Alex Dobrenko

I've been playing around with breathing for a few years now. Some people call it "breathwork" but that's a term I don't love — why does everything have to be about work? Also, there's something about the term "breathwork" which makes it sound a little woo-woo maybe — but breathing changes your state in ways that are firmly rooted in physiology and... See more

We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.

Weird Internet Careers are the kinds of jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents, people who somehow make a living from the internet, generally involving a changing mix of revenue streams. Weird Internet Career is a term I made up (it had no google results in quotes before I started using it), but once you start noticing them, you'll see

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I submit that we have two big biases when we talk about technology. First, we think about it too much in terms of tools and recipes, when really we should think about it more in terms of process knowledge and technical experience. Second, most of us focus too much on the digital world and not enough on the industrial world. Our obsession with the... See more

Science may be the pursuit of truth, but scientific language is adept at dressing up insidious ideologies as fundamental truths.