Finding creativity in everything you do.

Little things can be made delightful with a pinch of…

Bring Back the Draft

And start with people my age

(Note: This is updated from a personal blog post several years ago.)

It is Memorial Day in America, a Monday holiday that ends a three-day weekend — a holiday that has come to reflect so much…

Dataspaces have arrived

It took less than 10 years to deliver on Alon Halevy’s vision.

Google Plus is beautiful now, clumsy still

Persistent usability problems stand in the way of real…

The Fearlessness Of Youth

When I was 11, my parents sent me to boarding school in England.

Catching a Mentality

How to consciously choose what touches your mind

Swimming in the ‘deep end’.

Following your dreams into the unknown.

Prepatory Thoughts

Anxiety and Excitement

I love(d) Medium

I love Medium, or I should say I used to love Medium, at the beginning. I mean, I loved Medium when it had not yet been flooded with pointless, redundant pieces written by people with a more-than-medium-sized ego and just too much time to spare.

At the Point of a Gun

Memorial Day Reflections

Lets forget our dreams of mining asteroids and admit for a minute that there is only a finite amount of resources on Earth, and that all the people on Earth are competing for these resources. We’ll call groups of these…

What Google Music Streaming Could Have Been

Recently, at Google IO, the company announced they had created a music streaming service through Google Play. This service is designed to compete with services like Spotify and Rdio. Lately, Google has been turning out fantastic products, but I feel that…