Since 2010, I’ve been writing and sharing sporadically on this site, primarily on the topics of technology, creativity and creation, and modern life. However, these topics are more a reflection of current interests than a restriction on subject matter, and I often post about anything that interests me or about which I have something to say.
If you’d like to explore what I’ve written on a specific topic, all posts are divided into the categories of Technology, The Internet, Software, Media, Creativity and Creation, Writing, Interviews, Ideas, Life, Simplicity, Being Efficient, and How I Do Things. I’ve also collected some of my personal favorite posts, and all posts are below, organized by month in reverse chronological order.
Favorite posts
Radical Considerations on Creativity and Originality
The new addiction
An interview with Shaaron Murphy, film editor and teacher
An interview with Notational Velocity developer Zachary Schneirov
The dining experience
The contradiction of digital/technological minimalism
Disposable Culture
Criticism of the Inadequate Clipboard, or: An Ode to Clipboard Managers
Wisdom is around us already
Hardware, software and the user
Balancing consumption and creation
Tools of the trade: better tools don’t make better writing
Reading time: a time-based reading service and recommendation engine
On ideas, execution, and the power of sharing
My Essential Mac Apps (slightly outdated)
Why embracing waste and exploiting abundance is not always good
All posts
- January 2013 (1)
- 08: Being the change
- October 2012 (1)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (4)
- 27: Art and influences
- 23: The future
- 17: Realistic Online Privacy Expectations
- 03: Eyes up
- July 2012 (1)
- June 2012 (3)
- May 2012 (2)
- April 2012 (2)
- 12: Travel
- 12: The internet is simply a place
- January 2012 (6)
- December 2011 (7)
- November 2011 (1)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (17)
- 26: What does Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO change about the future of Apple?
- 22: Short-term capitalism
- 19: Disposable Culture
- 19: Software obsolescence
- 18: More on “Big Ideas”
- 17: The “Elusive Big Idea”: the problem is not a lack of ideas, but a lack of interest
- 16: Granted
- 15: Balance
- 15: Leo Babauta on Simplifying
- 13: Criticism of the Inadequate Clipboard, or: An Ode to Clipboard Managers
- 13: Rumors
- 13: The One Rule
- 13: With Lion, Apple has made the concept of spaces accessible to everyone
- 12: Lion is the future
- 03: Why Lion’s natural scrolling doesn’t really matter
- 02: The importance of software
- 01: The effect of Apple’s App Store policy: an inferior experience for users
- July 2011 (12)
- 31: Pomodoro in the Mac App Store: Ugo Landini’s freemium experiment
- 27: Quora
- 26: Every day
- 22: Car-free in Brussels
- 21: Post-Paywall New York Times Boosts Digital Ad/Sub Dollars
- 21: Google+ and Google’s mission
- 20: Eric Schmidt, CUI
- 15: Naming your blog: eponymous or not?
- 06: “Lucky”
- 05: Wheat
- 04: Stephen M. Hackett interviews Aaron Mahnke
- 04: Putting a Price Tag on Pop Success
- June 2011 (5)
- May 2011 (14)
- 20: ♥ Notational Velocity
- 19: Merlin Mann on the state of the internet
- 19: Markdown is the new Word 5.1
- 18: Hardware, software and the user
- 18: The Merit of Predictable Routines
- 17: TextExpander, Path Finder, Socialite, HoudahSpot, Today, Blast, Keyboard Maestro, and Mail Act-On for $30
- 17: Working at the coffee shop: the right environment and the right distractions
- 16: Experience, just another tool
- 14: The “evidence of work”
- 14: Being Thankful: 30 things I’m thankful for
- 14: 30% across-the-board is too much
- 12: Skype acquisition: Everyone wins. Except Microsoft.
- 12: On iFlow Reader getting “screwed”: Apple’s policy is bad for users
- 03: Balancing consumption and creation
- April 2011 (12)
- 30: The paradox of value
- 29: The fallacy of the “right” tool
- 24: Behind the scenes of Google’s data center security and data protection
- 24: Writing is like bonsai growing
- 23: My Bloody Valentine, minus the guitars
- 22: How to succeed: don’t start without intention
- 14: Why the ad-subsidized Kindle will be a success
- 14: Interviewing the nobodies
- 12: Tools of the trade: better tools don’t make better writing
- 12: The future of film: 48 frames per second
- 06: An application launcher as an easily accessible, always available place to write
- 06: How I launch applications
- March 2011 (7)
- 30: Option creep
- 27: Reading time: a time-based reading service and recommendation engine
- 27: The difference between a boss, a manager and a leader
- 24: On ideas, execution, and the power of sharing
- 17: The New York Times announces a new digital subscription plan
- 16: Why is Notational Velocity so popular? Just ask Jef Raskin.
- 07: What is Startup X? An interview with founder Jonathan Gottfried
- February 2011 (8)
- 21: Online identity
- 21: The tap is always dripping, and Twitter is there to catch the drops
- 19: Two contrasting views on art
- 17: Eben Moglen: A free world needs free software
- 15: Eben Moglen on the dangers of centralized social networking
- 14: “Access itself is not all it’s cracked up to be”
- 13: Greplin’s Privacy Policy
- 03: The value of dominant market share for web services and platforms
- January 2011 (9)
- 27: eHow goes Facebook exclusive for logins and profiles, and here’s why it’s bad
- 26: What’s taking so long for HTML5 offline support in Google cloud apps like Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Reader?
- 21: Google and progress
- 16: Dave Caolo responds to my post about apps not available in the Mac App Store
- 14: “Copyright, in its current state, holds information at ransom for monetary value.”
- 08: The Mac App Store’s missing apps
- 06: Five Mac Apps to Watch in 2011
- 03: My Essential Mac Apps
- 02: “The world’s worst boss”
- December 2010 (4)
- October 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (2)
