Episode 30: Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion
Today's a short one - mainly because my wife and baby have come home from a week away and work has blown up. 1.0 Numbers There are a few numbers that have...
Episode Twenty Nine: That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology
1.0 That Most Peculiar Thing Thinking about other British startups - and please, if you have more examples that help me break out of those that are...
Episode Twenty Eight: Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central
1.0 Only Connect The Pew Research Center, an American non-partisan think tank, recently released the first part of a report covering the changes America has...
Episode Twenty Seven: Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip
1.0 Shorts Some short thoughts. - It is quicker, and easier for computers to guess what you can remember than it is for you to come up with something...
Episode Twenty Six: An Alternative; Washing; Users
1.0 An Alternative Yesterday I wrote about the concept of a Very British Startup and in that wonderful sense of synchronicity where people smarter than you...
Episode Twenty Five: Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks
Rambling again today, I'm afraid. Do let me know what you think of this one, because it feels somewhat unclearer to me than some of my recent episodes. 1.0...
Episode Twenty Three: The Difficulty
1.0 The Difficulty I'm empty, today. Wife and baby are off for a week (possibly longer) trip to see the maternal grandparents, one of whom we're worried...
Episode Twenty Four: This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle
1.0 This Inexplicable Future Every so often, it's worth taking the time to stop and really look at what's happening around you. Case in point: yesterday, Mt....
Episode Twenty Two: Infrastructure, The LCARS App Store
This one is more of a free-association one. And a short one.1.0 InfrastructureHere's one reckon I just had (yes, another one, you can add it to the pile that...
Episode Twenty One: Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On
1.0 Net-Native Storytelling Paul Rissen[1] (and I'm struggling to find a way to deal with this in writing without feeling like I'm a DJ with a call-in talk...
Episode Twenty: Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript
1. Literal Tone Of Voice If you're British and use Siri, then you've probably heard the plummy tones of, well, I can't describe it in any way other than...
Episode Eighteen: Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP
0. HousekeepingSo here's an observation: if you promise that you'll get an episode of a newsletter out on what is for you, effectively, a holiday, you're...
Episode Nineteen - Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat
1. Not Trying Is A Signal I wrote yesterday, in my bit about Fax Your GP (which, maybe not on its own, but certainly appears to have contributed to this...
Episode Seventeen: The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice
1. The Job To Be Done Benedict Evans posted the other day[1] that the number of Apple Computers-With-An-Asterisk (ie iOS and OS X devices that support an...
Episode Sixteen: Feynman and Adams, Surveillance
1. Feynman and Adams Growing up, there were probably two people who were idols of mine: Richard Feynman, ever since as a young boy a copy of Surely You're...
Episode Fifteen: I Miss Dopplr, InfiniFriends
(Also known as the My Friends Are Significantly Smarter Than Me episode)1. I Miss DopplrYesterday's episode included some scribblings about the Quantified...
Episode Fourteen: The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness
1. The Inevitable Apple TV Episode So, a couple of things that actually prompt a reckon about Apple and televisions, as opposed to the usual breathless...
Episode Thirteen: The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts
1. The Auto Show, ContinuedSo if Twitter replies were any indication, the geek date that Matt Haughey and I took to the Portland International Auto Show...
Episode Twelve: Attention, Star Trek and Cars
1. Oh, Attention So Upworthy's in the news for talking about a new 'attention metric'[1] instead of pageviews/impressions/eyeballs/brain implants....
Episode Eleven: The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel
1. Oh Just Shut Up About Making Fair warning: *this* one definitely is rambling. I get quite tired of the whole 'you've got to be a maker' rhetoric...
