Happy New Year, and welcome to the new Second Breakfast! Based on the responses to the reader survey last year, I'm making a few changes — and not just to where the newsletter is hosted. Many of you said you missed Hack Education, and you wondered if maybe-please-oh-please I
This isn’t how I planned to end 2023 or start 2024. It’s not, to borrow from a grade school assignment, how I wanted to “spend my Christmas vacation.” But the owners of Substack have forced my hand with their open support for hate speech on the platform; so
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The final Second Breakfast newsletter of 2023! Phew!
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Part 2 of my annual review of all things tech, and I made it through this whole essay without mentioning B. F. Skinner once even though I still see behaviorism everywhere
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Grieving and the holidays and embracing a potential potato disaster
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It's time for my annual review of all things tech, although thank goodness this year you don't have to hear me rant about education. Instead, you get a look at the year in "health" and eating
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Memories of holiday meals, with a nod to my Great Aunt Pearl
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The first of December, and the last news round-up of the year as I'm actually going to take some time off. And that, my friends, is good
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Episode 2 of the Second Breakfast podcast
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It's the end of November, so here's the last pancake recipe for you: plantain pancakes
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Thanksgiving leftovers, in the form of some thoughts on OpenAI, tech journalism, and bro-science. Also the week's food and fitness tech news
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Almost six months of Second Breakfast... How's it going?
