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My quantified year
I tracked everything I read, watched, and wore this year. This is what it taught me. First, the stats: * 4 films (in cinemas) * 4 documentaries (watched at home, not including anything I put on in the background while unwell because I wasn't really watching it) * 1 TV show
Literary Luddite's guide to Christmas
I hope you're keeping well as we hurtle toward the end of the year. Despite my best efforts, my brain is 404ing as I await surgery tomorrow so there is no article this week. Instead, I've provided an expanded version of my gift guide in case
No one has ever become interesting on TikTok
In my own hot-and-cold relationship with social media, the precipitating event for reducing or stopping my scrolling is often “when was the last time I learned something on this platform that made my life better?”. You might be thinking of some hack for folding a fitted sheet, finding discounts, or
What feel-good surveillance has cost us
Everyone loves a feel-good moment. I am as susceptible to a good ‘hopecore’ video as the next person; relishing these reminders that people are normally good to one another as a reprieve from hundreds of posts asserting the opposite. I have also experienced my fair share of feel-good moments that
The lost privilege of an ephemeral childhood
The privilege of an offline (or mostly offline) childhood is well acknowledged, including on this website. Less so is what we lost when the current social media companies cemented their place in history and the first platform you started using at 12 survived long enough for you to still be
What’s the plan if everything isn’t over?
In early 2025, my blissfully ignorant friends started asking for a download of everything I knew about the tech billionaires present at Trump’s inauguration. They knew a few of their names and recognised some of the companies they founded but were broadly sheltered from their histories and their brain
If I'm a luddite, why am I still here?
Despite the impression the name of this website may give you - I love the internet. It is directly linked to some of the best things in my life from the best friend that I met online 16 years ago to my chosen profession. I still believe in its potential
