I was ready for a new book and this AI prompt suggested the exact thing I was looking for.

Throwing a birthday party for yourself is the perfect way to get your favorite people in one room. And while guests have a great time during the party, the joy doesn’t stop when it’s over: they’re still raving about your slideshow days later. What slideshow? I can explain…

If you’re using DJI microphones that record directly to internal storage, you’ve probably connected them to your workstation to download the audio files.

If you’re also using rsync to do that transfer, you may have seen this frustrating issue: mid-transfer, the device suddenly disconnects.

Most people use Chrome as their daily browser. But Google has removed Manifest V2 in favor of Manifest V3, a change that severely limits the power of ad blockers.

Firefox, once the standard-bearer for user freedom, has drawn criticism for privacy-compromising partnerships.

So where should you turn?

I wanted home security cameras. Nothing fancy—just a way to keep an eye on my front door and backyard while I was away.

But there was one non-negotiable: I couldn’t let a big tech company have free rein over my video streams.

Has anyone ever given you a half-baked apology that left you angrier than before? This is how to refrain from that when it’s your turn to apologize.

The corporate game is to avoid responsibility. These are the plays.

You have a task to be done and you want a freelancer to do it. So you write up the description, post it online, and get back a load of unfortunate responses. Now you have to sort through all that noise to find someone who’s actually good?!

It’s not quite what you imagined for a getting a chore off your plate.

Asbestos—a nifty mineral that’s just popping out of the desert ground—boasts amazing properties like electrical and thermal insulation. It was an exciting discovery at the time: abundant, cheap, and useful in thousands of construction materials, so we put it everywhere. But then we learned inhaling it causes lung cancer. Oops.

Remediating asbestos is expensive and time-consuming. The crux of the issue is you must remove it carefully. Disturbing the material makes it airborne and dangerous.

Today, the hasty application of LLMs across society feels like the next asbestos moment. LLM tools promise many benefits to our work and our lives, but as we find their long term adverse effects we’ll someday regret embedding them and relying upon them.