I feel like this is the creepiest kid in the candy biz

Where our decades actually fall: ’10s to the ‘80s

I don’t remember why I started thinking about this, but the other day it occurred to me that our current decade actually began a couple years before 2010. Thinking about it further, I set the beginning of the 10’s at 2008 and began setting in…

Some Advice on Dealing With Online Hate

2017 has been the most difficult year I have ever spent online. I began the year realizing that I had an unhealthy addiction to Facebook (particularly to arguing with people on Facebook), moved on to receiving tons of unwanted attention after being sucked into…

Why Should We Apologize for the Internet? CC: @mikerugnetta @inkookang

This tweet (and its linked essay) from Mike Rugnetta was the 2 in an anti-internet 1–2 punch I’d read over the last 24 hours:

Here’s my top 11 of the world’s top 10 trending videos lists

As part of YouTube Rewind, our year-end wrap-up of YouTube’s trends of the year, I worked with a lot of local country teams to help deliver year-end lists of their countries’ top 10 trending videos. That means I’ve seen a…

My Top 15 Pop Songs of the Year

These are the 15 songs that gave me more life, this year. It was pretty easy to put together this list of 15, which speaks highly of the kind of year in music we had. I could quite easily have added another ten. Check out the list, and let me know in the comments what you…

I can’t get this Lol Uzi Vert song out of my head, and it’s causing me problems

I’ve had this Lil Uzi Vert song stuck in my head for a couple weeks, and that’s a terrible thing. There’s a run-of-the-mill annoyance we all feel when we have a song stuck in our head that we…

I took my mom to Take Your Parents To Work Day

Last Thursday was Take Your Parents To Work day at Google.