Ryan Neudorf

In September of last year, I started recording random information I had never known about. My criteria for recording this fact was basically “will I want to be reminded about this in the future.” I didn’t set out with a plan for these facts beyond recording them in a notes document. But heck, if I […]

How’s that for a headline for the first post of a new year! Webrings hold a special place in my memories of the late-90s early internet. For those who never encountered one, or weren’t around back then, webrings were an early tool for content discovery. In the pre-Google and social media era, finding content — […]

Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules. Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage My eldest child just had their first day of grade 10 and informed us that phones […]