Japan: On Film
Japan: Shot on 35mm Film
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Retro Japan
Released in 2010, the Fujifilm FinePix Z70 is a stylish, ultra-compact 12MP digital camera featuring a 5x optical zoom.
Retro London
The Fujifilm FinePix Z35 is a slim, stylish 10 MP point-and-shoot first announced on July 22, 2009.
Cities in Motion
A city in motion is a living symphony—every street a melody, every face a note in its ever-changing score.
Hong Kong: On Film
Hong Kong: Shot on 35mm Film
2020: Exploring The United States
2020: Exploring The United States
NYC MTA Ridership over COVID-19
NYC MTA Ridership over COVID-19
LISA, 2019
Talked about hiring remote and hiring everywhere! And how to maintain a healthy team while leveraging the distributed benefits. Download Slides PDF -->
The Apple Card: Should You Get One?
A review of the Apple Card — best-in-class interface, Goldman Sachs backing, and whether the rewards make it worth carrying.
SRECon Singapore, 2019
Talked about hiring remote and hiring everywhere! And how to maintain a healthy team while leveraging the distributed benefits.
10 Things I have learnt after flying a Million Miles
Hard-won lessons from a million miles in the air — from being kind to cabin crew to why you should never walk barefoot on a plane.
Expressway Approach into LaGuardia
One of the hardest places to land in the world — the manual, no-ILS expressway visual approach into New York LaGuardia.
32: A Year in the Life
78 flights, 173,539 miles, 14 countries, and finally signing a lease after two years on the road.
31: A Year in the Life
A year of constant travel across six continents, 30,000 miles in 10 days, and the search for something that feels like home.
Incident Response
What the crash landing of British Airways Flight 38 teaches us about incident response — think fast, act fast, delegate fast.
Digital Nomad Life: tech in my backpack
The gear that keeps a full-time remote worker connected across 6 continents, 17 countries, and 7 time zones — everything has to earn its place.
Altitude 2017
Talked about BuzzFeed’s push to giving developers more autonomy and building the tools needed to empower them.
checklists: an operational gift
Why no production operation is too small for a checklist, and how to write one that your team can actually use under pressure.
The Most Wanted iPhone 7 Feature Nobody Talks About
Forget the dual camera — the iPhone feature a digital nomad actually needs is a carrier-agnostic SIM that works everywhere.
2015: In Black and White
Year in travel
A Town in Two Countries - The Baarle Problem
The bizarre border of Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, where an international boundary between Belgium and the Netherlands cuts through buildings and cafes.
Schumacher isn’t my Hero, my Mother is. But he taught me a lot about life.
‘Life lessons from Michael Schumacher — on winning at all costs, acting before worrying, and never giving up no matter the odds.’
An ode to a dying friend. Blackberry, you will be missed!
A farewell to BlackBerry — the company that invented the smartphone, and how it lost the plot from scroll wheels to touchscreens.