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Everything That Caught My Attention.
Things That Caught My Attention: a newsletter about the internet and life by Dan Hon, since January 2014, with over 2,800 subscribers.
The newsletter covers everything and anything that software touches: artificial intelligence, internet of things, the ethics of technology and software, government technology, design, community management, content moderation, social networks, platforms, and at times, a very long running chapter-by-chapter critical breakdown of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
But I don't just write about technology: I write about technology from a personal perspective. I write about technology as someone with adult ADHD and I write about it as someone who lives with mental health issues. I write about what it's like to be a father, and what it's like to be an immigrant in America, raising a family.
It's a long-running newsletter, too. Since January 2014, that's 656 episodes, 1,284,909 words and 7,051 links across 1,585 concepts, organizations, people, and media.
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- It’s all vibes, until it’s not
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