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March 2021

i'm on paternity leave
My daughter was born at 5:56pm on Friday.
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Alex Hern
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don't get firewood from the fruit-bearing trees
Charles C. Mann, in his book 1491, writes about the Americas before Columbus. It's a work of popular revisionist history – which is to say, it's more…
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Alex Hern
spotify
One of the sillier ways to do journalism is when companies don't bother to check if you're a journalist before running experiments on you. It's not big…
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the nft letter
NFTs, then.
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February 2021

news hokey-cokey
Facebook's week of dancing the hokey-cokey – it put the news tab in, it pulled the news tab out, it out the news tab in and it shook it all about – is…
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this email is being tracked
Every industry has practices that burst into flames on contact with the public. Things which are accepted, and not even doubted, within the field, but…
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bitcom
For someone who is not particularly interested in bitcoin I spend an awful lot of time talking about bitcoin.
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the gamestop email
Because these emails come out on Wednesdays – please do not check previous publication dates, they always come out on Wednesday and have never been late…
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Alex Hern

January 2021

monsters, hunted
This week, I wanted to talk about the single worst game design choice I've seen in a very long time.
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open source
Elastic is an open-source software company which makes a product, Elasticsearch, that companies use to make cloud widgets do stuff better.
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i jinxed it
"I'm optimistic about this year" was how I ended last week's email.
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