Sometimes, an answer to a hard problem is so simple and elegant that you’re surprised it wasn’t obvious earlier. Two Screens for Teachers...
This summer, we moved into a new house. Moving is a lot of work. As part of moving out of our old house, we got rid of a lot of junk that we had...
I’ve written before about how re-structuring identity is one of the most interesting opportunities on the web today. Today’s identity...
It has been a stressful year, in so many ways. This morning, I opened up my Calm app to attempt to resurrect my meditation habit. I have had an...
Several years ago, I started volunteering at Defy Ventures, a program that helps formerly incarcerated individuals start their own businesses...
One of my favorite ideas from the last 10 years is “The Slow Hunch” which my friend Steven Johnson popularized in his book Where Good...
It has been a long few months, and many people’s lives have been turned upside down in untold ways. One way to help is through the 1k Project...
In the wake of the events of the past few weeks, I am trying to focus my efforts on listening. Here are some things I’m listening to: Dear...
Continuing to look for glimmers of hope and positivity in the middle of this crisis, one area that is for sure glimmering is at-home creativity. I...
It’s an overwhelming time right now. Everyone in the world is focused on COVID-19, and to varying degrees, is changing the way they live. From...
It has been astonishing (and largely encouraging) to see nearly every activity that can be shifted to video begin to go there. Over the past few...
I think a lot about systems — for personal organization, for business automation, for urban information, for financial infrastructure, for the...
I’m supposed to be in Europe this week to speak at a conference and attend another one, but I decided to stay home, to be safe. I am hearing...
Sometimes things can get overwhelming. Tasks can seem too big to even begin. This, of course, is not true. Every journey begins with a single step...
Last week I wrote about the inherent tension between data portability and privacy, and suggested that one solution would be an exportable...
Earlier this week, I spoke at a Justice Department / Stanford conference about antitrust issues in the tech sector. Our panel included Patricia...
Last week, the Blockstack team formally rolled out their proposal for a new mining mechanism for the Stacks blockchain called Proof of Transfer (PoX)...
Last year around this time, I had a major medical scare which shook me pretty hard. The details don’t matter, but the takeaway was that...
I am flying home from Europe today (by way of Reykjavik) and as a result, have a lot of time to catch up on things. I have spent the bulk of the day...
I am in the Netherlands this week, catching up the Leap engineering team which is based here in Utrecht, and attending an IoT conference that Helium...