Posts tagged with Technology
Ephemeral Web Real Estate
In an era when written letters are outright quaint , I still enjoy the tradition of the Christmas card. We started it when the kids were born[1], and have kept it up with annual updates of the family growing up—…
The Stasis of E-Ink
I'm fond of e-ink displays and devices catering to the display type. My kitchen calendar display project was one of my favorite projects of the year: it became a combination of playing with a RaspberryPi, and learning…
Google's Villain Arc
It seems so long ago when Google was the scrappy but growing technology upstart. It made sense of the morass that was the internet in the 2000s and early 2010s, and along the way rewrote the rules on digital advertising,…
The Pattern of Technology
Almost a decade ago, the comms lead at Square wrote this piece on how the media builds up, and then tears down, its subjects like clockwork. At the time, we were—to use the horological analogy—at the metaphorical 11th…
Review: Exadelic
I heard about the sci-fi novel Exadelic from this TechCrunch book review. Going through the first dozen chapters, I wasn't sure there was much more to add than what the reviewer identified right in the title of…
FinTech Credibility
I worked at Affirm for 3½ years, before "Buy Now Pay Later" (BNPL) was coined as the instantly-approved, low-duration loan popular with online retailers today. Some would argue that the entire business model was only possible…
