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Episode One Hundred and Sixty Nine: Thinking In Public; Writing In Public
September 24, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 10:03am just after the beginning of Frances Berriman's talk about the Government Digital Service Design Principles at the Code for America Summit,...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Eight: Continued Careening
September 23, 2014
0.0 Sitrep Sat next to Frances Berriman at the Code for America Summit ("Wow, I'm seeing the magic happen!") on opening day, and already feeling pretty good...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Seven: How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps
September 22, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 10:12am on a Monday after what was frankly one of the weirdest things yesterday at the Oregon Renaissance Festival, that distinctly American...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Six: Unicorns; Six Minus
September 19, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 10:15pm. Tired. Assaulted by a woman and a man with sufficiently sharp and metallic equipment to be indistinguishable from a dentist's office....
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Five: They Don't Owe You Anything; Awkwardly Specialised
September 18, 2014
0.0 Sitrep I am covered in insect bites. Please send antihistamines. 1.0 They Don't Owe You Anything The culmination of over ten years worth of conversations...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Four: Not Every Node Is Equal; Stop Hitting Yourself
September 17, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 11:49pm. A trip out to the coast, the cold, cold pacific underneath your feet, wife and son out camping. An irritatingly only 80-odd percent...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Two: The Difficult Third Album
September 15, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 11:03pm on a Monday, the Monday after the three-day XOXO Festival. Very tired. 1.0 The Difficult Third Album This is the third year I've been to...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty Three: What The Network Does; How Do You Solve A Problem Like TED; Not A Career, A Careen
September 15, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 3:28pm, inside at home with what The Wirecutter calls The Best Room Fan busy, well, fanning me. It's still hot in Portland, even now that XOXO's...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty One: Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time
September 12, 2014
0.0 Sitrep The first day of XOXO - the Social part. 8:06pm, at home, not being DJ'd to by Anil Dash. My turn - by choice - with our son tonight. A quite...
Episode One Hundred and Sixty: After All; 2014 (7)
September 11, 2014
0.0 Sitrep My wife and I have two pieces of slang that we use around the house: the first, over text message, is invariably SITREP when one of us is looking...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Nine: She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community
September 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 12pm on a Sunny Wednesday. Portland is putting on its glad rags for the just-over-a-thousand arriving for annual indie hug-fest XOXO, I'm...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Eight: WATCH; BERG
September 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Of course I'm not going to be able to resist and will be writing about the new WATCH today. 3:32pm and at home, taking about half an hour...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Seven: The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy
September 7, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 4:37pm, whilst the spare car, the one we would've sold by now but for the idiot accident that happened to us, is being cleaned. The strange...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Six: Space; Other Dyson Products; Not Yet, But Soon
September 4, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 2pm, 2 hours after my talk finished, a short metro ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The talk went well - they mostly...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Five: "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House
September 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 2:13pm after a nice lunch and stimulating conversation. Stupid jokes on Twitter about the new Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum for which a teaser...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Four: The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density
September 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Is it really hiding if you're telling a whole bunch of people you're hiding? In any event: crashed in my hotel room in DC having made...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Three: Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia
September 1, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Back from hiatus. I had wanted to simply send a note yesterday saying "Dan Hon is on holiday," but instead I can blame it on having a Human...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Two: Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6)
August 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I started writing this yesterday morning, straight after I'd sent that day's delayed episode. It's 3:30pm on Thursday and I'm feeling a bit...
Episode One Hundred and Fifty One: Not That Way; Against Empathy; Just Don't
August 26, 2014
0.0 Station Ident PDX Airport, 6:30am, another day trip down to San Francisco, this one for another Undisclosed Reason that I might or might not be able to...
Episode One Hundred And Fifty: Here In My Car
August 25, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this poolside, somewhere in (very) northern California. We're on a family vacation, and I have to admit that part of me was...
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