- The author values the concept of digital gardens and epistemic status tagging as a way to express thoughts without over-polishing.
- Personal note-taking with Obsidian is highlighted, and the author considers publishing raw notes as a digital garden.
- The web is described as stale due to centralization, with POSSE (Post on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) advocated as a solution.
- Surveillance capitalism is critiqued, emphasizing that certainty about future behavior is the true product sold by platforms.
- Engineers bear personal responsibility for the tools they build, and should refuse to create products that enable abuse.
- Spotify's AI-generated songs from deceased artists without permission is condemned as unethical, and the platform's lack of artist approval is criticized.
- The author has switched to Qobuz for music and Pocket Casts for podcasts as alternatives to problematic platforms.