The iPad Ideal
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This was the ideal I hoped would happen with my iPad. The reality of my iPad usage is that it mostly sits with my bicycle training station and runs the app that connects to my trainer. I watch YouTube videos on it while I ride, or watch YouTube videos while I deal with laundry. While…
All about Reading Books for 2025 – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members become one to keep the content coming. Reading for 2024 – read more?? In 2024 (46 books as of writing) I read more than 2023 (31 books total) which makes me happier but is still below the previous 9 years of around 70 books per year. I’m not…
User hostile operating systems steal time
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While Ed’s story of crappy tech points directly to a Windows computer, Apple isn’t much better. Yes the hardware is nicer so you don’t have multiple minutes to wait while you login in, but it’s also more expensive meaning that many people couldn’t afford the supposedly “better” experience. Then if you’re a power user Apple…
Monetization Christmas Miracle at YouTube
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A few days ago I was one of the many people that did something to support a creator that YouTube demonetized and wouldn’t communicate with. Well she’s back and that’s good and all, but damn YouTube is broken. You have to have a big enough channel go viral and get lots of complaints for YouTube…
Performative Reading
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This was a good video about the pressure of reading, at least for those with a YouTube channel that is all about books. I’m writing more about reading for 2025 tomorrow, but just do what you want. Read the books you’re interested in and read as much, or as little as you want. My best…
Never rely on money from YouTube
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This story is exactly why I will never rely on money from YouTube. The byzantine rube goldberg machine process required to still never get answers is terrible, but since YouTube has no viable competitors they can keep being crappy to creators and not suffer any consequences of their actions. Yes I’ll keep making videos and…
People and Blogs by Manuel
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Latest entry in People & Blogs by Manuel. I only recently came across this site so didn’t realize it was a recurring series of posts but I love it. I’ve been recently thinking about how to increase the other writers/sites I highlight and this might be a good idea I can riff on to help…
And now I own a Yacht
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Back in 2014 the billionaire Nick Hanauer appealed to other 0.01%ers to support raising the minimum wage to $15/hour because it would promote equality. Sitting 10-years later I can’t look at the article as anything but laughable in that it tries to sound reasonable and appeal to rich people and at the same time sound…
Crushing Someone Else’s Site with Traffic
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Manu wrote about a Hacker News traffic spike and then wondered about the cost affect a link could have to other sites. I’d love to reassure Manu that if he linked to my site and real people visited I’d be happy to pay some extra to my hosting company for some real possibly interested traffic.…
Is Substack so Bad? – 3 Threads
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Want to support my writing, share it. Put a link on your blog or share it on social media. Write it on a postcard and leave it at your local coffee shop. Note: Not 3 threads today but one longer piece. Regular programming should resume. Prompted by this very reasonable sounding podcast with the CEO…
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