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Gmail thinks my name is a distraction
If you use Gmail, you might have noticed something different in the last few months: it has started to hide you name at the end of messages. It’s not permanently gone, but the message reader must...
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Video: What I’ve learned in a year of tracking habits
Can an app help you develop habits? For the last year I’ve been using the Lift iPhone app to track (and motivate) my life habits. Here is a talk I gave at the Quantified Self Meetup a couple weeks ago...
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Book Review: “Who Owns the Future” by Jaron Lanier
I’m not in Boston, but am big fan of Sara M. Watson and am reading along with her Boston Book Club. The first book was “Who Owns the Future” by Jaron Lanier. “Who Owns the Future” is a book that asks...
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When lives were mysteries. Does openness mean boringness?
Reddit user korrtuul comments on life in 1990’s without mobile phones: Actually, I didn’t mind the lack of cellphones so much. It’s not like we had anything to compare it to mind you, it just was the...
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Rediscovering my love of letters
Recently I’ve fallen in love with letters again. In high school I got way into letters: fonts, lettering, calligraphy, the whole works. For a short time after college I even got paid for it, doing...
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In December I gave a 5 minute talk about my renewed love of handmade letters. Here is the video, finally posted. In a previous post I linked to all the artists I mention in the talk. Enjoy!
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2014 Year in Webcam and Screetshots
I spend most of my waking life sitting in front of a computer. There, I said it. Three years ago I wrote LifeSlice, a small program that takes pictures of me every hour while I work. It’s become a...
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A Year Well Sliced – My talk from QS Amsterdam Conference
I somehow missed that my talk from 2013 was posted online. In this talk I discuss my analysis of a year’s worth of LifeSlice photos, seeing how I spend my time in front of the screen. My photo is taken...
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7th Kingdom Podcast returns
7,500,000,000,000 kilometers away and you see this on your phone. Wow.What excites you in life? After thinking we were too busy in 2015 to continue our little podcast, Jason and I decided that we...
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Handy Bird: Play Flappy Bird by actually flapping your hands using doppler...
It’s almost too crazy to believe. A web page can bounce sound off your hand and hear changes caused by your movement. Play it now here: https://wanderingstan.github.io/handybird/ Does not work in...
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