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
Stephen Robles of AppleInsider invited me to for a conversation for the AppleInsider podcast. It was a delightful chat about a range of topics, including iPad Pro, Creator Economy, Social Media Pla… | Continue reading
A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Nothing is invincible Synchronicity, The P… | Continue reading
Photo by Om. Made with Leica SL. I was recently speaking with Jeff Olsen, a former park ranger turned tour guide, at Grand Teton National Park. As we cruised around in his big truck looking fo… | Continue reading
A couple of days ago, I pointed out the risks we all have from companies that fall outside what is derisively known as “big tech.” Whether it is utilities playing god with the… | Continue reading
Believe it or not, the harsh glare of scrutiny on big technology giants has kept them honest, more or less. Realizing how much of their present and future business depends on folks wanting to use t… | Continue reading
The near-ubiquitous Southwest Airlines just turned 50. It has been profitable for 47 of those 50 years. It took a global pandemic to bring the airline to its knees. It is an amazing (and all too fa… | Continue reading
I get bored easily—no less with my own ideas than with those of others. Writing for me is a process of constantly throwing out stuff that doesn’t seem interesting enough. Janet Malcolm Janet Malcol… | Continue reading
It was a slower week for me — between work-related emails and research, I had little time for actual writing. I barely even had time for Twitter, and even then only as a very occasional guilty plea… | Continue reading
It is reopening day in California — and to finally call it summer. It has been a long time since we have been able to do things that can be deemed normal — mundane activities like walking out… | Continue reading
I find myself on Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum, about once a week. I enjoy reading everything he wrote and shared during the preceding seven days in one … | Continue reading
Tony Kuyper is well known to many of us who tend to spend a lot of time in Adobe Photoshop. He makes an editing panel that allows photographers to create exact luminosity masks, which in turn help … | Continue reading
I came across this opinion piece about the role of social media in the demise and subsequent rebirth of blogging, a topic not unfamiliar to readers of my blog. It credits Twitter for providing a pl… | Continue reading
Francis Mallaman, sharing his signature fish baked in salt. For over a decade, long before Netflix’s Chef Table made him even more popular, Argentinian chef, dandy and raconteur, Francis Mall… | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I wandered and wondered among the redwoods, hoping that their magnificence and their silence would allow me space to think about some things that have been on my mind. On… | Continue reading
You might have read the news that the University of Nevada, Reno, will give its incoming freshman class an iPad Air (with a keyboard and a pencil.) In itself, it isn’t much of a newsworthy of atten… | Continue reading
What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity. How could it? An… | Continue reading
Geeta Dayal, a well-respected art critic and music journalist, is helping organize a music concert, Music for India, on Saturday, June 5th. She announced the news about the concert on Twitter. All … | Continue reading
Geeta Dayal, a well-respected art critic and music journalist, is helping organize a music concert, Music for India, on Saturday, June 5th. She announced the news about the concert on Twitter. All … | Continue reading
A few days back, I watched with wonder and awe as a copter flew on the Red Planet. Witnessing Ingenuity take off from the Mars Perseverance Rover and send images all the way bac… | Continue reading
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches,” Andy Warhol. Today, he would have measured everything in the number of tweets, re-tweets, shares… | Continue reading
It is too cold (relatively speaking) and gray to go out — a perfect day for either reading a whodunnit or watching an excellent crime flick. Thankfully, folks from CrimeReads created a l… | Continue reading
I have been a big opponent of Google’s proprietary web formatting technology, Accelerated Mobile Pages, aka AMP. The company wanted to push AMP by giving preference to sites that used AMP in … | Continue reading