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I'm Still Uncomfortable With Amazon

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Amazon and my discomfort with a number of the practices that the company employed. After writing the post, I was on a kick in which I was shunning Amazon and avoiding being a consumer of their services. That lasted for about a

I'm Still Uncomfortable With Amazon
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Tumbling Down

Jonathan Haidt and his colleague, Greg Lukianoff, believe that the enormous increase in mental health issues for young women who are identified as "liberal" has to do with going through a sort of reverse CBT process. CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is one of the most effective tools for

Tumbling Down
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Is Mastodon Really Is The Spiritual Successor To Twitter?

By defining itself as the anti-Twitter, Mastodon feels like a reactionary platform.

Is Mastodon Really Is The Spiritual Successor To Twitter?
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This Time, I'm Out

After 14 years and over 10,000 tweets, I've deactivated my Twitter account. I've been critical of Twitter for a long time now without actually leaving the platform. Obviously, things have changed rapidly for the worse. When, on Saturday, Elon Musk let DT back on the

This Time, I'm Out
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Predicted Collapse

My degree is in psychology, and though I focused on family and child counseling, industrial/organizational psychology was a close second in my affections. I loved taking a case study from a disaster at NASA — like the Challenger shuttle explosion — and looking at what went wrong organizationally to allow that

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When Is Software Too Indie?

Think about the size of an independent publisher when assessing your needs.

When Is Software Too Indie?
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Your Musk, My Tusks

Twitter probably isn't going anywhere just yet.

Your Musk, My Tusks
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Blogging As Self-Care

I have been on a sort of crusade to get more people to blog recently. If I come across a person who is interesting and has something worthwhile to share, I urge them to start a blog. I have a friend at work who, in the early days of the

Blogging As Self-Care
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Minimal Mac

I was texting with an old friend the other day, and he was documenting his progress in getting three monitors set up. Since he has an M1 Mac Mini, like I do, he could only easily support two monitors. He turned to Universal Control with a MacBook Air to get

Minimal Mac
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Engaging Your Readers

How do you get readers to pay for your writing online?

Engaging Your Readers