A Geek's Life

For JUnited 2026, updated with one link each day in June 2026

1. You Must Remember This by Jonathan Weiner at The American Scholar: A reflection on hyperthymesia, autobigraphical writing, and a brother in the aftermath of a father’s death.
2. Why Things Will Eventually Fall Apart by Gary Marcus on Substack: On the LLM-route-to-a-profitable-moat fallacy.
3. A Word to my Readers by Beth Adams on Substack: A reflection on the (positive) feedback subscribing to a blog (or newsletter) gives to the author. Food for thought for me, given I am increasingly RSS first these days.
4. Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet by Mike Masnick: A reflection on the role social media plays – and continues to play – in de-democratising the internet; and a shout out for decentralisation. (Hat tip to AJ Jacobs)
5. Dear Ollie: An endearing (to me at least) record of all the joys a growing toddler brings.