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2018 159

December 2018

  1. Abiguity ​& Maleblity of Time
  2. Dr. Larry Roberts, Internet Pioneer, is dead.
  3. My 11th ReBirthday
  4. [Podcast] Data, Privacy & Citizen rights.
  5. 12/11: What I am reading today
  6. 50 not 500
  7. December 4: What I am reading today
  8. Silicon Valley Conglomerates? Really…Really?

November 2018

  1. Chris Michel & Our Need for Constant Reinvention
  2. November 29: What I am reading today
  3. Now that’s what I call a “product review”
  4. Nov 27: What I am reading today
  5. Douglas
  6. Nov 21: What I am reading today
  7. A day in the life of our planet
  8. The Cameras I used on my Ladakh Adventure
  9. Confluence
  10. Gateway to Heaven: Ladakh
  11. An Emotional Road
  12. Carl Sagan on Dystopia, Fake News & Big Tech
  13. Oh So Sweet, the iMac Pro
  14. What we can learn from GBBO
  15. (My) NAS Is Dead
  16. New York Times & Digital Double Standards

October 2018

  1. You just never know what life brings
  2. Gates, Allen & Yesterday’s Terabyte
  3. Traveling to Ladakh
  4. The Asynchronous Life

September 2018

  1. There is but one king
  2. My 5 takeaways from Apple’s 2018 iPhone Event
  3. Social networks & the online reality of identity
  4. There is something about (Elon) Musk
  5. Skype, redesigned (again)
  6. The Long Goodbye (To Facebook)

August 2018

  1. Music helps make memories
  2. Unrelenting tyranny of reality TV
  3. The bigger story behind big valuations
  4. Serendipity & Summer Doldrums
  5. Elad Gil on startup advice & his book, High Growth Handbook
  6. Time is on Apple’s side

July 2018

  1. Why we need sleep + 4 good reads
  2. Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors
  3. Even Leica loves “computational photography”
  4. Companies, like people, don’t change
  5. “Fake Followers” are “Social Spam”
  6. Facebook & Its Lies: Facial Recognition Edition
  7. BitCoin & Energy Usage
  8. Federer goes to Uniqlo
  9. App Store At 10
  10. I don’t want my Financial TV
  11. Guest Posts Gone Wild

June 2018

  1. Does Silicon Valley have a conscience?
  2. Journalism Problem #1
  3. Past & Future
  4. IGTV or QVC 2.0: Either way keep an eye on it!
  5. What do YouTube, Instagram & GitHub have in common?
  6. You know that thing called blogging
  7. Leica, ready to flip?
  8. Coming Home
  9. Junk
  10. Goodbye Anthony Bourdain

May 2018

  1. What is Age really?
  2. We are all trapped in the “Feed”
  3. May 25: Worth Reading
  4. What really is longevity?
  5. Blockchain Phones? Really!
  6. 5 stories worth reading
  7. My only camera rig
  8. 538 Million: How did Facebook’s Fake Account Problem become so big?
  9. Passion, Optimism and Techno-Utopianism
  10. AI Needs Power: lots of it
  11. Skype, Interrupted
  12. Some Thoughts on Google Photos vs Apple Photos
  13. Jony Ive talks about the Apple Watch, finally
  14. Facebook, Social Media & the Social Contract
  15. Startups, Ideas and Timing
  16. Yesterday’s Terabyte
  17. Dating with Facebook: What’s love got to do with it?

April 2018

  1. The Past vs. The Future
  2. [Review] Shinola Canfield Headphones
  3. It is time to ask Twitter the same privacy questions
  4. Need for technically literate legislators
  5. Facts about GDPR & Instagram’s Data Downloads
  6. Facebook is Exxon of the Internet
  7. The Web of Mosaic
  8. Apple’s TV Plans and & List of Shows
  9. Allo & Goodbye
  10. Is this the future of retail?
  11. Are Uber drivers entrepreneurs?
  12. Doug Weber
  13. Who am I buying this for?
  14. What to read this weekend?
  15. Facebook’s Second Life
  16. Mr. Zuckerberg goes to DC
  17. Design’s grand opportunity to change everything
  18. First $100 Billion (decline) is the hardest
  19. Why we love the underdogs
  20. Happiness
  21. BestMade? Not Quite
  22. King of Ramen
  23. Phone Bored

March 2018

  1. [Podcast] Eran Shir, Founder of DashCam Maker Nexar
  2. Why Bird Interests Me. And No Not That Way
  3. The Curious Case of the Belkin Buy
  4. It is (Fantasy) Baseball Time
  5. Fake News is spam
  6. Why Facebook will never do subscriptions
  7. An UnSocial Life
  8. [Podcast] Audeze CEO Sankar Thiagasamudram
  9. What to read this weekend
  10. True & the VC Firm of the year
  11. SEC vs Theranos & what it means for Silicon Valley
  12. Words to live by…
  13. A Hippocratic Oath for Technologists
  14. Is Daylight Saving Time good for anything?
  15. Why your competitors don’t matter
  16. My Top 25 Daily Tech Reporters
  17. Chickens have come to roost in Silicon Valley
  18. The OmShow Podcast: A conversation w/Chris Michel, Entrepreneur & Photographer
  19. The Sunglass Mafia
  20. On Film: San Francsico LongExposures
  21. Uber & HealthCare

February 2018

  1. The OmShow Podcast Dropbox like its hot
  2. When blogging, be yourself, don’t chase page views
  3. Why do figure skaters lean back & still don’t fall?
  4. From launch to IPO, Dropbox hasn’t changed much
  5. My New Pi.co Interview: Ragnar Axelsson
  6. Why Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti Loves & Hates Facebook
  7. Some thoughts on Vox Media layoffs
  8. Should Spotify buy Sonos
  9. The Past vs the Future
  10. The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change
  11. Ragnar Axelsson
  12. What’s (really) wrong with Facebook
  13. What’s worth reading today
  14. Facebook’s Fake Account Problem Is Getting Bigger
  15. What’s Worth Reading Today
  16. Startups are a global opportunity!
  17. Why 16GB Memory Cards Are Better
  18. Why Snapchat can’t control its narrative
  19. What to read this weekend
  20. Smart Home is a Home that’s always spying on you
  21. Blogs are “thought spaces”
  22. Fixing the “roads of hell” created by Uber & Lyft
  23. My HomePod Review
  24. Crapfi

January 2018

  1. What the Grammy Awards viewership decline tells about future
  2. [Photos from a] San Francisco Weekend
  3. (Social) share, but with care
  4. Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell
  5. Some thoughts on Amazon Go Retail
  6. Dean Allen, R.I.P.
  7. What my trip to Venice made me think about IRL
  8. Views of Venice (with Photos)
  9. Friday!
  10. 10 Rules of Good Design by Dieter Rams
  11. The Internet of Love
  12. Our Dystopian Now
  13. Goodbye 2017! Hello 2018!

2017 151

December 2017

  1. Books I Love: 2017 edition
  2. “You have to trust in something”
  3. Merry Christmas
  4. Some thoughts on Spotify and Muzak 2.0
  5. Has music lost that loving feeling?
  6. Cold Time
  7. Lost in Manhattan
  8. AWS, Google Cloud, Block Chain & Edge Computing
  9. Shadows
  10. Selfie
  11. Some thoughts on the Blog Post Bribe Scandal
  12. You are stressing me out…. Man!
  13. Will AI match randomness of a human mind?
  14. Omakase: November 2017

November 2017

  1. Meta.Bijan
  2. Jingle Bells
  3. Why we (the riders) are not Uber’s customers
  4. Smile, you are on camera
  5. Towers in the Mist
  6. Looking Ahead: To New Photography Challenges
  7. I am thankful for…
  8. The Real Genius of Tesla Roadster
  9. Pico Shorts: Mark Cho
  10. Fake news is here to stay…
  11. Random Notes from a Rainy Wednesday
  12. Mark Cho
  13. Tuscany on Film
  14. Meet my new link blog
  15. Does iPhoneX need a case?
  16. iPhone X: Some Early Impressions

October 2017

  1. Friyay!
  2. In conversation w Outlier co-founder Abe Burmeister
  3. Abe Burmeister
  4. Yankees Don’t Win
  5. Omakase: October 2017
  6. Why I support Longreads
  7. Happy Diwali
  8. Tuscany from the lens of iPhone 8+
  9. Goodbye Netflix
  10. Flummoxed by Summilux SL
  11. The Circle of Happiness

September 2017

  1. Some Good Reads from around the web
  2. How to think about Facebook & its Algorithm
  3. Change is hard, even in Silicon Valley
  4. Why I make photos
  5. I am taking a Facebook Vacation
  6. Facebook, Elections & the Spin
  7. Steve Jobs Theater… Some Photos
  8. Steve Jobs’ legacy & The iPhone X
  9. Mile Rock Beach
  10. Make America Love Again
  11. Are top US startups really startups?
  12. Ted Rheingold, R.I.P.
  13. 7 Stories to read over the Labor Day Weekend

August 2017

  1. Into the light
  2. Naveen & Diana Get Married
  3. How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley
  4. The OmShow w/ Wired-cofounder Louis Rossetto
  5. Weekend
  6. My conversation with co-founder of Wired Magazine
  7. Louis Rossetto
  8. Snow on Ice
  9. Founder Friendly
  10. Random (distracting) thoughts from the Internet
  11. How I survived an Arctic Vacation
  12. Nostalgia

July 2017

  1. 7 Things to read this weekend
  2. Sightglass Coffee has a new location
  3. Goodbye iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano
  4. Helsinki Summer: a photo gallery
  5. Almost Midnight in Helsinki
  6. 7 Things to read today
  7. Sunrise in Stinson Beach
  8. A summer in the Arctic
  9. Still living in a Notification hell
  10. Streaming killed the download star
  11. Tech needs Emotional Intelligence
  12. Why I had to switch to iPhoneSE
  13. 7 Things to read this weekend
  14. California Morning

June 2017

  1. How to deal with Internet’s daily data deluge
  2. Practice, don’t preach
  3. Happiness
  4. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in going nowhere
  5. The Edge
  6. Reentry

May 2017

  1. Taking over Leica USA’s Instagram
  2. Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
  3. Snap’s Silver Lining
  4. The Om Show Podcast: w/guest Shakil Khan
  5. Dies Slowly
  6. All Rise for Aaron Judge
  7. How to take care of your batteries
  8. A reflection on our speedier times

April 2017

  1. Coffee, Camera, Conversation…
  2. Backcountry Drug War
  3. In praise of Japan’s United Arrows
  4. How Instagram changed the way I shop
  5. Climate Change & The Newest Global Epidemic
  6. A rare interview with Whatsapp’s cofounder Jan Koum
  7. How successful is the Apple Watch?
  8. Netflix now has 100 million subscribers
  9. When will Indoor GPS Become Really Userful
  10. What do Facebook & World Bank have in common?
  11. Black 2.0
  12. Watch This: Beyond The Plate
  13. Why iPhone needs simpler naming
  14. Instagram & Facebook: 5 years later
  15. Slack vs Rivals
  16. What is Cartography in the 21st Century
  17. Making of King Zuckerberg
  18. Back in the flow
  19. Random Notes from a recent trip to Japan

March 2017

  1. Mount Fuji
  2. The Trouble with Silicon Valley’s IPO Optimism
  3. The Third Eye Era

February 2017

  1. A Bridge in Porto
  2. Why Apple Should Buy Netflix…Again!
  3. Deciding Our f8
  4. Rays of light
  5. How is The New York Times Really Doing?
  6. Do camera reviews even matter?
  7. A lake in Iceland
  8. Worth Reading: Ethereum, Falling Pando & Tech’s immortality obsession
  9. Love of the journey
  10. All you need is love…
  11. Why is Snap calling itself a camera company?
  12. Worth Reading: Stan Smith, Algorithms, and John Oliver
  13. A moment of peace
  14. Portraits with xPro2 & MS Optical f2/28
  15. What The LaCroix & Other Reads
  16. DropBox – From zero to a billion in a decade

January 2017

  1. Words, Not Voices
  2. (The Leica) M10
  3. Kevin Scott, Microsoft CTO
  4. When will Netflix hit 100 million subscribers?
  5. Verite Vineyards
  6. History of Silicon Valley in 15 Must Read Books
  7. Vines of Wine
  8. Blossom, a beautifully designed bluetooth speaker
  9. A rainy day & I’m thinking about the current state of media
  10. Look how far iPhone has come in 10 years
  11. Calistoga in the rain
  12. To set the record straight…
  13. Hasselblad and its missed opportunities
  14. This is Iceland
  15. Why Medium’s layoffs coverage reflects media’s skewed barometer of news
  16. California Coast Series #002
  17. From Tech’s Empathy Vacuum to Zuck’s 2017 Challenge
  18. 2017: New Beginnings & (also) back to work
  19. Wishing you all a very happy 2017

2016 291

December 2016

  1. Unfocused
  2. California Coast Series #001
  3. The City
  4. 9 Years Later…
  5. Tuscany (2014)
  6. My favorite 10 blog posts of the year
  7. The Method to Neatness
  8. Bolinas
  9. Two relevant thoughts about media
  10. Chimney Rock
  11. Here is what I wrote for New Yorker in 2016
  12. A man’s best friend?
  13. A small fishing town in Iceland
  14. Holiday from Social Internet
  15. Minimal
  16. Sunset in Tiburon
  17. The new San Francisco skyline
  18. When Denzel speaks the truth about media
  19. A San Francisco Refuge
  20. Anything but….
  21. Again, iPhone is the default camera
  22. Facebook’s Affordable Housing Efforts: Not Enough

November 2016

  1. Apple’s Design
  2. Silicon Valley has an empathy vacuum
  3. 11 Howard
  4. Iceland: The Frozen Exposures
  5. Facebook, Fake News & Zuckerberg’s Response
  6. My 2c on the iPad vs Mac debate
  7. Rescue Hut in Iceland
  8. Roads of Iceland: A Photo Collection
  9. Roads of Iceland
  10. 2500
  11. Meeting Ragnar Axelsson
  12. In Praise of iPhone7plus

October 2016

  1. Few fun reads for this weekend
  2. Succulent
  3. Not news, just stuff worth reading!
  4. Moody Inverness
  5. A tree on the edge!
  6. From India, New Fashion Stars
  7. Worth Reading: 7 Recommended Stories
  8. What is Design
  9. In Memoriam, Riccardo Bestetti
  10. Come in, shut the door & have a seat
  11. Carmel Valley Ranch
  12. Fireboat
  13. Ed Aten, Now Married
  14. Faint footsteps of Fall
  15. Regrets
  16. A Quaint & Quiet Street in NYC
  17. A lazy afternoon in New York City
  18. An Abandoned Barn in Napa
  19. How time moves in Napa Valley
  20. Rainy New York
  21. Instagram, Snapchat & how my love for photos has changed!
  22. Big Sur to Pittsburgh to Big Apple: What a week!
  23. Introducing, Picocast
  24. Somewhere in Napa, Wine Country
  25. I wanna be a cowboy
  26. A house in Napa

September 2016

  1. Thanks 2
  2. Aevi, Leica and Scoop
  3. 50
  4. Not the dancing shoes!
  5. Morning Mist in Big Sur
  6. Video Streaming! CDN! Sure webRTC can do that!
  7. What every new watch collector needs to know
  8. I feel so foggy this morning
  9. Maiden Lane, San Francisco
  10. On HighTech Forum Podcast
  11. Where great startups are: the Nordics
  12. Aki
  13. The Nicer Internet
  14. Standalone Camera losing fight with the iPhones
  15. Experimenting with film photography
  16. Stinson Beach (Caught on Film)
  17. On Kafka’s Podcast
  18. Why iPhone 7 Changes Camera Industry Forever
  19. Courage
  20. End of Summer, or is it?
  21. Humans stay out!
  22. The Fern!
  23. Diner but not diners
  24. Looking out
  25. Californiyos
  26. Scoop + Hexar
  27. Mt. Davidson

August 2016

  1. Why Amazon hired ex-Top Gear presenters for a show
  2. Frank Ocean, Kardashians & Climate Change: Remembering To Grok
  3. The Hype & Hope of Artificial Intelligence
  4. At True we have a new $310 million fund
  5. Julie Zerbo
  6. John Maeda Joins Automattic
  7. Truth about food & delivery startups
  8. Baby Bombers & the A-Rod Weekend
  9. Gruber & I disagree about a few issues about Apple
  10. Should Apple Buy Netflix?
  11. Apple, Amazon & Google & the Advantages of Bigness
  12. Goodbye Brother Blake!
  13. Unbroken Ground: Some food for thought

July 2016

  1. Aether Apparel BackPack & (small) Bags: A-Awesome!
  2. Does the Snapchat generation even know what Yahoo is?
  3. How publications are committing harakari!
  4. We need more books about the present
  5. Pico Interview # 15: Chris Young
  6. LeanLuxe
  7. Chris Young
  8. Jude Fulton
  9. Thoughts on PokemonGo
  10. What PokemanGo Means For Augmented Reality
  11. Looks Good: Peak Design Backpack
  12. Why I wanted to redesign my blog
  13. Facebook’s News Feed: How good is it anyway?
  14. “Shot with iPhone” Posters Improves Urban Environment
  15. San Francisco in 50s: from a Dashcam
  16. In a New York Minute

June 2016

  1. Shak
  2. A brief history of video game controllers (video)
  3. When smart people get important things wrong
  4. What a week that was
  5. 24 Hours Outage
  6. Set Adrift: Goodbye of P.M. Dawn
  7. A New Look (for the blog)
  8. Why you should wear black
  9. Finding my lens

May 2016

  1. WordPress at 13
  2. Data Driven (Music) Discovery
  3. Back from Faroe Islands
  4. How Viv, the next gen Siri works
  5. Machine Bias
  6. Silicon Valley’s D-Word
  7. Watson, are you a liar?
  8. Day Two: Mykines! The Puffin Island!
  9. Faroe Islands Bound
  10. How & why Instagram designed its new app & icon
  11. Let’s Stop All This Chicken McNugget Reporting
  12. Must-see TV: My Top 3 Picks
  13. 7 Stories to read this weekend (05.08.2016)
  14. Capital with a purpose
  15. What Jony Ive said at the Met Fashion Gala
  16. The Changing Frontier of Science
  17. The Harsh (and Somewhat True) Reality of Food Tech
  18. Is Online “Free” Culture Dangerous?
  19. In NY, Let a Thousands of Startups bloom
  20. The Battles of Chernobyl
  21. India and the Threat to the American Small Satellite Launch Business
  22. Why American Right to Data Privacy Is Important

April 2016

  1. Shifting Values
  2. The hype & reality of Machine Learning
  3. How Facebook plans to take over the world
  4. Facebook First!
  5. An alternative opinion on Uber’s $100 million settlement
  6. How Far Have You Come?
  7. How Facebook is using AI to shape our “social” reality
  8. 7 Things to read this weekend (04.16.2016)
  9. Elle on earth
  10. 7 Stories to read this weekend (04.09.2016)
  11. Cockroaches, Unicorns, Startups. Enough Already!
  12. Photograph everything, See nothing
  13. China’s quest to win the self-driving car race
  14. 7 Stories to read this weekend (04.02.2016)
  15. Not a Tidal wave

March 2016

  1. Pros
  2. 15 Liters
  3. Esquire loses its main man
  4. Social media is making us all skeptics & that’s not good
  5. Are you ready to enter the Batcave?
  6. How to write a good blog post
  7. A conversation with Andy Grove
  8. Andy Grove, RIP
  9. 10 years later and I still #LoveTwitter
  10. We should all have a Bot
  11. 7 Stories to read this weekend (03.19.2016)
  12. Why Uber & GM (& CarCos) will have a head-on collision
  13. Why we need to keep Open Web alive: Drupal creator
  14. Sacha Baron Cohen mimics Jony Ive to promote his new movie
  15. Instagram is now like Facebook
  16. How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
  17. Gillis Lundgren, Ikea product designer is dead
  18. Is Kinfolk “Good Housekeeping” of the Instagram generation?
  19. Who coined the term – Internet of things?
  20. Surprised by who is missing from Fortune’s 100 Best Companies To Work For List?
  21. Is this the future of Retail Banking?
  22. AlphaGo vs Humans: A scientist’s view
  23. Watching Google AlphaGo play vs Humans
  24. Werner & A Decade of Amazon Cloud
  25. 7 Stories to read this weekend (03.12.2016)
  26. U.S. has over 90 million broadband subscribers
  27. Why the Billboard Chart is irrelevant
  28. Open Letter: Why Cloud Business Needs Better Metrics
  29. Steve Jobs Watch sold for …how much?
  30. The King of Wall Street is dead
  31. A year later…
  32. Block’Hood: Games cities play
  33. Here’s to Flint, Michigan (Documentary)
  34. How Peeple profits from harrasement
  35. More Musings on Media
  36. My Toughest Out
  37. How Digital Assistants Like M, Siri & Cortana Use Your Data
  38. Ray Tomlinson, R.I.P.
  39. What disappearing newsrooms mean for democracy
  40. A chat with uber investor Charlie Munger
  41. 20 Years of Portraits
  42. 7 Stories to Read This Weekend (03.05.2016)
  43. 12 apps with a billion users
  44. Leica, Prescription Glasses & Focus Problems
  45. Minor Updates & Tweaks
  46. Steampunk Music.. Amazing Song & Video
  47. Expired at Daytona 500
  48. 2 days in Porto

February 2016

  1. The Perils of Always On Communication
  2. What do you have to hide?
  3. Pico Conversation w/Joshua Allen Harris
  4. 7 things to read this weekend (02.27.2016)
  5. Hype & Reality of World’s Most Liveable Cities
  6. America’s Problem With Writers of Color
  7. Joshua Allen Harris
  8. The Forge Rises…
  9. When will Virtual Reality really go mainstream?
  10. WallStreet, Machines & New Market Reality
  11. Poll: When will Virtual Reality become mainstream?
  12. Top 10 destinations for photographers in 2016
  13. 7 Stories to read this weekend (February 20)
  14. Apple & Fashion: A Love Story
  15. AI chip for the mobile phones
  16. Will IoT be the Malware distribution network?
  17. There Are No Shortcuts In Health Care
  18. Crowdsourced Uber logo way better than what Uber made itself
  19. Surviving whatever comes next
  20. Good Times. Bad Times. What Really Matters
  21. 2015: Analysis of Venture Capital, IPO & Exit Trends
  22. Instagram Ads: Too much?
  23. The Failure of food journalism
  24. Should we rethink Liberal Arts education?
  25. Algorithm Says: Batman vs Superman, likely a flop
  26. 7 Stories to read this weekend (February 13)
  27. UnSplash: Simple & Spectacular
  28. Lunch
  29. Last Night at the Crunchies
  30. Why Facebook shut down Parse
  31. Inside Story of Apple’s 1985 Lemmings Dud (Ad)
  32. Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics
  33. 7 Stories to Read This Weekend
  34. Why Zika is this year’s scary virus?
  35. What I learned from reading “One Great Shoe”
  36. Why Email is harder than you think
  37. Bernie’s Day
  38. A Eulogy For San Francisco’s Past
  39. I Got the Monday Morning Blues

January 2016

  1. 7 Stories to read this weekend
  2. Furiously Fast Fashion
  3. K.K. Barrett
  4. Will Machines Eliminate Us?
  5. Beyonce Goes To Bollywood (w/ColdPlay)
  6. What? In 2015, Apple sold how many million iPhones?
  7. Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
  8. Twitter, (Internet of) Things & a Talking Head
  9. 7 Stories to read this weekend (January 23)
  10. The Ossification of iPhone Home Screen
  11. Remembering Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl Ad
  12. Where are +Sized Male Models in Fashion
  13. Rainy Tuesday
  14. Since 2008, a steep decline in driver’s licenses
  15. Online Shopping is a “Winner Take All” Game
  16. How to keep writing when nobody gives a shit?
  17. Modern Society & Dr. King’s Last Sermon
  18. 7 Stories to Read This Weekend (Jan. 17)
  19. Erik Spiekermann
  20. How to say no
  21. The journalistic orthodoxy
  22. Uber vs Lyft, Being 2nd & the ‘Winner Take All’
  23. The State of the Union: Tech Perspective
  24. Damn! 15 Crazy Uber Like Services
  25. Windows Phone vs iPhone: Claim Chowder
  26. Some Little Things Twitter Can Do To Get Better
  27. Why are flash sales services failing?
  28. CES, Say What?
  29. 20 years on the web
  30. Keywords for the Age of Austerity
  31. 7 Stories to read this weekend (January 9)
  32. A Need For More Empathy
  33. Indonesia seeing rise of “sharing economy”
  34. The 25 Best Coffee shops in America
  35. A Set of Photo Books by Joshua Allen Harris
  36. Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?
  37. Always on (and off)
  38. The Great Apple Advertising Experiment
  39. Machine Earning
  40. 7 Stories to Read This Weekend
  41. 2015: NatGeo Photo Contest Winners
  42. The Science of Star Wars

2015 313

December 2015

  1. Jennifer Magnolfi
  2. Winner Take All
  3. 2015 By The Numbers: Pi.co, Om.co & Instagram
  4. 8 years of no smoking
  5. 7 Stories To Read This Weekend
  6. The Curation Conundrum
  7. Robot OS & the open source
  8. Howdy’s Botkit
  9. Again, CEO Isn’t Yahoo’s Real Problem
  10. Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz on Fashion, Technology & Selfie Culture
  11. Rebooting ‘7 Stories to read this weekend’ Newsletter
  12. When Data tells HipHop’s History
  13. Small Surprises are a gift
  14. The New iPad Pro (Part 2)
  15. Shouty

November 2015

  1. What I Wrote in 2010: a Look Back
  2. Photo Essay: Backroom Faces of Filson
  3. On demand Economy’s Growing EcoCosts
  4. What Google & Rumsfeld have in common?
  5. I am thankful for…
  6. Sleepless in San Francisco
  7. Some Thoughts on the New WordPress.com and Mac App
  8. Insulin Pill is coming
  9. Chipmakers want to AI
  10. Made to order
  11. P(Greene)R
  12. Shopping’s Virtual Reality Future
  13. WallPaper: the Jony Ive Interview
  14. Interesting Facts & Figures about Mobile’s Present & Future
  15. The New iPad Pro (Part 1)
  16. World Diabetes Day Today…
  17. Saturday morning musings
  18. I Don’t Want My MTV
  19. A Quick Notify App Review!
  20. Heroku, VMware, Salesforce & the cloud
  21. Singles Day, when China really goes shopping
  22. How a NBA star was assaulted by NYPC
  23. Great Incumbent Gigabit Myth
  24. The Sartorialist & the Way We Look
  25. Waiting for the New iPad Pro
  26. Does surge pricing discriminate?
  27. Prescient Mr. Quittner
  28. Juice Bubble is Over
  29. Yves Béhar
  30. 3 challenges of Internet of things
  31. Gig Economy is a fairy tale
  32. Surprise: Instagram isn’t authentic!
  33. Amazon finally has a “store”
  34. Snapchat is the new MTV
  35. Value, Not Valuations, Is Good Business

October 2015

  1. How to beat Uber surge pricing
  2. Where do BFFs go when they grow up?
  3. Twitter is the New & Next
  4. Upthere, Where?
  5. Bags Versus Document Cases
  6. Is Fashion Heading for a Burnout?
  7. SEC is investigating IBM
  8. Death to analytics (on blogs)
  9. A Big Sur Photo Album
  10. Week in a blink of an eye
  11. In praise of Viru
  12. What do bridges mean?
  13. Architects and Startups: made for each other?
  14. To live & die alone
  15. Pss, wanna buy a luxury bunker?
  16. The colorful history of a hanger
  17. This is a box that changed the world
  18. Jack in a box
  19. Slowearly
  20. Square IPO Myths
  21. Now that’s watchmaking
  22. Hip to be Square
  23. Here comes the 1st Two-Qubit Logic Gate in Silicon
  24. Most Instagrammed Places in USA
  25. Can technology keep you warm?
  26. Non-social
  27. Data Piñatas
  28. The Martian: Book vs Movie
  29. Liam Casey
  30. 49

September 2015

  1. Remembering Alex King
  2. How to talk to journalists
  3. Charting iPhone’s Progress
  4. The only Leica Q review to read (for now)
  5. Highlights from my ProductHunt AMA
  6. What the new iPhone 6S (+) Cameras can do
  7. Why HP Is Irrelevant
  8. How Wired magazine changed the world
  9. NYPD Chief Bill Bratton: Minority Report, fact not fiction
  10. Netflix, Apple Music & need for bandwidth
  11. My ProductHunt AMA
  12. The Slow Death of Irrelevance
  13. The CompuServe of Things
  14. Phil, Jony & Angela
  15. Touching the home base again
  16. Why fashion industry loves Instagram
  17. Do type, Fonts & Typography reflect the zeitgeist?

August 2015

  1. Day 10, Goodbye Nordics
  2. Meet Everywear Games
  3. Many lives along the Yangtze River
  4. Windows 95
  5. Select 7: forays into film (photography)
  6. Day Three, Airtime
  7. Day Two, New York City
  8. It’s All About Speed and Broadband, Not TV
  9. Wheels up
  10. Jason
  11. 7 notable things…
  12. Shade Balls or just bollocks
  13. What you can learn from Saint Laurent creative chief, Hedi Slimane
  14. Two Years Later
  15. Look who loves autonomous driving patents
  16. Nuno of Cupertino
  17. Why we block web ads?
  18. What This Chart Says About the Tech Sector
  19. iPhone’s annual cycle of advertising
  20. Flip the Uber
  21. The Big AlphaBet
  22. Alone time is ultimate luxury
  23. Some Features That All Modern Apps Must Have!
  24. The Red Chill Car
  25. Hot or Not: Internet Stocks Edition
  26. In conversation with Nick Felton (@feltron)
  27. Steve Jobs Interview from 1996
  28. Wall Street Wastes!
  29. How Alexander Wang made it
  30. Why do intelligent people no longer care about art?
  31. Thanks, Fast Company
  32. Twitter controversies & fireworks
  33. Don’t call it AI
  34. Contax T3

July 2015

  1. How to clean your sneakers
  2. When I’m Gone
  3. Yelp, Cord-Cutting, Expensive Eggs, Facebook and 7 Billion Mobile Subscribers
  4. America, now a nation of renters
  5. Yahoo Livetext
  6. Will the New Chuck Taylors Be Big for Nike?
  7. WiFi or LTE—which is faster?
  8. Apple and Its iPhone Money Machine
  9. Routine, Reset, Restore
  10. Microsoft Sends a Message
  11. A Casual Chat With Chef Massimo Bottura [Video]
  12. Roomba’s are getting more sensors & intelligence
  13. Working Anywhere Isn’t Hard. It Just Takes Planning
  14. Notes From a Talk by Industrial Designer Sam Hecht
  15. In praise of expensive loafers
  16. Summer Reading List
  17. Allergic to America
  18. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
  19. The Daily Creative To-Dos
  20. Sponsorgram
  21. The Paris I love
  22. The Apple Watch Question
  23. Heather Dietrick is Gawker’s secret weapon
  24. Why DARPA Robotics challenge was a bust.
  25. Why Web Design is Dead
  26. Cory Doctorow: SkyNet Ascendant
  27. Zuck, Dick and the 90-Day Curse

June 2015

  1. Rivers of noise
  2. Get ready for sun-powered desaliantion
  3. RIP California
  4. Is food delivery industry overfunded?
  5. Routines
  6. The long history of the fight against Uber
  7. Self focusing smart contact lenses
  8. Cole gets a Cannes Lion
  9. Why US Computer Industry is dying
  10. Upton’s wisdom
  11. No Shit. Rocket rise of Shinola
  12. Follow The Geeks
  13. Whither AMD?
  14. Twitter’s big bot problem
  15. Time to end the (Fashion) Show
  16. Gruber & Schiller love to talk
  17. The New Yorker debut
  18. Apple, Google & battle for personalization
  19. Did Twitter Lose the Plot?
  20. There is no such thing as Yuccies!
  21. The Wizards of Programmatic Advertising
  22. Two Really Good Reviews of #WWDC15
  23. Only way to do great work is…
  24. How & why Facebook video can overtake YouTube
  25. Why the Kindle App Is Just Better With Bookerly
  26. Dish Antennas as billboards
  27. Apple Watch: perfection has its flaws
  28. What Twitter can be
  29. #winning
  30. New Apple Watch Unboxing (Video)
  31. Back in San Francisco
  32. Is Mozilla on a lost mission?
  33. Hi, Somerset

May 2015

  1. The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist
  2. The Last Chapter
  3. Iceland bound
  4. Half of scientific literature is false
  5. Any oversupply of everything and what it means!
  6. Sometimes a box isn’t just a box
  7. Woomattic
  8. The Dalrymple Report
  9. How America’s Whiskey went global
  10. Conrad and the Steam Plant
  11. EFF on Internet.org: Don’t believe the hype
  12. In praise of Japan’s Porter-Yashida
  13. What publishers don’t know about Facebook
  14. Changing old behaviors is hard
  15. Media reaction to Seymour Hersh’s scoop is disgusting
  16. Vincent Laforet on visual web & future of news
  17. Vincent Laforet
  18. Tech TV: Reality, Fiction or Both!
  19. Meet ViralNova, a totally rad media company
  20. The Killing of Osama
  21. Periscope, Snapchat, Meerkat: We’ll Do It Live
  22. On mobile, slow speeds kill
  23. 10 things to know about sunglasses
  24. Palette, Paper, Fifty Three
  25. It’s a Barbie (Instagram) world
  26. A short history of Mother’s Day
  27. Why are scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong?
  28. How America views McDonalds
  29. Gone Fishing
  30. Uniform: The Philosophy of Dress
  31. Amazing: a 4-inch wafer made from a 3-atom thick semiconductor film
  32. How Vine changed our minds
  33. Adafruit’s Becky Stern on DIY Wearables
  34. Living with Apple Watch
  35. Loss
  36. Abandoned

April 2015

  1. Student editor explains reality of today’s media
  2. A skeptics take on Rural Global Satellite Broadband
  3. The New MacBook
  4. Inbox Zero + other tips from Brunello Cucinelli
  5. My conversation with the King of Cashmere
  6. Uber, the Rashomon
  7. 10 Productivity Tips From the King of Cashmere, Brunello Cucinelli
  8. Brunello Cucinelli
  9. A Cloudy Weekend
  10. Did quirkiness nearly kill Quirky?
  11. Our mobile & networked Victorian age
  12. Inside Amsterdam’s Startup Ecosystem
  13. A Smartwatch Primer
  14. Jeffrey Zeldman on Medium & Open Web
  15. The Religion of Silicon Valley
  16. Ezra Klein’s lame defense of Aggregation
  17. Jiro Ono & René Redzepi Have a Cup of Tea
  18. Should, Must and Apple’s Little Details
  19. Why Nobody Talks (as much) Anymore
  20. Here is a list of accessories for the Apple Watch!
  21. LinkedIn & Zynga & a tale of two hired guns
  22. The Multiple Lives of Moore’s Law
  23. iCube: World’s Smallest Apple Computer?
  24. Gigaom’s Culture of Context Lives On
  25. Rage against Fashion’s lux machine
  26. Bubbles, Distortions & Startup Realities
  27. Jay-Z Speaks about Tidal
  28. A Parched Soul

March 2015

  1. Dilemma of Sacrificial Dilemma
  2. Longtrepreneurial Thinking
  3. Uber & Notifications
  4. I’ll HashTag That!
  5. How to win friends & buy influence in Washington DC: Google edition
  6. Here comes personalized fashion
  7. Twin Prime wants mobile data faster
  8. MeTV Meets Reality TV With @AppMeerkat
  9. (Now) Apple is all about China
  10. Q&A with @StartupLJackson & @BoredElonMusk
  11. You’ve Got (No)Mail
  12. A statement about Gigaom
  13. Standalone camera: Shot (Dead) By iPhone
  14. On Pi.co: Jenna Wortham
  15. Jenna Wortham
  16. A lesson in Silicon Valley’s History with these must-read books

February 2015

  1. What to read this weekend?
  2. Marie Kondo is right. Clean up is good for the soul.
  3. Hello San Francisco
  4. Medium’s Secret Weapon
  5. Instagram killed the fashion show?
  6. What to read this weekend
  7. Happy Birthday Slack! And Stuff Stewart Says
  8. Oh my! Drones over Iceland
  9. How do Gotham & Sin City look from way up there?
  10. The forgotten joy of iPod Shuffle
  11. What to read this weekend
  12. A Storehouse moment!
  13. When brands disappoint…
  14. Microsoft’s mobile inabilities
  15. Cymatics Magic

January 2015

  1. Here is what to read this weekend
  2. Tsovet does classic elegance
  3. A rapidly growing city of Paperholm(s)
  4. All About That iPhone 6+
  5. Matt MacInnis
  6. A camera called iPhone 6+
  7. Here Is What to Read: the Best of the Web
  8. Happy Handwriting Day
  9. 2000
  10. Going OffScreen
  11. The Cleanup
  12. OmReads: Best of the web, my new (old) weekly email newsletter
  13. A year in Storehouse
  14. Looking forward to Shure Motiv 88
  15. What I am reading today
  16. The Big Future for Tiny Machines
  17. The essence of venture business
  18. For Apple App Store, hits keep coming!
  19. iPhone, the behemoth
  20. The past & future of cars
  21. Oil and tech
  22. Office Romance
  23. That old sweater
  24. On being original
  25. My 2015 begins!
  26. Frank Clegg
  27. My 2014 Review & 2015 To-Do List

2014 278

December 2014

  1. What happened in 2014
  2. 5 must reads from around the web
  3. An Uber ride that is a story of our times
  4. Seven
  5. Empathy isn’t a corporate slogan
  6. Instagram Rapture
  7. Fractionalized Attention and the Real Definition of “Media”
  8. Mobile, Search & The Continental Drift
  9. Bradley Price
  10. Here is how 5 jetliners worth $1.5 billion try to be Blue Angels
  11. 12-13-14
  12. 5 things to read this weekend
  13. Technology IPOs: Party like 2014
  14. Here by Richard McGuire
  15. A very Appy Apple
  16. On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words
  17. The (New) Robot Reality
  18. 7 new beautifully designed objects
  19. David & Mr. Bangs
  20. Stunning Stills from EyeTime 2014
  21. Veniam wants to move the internet
  22. Take a peek at Pico
  23. Cole Rise

November 2014

  1. Success, Work & Magical Moments
  2. 5 things to read this weekend
  3. The essence of a good perfume
  4. Technology and the Moral Dimension
  5. Sunrise in San Francisco
  6. For cloud, the best is yet to come
  7. Bombay the Hard Way
  8. Aereo, Fab, kaput!
  9. The Quiet
  10. 13 of my favorite quotes from Roadmap 2014
  11. The Day of Roadmap 2014
  12. Meet SuperAmit
  13. Does city & urban design influence happiness?
  14. Logos of Late Night TV
  15. Have a great weekend
  16. Denise Lee Yohn
  17. Whatever happened to Fabulist Stephen Glass
  18. What startups can learn from Jiro
  19. Net neutrality debate & today’s legislative challenges
  20. The only question to ask Twitter
  21. Words without meaning & the reality of networked communication
  22. Seems like print is still money
  23. Publications are rethinking the technology section
  24. 30 days of blogging later
  25. Why we need to walk
  26. Clouds around the world
  27. The New Notification Network

October 2014

  1. 3 things to read this weekend
  2. I am looking for a designer
  3. Startups lessons from Netflix
  4. Oneofmany is one of a kind
  5. The utopian invisibility of design and connectivity
  6. What is a connected speaker
  7. Compulsion
  8. 30 Day Blogging Challenge: Week #3 wrapup
  9. The Notification Network
  10. Swing & Scratch
  11. Instrmnt 01: Minimalist Delight
  12. Let there be light…
  13. Big Apple Conversations
  14. Apple’s Swift has open source challenger, Phoenix
  15. October baseball
  16. Some new stories on Storehouse
  17. 30days of blogging: Week #2 wrap-up
  18. Break
  19. 3 things to read this weekend
  20. Apple & rise of the carrier antagonistic SIM
  21. Mimi Valdés Makes Happy
  22. Long Day
  23. On Media & Growth Hacking
  24. Why blame others
  25. The blogging challenge: Week One wrap up
  26. 20 years of SAJA
  27. 3 things to read this weekend
  28. Hard Things
  29. A Perception of Anonymity
  30. The Love Machine
  31. Backchannel
  32. One Week, Two Cities: Sofia & Stockholm
  33. 30 days of blogging
  34. End of Savile Row

September 2014

  1. 48
  2. Champagne Supernovas by Maureen Callahan [Book Review]
  3. iOS 8 upgrade’s impact on the networks
  4. Apple has a great weekend
  5. Think different about local news
  6. 40 Kilometers
  7. Start Small
  8. Some reflections on the new Apple Event
  9. Apple watch hands on — photos & videos!
  10. Yves Behar on Apple Watch
  11. Sometimes a car is not just a car
  12. Irony of “takes” and rushed laziness
  13. 7 Must Read Articles about Apple Smartwatch
  14. Invisible Design & Apple
  15. What you can learn from Christian Louboutin
  16. Fresh Air
  17. Wanna Nuzzel?
  18. What do 800,000 Net Neutrality Comments Tell Us?
  19. The End of Summer
  20. 5 Links: What to read today

August 2014

  1. How Google can really help news & media
  2. Now that was an eventful weekend
  3. Cole Rise’s Tuscan Edit
  4. Freedom
  5. My 5 Favorite SF Eateries
  6. What I am reading today
  7. BuzzFeed & The Attention Game
  8. Caffè Sospeso
  9. Silicon Valley & Parachute Journalism
  10. Why Customization is the Future
  11. OffScreen & The Great Discontent
  12. 20,000
  13. Sitting Still
  14. Why blog!

July 2014

  1. Write stuff
  2. The art of equilibrium – Salvatore Ferragamo
  3. Now just sit down and listen….
  4. Living By The Bay
  5. Kindle Unlimited, Uninterested
  6. What I am reading today
  7. Bill Campbell on Tim Cook
  8. It is time to stop rewarding failure
  9. Passage of Time
  10. Beats, iWatch & Apple’s fashion forward future
  11. Eyephone, not iPhone, dummy!
  12. It is all about the good stuff
  13. Got cash? Here is some awesome stuff to buy
  14. With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility
  15. Be willing to start again
  16. What I am reading today
  17. Style, Story and Inspiration
  18. What is a Brand
  19. Independence Day
  20. After Silk Road

June 2014

  1. What I am reading today
  2. Silence
  3. Blogfather Speaks
  4. Smart watches, Smart but….
  5. Sundar’s Stage
  6. Lenka is a good app for taking B&W photos
  7. What Facebook and P&G have in common?
  8. Why NYTimes’ Vanessa Friedman is the best fashion writer today
  9. Predictions are a risky business
  10. What I am reading today
  11. 5 steps of a startup
  12. Man & his Machines
  13. Arista, Uber, Silicon Valley
  14. Visual Computing Trends, Visualized
  15. What I am reading today
  16. Online & connections
  17. WWDC reflections
  18. Travel Day: Destination New York

May 2014

  1. What do Uber & Google have in common?
  2. Time & Creativity
  3. Gucci rips off
  4. Minimalism Is….
  5. Beats by Apple
  6. Finger prints, DNA & Digital Evidence
  7. What I am reading today
  8. Not everyone wins
  9. Slots, Subprime, Startups
  10. Why is Mike Hudack so mad at media?
  11. Naveen + Expa
  12. Foursquare Mayorship is dead
  13. The Business of Fashion
  14. Stock Market Nervousness
  15. Rob Garza
  16. What I am reading today
  17. 9 Beautifully Designed Things
  18. Bay Area bubble blues
  19. What I am reading today
  20. Cook, Beats and Jobs
  21. Reply All
  22. On Streaming: Apple, Beats & Spotify
  23. Reinventing iTunes
  24. This is what’s wrong with (cable) tv
  25. Structure & the amazing rise of Cloud Computing
  26. Festivus, journalism & Perugia
  27. On Journalism

April 2014

  1. In Italy
  2. Do what you love + more street art
  3. Importance of a tagline
  4. Invisible Walls
  5. What I am reading today
  6. Relaxed Focus
  7. Quick thoughts about The Upshot
  8. On Twitter Usage
  9. [Video] The Age of Experience
  10. Running a business is very simple
  11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, R.I.P.
  12. Single Author Blogs
  13. The Great Facebook Unbundling
  14. What I am reading today
  15. A few accumulated thoughts on media
  16. A Must Listen Podcast: Tom Ford in conversation
  17. In Good Company
  18. In praise of handwritten notes
  19. Just Another Day
  20. The crossroads of Should and Must
  21. What I am reading today
  22. Wits+Beaux
  23. Sza
  24. The Umbrella Problem
  25. Social Web & our increasingly generic culture
  26. Greetings
  27. Overselling of Shinola
  28. Marc Newson on Google Glass

March 2014

  1. What I am reading today
  2. XOAB Socks
  3. New York, March 2014
  4. Billion Dollar Dart Throwing
  5. Establishment vs Nate Silver: Some Thoughts
  6. A Lovely Minimalistic HiFi Speaker
  7. Shoes vs Smartphones
  8. iOS 7.1 & its impact on networks
  9. Go Native Ad Man (With Caution)
  10. What I am reading today
  11. What I am reading today
  12. Talking Tech w/Bloomberg West
  13. Memoirs
  14. Trends, Apps, Moments & Money
  15. 3 Vices
  16. Media, Attention Etc.
  17. What I am reading today
  18. What I am reading today
  19. Irreplaceable Places
  20. Structure Data 2014
  21. What I am reading today
  22. Time is cleaner of fragilities
  23. Masters of their own domain
  24. WhatsApp is Different
  25. Essential Crimea Reader: 7 Must Read Stories
  26. What’s wrong with fashion blogging
  27. Your Attention Please
  28. Tweet-diarrhea

February 2014

  1. What I am reading today
  2. Mt. Gox & the Bitcoin Crash
  3. What I am reading today
  4. Release Om 2.0 from Joe Weinman
  5. Thanks
  6. Status Update
  7. The irrational rationality behind Facebook’s $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
  8. What I am reading today
  9. Don’t be a Glasshole
  10. Wearables, Watches & Wearablity
  11. Paper
  12. What I am reading today
  13. What I am reading today
  14. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
  15. Netflix killed DVDwallah! Or did it?
  16. Facebook Backlash

January 2014

  1. Thievery Corporation’s Saudade
  2. What I am reading today
  3. Longform Overload Redux
  4. Future of San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Congrats Sheila
  6. What I am reading today
  7. Daniel Ek, Spotify CEO on Beats Music
  8. The man behind Forbes Digital Tool
  9. Her & Love in the modern age
  10. Google, Facebook, NSA, & Privacy
  11. On Google’s Smart Contact Lenses
  12. What I am reading today
  13. Square, Receipts & the Experience Design
  14. Tony Fadell on why he sold Nest to Google
  15. What I am reading today
  16. Nest, Google & Tony Fadell
  17. Toni & Matt
  18. Everybody hates the “bloggers”
  19. Craft and Convenience of iPhoneography
  20. What I am reading today
  21. The Snapchat Drama
  22. What I am reading today
  23. My year in photos

2013 273

December 2013

  1. What I am reading today
  2. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: Cloud and SaaS are going global, fast
  3. New addition: Kaweco Sport Classic Fountain Pen
  4. Some of my favorite posts (by me) of 2013
  5. Number Six
  6. Blogging. Homesteads. Full Stops. Streams.
  7. What I am reading today
  8. Some thoughts on evolution of blogging
  9. Oggl 2.0
  10. In 12 years of blogging, the more things change, the more they stay the same
  11. Now that’s what I call hotel wifi
  12. Paris in photos
  13. Big
  14. Traveling
  15. Heart-to-Heart, a campaign for UCSF
  16. Real meaning of Amazon Drones
  17. Pop Up Flea NYC
  18. 12+1 Menswear Sales
  19. What I am reading today
  20. The coming era of magical computing

November 2013

  1. Zombie Nation
  2. What I am reading today
  3. The Great Beauty & The Neapolitan jacket
  4. What I am reading today
  5. A trend that should end before it starts
  6. Brand
  7. Some of my recent writings
  8. An Unbranded Life
  9. Disappointments & Opportunities
  10. Bubble Bubble
  11. The two extremes of watch design
  12. Moon over the bay
  13. On writing with fountain pens
  14. Why Amazon (web services) and Dropbox need each other
  15. Human Search
  16. Which programming languages are hot
  17. To live and die in public: That’s Twitter
  18. Dj Cheb i Sabbah, R.I.P
  19. The Village of Stolen Kidneys
  20. Share the lessons you learned at Roadmap 2013
  21. Style
  22. Bloomberg, thinking person’s business network
  23. Happy Fountain Pen Day

October 2013

  1. America, Poverty & Hope
  2. Some of my recent writings
  3. Virgin America Safety Video – Remixed & Awesome
  4. Instagram ads and the future of brand advertising
  5. In world of startups, revenue kills
  6. Importance of a local paper
  7. Fabriano Notebooks
  8. Living life is happiness
  9. My photo-only recap of Apple Fall 2013 launch event
  10. Experience Design
  11. What’s Next for Netflix
  12. Here is what smoking does to your body
  13. What I am reading today
  14. Why a man’s shoes matter (to a woman)
  15. Fog 2
  16. Think before you tweet
  17. Industrial Internet @ Work
  18. Instagram & Me
  19. Tom Ford on failure
  20. What I am reading today
  21. In Ghurka we trust
  22. Disruption
  23. Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7″ Model Review
  24. Tom Clancy, RIP
  25. Thankful, Chemistry
  26. (For most) end of baseball season

September 2013

  1. What I am reading today
  2. Of Age & Birthdays
  3. How internet is changing venture capital
  4. Day traders, angels and venture capital: The internet changes everything, including money
  5. What I am reading today
  6. New iPhone5s hunting
  7. What I love about San Francisco
  8. Hello, London
  9. Guess who will win this fight?
  10. Wrong
  11. What I am reading today
  12. Blogging Live from Cupertino.
  13. These three guys are not afraid of Facebook
  14. Three Really Great Shoes (for the Fall)
  15. Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets
  16. What I am reading today
  17. Things companies say and things they do
  18. Jambox Mini
  19. What I am reading today
  20. End of Nokia will create more startups in Finland
  21. My new favorite font: Avenir Next

August 2013

  1. Further thoughts on founders & accents
  2. SkypePhone
  3. Patterns & fallacies: Why they have no place in my Silicon Valley
  4. What I am reading today
  5. Vine-tastic
  6. Deep Ocean, Blue Skies, California
  7. No Henry, you need to get real about Yahoo. Here are the facts
  8. What I am reading today
  9. Myopia
  10. What I am reading today
  11. Now this is one good looking Pebble watch
  12. What I am reading today
  13. Why I don’t trust GQ & others like them
  14. Two Friends. Two Books. In Fall 2013
  15. Thanks for the warm welcome
  16. iAMerican
  17. What I am reading today
  18. The rise of surveillance society
  19. 5 awesome people to follow on Instagram (Part 2)
  20. Meet Warby Parker & Everlane of sneakers: Greats (brand)
  21. 2008-2013: A look at my 5 year book buying patterns
  22. What I am reading today
  23. What I am reading today
  24. A quick podcast on Bezos buying The Washington Post
  25. 7 must read pieces about Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post
  26. These socks are Happy for winter 2013
  27. What I am reading today
  28. The past, present & future of coffee
  29. My takeon Yahoo & its lack of (mobile) strategy [Podcast]
  30. Lessons from a visit to a DMV office

July 2013

  1. Cloud + Data + Experience Design = Business
  2. What I am reading today
  3. Mavericks (OS-X), WiFi & Battery Power
  4. What I am reading today
  5. Say hi, Hi
  6. What I am reading today
  7. 7 years later
  8. Intimate Portraits of Killing-Machines
  9. How clothes should fit
  10. Bah, Humbug! Uber & FCC Commish Pai
  11. What I am reading today
  12. Just Do It… 25 years later
  13. Tip: Some Sales & Bargains For Shoe Lovers
  14. What I am reading today
  15. Some of my recent articles
  16. SocialNets & Nightclubs
  17. [Review] One Zero – The essence of Nitin Sawhney
  18. Charlie Rose talks to Charlie Rose [Video]
  19. What I am reading today

June 2013

  1. Solid like a sock
  2. Mourning Reeder (Not Reader)
  3. What I am reading today
  4. Are you feeling the Longform Overload?
  5. Nitin Sawhney feat Joss Stone – I Ask You #OneZero
  6. What I am reading today
  7. Actions should speak louder than words
  8. 2.5 Vines = Instagram Video
  9. What I am reading today
  10. What I am reading today
  11. Bull Durham: 25 Years Later
  12. Gigaom 7 birthday
  13. Santa Cruz, June 2013 [Photo Set]
  14. A Pair of Chukka Boots in Every Color
  15. 5 awesome people to follow on Instagram
  16. From zero to half-a-billion: CEO Jeff Lawson writes the perfect story for Twilio
  17. What I am reading today
  18. Twitter brings you closer
  19. What I am reading today
  20. Instagram vs Twitter vs Facebook
  21. What I am reading today
  22. San Francisco & Alpha Adoption Culture
  23. What I am reading today

May 2013

  1. What I am reading today
  2. Three times the trouble
  3. What I am reading today
  4. Hardware+Software = together forever
  5. Congrats Matt, Toni & WordPress team
  6. What I am reading today
  7. Tyranny of choice
  8. What I am reading today
  9. What design means to me
  10. Exhaustion! Rejuvenation!
  11. The design thinking behind the new Google+
  12. My impressions of new Google Maps
  13. The Joy of (French) Tea
  14. What I am reading today
  15. Happy Mother’s Day
  16. Why the future of media is full of snow
  17. Congrats Jim & The Loop Magazine
  18. Blogging, Chit Chat and Listening
  19. Serendipity & Mr. Chen
  20. Meeting Kevin Abosch
  21. What I am reading today
  22. Paris, till we meet again!
  23. Leffot turns 5. Congrats Steven
  24. FYI: Gurkhas are tough soldiers & Ghurkas are tough bags

April 2013

  1. Walking around Paris
  2. Paris at night
  3. Change
  4. About Comments
  5. A new Bell & Ross tote bag
  6. Some of my recent writings….
  7. Mirror
  8. The Cycle of Second Guessing
  9. Om vs Home (Facebook Home, that is)
  10. What is home in the connected age?
  11. 10 really useful style rules
  12. Allen Stern, may you rest among angels
  13. Dusk falls on San Francisco
  14. Waiting for the (SF) Giants
  15. Three Years…
  16. Up close & personal with nature [Photos]
  17. 10 years

March 2013

  1. 2013 will test NY Yankees & their fans
  2. Coffee and empathy
  3. Hanging with James Murdoch & Quincy Smith
  4. Happy Holi Everyone
  5. iWatch or iNot?
  6. Connectedness
  7. Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
  8. New York Bound
  9. Stubbed toes & other side effects of moving
  10. Jack Dorsey on 60 Minutes, talks Square, Life
  11. Beyond Google Reader
  12. Poll: So what will you pay for Google Reader?
  13. Moving means a new beginning!
  14. Three of my most recent posts
  15. 15 Things
  16. No Limits: Amazing story of a 101 year old marathon runner
  17. Snow Drift: Photos from a visit to Munich

February 2013

  1. Hyperbole
  2. mophie Helium has landed
  3. Sun swept San Francisco
  4. Disruption: It moves in mysterious ways
  5. Old Delhi — a visual journey
  6. Bad Choices
  7. Style is the man, man is the style
  8. Doors
  9. Faces 2
  10. At Work: Jack Dorsey at Square
  11. NapPads: great idea
  12. Coming or Going?
  13. Taking a break: in New Delhi
  14. Evolution of a founder: a Slideshare Report Card
  15. Photos: City by the bay at night
  16. How to build a basic men’s wardrobe
  17. Visiting online fashion brand Pickwick & Weller’s offices in SOMA
  18. Stunning Victorian 1886 Lancaster Spy Camera Pocket Watch
  19. Polished Nail tips turned into amazing artwork by Laura Roth
  20. A writer walks into a….
  21. FaceBook vs Smoking: which is more addictive?
  22. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned
  23. Why Mr.Porter’s 2013 Trend List is less than trendy
  24. My 7 takeaways from Crunchies 2013
  25. On The Radio: Talking Watches

January 2013

  1. Entourage, the movie is coming
  2. Is four year cycle toxic for startups?
  3. Next Tech Role Model
  4. Stars & Smartphones
  5. Cold
  6. Mad Men Season 6 will broadcast on April 7
  7. Sensors, Connectivity & Hyper Personalization of Physical Things
  8. The ABC of Architecture
  9. GoGo: More like GoNoGo or GoSlo Internet
  10. Aether Apparel is opening a store in San Francisco
  11. Why User experience is immersive & pervasive
  12. Traveling light
  13. Look sharp
  14. Why iPhone doesn’t mean low end photos
  15. How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes [Video]
  16. ZonkeyBoot
  17. BabyOmers
  18. Here is what I wrote this week
  19. Why I love certain objects & services
  20. Happy Birthday Matt
  21. Nice Going Ben & Hodinkee
  22. Airtime vs SnapChat vs Chatroulette
  23. Microsoft’s distorted reality
  24. A visit to shoe maestro, Pierre Corthay
  25. Tung Tung… my new favorite song
  26. Interaction design & user experience in a connected world [video]
  27. Smoked
  28. The inevitability of the Internet

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