First, I haven’t posted here in quite a while, basically not since I began my new adventure into unraveling the outrage economy. I’ve shifted my focus from building tech systems to understanding the social systems driving us apart. As a…
The Outrage Industry is not broken. It’s supposed to work this way.
I finally reached my limit. Tim Miller writes in the New York Times today: Can we ever know the full effect that years of emails, texts, Facebook ads and viral Twitter ads with doom-driven fund-raising appeals have had on the…
More fun with Wordle – Second guess analysis
Update March 26, 2022: Added some runts-to-win analysis and updated the “top-25” words again based on that data, see the update section below for details. Recently I published some analysis for that holy grail of Wordle, the best starting words:…
Fun with Wordle
I put together an app to play Wordle and to use to research various aspects of the game, including best starting words. I put this little non-technical video together as an experiment: It’s a learning experience making these videos. The…
The dine safely app for our pandemic times
I built a little app to check and grade the COVID-19 Safety Measures of our favorite dining establishments. You can check it out at: https://dinesafely.org The front-end is pretty much a bare-bones material ui react app interface initially forked from:…
What are the signs that an entrepreneur will always be small time?
A few traits that are immediate red flags for me