Archive

Here's a rolling list of posts, blogs, and links that I've been enjoying. Links that roll off (after 30) will be highlighted in my Week Notes for posterity purposes. What a beautiful idea. I’ve never had a blogroll myself, but I’ve occassionally benefitted from

I see this experience a bit like what happens after an intense fire burns a stretch of forest down to ash: seeds that were dormant and waiting for just that moment suddenly germinate and stretch up to the clear, bright sun. Years ago (less than I wish) I was part

The rise of remote work and, in turn, employee-monitoring software sparked a boom in mouse and keyboard jigglers and other hacks to help staffers fake computer activity—often so they can step away to do laundry or a school pickup. Now some companies are cracking down on the subterfuge,

Brown noise. It’s essential to helping me sleep. Even though iOS has this built in now I still prefer Dark Noise and just turn on the Brown Noise option at medium to high volume. Also, it’s better than white noise, or pink noise. It started as a kid,

Watching Apple’s WWDC demos of Apple Intelligence, I too had my brain racing with the concept of just asking my phone to do things and have it go into apps and services to get it done, but I also can’t help but feel like we’ve been here

There's a sound. There's a note that begins everything. But before the note there is silence, silence is where everything begins. There's a blank page before the words appear, there's a white canvas before the picture materialises. There's space and

Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format. Ok I’m intrigued. I’

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, I used to write about / really care about digital reading. A whole chapter of my life / career pivoted around digital reading and books, what could be, and I travelled the world (?!) talking about this stuff. I lectured at Yale for

One thing is abundantly clear to me: the skills that made people good at building websites are readily transferable and even sought out skills in other fields. Not just the code or the pixels, but the ability to organize, to project manage, to break a big goal down into discrete

After a year of publishing Fractional we finally hit some numbers that Lance and I were excited about, a recent episode hitting 2x the numbers of any previous episodes. We don’t really know why—we’ve loved meeting with so many fantastic guests before and look forward to talking