Total respect for the life-stage at which you might think it was supercool to call something "X". It's just that it's been three decades since I was in that life-stage myself, and I'm younger than Elon Musk

Harry Bliss

AI Youtubers, don't forget it'll soon be time to retitle & repost your "ChatGPT will change EVERYTHING in 2024" videos but with 2025 in the title instead

it's fun to start the day with a long to do list and then slowly remove things from it not because you did them but because you were humbled by the reality of daily life

Couple of utilities suppliers where I'm thinking of adopting "dynamic paying"

It's kind of fascinating that Musk bought a platform – one that definitely had problems – then changed the nature of the problems so as to prioritize the kind of falsehoods for which he's a ready audience, and now believes the falsehoods, because he reads them on his platform

I wonder how many people pay The Sun £4.99 a month for their online version that has the same amount of ads but they're not personalised

It strikes me as a classic fallacy of Twitterbrain to see a poignant and ambiguous image like this and assume that it must *really* disguise an extremely simple and nuance-free point of the kind someone would make on Twitter

The £40 freestanding shower I got for our garden tap is one of my best investments ever. Not for the neighbors who have to watch me leaping around in my trunks — but for me.

"Harold Ross, the New Yorker editor… had a profound ignorance. On one of Mr. Benchley's manuscripts he wrote in the margin opposite 'Andromache', 'Who he?' Mr. Benchley wrote back, 'You keep out of this.'" – Dorothy Parker

One of my favourite things is when people have to defend themselves from serious criminal charges by instead claiming they are simply stupid. You know it has to hurt.

Free online masterclass for preorderers! (Also just to note: if you've already submitted info via one of the links below, you'll be hearing back from the publisher by email with joining info a week before the event.)

OK, my mild eyeroll when people reply "I'll read this later" to posts about procrastination has been well & truly put in its place

If you set any store by this fellow and the "13 keys" he's used to correctly predict every US presidential election since 1984… well, he just called 2024 for Kamala Harris nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opi…

I'm very very happy that MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS is Bookshop.org Book of the Month for September! Preorder here to support your favourite independent booksellers, and also me. uk.bookshop.org/lists/book-of-…

A quote worth remembering, incidentally, in the context of resurgent conservative arguments against mothers pursuing careers that take them away from full-time parenting.

Canadians! Indigo have named MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS one of their most anticipated books for fall, and have a great preorder discount until this weekend, at this link indigo.ca/en-ca/meditati…