Things I don’t want to do

Here is a list of things I don’t want to do, in no particular order. I’ll update it as needed.

I don’t want to:

  • …decide where to put things
  • …charge the battery
  • …pair with my phone
  • …update the firmware
  • …pay to remove ads
  • …upgrade to Premium
  • …review our recent transaction
  • …subscribe to receive updates
  • …agree to your terms and conditions
  • …allow notifications
  • …review my contact information
  • …add a Passkey
  • …ask ChatGPT
  • …connect on LinkedIn
  • …share my contacts
  • …fill out your stupid cookie form
  • …see what’s trending
  • …install another app
  • …send anonymous usage data

Words to avoid

Words and phrases I should try to avoid.

I collect these throughout each year and record them when they reach a threshold of overuse or annoyance.

2024

  • “Liminal Space”
  • Colorway, when you mean “color”
  • Glass, when you mean “lens”
  • Cans, when you mean “headphones”
  • “Rocking my [whatever]…”
  • Apple
  • Fediverse
  • Enshittification

2022

  • Content
  • Trump
  • Click Like and Subscribe

2021

  • don’t get me wrong
  • content creator
  • suffice it to say
  • super excited
  • ideate
  • mindful
  • sublime
  • but I digress

2020

  • unprecedented times
  • Orthogonal
  • Roamcult
  • Heuristic
  • Hustle
  • Playbook
  • Journey
  • Super excited
  • Emergent
  • Suboptimal
  • Dunning-Kruger
  • Systems thinking
  • Second order effect
  • Unpack
  • Stoked
  • Trump (one can dream)

2019

  • dopamine
  • “walled garden”
  • Facebook
  • “you’re the product”
  • silo
  • Trump
  • really
  • actually
  • “sparks joy”
  • just
  • pupper and doggo
  • stoked
  • journey
  • folk