Chris Coyier

Favors

I found this note I jotted down: Next time you ask for a favor, you should see if you can reciprocate the favor before you even ask. Seems like something I would write down. I probably felt stronger about it at the time than I do now. I’m thinking now when you’re in a position […]

Golf

I enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell’s (article? newsletter?) How the Private Golf Clubs of Los Angeles Can Right Their Wrongs, a follow-up to a half-decade old podcast A Good Walk Spoiled about private golf clubs: After all, the taxes on a decent-sized Beverly Hills half-acre lot might easily exceed $100,000. But the fancy golf clubs of […]

The Zoo

I assume you, like me, have had endless thoughts about other life in the universe. The universe is infinitely big, right? And there are more observable stars than grains of sand on Earth? That’s… uncomfortable. Clearly, there isn’t only other life in the universe but lots of it. So why aren’t we aware of it? […]

TrackerZapper

TrackerZapper is a Mac app that sits in your menubar and automatically removes tracking parameters from any links you copy. Cool idea. I don’t mind that people use UTM parameters in links, or any other URL param gobbldygook they deem important. I don’t mind seeing them in the browser URL bar, even. But I often […]

“Day and night, your content searches the world for people and opportunities.”

The opener of David Perell’s The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online: Writing online is the fastest way to accelerate your career. It’s the best way to learn faster, build your resume, and find peers and collaborators who can create job and business opportunities for you. Content builds on itself. It multiplies and compounds. Day and […]

American Hearts

Thanks to the HBO Max show, the phrase “raised by wolves” enters my brain a lot. And as a big AA Bondy fan, it makes me constantly think of the opening line to the namesake song on American Hearts: We were raised by wolvesAnd we are still wildAnd we howl when the troubled wind blowsAnd […]

I liked that gatorade bread article.

Just fun writing from Dennis Lee. “Dannis,” I said to myself, “It’s about time you learn how to bake bread. It is your Achilles heel, your one true weakness in the kitchen. If the world understood your bread illiteracy, your enemies would slay you with a sharpened baguette.” This entire time, I’d thought I needed a stand […]