How to make your children enjoy life with you when they should be out partying — Read articles on how to parent your children during a pandemic and get super frustrated at anyone who claims to be an expert on an experience that no one on earth has ever experienced. (Teenagers did not exist during the 1918 Flu Pandemic and neither did TikTok, I don’t think.) …

One writer shares his secret to success on Medium and beyond — Nobody ever said making a living from writing was easy, but it doesn’t have to be rocket science either. I’m the lead editor of the Medium gadget blog Debugger where I regularly work with Partner Program writers to help them find a bigger audience and get paid for their writing…

Reading my way through my late forties — These are the best books I read in this year chock full of every last feeling on the Feelings Wheel. I spent a good part of 2021 learning how to parent my teenagers. I also changed jobs, sent a kid to college, finally realized I needed glasses to read, enjoyed…

Hint: It’s all Apple’s fault — In my former life as a tech podcaster, I used to switch phones, smartwatches, and tablets with my co-host for the entire month of January. He was an Android guy and I was all Apple all the time. …

“When is the last time you actually thought about PDFs?” asks Rob Walker in his excellent look into the 30-year-old tool we often take for granted. “The PDF is a…

I enjoy using it, when it works — When Apple Fitness+ launched in mid-December, I immediately signed up for the free trial. I’d been looking forward to subscribing to the company’s $10 a month service that includes guided workouts and integration with Apple Watch. …

My ten favorite books of my least favorite year — In mid-February of 2020, I took a trip alone to the desert. It was the first and only vacation I’d taken by myself in my entire 47 years on this planet. I am the mother of three teenagers and an elderly dog. I’m also married to a man who loves…

At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online. It is generally frowned upon for a wife and a mother of three human children to say that, most days, her favorite thing in the world…

Or why your idiosyncrasies make me feel better about mine — When I moved to Petaluma, California (former egg capital of the world), I thought I would get chickens. Instead, I got three children. And then I got a dog. Our neighbor had chickens. But they didn’t have a chicken coop or a fence. And one morning as my family was…