Far too many people are unaware of the real consequences of giving up their privacy. As Carissa Véliz writes, privacy is not a private problem, privacy is a collective issue.

Because we are intertwined in ways that make us vulnerable to each other, we are responsible for each other’s privacy. I might, for instance, be extremely careful with my phone number and physical address. But if you have me as a contact in your mobile phone and then give access to companies to that phone, my privacy will be at risk regardless of the precautions I have taken. This is why you shouldn’t store more sensitive data than necessary in your address book, post photos of others without their permission, or even expose your own privacy unnecessarily. When you expose information about yourself, you are almost always exposing information about others.

I lostinvested half the morning on finding good alternatives to Zencastr for recording podcast interviews locally, since Zencastr had technical issues.

Fortunately, the issues have been resolved, but now I have two alternative solutions ready in case they ever have issues again: a local solution based on the Audio HijackBlackHole combination and Ringr.

I had exactly the same problem happen to me.

Even though I have my iPhone configured to only allow calls from my contacts, some some spam calls got through. I just needed to delete my old ‘Don’t answer’ contact, which I used in the past to silence known phone spammers.

I wish I could set a default skin tone for all emoji instead of having to do it one by one #firstworldproblems

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As you start with your meditation practice, the first thing you’ll notice is that your mind is completely out of control.

Sam Harris

I’ve been wanting to up my meditation practice for a while now. Today I started Sam Harris’ 50 day training course Waking Up, since I’ve heard many good things about it.

The first session was—as expected—a very basic 5–minute breathing mindfulness exercise. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s session…