A year ago or so, I discovered a band who goes by the name Vulfpeck. We’ve featured just about everything they’ve done since then, on No Treble. I’m a huge fan if you hadn’t noticed, thanks in large part to … →
If this hadn’t happened to me, I would not believe this story. Consider yourself warned: it is not a short story. Just be thankful I’m likely forgetting some of the steps here. My iPhone 5 started acting weird around lunchtime … →
The summer of 1988 was a wild one for me. I was 19 years old, about to transfer to the University of North Texas and was getting sad about leaving my friends behind. Oh, and I had major back surgery. … →
I’ve been running iTunes Match since last year, slowly but surely converting my CD library into a dream-come-true library in the cloud, accessible wherever I go. This service is like musical Christmas for me: hit shuffle and one of 6,200+ … →
I’ve been spending a lot of evenings looking at Kickstarter. It started with the goal of just figuring out what makes successful campaigns successful. It ended up with funding more than a couple, and watching even more. The Monkey Kit … →
About a year ago, I gave a Refresh talk on the idea that we should put a stop to the new year resolution stuff. I figured it is worth repeating today. It is easy to think of this first day … →
At around 7:35pm, seven years ago today, I sent an email to the then tiny Squidoo team that we were live and things were working (we went live a couple of hours before, but it wasn’t quite there). And so, … →
My girls gave me an incredible gift for my birthday this year: they had some of my old cassette tapes digitized. These weren’t just any old cassettes – these contained music I had written and/or performed years ago, and these … →
Squidoo Postcards started back in the spring as a simple idea, inspired by Paul Adams’ book, Grouped. It has been an exciting (and exhausting) project ever since. And like all good projects with lots of smart people working on them … →
I wrote this on my iPhone while standing in line to vote this morning. It felt important enough to share. This is important to remember every day, but worth an extra reminder today: Worry about what you can control. When … →
