About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’ve been listening to more music via Pandora lately. To be accurate – I’ve been listening to a Less than Jake & Might Mighty Bosstones seeded, late-90s ska station. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones get better with age. I really dig Social Distortion much more than I remember Ska-punk covers of ska-punk tunes are delightfully meta …
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“I realized that I should probably never be on the internet on my iPhone. It’s smaller and slower than my computer. But it’s very easy to just pick it up and read it, rather than a book. So I’m going to try and implement a hard rule of going to my laptop if I want …
I spent almost all day Sunday outside. Test driving the new BBQ coffee roasting drum, brewing up a batch of sour ale, taking the littlest one for a stroller ride, then tricycle ride, then walk around the block, read 3 chapters in an actual paper book! And today is the beginning of Screen Free Week …
The little guy’s getting some new teeth – so he’s been screaming and crying more than usual today. At a couple points, I picked him up, held him like the baby he still is and sang him Ze Frank’s Chillout song: chillout by zefrank Worked faster than I could have hoped.
Ze shows the internet can create powerful emotional connections. That promise is why I spent my professional life and so much of my personal life within it. Unfortunately, the powerful emotional connections are rare. Trite, heavy-handed, emotional panderings are aplenty. That’s what we’re opting out of.
Point: “…focusing after the fact, means no auto-focus motor. No auto-focus motor means no shutter delay. So, capture the moment you meant to capture…” Counterpoint: “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype …
On the way back from my Monday morning meeting, I was pulled into the Rainbow to pick up a baguette, some cheese, and salami. Yes, one of my favorite lunches – but why now, why today? Turns out, I had a very important, last-minute lunch meeting:
“So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any …
“It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next” – Alexis Madrigal