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Episode One Hundred and Twenty Seven: Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service
July 22, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 45 minutes of near-silent swooshing in a black car from home to Manchester Airport and then suddenly being surrounded by something that's...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Six: Solving The Problem
July 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident The thread, this time, is a notification from the pharmacy that our pharmacy benefit has been stopped. I pull on it, and the thread leads...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Five: Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology
July 20, 2014
0.0 Station Ident So I accidentally disappeared for a few days due to a combination of illness, travel, jetlag and generally it getting to the end of the day...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Four: When You're Tired Of Cities
July 15, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Technically, this episode is late, because it's being sent past midnight, which means that a newsletter episode was not sent during the 24...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Three: A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia
July 14, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm at a cafe up the road from our house after having run an innumerable run of errands today. There's something that I'm struggling with...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty Two: A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error
July 11, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm in the basement, a particularly American pursuit (they're like sheds here, I guess - or the garage), from which I've hollowed out a...
Episode One Hundred and Twenty One: Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes
July 10, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 3B to Salt Lake City, a tiny bitstream hanging off BLE to LTE connecting this laptop to the 'net while I scribble in yet another TEXTAREA....
Episode One Hundred and Twenty: Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack
July 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Undisclosed location. Reading: Pattern Recognition, again. Last time I read Pattern Recognition was when it came out, and I was in the...
Episode One Hundred and Nineteen: Bridj Laziness; Deciding In Public; Terrible Tools
July 8, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Leaving drinks with ex-colleagues this evening, fitting toddler-escape-prevention bars to windows this afternoon. Where: fries and a Diet...
Episode One Hundred and Eighteen: The Material (5) - What It Wants; Transmedia Is Dead!
July 6, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Robin Sloan would be proud - this is the first time I've written one of these from inside a library. The wi-fi is good and I'm only...
Episode One Hundred and Seventeen: The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing
July 4, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Happy 4th of July, America! I hope you're spending it by watching something like Independence Day. We went out on a family day trip out to...
Episode One Hundred and Sixteen: The Material (3); Odds
July 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm still getting the hang of the freelancing thing after having unilaterally declared yesterday and today to be vacation days. Which mean...
Episode One Hundred and Fifteen: Manifest Destiny; A Little Bit Desensitized; The Material (2)
July 2, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's hot in Portland and we don't have a/c. So I'm melting. 1.0 Manifest Destiny There are some people who, in reaction to the Facebook...
Episode One Hundred and Fourteen: Calm Down. Breathe; Making Visible; Wearables
June 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident 71 degrees American, slightly breezy and a slow, quiet and thoughtful day after a packed yesterday and conversationally stimulating...
Episode One Hundred And Thirteen: The Material (1)
June 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's been a while since I've written these in the back of an Uber meandering around the Bay Area. But here I am again, and outside of the...
Episode One Hundred and Twelve: Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects
June 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm an hour out of getting back to Portland for the weekend before I inevitably end up going back down to the Bay Area on Monday. I miss my...
Episode One Hundred and Eleven: If You Want To Make Products; Enterprise Driven Software Development; Odds
June 25, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm on a bus on the way to an undisclosed for NOSTROMO BLACK. 1.0 If You Want To Make Products Then hire product people. I was thinking...
Episode One Hundred and Eight: Clarity; The Customer
June 23, 2014
0.0 Station Ident NOSTROMO BLACK went so well last week that I'm off to New York this week for more. One can only hope that it's not a sort of bug hunt and...
Episode One Hundred and Nine: What You Want; Messiahs; The List
June 23, 2014
0.0 Station Ident So I'm camped out in Yet Another Coffee Shop in Portland, this time venturing out to the South East and relying on tethering rather than...
Episode One Hundred and Seven: Allies; How Does This Even; Maximum Happy Imagination
June 20, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I've been thinking a lot about the kind of problems that I want to solve and the ones that matter to me. And I think I'm honing in on one,...
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