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G Mansfield

Ugh, Socials. A Siri Shortcut for a Pause.

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, pick your poison. Should you have an iThing and iOS 14, here is a simple Siri Shortcut that might create some…

Oct 7, 2020

Ugh, Socials. A Siri Shortcut for a Pause.

Oct 7, 2020

G Mansfield

△ Are Bitcoin, Crypto, and Blockchain New Words for Old Ideas, or Just Ugly Words for Selfish Ones?

This is one in a series of five technology pieces I’ll put out across the week. I have a variety of interests, as do we all. We might not…

May 7, 2018

△ Are Bitcoin, Crypto, and Blockchain New Words for Old Ideas, or Just Ugly Words for Selfish Ones?

May 7, 2018

G Mansfield

Interesting Times

Where has the time gone now that Zuckerberg has wound the clocks to thirteen? If an annual circular comes every eighteen months, is it…

Jun 21, 2017

Interesting Times

Jun 21, 2017

G Mansfield

Feed Facebook.

With Facebook’s newsfeed, the real problem isn’t fake news –– it’s how it makes us angry by design. There might be some way around this.

Nov 15, 2016

Nov 15, 2016

G Mansfield

Decline and Fall

Something unspeakable has happened. A dog has died. As I waited at the intersection near my house, I watched a black retriever leave its…

Nov 10, 2016

Decline and Fall

Nov 10, 2016

G Mansfield

An Absentee’s Choice

It’s not just some Frenchified lifting of indecision to a level it doesn’t deserve: there really is a something horrible about choice. Man…

Oct 14, 2016

An Absentee’s Choice

Oct 14, 2016

G Mansfield

Warm Spring

Friends,

Mar 8, 2016

Warm Spring

Mar 8, 2016

G Mansfield

10 Things Every American Should Know in the 21st Century

The Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity Program is focused in part on the idea that a shared project like nation should have…

Dec 7, 2015

Dec 7, 2015

G Mansfield

For All Your Wants and Worries, a Film

There are a lot of modern illnesses for which we don’t have any cure and, often, for which we don’t even have a catchy name. Absent…

Aug 19, 2015

For All Your Wants and Worries, a Film

Aug 19, 2015

G Mansfield

Yes well what about the robot cars?

In an earlier thingy, I unburdened myself of some thoughts on Über which include, amongst other things, a sense that it’s no improvement on…

Aug 8, 2015

Yes well what about the robot cars?

Aug 8, 2015

G Mansfield

G Mansfield

HKG, NYC, Berlin. Lives out of a small suitcase. www.geoffmansfield.com. Very much my own opinions. Very much my own mistakes.

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