HeyJaredmemo:random
thoughts, feelings, musings and rants fired off at irregular intervals
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Just use the em dash, folks. (opens the original)
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Last week I was shocked when I opened Google Maps and found that Lake Ontario had been renamed Lake America. I could not believe that Google (and Apple), a global, multi-trillion-dollar company that basically runs the internet, would cowtow to the Cartoon-Network fever dreams of a madman on LSD.It’s a joke, guys. The man is a joke. The act is a joke.It’s only real in the Upside-Down that is the MAGA universe.For more memos:random, subscribe.<form class="subscriptio
I’ve been hibernating. (opens the original)
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READ THIS FIRST: This post turned out a lot heavier than I expected when I sat down to write it. There are themes of depression, burnout, general misery. If you’re not in a headspace to process other people’s stuff right now (honestly, who is?) I’d suggest skipping this one and coming back to it later (or never). We’ll see each other soon in the next post.Back when I was a teenager, I used to proclaim that humans ought to hibernate through the winter. This was mostly because school in winter, fo
Writing for Humans (opens the original)
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Hot take: Search Engine Optimization is a misnomer. By labeling the practice “Search Engine Optimization”, we put ourselves in the mindset of serving the search engine. We say things like “Google crawls the web, looking for pages that are most relevant to XYZ keyword.”But Google is not the end user. Google is not dreaming up keywords and searching them in its free time.The human is the end user. You, the human, are doing the dreaming and the searching. Google is merely your vehicle.<a class="but
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” (opens the original)
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Recently I’ve had a few conversations with people who have said something along the lines of “Workers should have to earn work-from-home days because a lot of people abuse them.”This is, in my not-at-all-humble opinion, a narrow-minded view of the situation.A recent poll shows that 1 in 4 people are suffering from “job lock”, i.e. staying in an undesirable job because they’re afraid to lose health insurance or other benefits.<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91591451/why-so-many-workers-are-t
This is a post about fear. (opens the original)
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This is a post about fear. It’s a post about why I have twenty-one unpublished substack drafts and why my last published post is gearing up for its third birthday.I fear the monsters that live in my head. I’m not good enough. I’m not knowledgeable enough. I don’t have enough data.I haven’t done enough research. I have nothing worthwhile to say.I’ve written stacks upon stacks within stacks of words, but none of them show up on substack.The fear is hard-wired in. It is my constant c
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