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• Develop Mastery by Revisiting the Basics

• Book Notes: “Tools for Thought”

• Why I Moved My Site to Jekyll

• Back to the Bad Old Days of the Web

• Becoming Better Users of Online Information

• The Assault on U.S. Democracy

• Sync to Furthest Page Read

• TAOI: Gmail's New Conceptual Model

• A New Normal

• Early 20th Century Car Navigation Systems

• The Golden Age of Learning Anything

• That Syncing Feeling

• Being Open to Unsettling Changes

• Quantum Supremacy

• Perspective on “Digital”

• Table Stakes

• Striving for Simplicity

• The Treachery of Deepfakes

• Hardware Notes: AirPods

• A Data Primer for Designers

• Uses for YouTube

• Wikipedia as Information Infrastructure

• The Eponymous Laws of Tech

• Kranzberg’s Laws of Technology

• The Allure of Novelty

• Mobile Computing at a Different Level

• The Tricorder on Your Wrist

• Controlling Screen Time

• If These Walls Had Ears

• Designing for “Smart” Agents Among Us

• Invisible Technologies

• Leaping the Inventory Wall

• ​Double Dragon

• Getting a Sony Reader