s17e01: How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, 8 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, and most of the parts of the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 -- which is to say, the plug --...
s16e21: What We Predict; Rods for Looking at God; Tactical Auditorium
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 12 December, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where it is the afternoon and so dark. I’ve been on vacation for about three weeks!...
s16e20: Qualified Endorsements; Happiness; Writing
0.0 Context Setting Monday, 6 November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, and under the dystopian rule of the clocks having gone back one hour. 0.1 Hallway Track...
s16e19: Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 3 November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where it is cold but I suspect that's because I'm in the basement and haven't put socks on....
s16e18: Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version)
0.0 Context Setting It's Friday, 27 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am tired and have a headache and need to look at something other than this...
s16e17: Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 26 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, U.S., where there's no way to prevent the events of last night in Maine, in the only...
s16e16: Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 19th October, 2023, sitting on the sofa, in the family room, in the basement, listening to music1 on the frankly ridiculous in-...
s16e15: Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical
0.0 Context Setting I started writing this on Monday, 16 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon after driving through a foot / 30 cm of water because it was hard...
s16e14: The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs.
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 13 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and it is grey and not warm. Hallway Track 002 Registration Open Registration is now open...
s16e13: Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet
0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, 12 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I didn't write an episode yesterday and you know what? I would normally feel...
s16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants
s16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants 0.0 Context Setting Tuesday, 10 October, 2023 in Portland,...
s16e11: Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge
0.0 Context Setting It's Monday, 9 October, 2023 in Portland Oregon and we had that unseasonably warm weekend. Now we are back to relatively cold, grey, and...
s16e10: Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 6 October, 2023 in Portland Oregon and hoo boy it's going to be unseasonably warm for autumn. I described this in a chat...
s16e09: Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 5 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I had said that I was going to take a break today as an act of compassion. I have a habit...
s16e08: Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, 4 October 2023, and I've typed for a long time today. Today is over four thousand words but I swear it shouldn't be hard....
s16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, the third of November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm excited about the people who've booked a virtual coffee with me1, so...
s16e06: Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem
0.0 Context Setting A grey Monday, October 2nd 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm open for my next block of consulting work and looking for interesting people to...
s16e05: Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me
1.0 Context Setting It's Friday, September 29, 2023 and I am sat on the couch in the family room listening to Apple Music's Living in the Library Apple Music...
s16e04: Hands, Brains, Eyes
0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 28 September, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and this has been a difficult newsletter to write because the words didn't fall out....
s16e03: It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 27 September, 2023 in Portland Oregon and it is not raining right now. Thank you everyone who has sent a note -- I will be...