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Why Does Everyone Want Me To Use AI To Do My Job?

Or, what is the real value in work, anyway?

Jan 24, 2024

Jan 24, 2024

“The Waste Land” at 101

How is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece holding up these days?

Jun 26, 2023

“The Waste Land” at 101

Jun 26, 2023

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White Noise Stayed True to the Book. That Might Be Why It’s Such a Mediocre Film.

It turns out the “unfilmable” label may have been correctly applied to Delillo’s masterpiece.

Feb 20, 2023

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with their children in the movie White Noise

Feb 20, 2023

AI Will Soon Put Creators Out of Work. How Should We Adapt?

A review of Daniel Susskind’s ‘A World Without Work’

Apr 26, 2022

AI Will Soon Put Creators Out of Work. How Should We Adapt?

Apr 26, 2022

Buying a House: Your Practical Introduction to Entropy

Your house would like to be a pile of sticks and other thoughts on home ownership

Mar 28, 2022

Buying a House: Your Practical Introduction to Entropy

Mar 28, 2022

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Debugger

Yes, Your Smartwatch Changes How You Think About Your Health

Why that should make you reconsider wearing one

Feb 15, 2022

Yes, Your Smartwatch Changes How You Think About Your Health

Feb 15, 2022

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Forge

An Ancient Decision-Making Technique for the New Year

Let Virgil’s “The Aeneid” guide you in 2022

Jan 4, 2022

An Ancient Decision-Making Technique for the New Year

Jan 4, 2022

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OneZero

No One Asked for the Metaverse

A small, unelected, unaccountable group of executives make sweeping decisions about how we use new technology

Oct 31, 2021

No One Asked for the Metaverse

Oct 31, 2021

Published in
Marker

I Read It So You Don’t Have To: ‘Liberty from All Masters’

A new book documents how monopoly has become the defining economic problem of our era

Oct 29, 2021

I Read It So You Don’t Have To: ‘Liberty from All Masters’

Oct 29, 2021

Published in
Marker

Chip Shortage Woes Lead to Massive Reshoring Efforts

Intel makes a big bet on American manufacturing

Oct 28, 2021

Chip Shortage Woes Lead to Massive Reshoring Efforts

Oct 28, 2021

Matthew McFarlane

Matthew McFarlane

Reader, writer, content provider. Fan of hand-made guitars, racket-based sports, and houseplants. You can find me in St. Louie.

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