Category Archives: on life

Signal to Noise

It feels like the signal to noise ratio of the world has decreased significantly over the past several years. Not just in terms of communications volume, but also what it is that people have to contribute. Navigating a world like this should prove to be exceedingly difficult unless we start figuring out what we need [...]

Mark Cuban

It’s old news by now, but I’m going to post it just so I remember it later. Ill tell you what I learned from Bobby Knight: everybody’s got the will to win but when it comes time to doing something, it’s always about someone else. Not many people have the will to prepare. You got [...]

digital memories

recently i went digging through old memories. and i realized that there are critical periods of my life from which i seem to have few recorded memories. my life stream is absent – only true biological memories are easily accessible. no doubt i could dig through the past if i wanted to – but why [...]

Have an opinion.

Please. Tell me which is the best product. Tell me which one you liked best. Obviously different products, services, movies would be best suited for different people, but please have an opinion, take a stance, and tell me.

information expectation

Increasingly, as we begin to publish more and more, how much do we expect people to “just know” and how much can we repeat ourselves? When you publish your calendar to friends, or make status updates via Twitter or Facebook – do you expect your friends / contacts to keep up with you? When you [...]