I purchased six double-walled steel cups three years ago, and I’ve never gone back to drinking things in ceramics or glass. Here’s why. 1. Even when my beverage is really hot, the cup’s insulating layer of air between its outer and inner steel wall makes things pleasant
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It’s fairly popular to write blog posts on Medium or WordPress.com. As I argue in my post on How to feel at home on the Internet, that’s a good thing compared to posting on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube or siloes alike. Unlike most social media platforms, blogs are
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A nice internet friend, Kev Quirk, recently resonated with this blog post of mine and shared it with his readers. I figure this is a good time to remind my readers of the same, so here you go. Colored text links on the Internet are popular. The familiar blue touted
To Manu’s post, which says: Sometimes a beautiful sunset on a lake is all it takes to be happy. The post reminded me of my article exploring the possibilities of life on starless worlds. I can’t help but wonder about the incredible views they would miss. I’m
While I’m chiefly a space writer, I also wanted to share with my internet friends what I’m simply like as a fellow person otherwise. First off, as you probably know, here’s me in my natural habitat—exploring corners of the Internet regardless of where I’m physically
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The quality of conversations on the Internet is terrible. Most platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc. optimize for engagement as their key metric. This spawns and rewards behavior that leads to bragging of gameable metrics such as likes and followers, self-feeding thought bubbles, knee-jerk reactions, “if you’re not
A lot of people have asked me lately how I got my space blog listed on Google News. Doing so has enhanced the distribution of my articles and the Moon Monday newsletter on Google Search and News as well as other channels like the Discover feed on Android and Chrome.
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I recently requested my Patreon supporters to move their patronage to my Donorbox so I can avoid Patreon’s high platform fees. Lately I came to realize that the actual cut Patreon takes from us creators is far higher than the cleverly advertised ~8-10%, which isn’t low to begin
Colin Walker recently listed blogs by female authors he reads, so as to promote diversity and improve representation of voices on the Web. It’s a nice idea, and so I replied there with a quick list of my own. But I think it deserves a proper blog post to
And it was fun.
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A binary philosophy to being productive, and life in general.
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I was a panelist at an event in my city yesterday on space writing & journalism. It was nice, with lots of enthusiastic folks in the audience who had some good questions. However, literally everyone who engaged with me was trying to search my profile on Instagram. When they found
