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Gabriel Stein

October 12, 2016

It’s 11:30 and I haven’t written my 500 words yet. Fuck. This has been one of those days where a few extra hours really would have come in handy. But as I discussed with my girlfriend last night, doing so while keeping the Earth habitable would be

October 11, 2016: For My Conservative Friends

Politics again, today. Mostly, I liked this article about the state of the GOP by writer John Scalzi (side note: I highly recommend his Old Man’s War series) because a particular line in it reminded me to close my gaping yap and step back from enjoying today’s schadenfreude:

October 10, 2016

I promised I’d write 500 words per day, starting today. It’s just to get back in the habit of writing something (other than emails and tweets) every day. There are no other goals. I suspect I’ll publish some of these posts, while others will be relegated to

A few hopefully encouraging thoughts for my currently despondent friends.

On days like these it’s hard to be an optimist. Police murdering black people. Snipers murdering police. Rising anti-semitism. Nativism in Europe. Predictions of global war. And those are just the stories I’ve read since 7am this morning. What’s most shocking is how quickly the tides seem

The viral publishing game is over and we all lost

A lot of the conversations I’m having about audience development these days quickly devolve from focused discussions about acquisition and retention strategies — you know, analytical stuff — to talking about, er…brands. Why brands? Because that’s all anyone has left to talk about. The murmurs from early 2016 are

Towards A Wide Definition Of Programming And Universal Computational Literacy

It took thousands of years of written language for us to consider universal language literacy important to society, and the shift largely happened as a byproduct of the industrial revolution (with pretty clear lines to the enlightenment and the printing press). Per most definitions, we’ve only been computing for

About That Title II Argument…

As near as I can tell, this article by Holman Jenkins is the one that ignited a lot of libertarian concern trolling about Title II that basically didn’t exist until the end of 2014. And it’s essentially being read word for word in the FCC meeting right now.

A Branching Method For Covering News Efficiently

Last winter, I experimented with a new method of newsgathering and presentation using the conversation startup Branch. This is the post-mortem.

A Death In The Family

Savor your newspaper. This is what it feels like when it’s gone.

So is the Academy trolling us or what?

This post was originally published on gabestein.com. Dear Internet, Are we being trolled by the Academy, ABC and Seth MacFarlane? Before I get into that, let me do some housekeeping: I agree with the general consensus that he was a terrible host, mostly unfunny and very offensive. He managed