Yesterday, I was contacted by two people who wanted to buy my 2017 MacBook Air that I’m selling. At first, I advertised it on Facebook Marketplace and later on Gumtree, the leading classifieds website in South Africa. I’ve been using the Internet since 1993 and learned the tricks and trade of selling online, and how…
A summary of Jonanthan Haidt on the Trevor Noah podcast discussing his book, The Anxious Generation, and how smartphones and social media affect boys and girls.
Review of Hal Gottfried’s The Psychology of Technology This book is an easy read. Even though some concepts are technical, the author does a good job of explaining them in layman’s terms Let’s be real—you picked up your phone at least 3 times while reading that headline. I get it. I’m guilty too. But after…
Here are three books recommended by John Taylor Gatto. You can skip to 1:41:14 to hear his quick summary of the three books after a question about Ayn Rand and Liberterians. This is taken from a CSPAN lecture, “Examples of Educated People.” “Do I draw philisophic strength from writing? Absolutely! That’s one of the things…
For many years I supported Twitter Blanket Drive across South Africa. While I lived in Joburg, I joined people on Twitter by encouraging people to donate blankets. Many of the people I had meet at various Tweetups over the years. The community was strong and committed. And in 2016, I hosted the first Twitter Blanket…