Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash Over the past few weeks, every time I have opened Twitter, I am been assaulted by vitriol and find myself in a smog of verbal monoxide. Despite my b… | Continue reading
Am I the only one who finds the desktop image for Apple’s latest macOS update, Catalina, less than stellar. After decades of beautiful visages of California’s majestic landscapes, I fin… | Continue reading
This past weekend, just before everything slowed down for Thanksgiving, I got a chance to reflect on my photographic journey. While it is easy to quantify the technological and social success of a … | Continue reading
The rainy season has arrived in Northern California. And with it have come showers, cooler temperatures — it was 43 degrees on this morning’s walk — and a chance to wear sweaters,… | Continue reading
In 2006, based on the notion of seamless connectivity, portable devices and changing nature of what would drive primary economic activity, I started a sub-blog called WebWorkerDaily. It was a place… | Continue reading
Leica SL2 w/ Noctilux f1/50mm lens. Settings. ISO 50. f/5.6. 1/320th of a second Mirrorless camera technology has given us the ability to use adapters and put vintage lenses to work with our modern… | Continue reading
Marie Kondo, Japanese Cleanista The ultimate objective of all influence is to sell us something, even if it is someone who has made a career out of telling the rest of us to get rid of things, esch… | Continue reading
Photo courtesy of WeWork Soho West, New York City. WeWork “the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz” gets the Vanity Fair treatment, thanks to Gabriel Sherman, who has written an explosive … | Continue reading
Design isn’t alone in its lack of quality content—the web, by and large, has become a dumping ground for garbage. Most design content has become poor quality, surface-level content marketing that d… | Continue reading
Apple sent me a MacBook Pro 16-inch version and even, at first sight, it looks bigger than my 15-inch MacBook Pro 2019 model. You can see the size difference when you stack the 15-inch version on t… | Continue reading
From the archives You must always think of your blog as if you were starting it now, not in the past. The world is different. There was no Twitter in 1994. Twitter wasn’t usable until last ye… | Continue reading
It was the longest Sunday. It started in Newport Beach at 7:30 am and ended at 11 pm in San Francisco. In between, it featured the clear blue skies and light traffic that make for a fantastic road … | Continue reading
Photo by Lidya Nada on Unsplash Two friends who I met when they were young punks are now taking the next steps in their professional careers. Steve Jang and Kanqi Maqubela raised $56… | Continue reading
A few years ago, when my friends from Hodinkee were launching a podcast, they invited me to the show and we talked about life, photography, and of course, watches. That was episode#4. It seemed a l… | Continue reading
I will be the first to admit that the first time I paid any attention to Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, was when it actually went offline in July 2019. It didn’t get much media … | Continue reading
Ever wondered why Elon Musk is so high on Starlink, the low orbit internet access centric satellite constellation his company, Space X is building? It is because despite all the talk about Mars col… | Continue reading
There has been so much angst about 1Password raising $200 million in new funding and many are expecting that the 14-year old company is going to be ruined by an influx of cash. It is understandable… | Continue reading
Climate is changing our planet — and despite that, we as a society are failing to understand the emergency. A lot of the world as we know it is at risk. It doesn’t matter whose world &#… | Continue reading
“It’s amazing how many celebrated startups have been revealed as essentially labor arbitrage schemes disguised as cool new apps. A decade of high-frequency trading algorithms, but instead of … | Continue reading
“The common thread in the narrative is Patterson. This was not an unintentional act of goodwill that went bad,” says Nigel Jones of Kingston 11 on celebrity chef Daniel Patterson in this polite but… | Continue reading
Matt Damon & Christian Bale in Ford vs Ferrari When the car goes fast, everything slows down. And you see everything.Ken Miles, Car Racing Legend. | Continue reading
“In France the most often used word is ‘connerie,’ which means ‘bullshit and in America it’s hands-down ‘awesome,’ which has replaced ‘incredible,’ ‘… | Continue reading
The November writing challenge has been much harder than I thought. It turns out that writing daily is a difficult habit to form. I missed a day last week, so technically, the challenge is already … | Continue reading
Tokyo is one of my favorite cities, and I think most of the time, people look at the city at the eye level. For me, the real beauty of Tokyo is in its architecture and how it reminds me of origami.… | Continue reading
Leica has introduced the next version of my favorite camera, Leica SL. The Leica SL2 is likely to be shipped on November 21. I had the camera for aa couple of weeks and took it out on photo adventu… | Continue reading
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”Rumi | Continue reading
I had a chance to meet photography legend Michael Kenna at a gallery in Carmel today. He is one of my photography heroes and you can well imagine my excitement. We didn’t talk about photos. Instead… | Continue reading
Sometimes I find myself brooding and it shows in my edits. This photo of Venice from almost a year ago. I love this city and can’t wait to go back. I also feel, I have barely scratched the surface … | Continue reading
A few days ago, when feeling under the weather, I decided to do what I do when my nose and head are stuffed — order a very spicy curry and some rice. Normally, I use either Caviar or DoorDash (whic… | Continue reading
A few days ago, when feeling under the weather, I decided to do what I do when my nose and head are stuffed — order a very spicy curry and some rice. Normally, I use either Caviar or DoorDash (whic… | Continue reading
Photo by Maddi Bazzocco on Unsplash In his newsletter, CJ Chilvers reminded me that he was going to be writing every day for the month of November on the topic of anxiety. While it i… | Continue reading
The Deadspin debacle highlights the growing problem of what Slate accurately calls “zombie” publications. We are going to see more of these publications as media owners struggle to balance their de… | Continue reading
Apple seems to be going all out on the launch of its new AirPods Pros. In cities around the world, they are sharing larger-than-life photos of dancers with the new in-ear headphones in an effort to… | Continue reading
The internet as we know it has become a butt of many jokes. We all depend on it, but everyone has no problems hating on it. It is viewed as the root of our problems — hate, traffic snarls, la… | Continue reading
Apple announced the often rumored and much expected AirPods Pro, and it didn’t take very long for Twitter and the media outrage machine to question why these earphones should cost more than their p… | Continue reading
At eye level, a city is so crowded. Packed with ambition, nervous with hustle, and electric with naked desire. But go up to a roof, look out, and all you see is not people, but their ability to res… | Continue reading
California is so stupid….Golden State legislators outdid themselves by passing Assembly Bill 5, signed last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Effective Jan. 1, the law reclassifies most independent… | Continue reading
A very happy Diwali to one and all. May you be blessed by light, enlightenment and joy. Don’t forget to love your fellow humans and everyone else on the planet. It is only way to banish the darknes… | Continue reading
“Publishers are essentially ghostwriters for the Facebook News destination. Becoming dependent upon the aggregator means forfeiting control of your destiny. But with everything subject to Facebook’… | Continue reading
In many ways, today perfectly encapsulated what is right and wrong with the technology ecosystem. On a day when we should be celebrating (even if it was fueled by advertising dollars) a big breakth… | Continue reading
I was counting sheep jumping over a fence, trying hard to get some sleep. After about 40 jumps, I gave up and turned on my iPad to do some reading. I ended up on Dave Winer’s blog. He was talking a… | Continue reading
So I’m finally home, resting and recovering from almost a month of travel and being surrounded by people. I am one of those who has a tough time dealing with unending interactions with others. It s… | Continue reading
Big data intentionally creates a concentration of data and has a corrupting influence. It really concentrates the power in the hands of whoever holds that data — governments, companies. The PC revo… | Continue reading
We can be a bit hard to please. We all want our devices to do more and more while consuming less power and taking up less space. And of course, they should look beautiful. But how often do we stop … | Continue reading
Can you hear me now? Good. Now, unlock that phone. University at Buffalo computer scientist Zhanpeng Jin and his team have developed EarEcho, a biometric tool that can authenticate smartphone users… | Continue reading
If you live in America and are dreaming of 5G to come and sizzle up your devices (which might set you back big money), it is, frankly, time to wake up and smell the hype. While U.S. wireless compan… | Continue reading
Fair Trade, USDA Organic, and now Climate Neutral. Climate Neutral is a logo that is “carried by brands that measure, reduce, and offset all of the carbon generated by making and delivering their p… | Continue reading
6 really cool advanced technologies that NASA has developed and is willing to license for commercial use. Take a look and would love to hear from you as to what they can be used for. | Continue reading