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going pro
I've always liked the idea that the key revolution in popular music in recent years wasn't the shift from guitar bands to electronic music, nor the…
Jun 25, 2021
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March 2021
i'm on paternity leave
My daughter was born at 5:56pm on Friday. There won’t be a newsletter this week.
Mar 25, 2021
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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…
Mar 17, 2021
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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…
Mar 10, 2021
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the nft letter
NFTs, then. The collective tech press has been workshopping a way to describe this field to the uninitiated for a few years now. The best we've all come…
Mar 3, 2021
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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…
Feb 24, 2021
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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…
Feb 17, 2021
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bitcom
For someone who is not particularly interested in bitcoin I spend an awful lot of time talking about bitcoin. In part that's because I have serious…
Feb 10, 2021
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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…
Feb 3, 2021
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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. (It's another gaming email, sorry mum. Scroll to…
Jan 27, 2021
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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. (It's not…
Jan 21, 2021
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i jinxed it
"I'm optimistic about this year" was how I ended last week's email. lol Anyway everything went downhill almost as soon as I hit send and the United…
Jan 13, 2021
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