Reframing
A few months after our son was born, things started to look up: My wife and I were getting more sleep and I was getting more help with I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Pockets of spare time started to emerge—oh, joy! I started brainstorming about things I should do with this time, things that I loved doing and was good…
Read MoreResidency at the Juilliard School
Earlier this week, I was honored to be a resident entrepreneur at the Juilliard School at the invitation of the the Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship. I hosted a roundtable and gave a lecture (part of their lunch & learn series) about online presence and digital strategy. Even though the entry…
Read MoreMy first Twitter bot: @callforscores
On Monday, as I was having breakfast, I thought about @Twithaca, a cool bot that retweets anything tagged with #Twithaca (stuff happening/related to Ithaca, NY—where I now live). Bots are great but are subject to some very strict Twitter guidelines. But if they provide a “a community benefit,” they’re OK. I don’t really know why,…
Read MoreHow long is the road to mastery?
I celebrated my birthday a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about the 10,000 hours rule, described at length in Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers: How long would it take me to master a new skill if I started from scratch? I made a quick (depressing) calculation and thought that other people might want…
Read MoreNew musical instruments hackathon
The July 2015 Monthly Music Hackathon NYC was about new musical instruments. I wrote about why build new instruments and where to start.
Read MoreHemingweek
For some weird reason, Hemingway’s name has popped up a lot this week. I have been reading The Old Man and the Sea, but that’s not really what this post is about. Even though it looks like it was released back in August, I only learned about a web app called Hemingway this week (H/T…
Read MoreMason Currey on artists’ daily rituals
Author Mason Currey wrote about artists and their rituals. We talked about starting a routine, unhealthy habits, and more.
Read MoreApple’s Aural Skeuomorphism Lingers
I have finally installed iOS 7 (beta 5—haven’t had time to follow up with the latest builds) and I am extremely enthusiastic about the whole thing: Same but very different, very gracious gestures and clever shortcuts, slimmer typography, play on transparencies, parallax, etc. Well, I was actually really excited until I tried to change a…
Read MoreGoogle Glass Explorers Program: how much are you ready to pay to be cool?
So last Wednesday, I got a tweet from Google’s Project Glass: @tonalfreak You’re invited to join our #glassexplorers program. Woohoo! Make sure to follow us – we’ll DM in the coming weeks. — Google Glass (@googleglass) March 27, 2013 I had, indeed, “applied” to Google Glass by sending a tweet (including #ifIhadglass) back in February: it…
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