Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
429 bits, and counting.
The last project I worked on at JPL was the Mars Science Laboratory, almost 6 years ago. Congrats to my former colleagues. Watching live.
NASA landed a rover on Mars using a sky crane. Kind of makes today's mergers, product launches, code deployments, and Git commits look lame.
Beach House's Bloom is an amazing album. Perfect music for getting stuff done.
Listening to the Beatles (Rubber Soul) with just the right earbud. It's an a cappella.
Selling my Gretsch drum kit today. It's only poetic that the song playing is "Say It Ain't So."
Well hello, Austin, Texas. This is the first time we've met. I need this.
Web presence in 1998 = having a GeoCities. Web presence in 2005 = having a blog. Web presence in 2012 = having a Facebook account.
Bret Victor's talk "Inventing on Principle" is nothing less than amazing. You should carve an hour out to watch this.
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.
— Jeff Hammerbacher
A visible closed door meeting among key staff can erode a startup's culture. People join startups so they can see both hardship and success.
What matters in the Muppet universe isn't perfection, but expression. It is not what you look like that matters, but what you do.
Interpol's Turn On the Bright Lights is perfect late night hacking music.
1999 was about Slashdot and SourceForge. 2011 is about Hacker News and GitHub.
My mind travels back to Hong Kong whenever I listen to a Metric album.
Separating product and technology teams is the quickest way to build two competing companies instead of one that is valuable and durable.
Took a one month break from Twitter, feed readers, and industry blogs. The world is still here. Valuations, on the other hand, are not.
My desktop and downloads folder are completely empty for the first time in 7 years.
Got invited to speak at Pixar about creating data visualizations. RSVP response: fuck yeah.
After 2+ years, I am leaving Gravity. As employee #1, it has been a privilege to build and work with such a wonderful team. Pura vida.
Listening to Interpol's Antics makes me feel like commanding a sailboat from Tokyo to Sweden. This is both awkward and acceptable.