I'm trying to cut back on gadgets because simplifying and waste, but I'm terrible about sleep so I bit.https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/Vx7W4MlBDpD/crop/1440/f/wired-uk-oura-feature-2.jpgSo … | Continue reading
So here is one of the problems we've wrestled with: Cake is written with a lot of custom code and and a heavy dependence on third-party services. It took a small team of engineers and designers to … | Continue reading
I’m an active angel investor and member of Sand Hill Angels, one of the big Silicon Valley angel investor groups. I review dozens of pitch decks each month and unfortunately most suck.So to … | Continue reading
Part 1: Samsung asked me to speak at their conference about products people love. I decided to speak about how smartphones were invented because I was one of the lucky few who was an eyewitness to … | Continue reading
Some advanced fitness watches like my Garmin Fenix 6x has built-in Pulse Ox (Oximeter) sensor. Since blood oxygen levels drop at high elevations, the Pulse Ox sensor gives athletes a way to monitor … | Continue reading
Sad news from the CEO of Boosted, the maker of electric skateboards, posted a message to their community. It is a tough message to write, but at least it is honest. Boosted was a company that … | Continue reading
In the requested proposals to be included in the $2 trillion package that passed last week were reforms to make it easier for US citizens to vote. Of course, these proposals were shot down and never … | Continue reading
Shopping at Costco every week has been my routine for the last five years. Today, after finding out that WHO (World Health Organization) declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) officially a pandemic, I … | Continue reading
Maybe 6 months ago, John Werner, who runs TEDx MIT and TEDx Beacon Street (and maybe others?), casually asked if I’d be willing to speak.I said I would, but I couldn’t tell how serious he was. I … | Continue reading
Welcome to our Maths & Art Panel on Cake, a forum for fascinating conversations. (More info on Cake here)Welcome to all of our panelists and to everyone who’s following the conversation on Cake. … | Continue reading
Zwift has released a new course called Yorkshire and after riding it for a month I finally took some screenshots. These 4K screenshots only capture a few key locations of the course, but they … | Continue reading
Mavericks is one of the most famed surf breaks in the world for the sheer magnitude of the waves it produces. On a few days each year the unique geometry and direction of its reef yield 30ft+ waves. … | Continue reading
Man you keep me busy engaging with fascinating content! LOL. I'll give this a listen on my drive home. I am a big fan of Intelligence Squared and missed this on my feed so thank you for this. | Continue reading
That does not look so radical (at least not in a good way) to me.. There just are too many dollars to be made in playing games, rather than do something really evolutionary, imho. | Continue reading
I biked, ran and hit the gym with AirPods and Powerbeats Pro and it wasn’t long before winner was obvious.As good as AirPods are, their weak sound isolation, lack of bass and loose fit made them … | Continue reading
Please join me in welcoming Ahmed Elsamadisi of Narrator.Ai for a Cake panel!A bit about Ahmed: Ahmed started his career at Cornell’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory focusing on human-robot … | Continue reading
Please join me in welcoming Anthony Palma, founder and CEO of Jump Gaming, for a Cake Panel.A bit about Anthony: Before Jump was a game subscription service, the company was actually founded by … | Continue reading
There's some interesting comments on advrider.com about the new Harley-Davidson Livewire announcement and not surprisingly the focus is on the battery.One user commented "they should have used … | Continue reading
Note: this is a Cake-ified version of a blog entry I posted today.The 1990s were a wild time for the video game industry. Advances in technology had finally brought true 3D graphics to video … | Continue reading
Part 1: The thing I loved most about working in developer relations at NeXT was how Steve could call anyone.He would burst in my office and say, “I’m gonna call Bill about TrueType,” and gesture … | Continue reading
Part 1: Steve loved performers, so he invited The Flying Karamazov Brothers to perform at Apple in 1985. He paid them via barter: they each got a Macintosh. They saw the grand piano in the lobby and … | Continue reading
In 2014, a small and unknown smartphone manufacturer out of China shook the mobile industry by releasing a phone called the OnePlus One. It came with a flagship processor, plenty of RAM, and a large … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley has a social problem.First, who am I to point this out and try to take it on?I was part of the problem.My first book, cowritten with Shel Israel, titled "Naked Conversations," … | Continue reading
My friend Chris MacAskill invited me over here to Cake to start a panel discussion about this hot subject! Now that Google+ is officially going as extinct as the dodo bird, it seems like a perfect … | Continue reading
Part 1: A few years after Steve Jobs was exiled from Apple and launched NeXT (his new computer company) he was invited to Ronald Reagan’s birthday party. He told us the guests were greeted with a … | Continue reading
Part 1: In 1993, pen computing was a hot trend in Silicon Valley.I had just been hired as Director of Developer Relations at General Magic, an Apple spin-off that was designing a handheld … | Continue reading
As a self-appointed, unofficial historian of General Magic lore (and former employee) I have quite a collection of Magic Cap devices. Photos of my complete collection are on my web site, and I'm … | Continue reading
In the mid-90s, General Magic was one of the coolest companies in the Silicon Valley. Goldman Sachs led its public offering based on the team, vision, and fairy dust companies like Apple and Sony … | Continue reading
The thing I loved most about working in developer relations at NeXT was how Steve could call anyone.He would burst in my office and say, “I’m gonna call Bill about TrueType,” and gesture for me to … | Continue reading
Wayne Goodrich was the producer for every keynote Steve gave after his return to Apple. Before that, Wayne helped him create presentations at NeXT and Pixar. He is writing a book about what it was … | Continue reading
Part 1: It’s funny how some things that hardly seem significant in their day dramatically change our lives. Or, in Steve’s case, the world.For me, it was a phone call from a secretive little … | Continue reading
Part 1: It’s funny how some things that hardly seem significant in their day dramatically change our lives. Or, in Steve’s case, the world.For me, it was a phone call from a secretive little … | Continue reading
Part 1: On a cold winter day in Calgary, a peculiar book stood out on the airport bookstore’s shelf: The Macintosh way by Guy Kawasaki. I was a young geophysicist and I devoured the book on the … | Continue reading