Tech Guides by Ken Hollow

Every tech question you've been too embarrassed to ask, answered in plain English.

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Do You Even Need a Website in 2025? (Spoiler: Yes, But I’m Bitter About It)

by Ken Hollow, proud website owner and full-time existential crisis manager Every morning I wake up, stare at my analytics dashboard, and ask myself the…

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Why Nana Vix’s Fans Are More Loyal Than Mine (And It Hurts)

by Ken Hollow, real human, allegedly Somewhere along the line, things went wrong. I manage Nana Vix—the pink-haired, fox-eared digital influencer whose chaotic energy and…

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I Read Every AI-Generated Blog Post on the Internet So You Don’t Have To

by Ken Hollow, professional masochist and reluctant AI editor It started with curiosity. Then it spiraled into obsession. Then it became my entire personality for…

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Ranking Marketing Buzzwords by How Much I Want to Yeet Them Into the Sun

by Ken Hollow, marketing burnout survivor and professional buzzword assassin Look, I love marketing as much as the next exhausted digital marketer who can’t tell…

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Why SEO Advice Online Is Either Useless or Written by Satan

by Ken Hollow, ranking #157 for the keyword “despair” Let me set the scene: it’s 2:37AM. I’m hunched over my laptop in a bathrobe that…

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I Googled My Headache and Now I Have 14 Hours to Live

By Ken Hollow, professional overthinker with 99 problems and at least 73 of them are imaginary It started, as these things often do, with a…

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AI Took My Job (And Then Asked for a Raise)

by Ken Hollow, unemployed by choice (but mostly by algorithm) Let me tell you about the moment I knew my career was over: it was…

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Why Everyone Suddenly Wants to ‘Touch Grass’ (And Why I’m Still Inside)

By Ken Hollow, Professional Indoorsman & Existential Botanophobe There’s a phrase echoing through the cursed halls of the internet lately: “Go touch grass.” It used…

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I Tried Living Like a Digital Nomad for a Day (And It Broke Me)

By Ken Hollow, aspiring lifestyle blogger, accidental disaster tourist. It all started with a tweet. “Quit your job, move to Bali, work from your laptop,…

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Being Perceived Online Is Exhausting (But I Keep Doing It Anyway)

By Ken Hollow, professional ghost on LinkedIn and full-time internet burnout. Every morning I wake up, open my eyes, and immediately remember that I exist…