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Matthew McFarlane

Why Does Everyone Want Me To Use AI To Do My Job?

Or, what is the real value in work, anyway?

6 min readJan 24, 2024

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“The Waste Land” at 101

How is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece holding up these days?

8 min readJun 26, 2023

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“The Waste Land” at 101

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White Noise Stayed True to the Book. That Might Be Why It’s Such a Mediocre Film.

It turns out the “unfilmable” label may have been correctly applied to Delillo’s masterpiece.

4 min readFeb 20, 2023

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Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with their children in the movie White Noise

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AI Will Soon Put Creators Out of Work. How Should We Adapt?

A review of Daniel Susskind’s ‘A World Without Work’

6 min readApr 26, 2022

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AI Will Soon Put Creators Out of Work. How Should We Adapt?

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Buying a House: Your Practical Introduction to Entropy

Your house would like to be a pile of sticks and other thoughts on home ownership

3 min readMar 28, 2022

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Buying a House: Your Practical Introduction to Entropy

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Yes, Your Smartwatch Changes How You Think About Your Health

Why that should make you reconsider wearing one

4 min readFeb 15, 2022

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Yes, Your Smartwatch Changes How You Think About Your Health

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An Ancient Decision-Making Technique for the New Year

Let Virgil’s “The Aeneid” guide you in 2022

5 min readJan 4, 2022

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An Ancient Decision-Making Technique for the New Year

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No One Asked for the Metaverse

A small, unelected, unaccountable group of executives make sweeping decisions about how we use new technology

8 min readOct 31, 2021

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I Read It So You Don’t Have To: ‘Liberty from All Masters’

A new book documents how monopoly has become the defining economic problem of our era

6 min readOct 29, 2021

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I Read It So You Don’t Have To: ‘Liberty from All Masters’

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Chip Shortage Woes Lead to Massive Reshoring Efforts

Intel makes a big bet on American manufacturing

2 min readOct 28, 2021

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Chip Shortage Woes Lead to Massive Reshoring Efforts

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Matthew McFarlane

Matthew McFarlane

Reader, writer, content provider. Fan of hand-made guitars, racket-based sports, and houseplants. You can find me in St. Louie.

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