July 2012
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I think I’m finished with depending on local file systems for anything critical. The other day as I was updating the OS on my laptop, ran into some issues that made the disk (SSD) unreadable for a while. (Like a lot of thigns on OS X, just trying again a few more times fixed it up.) My backup disk was probably a month out of date, so it was a little scary.
But it’s going to cause me...
Cable Cut
When we moved to our new house in February, Kathy & I decided not to get bundled cable/satellite television. To people who know me at all, this has been a super surprising development. I consume television pretty voraciously, and love live sports of just about all kinds. I love great television shows, and even love a lot of different types of reality show.
But Kathy & I felt it was time...
New patterns
I’ve been going back & forth between a couple of different modes of computing lately. For a few weeks, I’ll use the combination of my laptop, tablet & phone. Then for a few weeks I’ll try to live without my laptop at all. It’s been illuminating for lots of reasons, some of which I’ve been writing about so far, some of which I haven’t yet.
But the thing...
Next mobile battleground: notifications
I talk a lot about one filter for mobile applications is whether they really merit inclusion as one of the 20ish home screen icons for lots of users. Instagram replacing the iOS camera was a big one. Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr becoming so useful that users want them one tap away is another. It’s been a useful filter for me because it says a lot about how important and how urgent apps are...
Perfect Clarity
There are a handful of moments in your life, if you’re lucky, when what you’re doing is so consuming that it becomes your whole world. Where your field of vision gets so incredibly, incredibly small it’s really just a single thing. And in those moments, so many things come into such perfect focus that it can change how you think about everything going forward.
When your wife...
My live segment on CNBC this morning. :-) Hunting... →
Here’s my 5 minute segment on Squawk on the Street this morning.
