s08e23: The Defensive Patent Pool
0.0 Context Setting I started writing this on Saturday 31 October 2020, which was Halloween (if you’re in a culture that does halloween), and two days until...
s08e22: On The Precipice, supporter edition
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, October 24 2020. There is just over a week left until the U.S. Presidential election, which is not just the U.S....
s08e22: On The Precipice
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, October 24 2020. There is just over a week left until the U.S. Presidential election, which is not just the U.S....
s08e21: An amateur with opinions
0.0 Context setting It is Saturday 17 October 2020, some time in the afternoon. Here in Portland, Oregon in the United States, it’s a mild autumn day. I can...
s08e20: *gestures at everything*
0.0 Context setting A reminder! This is my newsletter, Things That Have Caught My Attention, which is mainly about tech, policy, government, armchair...
s08e19: Why design experiences, when you can design states of mind?
0.0 Context Setting Look, just remember to stretch, OK? It’s no fun turning forty and then suddenly not being able to walk for half a day due to excruciating...
s08extra01: The One About Writing
0.0 Context setting It’s Wednesday, 5 August 2020 and yes, I am writing this one straight after the previous episode. There isn’t going to be much about the...
s08e18: QAnon looks like an alternate reality game
0.0 Context setting It’s Wednesday, 5th August 2020. This is a Very Special Episode of Things That Have Caught My Attention. Normally I write a combination...
s08e17: The One About Risk
0.0 Context setting It’s Thursday, 2 July 2020 which also means it’s my wedding anniversary. I also know it’s my wedding anniversary because Wimbledon should...
s08e16: What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts?
0.0 Context setting It’s Wednesday, 1 July 2020 and I’m listening to Carly Rae Jepsen’s Fever just finished and the Chemical Brothers’ Hey Boy Hey Girl just...
s08e15: The Location-based Pokemon Game Company
0.0 Context setting Tuesday, June 30, 2020 and a mild, overcast day in Portland, Oregon. No doubt News is happening outside whether I like it or not....
s08e14: They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They?
0.0 Context setting Good… afternoon? It’s Monday, June 29, 2020. In what appears to be a coordinated… deplatforming, Reddit banned a bunch of subreddits...
s08e13: An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society
0.0 Context setting It’s taken me two days to write and send this newsletter, when I started, I was listening to Black Violin's 2019 album Take the Stairs,...
s08e12: This Is Your Regular Reminder
0.0 Context setting Just read this one, please. 1.0 One Thing That Should Catch Your Attention 1.1 This Is Your Regular Reminder Adapted and cleaned up from...
s08e11: Aren't we all just so tired
0.0 Context setting 0.1 About You're reading Things That Caught My Attention, a newsletter of thinking-out-loud by me, Dan Hon. I write this for myself: it's...
s08e10: Take your time reading this one
0.0 Context setting Hello! It’s occurred to me in a you’re so vain, you probably think this tweet is about you way that a large proportion of you have no...
s08e09: Titles, am I right?
0.0 Context Setting It’s the afternoon in Portland, Oregon on May 9, 2020. Out on our front deck, it’s 29c/84f while the sun skulks behind cloud cover....
s08e08: That feeling of being there
0.0 Context Setting 0.1 Let’s chat on Zoom! First off: I’m going to experiment and hold a newsletter Zoom chat! Here’s the deets: Monday 23 March12:00pm to...
s08e07: *gestures at the world*
0.0 Context setting So apparently I last sent one of these on 7th March which is technically only 11 days ago. I don’t know about you but I feel like that...
s08e06: Back on the wagon
0.0 Context setting So it turns out that one way of getting past writer’s block is just to aggressively mash the keyboard and make words come out and, well,...
