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Matt Ruby
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Matt Ruby's personal blog at mattruby.substack.com covers culture and writing. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Life before smartphones (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Topics: Comedy, tech, art, mindfulness, etc. 🧘 Influences: George Carlin, Leonard Cohen, Fran Lebowitz, Alan Watts 🧠 Work: Comedian/writer ✍️ Politics: Anti-crazy 📚 Gen: X 🤘 Approval Matrix: highbrow despicable 🕵 Milk: Almond orig unsweetened 🥛. Click to read The Rubesletter by Matt Ruby 💎, a Su
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- Life before smartphones (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-02
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Hey, I'm Matt Ruby (author of this essay). If you dig it, please consider signing up for my newsletter where I published it. You'll get my jokes, videos, & essays in your inbox weekly: https://mattruby.substack.com/ Also, I've got a new standup special/album that you can watch on YouTube or stream as an album: https://800PGR.lnk.to/RubyTW And you can watch a video version of this essay here: https://www.youtube.com/…
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on “Life before smartphones (2020)”Submitted Life before smartphones (2020) as a story · 669 points
HN discussionSubmitted The biggest mistake the trans movement made as a story · 9 points
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HN discussionSubmitted My mom was a liberal hippie and my dad was a Reagan Republican as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Is Training Us to Stop Being Human as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ego Pandemic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What it's like doing standup in Europe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Truth about the Jews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online dating turned flirting into a video game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The disruption is not coming online as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why “the creator economy” sucks for creators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter devolved into a pipeline of ragebait slop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear men, stop dressing like trash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Vxion a Sex Cult? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greek Freak, General Hospital, and the Common Man as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The disruption is not coming online as a story · 1 points
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