Reader beware: Many of these posts are quite old.
I've been neglecting my blog in favor of dumping all my notes and thoughts either into my second brain setup or Twitter. I am, however, trying to flip that balance around. Apologies.Blog archives
- All my anxieties
- Leadership lessons from Ernest Rutherford
- On range versus specialization
- Work intently, not relentlessly
- Housekeeping
- Tunnel vision
- With great devices comes great responsibility
- Don't launch with a splash
- Gut, data and bias in VC
- Diminuished substitutes
- When you go flat
- Just a couple of minutes
- Dreams and aspirations
- Goal-oriented design
- The future of discourse
- App.net and you
- Craftsmanship and perfection
- Our obsession with tools
- Serendipity
- Google.
- Inventing on principle
- Dark data, and how frustrating it is that we can't see the forest from the trees
- Looking back, moving forward
- Buffy, social, and Google
- Google's new iPad search app
- Power of veto
- Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
- Just following competition
- 4S
- Media bullshit
- Kindle Touch: a big deal. The Fire: we'll see.
- The early days of Techcrunch
- Geek to Chic
- On Android, Google and Motorola
- Real names and social networks
- So about those animal books,
- That "special thing" in people
- No little plans
- The recent Dropbox snafu
- Go watch Mike Monteiro's "F*ck you. Pay me."
- Dear Twitter,
- Stephen Elop on Nokia
- On Android app sales and fixing app stores
- Read this before 2011
- So what *is* a designer?
- The designer as investor
- A quote from an old email
- Dear Andy, (a letter to Google's Andy Rubin)
- The "d" in Design
- Fixing your startup means fixing your process
- Joining 500 Startups as a mentor
- Design early. Earlier than that.
- A road to millions
- Norman on simplicity
- On entrepreneurship, double-downs and exits
- Design leaps of faith
- Dear Dave: I have the facts and I'm voting no
- App store usability
- It's too late for MySpace
- The oddities of pricing simplicity
- 960gs Textmate bundle
- Dear Mozilla,
- Out of Cupertino: innovation, iPads, silence
- The last slide from my SHiFT 2010 presentation
- The Twitter vs Facebook battle is already over
- I was wrong about location and success
- Jon Rubinstein's letter to Palm employees
- The gift of knowledge
- One very important thought on tablets, jetpacks and our future as a species
- Storytelling in business
- The oncoming era of cloud-connected health products and services
- Ok Go on labels, online video and the music industry
- Dave McClure on design, marketing and eating your own startup dogfood
- On the Palm Pre, the iPhone, and an open letter to Jon Rubinstein
- On the new french piracy law
- How the Chumby blew an opportunity to be a huge commercial success
- RSS issues, now fixed
- Reading list for the end of 2009
- On the importance of design research
- A quote from Adam Greenfield
- Lessons learned - part 1
- On work, pleasure, and occasionally contributing to the world at large
- Weekend inspiration: Stefan Sagmeister on taking a year off
- A quote from Design as Art
- Silicon Valley needs people, but that's the easy part
- Slow projects
- Beyond RSS, an opportunity
- On Google's acquisition strategy
- A quote for the weekend
- A piece of advice I once got from Paul Graham
- Stop using your RSS reader
- Why Apple needed the Palm Pre
- The new "PR"
- Design thinking
- On Twply and giving out your Twitter password (updated)
- A quote for the weekend
- Europe, Silicon Valley: Here we go again
- Weekend inspiration for November 29, 2008
- On peak potential
- Future transit
- A bit of weekend inspiration
- A matter of mindset
- Beginnings