Episode Eighty Seven: Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute
0.0 Station Ident It's been a long day. It started early, checking out of the Sheraton at which I'd been staying for Solid, and headed straight into a whole...
Episode Eighty Six: Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next
0.0 Station Ident Today, reading LinkedIn recommendations as they came in felt like reading eulogies. Apart from me not quite being dead. Not yet, at least....
Episode Eighty Five: Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology
0.0 Station Ident It's 11:33pm and I've just finished Day One of O'Reilly's Solid conference. At the same time, I've been fielding email - the people who're...
Episode Eighty Three: This Is My Next; And How It Felt
0.0 Station Ident For reasons that will become apparent in the next section, I spent most of the weekend trying to not be alone. Saturday was spent having...
Episode Eighty Four: Day One; Google Everything
0.0 Station Ident I write this at n thousand feet at x speed, on my way down to San Francisco for interesting meetings and O'Reilly Solid, of which there...
Episode Eighty Two: The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing
0.0 Station Ident I write later than usual today, for reasons that will probably become clear next week. I didn't do too well yesterday: in the house, on my...
Episode Eighty One: Board-Level Algorithms; You Speak GIF, Right?; Intent; Odds
0.0 Station Ident I'm back in Portland, where for some bizarre reason it's hotter than Dearborn, Missouri. I've left my wife, son and mother behind with my...
Episode Eighty: Motion, Controlled; The Childish Myth; Odds
0.0 Station Ident Over one thousand subscribers! And it only took me 80 episodes! It's late on Wednesday night, and I'm heading back to Portland tomorrow,...
Episode Seventy Nine: The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds
0.0 Station Ident The sky was tuned to the colour of a violent heatmap, or, DarkSky was telling me that there was some pretty hardcore precipitation coming...
Episode Seventy Eight: The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities
0.0 Station Ident The service was yesterday. In the end, I did a short speech, one I adapted from something I had written last Thursday. I have to admit, I...
Episode Seventy Seven: But It Keeps Going
1.0 But It Keeps Going The service is tomorrow. I haven't done this before, really, and I suppose this time round, I'm old enough to really understand what's...
Episode Seventy Six: It Just Stops
0.0 Station Ident About 37,000 feet up, headed toward Kansas City, Missouri. I'm tired, and I've had hardly any sleep. I got up at 3:15am this morning. 1.0...
Episode Seventy Five: The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities
0.0 Station IdentI'm back in Portland, but I don't know how long for. But it's 70 and sunny (yes, I've gone native in fahrenheit, but I maintain: fahrenheit...
Episode Seventy Four: Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle
0.0 Station Ident I'm back down at Menlo Park today, with a 4am wakeup call, a 6am flight and a long day ahead of me. So it's a good job this couch is comfy....
Episode Seventy Three: Recall; ATMs;
0.0 Station Ident Today was nominally a day out of office - my wife and son are back, briefly, from their trip to the family farm out in Missouri. Whilst...
Episode Seventy Two: Symptom Masquerading As Disruption (2); The Model Is The Modeled; Labour Not Employment; Superstar Ratings, Here We Go; Not Swarm
0.0 Station Ident Today's episode is mainly a response to what I wrote in yesterday's episode. It feels like I unearthed a bit of a thread, and I got some...
Episode Seventy One: A Symptom Masquerading As Disruption; Swarm
0.0 Station Ident Short one today, written in the back of an Uber, as always. It's hot in San Francisco and I had an It's-it last night. It was... itty. 1.0...
Episode Seventy: The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS
0.0 Station Ident I'm say in the back of an Uber, heading out to Facebook's Menlo Park campus again. Turns out you can get some writing done in the back seat...
Episode Sixty Nine: Transcendence; Broom-Shaped Objects; Odds
0.0 Station Ident I'm sat in MPK 17 at the Facebook campus in a few minutes of down time. I'm in the Bay Area for work, sitting with the Big Thumb for the...
Episode Sixty Eight: The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly
0.0 Station Ident I'm sat here at Building 16 at Facebook's Menlo Park campus with a Diet Coke. It's a pretty normal Monday morning. 1.0 The iPad I'm an...
