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Tech Thoughts

Hey Siri, Call Google

WWDC ’26 biggest winners were Google, Liquid Glass haters, iPhone 11 owners, and foldable-iPhone speculation enjoyers.

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Tech Thoughts

Claude’s Walled Garden

Anthropic’s new rules for third-party Claude usage turn subscription discounts into a tool for locking users into its own apps.

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Culture

Okay Doomer

What If… the last few years of the MCU had been heading toward Robert Downey, Jr. coming back all along, and it all didn’t feel so thirsty?

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Culture

A Poke In The Eye

A blurry patch in my vision led to a retinal vein occlusion diagnosis and a clinical trial involving injections into my eye.

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Work

Monkeys & Typewriters

An AI luddite stops worrying and learns to have fun making weird stuff with robots.

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Work

How good PMs work in 2022

In the world of technology, product management has always been about features. The race to add the most features and get them to market quickly has been the name of the game. But as we move into the future, this mindset is no longer going…

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Culture

Bird, Caged

Scaling back Twitter before my brain gets any mushier

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Work

The Full Coinbase

A step-by-step guide to making any workplace crisis about you.

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Work

Back to Basic at Basecamp

The company that wrote “It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work” responds to craziness at work

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Work

How To Blog

Getting back into blogging means choosing workable tools, publishing imperfect ideas, and sharing what interests me without building a brand.

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Tech Thoughts

Parcel Post

Recapturing the magic of early web development with modern tools

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Letters

#10: Getting out the votes

A bonus edition about voting in America. Fun fact: did you know that the Constitution doesn't actually grant anyone the right to vote???

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Letters

#9: Uncanny normalcy

I desperately want to believe that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train

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Letters

#8: On repeat

Pandemic time means having to make the same hard choice over and over again

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Letters

#7: Ratio'd

I spent all weekend working on Newsletter Content™, but just threw it all out.

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Tech Thoughts

Apple Watch Strikes Back

Thoughts on 2015’s most iconic product design, plus more on the Sept 2020 Apple Event

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Tech Thoughts

No More Masters

It’s time to change your Git repo’s default branch.

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Work

On “authority”

Some thoughts about a long-standing cliche about product leadership.

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Work

People over work product

It may seem like the work is more important than people, but it’s just a side effect of bringing together a team.

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Culture

2019 in Review

Looking back on a year of Material Design work, conference talks, family travel, and life with a new puppy named Johnny Cash.

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Work

Hello world.

Restarting my blog means letting go of perfectionism and making room to share unfinished ideas and things I like.

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Work

Something New

22 February 2011 was my first day on the Typekit team. 23 February 2018 will be my last one. After seven years, I’m moving on from Adobe to do something new.

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Tech Thoughts

Demaree vs MacBook Pro

I just got a brand-new 2016 MacBook Pro, with a Touch Bar, Thunderbolt 3, and all that goodness. I’ll be collecting my impressions here.

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Tech Thoughts

On “On Mast Brothers”

Sometimes, [someone is wrong on the Internet](https://xkcd.com/386/) and, in my self-appointed role as Twitter Batman, I seek justice by countering one wrong link or tweet with several (I would say) right ones. This time, about halfway…

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Letters

Kindness is a muscle.

From time to time my wife and I will get emails from our friend Andy, just to catch up. He sent one this week, asking how we're settling into life in New Jersey, and telling us what's been happening lately in his own life. (Nothing…

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Tech Thoughts

Fear of a Chrome planet

*A response to* [*Nolan Lawson’s post “Safari is the new IE”*](http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/)

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Letters

Rules.

Some rules for blogging: Write only about things in which you have a personal stake.

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Letters

Garden State (Monday Letter #6)

Hello friends. Quite a lot has happened since my last letter. I first moved to Chicago a little over fifteen years ago, to start my BFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then I’ve had seven jobs here, two…

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Letters

Thoughts on music. (Monday Letter #4)

Good evening. First of all, this newsletter has a title now: "Monday Letters". The actual reason is super, super boring: these are letters from me to all of you, and due to my post-baby schedule, it's likely they'll be written and sent on…

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Letters

Being alone, together

First, some inside baseball. This letter is just over 1900 words. It's actually two subjects in one, and though I considered splitting this into two issues, one topic segues neatly into the other in a satisfying way I decided not to give…

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Letters

On making things worth loving

It feels important to me to try to send this first letter to no one in particular\*, before I've put out my link and asked people to subscribe. I have a long history of making (and talking up) big plans about internet things that I don't…

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