradigm of
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Okay, Walmart 👀
Walmart has announced stores will be closed Thanksgiving this year:
Today, Walmart announced all U.S. store locations will close for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, as a ‘thank you’ to associates for their continued hard work during the pandemic.
I mean okay, you're totally doing it as a "thank you to your
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Hot Takes Today, Claim Chowder Tomorrow
Daring Fireball: The AnandTech A15 SoC Performance Review
A thorough review, as usual. Interesting to contrast with Dylan Patel’s much-publicized “Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim” hot take last month, just after the Apple event.
To summarize the situation:
1. Apple announces the A15 chip and compares
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I Want to Root for the Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Go 3 review: Third time isn't quite the charm - Engadget
But the full truth of the Surface Go 3 is a little more complicated. You need to shell out at least another $100 for a keyboard. And, seeing as Windows still doesn’t offer a great tablet experience you need the
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Paddle Tries to Revamp In-App Purchases
Paddle In-App Purchase for iOS
When selling with Paddle, your apps stay on the App Store, but we make the sale – just like Apple. This means we’re liable for all the painful purchase admin, from global sales taxes to customer support. There’s nothing new for you to worry about.
Paddle might be
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What Does it Mean to be Endemic?
Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means.
So here’s a thread on how pandemics end. pic.twitter.com/uuYinUcynb
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) October 1, 2021
This is
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Time to Expand the Apple Watch Lineup?
David Smith (Underscore) wrote about using a Coros Apex Pro,
The Apple Watch simply does too much. It is essentially a small iPhone, incredibly capable of a mind-bendingly wide range of tasks. This flexibility is part of its charm, its appeal. But it is also necessarily a profound stumbling block for more specialized roles.
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Your Next Task Manager Might not be a Task Manager
Your Next Productivity Tool is…. How Planner Apps Will Rise & To-Do Apps… | by Francesco D'Alessio
I believe your next to-do list application, won’t be a to-do list app. The next major productivity application will be a planner application.
Francesco makes a concise argument why traditional task managers are
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Another Reason Grindstone is Awesome
How 'Grindstone,' a Game About Matching Colors, Solved Its Colorblind Issue:
"How do we even address an
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The War for Engagement
The war for engagement - Axios
Engagement, not pay or perks, is the leading indicator — and chief reason — for the record turnover many companies are experiencing today.
I think the pandemic has made almost everyone think in a different way about what they’re doing with their lives. Whether you lost your job or not, this
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Apple’s Biggest Camera Update Yet?
iPhone 13 Pro Review: Another Step Forward – Greg Morris
I am not sure that it is, as Apple say, the biggest camera update yet, but it is a big one. With all this said most people won’t be able to tell the difference in the images from any iPhone in the last 3 years