Johnathan Dodson

What happened when our ancestors got access to more food than they could possibly eat? They got fat.

Overnight obesity became an issues, health issues primarily caused by the food in which we eat became a norm, then we developed diet plans, weight loss pills and supplements. To try and counteract the issue of gluttony.

Now as we’re all aware

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For the first two decades of life, we are pushed along a straight and wide river. But, somewhere around age 20, we get spit out and left to cross an unknown sea without any prescribed path or good guidance.

Google is an information access and utility brand, not a point-of-view brand. I might trust their chat bot to tell me “who won the Peloponnesian War?” but not “which health insurance to buy?” or “dissect last night’s NBA playoff game with insight and wit.” The trust and reassurance of a media brand and the people behind it matters. It will continue... See more

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I recently declared feed bankruptcy.

At various points in my week // day, I type "kottke.org" into my browser, hit enter, and read whatever is there. Then I type "chorus.fm" and do the same thing. Then Daring Fireball. Then Hacker News.

I read good things, on good websites.

And it feels like an exercise in nostalgia.

Between 2010 and now, we... See more