Archive - Reality 2.0 Newsletter

The digital wallet will be the biggest instrument of personal agency since the browser—but only if we make it ours

Apple and Google already have a wallet in your phone. Other developers want an open way to build alternatives. But the missing player in this is us…

Nov 4, 2022 •

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The dark patterns in "your choice" of cookies

Where deception is the rule rather than the exception

Jan 21, 2023 •

The Story Isn't the Whole Story

A TED talk retold

Sep 14, 2023 •

An AI reading list

My open tabs, gathered

May 14, 2023 •

Unscrewing Subscriptions

Can we solve an eternal problem in the next year? Or ever? How?

Aug 28, 2023 •

It's time for customers to solve market problems that businesses can't solve by themselves.

Every node is a peer on the Internet. Let's take advantage of that fact.

Nov 14, 2022 •

Our favorite gadgets, toys, and tools for working and playing from home.

Aug 12, 2021 •

Katherine Druckman

On decreasing influence

Over our kids, our cars, our planet, stuff like that

Aug 6, 2022 •

Is Substack the new Blogging?

And what do we lose if that's so?

Jun 28, 2022 •

From Highway to Byway

Even if you don't remember the Information Superhighway, that's what we have now, and we need to bypass it.

Sep 19, 2022 •

Doc's Open Tabs

Catch up on what's interesting.

Dec 3, 2021 •

Privacy Revisited

Apr 13, 2022 •

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