Category: Mason’s Favorites

  • Should I Use Twitter? A 2019 Risk-Benefit Analysis Of Using Twitter

    Should I Use Twitter? A 2019 Risk-Benefit Analysis Of Using Twitter

    Periodically I try to make Twitter work for me, a productivity tool! Or if not productivity, a way to be informed, entertained… just to promote things I care about, perhaps? It’s failed for me, at the very least the way I was using it has not been working to any of these ends. Productivity on […]

  • Why is Self-improvement Bad When it’s Biohacking?

    Why is Self-improvement Bad When it’s Biohacking?

    After looking at The Atlantic’s take on Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey’s fasting; I’m getting tired of the way some publications stand against well… self-improvement. I realize some of the Silicon Valley bros make it an easy target. But “biohacking” is self-improvement, backed by science. Sometimes biohacking is also pseudoscience, and other times just crazy measures that […]

  • Moonwalking with Einstein, Book Review

    Moonwalking with Einstein, Book Review

    Moonwalking with Einstein is a delightful read offering a solid overview of memory techniques. I normally finish a book before recommending it, but the day I started reading I’d told at least six people to check it out. A few days later when I finished I considered it one of the best pieces of participatory […]