Writer. Ballplayer. Part Robot. Host of @Sandlot_social. Short Fiction in @on_squ @wsrlitjournal @hobartpulp and @pankmagazine.
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22 Dec 2021
Last spring, I started playing baseball again in Austin, TX. This spring, I'll be telling you all about what's happening in the world of sandlot baseball in a new podcast. Check out our trailer and pls follow #playmorebaseball open.spotify.com/episode/297…
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26 Oct 2020
Espn shares the betting lines and tells you how much money you can win on the #WorldSeries before the start of every game..meanwhile Pete Rose is still banned from baseball for betting on his team to WIN.
21 Oct 2020
That moment when you realize you put the cheese away with the crackers last night, and now the cheese is dead.
15 Oct 2020
Tech sells innovation. But just because it comes on a screen, or in the cloud, doesn't make it the future. The reality is the industry's plagued by too few good, new ideas, a deep conservatism, and decisions driven mostly by fear of losing market share, influence, and power.
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14 Oct 2020
Product dream: the equivalent of an answering machine for texts to help manage time away from phone: Adam's phone is off right now or he's left it at home or perhaps thrown it into a lake. He'll get back to you soon, or maybe never.
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8 Oct 2020
"There are two wolves inside you," said the old man. "They are fighting to the death."
"That's a pretty used-up meme format," said the boy without looking up from his phone.
"You and that damn phone," said the old man.
mcsweeneys.net/articles/ther…
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13 Oct 2020
It's normal to feel small when an insidious menace of wealth and power is attempting to seize control of your life and rule over you till the end of time.
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3 Feb 2019
Interesting. One of the responses mentioned that some healthcare providers in the US have begun to refer to 'patients' as 'customers' internally. I'm struggling to see what's wrong with patient though.
3 Feb 2019
Oooh interesting...yeah, I guess it does depend on context!
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1 Feb 2019
Personas are well intentioned, for sure. As are many of the other techniques that aim to add complexity to the "user." They help, but they don't solve the problems I'm talking about as much as they mitigate them (imo). Ultimately, I'm not ready to bank the future on personas.
31 Jan 2019
Interesting read, but I don't really agree. You haven't addressed the other side of UX at all, user research, where you try to understand your users and develop/refine personas. From there I think it's reasonable to stop saying "users" and use the personas to guide discussions.
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26 Jan 2019
I would totally agree -- it's more about what's underneath the word. But to do so we need to break old habits. It will be difficult to find new definitions while using the same words. We need to enter that uncomfortable, term-less space, explore, try new things, etc...
26 Jan 2019
I refuse to change my language while still having the same definition, I see this way too often. Instead of changing names, change the damn definition!
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25 Jan 2019
I've always suspected Steve Jobs would hate what has happened to the iphone. nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opini…
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15 Jan 2019
Back at the writing thing in 2019. First up, an article on @medium about my work resolution to stop saying #user, #userexperience and #ux. Let's shake up #design and build better #tech this year. medium.com/@LeftonBomb/why-i…
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2 Jul 2018
Lebron James is the greatest American athlete, and he now begins his quest to conquer what many Americans prior to him sought to conquer: the west. What a narrative for our time.
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10 Jun 2018
Damon in @nytimes on what happens when economic anxiety becomes so foundational to your life (and so crippling) that you can't escape it, even when your circumstances suggest you should be able to.
nyti.ms/2JuQvnX
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16 May 2018
Mixed feelings on Microsoft's "AI" commercial. Guy uses "AI" to recreate the experience of being inside ancient monuments. V cool. But would be cooler if we just lived in a sustainable, peaceful world and didn't have to use machines to recreate the things we've destroyed, right?
19 Apr 2018
The great thing about IKEA’s new collection with this fashion guy is that it’s going to look great when we all live in 10x10 cubes we rent from Amazon.
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