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I go back to "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin once or twice a decade. It has an uncanny combination of page-turner pace and sheer stop-and-savor-it writing beauty that makes it a sh…

Swimming laps most mornings. I never had the discipline to learn to swim properly when I was younger, and have always been an avid runner and cycler. Adding swimming into the mix h…

I moved across the US a year ago, and moving with a single suitcase (until the moving truck arrived, months later) re-taught me how little I need in order to live comfortably. Sinc…

I severely cut back on notifications -- down to just a few apps (SMS/messaging, home security, calendar), and it's had a remarkable impact on my phone use. The other major change I…

How would neighboring states' follow-on legalization diminish tax returns over time? Washington has posted $280 million in tax revenues so far, and Oregon $85 million. Neither seem…

Say what you want about Uber, but I've never had them refuse to take me to Brooklyn...

That's so 2013...

I do this with business books -- turn on assistive screen reading on my iPhone's Kindle app, and tweak the speaking speed to as fast as I can reasonably understand. But I'd never d…

My experience of first reading these books as a disaffected, ornery, insecure teen in late-1980s America seems to support your impression.

Whatever you do, don't try to start a lemonade-sharing service...

"Please don't learn to code" keeps echoing in my head as "Please don't learn to read and write music". There's intrinsic value in understanding the technology on which our life now…

Thanks for this. Brings back wonderful memories of the biomechanics courses I took way back in college. I recall with glee the shock of recognition that all creatures live in movin…

I remember reading this in 1997, about a year after I switched from the awful Mac Performa that I had used in college and dragged out west with me to the first in a series of incre…

My headshot from age 35? 27. My recent headshot (I'm 40): 42. A photo I took just now with PhotoBooth? 29. Seems like a slot machine...

I agree with the skeptical comments leveled here, and am certainly cognizant of the (mostly necessary) regulatory overhead that goes along with the creation of medical devices. Eve…

Original statement from Google: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/04/announcing-pa...

The label "no user-serviceable parts inside" springs to mind...

I'm in violent agreement with you here -- the notion of a smart home platform, for example, that allows me to customize it via an API, or, if I choose, by tinkering with its basic …

+1. Yes, please.

Not intending to be argumentative -- merely to present a countervailing perspective: When I was 13, I was incredibly fortunate to land an internship at Marvel Comics in NY. For a t…

Those cuts are typically referred to as "rebates", and yes, they're standard operating procedure. There's an interesting history behind how this practice got started, that's a good…

"Argue for your limitations, and they're yours."

+1 for telecaster "shape" -- I grew up on Strats, but play a thin line Tele most of the time now. I concur with your assessment of being able to "feel" where it is.

In the course of working on a mobile app project, I had the opportunity to try out two of Line6's recent modeling input devices: http://line6.com/mobilein/ http://line6.com/sonicpo…

Just came in to say, Golden gave this talk at our conference last fall, and it was very well received. You can watch it here if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AdsVReXi…