Curtis McHale
Facebook is Run by Entitled Idiots
Nora Loreto’s Advice to Fight Power in a Digital Age
Why Your Productivity Systems Collapse
How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode
Can Scott Galloway Teach You To Be a Man
When Power Defines Speech, Dissent Becomes Terrorism
Note Cards vs Obsidian – The Friction You’re Missing
Did Bezos say the quiet part out loud?
Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow
Cory – Blocking Countries because of scrapers
The iPad is Incredible, and I Still Don’t Use It
Social Media Trains Us to Do Nothing
The 6 Best Books I Read in 2025 (Nonfiction + Fiction that Stuck)
Slurp Fixed Saving Web Articles to Obsidian
My People of Emacs
The Myth of Individual Action
Why My Reading and Note-Taking Process is Slow on Purpose
My Productivity System for 2026 is Boring on Purpose
My Kids Wanted to Recommend Books
2026 Desk Tour
My 2026 Obsidian Setup
The Best Local Music Players for Linux
3 Focus Rules I’m Taking Into 2026
Streaming Killed My Love of Music — This Fixed It
Read Later is Garbage
Celebrate Mind Changing
Setting Up org-pomodoro in Doom Emacs (Hyprland + Fedora)
When Worry Is Real, Action Isn’t Optional
On Interruptions, Availability, and Letting Things Go
A Reading Year That Left Me Worried
Borrowed Movies, Confident Machines, and the Cost of Unused Knowledge
Superman 2025
Sneaky Ads
Default Apps for 2025
Matt and the hate
The Real Work of Writing Happens in Revision
Interest, Social Darwinism and the Paladin Strait
Autocracy Inc Shows How the West Is Using the Autocrats’ Playbook
Too Many Inputs, Not Enough Attention
Quick Stereo Speaker Hack
Sex Drugs and Teddy Bears
The Web isn’t dead – be gracious with your links
The Firehose of Falsehoods is Turning Democracy into a Nazi Bar
The Rich Want You Busy, Thoughtless, and Grateful for Scraps
Anne Applebaum on Trump
Polyphia is excellent
Democracy for Me, Poverty and Exploitation for Thee
People’s Rights, Play, Local Music
Democratic Hubris
Tolerance, Match Fit, and a Music Video
What We Lost When We Made Sex Casual
The Smart Home, Dumb Trade-offs, and Tunnelling Tax
Take Sex Seriously
Writing, Kindness, Substack is lame
Dual Boot Diaries
On YouTube Sponorships
The Old Ways are More Likely to continue to Work
My Freedom Was Built Before I Was Born
Productivity as a Fetish
Synology backtracks but I’m still burned
On Pride and Purity
The Cost of Taboos, Freedom and Chronological Snobbery
Don’t Rush – On Books, Late Bloomers, and Leisurely Thought
Chase Jarvis and the Myth of the Self-Made Creator
Writing Tools, Boredom Wins, and Average is Okay
Bridging Analogue and Digital Notes
Make Blogging Easy
Constraints are the Antidote to the Toxicity of Hustle Culture
Writing in the Age of Endless Options and Bad Advice on how to be Productive
Librarians are Superheroes
Focus on What You Want to Build, Not Who Notices
It’s just a phone and I just don’t care