Startup Lessons from Gaugamela
Last night, just as I was about to close Phillip Freeman’s biography on Alexander to get to sleep (listening to my body, a must in your forties), I came across the section about Alexander’s preparation for the Battle of Gaugamela and couldn’t help but connect it to many planning sessions I’ve been in at various startups. […]
Three Years with Meta’s Smart Glasses
With smart glasses, we can still keep connected, but the cool thing is that Meta’s glasses allow me to be more present in the physical world, to use technology as I need it in the moment, then move on with my day.
Nijiya has good food
On Monday I was at the rheumatologist for a check up and decided to swing by Nijiya on Post Street to pick up a few bento boxes for the family.
Protected: Home with Covid
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My daughter’s first DALL-E prompts
I introduced genAI images for her to see what she would create
Hands on the wheel
I’m reading Build the Life You Want – written by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah (!) for the new year. I picked it up from the library on a day where my daughter and I swore off our devices, just to see how addicted we were to our screens. Last year was a time of […]
Midlife friendships
I have three or four texts with once-close-friends. They’re all messages where we try to catch up and rekindle something about our friendships. We were once close and yet – and yet – for the past decade or so, I’ve never felt more adrift from them. One day you look up and the friends with […]
Hide & Seek
I’ve been falling into the embrace of Imogen Heap’s voice. Her harmonization with the vocoder still sounds futuristic and surreal after all these years. The audacity to record 5 minute track with just her raw voice is incredible. Innovator. Mad scientist. Creator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIAfiVGluk
Just Like Heaven
I’ve been listening to a lot of music that was on heavy rotation during my college years. It takes 15 minutes to drive Madeleine to school each day, and that’s good enough for 3-4 songs. For the last few weeks, I’ve been listening repeatedly to the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”. I knew the song was […]
Photoshop’s Generative AI & Memories
I remember taking this photo vividly in December 2013. Christen and I were in a little town near Mrauk U, on the edge of Myanmar near the Indian Ocean and up the Lemro River. It was late afternoon. We were crossing a bridge, feet throbbing from a day of exploring the bewildering complex of 15th-century […]