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s2e03: Any Old Iron
June 3, 2015
0.0 Sitrep At mumble mumble thousand feet on the way to Chicago and then Madison on a family vacation to visit friends and attend a friends-of-family...
s2e02: Typing, Continued
June 1, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8pm on a Monday night after a work day of ploughing through hundreds of pages of request for proposal documents because at this moment I am...
s2e01: Just Start Typing
May 27, 2015
0.0 Sitrep Well, I'm back. For now. In the basement, standing at the standing desk, listening to It's Not Unusual to Shake It Off from Best of Bootie 2014...
Episode Two Hundred and Nine: Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1)
March 31, 2015
0.0 Sitrep "Siri, play 'Captain America' from the album 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and put thirty minutes on the clock." "I'm sorry, I can't show...
Episode Two Hundred and Eight:
March 27, 2015
0.0 Sitrep I tried to start this yesterday, at around 10pm in the middle of the week's family viewing of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (of which: the suspense! So...
Episode Two Hundred and Seven: Seeing Like LIDAR; Hearing Like Superman; Researching Like ResearchKit
March 25, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:46pm on Wednesday, March 25 2015 with thirty minutes on the clock and Shake It Off has just shuffled on. The toddler has had a fever for the...
Episode Two Hundred and Six: Never Forget; OK, One Thing Google Apps Does; Weird Notes
March 24, 2015
0.0 Sitrep "Siri, start the timer," - a new experiment where I sit down and write (well, mostly write - and some formatting in a browser, of which you might...
Episode Two Hundred and Five: Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice
March 23, 2015
0.0 Sitrep Okay, so it's been a while since I last wrote. Nearly a whole week! But now I'm sitting down to write again. So there's that. 8:31pm on Monday,...
Episode Two Hundred and Four: "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms
March 17, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:36pm on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 "St. Patty's Day" in America, which is the day all branded social media accounts turn green (and orange, I...
Episode Two Hundred And Three: Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s
March 16, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:38pm on Thursday, 12th March 2015 on a flight back to Portland after having spent the first part of this week in the Code for America office in...
Episode Two Hundred and Two: The Humane Calendar; Government 3.0; Digital Public Space
March 5, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 9:32pm on Thursday, 5 March 2015. No episode yesterday - no time to write and, bluntly: I was just very tired at the end of a long day that ended...
Episode Two Hundred and One: The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff
March 3, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 8:14pm on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. The new process/practice/habit/general writing thing is in the evening: after family dinner with the toddler,...
Episode Two Hundred: Stock; Two Thoughts
March 2, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:54pm on Monday, 2 March 2015 and back in Portland, Oregon after having driven down from Vancouver, BC today, and episode 200. Another milestone!...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Nine: Just No; Don't Do That, Either; Seeing Like The Internet
February 27, 2015
0.0 Sitrep I started writing this on Thursday, 26 February, 2015. 1.0 Just No There are friends of mine who remind me that a) I don't work in advertising any...
Episode One Hundred And Ninety Eight: What Apple Is
February 25, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 12:38pm, lunchtime, with a couple slices of pizza on Wednesday 25 February, 2015. 1.0 What Apple Is For what it's worth, I think I finally have an...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Seven: Smarts; Odds
February 24, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 12:55am, Wednesday 25 February. I should be asleep. I don't really want to talk about why I'm awake, suffice to say that there are at least two...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Six: Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make
February 23, 2015
0.0 Sitrep Monday 23 February 2015, 8:15pm. I had two wisdom teeth out on Friday morning: general anaesthetic, not even counting back from ten and the next...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five:
February 19, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:06pm, in the basement in the work cave, stood in front of the giant Thunderbolt display on a weeknight after a decidedly "meh" day at work. The...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Four: The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck
February 18, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:13pm on Wednesday, 18 February 2015. The funnest thing today (for certain values of fun) was getting a CT scan of my head (more specifically, my...
Episode One Hundred and Ninety Three: Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify
February 17, 2015
0.0 Sitrep 7:53pm on Tuesday February 17th, the day after President's Day, so the first day back at work after a long weekend. Sprint planning meetings on...
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