Things I’ve written

1. 29 July 2023

   The devastation of marking things read

   We are fooling ourselves in work and in life with the never-ending feed and the never-doing-anything-else.

2. 11 September 2021

   A month in Europe

   I spent September 2001 backpacking around Europe. I returned to a different place than the one I’d left.

3. 18 January 2021

   A reluctant Apple Watch user’s review

   I spent years avoiding owning an Apple Watch but I finally gave in.

4. 22 August 2020

   The future of mobile storytelling

   Blogs went away for a reason. What are the new ways we can express ourselves that we haven’t figured out yet?

5. 17 February 2020

   Did you find this review helpful?

   The internet is an unforgiving place for the deliberative man.

6. 13 January 2020

   A blogger’s community

   Stumbling onto my own blog’s ancient comment section reminded me what I’ve been missing.

7. 23 September 2019

   I’m not a woke PM but I play one on TV

   Why Justin Trudeau’s racist past matters, but not for the reasons you think

8. 6 January 2015

   Rank accomplishment

   Promotions using military ranks are a strange way to recognize employee contributions.

9. 4 January 2014

   The act of photography

   Even as smartphones take over photography, there will always be room for other ways of shooting — even your Velvia slide film.

10. 21 January 2013

    Flat interface style in the retina age

    Don’t give up on shadows and depth just yet — the artifice is part of the affordance.

11. 8 October 2012

    The value of a subscriber

    So wait: you will subsidize my online subscription if I subscribe to that big heavy Sunday print edition?

12. 22 August 2012

    Simple isn’t enough

    Simplicity is an end, not a means, and don’t confuse it for the feeling of effortlessness in complex tasks.

Writing from 2000–2011 (thar be dragons)