Earlier I reviewed the literature on whether there is a distinct geek style of thinking?. This question recently went mainstream as a consequence of James …

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I was recently interviewed by Luciana Lima for an story about FOMO in Brazil’s Você S/A (“Tudo ao mesmo tempo agora,” March 2017 …

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I’ve been working on geek meritocracy and privilege for a while now and my original draft has now been split into two. The meritocracy …

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I recently noted that datafication has a Wikipedia article. This is another term for a phenomenon I usually speak of as quantification, following Ritzer and …

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A recent TEDx Talk by Will Stephen is the new “Dr. Fox Lecture.” In the 1970s researchers designed an experiment to see how a group …

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I argue that life hacking is a type of self-help reflective the present moment. How should I refer to this mindset and moment? I have …

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Since writing Reading the Comments I often think about how to best explain why it is people can act so rotten online. I recently put …

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Can one apply the life hacking ethos of analyzing and optimizing to the romantic sphere? Some do! If you read Amy Webb, Chris McKinlay, and …

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It’s that time of the year where we give our final evaluation of students and they do the same. This semester I received an …

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In writing about online life, I’ve found it necessary to distinguish between the behaviors of trolling, hating, and harassing, and the attitudes of androcentrism …

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