The Ordinary Sacred:
Eat for yourself, not for anyone else
Work to pay your bills, not to validate your worth
Buy things, not signals
Live your own life, not for your feed
A Philosophy of Happiness Through the Uncurated Life In 1953, Ernest Dichter—the father of motivational research—wrote that the American consumer was no longer purchasing soap to clean themselves, but to feel clean. Advertising wasn’t selling products. It was selling identity. A bar of soap promised not just
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the ‘Coalition for App Fairness’ is just a bog-standard lobbying organisation that doesn't give a single fuck about consumers or indie developers.
It exists to solely to advance the interests of its large corporate founders, which are often dominant in their own markets, with billionaire and multi-millionaire owners.
Treat them like any other corporate lobbying effort that is trying to break open a regulated market so they can exploit it.
Two powerful #browser releases on one day! Is it #Christmas already? 😲 🎁
Download Vivaldi 6.5 on #desktop and #iOS, and get ready to welcome a whole new set of unique features and #customization options! ⚡
Desktop: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-5
iOS: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-6-5
A job is just a transaction, the company gets work out of you and you get a paycheck in exchange.
Brown nosing your employer on social media is doing free labor for a business unless it’s part of your job description.
I refer to this as “stallmanising”
Named after Richard Stallman, stallmanising is to be so obnoxious about your perfectly good and just cause, that you actively turn people against it.
Don’t stallmanise your causes.