5ish - Back to Life
When I last wrote to you — checks notes — two months ago, I wrote about “A Sense of Spring”. The good news is that we do indeed appear to be on the doorstep of a new season. The bad news is that we had to go through a hell of a Winter to get here. And many of us are still going through it, in many ways. The vaccines are here, the numbers are finally starting to fall, but the pandemic rages on. These past two months have felt like two years. Just the past few weeks have felt like months. Americans stormed their own Capitol Building. A President impeached — for a second time in one term. I’m not sure what tomorrow brings, but my sincere hope is a simple one: peace and quiet. We need to continue to beat back this virus, of course. But I’ll be happy to have the other bullshit removed as background noise. Focus. Back to work. Back to life. (While such a long hiatus here wasn’t planned, I do have some general writing plans for 2021. I’m still not entirely certain what I want to do here, though another 500-plus of you signed up for this just in the past two months, so… I’m thinking about it.) Links
Posts(Yeah, there are a lot of these…) ❄️ You Know Nothing, Jon SnowAnd certainly most VCs don’t either — myself included… ⚔️ ‘The Mandalorian’ is the Way of Star WarsThe Disney+ show manages to out-Star Wars the movies… 📱 The Goldilocks iPhone 12Tempted by the Max and Mini, I went with the “just right” Regular 🐤 A Fleeting GlimpseUnsolicited feedback on Twitter’s new ‘Fleets’ feature 🖕 Instagram’s Latest Middle FingerThe dark design of Reels replacing the creation button 📥 The Way of the FutureA quick rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash 🎬 Warner’s Offer to Theaters is This: NothingThe HBO Max maneuver seems cruel, though not exactly unusual 🕸 Is the Browser Ready for its Close-Up?Betteridge’s Law aside, it’s time to ask the question again… 💻 The M1 MacBook Air: PerfectionIf it’s not there, it’s very, very close… 🕷 The Cleveland BluesThe Cleveland Indians need a new name; the choice is obvious 🍿 OMG, a Functional Remote!An Apple TV User’s Thoughts on the Chromecast with Google TV 🌉 Wake the Fuck Up, San FranciscoTitle says it all 🎥 ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Just Validated the HBO Max ExperimentHBO Max is Great with ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Being Okay 🚗 Apple’s Future-Proof CarAlways in the future and lacking proof… 🎧 Pretty Great, Pretty Loud, Pretty Expensive, Pretty Heavy, and PrettySome thoughts on the AirPods Max… 📲 Looking Back at My 2020 HomescreenThe Widget and WFH Shuffle… ✍️ So I’ve Been Blogging AgainIn ways big and small… 😞 A Coup of the SoulDonald Trump ends not with a bang… actually, with a bang 🆓 Free as in TwitterTwitter v. Trump actually isn’t all that complicated… 🍎 Intel OutsideCan an old school CEO restore the company as a certain “lifestyle” company once did? ⌨️ A Touching Ending and ReturnFarewell, TouchBar — Welcome back MagSafe? 📺 An Apple TV Universal RemoteAn idea to get Apple back into the living room game… This graphic from almost 6 years ago is fascinating in that it seems pretty binary. Most of these companies are now *far* larger public companies (though some are larger still-private companies), while a few have completely evaporated. fortune.com/2015/01/22/the… Five years ago, a lot of people seemed certain we were in a bubble, now most of these companies look downright cheap (though yes, a few have blown up in spectacular fashion). |
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A Sense of Spring
Friday, November 13, 2020
An election over, a new surge started, hope...
'5G' Will Be the Least Interesting Element of Apple's iPhone Event Tomorrow
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Sizes and colors and 5nm, oh my!
Pivot Back to Phone Calls
Monday, September 28, 2020
Is Zoom actually analogous to in-person at all?
Apple, the Indie Movie
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Tomorrow's event could be a sign of things to come... for Apple events
The Apple TV Job
Sunday, September 6, 2020
The sad state of finding content within our streaming services
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