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🗓 Access Info: Tending Your Media Ecosystem
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Tara McMullin
To Encourage Excellence
What is mediocrity? What is excellence? Reflections on Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"
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Tara McMullin
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The Trust-Profit Paradox
Platform companies live and die by the trust of their users—but it seems you can't have your trust and generate shareholder value, too.
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Tara McMullin
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It's Our World, AI Just "Lives" In It
This is not advice: what we really talk about when we talk about AI is us. We're the problem. Actually, we're the solution.
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Tara McMullin
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Breaking the Meta Cycle: Resisting Abstraction to Create More Satisfying Work
Many companies—large and very small—boost profits by "going meta." But going meta inevitably changes the relationship between work and value. What if we…
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Tara McMullin
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Welcoming the Silence
If we're truly nearing the end of the social media era, how might we use the silence to create something new?
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Tara McMullin
How the Game We Play Changes the Way We Work
Etsy, Game Theory, the NFL, Layoffs, and Absentee Capitalism: You have to know what game you’re playing to know how to win—and you also need to decide…
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Tara McMullin
What Can I Do to Grow My Audience?
In the very first "This is Not Advice" column, I explore what it means to "grow an audience" in a time when social media feels broken and relationships…
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Tara McMullin
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The True Cost of Satisfaction Might Be Giving Up What You Didn't Want
Nathalie Lussier moved from NYC to Texas for a bigger, better suburban life—and then ended up back in her home country of Canada, living on a farm.
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Tara McMullin
Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires and Loss Aversion
The American myth allows us to take possession of the dream of a successful life and then dares us to give it up. But there's hope in another way.
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Tara McMullin
April 2023
AI, Automation, and the Case for Luddism
Do the digital tools we use to up our productivity and efficiency actually give us more control over our work or free time for leisure?
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Tara McMullin
Kids at Work, Games as Labor, Content as Product, and the Surplus Elite
The news about "work" today is weird. How can it help us understand our own position as workers... and what the future may hold?
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Tara McMullin
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