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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I consider life hackers to be geeks, and I understand geeks to be those who are enthusiastic about a topic.¹ For instance, reef geeks …

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I’ve been thinking a lot about cultural policing, including the geek policing of “fake geek girls”. In a draft about privilege and geek meritocracy …

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Like many people, I’ve often thought of selfies as artifacts of the immature or self-obsessed. Granted, we all have pictures of ourselves, including some …

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