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Simplified.
I’m a tinkerer. I’ve always been a tinkerer, I’ll always be a tinkerer. I fiddle, I test, I try, I look up, I download, I delude myself into thinking it’s all in the goal of figuring out some better...
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Simplified, part 2.
I’ve been a huge fan of Squarespace for a long time, since I started using the service in May of 2009. Coming from a self-managed WordPress install, it was like a breath of fresh air, in which things...
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My mom and dad’s house might explode, but Comcast wants its cable box back.
I just spoke to my mom for the first time since the hurricane started. We’d been texting a bit here and there so I knew she and my dad were ok, but she called me just now because she was really upset....
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A bit of follow up on my Comcast post.
So that post I wrote about my mom’s issues with Comcast really had some legs. It was my most retweeted post on Twitter (ever), got picked up by Consumerist, submitted to Reddit, and landed on Hacker...
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Glassboard and getting back on our feet.
When Hurricane Sandy hit us, our office, like most in our area, was completely shut down. We had no power, and our entire staff was scattered. We had about thirty people with varying levels of cell...
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Don’t believe the (post-disaster) hype.
Not a whole lot to say about this. After declaring publicly to the Consumerist that my mom wouldn’t be charged for her unreturned cable box in the midst of the hurricane-induced mess at the shore, she...
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Un-simplified, and happy.
I recently talked about my intentions to simplify my workflows by using the default Apple apps on iOS and the Mac (Notes, Reminders, etc.) as replacements for the many apps I like to jump between. My...
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How I’m using Dropbox.
Since I talk about Dropbox quite a bit anywhere and everywhere I can, I’m often asked for app recommendations and about the services that I use with it. The beauty of it is that these things can and do...
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The hidden potential of App.net.
I’ve thought a lot about App.net in the past few months, as many of us have I imagine. What started as discontent with the obnoxious corporate machinations that Twitter’s begun to execute spawned a...
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I love the iPad mini.
When it was released, I got an iPad mini for the office for testing. I brought it home, put all my stuff on it to give it a proper test drive, and promptly decided it wasn’t for me. I liked my bigger...
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That joke isn’t funny anymore.
Say what you want about the branding but we all laughed at the iPad when we heard that name for the first time too. KitKat may be silly, but what it portends is anything but. As of right now, we...
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One year.
One year ago today, my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. In an instant, I was exhausted, jubilant, scared, proud, and hopeful. In the intervening months, not too much has changed aside...
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Delight and Disappointment
The merging of information with context is extremely powerful and portends the next wave of personal productivity for many of us. Google introduced actionable notifications to Android with Jelly Bean,...
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Back in black.
When I bought my iPhone 5 on launch day, I opted for the slate/black model. I used it for a few months until I got a white iPad mini. At that point, I began obsessing over having a white iPhone, which...
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One notebook to rule them all.
At WWDC, I picked up a new MacBook Air. This machine simply changed the way I thought about computing entirely. I have never loved a Mac as much or used a laptop with the same feeling of absolute...
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How to Takk… about Sigur Rós albums.
We really like Sigur Rós at the office. However, like you, we have found it’s really hard to speak about the albums because of their… interesting names. So we came up with a system to refer to them,...
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Data loss and noble truths.
I don't remember the first time I lost data. I don't even remember what it was. I do remember the feeling of utter despair though, and the declaration that I wouldn't let it happen again. Since then,...
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Pixel-based paralysis.
I continue to hear about tools designed to help people “cope” with information. The most common is probably ways to handle your out-of-control email situation. Smarter folks than me have tackled this...
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Plans
In 2005, Death Cab for Cutie released Plans to mixed reviews. The follow-up to 2003's Transatlanticism, it provided an interesting counterbalance to the previous release. At the time, all I knew of the...
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Apple’s wearable differentiator.
The more I think about the eventuality of an Apple wearable device (ugh I’m already sick of hearing the word), the more I think about what’s going to set it apart from the current crop of trackers,...
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