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My best, worst, and other posts[30 days of blog BONUS!]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Hello Everyone. I finished 30 straight days of blogging last week. The goal was consistency. Follow this thread to see which on my writings were great, which were not, which were hits, and which fell flat. The Best Piece The Best […]

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What Narratives define Modern China[30 Days of Blog 30]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Cartoon from 1899 depicting world powers cutting up China China is the world’s largest country by population, 2nd largest economy by GDP and has the second highest expenditure on military in the world. Yet why is the rest of the world […]

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Who speaks English[30 Days of Blog 29]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. English is as much a lingua franca as the world as ever seen. There is no right English pronunciation of any word. In England’s Green & Pleasant Land The Anglo-Saxon people were really good at conquering. Not just land, but the […]

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Humanity Lives For Trash[30 days of blog 28]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Consumer society turns households into a vessels for trash on the path to their destiny. Mass-production is just an engine to produce trash. Our oceans are just warehouses for trash, where it is becoming larger than most islands. Our idols’ […]

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Another 300 Words[30 Days of Blog 27]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Hello. I have run out of ideas again. This was a monumental undertaking to begin with. I am this close to finishing and I am not giving up. This is the 27th day of this […]

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The Internet will be Balkanized[30 days of Blog 26]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Eventually the open web will be killed and the internet will transform into hundreds of national and thousands of regional networks. The governments of the world wouldn’t have it any other way. In the beginning Before the internet, information was […]

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Voice-notes III: Why voice messaging is the future[30 days of blog 25]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. After reading the previous parts(part 1 and part 2) of this trilogy, you might think I hate spoken-word audio. Nothing can be further from the truth. I love people talking in my headphones. Which is why I can tell you […]

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Voice-notes are terrible, horrible, no-good part 2: Some Practical Reasons[30 days of Blog 24]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Yesterday, I illustrated why ‘hot’ voice-notes are not compatible with the ‘cold’ text messages, in light Marshall Macluhan’s media theories. You can read that here. Today I will show you some practical reasons you should not use voice-notes in text […]

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The Medium is the Wrong Message: Why voice-notes annoy me![30 Days of Blog 23]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Audio is a ‘hot’ medium. Text-messages are a ‘cool’ medium. Voice Notes( or voice messages) have no place in text messaging conversation. This high-brow media theory is not why voice-notes annoy me, but it provides an explanation. Media and Messages Marshall […]

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Work in the 21st Century: Human Pack-Mules[30 Days of Blog 22]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Modern work is still valued as if it was done in the 18th century. This has created an unmotivated workforce that wastes most of its time on busy work. In The Beginning When Adam Smith wrote about labor specialization in […]