This is my second post in a series on the importance of reading (post nr 1) and what that means for any ‘service’ or ‘read it later’ app that comes after Pocket. I did not wake up one day as an infrequent reader and work slowly towards one hundred pages a day out of some […]
Category: Reading
Reading is different, pt I.
(…) enormous numbers of Americans say they wish they read more than they do, if only they could figure out how. It is to such persons that the following is addressed. – Matthew Walther, The Hundred Pages Strategy, The Lamp Magazine (December 2024) (If you’re not interested in my love of reading, go print out […]
Saying Goodbye to Pocket
When Mozilla announced that Pocket would shut down on July 8, 2025, I felt a pang—not just because of my personal attachment to the app, but because of the broader implications about our digital habits. It got me thinking again about two articles I wrote back in 2022, when I still believed Pocket had a […]
Pocket users: ‘Please help us read more’
Last week I shared my 12-month plan for improving Pocket. In it, I made the presumption that Pocket users want more out of the service than just saving articles. Here’s what I wrote: Like squirrels scouring the forest to find nuts that they then methodically store and only sometimes consume, so too do Pocket users browse […]
How I Would Improve Pocket
(Hint: it has nothing to do with data products and machine learning) Last week, I sent my 10-page plan for improving Pocket to it’s parent company Mozilla, and all I got was a robot response. The irony! My plan for revamping reading in Pocket was a reply to their recently posted vacancy for a Product […]