Article 9
Perhaps our brains weren’t designed for developing an understanding of the universe any more than our fingers were designed for typing on a keyboard.
View ArticleWork/Reward
Clay Shirky has made yet another interesting and hopeful TED talk. I’m not going to rehash the things he talks about, but instead jump straight to the niggling half-formed question that I can’t quite...
View ArticleShirky/Pink in WIRED
Ok, so apparently I’m not the only one to connect Clay Shirky’s recent talk about “cognitive surplus” with Dan Pink. Wired had an article a while back where the two converse about motivation and...
View ArticleGoogle+ so far
I’ve been trying out Google+, and overall I think I like it better than Facebook. It has the feeling of something more robust with more potential. Or maybe it feels more professional somehow. Of...
View ArticleOverhaul iTunes
I just want to voice another one of my minor but long-lasting annoyances: iTunes doesn’t make any sense. It’s “iTunes”, but “tunes” are hardly the focus anymore. It’s a music player and a video...
View ArticleArticle 4
I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted...
View ArticleArticle 3
They say “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Luckily, the people living such a life will never find out.
View ArticleThe Great Soda Controversy
Mayor Bloomberg recently announced that he’d like to see limits on the size of soft drinks larger than 16 ounces at movie theaters and restaurants. The idea seems to have a lot of people up in arms,...
View ArticleWhy people don’t buy music
I’ve read a couple of different articles recently about how people aren’t buying music anymore. I don’t know if that’s ultimately true, but obviously the nature of media consumption has changed....
View ArticleDigital collecting
In my last post, I wrote a little bit about my views on collection and the effect on content industries in the digital age. I argued that if people weren’t buying music anymore, it was probably because...
View ArticleDisintegration of the Internet
The technology industry oscillated between extremes. It comes in waves, tides go in and out, moving towards toward the terminal model, pushing functionality to the “mainframe” server for a few years,...
View ArticleIdentity Management
The thought of disintegrating Internet services has led me to imagine an Internet drastically different from the one we have today—one in which the infrastructure of web applications could be decoupled...
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Kind of close…
Maybe I’m seeing these as more similar than they really are, or maybe my concept was simply an obvious idea that would happen sooner or later, but this is a screenshot from iOS 10: And this is a mockup...
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