‪I’m riding a train this morning to work. Not the subway but an actual train from Philadelphia to NYC. It brings back potent nostalgia for Barcelona.‬ ‪When I was a teacher I would take a regional train from BCN to Molins del Rei. I didn’t mind the commute, in fact…

Evolution of content publishing online — When I slow down to look at my interaction with most web sites, I notice an incongruity for accomplishing the same end goal: publishing. While different sites offer different levels of sophistication, I’ve noticed that creating or editing content on the modern web is bubbling-up closer to the surface. …

I recently watched a documentary about Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli called The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness [1]. It’s a beautiful movie, and I recommend everyone who has a career of “making things” watch this. …

Having a thought explosion right now. Instead of shying away from it (as I wrote about before), I’m going to ramble on and see where it leads. In no particular order I really want my friend Mike to move to New York. After some thought, I realize that it’s ironic…

There was a really nice metaphor that I heard from a Buddhist teacher once. It sounds like one of those things that was passed down a chain of ‘telephone’ so who knows where it really comes from. …

The longer I think about writing something, ideas seem to bundle up in my head, bottlenecking at the narrow throughway of whatever region in my brain is responsible for second-guessing myself. It’s some common advice, but my friend has set a very tangible example for me to follow: start small…

Leverage what information representation can be — It may seem like old news to some, but I very recently got around to reading Frank Chimero’s treatise about the essence of a pixel medium in What Screens Want, and found myself musing about a potential Web that doesn’t conform to our assumptions of what sites and pages are…

A fast and rough opinion piece — Introduction The following comes from my response to a company email (below) that asked designers for their opinion of FB Paper. I have not spent so much time as to give a critique of all aspects of the app. There are things I’d like to say about post creation, browsing profiles…

Make retail smarter, make it about you — Screenshot of Delicious Library I barely used this, but I remember in college there was a program that would store photos of each of your clothing items and organize them into a personal wardrobe database/library of sorts. …