Few months back, I’ve had around 30 thousand email messages in my mailbox. Things were hectic to say at least… Every time I’ve opened up my email client, I wasn’t sure about importance of each particular item. There was also the fact that when setting up a new email client and letting it fetch all the headers (IMAP)...

Don’t chase small optimizations Said some smart person at some particular time, probably. If not, he ought to have; if worse comes to worst, I’m declaring it now. The cost of 2% here and 0.5% there is high, and the benefits are (by definition) low. I have been optimizing Astrolabe, my search engine. The different...

Nicky Case writes about why RSS was so damn good: Imagine an open version of Twitter or Facebook News Feed, with no psy-op ads, owned by no oligopoly, manipulated by no algorithm, and all under your full control. Imagine a version of the newsletter where you don't have to worry about them selling your email to...

The media likes to show extraordinary people who achieved great things. Because these people create attention. Humans are interested in different things than themselves, and the press uses exceptional people to keep the interest high. The misperception created by the media causes many mental problems. The...