Technology, AI & Digital Life
I was sitting in a small cafe last month, waiting for a menu, when I realized there was not going to be one. Instead, there was a little laminated card on the…
I created my first email address when I was a teenager. It included a nickname that seemed very clever at the time, a random number, and an enthusiasm for a band I…
I keep an old bookmarks folder that I have carried from computer to computer for over a decade. It is called “Good stuff,” which tells you how much thought I put into…
I used to think about digital death the way most people think about flossing: something I knew mattered, filed away for a day I never quite got around to. Then a relative…
I have kept a personal blog, in one form or another, for longer than I have kept most friendships. It has moved between platforms, survived a few years of total neglect, and…
Over the course of a single month, I was asked to prove I was a real human being an unusual number of times, once by uploading a photo of a government identification…
I finally set up a password manager properly after a security scare that had nothing to do with hacking: I got locked out of an old email account I needed for a…
I canceled my last news subscription in roughly 2014 and spent a decade proudly getting my news for free, stitched together from social feeds, aggregator apps, and whatever headline a friend happened…
I noticed the shift on a Tuesday when I caught myself typing a full question into a search bar and then getting mildly annoyed that it returned ten blue links instead of…