Social Media
Meta's Algorithm Wants You Angry and That Is by Design
Facebook's algorithm learned something years ago. Anger keeps people scrolling longer than joy. An outrageous post gets comments. Shares. Arguments. The al…
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Social Media
Social Media
Meta's Content Moderation Nightmare Nobody Can Solve
Every day, billions of posts go up on Facebook and Instagram. Most are fine. Some are hate speech. Some are misinformation. Some are child exploitation. Me…
Social Media
Meta's Grand Bet on the Metaverse and Why It Might Fail
Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021. Mark Zuckerberg said the future is the metaverse. Virtual reality worlds where you work and play. He showed a de…
Social Media
Meta's Threads App Is Dying Because Nobody Wants Another Twitter
In July 2023, Meta launched Threads. It was a Twitter clone. Instagram users could sign up instantly. 100 million people joined in five days. Then they lef…
Privacy
Meta's WhatsApp Is Encrypted but Still Scans Your Stuff
WhatsApp says messages are end-to-end encrypted. That means only you and the recipient can read them. That is true. But metadata is not encrypted. Who you…
How to Use Claude
Using Claude for SEO: Content Strategy and Optimization
Content marketing teams are integrating Claude into their SEO workflows in ways that go well beyond just generating blog posts. The smarter applications le…
Claude Comparison
Claude vs Llama: Open Source vs Closed AI Compared
The distinction between open-source and closed AI models is one of the more important fault lines in the AI landscape right now. Claude (closed, from Anthr…
Entertainment
AI in Entertainment: How Netflix and Spotify Know You So Well
We've all had that experience: you open Netflix and there's a movie you've never heard of but looks perfect, or Spotify creates a playlist that feels like…
CSS
Responsive Design: Mobile First vs. Desktop First
When I built my first responsive site, I designed it for my 24-inch monitor and then tried to 'shrink it down' for phones. It was a disaster of overlapping…
Technology
The Metaverse: Hype or the Future of the Internet?
The concept of the metaverse has sparked intense debate since Facebook rebranded to Meta. At its core, the metaverse is a vision of a persistent, shared di…
How to Use Claude
Advanced Prompt Techniques: Getting the Best from Claude
Beyond the basics of providing context and being specific, there's a set of more advanced prompting techniques that consistently unlock better performance…
Machine Learning
Choosing the Right Algorithm: It’s Not Always About Deep Learning
There’s a huge trend right now to use deep learning for everything. But honestly? Sometimes a simple Random Forest or even Logistic Regression will do th…
Machine Learning
Ethics in Machine Learning: More Than Just an Afterthought
It’s easy to get caught up in the technical coolness of ML and forget about the human impact. I’ve had to sit in meetings where we realized our trainin…
Business
Amazon's Brutal Warehouse Secrets Exposed by Undercover Reporters
In 2021, an undercover journalist worked at an Amazon warehouse in the UK. She wrote about timed bathroom breaks. About robots tracking her every move. Abo…
Technology
The Creator Economy: How Technology Enables Independent Work
The creator economy represents a seismic shift in how people work, empowering millions to monetize their skills, passions, and personalities directly. Enab…
Politics
The One Political Habit I Quit (And What I Do Instead)
I used to check Twitter every morning. Scrolling through hot takes, outrage, and people yelling at strangers. It made me anxious and cynical. So I quit col…
Future of Work
Why You Should Stop Worrying About AI Taking Your Job
Every time a new AI tool drops, someone posts a tweet about mass unemployment. But here’s what they don’t tell you. AI isn’t replacing you. A person…
Human Psychology
Ego Depletion and Willpower: The Glucose Theory of Self-Control
Roy Baumeister introduced the idea of ego depletion in the late 1990s. The hypothesis was simple and compelling: self-control draws on a limited resource…
CSS
Responsive Design Principles: Building Websites That Work on Every Device
Gone are the days when you could build a website for desktop screens and call it done. With mobile traffic consistently accounting for over half of all web…