We often complain about being distracted, including by the beeping, buzzing, notifying, LED-flashing of our tech devices. But what if you had the ingrained habit of being distracted? What if your distractions weren’t only caused by external disruptions… but by yourself?
Phishing happens when fraudsters impersonate a trusted person or organisation to get hold of your information. They have all sorts of very creative techniques, including using fake domain names with Cyrilic characters instead of Latin ones, and even forging deepfake audio of your relatives. In this article, we look at what phishing is, how to recognise it, and what to do if you are victim of a phishing attack.
Looking at Buffer's 2023 report on the State of Remote Work, I dive into 5 of the most common struggles encountered by remote workers and offer tech-life balance solutions to each of them
Caroline Cadwell is the CEO and co-founder of Unpluq, a mobile application that helps you be in control of your time, with an impactful physical twist. In this interview, we talked about Caroline’s own experience of burnout, the Unpluq tag serving both as a material barrier and a ritual, and the company’s bold ambition for the future.
Vulnerable observations from my entrepreneurial journey. A personal mash-up of The map is not the territory x The pathless path x self-observation, feat. The Graduate and Oscar Wilde
An interview with the founders of Jomo, an iOS app striving to help you stop wasting time on your phone. In this interview, we talked about how they were frustrated with Apple’s native features, their guilt-free and inclusive design approach, how they take raw data to the next level with recommendations, why they care so much about keeping an affordable pricing, and a lot more.
Article looking at the science of boredom, and what it means for our relationship to tech.
"As I was researching the topic of boredom to write this section of the book, I stumbled upon a rich and underexplored world. Out of 30, this is the only experiment that’s also a punishment. Boredom through isolation is used both in school as time-out and in prison in the form of solitary confinement. But! But but but!! Our ability to experience boredom might also play a part in why we as a species have achieved so much. Although there’s still a lot to discover about its workings, it’s an incredible motor for planning and inventing."
Oooh yes! The 2nd part of this article is about all the tools I use that help with privacy and security, including ProtonMail and Have I Been Pwned! I will look into Cubbit, thank you
Thanks! I had a WP site before, but it was getting too complicated for me. I have basic CSS skills, but they weren't enough so I was always asking my SO for help. I had plugins to update but I was never sure of how safe they were, if they were going to break the site, etc.
With the skills I have, something like Squarespace is more manageable and easier to tailor
I see a lot of non-technical people around me who don't get the importance of privacy. Family who buys Alexa and use Facebook for everything. I wrote this in an attempt to explain how far privacy breaches can get, how the implications can be. Then, I tried defining some security terms that non-technical people might run into. Security helps protect their privacy, so I hope to help them make sense of what those terms mean and how they benefit from them.
Oh I'm well aware and I wish I didn't have to show the banner. If you know an alternative with which I could build that website, that doesn't force me to use cookies on users, I'm all ears
Yes, that's something I'd love to do differently. The problem is I don't have the technical skills to build that website myself. As I said in the cookie banner, I disabled all the trackers I could. Unfortunately, Squarespace doesn't let its customers disable all of them, which is extremely annoying.