How Crosby’s life-saving liver transplant kept him with us for another 3 decades — When David Crosby died earlier this week, I remembered the time I briefly met him in a previous life and career, along with my colleagues from the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency (aka SCOPA, now We Are Sharing Hope SC). Crosby was on tour with Crosby, Stills and Nash in…

Social media platforms are leaning into deceptive design patterns to capture your attention but they’re just contributing to our growing “notification anxiety” — They’re on the rise. They strike at you from a new angle every day now. Enticing you. Striving to pull you onto platforms you’re now trying to avoid. You’ve turned off so many notifications, but they just keep coming. Let’s call them “desperation notifications.”

An overview of the new social media platform and Twitter competitor Post — I joined the new social media platform Post last night after signing up early for the beta and I have some thoughts. First off, it’s really good. Especially from both a UI and UX perspective. Post proves a refreshingly clean substitute for Twitter. So far, it features 1000% fewer trolls…

The chaotic rollout of Twitter’s new verification program proves a stunning example of bad UX design — After pausing the release to avoid disrupting the U.S. …

Within Two Days of Taking Over Twitter, Elon Musk Tweeted Political Disinformation or “Pink Slime” — “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes” — often attributed to Mark Twain This Sunday morning, within two days of taking over Twitter, Elon Musk himself posted the sort of disinformation people feared had become characteristic of the platform — for tens…

Left-handed dentists remind us how the environments we learn and work within can have a profound impact upon our lives — My dentist and I bonded over a shared characteristic recently, when we discovered we’re both left-handed*. This topic came up when he mentioned how he had everything set up to assist him as a southpaw. He said that everything had been set up for right-handed people when he attended dental…

Musk has been trying to forge his own reality via Twitter. But the self-professed “free speech” exemplar seems to be setting himself on fire with his own speech along the way. — It’s Thursday, June 30th at 8:14pm, still light here in Brooklyn, hot and steamy, and Elon Musk hasn’t tweeted in nine days. People are noticing. The press are noticing. Now, this absence wouldn’t normally be that weird: A billionaire owner of five companies, not tweeting from an attention-deficit friendly social…

We built ourselves a digital panopticon. Now it may haunt our most personal healthcare decisions. — Roe v. Wade is gone. Almost 50 years in effect and it’s gone. Just like that. Of course, it wasn’t really an instantaneous development: A voting mass of highly-politicized anti-abortion Americans had been working on reversing Roe for decades. We’ve all—most of us—been working on something else for decades, too…