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Episode Two Hundred and Nine: Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1)
March 31, 2015
0.0 Sitrep "Siri, play 'Captain America' from the album 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and put thirty minutes on the clock." "I'm sorry, I can't show...
Episode Two Hundred and Eight:
March 27, 2015
0.0 Sitrep I tried to start this yesterday, at around 10pm in the middle of the week's family viewing of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (of which: the suspense! So...
Episode Two Hundred and Seven: Seeing Like LIDAR; Hearing Like Superman; Researching Like ResearchKit
March 25, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:46pm on Wednesday, March 25 2015 with thirty minutes on the clock and Shake It Off has just shuffled on. The toddler has had a fever for the...
Episode Two Hundred and Six: Never Forget; OK, One Thing Google Apps Does; Weird Notes
March 24, 2015
0.0 Sitrep "Siri, start the timer," - a new experiment where I sit down and write (well, mostly write - and some formatting in a browser, of which you might...
Episode Two Hundred and Five: Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice
March 23, 2015
0.0 Sitrep Okay, so it's been a while since I last wrote. Nearly a whole week! But now I'm sitting down to write again. So there's that. 8:31pm on Monday,...
Episode Two Hundred and Four: "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms
March 17, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:36pm on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 "St. Patty's Day" in America, which is the day all branded social media accounts turn green (and orange, I...
Episode Two Hundred And Three: Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s
March 16, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:38pm on Thursday, 12th March 2015 on a flight back to Portland after having spent the first part of this week in the Code for America office in...
Episode Two Hundred and Two: The Humane Calendar; Government 3.0; Digital Public Space
March 5, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 9:32pm on Thursday, 5 March 2015. No episode yesterday - no time to write and, bluntly: I was just very tired at the end of a long day that ended...
Episode Two Hundred and One: The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff
March 3, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:14pm on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. The new process/practice/habit/general writing thing is in the evening: after family dinner with the toddler,...
Episode Two Hundred: Stock; Two Thoughts
March 2, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:54pm on Monday, 2 March 2015 and back in Portland, Oregon after having driven down from Vancouver, BC today, and episode 200. Another milestone!...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Nine: Just No; Don't Do That, Either; Seeing Like The Internet
February 27, 2015
0.0 Sitrep I started writing this on Thursday, 26 February, 2015. 1.0 Just No There are friends of mine who remind me that a) I don't work in advertising any...
Episode One Hundred And Ninety Eight: What Apple Is
February 25, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 12:38pm, lunchtime, with a couple slices of pizza on Wednesday 25 February, 2015. 1.0 What Apple Is For what it's worth, I think I finally have an...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Seven: Smarts; Odds
February 24, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 12:55am, Wednesday 25 February. I should be asleep. I don't really want to talk about why I'm awake, suffice to say that there are at least two...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Six: Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make
February 23, 2015
0.0 Sitrep Monday 23 February 2015, 8:15pm. I had two wisdom teeth out on Friday morning: general anaesthetic, not even counting back from ten and the next...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five:
February 19, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:06pm, in the basement in the work cave, stood in front of the giant Thunderbolt display on a weeknight after a decidedly "meh" day at work. The...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Four: The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck
February 18, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:13pm on Wednesday, 18 February 2015. The funnest thing today (for certain values of fun) was getting a CT scan of my head (more specifically, my...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Three: Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify
February 17, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:53pm on Tuesday February 17th, the day after President's Day, so the first day back at work after a long weekend. Sprint planning meetings on...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Two: Bureaucracy Is An Algorithm; Vapourware; No New Ideas
February 16, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:57pm on a school night - although not a particularly schoolish one for me seeing as the office is shut today on account of it being President's...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety One: When Things Listen; An Unproductive Argument; Process; Until It Turns Into Writing
February 12, 2015
0.0 Sitrep On the way back to Portland from Louisville (Lou-uh-ville), Kentucky after having spoken on a panel on "syndicating innovation across...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety: Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things
January 30, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:03pm on my flight back to Portland after having spent the week at work in San Francisco. It may well be that my newsletters essentially become...
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