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📱 tech

  • What if this is the new normal?

    Last week a friend told me she’d decided to go ahead with a necessary but non-urgent surgery. She’d been putting it off because of the pandemic – but now? Better…

  • I’m about halfway through reading Discontent and Its Civilizations, by Mohsin Hamid, and already I want to go right out and read all the other books he mentions. Also, I…

  • https://longreads.com/2020/06/18/the-long-con-of-britishness/ This. This is great.

  • Inner Landscape

    One recent Sunday afternoon I went for a ‘distanced’ hike with a good friend I hadn’t seen since shelter-in-place began. She and I have always been hiking buddies; most of…

  • Settling in

    So whatever this is, we’re past the beginning. We’re past the new. We’re past the where-is-my-charger, I-can’t-find-the-connector-cable, what-should-I-eat-for-lunch-every-day. We’re past do-I-still-wear-makeup-and-shower-in-the-morning. We’re past wondering if there will be eggs and…

  • The (online) social network I wish we had

    I work at Google. Everything posted here is my personal opinion and content, and in no way Google’s official take on anything at all. March 15, 2020 Over on Twitter,…