Spent the weekend with my friend Phil. He shared a story about a boat ride he’d taken with his family around the Nepali coast in Kauai. Having taken a similar excursion I remember the winds can kick up and make for rough seas. On Phil’s family outing one of his…

Make Twitter Great Again To: jack [at] twitter.com Subject: Reporting an Abusive User Jack, One of Twitter’s most prominent users, who commands the strongest military on earth, has threatened the existence of an entire country in this tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911789314169823232 I interpret this tweet to be abusive, violent language which could result in temporarily locking or shutting down of an account, as described by the service here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

This is Commitment!! A relative of mine was incredibly committed to his business. He was a McDonald’s franchisee who was so proud of his work that he wrapped his car in an ad and drove it around town. I drove the McVehicle around Birmingham one weekend when it was plastered in ads for a Bacon Clubhouse burger. It was a bit uncomfortable to drive at first but I ended up getting comfortable with the looks it solicited. My big takeaway from driving the McVehicle is that anything I do I should be so committed to that I want to wrap my car in an ad for it and tell the neighborhood.

Apple’s (“Other”) iOS Devices I wonder when Apple will acknowledge a few additional iOS devices: AirPod and the forthcoming HomePod. Are there others? It’s (probably) not a secret that these devices run streamlined versions of iOS but as far as I know it has never been officially acknowledged either. It’s…

Accelerating IoT in the Home Post WWDC 2017 I’ve been thinking a bit about Apple TV, Core ML and HomeKit. I’ve started to wonder whether Apple TV will end up serving as a local accelerator and processor for IoT devices connected around the home (to provide third party hardware vendors…

During dinner service at Per Se one evening Chef Thomas Keller, one of the most accomplished chefs in history, noticed me struggling. One of my tasks that night was serving caviar topped blini hors d’oeuvres for guests. In an attempt to create perfectly sized pancakes, I bought a miniature baster…

Sometime in 2012 my family and I started discussing buying a smartlock for our house. Friends running Airbnb rentals were successfully using them to grant remote, keyless entry to their guests. …