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What is it about paper and books? We have the technology to wipe out what looks to be on the surface an outmoded way of reading books. And yet, like cockroaches in a literary apocalypse, paper books will be there, ironically, after the fire. Is it the resistance of paper,
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So I was hanging out with a 16 year old the other day. As a 43 year old man, this could sound a bit weird, but I know his dad for ages, and it was all of course above board as they say. The really weird thing is that this
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I’ve always been interested in how people use things. This is what I do as an interaction designer and digital product developer. I design and make digital things for people to use to accomplish something. But when I end up writing something I also think a lot about how
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he Internet is full of advice. Loads of it. Most of it is usually in the form of a numbered list which will show you how to transform your life, your job, your industry and the universe in general. A couple of people out there might be wondering how you
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There’s been a lot of chatter about this whole big thing called Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is a term as wide and nebulous as is it trendy, but I’m interested in one bit of it, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and what it can do for things like Bastion.
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Trello is a bit of software that essentially lets you organise things by putting them on cards you have to move to “done”. I use Trello a lot. By a lot, I mean incessantly. It is there running my family whether they like or know it or not and it
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It’s “pending release”. That’s right, Bastion–the app, platform, the whole kit and caboodle–is sitting somewhere floating around the interwebs in eternally sunny Cupertino, California. There it lies in the Apple App Store staff’s sweet embrace, cradled next to their collective bosoms before being sweetly kissed
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Recently, I did my song and dance for the fine folks at RGA. RGA is a planetary size digital agency that was interested in hearing me talk about making digital stories and systems that make stories. For this I have immense thanks because I don’t get to do this
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I read somewhere, likely in the annals of 37 Signals lore, that when you’re trying to build something its good to have an enemy. I always agreed with this but never really thought about who or what my particular enemy would be. But still, I loved the idea of
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I’ll finally be releasing an app. It’s going to be out there on the internet for anybody and everybody to use, abuse and lose. Its taken way too long to put it out there though. I wrote a note to myself months ago, well actually more of a
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Pivot. The word itself just looks like something that is not that nice. It sounds as if it might be a part of a ship or a donkey harness used in the Pyrenees in the late 17th century. Or maybe it came from the medieval German for “painful but necessary
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So what have I been up to? Not updating this, but not for lack of wanting to, but for lack of time, energy, the will to continue life with a 2 year old, and surely not because I’ve been skateboarding too much. Nope, none of that for sure. What