The Google Flight Info Trick
When I first stumbled across this, I thought I was the only one who hadn’t heard about it. Now I find myself telling other travelers about it all the time and am consistently surprised that they don’t...
View ArticleThe Boys in the Boat and the O-Ring Theory of Development
I can’t keep track of the number of times I’ve done a post just to point at one of Phil Windley’s posts. But there’s a good reason: Phil’s a highly discriminating thinker and writer who hits some nails...
View ArticleThe Offer Letter of Your Dreams from eShares
Ironically, this post has nothing to do with my company going live with eShares online equity management service yesterday. The only connection is that it may be the reason (in some scary way I haven’t...
View ArticleZootopia Is My Happy Place
I don’t think I’ve had such a good time at the movies since Little Miss Sunshine. If you just want to smile—and laugh—and clap—and feel like dancing all over the theatre—don’t miss this. And don’t...
View ArticleEven Just Two Days Can Be a Vacation
“Summer vacation” this year consisted of just two days—the only two days my two sons could free up to take off with my wife and I. There wasn’t even enough time to go out of town, so finally we had a...
View ArticleWhat He Said (about Sovrin)
I joke with Phil Windley that half my blog posts are about his blog posts. But there’s a good reason for that. Phil’s a prolific blogger because he’s a prolific thinker, and there is a very high...
View ArticleUnited Wifi: How Can It Be So Bad?
I just flew United non-stop from Seattle to Washington D.C. (Dulles) and back. I realized too late after booking the trip that this was the airline on which I had never successfully connected to their...
View ArticleAm I Completely Missing Something or Did AirBNB Map View Just Go Away?
As heads-down as I have been working on SSI (self-sovereign identity) for the past 18 months (that’s why no posts during that period), once again a broken customer experience has provoked me to break...
View ArticleGiving Workona a Second Chance
This is the first post I’ve made in 2 years—for the simple reason that my day job in SSI (the acronym for Self-Sovereign Identity—click the link and read the book if you want to learn more) has been...
View ArticleSpeaking Up
Over the past year, I have been so engrossed in building decentralized digital trust infrastructure that I haven’t made a single post on this blog. But this morning, in a newsletter from The Atlantic,...
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