Matt Rasmussen
Technical artist. Blogging since 1999.
Pancakes, Hot Takes, And Social Media’s Flatness
tedium.coWhen every discussion feels flat, how do you fluff it up? The answer, to me, is to eat fewer pancakes.
Cold Takes & Pancakes
Ernie Smith over at Tedium somehow makes the most cogent argument yet for blogging in the 2020s, and he does it with pancakes. When viewed as contagion not content, one quickly grows as sick of hot takes as Kiki of pancakes. Quick, cheap and messy isn't the highest expression of humanity, but it see