American Education: What We Are Owed
My greatest criticism of the United States is how we treat public education — decades of underfunding, a testing regime that narrowed what schools teach, and stark inequality between rich and poor dis
Personal blog
Notes on learning, work, and becoming a little more useful.
I'm Steven Legg. This is a quiet place for practical reflections, projects, and things I am still figuring out.
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A Record Is Not a Life
What a notes app, a language routine, and a few unfinished drafts have taught me about paying attention.
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The Divide, and the Road Ahead
On the online societal divide — a vibrant but still-persecuted queer community, the masculinity crisis, charismatic figures at a desperate economic time, and the cultural and political change I believ
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June 1st 2026
A reflective June update — students and Coursera, saving money, letting go of Umbra, an orchestra in German, memories of Hamburg and Boston, job applications, and getting better at long-term thinking.
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May 2026 Update
A personal update: job searching, EF Boston closing, Umbra, ClaudeCowork, Anki, quitting social media, ditching cloud storage, and trying to stay present.
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Why I Love Foldable Phones
On absolutely loving foldables in every form factor — book-style, flip, tri-fold — Blackberry keyboards, slide-out designs, PDAs, and why foldables are the most fun phones being made.
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What I Miss from 2014 Smartphones
A hardware regression thesis: smartphones in 2026 have less than phones from a decade ago, and the industry quietly decided that was fine.
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My Recent Return to Linux
On setting up Windows 11 for my dad (a total nightmare), Fedora KDE as my own daily driver since November, Linux Mint on old hardware, and why Linux is just more fun.
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Fedora KDE — My Experience
Personal notes on using Fedora KDE as a daily driver on a ThinkPad T495s — why it's the setup I've landed on.
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Fedora KDE Guide
Most useful tips and tricks for Fedora KDE — setup, DNF, RPM Fusion, Flatpak, KDE configuration, and performance tweaks.
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macOS
Getting started with macOS Tahoe 26: useful commands, favourite apps, input methods, Homebrew, privacy setup, Time Machine, and drive formatting.
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Microsoft Windows 11
How to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account, debloat it, disable Copilot and telemetry, and use the terminal effectively.
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The Midnight Library
A personal review of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library — the book I listened to in the Target backroom when I needed to sit with the question of where my life had gone, and what I might have done diffe
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PlayStation 2
I never owned a PS2 as a kid — I played it with an older-brother figure up the street. A look back at the best-selling console ever: its library, its futuristic boot-up, modding it today, and those fa