Alex Dobrenko

If my notes/restacks could go directly to Sublime , that would be absolutely magical.

Also, if you haven’t already, Sublime is hospitality tech—what I mean by that is it actually cares for its users, is upfront in its purpose, and is simply clean. As I constantly aim to reclaim my attention, this is one of the limited bits of tech that will receive... See more

This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.

If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

The coolest things I discovered didn’t really come from doing research but rather from giving up researching and embracing connecting. Whether that means directly connecting with locals or connecting with once surroundings in a more metaphysical sense – like the kind of connecting that William Butler Yeats hints at when he says that “the world is... See more

I don’t need help scheduling more things to do; I need to do less. Often these services suggest that users throw money at that problem (which is not very helpful if one of your problems is that you do not have enough money). The apps transform parents from workers into consumers, translating our to-do lists into shopping lists. Somebody is still... See more

If I think back to those corporate meetings I was part of early in my career, it’s easy to see today’s decision-making. A decade ago cultural criticism was a sparkly pixie dust you could spread over a business to give it a veneer of prestige. But in a world where TikToks dwarf all over forms of consumption and a video that someone spent a day... See more

The cornerstone of a Weird Internet Career is that you a) make a thing on the internet that people value and b) provide a way to convert that value into money. (If you have the first but not the second, it’s not a career, at least not yet. If you have the second but not the first, well, you probably don’t have much in the way of career yet either.)