Object Hygiene
“Possessions are a responsibility,” Ali says. “My dad taught me that when I got my first car.” One of the things I love about Ali (and there are a lot of them) is her ability to state the obvious in a...
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The Quantified Five Year Old
Colin, in an attempt to earn a toy gun, has started drawing out behavior charts. Days with check marks are good days, and days with X’s are bad days. The most charming (disturbing) part about these,...
View ArticleJanuary, Clarity
The super-self me project is underway, and January is dedicated to the value of Clarity. I am suddenly feeling very self-conscious about publishing this – but I’m at my deadline, and rather than...
View ArticleCulture Tax
A few things came up over and over, during the Clarity exercise. – Physical objects are vessels that bear abstraction – Physical objects obscure complexity – Physical objects last much longer than the...
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Refactoring the Identity Machine
Kevin Kelly has been “trying to listen to what the technology wants, and the technology is suggesting that it wants to be watched”. I have been a big fan of Kelly since I stumbled across his Cool...
View ArticleThe Binary Privilege of Technology
Dear Sara, I’m cooking chicken and keep coming back to your insight about Apple Watch’s design: that it lets you record a message and send it as either voice or text, but not both. I think this is...
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