When the pandemic began way back in 2020, a lot of us realized how little we hard around the house, and how much we relied on frequent trips to the store. I realized as soon as things started disappearing from shelves that I’d been living on the edge regarding many…

I don’t normally write about personal things like this, but recently people have been expressing surprise when I tell them about something I do every day: 300 pushups as part of my daily workout. Anyway, I thought I’d write this post about something that has always seemed obvious to me…

So, the other day I was exploring in Tears of the Kingdom in the Akkala Highlands, and to the west I saw the trail in the sky of a falling star fragment. I watched to see where it landed, from what I could tell anyway, and immediately teleported to the…

Setting up a new computer from scratch is a huge chore. The best way to manage this process is to document every step in detail the next time you do it, so that you can be confident you can set up everything exactly as you want it to be, with…

I don’t know why, but I’ve always been especially bothered whenever I encounter someone making a certain kind of self-reinforcing mistake. I think it’s probably because I relate to them as trapped in a kind of mental prison, and tragically so, because they’re the ones holding their own cell door…

A Post in Support of the International Day Against DRM 2020 #IDAD — Command and Control in Business Management, and in Your Stuff Students of business management theory, and victims of antagonistic corporate cultures everywhere, will be familiar with the management style called “command and control”. Typically, “command and control” systems are understood to have been borrowed by industry from the military. …

Well, actually, Netflix is a pretty good way to stay stimulated and entertained when you’re stuck at home, but there are way too many hot takes out there right now, that are treating self-isolation like it’s a snow day. The reality is that COVID-19 might be around for a lot…

A lot has been written about working from home recently, and there are a lot of myths circulating, so I thought I’d set out five popular ones that you need to get out of your head, if you and your team are going to start working from home for the…

In my first year at university, I was a naive idiot in a ton of ways. One dumb thing I did was take the bus to school. Everything about it sucked: it cost money, the buses were loud and high-pitched, they were always packed, you never knew exactly when they…