The story and the notes from the field. Chapters from the Urban Wilderness alongside the guides, documentation, and dispatches that go with them.
The Guides
How to Switch from Gmail to Proton Mail (And What to Do With Everything You Left Behind)
A note before we start: this guide documents how I switched from Gmail to Proton Mail and what I did with everything I left behind in Google. It is not the only way. It is not the definitive way. It is a map through a process I found scattered across forum threads and help docs…
The Journey
Chapter 1: My New Dirty Word
It’s 3:00pm and I’m restless. Another day further from living life on my terms. I can hear the world buzzing around me, slowly churning toward what it keeps calling “progress,” while I can’t help but be filled with rage over what “evolution” and “innovation” actually look like right now. Evolution according to tone-deaf tech bros…
Town Square
The Policy Changed Again
You probably saw the notification.
Google sent an alert. The kind that arrives in your inbox looking like housekeeping but reads, if you take a moment with it, like a quiet renegotiation of everything you thought you agreed to. They were updating their terms. They were going to use your data to train their models.…
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