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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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Alex Hern
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March 2021
i'm on paternity leave
My daughter was born at 5:56pm on Friday.
Mar 25, 2021
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Alex Hern
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don't get firewood from the fruit-bearing trees
Charles C.
Mar 17, 2021
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Alex Hern
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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.
Mar 10, 2021
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Alex Hern
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the nft letter
NFTs, then.
Mar 3, 2021
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Alex Hern
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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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Alex Hern
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this email is being tracked
Every industry has practices that burst into flames on contact with the public.
Feb 17, 2021
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Alex Hern
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bitcom
For someone who is not particularly interested in bitcoin I spend an awful lot of time talking about bitcoin.
Feb 10, 2021
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Alex Hern
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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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Alex Hern
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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.
Jan 27, 2021
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Alex Hern
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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.
Jan 21, 2021
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Alex Hern
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i jinxed it
"I'm optimistic about this year" was how I ended last week's email.
Jan 13, 2021
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Alex Hern
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