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I did some ghost writing for EY. I wrote cheat sheets about international tax transfer pricing, mining and metals, and life sciences for its then CEO Mark Weinberger. I had no expe…

One interesting restriction is that it won’t do anything with people’s faces. I run conferences and I like to have photos of delegates on the page so you can see who else is attend…

Shaan Puri has also talked about how he's been coaching a youth basketball team on the My First Million podcast recently. He says it's one of the best things he's ever done.

I think you misread the word feather.

Unlikely as it sounds, being normal is a strategy that works on LinkedIn. The quality bar is very low. People post so much fluff and AI thought leadership that the algorithm has re…

So what you're saying is that honeybees just have good bee-R?

I thought this was a fascinating read. To cut a long story short, he thought these cheap bank note detectors would be easy to fool. But they measure several things at once, which a…

Sorry, I realised this is a dupe but I can't delete.

Why is this article flagged? Hacker News and Daring Fireball have so much in common: 1. Both long-running sites 2. Both serve a curious and tech savvy audience 3. Both run zero gra…

Is this true? Shame if so – Daring Fireball and Hacker News are two of my favourite websites.

This is what’s happening to us.

The main use case in our house for Alexa is sending announcements between rooms. But for a few months now, it hasn’t worked properly. I will say: “Alexa, send an announcement”. But…

I must say, it's strange watching Traitors after watching Beast Games. It feels slow and lazy. Traitors is one idea padded out with endless cringey "ceremony". (Claudia Winkleman w…

I read somewhere that the AirTag doesn’t actually know whether it’s low on battery or not. The alert is just triggered after a preprogrammed time.

It's amazing how many tech people, like this author in this piece, still believe that their phone is constantly listening to you to target ads.

This is an interesting mechanism, but is it really that difficult to boil rice for 20 minutes? I'm not exactly Gordon Ramsay, but I don't think I've ever failed to make decent rice…

One thing I often wonder about with RDS: How do they stop the traffic alert (“TA”) feature being abused by stations to grab listeners?

The guy got sick with a mystery illness didn't he? This was about 20 years ago. He blogged about the saga of having doctors try to figure out what was wrong with him, and I think w…

I’m noticing more and more it’s harder to use data on your phone in major cities. I was in Bath this weekend and I could hardly access anything when I was out and about.

The best REM album was the one that came out when you were in college

It’s a retro nod to newsletters like NTK and Popbitch, I believe.

It’s interesting that Matt Levine capitalises “white”, as well as capitalising “black”. I haven’t seen this style choice before.