s11e05: What is it like to be a person?
0.0 Context setting It’s Tuesday, March 1st in Portland, Oregon. Yesterday it rained a lot. Today it’s Bin Day, and not just regular Bin Day, it’s Also...
s11e04: This is an Excel system, I know this
0.0 Context setting It's Monday February 28, 2022 in Portland, Oregon, where it's grey and windy and rainy outside, which is what it's supposed to be at this...
s11e03: Talking to people is fun
0.0 Context setting It's Friday February 25th. Which means it's the weekend tomorrow! I have no idea what time is anymore. It turns out that today's...
s11e02: A certain weariness
0.0 Context setting It's Thursday February 24th, 2022 and here in Portland, Oregon it's been Very Cold and we woke to a slight dusting of snow. I mean, we...
s11e01: Fifteen Minutes Or Less
0.0 Context Setting Hello, I'm back. It's been a while. There's been gestures: all this going on, and I suppose enough people have collectively decided that...
s10e02: For want of a screenless MP3 player
0.0 Context setting Saturday, August 7 in Portland, Oregon. It has been, for the last two days, not unreasonably hot here, but apparently it’s going to...
s10e01: 3D engines eating the world; Jobs for computers; Digital Transformation by Degree
0.0 Context setting Friday July 30, 2021 and I'm back in Portland after an extended and unplanned hiatus of, at last count, maybe six weeks? Seven weeks? I...
s09e44: Only A Few Esoteric Things
0.0 Context setting Friday June 11 2021 in Portland, Oregon. A cooler, overcast day after the heat of the last week, and a week full of tiredness and...
s09e33: Strategy UX; Numérasse, Very Specific 3D Game Engine Aesthetics, Humming
0.0 Context Setting It has been Hot In Portland: a couple days ago the temperature peeked over 90f/32c, and much hotter inside our non-air-conditioned house,...
s09e32: "We Really Didn't Expect This To Work"
0.0 Context setting It’s a can’t-decide-to-rain-or-keep-dry Thursday May 27 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Straight into it, for this episode. 1.0 Some things...
s09e31: IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY!
0.0 Context setting It’s Monday, May 24, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. I had a kick-off meeting on Friday with Emily Tavoulareas and Kevin Parker at the Beeck...
s09e30: CAPTCHAs, Cryptography and Personhood
0.0 Context setting It’s Thursday May 19, 2021 and an overcast day in Portland, Oregon. I spent most of yesterday doing two related things: collating the...
s09e29: New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18
0.0 Context setting Monday May 17, 2021. It’s not hot and sunny anymore. It’s kind of cold and cloudy. But! I’m going to be two weeks vaxxed on Thursday and...
s09e28: Point, Click, Adventure
0.0 Context setting Friday May 14, 2021 in Portland, OR where right now the weather is a very pleasant 72 and sunny, as Americans say. A short one today, so...
s09e27: Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16
0.0 Context setting It’s Tuesday May 11, 2021 and I’m outside on the front deck writing again. It’s a sunny 61 degrees Fahrenheit in my adopted country,...
s09e25: Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software
0.0 Context setting It’s Wednesday 5 May, 2021. A sunny day in Portland, Oregon and I’d be writing outside on the deck but for it finally being...
s09e24: Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2
s09e24 0.0 Context setting It’s Monday May 3, 2021 and an overcast day in Portland, Oregon. Monday also means the latest episode of my Snow Crash...
s09e23: No, But Really, Where Do You Start?
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday April 30, 2021. As of the time of writing, Basecamp, a small privately-owned technology company is in the middle of a...
s09e22: But Where (Or How) Do You Start?
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday April 28, 2021. Frankly, I had a terrible morning. Don’t ask. I wrote to Hamish McKenzie, the co-founder of Substack today...
s09e21: Seeing Past The Horizon
0.0 Context setting April 27, 2021 and a day earlier than I wanted to send another episode out, but this one matters to me. Housekeeping: if you’re...
