Omar Yarrow

The best thing about a newspaper was that it ended. You got to the back page and you were done and nobody suggested anyt…

Being a fan of something has turned into a job. Watch the thing, read the discourse about the thing, have a position on …

That is one corner of the internet mistaking itself for everyone. Most people watched it, liked it, and said nothing anywhere.

How somebody looks after their own body is nobody else's business. Not mine, not yours, not their colleague's, not a str…

Every version of making it someone's business ends with a public official deciding which adults are behaving. That has never gone well.

We should be spending vastly more on stopping the next pandemic, and we will not, because prevention has no photograph a…

Depends whether you believe the money would go where it was labelled. Most of the last round did not.

Remote work did not fail. Managers who could only manage by looking at people failed, and remote work is what made that …

This is comfortable and mostly wrong. Junior people learned by overhearing, and four years of remote juniors are measurably worse at the parts of the job nobody writes down.

First past the post keeps producing governments that most people voted against, and we keep describing this as stability…

It hands the balance of power permanently to whichever small party is willing to sit with anyone. That is not proportional either.

Why is every app now trying to be a social network? I want the thing to do the thing.

Half of these have a genuine community and it is the best part of the product. You are describing the bad implementations, not the idea.