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The U.S. and especially the dollar are doing better than pretty much everyone right now… but haven’t we been told for years that we are now part of a globalized economy? If the EU, Japan, and China al…

What I like even less than unwanted, cheapo gifts are endless ‘not technically mandatory but it looks bad if you don’t go’ work gatherings like team building sessions, birthday parties, fall picnics, …

The fireflies and ladybugs may be disappearing, but gnats and spotted lantern flies are suddenly everywhere by me (Northeast U.S.)

> What's most disturbing is the realization that a measurable percentage of humans are just f*cked up. I already knew that. I even know the percentage roughly. According to the Pareto principl…

That’s really more of a business development question, and I’m truthfully much better at writing copy than running my business. Also, I’m unusual in that I get all my clients through word of mouth. I …

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Yeah, I know. The abundance of mediocre copywriters helps me maintain my client portfolio. I’ve had clients drop me for someone cheaper many times before, but they often come back after having a bad e…

I'm a copywriter. I've tested out several GPT-3-based services to see if they could speed up my workflow. None were up to my standards. I spent more time editing their semi-coherent output t…

VP: “I want you to prioritize everything!” OP: “That’s not how the word prioritize works.”

The level of wrong we can ascribe to holding two jobs when you’re not allowed to is minute and individual. A giant, rent-seeking POS like EFX (who already has proven itself negligent in handling sensi…

When I started seeing ads for online casinos and sports books proliferate along with the concurrent rise of buy now, pay later services, my first thought was: “This is going to end in tears.”

The most trivial but clear evidence of the power of breaks for me is a really tough crossword clue. I’ll be wracking my brain trying to get the answer and come up with nothing. Eventually I’ll give up…

We all want things. I, for example, want the U.S. government to regulate all these social networks much more aggressively given the provable and significant impact they have on elections. I know the f…

Exactly. He literally signed a contract that he tried to renege on. Now they are supposed to just take his word that everything is copacetic again?

Just because something is bad doesn't mean it can't get any worse.

That's the paradox

It's paradoxical, but a certain amount of irrational behavior can be optimal. Consider the balance between depressive realism (seeing the world so accurately that it eats away at your hope for a …

The engineers of the future will be poets -Terence Mckenna

They knew game streaming wasn't ready for prime time. The strategy, I imagine, was to get in early and suffer some growing pains to cement a toehold that positions Google as a major player if…

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” for the 21st century

I read comments and articles all the time about the quality of Google's search dropping. I haven't noticed it much in practice, but I'm persistent, use copious ad blocking, and my Googl…

> Life is not fair. In some ways it’s better that it’s not. Our perception of beauty, and marveling in its wonder, is something that makes us uniquely human. I don't know if I buy either of th…

Vernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”: https://www.tor.com/2009…

As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs …