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May 5

I just published How to Set Up a New Substack 2026 medium.com/p/how-to-set-up-a…

How to Set Up a New Substack 2026

For Google Search 2026

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Apr 30

I just published Products I Wish Apple Made medium.com/p/products-i-wish…

6 Products I Wish Apple Made

A few they did in the past & they should bring ’em back

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Apr 18

The Substack Subscriber Who Never Opens Anything medium.com/p/the-substack-su…

The Substack Subscriber Who Never Opens Anything

I don’t care about email stats anymore

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Apr 10

How I Earn Money on Substack in 2026 medium.com/p/how-i-earn-mone…

How I Earn Money on Substack in 2026

SEO changed my strategy

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Apr 5

Zorin OS Is the Linux Distribution for the Rest of Us medium.com/p/zorin-os-is-the…

Zorin OS Is the Linux Distribution for the Rest of Us

It’s been around since 2008. Cities run on it. Takes about 20 minutes to install.

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Apr 4

It Is Truly Embarrassing to Keep Using @Windows Now medium.com/p/it-is-truly-emb…

It Is Truly Embarrassing to Keep Using Windows Now

I’m just confused why people still put up with this

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Apr 4

The EU’s AI Scene Is There, Just Under the Radar medium.com/p/the-eus-ai-scen…

The EU’s AI Scene Is There, Just Under the Radar

Measuring Europe against OpenAI is the wrong comparison

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Apr 2

I just published Europe’s Tech Breakup with the US Isn’t Going Great medium.com/p/europes-tech-br…

Europe’s Tech Breakup with the US Isn’t Going Great

Microsoft, Amazon, Google

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Mar 31

I just published I Deleted My Entire Productivity App Stack medium.com/p/i-deleted-my-en…

I Deleted My Entire Productivity App Stack

Claude Code does most of it now

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Mar 29

I Replaced Google Search With My Own Blog medium.com/p/i-replaced-goog…

I Replaced Google Search With My Own Blog

It took 1,982 articles to get there

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Mar 29

Substack Store With Stripe (No Gumroad) medium.com/p/substack-store-…

Substack Store With Stripe (No Gumroad)

Here are the pitfalls with that

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Mar 28

I just published What Happens When You Publish on Three Platforms at Once medium.com/p/what-happens-wh…

What Happens When You Publish on Three Platforms at Once

It’s more spreadsheet-y than you’d think

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Mar 28

Apple News That Surprised Me by @burkr_ medium.com/p/apple-news-that…

Apple News That Surprised Me

Free business tools, full Gemini access, and Siri

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Mar 27

Apple News That Surprised Me medium.com/p/apple-news-that…

Apple News That Surprised Me

Free business tools, full Gemini access, and Siri

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Mar 26

Microsoft shows ads inside Windows. On a laptop you paid for. In the Start menu. In Settings. In notifications. There's no "Windows without ads" tier. You just get ads. On your own computer. 👇

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Mar 26

The tracking never stopped either. Paying didn't buy you privacy. It just bought you the same product with a receipt. letters.byburk.net/p/can-we-…

Can We Talk About Ads in 2026

Where TF are we heading?

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Mar 26

Can We Talk About Ads in 2026 There used to be a deal. Free with ads, or paid without. Two lanes. Pick one. Somewhere in the last two years, the lanes merged. 👇

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Mar 26

Amazon Prime added ads to the paid plan. Disney did it. Hulu did it. YouTube Premium Lite still shows some ads. You're now paying for the privilege of seeing fewer ads. Not zero. Fewer. 👇

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Mar 26

I just published Germany Just Made Open Document Formats Mandatory medium.com/p/germany-just-ma…

Germany Just Made Open Document Formats Mandatory

Microsoft lost its default status

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Mar 25

I have almost 2,000 articles across three platforms. Medium, Substack, and my own blog. At some point you stop Googling your problems and start finding your own answers. Literally. 👇

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Mar 25

Each article is a tiny investment. Most do nothing for months. But a few start showing up in search results. And once they do, they keep showing up. That's the compounding effect of writing about what you actually do. 👇

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Mar 25

The downside: some of my old articles are wrong. Platforms change. Features get removed. And when your primary reference is yourself, you stop looking for other perspectives. That's lazy. I do it more than I should.

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