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https://justinpot.com/i-turned-my-website-into-a-personal-social-network-that-connects-to-bluesky-and-the-fediverse-heres-how/ · 10 Jun 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
I'm tired of posting on so many different social networks, so I built my own. All it took was a WordPress website, two plugins, and a lot of fiddling.
https://justinpot.com/how-to-use-ai-without-stagnating/ · 3 Jun 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Are you metaphorically driving a car while pretending to run a marathon?
https://justinpot.com/our-devices-are-exhausting-us/ · 10 Apr 2026
I'm no longer working with Lifehacker, which is disappointing. But I'm grateful I got to spend two years doing one of my favorite things: finding great indie and open source tools and sharing them with readers. I couldn't be happier that Current, a differe...
https://justinpot.com/pips-and-the-art-of-feeling-good-about-being-wrong/ · 8 Apr 2026
In the short term, being confidently wrong about something feels just as good as actually being correct.
https://justinpot.com/the-peace-thats-available/ · 24 Dec 2025
We're told we live in unprecedented times, and there's truth to that. It's worth remembering, though, that it's all a little less unprecedented than it feels. The last track on Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is a little ...
https://justinpot.com/whats-worth-saying-right-now/ · 11 Dec 2025
Lately I've been wanting to write a newsletter and realizing that, for the most part, I don't feel like I have much to say. I sometimes wonder if it's depression, but I'm not sure it is. My life is pretty good. I have a great wife, the best cat, and fantas...
https://justinpot.com/the-only-way-ive-managed-to-catch-my-own-typos/ · 13 Oct 2025
Anyone who has ever edited me will tell you I have a few...quirks. My worst habit is leaving unfinished sentences it the end of my ...paragraphs. Like that. I regularly do this without noticing, even after I re-read an article multiple times. You could arg...
https://justinpot.com/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-digital-narcotics-dealer/ · 24 Sep 2025
In a recent newsletter I referred to Mark Zuckerberg as a digital narcotics dealer, which readers seemed to enjoy. I briefly wondered if I was overstating the matter until I read about how schools are worried students will skip meals in order to use their ...
https://justinpot.com/did-twitters-design-inevitably-led-us-to-brexit-and-trump/ · 30 Jul 2025
Last week we talked about how mediums—like film and novels—have their own built-in rules, and how those rules necessarily shape the way you can tell stories and express ideas. We made this point, naturally, by talking about Tom Bombadil. This week we'r...
https://justinpot.com/the-tom-bombadil-theory-of-media-literacy/ · 23 Jul 2025
One of the most profound lessons you can learn about media literacy is that it isn't enough to talk about the content—you need to talk about the medium. People far smarter than me have written books and dissertations about this, but let's start with an e...