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What I Think About When I Think About Wine Headaches
If they think about it at all, people will commonly claim wine headaches come from sulfites. This is almost certainly wrong, and it’s been wrong so confidently and for so long that it’s …
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It's Not Remote Work. It's Online Work.
The phrase “remote work” frames the thing wrong, and it matters. “Remote” implies a center. There’s a place — an office, a headquarters, a room where the real work …
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Why Agile Works (And It's Not What You Think)
The standard story about why Agile works is wrong. It goes something like: Agile is better because it’s iterative, because it surfaces requirements earlier, because it gets working software in …
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Fossil Fuels in 2025 Are A Moral Hazard
This is a moral claim, not a policy claim. I’m not making an argument about carbon taxes or the Green New Deal or what the federal government should mandate. I’m saying that choosing to …
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The Gas Stove Lie
Gas stoves are not better. They never were. The “chefs prefer gas” narrative is a fossil fuel industry marketing success story that got so deep into culinary culture that people now defend …