Over the years I've noticed people seem to have two fundamental orientations towards goals: aspiration-first and reality-first. Aspiration-first thinking starts with an external or motivational stance. For example: "I need to lose 20 lb before summer to fit into my beach clothes / reach a certain BMI / etc&
Yesterday I was editing a photo on my phone when I got hit with a prompt: $3.99/mo for premium features! It really feels like every software company and their mother wants to move to a subscription model these days. From a business standpoint, I get it: recurring revenue
I spent a bit of time recently hacking on the mapbox api for the aerial amenities map idea. The good news: I was able to generate an image of a map with a couple of arbitrarily placed images (see appendix at the bottom). The less good news: it's
Here's a cute bit of interactive tech from Japan last week: 0:00 /0:20 1× This was in the Shinjuku Gyoen museum and meant to promote national parks and nature sites in Japan. There were a good handful of these bottles, each with clips several minutes long.
As part of building my personal cloud, I want to back up my contacts data. Over the years this has been spread over a couple places: Google Contacts, various Apple / phone contacts, text files... But I figured Apple Contacts would be a good start. This one gets into the technical
On last my trip to Japan we saw these funny little statues: We ran into a small handful of them while traipsing through Shibu and once seen they could not be unseen. As we continued through to Kyoto and beyond, I saw them everywhere: on the streets, in temples, inside
As part of prototyping the aerial map idea, I was messing around with Mapbox for the first time in... oh, I dunno, 10 years, probably. For a first test, I just wanted to generate a static map with a satellite background along with some roads and labels. tl;dr -
Last week an idea came across my feed that I rather like, so this'll be kind of a stream-of-consciousness musing as I decide if / how to pursue it. idea The idea: software that generates an aerial map of a given area and automatically layers on logos of well-known
Lately we've been thinking about fundraising at work. We've built a good product and a business with gathering momentum and positive unit economics. Even without a raise we're likely to be in the black in a reasonable amount of time – knock on wood – or
Companies have clouds that they control where their data live, their workloads run, and their general "digital lives" take place. Why shouldn't individuals have the same? The idea of a personal cloud has been living rent-free in my head for at least two or three years
So the other day I was reading about a VPN service and the blog post had a sidebar about maps and mercator projections. A quick detour down the Wikipedia later, I discovered Tissot's Indicatrix. tl;dr - it's circles that show the distortion when projecting a
Here's something I didn't expect to see at the Fushimi Inari Taisha: The shrine has roundabouts 10,000 of these brilliant red-orange gates (torii), and as a mostly-Japanese-illiterate tourist it was easy to walk past a couple and assume everything is religious or historical. Lines of