How To Have a National Park All To Yourself
Our National Parks (along with every other tourist destination) suffer from overcrowding. Even some places with infrastructure and thoughtful visitors…
Our National Parks (along with every other tourist destination) suffer from overcrowding. Even some places with infrastructure and thoughtful visitors…
I’ve been able to run several Marathons, Half Marathons, Trail Half Marathons – along with shorter races. I love them…
In the developed West, we could all eat less meat. It’s better for our health, our wallet, our local environment,…
It’s late summer in Georgia, and mosquitoes are everywhere. Specifically, there are Asian Tiger Mosquitoes everywhere – the invasive, pesky,…
My first corporate job was with 84 Lumber. I started right after college – a few weeks before graduation. It…
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is, like email, one of the foundational technologies of the old Internet. It allows anyone to…
There’s yet another fake fight brewing in the United States (and across the rich world) about government spending and borrowing….
Public domain magazines and newspapers are often overlooked as valuable resources, but they offer a wealth of information and benefits…
Public domain software refers to software that has been released without any copyright restrictions, meaning anyone can use, modify, redistribute,…
The US flag and the House of Representatives both used to change regularly to reflect the nation’s growth. Since the Reapportionment Act of 1929, the number of Representatives has been fixed at 435, despite significant population growth. This discrepancy leads to unequal representation and inefficiency. A possible solution is to expand the House to better represent the current population.
The first time I found data.gov…I was blown away. There was more original, raw data about all the things than…
Japan has them. US cities have them via their sports teams. And there should be more of them!
It’s a hundred years old, but should be better than ever.
Most everyone in the US has access to an online version of their library. But I can almost guarantee that…
No, I’m not talking about some official program. I’m talking about literally noticing a single tree, naming it, and declaring…
A Tech Sabbath or Tech Sunday is simply picking one day per week to severely limit your use of modern…
I have owned an all-electric car for more than seven years. Even though I’ve only put ~21,000 miles on the…
News outlets have been breathlessly reporting a trend in 2024 around ridiculously long YouTube videos. Today, NPR ran a story…
Personal websites and blogs are not as cool as they were in the early 2000s, but they have never been…
One of the best short day hikes in Georgia is up to Cowrock Mountain from Tesnatee Gap. However, the hike…
The Olympics are coming this summer. And there will be one thing for sure – Australia is going to win…
I love old cemeteries in the South. Bonaventure in Savannah and Oakland in Atlanta are obviously the best. But there…
I love libraries and will never pass up a chance to visit. But I’m still finding out awesome things about…
This is a long presentation from Patreon CEO Jack Conte, but absolutely essential watch for anyone who creates anything on…
I’ve run this site for more than 14 years now. I haven’t published consistently for years at a time, but…
There is a lot of digital ink being spilled by whether the Web is dying, dead, or being reinvented. I…
Unless you need a piece of paper proving that you know something, skills and knowledge are wide open now.
One of the most useful pages of Bushcraft by Dave Canterbury was this chart on the burnability (word?) of different…
Here is the problem that I run into every 2 years. I’m sold on the idea that voting in every…
Sod is held together with plastic netting. The netting reduces shipping costs and makes for a more consistent, better-looking product…
While Amazon and the book publishing industry are pushing the latest, greatest bestseller, there are more books in the public…
Public Domain Music exists and should be used more.
I was listening to a podcast episode with Morgan Housel, who has managed to write two of the best personal…
There is a lot of digital ink spilled by Elon Musk. I’m less interested in him as a person than…
Community rec centers are often overlooked – they get drowned out when their own (admittedly) poor hours & communication go…
In December 2023, I signed up for Mastodon. It had been a full year since the crazy, impulse Twitter migration….
Podcasts are trendy but they are still underrated in so many ways.
One of my takeaways from Tom Vanderbilt’s You May Also Like was that for various reasons, everyone’s taste in music…
Spontaneity is memorable. And there’s not much spontaneity anymore. We have to engineer it. And walking around aimlessly is a…
I loved this Blinkist summary from How To Decide by Annie Duke.
Getting around on a bike is underrated and totally the future of smart transportation.
Eric Barker is one of my absolute favorite authors. I loved reading Barking Up The Wrong Tree and Plays Well…
A “moral panic” refers to a widespread fear, often irrational, that emerges within a society over a perceived threat to…
I’ve had a lot of different jobs over the years, and it’s taken much too long to learn that sales…
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For a long-time, I never really understood public art or its importance. But it’s seriously underrated and we should have…
Fitness has a goal problem. Goals are great for achievement, but are terrible for living. If I want to run…
Most public domain fanfare goes to books entering the public domain. But all copyright works enter the public domain after…
TL;DR There is conflicting information from Canada & the EU about the risks of the main new active ingredient in…
Everyone knows about Wikipedia. But 20 years after it started, it’s still underrated for just how big of a deal…
I don’t think National Parks are underrated as a whole. In the US, they are held pretty sacred and deeply…
But change is coming – and on a huge scale. The venerable Paris Métro is about to get its most…
I grew up in The Philippines, on the northern end of the island of Luzon. I lived there for 8…
It’s always a good time to change up habits. And the number one habit we all have is to search…
In 1977, the Oconee Enterprise interviewed Berta Elder (my great-grandmother, aka, “Granny”). She was born in 1901 and died in…
Right in the middle of the City of Atlanta, near the wannabe walkable, urban Peachtree Street, there is a Trader…
I’m pretty sure most of my career success is because I know more about spreadsheets than my coworkers or clients….
Tired of your streaming service raising prices? Well, broadcast television is still around. And honestly, it’s a bit better than…
This is my digital home & personal website. I work in marketing, live in Atlanta, have done quite a few…
In June, I got to visit India for a week. It’s been 8 years almost to the week since I…
I did deep dive on just how bad long baseball games had gotten by the 2021 season. As much as…
So right now, many people are generally going nuts about a type of artificial intelligence that uses LLMs. I’ve been…
Ever since leaving my former employer and re-starting my own business, I’ve been on the hunt for an ideal work…
10 years ago, I bookmarked “A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years” by Douglas Coupland. I’m not sure…
Almost exactly 10 years ago, I attended my first WordCamp in Atlanta. I learned a lot about building websites and…
There has been a lot of digital ink spilled over why discourse and *waves arm at world* has been so…weird….
Our World In Data published an incredible post visualizing the current moment in a long-term outlook. In a month where…
Atlanta’s newly renovated Central Library is incredible & worth regular visits.
If you are a baseball fan, you know that the pace of play has been a problem for a while….
Kevin Kelly is one of my favorite authors, writers, and Twitter accounts. He recently wrote an excellent long-form post on…
This fascinating map (source) was making the Internet rounds last week showing how much countries around the world have developed…
I’ve always been a fan of exotic fruits. I’m the one likely to track down and buy an imported jackfruit…
This is a photo of my first blackberry cobbler that I made with blackberries grown in my own backyard. A…
I took this photo in February 2021 along the Southside BeltLine near DH Stanton Park in Peoplestown. In about a…
There are dozens of tips for how to save money buying fruits and vegetables on the Internet. Very few are…
In the past two years, I’m proud to have participated in a political march, participated in Get Out The Vote…
NoveList Plus is an incredible tool that I found on my library’s website. It allows you to search & compare…
I signed up with Vote Forward this election cycle.
Bardcore is the medievalization of contemporary pop songs. It’s one of my favorite Internet trends of the past few years.
The Economist ran a Special Report last week on Dementia. They called it the “silent tsunami” facing every nation on…
Inspired by other cyclist’s transportation experiments, I’ve starting trying to carry a wider range of stuff on my bike.
This is a completed section of the Westside BeltLine on its way to meet up with the Southside BeltLine near…
Driving is an enforced preference. The modern American city is designed to favor cars and make other ways of getting…
I’ve written about the sheer weirdness and 1984-esque nature of exploring China’s Internet before. And even though I do occasionally…
My family and I moved to Atlanta in February 2013 from Athens, GA. We have lived here ever since. Like…
One of my favorite YouTube channels, Half As Interesting, did an explainer about the founding of Oakridge, Tennessee. It was…
Francois Chollet recently wrote an essay on “What worries me about AI”. He argues that the big worry about AI…
I love the Internet. I remember the first time that I saw a webpage load. It has changed my life…
John Grisham has written an entire book every year for the past 10 to 15 years. I’ve always assumed that…
All this might seem a little underhanded, but it’s nothing compared to some of the design features currently showing up…
Today is my last day working for Nebo Agency. I’ve been with Nebo for over 2 years. It’s by far…
The best career advice book I’ve ever read is How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by…
June 4th, 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square protests/massacre in China, immortalized by the Tank Man photo. It…
I received a reader question that basically relates to how to choose what to write about for your blog/book/etc. Here’s…
I always find it really fascinating to find out how people from different places can perceive the same things so…
I’m a huge fan of time lapse films in general, and of cities in particular. I’ve never been able to…
A few weeks ago, I started drastically paring back all the tools, feeds, news sites, and networks that I use….
I’ve wasted enjoyed thousands of hours staring at maps – especially old maps. Here are two of the best maps I’ve…
Here’s a career and business idea that seems to be bubbling up in America right now… Your credentials don’t matter….
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