These are older posts, most of them written between 2008 and 2012. I've kept them up for the record, but many are tied to their moment, and some don't reflect how I think today.
2016
2014
2013
2012
2011
- Buffy, social, and Google
- Power of veto
- Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
- Just following competition
- 4S
- Media bullshit
- Kindle Touch: a big deal. The Fire: we'll see.
- Geek to Chic
- On Android, Google and Motorola
- Real names and social networks
- 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
2010
- So what is a designer?
- The designer as investor
- 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
- 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
- Jon Rubinstein's letter to Palm employees
- One very important thought on tablets, jetpacks and our future as a species
- 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
2009
- How the Chumby blew an opportunity to be a huge commercial success
- 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
- 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
- Stop using your RSS reader
- Why Apple needed the Palm Pre
- Design thinking
- On Twply and giving out your Twitter password (updated)
2008