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More Thoughts on Apple Pencil

I’m still having a lot of fun with Apple Pencil and Adobe Illustrator Draw (see what I made with them…

Startup Ad Campaigns in the NYC Subway

It’s been interesting to me to see how startups have been advertising in the New York City subway in recent…

First Week with an Apple Pencil

Before I got an Apple Pencil last week I wasn’t sure how much I would use it; now I can’t…

They Can’t All Be Lightning Cables

One of the non-Apple devices that I own had the innards of its Micro USB port literally ripped out by…

Movies vs. Television

Veteran film critic Owen Gleiberman, appearing on Elvis Mitchell’s excellent radio show The Treatment, makes an argument for why the…

Kindle Oasis Is a Reality Check for Design Snobs

Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis is its most elegant and sophisticated yet, but even this latest iteration leaves so much to…

Portrait of a Front-end Programmer

This is a 16th Century painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni that, like many others, has been hilariously mashed up with…

A New Polaroid Camera from The Impossible Project

The Impossible Project, which has been tilting at windmills for several years trying to bring back Polaroid film and cameras,…

The Struggle for Innovation at The New York Times

Writing in The Harvard Business Review, John Geraci talks about his attempts to innovate during his tenure as Director of…

Steve Miller, Punk Rocker

After being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, multiplatinum selling classic rocker Steve Miller had some unexpectedly…