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Episode Ninety: Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS
May 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Wife and son get home tonight, plus I have a man date to go see an early screening of All You Need Is Kill, er, I mean, TOM CRUISE'S EDGE...
Episode Eighty Nine: Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload
May 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I've been back in Portland for about 24 hours and the panic has only just set in a little bit. First is that there are a whole bunch of...
Episode Eighty Eight: Smarts; The Real Internet
May 26, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this again at about 20k feet on the way back home to Portland from San Francisco. It's been a long, crazy week, one capped off...
Episode Eighty Seven: Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute
May 23, 2014
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
May 22, 2014
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
May 21, 2014
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
May 19, 2014
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
May 19, 2014
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
May 16, 2014
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
May 14, 2014
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
May 14, 2014
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
May 13, 2014
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
May 11, 2014
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
May 8, 2014
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
May 7, 2014
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
May 6, 2014
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
May 5, 2014
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;
May 5, 2014
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
May 1, 2014
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
April 30, 2014
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...
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