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I spent the last week chasing waterfalls around Iceland with my wife and best friend. Can't wait to go back!

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The best movie I've seen in ages. Wish I saw this on a theater screen instead of the back of an airplane seat.

Startup advantage: when it comes to making decisions, scarcity is a good thing. Optimization across fewer variables is more efficient.

I've spent the better part of my 30s trying to understand the JVM. Just when I think I've figured something out, I haven't. "Because Java."

There's a big delta between library and product development. Mastery of each requires intense discipline. Both are equally important.

Never accept any hypothesis that the world is fixed.

Thank you, Starman.

One of the highlights of this last-minute trip has to be walking on a very frozen Lake Louise. The views are breathtaking.

My wife and I started 2016 by crossing something off our bucket list: seeing the northern lights.

The Commercial Zen of Muji. Great profile of one of my favorite brands.

Surfing in Maui and there are fun waves thanks to 3 hurricanes in the Pacific.

Daft Punk's 2007 remix album Alive is an amazing electronic album. Nearly a decade later and I'm still hearing new sounds.

Productive sick day: cooked brunch, started recording drums for a new album, went for a sunset hike, and now catching up on some reading.

Google should buy OnePlus.

Apple should buy Nintendo.

I should buy some pants.

The future's already here, it's just not evenly distributed.

— William Gibson

Discipline > Motivation

Bloc Party — "This Modern Love" live at Maida Vale from a few days ago.

Fave albums from the 00s:

• The Strokes — Is This It
• Interpol — Turn On the Bright Lights
• Bloc Party — Silent Alarm
• Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

There are 8 chord changes just in the introduction of The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus." Most pop songs today barely have 4 chords.

Two important things:

1. I own a drum set. Again.
2. My wife is the best.