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Careless People is a tell-all book that walks through Facebook's rampant (and criminally?) inept responses to it's growing role in global policy, from it's role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar to the election of Donald J. Trump. The book, written ...

Take My Hand, Precious Lord (also known as the inverse Precious Lord, Take My Hand) is an old gospel hymn with a unique and special tie-in to the American Civil Rights story. Written in 1932 by Thomas Dorsey after he co-founded National Convention of ...

It's been an eventful three months since my last update. I nearly burnt myself out powering through a big internal release at work in February, a season of back-to-back family activities March and April, I turned 45 at the end of April and school ...

As the world turns, so doth productivity apps churn. Readers of this blog will know I've been a user of Notion for the last seven-plus years. The block-based editor, the database features, and general "webbiness" of Notion suited me and let my inner ...

I'm finishing up my move from Notion to Obsidian and one complexity I encountered was all my saved links. In the almost seven years of using Notion, I amassed a ~1.2 GB database of links. This because of how the Notion Web Clipper creates a backup of ...

Last year I attempted to do some newsletter-style link aggregation that good intention imploded spectacularly. But I switched to Obsidian this month and now I have a better system for aggregating links (post on that coming later). Inside this issue . ...