“Am I so out of touch?”

Some time around my freshman year of college, my Dad’s company gave him a phone with Windows CE on it. It quickly became a running joke in my house, because the phone was both kind of incredible, and the dumbest thing in the world. Dad hated it, surely in part because he didn’t like the […]

Push, push, push

Football has always had problems, but from a fan experience perspective, it was basically the perfect setup for a long, long time. The sport simply owned Sunday afternoons, and in many ways, Monday night, not just because it was popular, but because it was so well engineered. No baseball/basketball/hockey-style fatigue or regular season grind, everything […]

Abolishing Things

I get why people are hesitant to abolish large parts of the government. I also get why, despite this, more and more people want to abolish the Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE) agency. While ICE’s recent psychopathic-clown-show tactics have put it under a particularly bright spotlight, ultimately I think people want to “abolish” it for […]

Actually, Hacks are Bad

If I may — a “hack” is not a good thing. At their best, hacks are clever, temporary exploits that get you where you need for the time being, or if you’re a criminal, a way to bypass security that (by definition) you aren’t supposed to be bypassing. Most hacks are just crappy, lazy, unrealistic […]

Rage as a Service

Trolling people is easier than being funny or clever. This is not a new challenge, but here we are, once again pretending that failing at it is a tactic and not a weakness. “Some advertising and marketing agencies are now intentionally leaning into the volatility of the current political climate, not to take a stand […]

Accountablli-Buddy

My Theory of Productivity Allow me a theory. I probably didn’t invent this, but if I did, bully for me. Work output, when increased beyond the amount of available accountability, without a matching increase the available accountability, will never generate a lasting increase in productivity. Here’s what I mean by all these terms. Work output […]