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MuddyUm

An Eclipse Killed the Dinosaurs — Stop Blaming a Meteor

Lack of information doomed prehistoric life

4 min readApr 14, 2024

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Robin Riback
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MuddyUm

AI, How Do I Loathe Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

Poetic Justice

4 min readApr 6, 2024

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A regretful-looking cartoonish blue robot is staring out at us.

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Writers’ Blokke

What is Time?

The poetry of our internal rhythms

3 min readMar 8, 2024

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An hourglass full at the top with sand draining down is held by a woman who looks at it or us close up — closed horizontal window blinds are in the background.

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Robin Riback
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MuddyUm

Your Doctor’s One-Size-Fits-All Mentality Is Bad for Your Health

A colonoscopy shouldn’t be such a pain in the ass

4 min readFeb 9, 2024

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2 hands in blue surgical gloves. One gloved hand is pulling the other glove above the wrist.

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Robin Riback
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MuddyUm

My Medium Rare Complaint

Feast on a well-done rant

3 min readJan 4, 2024

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A medium rare steak fillet cut to show the inside. It is beautifully plated with dabs of orange and yellow sauce around a white plate. Delicious-looking fried onions are piled atop the meat. Yum!

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Robin Riback
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UX Planet

Let’s Teach E-Calendar Time Management to the Ancient Greeks

Turbo-charge your schedule with powerful to-do lists * Part 3

4 min readDec 8, 2023

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An old-style hard copy wall calendar is stuck to a window in an office facing out. We are outside, looking in at the calendar and the 2 people working at a desk in the background.

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UX Planet

Let’s Teach E-Calendar Time Management to the Ancient Greeks

How to harness the power of a weekly schedule * Part 2

5 min readNov 5, 2023

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Pages of a tear-off calendar lie scattered on a black background. The pages display the month in bold and the date below in a heavy font.

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Robin Riback
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UX Planet

Let’s Teach E-Calendar Time Management to the Ancient Greeks

How to add recurring events to maximize efficiency * Part 1

5 min readOct 3, 2023

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E-calendar view on Apple desktop. They are color-coded and time blocked. A person’s arm and hand are in the foreground — it appears that they’re scheduling an event on this calendar.

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Robin Riback
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MuddyUm

The Day I Fired the Nasty CEO’s Living in My Brain

My mind hated me!

5 min readSep 8, 2023

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cartoonish graphic of a head with a brain inside the text above reads “It’s Inside All of Us”

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UX Planet

Let’s Teach Cell Phone Technology to Alexander Graham Bell

How texting works and why it’s changed our lives * BONUS CHAPTER

6 min readAug 4, 2023

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Closeup of 2 hands holding a cell phone with the thumbs poised to test a message

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Robin Riback

Robin Riback

I write humor self-help articles & fiction with a smudge of the dark side. Do you want to write stronger, better, faster? I can help. https://robinriback.com/

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