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Episode Sixty Seven: The Difficulty; Listless Interestingness
April 25, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm sat at home at the dinner table. The TV in the other room is playing theme from Resogun, which means I must have unboxed the PS4 and...
Episode Sixty Six: On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds
April 23, 2014
0.0 Station IdentIt's 8:30am in the morning, West Coast. It's stopped raining (for now) and I'm about to head into the office. I hope Skye's going to be...
Episode Sixty Five: Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds
April 23, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Today, I was back at the office, where the value of "office" has been set to "spend the day down at Facebook in a workshop". I don't...
Episode Sixty Four: Computer Says No, Snow Crashing
April 22, 2014
0.0 Station Ident As I write this, I'm nestled in a status-upgraded first-class normalcy field at an altitude of around 30,000 feet with a couple megabit's...
Episode Sixty Three: Disbanded; The Responsive OS
April 21, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this at the family farmhouse in Missouri, and the cows are asleep across the road in their field. Cancer hasn't won yet. Our...
Episode Sixty Two: Wearables Unworn; Look At What They Want
April 17, 2014
1.0 Wearables UnwornVia the Guardian, news from Endeavour Partners in a white paper that one-third of people abandon their wearables after about six...
Episode Sixty One: I Sense Feelings, Captain
April 17, 2014
0.0 Station IdentI am about thirty minutes north of Kansas City, Missouri. I didn't plan on being here, but family emergencies have a habit of sneaking up on...
Episode Sixty: We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh
April 15, 2014
0.0 Station IdentIt's not sunny in Portland anymore, but I'm excited because I get to go to O'Reilly Solid and see a bunch of interesting people who will...
Episode Fifty Nine: Why Is This So Hard; Dependency; Chief Empathy Officer
April 14, 2014
0.0 Station IdentI still haven't seen Captain America: Winter Soldier, but I have seen The Lego Movie twice. I have seen That Episode of Agents of...
Episode Fifty Eight: Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal
April 13, 2014
0.0 Station IdentWe went on a big family hike on Saturday and ow. But, waterfalls. It's 72 and sunny out here in Portland, but the vending machine on this...
Episode Fifty Seven: Critical Infrastructural Vulnerability; Cultural Adaptation; The Bitcoin Moment; Carousel
April 10, 2014
0.0 Station IdentMy head is slowly imploding and feels like it's undergoing the first stage of the z-machine initiating fusion. I *think* that's a good...
Episode Fifty Six: a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field
April 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident You know what, it's actually always sunny in Portland. I don't know why I said it wasn't. Also I got to see The Lego Movie again last night...
Episode Fifty Five: Sharing Heartbleed; A Weakness of the Heart; Zero-Day
April 8, 2014
0.0 Station IdentGosh, more sunny Portland. And a super stimulating day. And secrets! And, unfortunately, not enough work on SULACO BLUE. On we go.1.0...
Episode Fifty Four: Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring!
April 7, 2014
0.0 Station IdentA short one, this. Brain a bit frazzled. Please send brain juice.1.0 Kill Hollywood I was reminded the other day of Y Combinator's Request...
Episode Fifty Three: Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh
April 6, 2014
0.0 Station IdentIt's a sunny Monday in Portland, Oregon - looking out the window I can see at least two mountains and to top that off I even had a good chat...
Episode Fifty Two: Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds
April 3, 2014
0.0 Station IdentIt's Friday. I have a Diet Coke near me (as ever) and I even managed to do some work on SULACO BLUE yesterday, which is a relief, because I...
Episode Fifty One: Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds
April 2, 2014
0.0 Station IdentIt's a cool, cloudy day in the Pacific Northwest. I have copies of Hawkeye to catch up on and the Veronica Mars movie poster has just...
Episode Fifty: Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television
April 1, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm back on the West Coast of the USA after what feels like a stupendous amount of travel. I'm not entirely sure where my head is. So:...
Episode Forty Nine: Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds
March 31, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this at around 25k feet on the final leg of my trip back home to Portland from Sydney. I have no idea how long I've been on the...
Episode Forty Eight: Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions
March 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's Monday (in Perth, Western Australia, at least), so I'm writing episode forty eight. I have a long trip ahead: tonight I've a three...
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