Jared White

March 20, 2021

Create the Content You Would Most Enjoy

Something I've discovered about myself over the years: I suck at creating content I wouldn't enjoy experiencing. Now that might sound like a blinding flash of the obvious, but it's actually not, because lots of people—myself included—get impressed upon that they need to publish X, Y, and Z in order to become successful in their field. ...
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March 9, 2021

Nomadland Won Best Picture at the Golden Globes and I Had No Idea

I was flipping through the channels, er, browsing through Hulu looking for something to watch, and I came across the title Nomadland. Now I'm a total sucker for anything #VanLife (also #BoatLife, #Vagabond, you get the idea), so I took a closer look. I couldn't tell at first if it was a movie in the typical sense of the word or a docum...
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March 5, 2021

Mask Etiquette in a "post-Covid" America

I'm relatively young and relatively healthy and not in an at-risk demographic. So as I contemplate what the world (my local part of it anyway) may be like later this year and into the next, the question on my mind is…do I still wear a mask some places no matter what? One could argue that if the pandemic is more-or-less over and most pe...
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March 4, 2021

Finally a Better Solution Than Tweetstorms

There's a gap between "official blog post" and a tweet. I could roughly diagram it like this: Tweet <---------- gap ----------> Blog Post Increasingly people have used Twitter's "tweetstorm" feature to fill that gap. I have done so myself. But it's not at all a great solution beyond maybe a group of 2-4 tweets. Anything longer than tha...
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