Wow! Now this puts emoji art to shame! It’s like writing at school: In English class you’d write in your book and you can’t erase what you’ve written. It’s easy in Microsoft Word to be so pedantic … | Continue reading
As a man who has always had the wand’ring ways Now I’m reaching back for yesterdays ‘Til a long-forgotten love appears And I find that I’m sighing softly as I near September… | Continue reading
A unicorn company, or unicorn startup, is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion. As of August 2021, there are more than 800 unicorns around the world. CB Insights I sometimes felt quit… | Continue reading
A unicorn company, or unicorn startup, is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion. As of August 2021, there are more than 800 unicorns around the world. CB Insights I sometimes felt quit… | Continue reading
Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn: that is now part of our daily vernacular. Did you see my TikTok or read my Tweet? We don’t interact. We transact. Read the papers, and you will q… | Continue reading
“I guess there’s something about newsletters that bugs me, and I can’t put my finger on it,” writes Robin Rendle and asks the big question: why publishing on the web is still so hard th… | Continue reading
Social music is streaming’s new growth driver, generating around $1.5 billion in 2020 and growing fast in 2021. It represents a natural evolution of social media rather than an evolution of s… | Continue reading
Nothing is more frustrating to me than YouTube, which decides my front page based on my likes. It seems I can’t have multiple interests — variables — and thus, I must watch certai… | Continue reading
I was recently cleaning my apartment when I came across a scrap of paper — a brainstorming list for outlining the agenda for my Structure conference — an annual event I hosted about the… | Continue reading
I was recently cleaning my apartment when I came across a scrap of paper — a brainstorming list for outlining the agenda for my Structure conference — an annual event I hosted about the… | Continue reading
“Tweek,” is an aggregation of the tweets I sent out during the week. It is a habit I picked up from Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum. It allows me to remember what I was thinking… | Continue reading
Photo courtesy: Lord’s August 12, and it is almost 3 am. I have been awake for nearly 90 minutes. I have done my stretches. It is going to be a long Thursday. I am up early, patiently waiting… | Continue reading
Spotify continues its global dominance, adding 27 million net subscribers between Q1 2020 and Q1 2021, more than any other single service. However, it lost two points of market share over the perio… | Continue reading
Bay Bridge At Night. Photo made with iPhone 12 Pro Max. After a long dinner to celebrate a friend’s birthday, I came home and struggled to fall asleep. The next thing I know, I started watchi… | Continue reading
After five years of daily usage, the keyboard that came with my 2017 iMac Pro started to show its age. I mean, there is nothing wrong with it — just that the keys have become too soft. It has devel… | Continue reading
SpaceX, a company known for making big splashy announcements — thanks to its media & attention savvy founder — very quietly snapped up a small startup called Swarm Technologies. In … | Continue reading
When platforms mediate work – whether delivering food, driving cars, or being an influencer, trouble is only under the surface. And despite all the hype, the red hot creator economy is in mid… | Continue reading
Through the looking GLASS “We’re no longer a photosharing app,” Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, a division of Facebook. Let’s face it: everything Facebook touches eve… | Continue reading
As you know, I am a big advocate of writing on paper with a pen. Many studies have shown that we learn and retain more information when we write with our hands. Sure typing can let us capture more … | Continue reading
I am mulling on a post about Leica & its history of innovation. As part of my research, I have spent time with one of their more innovative yet underrated cameras — the Leica TL-2. It is … | Continue reading
I am mulling on a post about Leica & its history of innovation. As part of my research, I have spent time with one of their more innovative yet underrated cameras — the Leica TL-2. It is … | Continue reading
Most people think of the Covid pandemic in binary terms. You are either for masks or against them. Vaccines or no vaccines. But in reality, the impact of this pandemic is not as straightforward. It… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com E. B. White, an essayist for The New Yorker (and author of many books), once said: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die w… | Continue reading
Death Valley, CA. Photo By Om. Made with Leica SL2. Sitting inside my concrete cocoon, mid-way between the soaring blue sky and the shaded San Francisco side street, I can see the blue waters of th… | Continue reading
Square, the other company, started by Jack Dorsey, recently announced that it is buying Afterpay, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) company, for a whopping $29 billion. The BNPL category is hot. Max … | Continue reading
Betting on sports is becoming a disease so pervasive that soon we will wake up and talk about it how we talk about the opioid epidemic. Having realized that sports bettors consume more media than r… | Continue reading
I am currently working on many new ideas, and I find that all the research and information I gather is put to good use if I write it down. More often than not, I tend to write my notes in a long ha… | Continue reading
San Francisco undercover. Made with iPhone 12 Pro Max What’s so great about summer? Quite a few things, but for me, it is Fogust: the foggy month of August that we get to enjoy in San Francis… | Continue reading
San Francisco undercover. Made with iPhone 12 Pro Max What’s so great about summer? Quite a few things, but for me, it is Fogust: the foggy month of August that we get to enjoy in San Francis… | Continue reading
Self-portrait, made with Paik’s Zen for Film. Made with iPhone 12 Pro Max. I recently saw the work of Nam June Paik, currently being exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (… | Continue reading
Handwriting reinforces the visual and aural lessons. The advantage has nothing to do with penmanship—it’s that the simple act of writing by hand provides a perceptual-motor experience that un… | Continue reading
What the heck is The Hundred? Should IPL be worried? It is all cricket to me. ;-) With the New York Yankees being a $210 million disappointment this summer, I have shifted my gaze to that other bal… | Continue reading
Moon over San Francisco. Made with iPhone 12 Pro Max While my week has been noticeably quiet here on my internet homestead, it has been quite the opposite for me out in the real world. I had … | Continue reading
It was an unusual week. Unusual in part because of how normal it felt, like the days before the pandemic. And yet, by the time the weekend rolled around, it was clearly anything but ordinary. My sc… | Continue reading
“Tweek,” is an aggregation of the tweets I sent out during the week. It is a habit I picked up from Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum. It allows me to remember what I was thinking… | Continue reading
I love this new track. It sums up that perfect feeling of the summer, even if the summer doesn’t feel like summer these days. | Continue reading
“Tweek,” is an aggregation of the tweets I sent out during the week. It is a habit I picked up from Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum. It allows me to remember what I was thinking… | Continue reading
Two folks, I follow on Twitter got into an exchange about media coverage of startup funding. The conversation caught my attention to the (somewhat rare) extent that I felt compelled to weigh in — m… | Continue reading
Two folks, I follow on Twitter got into an exchange about media coverage of startup funding. The conversation caught my attention to the (somewhat rare) extent that I felt compelled to weigh in — m… | Continue reading
Happy Sunday, everyone! I have slowly (and unintentionally) slipped into “summer mode.” I have been working only a little and reading quite a lot. Last week, I also met Ken Kociend… | Continue reading
Social media is a mirage. More often than not, what you see or experience is not reality. But every now and then, you come across authenticity, and you are reminded of the goodness of the Internet.… | Continue reading
Seven years ago, when traveling to Italy, I experienced the vagaries of data and its weird, unimaginative influence on our lives. Since then, the absurdity of what data-driven intelligence throws a… | Continue reading
Seven years ago, when traveling to Italy, I experienced the vagaries of data and its weird, unimaginative influence on our lives. Since then, the absurdity of what data-driven intelligence throws a… | Continue reading
Glacier View, Sutton: Leica SL 601. Leica 90-280 mm SL Vario lens. Focal Length 95mm. Aperture: f3.5. Exposure Time: 1/500th of a second. Chris Michel, a good friend, and a photography mentor, rece… | Continue reading
Photo by visuals on Unsplash Marc Weidenbaum (through his blog) taught me about taking a purposeful approach to Twitter and how tweets should seamlessly fit into my flow and thinking. So, I aggrega… | Continue reading
The first GSM phone call was made 30 years ago today. And how far we have come since. Half of the world’s population is connected, and the mobile economy is about $4.4 trillion. And if you be… | Continue reading