I originally posted this as a thread on twitter, but I think it’s worth consolidating here. This was more or less a stream of consciousness rant. I’m working on elaborating on this and will make changes here as I go, so this will be an evolving work in progress. As far as I can tell, the best advice anyone could give to college students today is “make 5–10 times as many friends as you think you should”.

I’ve been an avid user of Shokz (formerly AfterShokz) bone conduction headphones for nearly a decade, since I won a pair of Titaniums as a giveaway at a conference. They weren’t on my radar before that, but I tried them out and was immediately hooked. The sound quality of those…

I’m an early adopter of things. I love to get excited about new technologies. Sometimes that’s because they fill a need, or offer some new capability I couldn’t do before, and sometimes it’s just that they’re fun to tinker with. From that perspective, I’ve felt like the past few years…

A little about me: I cook a lot, mostly dinner at home for my family and friends but sometimes for massive parties of upwards of 200 people. I’ve been doing sous vide cooking since 2010. I run a food blog called Unselling Convenience (also @unsellingconvenience on Instagram if you’d rather…

But first, a brief overview of why to play Radlands I love board games. My favorite games: are quick to play once you learn the rules have a tight decision matrix (at any given turn, there are only a few possible choices to make) have good game balance (it’s hard to tell until close to the end who’s going to…

A little about me: I cook a lot, mostly dinner at home for my family and friends but sometimes for massive parties of upwards of 200 people. I’ve been doing sous vide cooking since 2010. I run a food blog called Unselling Convenience (also @unsellingconvenience on Instagram if you’d rather…

A little about me: I cook a lot, mostly dinner at home for my family and friends but sometimes for massive parties of upwards of 200 people. I’ve been doing sous vide cooking since 2010. I run a food blog called Unselling Convenience (also @unsellingconvenience on Instagram if you’d rather…

A little about me: I cook a lot, mostly dinner at home for my family and friends but sometimes for massive parties of upwards of 200 people. I’ve been doing sous vide cooking since 2010. I run a food blog called Unselling Convenience (also @unsellingconvenience on Instagram if you’d rather…

This is adapted from a presentation I gave to a few people, and my main takeaway from that is that there are some confusing differences between how Twitter works and how Mastodon works. This is my attempt to dispel some of that confusion. Mastodon is similar to Twitter in a…