Coffee to Go
Camping with cappuccinos ain’t half bad. Thanks to Rocket for the espresso machine, Option-O for the grinder, Rivian for the power, Minor Figures for the milk, and Linea for the beans.
Randy Reddig
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Faster than Luce
The Internet reacted faster than light to Ferrari’s debut of their first EV, the Luce . With a track record of shipping controversial designs and road cars without V-12s , Ferrari knows exactly who they are—the exclusive purveyor of a driving experience packaged by Jony Ive . The other N of 1 established: the only EV with a prancing horse, the only Ferrari that seats 5. What hasn’t changed:…
With a little help from my friends
This website has existed in various forms for over 25 years . Earlier this week, with the help of Claude , I ported it from Jekyll on Heroku , to Hugo on GitHub Pages , and eventually to a simple container on Fly.io (hi Kurt!). The last time I overhauled it was 2014, from a lodge in New Zealand . With Claude, I explored a few dozen decision trees, tradeoffs on hosting, exploring costs and…
Seven years later…
Would you believe it took a while to reinstall Ruby?
One Year
2015, the year our rubber hit the road. Lian , you’re the best partner I could hope for.
Mobile will eat the branch
Where mobile money accounts outnumber bank accounts and where they will : …because most Africans never had access to traditional bank accounts, there are no powerful incumbent interests keeping people locked in them. Almost everyone thinks the mobile payments revolution will come to America someday, but it’s already arrived in much of Africa and will come to dominate that continent before any…
rr.co
Since 2009, thousands of companies like Instagram , Sidecar , and Square have used Domainr to find the right domain name. With just a few taps, anyone can quickly search the entire range of extensions from .app to .zone . We initially created Domainr to scratch our own itch. We needed help naming our products and felt dissatisfied with existing options for finding domain names. As fans of short…
Ferguson Elsewhere
Max Fisher , writing for Vox, covers Ferguson as if it happened in another country : Missouri, far-removed from the glistening capital city of Washington, is ostensibly ruled by a charismatic but troubled official named Jay Nixon, who has appeared unable to successfully intervene and has resisted efforts at mediation from central government officials. Complicating matters, President Obama is…
The last time we did this…
Time to Explore
The plan: cover 3,200 miles over four weeks, from Prudhoe Bay to Glacier National Park via Denali, the Yukon, BC, ferries, flights, roads, and (according to Beau ) longboards . We leave, for better or worse, today. See you in a month!
The Sound of Inevitability
Greg Tracy took the EV record and 2nd place overall in this year’s Pikes Peak Hillclimb . Next year, I expect electrics to take the overall record—and pretty much every other racing category by the end of the decade. Greg’s Run
雨音の由来
The Sound of Rain Spoon & Tamago via Gizmodo
Houseboat 2014 Supercut
Cinematography: David Moss
The Best Answer
I find yes/no questions incredibly useful as filters to help guide complex decisions. Forcing a decision tree into a series of yes/no questions can help cut through the fog of apples-to-oranges comparisons, bias, or ambiguous data. Recently, with respect to product, I like to ask this one: Have you created the best answer to somebody’s question? In this question, “somebody” represents the…
Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand
Last week I spent a few days unplugged, hiking in the south island of New Zealand. A debt of gratitude to Michael, Allen, Yvonne, and team at Wilderness Lodge for the incredible welcome.
Shiny Hammers
Shiny Hammers , from two talks I gave in October 2013—Optimal Experience in Wellington, New Zealand and the H2O Summit at LinkedIn HQ.
10,000 Goodnight Kisses
Trans-Pacific flights + love songs for my better half @ 124 BPM. Download “10,000 Goodnight Kisses” mixtape (120MB / 256kbps AAC) Track List The Afro-Soultet — Afrodesia Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Two Against One Karmon — Feel It Ultraísta — Smalltalk (Four Tet Remix) Bonobo — Cirrus Foals — Big Big Love (Fig.2) Daft Punk — Giorgio by Moroder Steve Aoki — Heartbreaker (feat. Lovefoxxx) Miike…
Good Design
Pretty gets you 30 seconds. Usable gets 5 minutes. Useful gets a customer.
Honey Junket
Last December, I wanted to see if Bonobo could mix with hip-hop ( turns out it does ), and work outside my 125 BPM comfort zone . Thanks to the guys at Rap Genius for the inspiration (and the help). This is the result: Download “Honey Junket” mixtape (256kbps MP4 / AAC, 61MB) Track List Atmosphere — The Woman With The Tattooed Hands KiD CuDi — Maui Wowie Ming + FS — Is There Honey? Rhymefest —…
Good Days Ahead
Chipped away learning to mix hip-hop, I present Bonobo’s “ Days to Come ” (2006) narrated by Big K.R.I.T. “ Good Foot ” (2011). Download “Good Days Ahead” MP4 / AAC Audio (5.5MB)