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About Things That Caught My Attention

Things That Caught My Attention is a newsletter about the internet and life that I’ve been writing since January 2014. I’ve been writing online since 1998.

I write about a lot: artificial intelligence, internet of things, the ethics of technology and software, government technology, design, videogames, community management, content moderation, social networks, platforms and a very, very long-running chapter by chapter critical breakdown of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. In other words, I wrote about anything that software touches.

I don’t just write about technology: I also write about technology from a personal perspective. I write about adult ADHD, mental health, what it’s like to be a father and what it’s like to be an immigrant in America raising a family.

What this is

[One or two paragraphs: what the newsletter is, the "things that caught my attention" conceit, how long it's been running, roughly how often it goes out.]

Who writes it

[A short paragraph about Dan -- who he is, why he writes this.]

What's in this archive

[What `things` (this site) is, as distinct from the newsletter itself -- the searchable/browsable archive, the entity index, seasons, links, playlists, /SIP. Who this is for: readers, researchers, journalists.]

[Link to the Buttondown subscribe page.]

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