Text chat, voice interfaces, and omniboxes have enabled a generation of products powered by language AI. This technology can be mind-blowing when it works, and it can be equally frustrating when it goes awry. Product teams are used to designing within constraints and restrictions, but it’s a different story handling…
It feels good to launch something. I recently launched gitchen.org, a Github site for open source cooking-related code. I’ve also launched a few cooking apps, most notably Ratio and Bread Baking Basics with award-winning author Michael Ruhlman. …
or the best advice I got after three years of film school
My junior year of undergraduate film school, I was taking a class on Sitcom Writing and one day the professor stomps in and proclaims, “I’m about to tell you the only thing you’ll ever need to know in Hollywood.”
We straighten up…
Taught by Kathryn Tomajan at Eat Retreat 2012
Early Saturday morning, Kathryn Tomajan started making olive oil. My assumption was that making olive oil was like making peanut butter. Just drop olives into a big machine, turn it on, and voila! Out comes olive oil.
I was wrong. It takes…
Taught by Heather Marold Thomason at Eat Retreat 2012
"Pause. Take a deep breath... Then push the blade forward while slicing across with your arm. Don't think about how hard you're moving it, don't think about anything else. Just concentrate on the idea of moving the knife in the right direction…
Thoughts from the first XOXO festival in 2012
This past weekend, I spent four days in Portland, OR at the XOXO Festival. Billed as “an arts and technology festival celebrating disruptive creativity,” it brought together 400 minds in one space to share and discuss our work.
