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  • Privacy Nutrition Labels for the Top Apps of 2020 - Apple just released its top apps of 2020 and a new data privacy "nutrition label". Combine both to learn how our favorite apps collect and use our data.
  • Tour de France - There is only one more stage in the 2020 Tour de France, but there’s still time to catch up on the action before the final leg. Here’s how to get up to speed on this year’s race, the sport, and the history of the tour: Watch or read to learn the rules of the race, what the green, […]
  • The Music Mentality - Music connects you with others, lifts your spirits, and inspires. Recently, listening to music inspired me to try making music. There is still so much to learn, but I’ve been able to make decent progress despite a quarantine and the obstacles it has presented, by seeking knowledge passed along by musicians online. To continue connecting, […]
  • This Is Phishing - Password managers can help you identify when you’re on the site you want, or might be somewhere you do not intend. By comparing the url of the site you’re on, to the urls saved in the password manager, the password manager can indirectly alert you to a suspicious situation. Here’s an example. In the Robinhood […]
  • A distancing duck avoids being phished Internet Safety Tips - Lots of weird things just happened at once. It’s always important to be cognizant of what and who you interact with online, but phishing is way up right now, so be extra careful with emails, links, and articles sent to you that you didn’t initiate or request. And while email phishing is often a main focus […]
  • Learnings From My First Conference Talk - This past Tuesday I gave my first conference talk at View Source in Amsterdam! It was an awesome experience at an amazing venue in a rainy city where people from all corners of the web came together to discuss many of the challenges, opportunities, and learnings for browsers, web development and the overall landscape of […]
  • Learning to Row - My course was four weeks long with three classes a week. At the end of each class, I recorded a brain dump of everything I learned. Here’s what I focused on and how I progressed over my first month of rowing.
  • Flash Seats Usability, Security, and Privacy - The Quora Conundrum Quora reported a data breach earlier this month and the company outlined the stolen data, what they are doing, and what you can do in an email to those affected: The following information of yours may have been compromised: Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account […]
  • Facebook Privacy Report from The New York Times - As Facebook is upending the journalism industry, the New York Times is continues their campaign of exposing Facebook’s questionable data use. Summary from The Download via the MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612642/facebook-gave-more-than-150-companies-special-access-to-your-data/
  • Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo - This made quite the ruffle today when Google transferred the domain duck.com to the privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo. Google’s ownership of Duck.com was previously a source of frustration for DuckDuckGo, when it would redirect users to Google’s rival homepage instead of DuckDuckGo. Google kindly tried to clear up this confusion in July by adding […]
  • Location Data Privacy in Apps - The New York Times released a report (with some fancy graphics) detailing location data use by apps for advertising, outside the main purpose of the app. Only 10 apps were covered in depth, but the findings reveal how some advertising companies aggregate location data from apps.
  • What the Marriott Breach Says About Security - Your personal data is already stolen. Here’s what you need to be doing: if you are the type of person who likes to re-use passwords, then you definitely need to be using a password manager freezing your credit files with the major credit bureaus, and regularly ordering free copies of your credit file from annualcreditreport.com […]
  • How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year - It is increasingly difficult to trust someone calling from a phone call you don’t recognize. Not only are scammers calling from numbers that seem to be in your area, but they are also impersonating family members in distress. The dirty little secret about elder exploitation is that almost 60 percent of cases involve a perpetrator who […]
  • Nobody is immune to ads - In his post Nobody is immune to ads, Georges Abi-Heila explores the psychology of how humans react to the barrage of brands and ads we see every day. There’s no scientific consensus on the number of ads we’re exposed to daily, as estimates vary from a few hundreds to thousands. Why is it so hard to […]
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari on the Talks at Google podcast (and in video form) He’s marketing his new book extremely well and a New York Times interview on the subject garnered attention: It made him sad, he told me, to see people build things that destroy their own societies, but he works every day to maintain […]
  • Rent-seeking - The Exponent podcast is back! And there’s a lot of news regarding pressure to change existing App Store pricing models. it seems incredibly worrisome to me anytime any company predicates its growth story on rent-seeking: it’s not that the growth isn’t real, but rather that the pursuit is corrosive on whatever it was that made […]
  • The case for slowing everything down a bit - Ezra Klein on increased digital friction: I believe that one reason podcasts have exploded is that they carry so much friction: They’re long and messy, they often take weeks or months to produce, they’re hard to clip and share and skim — and as a result, they’re calmer, more human, more judicious, less crazy-making. Klein […]
  • Is this a legit Fortnite V-Buck site? Probably not. - Fortnite has caused quite the security kerfuffle. Between releasing the Android app outside the Google Play Store, and an insane desire for V-Bucks, scams are running rampant. Wired put out this article yesterday entitled Fortnite scams are even worse than you thought, and it made me sad that people are being tricked (that’s for tomorrow […]
  • Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay Singapore Ninja and Kylie Jenner, Who Owns the Future - In his book, Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier discusses the idea of real-time income and wealth generation. He presents the topics through the lens of sharing songs in the music industry, but the principle applies to today’s sharing economy.
  • Person sitting at a table reading a book with a bowl of cereal and cup of tea Sunday Reading: Thoughts on The Tech Industry’s War on Kids - Reflecting on The Tech Industry’s War on Kids: How psychology is being used as a weapon against children Richard Freed is a child psychologist who focuses on helping families work through “extreme overuse of phones, video games, and social media.” Preteen and teen girls refuse to get off their phones, even though it’s remarkably clear that […]
  • Short Codes (aka Messages & Two Factor Authentication from Random Five to Six Digit Numbers) - There are some cool new security features in the latest versions of iOS and Android to help you keep your accounts secure. Android’s updated Messages app and iMessage in iOS 12 both bring simplified one-time passcodes and two factor authentication (2FA) management. iMessage – iOS 12   Android Messages   With both Apple and Google […]
  • Long exposure photo of car lights on a highway at night Economics of driving the Tesla Model 3 - So I test drove a Model 3, and I have some thoughts. Backstory I feel like everyone has a story about when they got interested in Tesla. For me it was summer of 2012 just before the official release of the Model S. I was at Coit Tower in San Francisco and on the way […]
  • Pushpins overturned on a map of the world Google, Data Privacy, and Unconscious Oversharing - Google is tracking your location. Did we not already realize this? Yesterday the Associate Press released a story titled Google tracks your movements, whether you like it or not. The gist of the article is there are at least two settings on your Google account relevant to your location, “Location History” and “Web and App […]
  • A group of people floating in open water at dusk How to do a triathlon - Completing a triathlon takes mental and physical preparation, but with a little determination you can do it without deviating too much from your normal routine.
  • Screen Time with iOS 12 - Thoughts on new Screen Time coming with iOS 12.
  • Tuesday’s Links and Quotes - Today I explored the internet. There was no common thread other than reading stories and articles from various people of interest to me. Just some divergent thinking to spark new ideas and connections. Cosmik Debris from Kneeling Bus “Let little bits of your daily existence dissipate into the air rather than having them vacuumed up by […]
  • Random Wednesday Reading - A Modest Guide to Productivity A Few Bullet Points on Design Criticism Scratching Your Head Over Today’s Head Tax Defeat? Here Are Some Answers. AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality How I use Wireshark Braces Have Made Snoring a Modern Health Problem Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness—But Time Just Might Do It How to […]
  • How Asia (and social networking) Works - After over three years on the bookshelf, I finally picked up the Bill Gates recommended, How Asia Works by Joe Studwell. The review sparked my interest in the book then, but the intrigue was rekindled recently when I discovered Strange Parts on YouTube (don’t ask how it took me so long to find Scotty). Seeing another […]
  • The Genius of Fortnite’s Business Strategy - Fortnite is all the rage right now. It came out a little less than a year ago considered nothing more than a free PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) knockoff, but in that time, Fortnite has come to dominate the gaming industry. Some background for the non-gamer types, Fortnite is a free to play video game which means […]
  • Chickadee - Chickadee by Surround Architecture via Uncrate
  • (Insert generic inspirational quote here) Why I Switched to WordPress.com - I spent the entire weekend trying to sort out why changing my WordPress theme brought down my site. There was this error and I just couldn’t figure out what was happening. I exported my data, moved to a temporary free WordPress.com account as a backup, and re-installed WordPress on my self hosted site. Before we […]
  • Intentional Technology - Would it be easier if we carried around devices devoted solely to one function instead of our multifaceted gadgets? There’s no reason we couldn’t go back to pocket calendars, contact lists, photos, wallets, and pens, other than that it wouldn’t be quite as convenient. Video game consoles are great at just playing video games, and we […]
  • Coffee mug and open notebook on a wooden desk Workplace Design - My team is moving back from open to private offices, so it’s an opportune time to find inspiration for the new space. There are all sorts of studies about collaboration and productivity level in open space vs closed offices, but Joel Spolsky and Anil Dash from Stack Overflow and Fog Creek have perspectives from the […]
  • Edge Computing - Self-driving cars are, as far as I’m aware, the ultimate example of edge computing. Due to latency, privacy, and bandwidth, you can’t feed all the numerous sensors of a self-driving car up to the cloud and wait for a response. Your trip can’t survive that kind of latency, and even if it could, the cellular […]
  • Aggregation and Integration - breaking up a formerly integrated system — commoditizing and modularizing it — destroys incumbent value while simultaneously allowing a new entrant to integrate a different part of the value chain and thus capture new value. Why aggregation matters is that it is the means by which new integrations are achieved: Netflix leveraged its position as […]
  • Tesla Doesn’t Burn Fuel, It Burns Cash - Most stressful reading of the week award goes to… A complete guide to how Elon Musk has raised, and then spent, billions of dollars. — Read on http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
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  • Twitter’s Important Updates - I opened Twitter today and was welcomed with a message about their updated Terms of Service and Privacy policy in time for GDPR. Twitter is updating its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to provide you with even more transparency into the data Twitter collects about you, how it’s used, and the controls you have […]
  • Melinda Gates on The Ezra Klein Show - https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/bfc27e6d-5858-4fe3-a2b7-1ac8f946930d/embed On team culture (at Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) But the competitive culture I didn’t really like, it felt like the arguments weren’t just about that intellectual thing, but they were personal … I felt like we could do it differently At the foundation, the culture that we have created there has […]
  • An esoteric piece of Windows history - This is getting a lot of coverage today. When creating something new, it’s funny when you realize your intentions do not match the perception of others. Here's some puzzle solving fun for a Friday night. As we developed Windows, one of the minor decisions we had to make was what wallpaper to use for various […]
  • Lemaitre – Control (feat. Jerry Folk) - New music from Lemaitre this week And another I missed from March
  • Welcome to the News Feed - My News Feed This section of the blog will have daily updates with articles, podcasts, videos, and anything I find interesting. The content will be brief, just a quote and my reaction most of the time, but in higher quantity than my other posts. I wanted an outlet for all the things I learn about […]
  • A puppy. This is why people use Facebook, right? What we learned from Facebook this week - For all the talk with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the US Senate and House this week, there was very little surprising content. We give consent to use the Facebook service, we upload images, write posts, and like articles. We have control at every step of our interaction to decide how much to share with […]
  • Slow Social Media - In his recent posts, Cal Newport outlines why our attention will benefit from individuals owing their own domains. We may need tools to help us do it, but companies will assist us from behind the scenes allowing us to build our own brands. People should be able to move their brand (and data) from one […]
  • Assorted music amps, records, tapes, books, and televisions on a wall Collapsing Context - Does Jaron Lanier follow blogs? Where does he get his news? How does he learn about Meltdown/Spectre?   Word of mouth was the original form of communication. Before there were books, people could only tell stories to share information. The collective hive mind of civilization would do their best to spread knowledge equally from one […]
  • Hammer and bent nails on a wood block Fixing the Blog - Thank you Jetpack Support First of all, Jetpack support is amazing. Automattic is known for its customer service oriented culture, and it shows. I was running into an issue where Jetpack would not connect to my site, so I reached out to their support team. They were responsive in helping me figure out the tech at […]
  • Open books laying in grass Best Books I Didn’t Read in 2017 -   Or books people told me to read in 2018… I didn’t read as many books in 2017 as I did in 2016, but I still learned a lot from what I read this year. I did read Deep Work, and, with Klein, would highly recommend it. Titan by Ron Chernow was a brick of […]
  • iPhone X innards with batteries showing The Apple Experience - At this point, people don’t need to upgrade their phones every two years. Phones are fast enough and the bump from the last generation A10 fusion chip to the latest A11 bionic really isn’t that important. Apple has even started added some fancy name to the end to uphold the experience of getting a new, […]
  • Stars in the sky Cosmic Brain - Remember this video? In it you start with a person lying on the ground looking up at the sky. The camera zooms out exponentially into space showing the immense scale of the galaxies. Then, we quickly zoom back in to molecular scale Notice the similarity of the Cosmic Web at 1 billion light years and […]
  • Camera aperture with a green-blue lens flare Catching up on Stratechery - My Instapaper reading list was piling up. Nearly half of the articles were from Stratechery, so I decided to knock them all out at once (well, over the course of a day or two). https://stratechery.com/2017/goodbye-gatekeepers/ From Weinstein and movies to the NYTimes and YouTube In a world where the default news source is the Facebook […]
  • Lightbulb drawing on white paper with blue paper ball Netflix and Coinbase Engineering Cultures - I watched a few QCon videos on the InfoQ YouTube channel. The presentations are from conferences over the last year or so, but the videos were all uploaded within the last month. A blueprint for organizational success- case study Netflix I’m pretty sure this is a re-upload, but it caught my eye again. (Here’s another […]
  • Sunset over mountains from black to blue to orange Two Weeks in Review – November 5, 2017 - 4:45 and its dark outside… Podcasts The Finnish (UBI) Experiment – 99 Percent Invisible The Psychology of Self-Righteousness – Jonathan Haidt – On Being An interesting psychological take on political leanings Readings Bitcoin uses a lot of energy. Why not a solar powered rig? The World’s Happiest Places – National Geographic Tech Xbox One X iPhone X […]
  • View from Griffith Observatory of the Hollywood sign Two Weeks In Review – October 22, 2017 - Deep work and lots of travel with many podcasts and a little reading the past two weeks. Listen Richard Branson Manipulation Exponent Ramblings Ta-Nehisi Coates Watch Star Wars – The Last Jedi Trailer Spiderman Homecoming Blade Runner 2049 Read Rounding out the classic fiction review: It Can’t Happen Here
  • Another stock image of a person simulating an open office environment Week in Review – October 8, 2017 - Readings Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Thich Nhat Hanh via Lion’s Roar Teach tech with cartoons by Julia Evans Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other with Daniel Kahneman via On Being (listen) On Overuse of Technology Follow Cal Newport. He lead me to Jony Ive’s talk at the New Yorker Tech fest. Here’s the […]
  • An old bike and a sleeping dog next to a wooden fence Week in Review – October 1, 2017 - Read The Handmaid’s Tale (no, don’t just watch the show) Write Book or blog? Unfinished and developing thoughts fit best in a blog. Plus one can use WordPress and Stripe for subscriber payments. https://stratechery.com/2017/books-and-blogs/ Because aggregators deal with digital goods, there is an abundance of supply; that means users reap value through discovery and curation, […]
  • Top down view of coffee mug on a yellow surface Week in Review – September 24, 2017 - A lot of work this week, possibly fueled by too much caffeine (3 cups in 4 days is a lot for me). But I am practicing deep work techniques to avoid email, single task and stay in the flow. How to answer questions in a helpful way Jvns post from a couple days ago caught […]
  • iPhone on a wood table Week in Review – September 17, 2017 - A couple readings and listenings this week Anil Dash’s Reflections of 9/11 John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Stratechery & Exponent on the iPhone TED Radio Hour The Power of Design And a new video Gothic Basin by Air
  • Tomorrowland entrance at Disneyland Week in Review – September 10, 2017 - Book, Articles, and Readings Are Your Lights On? Thanks DHH On Writing Well Telling people what you are working on To determine what is not a hotdog, use Keras  It’s all a hack The fall of Juicero and ICO Fever If a Silicon Valley executive does something, it is “hacking.” Doing your laundry? That’s a […]
  • IBM Think Signs in various languages Think - A Culture of Think (via Smithsonian and Wikipedia) And two songs for the week Week in Review will continue next Sunday.
  • Week in Review – August 27, 2017 - Eclipse 2K17! NYTimes Live Stream & Recap National Geographic Photos Smarter Every Day International Space Station Transit Casey Neistat Eclipse from Five Angles Excited Guy from 2016 Eclipse Tech & Programming Scaling Instagram Infrastructure -InfoQ YouTube Smart Pointers Part 1 and 2 – Fluent CPP Books & Reading Disney’s Choice Stratechery Vertical companies like Apple achieve profits […]
  • It's about time Two Weeks in Review – August 20, 2017 - Thoughts on Renew Psychology Here’s a test. I decided not to renew nautilus for $29 a year. I already have another 1 year on my subscription, and while I currently would like to have the magazine for another year I am balancing a few things to decide if in one year I want it for […]
  • Folded newspaper, cup of coffee, and phone on a wooden table Stories - Some of the articles and podcasts that came through my feeds recently had similar themes. It got me thinking about a few things. The idea of using misinformation as a way to hack one’s mind and shape one’s view of reality. How we carry out our lives differently. We surround ourselves with people we like […]
  • Stock image of a person simulating an open office environment Week in Review – August 6, 2017 - Meditation and Routine: I took time this morning to meditate. I noticed I was going to rush to make it to the bus, and decided to wait and take the one leaving 30 minutes later. It was a simple decision that has big impact for the day. I leave in a calmer state and am […]
  • Malibu Malibu - Sunday in California (Just before Iceland Adventure Day 1, but posted a while after…)
  • Man facing away standing on a Brazilian street Cryptocurrency - Here’s an unformed thought for the day What is the value of a cryptocurrency? If something like Ripple makes sense from an application perspective, but the blockchain is not as useful, does it adhere to the crypto manta of fat protocols and lean application layer? Not sure exactly what that means yet, but if the […]
  • A dramatization of our team at the hackathon Week in Review – July 30, 2017 - Hackathon Bot framework, bot services, LUIS, and text sentiment You can make a conversational chat bot in less than a week. It may not understand everything you say, but with some added intelligence, the bot can be very chappy! Books Some progress on Sapiens, and my reading list expanded The Speed of Sound by Thomas […]
  • Houses in Reykjavik from above Iceland Adventure Day 1 - Take the road less travelled to Öxarárfoss.
  • Fox sleeping in a tree Relax - Relax. Be mindful of my breathing and body positioning. Rest my muscles and let all tension melt away. Start at the top of my head and slowly scan down how I am holding each part of my body. Relax the mind and loosen the neck and shoulders, slow my heart rate, expand my stomach, stretch […]
  • work harder blue neon sign Test Yourself - Over the next few days put your learning to the test. Along with over coming the fear of exposing yourself as an imposter, you will also attempt to keep you ego in check and build relationships with others. That sinking feeling you get when encountering a difficult social situation will be redirected to external action […]
  • Person jumping on the beach Passion - Passionate players will give it their all while winning, but play discouraged when losing big. Purposeful players will see the challenge as an opportunity to show determination, resolve, and sportsmanship. Displaying their grit to continue playing, even when all hope seems lost. Passion inflates you. Purpose defines you.
  • Coin-operated binoculars overlooking a beach Something New - While something may make sense in your head, you must work hard to have it click for others. Furthermore, you must create a space where others can feel safe in being vulnerable and asking questions. Don’t be angry someone doesn’t know certain things. Be happy you are able to teach them something new.   Bonus […]
  • Person ties their shoes on a bridge in a city Explore - Exploring a new city can be daunting at first. I knew little to nothing of how to get around and barely knew anyone here. I did all the research and tried to avoid routine for as long as possible to take advantage of all the opportunities. To expand my view of the surroundings I went […]
  • Blue green "Ask more questions" framed poster Questions - Learn to control your biases and impulses around others. Stop and ponder “What are you thinking about? What’s going through your head?” Keeping these thoughts in everyday life humanizes others and allow you to better understand that we are all people with complex histories and emotions. Prodding with simple questions like “What do you think […]
  • lighthouse Flying with Seals - Alki Beach at sunset I did not realize I was recording while setting up the drone. When I got back, I noticed the random 30 seconds of filming the ground. Instead of deleting it, I made a preview for the rest of the movie! And the main feature. Enjoy!
  • Seeking to Become - You may be the average of the five people you spend the most time with [1], but more so, today, you are the product of who you were yesterday and the day before [2]. “The difference between who you are now and who you were five years ago is largely due to how you’ve spent […]
  • Perspective - Challenge your perspective and don't make assumptions.
  • AI Today - Today was AI day. Artificial Intelligence arrives, expands, supercharges, gets stuck, provokes the apocalypse, and returns from the past, defying all sense of logic, in a single day. The topic is a couple Wolverine stories away from an Xmen franchise.
  • Mindfulness Economy - Imagine our economy without advertisements. What would it look like? Facebook would not exist, Google would be a fragment of its current self, and for that matter, most tech companies propped up by VC money would be gone. Sports would only be seen in stadiums and played by athletes making minimal salaries. Media reliant on […]
  • Watch me - I like this commercial. Watch me. #notasponsor
  • Journal - One year and three months ago I wrote this in my journal: “I want to start writing more for my blog. I am going to start by making an effort to sit down for five minutes (at least) and note what I am thinking about. Time seems to fly by lately. It would be enlightening […]
  • Timelapse - Want to stitch together a video of GoPro timelapse photos? They are all in the format G00XXXXX.JPG (G0050192.JPG), so throw all the photos in a single “Timelapse” folder and use ffmpeg! ffmpeg -r 24 -start_number 50192 -i G00%05d.JPG -s 1440x1080 -pix_fmt yuv420p -f mp4 -vcodec h264 DriveToDomaine.mp4 Sit back and chill for a few minutes […]
  • Three Questions - “Remember then: there is only one time that is important– Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most […]
  • If you want to improve - “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” -Epictetus
  • Empathy - “If you believed what he believes, you’d do precisely what he’s doing. Think about that for a second. People act based on the way they see the world. Every single time. Understanding someone else’s story is hard, a job that’s never complete, but it’s worth the effort.” -Seth Godin, Empathy is difficult
  • A Riddle - Thoughts from On Being – The Mind is a Difference-Seeking Machine (Transcript) In her talk with Krista Tippett, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji presents many hidden biases within our culture and ourselves. From how we view people differently on Airbnb based on the the spellings of their names to analyzing political events in terms of the human condition, Dr. Banaji wants us […]
  • Finish - Finish what you start. After overcoming the blank slate, we need to follow up on our intentions and complete what we set out to do. Once we begin, progress is easy. We don’t have much to compare against so we accomplish a large proportion of our overall work. However, when we start making actual progress […]
  • Reflection and Boredom - “We’ve adopted the Google ideal of the mind, which is that you have a question that you can answer quickly: close-ended, well-defined questions. Lost in that conception is that there’s also this open-ended way of thinking where you’re not always trying to answer a question. You’re trying to go where that thought leads you. As […]
  • The 4-Hour Workweek for the 9 to 5 Type - Tim Ferriss, author of “books with titles that sound like infomercials”, touts tremendous productivity techniques which can result in 10x’ing your hourly output (thus the 4-hour workweek, 10×4=40). He is slightly controversial in regards to a few of his approaches (who outsources email?), but many are applicable to just about everyone. The questions is, how do […]
  • Zootopia - I’ve watched every Pixar movie (and short) ever made and a fair chunk of the movies from Disney Animation Studios. These animated movies meet at the intersection of creativity and technology, blending state of the art film techniques with tremendous storylines. Plus, they really stand out for their empowering and timely messages, relevant to both […]
  • Conquer the Blank Slate - The blank slate. Torture to those who rarely peer upon its emptiness. But the thing is so easily conquered. Just go, do, begin and you have turned a blank slate into a moment of opportunity, unlocking infinite potential. And yet, so many are lost by its prospect out of fear of failure or inability to […]
  • Routine - Routine is not something you do once a week. Routine is daily. Routine is a part of you expressed every day. Keep uploading, keep writing, keep pushing yourself. Do not take a day off. Make routine your constant and deviation your off day. Find a schedule which works for your and make it a constant. Want […]
  • Be Mindful While You Read - Every day we spend an inordinate amount of time scrolling through apps and posts on the web. How much of the content we consume do we internalize and remember? From sending tweets, to browsing Facebook, to reading news, there is something to discover all the time, and content only seconds old is pushed aside as […]
  • Take a walk! - “Walking opens us up to the menace of a world outside the built environments that we control. Driving, despite the high risk of crashes, injury, and death, masks itself as freedom: we’re not watching our backs. And once we’ve become unaccustomed to the movement of the air, the rustle of the trees, the sight of […]
  • The Ethics of Ad Blocking - By including content blockers in iOS, Apple now allows developers to build ad blocking apps for mobile Safari. But more importantly, Apple has started a conversation about the ethics of ad blocking on the web. After only a few days Apple has (inadvertently?) pushed the topic into the limelight. With the advent of content blocking apps, people […]
  • App Store Submission Tips and Tricks - I recently submitted my first iOS app to the App Store and spent quite a bit of time searching ways to navigate some of the less intuitive parts of Apple’s submission process. Tons of guides walk through step by step, this is meant to help fill in the gaps. For those looking for a overview, […]