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Dustin Curtis

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Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

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2025 1

  1. Thoughts on thinking

2024 4

  1. It is link winter on X
  2. Block Carefully
  3. Tesla and Storytelling
  4. Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA

2021 1

  1. Contribution and abundance

2020 2

  1. Bill Gates is Angry
  2. iPad in 2020

2019 7

  1. The 16-inch MacBook Pro: A Faster Horse
  2. Building new worlds
  3. Bourdain on The Journey
  4. How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront
  5. One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published
  6. Andrew Johnson’s Obituary
  7. How Evolution Really Works

2018 3

  1. Bourdain on People
  2. When to Stop
  3. Continue reading →

2017 3

  1. Something’s Transmitted
  2. Risk
  3. Continue reading →

2016 3

  1. What happened to Apple’s industrial design team?
  2. The Svbtle Promise
  3. Vintage

2015 6

  1. It drives itself
  2. Fixing Twitter
  3. Continue reading →
  4. In mobile, disruption comes from above
  5. Dick Costolo talks to Farhad Manjoo
  6. Fashion

2014 9

  1. Nick Denton’s Crisis Letter to Gawker
  2. Amazon’s Echo Chamber
  3. Privacy vs. User Experience
  4. Voice interfaces
  5. Just move fast
  6. Replacing the PC
  7. The things we admire
  8. Whatever goes up, that’s what we do
  9. Startup advice and the clarity of experience

2013 16

  1. I want
  2. What I would have written
  3. 5s
  4. “Work like hell”
  5. Learning how to think
  6. Continue reading →
  7. Seven Years
  8. Glass
  9. Last updated: October 6th, 2020. This is a living, mostly unordered, and definitely incomplete list. See also: Conquer Earth. Drive the Carretera Austral, through Patagonia Visit space Step on every continent Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia Open and run a ho
  10. What a stupid idea
  11. Even the survivors come away bleeding
  12. Vision
  13. The Glass Bicycle
  14. Yours vs. Mine
  15. Becoming a new American Airlines
  16. Tide’s Brand

2012 149

  1. Photography’s Third Act
  2. Product Performances
  3. The Best
  4. Do.
  5. The Waiting Place
  6. The Fight
  7. 4 Inches
  8. Life is too short to be a boring company
  9. Black Widow
  10. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue quits Twitter’s board of directors
  11. Dear Marissa
  12. Dalton Caldwell’s Audacious Proposal
  13. View →
  14. Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future
  15. Stripe’s Investors
  16. The BlackBerry Car
  17. Predictions.txt
  18. Bradbury on the future
  19. Twitter’s new logo
  20. Pre to Postmortem: the Death of Palm
  21. A coincidence, I’m sure, but Samsung’s Chromebox looks kind of familiar
  22. Steve Jobs and The Cloud
  23. Elon Musk’s determination
  24. Continue reading →
  25. Just say “No.”
  26. Exploiting reality
  27. Warren Buffett on IPOs
  28. Twitter is tracking you on the web
  29. Continue reading →
  30. GM pulls ads from Facebook
  31. Quora’s $50 million
  32. Why HBO’s president panned internet streaming
  33. Facebook’s App Platform
  34. Pixel-fitting
  35. Github’s Octicons
  36. Arianna Huffington vs. AOL
  37. iMessage keeps AT&T CEO awake at night
  38. Facebook’s numbers
  39. Continue reading →
  40. Bing knows who you are
  41. RIM’s Failed Hail Mary
  42. Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit’ to lead News Corp
  43. Apple rejecting apps that integrate with Rdio and Dropbox
  44. Google’s coherent bouquet
  45. Adobe & HTML
  46. The compounding returns on intelligence
  47. No meaningful revenue
  48. Justin Kan: The Power of Vocabulary
  49. Mark Pincus on failure
  50. Nest Labs responds to Honeywell’s thermostat lawsuit
  51. Captain’s ‘incompetence’ led to the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
  52. Disney’s Crisis Letter
  53. James Cameron meets Neil deGrasse Tyson
  54. The Post-Post-PC World
  55. Continue reading →
  56. Can bees have heart attacks?
  57. StockTouch, my favorite iOS app
  58. Symbols, everlasting
  59. A brutal story of capitalism at work: $0.75 pizza in Manhattan
  60. Amazon’s Refurbished Kindle Fire is suspiciously cheap: now just $139
  61. RIM posts terrible fourth quarter results, loses its CTO, COO, and former co-CEO
  62. Google’s first self-driving car user is Steve Mahan, a man who is 95% blind
  63. The Song Machine
  64. The pull-to-refresh patent
  65. TechCrunch on what Svbtle is really about
  66. Colourlovers buys Forrst
  67. Frank Chimero on losing control of creative works
  68. Codename: Svbtle
  69. The 1,825 night success
  70. Rails is just an API
  71. Download the Photoshop CS6 Beta
  72. AOL kills AIM
  73. Michael Dell should be satisfied
  74. 138 Billion Units
  75. The Open Brand, a framework for defining brands
  76. EMC acquires Pivotal Labs
  77. Mountain Lion now protects your contacts
  78. PayPal releases Triangle to compete with Square
  79. Sparrow for iOS
  80. The Markdown Mark
  81. Oink shutting down
  82. Not a Curator
  83. Draw Something’s Numbers
  84. Frighteningly Ambitious
  85. Solving the touchscreen delay problem
  86. Path looking to raise $30m on a $300m valuation
  87. The personal analytics of Stephen Wolfram’s life
  88. It’s official: Apple has switched to OpenStreetMap on iOS iPhoto
  89. Apple ditches Google Maps
  90. iOS Human Interface Guidelines updated with specifications for “high-resolution iPad” icons and images
  91. Google Play
  92. Foursquare ditches Google Maps
  93. That weird feeling
  94. The three questions rule
  95. The Zynga Platform
  96. Espresso, a perfectionist’s guide
  97. Samsung’s Projector Phone
  98. Hemingway on Creativity
  99. Readability for iOS coming on March 1st
  100. Google’s new “batshit crazy” UX
  101. The problem with Facebook Connect
  102. HP’s Predicament
  103. The Death of Flash
  104. Naming Basecamp
  105. Dell’s Predicament
  106. Retina on OS X
  107. Wireless Power
  108. Gatekeeper’s Dialog
  109. Excellence as an Expectation
  110. A Letter from Congress to Tim Cook
  111. 5.3 Inches
  112. Nothing in Android makes sense except in the light of its original vision
  113. The iOS Address Book: Jennifer Van Grove finally sets the record straight
  114. A quick addendum to Stealing Your Address Book
  115. Unkudo
  116. The Management
  117. Quiet Disruption from Comcast
  118. Motorola + Google merger approved by Justice Department
  119. Saturday Night Live on Verizon’s terrible marketing
  120. Web Standards
  121. Kayak drops support for BlackBerry, calls it a “practical decision,” apologizes profusely
  122. 549-94-3295
  123. Stripe raises $18 million
  124. This week’s cover of The Economist
  125. Stealing Your Address Book
  126. Groupon just lost $42.7 million in 3 months
  127. Honeywell Files Lawsuit Alleging Patent Infringement by Nest Labs
  128. Ron Johnson’s JC Penney
  129. Artist who painted Facebook’s first HQ will make $200 million in IPO
  130. Inside Stripe
  131. Facebook’s S-1
  132. Facebook to File Wednesday For $5 Billion IPO
  133. The Beautiful Default
  134. Motorola’s Buzzwords and Made up Names
  135. How an AT&T smartphone comes to life
  136. Netflix Q4 2011 earnings: 220k new streaming customers; revenue up 47%
  137. The Fire
  138. Meet RIM’s new CEO, Thorsten Heins
  139. New YC Partners: Garry Tan and Aaron Iba
  140. Why Alcohol Makes Your Head Spin
  141. RIM CEOs quit
  142. eBay’s Full Year Report: “On average, PayPal added a million new accounts every month in 2011”
  143. Kodak files for bankruptcy
  144. The Rise of the New Groupthink
  145. The last Kodak moment?
  146. iOS 5 GUI PSD Released, showing minor differences between iOS 4 and 5
  147. The soul of a “consumer electronics entertainment connected scenario”
  148. Since rejoining in 1997 to the day he died, Steve Jobs did not sell a single share of Apple stock
  149. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

2011 53

  1. Siri, how does the rest of my day look? You have 3.7 Billion appointments.
  2. Why did Path add sleeping as one of its five moment types?
  3. RIM Q3 profit falls; shares drop on outlook
  4. FLY THE AIRPLANE
  5. HP’s new logo and brand
  6. The Evolution of Lactose Tolerance
  7. Acer to stop “pursuing market share blindly with cheap and unprofitable” crap
  8. Liquid nitrogen and the best hamburger ever cooked
  9. Continue reading →
  10. Uber raises $39mm Series B
  11. How Doctors Die
  12. RIM announces $485mm loss on unsold PlayBook inventory
  13. The Rise and Fall of RIM
  14. Facebook acquires Gowalla (and more amazing designers)
  15. Nuance CEO’s Curious Statements About Televisions
  16. American Airlines files for Bankruptcy
  17. Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it
  18. Facebook settles privacy issues with the FTC
  19. It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission
  20. The way it is
  21. Android Design Preview, a LiveView clone for Android
  22. Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
  23. Bill Nguyen (founder of Color): The Boy In The Bubble
  24. UILayer
  25. Motorola’s Gimmicks
  26. Shit Work
  27. Sam Sifton’s final restaurant review: Per Se
  28. The Tron Light Cycle can be yours for just $55,000
  29. $81,570,000,000.00
  30. A Peek Inaside Richard Stallman’s Brain
  31. YOU VS. JOHN PAULSON
  32. Mobile UI Patterns, a resource by Mari Sheibley
  33. Steve Jobs: HP is Being “Dismembered and Destroyed”
  34. Groupon now worth just $12 billion (previously $30 billion, so now get 60% savings!)
  35. The Android Design Philosophy
  36. Yahoo releases earnings; profit falls 26%
  37. Google Earnings Blow Past Expectations
  38. Pertinent today: Steve Jobs on the Failed MobileMe Launch
  39. The Speaker
  40. iPhone 4S will be SIM-unlocked on Sprint (And Verizon, after 60 days)
  41. Netflix kills Qwikster, and the loss of Reed Hastings’ voice
  42. Pinterest closes $25 million round at $200 million valuation
  43. Josh Nimoy on making the Tron Legacy special effects
  44. Charging for things on the web
  45. Continue reading →
  46. Your wife will love the dual-core Tegra 2 chipset
  47. Steve Jobs 1955-2011
  48. The difference between ‘good enough’ and better
  49. Adobe acquires Typekit
  50. 3.5 Inches
  51. MG Siegler Joins Crunchfund
  52. Leo Apotheker’s Bonus
  53. Facebook Timelines and Lifepath.me