As I approach the end of my paid tenure here at Medium, I wanted to write something around the success of my newsletter Where’s Your Ed At. This isn’t to toot my own horn — it’s already a success, I do not need the validation there — but to try…

Sometime in the next day or two, my newsletter Where’s Your Ed At will hit 14,000 subscribers, which is roughly 300% more than I had a year ago. I have put out 180,000 words across 80 articles, and I have been on top of most of the major trends in…

When I was 11, my dad got a PCMCIA for his laptop. Out of an abundance of trust, he let me access the internet, trawling forums, mIRC rooms, and eventually early online games like Ultima Online and EverQuest from a very young age. While one might say “this seems risky,”…

Elon Musk is currently in the process of destroying any and all good will generated by Twitter, the website built for people to argue on. Twitter’s European team found that they were left unpaid last week, specifically those in the United Kingdom and Germany, with several people completely left unpaid…

There are very few industries in modern business that provide less of a service than ticketing companies. Their only job is to sell you a ticket to an event, and then provide it in time for you to attend. One would think, in fact, that this would be a business…

I am on my third Apple Watch. I have wanted to like Apple’s approach to wearables, and through two different tries — a Day 1 Series 1 and a Series 3 — I found the experience to be continually clunky, ugly, and constantly in search of a problem that one…

This has been a week of the worst possible news for Twitter, the website that Elon Musk purchased for $44 billion in the most torturous financial transaction of all time. …

I’ve been through a lot recently. I’m not going to describe it in any detail, but at one point, my father gave me some advice that I believe came from his father: if in doubt, don’t. This magical rule applies almost everywhere, but in this case, as with many things…

A year ago, during the Dodgers-Giants game in the ALDS, my friend Kasey turned to me and asked if I was alright. It wasn’t that anything was wrong, per se, but that I was rapidly cycling through watching the game intently, then grabbing my phone and furiously tapping out something…