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Step aside, phone: closing thoughts

Four full weeks of paying more attention to phone screen time are behind us, and it’s time for some closing thoughts on this experiment. But first, a quick recap of how the final week went. The average was slightly higher than the previous 3 weeks, and that was mainly due ...

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Eric Schwarz

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Eric Schwarz, whose blog can be found at schwarztech.net. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members...

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Step aside, phone: week 3

Three-quarters of the way through this “challenge”, and the findings are mostly the same. Phone usage is very easy to keep in check if you decide to put your mind to it. The past seven days have been very similar to the previous seven, and that’s good, since this type of pho...

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Dominik Schwind

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Dominik Schwind, whose blog can be found at lostfocus.de. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members...

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Interviews, interviews, interviews

For some weird combination of factors, I ended up answering questions to three different people for three entirely unrelated projects, and all three interviews went live around the same time. I answered a few questions for the Over/Under series run by Hyle. Love the concept,...

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Step aside, phone: week 2

Halfway through this enjoyable life experiment, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results. As I mentioned last week, I was expecting week two usage to be a bit higher compared to week one, where I went full phone-rejection mode, but I’m still pleased with how low my usa...

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Updated thoughts on People and Blogs

This is a follow-up on my previous post. After talking to a few friends and getting feedback from the kind people who decided to email me and share their thoughts, I decided that I will stop once interview number 150 is out, on July 10th. 150 is a neat number because it mean...

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Stefano Verna

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stefano Verna, whose blog can be found at squeaki.sh. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Ben Werdmuller and the ...

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An incomplete list of things I don’t have

Hair. A nice beard. Savings. Debt. A house. Subscriptions to video streaming services. A piece of forest. Kids. A wife. A husband. Hands without scars. Arms without scars. Legs without scars. A face without scars. A monthly salary. Paid vacations. Happiness. Things I’m proud of. A normal dog. Social media profiles. Investments. Plans for the future. Plans for the present. Plans for the past. A camera. Concrete goals. Wisdom. Ai bots. Ai companions. Ai slaves. Fancy clothes. Colognes. Fame (although I am quite hungry). Faith. Horses in the back. 99 problems. Enlightenment. A daily routine. Willingness to write long posts.

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Step aside, phone: week 1

First weekly recap for this fun life experiment. To remind you what this is all about: in order to help Kevin get back to a more sane use of his time in front of his phone, we decided to publicly share 4 weeks of screen time statistics from our phones and write roundups ever...

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David Cain

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with David Cain, whose blog can be found at raptitude.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Neil Gorman and the oth...

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A random list of silly things I hate

«Not sure if this can turn into a blogger's challenge», he said. Well, we can certainly try:

  1. Blogs that don’t have a contact email.
  2. The smell of cauliflowers when they’re cooking.
  3. Drivers who do not respect safety distances.
  4. Loud people in public places.
  5. Loud people in general.
  6. All the bros: crypto-bros, ai-bros, gym-bros.
  7. When you go buy something online, and only your size is sold out.
  8. People with no spatial awareness at the supermarket.
  9. Green shield bugs.

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Step aside, phone

I was chatting with Kevin earlier today, and since he’s unhappy with his mindless phone usage, I proposed a challenge to him: for the next 4 weeks, each Sunday, we’re gonna publish screenshots of our screen time usage as well as some reflections and notes on how the week wen...

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Frances

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frances, whose blog can be found at francescrossley.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Travis Schmeisser an...

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Adblocking ≠ Piracy

I told Kevin I was going to write this post since we were discussing this topic the other day. This is my half of the argument; maybe he’ll write an “Adblocking = Piracy” post on his site if he finds the time between one meeting and the other. I am not the first person to wr...

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Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web

In the spirit of the open web, I’m writing this post to disagree with something someone else has posted on their own site. Specifically, a post titled “Ad Blockers helped kill the open web” by Christian Heilmann. I 100% agree with Christian when he writes that: The experie...

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A moment with a message from the past

Visited Palmanova plenty of times in my life but never paid attention the writings at the center of main square.

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Nikita Prokopov

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nikita Prokopov, whose blog can be found at tonsky.me. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Gary Online and the ot...

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Digital resistance

One of the blogs I’ve been paying closer attention to over the past few weeks is patrickrhone.net since he’s doing a great job in commenting and sharing both the awful things that are happening in Minnesota, where he’s based, but also some of the positives that are coming ou...

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Sharing is caring

Even though he again misrepresented the point I made in a previous post and he also attributed me things I never said, I'm still going to share this post by Baldur Bjarnason, because he touches on many important topics worth thinking and talking about, especially at this spe...

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A follow-up on a follow-up

I already wrote a follow up to my previous post but while that was happening Bix wrote something on their site and in there there’s a perfect passage which illustrates way better the point I was attempting to make (not hard to do, considering I am not a great writer) and I’l...

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Ryan

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Ryan, whose blog can be found at laze.net. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Piet Terheyden and the other 122 m...

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I’m bad at coming up with examples

Yesterday I wrote something. It was, as it often is, the result of reading something I didn’t agree with. If you have read anything on this blog before, you probably know I like to make stupid and extreme examples to illustrate the point I’m trying to make in a specific post...

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Moral false dichotomies

One of the things that irks me the most when it comes to human interactions, is seeing people judging other people based on moral false dichotomies: you said you enjoy some piece of creative work, that creative work is related to a creator who might have said or done somethi...

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Thoughts On People and Blogs

As I mentioned to the supporters on Ko-fi a week ago, I am currently considering the possibility of pausing the series at the end of this third year, with the last interview going live on August 28th. There are a few reasons for this. The first reason is that running the ser...

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Web, Social Networks, Social Web

The other day, a podcast episode caught my attention. It was titled “Can We Build a Better Social Network”, and it was a collaboration between Hard Fork and Search Engine. I thought it was just a discussion about the state of social networks, but then I read the description ...

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Yancey Strickler

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Yancey Strickler, whose blog can be found at ystrickler.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Alexey Starosele...

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How You Read My Content

A week ago, after chatting with Kev about his own findings, I created a similar survey (which is still open if you want to answer it) to collect a second set of data because why the heck not. Kev’s data showed that 84.5% of responses picked RSS, Fediverse was second at 7.6%,...

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A moment with tea

Learning to appreciate different flavors is something that comes very hard for me. And yet, for some reason, tea is one of those things that no matter how hard it is for my tastebuds, I’ll constantly come back to.

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Bix Frankonis

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Bix Frankonis, whose blog can be found at bix.blog. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Robin Harford and the oth...