During a recent stay at a major hotel in Chicago, my wife and I were headed to slumberland when we heard it. If you’ve stayed in a hotel, you know the sound.
*click, THUNK*
It’s the sound of hotel doors closing. Heavy hotel doors with cumbersome entry handles. The ones…
I read this post by Doc Searls: “Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr.” The title sucked me in, and I wanted to read the argument for it. Searls makes some good points and posits his lament well.
To my own dismay — I have well over a decade’s worth of photos…
Twitter recently released a new version of mobile.twitter.com. I applauded its redesign, and found it to be a breath of fresh air. There are obvious reasons upon first impression. It’s cleaner, the focus is on the feed and tweets, and it is comfortable in a mobile-first world. …
Every so often I think about the formative years of my career and the early influences — bodies of work. I’m tempted now and again, to put together a site that encapsulates everything I’ve ever done. …
Originally published June 8, 2010, after Rdio came out of beta. Given it’s demise, I thought it’d be nice to republish this here for posterity.
Music is a huge part of many people’s lives. It seems odd that music is essentially sounds and noises put together to form something that…
Life on islands requires a shift in both body and mind. “Island time,” as they say. You relax everything — time, your mental cogs, your movement. Perhaps it’s less about speed and more about finesse and smoothness. You find your groove. There’s no rush here. Patience is a given. You…
We toured the Road to Hana once before. We never completed our journey — admittedly, the incessant one-lane bridges, switchbacks and lack of commitment on our part made the initial attempt a touch frustrating. …
Kauai, Hawaii. August 2015. It was our third time there.
Being there felt harder—but I slowly let go. Meaning, I let go of the trappings of our regular life back in a city, back in San Francisco.
We had little snippets of conversations with locals. It was a stark contrast…
Casual observations during travels in the region
This was originally written for Weightshifting, a Tinyletter I keep, during a week whilst I was visiting family in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October 2014.
They prize big phones in the same way that the characters from the movie Her regard their devices…
I don’t have an account with the big blue F. It’s 2015. The social network is almost 11 years old. It’s remarkable — over a decade in existence and, mostly, still going strong.
I read about it a lot. I have friends who work there. I have been recruited and…
