I was late to getting my first mobile phone. In the early '00s I didn't have many friends to fill up a contact list, so I didn't see the use case for having a cell phone. The few friends I did have, if they needed
I don't want to be boring. Particularly, I don't want my writing to be boring. I want to write good sentences. I want to be entertaining. I want to present cohesive, informed, and persuasive arguments. I want every single sentence that I write to be interesting.
Architect and Designer Daniel Titchener gives his take on The Line, a planned smart city expected to be built in Saudi Arabia that will span 170km(110 miles). That's a really long line. The idea of The Line is to create a spatial city that's powered
I grew up in a family that watched the news. They would turn on the Tv early in the mornings to learn about the weather, how much traffic to expect on their commute, some sports, and some light hearted story about people saving baby turtles. In the evenings they would
Like most Gen X kids growing up in the late '90s, I first heard Deftones on MTV, probably on 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield. The first music video I think I saw from them was Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) Their whole skater-boy aesthetics and their strange mix
This is going to be just another what-I've-been-up-to post. An update post. A journal entry. A dear diary post. Ghost CMS Tech Stuff First off, I was considering migrating this self-hosted instance of Ghost to the native Ghost(Pro) hosting. I currently have this site hosted with Digital
I have started many blogs. I wasn't there from the very beginning, but I've been at it since the early aughts. I've had an account on Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Squarespace, and Medium. I have abandoned most of these blogging platforms. I've been
It’s the constant piercing stabs to your attention all day. You can’t focus on anything in particular. “Where’s the bathroom?”, little stab. Your coworker starts talking to himself, another tiny piercing. A customer comes in hot and spicy. Rude. Condescending. Another coworker comes to show another coworker
If you’re taking time carefully golfing functions down into graceful, fluent, minimal functional expressions, alarm bells should ring. You’re yak-shaving. The real work has depleted your focus. You’re not building: you’re self-soothing. – My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts I still don’t know much about
I'm fascinated by the idea of dumb phones. The Light Phone 3 looks like a sexy French cigarette case. The Minimal Phone is a throwback to the Blackberry. The idea behind some of these phones is to cure you from the brain-rot of the always with you social
The general wisdom is that it shouldn’t matter if no one cares what you do. You should do things based on intrinsic motivations rather than extrinsic ones. In other words, you shouldn’t do things based on the validation from others—you should do things based on your own
There's been so much talk about "vibe coding". I've watched over a dozen videos on YouTube about the term and I have read a couple dozen more articles on the topic. There seems to be more "anti-vibers" than "pro-vibers" out