It’s wise to constantly evaluate the opportunity cost of your job. For those of us in the tech industry, a comparison is often drawn between working at a startup vs. a big company. When I started working at Facebook, I thought about this a lot
I brought the Leica Q with me on a recent trip to Barcelona and Mallorca. I usually travel with a backpack full of Canon gear; this time I wanted to try a more casual approach. The plan was to…
In the landline-days of old, a plan had to be a solid commitment. Now, it more closely resembles a series of nebulous inklings. For some context, we made this video:
This is Lookout, a new camera that looks ahead, so you can keep looking down. Finally, you can see what’s in front of you, without ever having to look up from your phone…
We just finished YCombinator. Surrounding Demo Day, we went to a lot of investor meetings. Such conversations are usually well-choreographed and methodical but their physical conditions can be variable and random. For example…
Last year, a very deep rabbit hole led me to a book from 1976 called The Social Psychology of Telecommunications. I found it by way of Social Presence Theory, a concept frequently referenced in contemporary writing on presence and communication.
Tap count is not inherently a problem, nor is it a meaningful signal for the strength of a flow. A terribly confusing 2-tap flow is worse than an ingeniously clear 5-tap flow.
As a user, I’m utterly captivated. The content is incredible. It’s high-frequency but, importantly…
We visited Tulum recently; below were some of our favorite spots to chill and take square pictures. This is…