2021
323 posts in 2021.
- Looking back, looking forward
- Gamify or be gamified
- 2021 in weeknote review
- Weeknote 50/2021
- Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is out of stock
- Weeknote 49/2021
- Sage career advice from Baltasar Gracián
- Weeknote 48/2021
- Weeknote 47/2021
- That silent disappointment face, the one that I can't bear
- Everyone has something to teach
- Ignore the sociotechnics at your peril
- Wealth is a product of luck
- Weeknote 46/2021
- Unsolicited advice might not be so bad after all?
- Peeking around corners with holographic cameras
- The impact of a plant-based diet on migraines
- Information is not knowledge (and knowledge is not wisdom)
- Start Often Finish rArely
- Pain, suffering, and scuba diving
- An ending, a beginning
- Weeknote 45/2021
- Introspections on timewasting
- Should teenagers be using social media? We probably already know the answer
- Freedom for the few vs. freedom for the many
- Games as a cultural, educational, and predictive force
- Big Tech companies may change their names but they will not voluntarily change their economics
- Momentum over details
- Aimless wandering in search of the unknown catalyst
- Surveillance vs working openly
- A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature
- Platform power and infrastructure
- Proving endemic racism and sexism in the world of football
- Just Don't Do It
- Carbon emissions per km
- Weeknote 44/2021
- Whitelabelling Stadia tech
- Build your 'castle' on land you own and control
- Retro football gaming FTW
- How to communicate remotely
- Exploration pays long-term dividends for your career
- Is this a Signal backdoor?
- Taking the long view on weekly working hours
- Climate optimism
- Middle class pursuit of pain through endurance sports is a thing
- Weeknote 43/2021
- My Gamer Motivation Profile: Skirmisher/Bard
- Why large tree-planting initiatives often fail
- Securing your digital life
- EBSN podcast series on EPALE: Re-thinking Adult Basic Skills in the 21st century
- The permanent mask
- Why go back to normal when you weren't enjoying it in the first place?
- Weeknote 42/2021
- Brand-safe influencers and the blurring of reality
- Psychological hibernation
- Twitter acknowledges right-wing bias in its algorithmic feed
- Otters vs. Possums
- What are microcredentials?
- Walking the Covid tightrope
- Kith and kin
- Bring Your Own Stack
- Fall Regression
- Weeknote 41/2021
- Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- Reducing long-distance travel
- Time millionaires
- On the digital literacies of regular web users
- Leisure is what we do for its own sake. It serves no higher end.
- UK government adviser warns against plans to force the NHS to share data with police forces
- Sports data and GDPR
- Precrastinators, procrastinators, and originals
- Why commute to an office to work remotely?
- On 'sportswashing'
- On the dangers of CBDCs
- Subsidising trains via a tax on internal flights?
- Weeknote 40/2021
- Opting out of capitalism
- Blissed, Blessed, Pissed, and Dissed
- The Stability Fantasy
- Singapore is turning into a dystopian surveillance state
- Good decision-making
- Carbon offsets are pure greenwashing
- Six Causes of Burnout at Work
- Facebook isn't just anti-competitive, it's anti-consumer
- Traffic to news sites went up during the Facebook outage.
- Who wants a metaverse created by Facebook?
- Weeknote 39/2021
- The September Series: weekend microadventuring
- Weeknote 38/2021
- I'm not flying any more
- Weeknote 37/2021
- The difference between individual and organisational decision-making
- Weeknote 36/2021
- Microcast #095 — Rewilding your serendipity surface
- Microcast #094 — Solarpunk vs technocratic pharaohs
- Microcast #093 — Boring hot dogs
- Microcast #092 — Drinking in the sunlight
- Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- Weeknote 35/2021
- Microcast #091 — Arguing in circles
- Microcast #090 — Doing what you love in an angry world
- Microcast #089 — Circumvention
- Microcast #088 — Spontaneous fluctuations
- Microcast #087 — Back in the game!
- The End of Vigilance
- Weeknote 34/2021
- How long before everyone's using decentralised messengers?
- Weeknote 33/2021
- Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
- Moral outrage and social media
- Motivating people who don't need a job
- 100% inheritance tax?
- Hang on to what you've got?
- It is a folly to expect men to do all they may reasonably be expected to do
- Culture is in a state of constant flux
- The Great Reckoning
- Brains melted like butter in a microwave
- Weeknote 32/2021
- What is 'solarpunk'?
- Global temperatures: 1980-2021
- Five-hour workdays
- The Cult of the Upper Classes
- Weeknote 31/2021
- Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- Two years of spending more time in 'dark forests'
- Act NOW to prevent the hijacking of the Open Badges standard by an IMS faction!
- Weeknote 30/2021
- Weeknote 29/2021
- Weeknote 28/2021
- Weeknote 27/2021
- Internal Google comics
- 5 main concerns of top scientists about the relaxing of UK Covid restrictions
- Skills-based hiring vs universities
- Mr Bingo's Zoom backgrounds
- On Twitter addiction
- Propeller-based car that can go faster than the wind
- Main-Character Energy
- Parasocial relationships through digital media
- The album is no longer the unit of musical currency
- Leslie Caron on Cary Grant's attitude to money
- Weeknote 26/2021
- Hemp captures more carbon than trees
- Giving work oxygen
- Moving air through a building more efficiently using a fan
- Algorithmic work overlords
- What exactly is 'hybrid work'?
- The most sustainable foods?
- Weeknote 25/2021
- Walkways lined by abandoned gestures
- Decentralised organising
- AI for auto-generated landscapes
- 95% of fish are 'dark fish'
- UK government survey into climate change and net zero
- Is the self-censorship the most dangerous form of censorship?
- New network of sleeper trains
- Why going slowly speeds teams up
- How to stop being a perfectionist
- There's a word for everything
- Specialization is for insects
- Lobsters and octopuses are sentient and feel pain
- Leadership is contextual
- How becoming a father changes men
- Online personas and liquid modernity
- The ideology of e-s-c-a-p-e
- Cultural complexes contributing to the climate crisis
- Weeknote 24/2021
- Improv as a tool for building better products
- "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
- Information means nothing by itself
- Value and liquidity of skills
- Organic Maps
- The Puritan Class
- Monetizing stupidity?
- Open Badges Verifiable Credentials
- Criminals' right to be forgotten
- The end of cookie banners?
- Positive deviance in the workplace
- Slow travel and camping in other people's gardens
- Generative art
- Social media is done
- Conceptual integrity
- Dunbar's friendship circles
- Remote workers clock up more hours, says one study
- Fractional dosing of COVID vaccines may help more people get immunity faster
- People pay selective attention to what they deem important
- No more simplified URLs in Chrome
- A point-based system for email address pronounceability
- Weeknote 23/2021
- The end of petrol stations
- A glimpse into the future of autonomous electric vehicles
- Health and sanity before profit
- Rationalising work for the 40+ brigade
- Anti-social media
- AI-generated misinformation is getting more believable, even by experts
- The end of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
- Briar now does pictures
- Who's the pet? Tarantula or tiny frog?
- More US electoral chaos to come in 2024?
- Epistemological chaos and denialism
- Information cannot be transmitted faster than the [vacuum] speed of light
- You don't have to monetize your joy
- Peer review sucks
- How to recover from burnout
- Portals to another world (or town)
- How to organise your fridge
- A cure for depression and boredom
- Killer robots are already here
- Nostalgia, friction, and read/write literacy
- Interoperability for browser plugins
- Weeknote 22/2021
- A robot that sticks to ceilings by... vibrating
- Novelty, brains, and new experiences
- Taking breaks to be more human
- The farmer uses his plough as his form of work
- Invisible sculptures are the logical conclusion of NFTs
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- Virtual brands and ghost kitchens
- Male bias in scientific trials
- Degrees of Uncertainty
- The lie of 'sovereign individuality'
- 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever
- Screenshot culture
- The world's most popular websites, mapped
- Sky pool awesomeness
- "Alexa, disable arbitration"
- Meetings as exercises in power
- Quitting instead of returning to the office
- The End of Literary Criticism
- Opportunity costs
- Anxiety and performance
- Twitter reactions
- Deepfake maps
- There's no such thing as a website or web app that doesn't need to be accessible
- Net Zero Democracy
- Human and computer memory
- Professor goes to 'TikTok University'
- Social studying
- Weeknote 21/2021
- Improving VO2max through blood protein analysis
- 3 ways to live a happier life
- On the temptation to nuke everything and start over
- Maplessness
- Digital fashion is another example of a nascent industry beset with inequalities
- Sky explosion
- The impact of decision fatigue
- Wherefore art thou, privacy?
- Badges everywhere!
- GCHQ violates our privacy
- Rat Race 2.0
- Volcano-powered electricity
- A web-based commonplace book
- Mastering a 5,400-character typewriter
- Working from near home
- Life should contain novelty
- Approaching the many-headed hydra
- Weeknote 19/2021
- Stick or twist? (dougbelshaw.com)
- 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed
- Weeknote 18/2021
- Weeknote 17/2021
- Smartwatch ramblings
- Weeknote 16/2021
- Checking out of therapy
- Weeknote 15/2021
- 100 days of #100DaysToOffload
- Unsettling
- Weeknote 14/2021
- Iterating privacy.garden
- Another new side project: privacy.garden
- How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
- Inputs and outputs
- Weeknote 13/2021
- Weeknote 12/2021
- Refactoring extinction.fyi
- New side project: extinction.fyi
- Weeknote 11/2021
- Proof-of-What?
- Weeknote 10/2021
- The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
- Everyone has an eschatology
- Weeknote 09/2021
- 'The individual' is an idea like other ideas
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue
- HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
- Refactoring eink.link
- Introducing eink.link, my new side project
- Weeknote 08/2021
- One should always be a little improbable
- Weeknote 07/2021
- Life is a great bundle of little things
- Criticism, like lightning, strikes the highest peaks
- Trust no-one: why 'proof of work' is killing the planet as well as us
- Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible
- Weeknote 06/2021
- It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish
- Taste ripens at the expense of happiness
- Investing in decentralised crypto file storage
- Weeknote 05/2021
- Continuous eloquence is tedious
- When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice
- Weeknote 04/2021
- Mediocrity is a hand-rail
- The certainties of one age are the problems of the next
- Solving for complexity
- Weeknote 03/2021
- You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism
- Most don't talk or act according to who they are, but as they are obliged to
- Weeknote 02/2021
- The problem is that the person who should be the most restrained is the least
- The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
- There are many things we despise in order that we may not have to despise ourselves
- Weeknote 01/2021
- Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled
- There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us
- Power and paths
- One can acquire anything in solitude except character
- The end of competition
- Seeing through is rarely seeing into
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self
- Everything flows
- My two biggest insights from last year
- You can never get rid of what is part of you, even when you throw it away
- You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century