EXTRATEXTUALS

Ever since I found myself guarding my heart (and wallet) against Andrew Kim’s Leica T review a couple of years back, I’ve been trying my best to escape what CJ Chilvers calls “the gear trap” in his book ‘A Lesser Photographer’. This means refusing to believe that a…

The always inexhaustible Marco Arment has released an exhaustive review of microphones for podcasts, following up his well-known mega-review of headphones. I trust the guy, 100%, and ended up immediately purchasing his top rated microphone. What I appreciate most is…

It’s 2015, and technology is still way harder than it should be. I don’t really understand why something like Twitter cards, which should be something they want you to set up, still seems to involve so much guesswork.

You’ve heard that old saying attributed to…

Speaking of podcasting, I loved the simple and heartfelt ending of Stephen Hackett’s recent post detailing his podcasting setup.

A good podcast is about much more than the equipment that turns your voice into ones and zeros. I believe audio…

Going Dim

On January 1st, I made Twitter ‘go dim’ — and though the social network was a primary component of this major change in the new year, in…

If you’re trying to form new habits or routines in 2016, it’s helpful to have a way to quantify it all. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose recently released an episode on Tim’s podcast, ‘Recommendations and Resolutions for 2016’, talking about what they’re striving towards and how they’re doing it.