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#258: My reading list (fiction, addictive)
I finally catalogued it
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#241: The fantasy of the “saved folder”
I recently came across an Instagram Reel in which a woman asked viewers if they remembered what video they’d watched two swipes ago.
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#229: Living to please your future self
I recently came across a screenshot in my phone of a social post with over 10,000 likes.
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A million iPhone photos or...?
(16 mins) | Hey! I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between documenting our lives and memorializing them—inspired by friends of mine who are…
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#175: Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!
Eight years and one week ago I came to New York in a rush—broke my lease, quit my job, and booked a one-way ticket from San Francisco, afraid my new…
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#172: Trick questions
When the answer isn't actually the answer
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#146: The problem with “being present”
Digital photography did away with everything annoying about film: the waiting, the choosing, the not-knowing. In turn, we got new problems: neuroticism…
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#113: The new quantified self
Read 200 books, expand your consciousness 200x!
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#108: In fear of forgetting
A vacation sickness
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#87: Stupid hobbies
On an ill-advised vlog turned heaven
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#74: What makes an image “cursed”?
It feels almost sacrilegious to define what makes an image cursed. It will certainly make the images less funny. But for the sake of interpretation, I…
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#71: Always watching
Some time in July, Avi and I bought two in-home cameras so we could keep an eye on our cat if we had to leave him alone for a while. I know that sounds…
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