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How To Beat The Substack Algorithm in 2026 (69th Edition)
How to write seriously in unserious systems.
Jan 6
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The Cost of Being Online
The Introvert's Guide to Not Losing Your Soul on Social Media (While Still Being Human)
Jan 13
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753 Postcards and the Substack Commandments Nobody Asked For!
A Christmas essay about real food, year end thoughts, and what we owe each other
Dec 23, 2025
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The Cost of Being Online
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Why The Technology That Saved Us Time Is Stealing Our Lives!
Dec 9, 2025
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Living Light In A Heavy World
Oct 21, 2025
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The Audacity of Ordinary Days
Aug 19, 2025
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Hope in an Age of Apocalypse!
Nov 11, 2025
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Why Someone Else's Scar Tissue Won't Protect You From Your Own Cuts!
Dec 2, 2025
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In 1914, Henry Ford Doubled Wages and Changed Capitalism. What's the 2025 Version?
Why Firing Everyone to Save Money Is… Really, Really Stupid!
Dec 16, 2025
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Why The Technology That Saved Us Time Is Stealing Our Lives!
What I learned from being the city's most stubborn Luddite!
Dec 9, 2025
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Why Someone Else's Scar Tissue Won't Protect You From Your Own Cuts!
The Wounds You Actually Need
Dec 2, 2025
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What Peter Thiel's Nvidia Exit Really Means!
And why this time might actually be different from every other bubble warning you've ignored
Nov 25, 2025
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Synergy Sucks - How a Useful Word Became Corporate Vomit!
A Greek duo, a theological spat, and a 1960s corporate flipbook gave us the word we now deploy in every slide deck.
Nov 18, 2025
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Enshittification 2.0: Why Big Tech’s Decline Was Inevitable
Silicon Valley’s Midlife Crisis & Its Divorce From Innovation
Apr 22, 2025
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Death by a Thousand Logins
Why Workplace Tech is Becoming Unmanageable
Feb 25, 2025
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The Corporate Idealist’s Survival Guide
How to Be Honest Without Getting Fired
Feb 18, 2025
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Measuring What Matters
Shortform Book + Framework
Jan 28, 2025
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Productivity Is a Relationship Game
Why Soft Metrics Matter
Jan 21, 2025
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Born On An Island
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753 Postcards and the Substack Commandments Nobody Asked For!
A Christmas essay about real food, year end thoughts, and what we owe each other
Dec 23, 2025
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Why The Technology That Saved Us Time Is Stealing Our Lives!
What I learned from being the city's most stubborn Luddite!
Dec 9, 2025
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Praying to Ceiling Fans and Other Religious Experiments
How I Lost God and Found Hope in the Questions
Oct 28, 2025
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The Audacity of Ordinary Days
Why the best life lessons come disguised as Tuesday or Thursday afternoons
Aug 19, 2025
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"Shitstorm Chaser" Isn’t a Real Job, But It Should Be!
We’re not in the era of prevention - we’re in the era of clean-up crews.
Jun 24, 2025
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Rabble-rousing
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A Banana Peel, a Paperclip, and a Constitution
Oops, We’re Doing History Again! Two centuries in, and we’re still trying to figure out how this democracy thing is supposed to work.
Aug 5, 2025
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The Algorithm Hates Grey!
How oversimplification is rotting our ability to think.
Jul 10, 2025
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Can Authenticity Be Measured? Favikon Thinks So!
2 Cents & a Lime™ - A weekly dose of perspective that cuts through the fluff.
Jun 19, 2025
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Democracy For Sale, Privacy Sold Separately!
Why Palantir's latest government contract should terrify you!
Jun 5, 2025
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Orwell Wasn't Paranoid, He Was Early!
1984 in 2025: Living Inside the Doublethink
Feb 11, 2025
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Humor
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Synergy Sucks - How a Useful Word Became Corporate Vomit!
A Greek duo, a theological spat, and a 1960s corporate flipbook gave us the word we now deploy in every slide deck.
Nov 18, 2025
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The Surprising Link Between Drug Dealers and Tech CEOs!
Freemium, Turf Wars, and the Art of the Hustle
Nov 4, 2025
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Why CEOs Should Be Replaced by AI!
Because if we're going to let robots ruin everything, they should start with the boardroom.
Sep 2, 2025
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An Open Letter to Mariah Carey
It's Not Always Your Season
Dec 24, 2024
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Life Is Like a Roll of Toilet Paper
Crap Happens
May 28, 2024
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2 Cents & A Lime
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The Algorithm Hates Grey!
How oversimplification is rotting our ability to think.
Jul 10, 2025
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Can Authenticity Be Measured? Favikon Thinks So!
2 Cents & a Lime™ - A weekly dose of perspective that cuts through the fluff.
Jun 19, 2025
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Democracy For Sale, Privacy Sold Separately!
Why Palantir's latest government contract should terrify you!
Jun 5, 2025
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Is America ready for a 32-hour work week?
2 Cents & a Lime™ - A weekly dose of perspective that cuts through the fluff.
May 29, 2025
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The Truth Is Whatever We Want It To Be. That's The Problem.
2 Cents & a Lime™ - A weekly dose of perspective that cuts through the fluff.
May 15, 2025
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