trying to win the internet.
I love this:
But what people care deeply about and cherish and talk to their therapists most about and fall madly in love with you over is actually your particular combination of ordinary.
The longer I live the longer I see this true in my own life. I’ll give you a very, very personal example:
I found this to be very useful (and it’s entirely true):
These are epic:
My brother recently got a new 360 VR camera via Garmin called Virb 360. You can see a number of his tests below:
The power of being reminded. Is it a bit meta to be reminding you about the power of being reminded (which is all about repetition)?
I dunno. Take a look:
I wrote a post yesterday about raising a round of venture capital for my startup which is important for two reasons, the first is the fact that it’s the first time we’ve been “officially” public about it and second because it was an opportunity to highlight a powerful principle that we all know intellectually but oftentimes forget.
I hate when that happens.
Yesterday I installed the new Eero Home Wifi system in my house and I’m excited to say that it’s working exactly how I had hoped it would work.
In short, although I have loved my Apple AirPort Time Capsule (3 Terabytes!!) it just wasn’t able to get into my apartment bedroom which was sadly only 15 feet away or so.
This is neat little tidbit of news (although it feels “big” for me, personally): Both MNML App and Desk App are featured in the Apps for Writers category in the Mac App Store.
And, as far as I know, I believe I’m the only one to have two apps simultaneously featured in a perennial category like this:
Spoiler alert… it’s mental health, something that I document on this blog a bit.
Specifically, depression is still, unfortunately, taboo but I think things are changing. Folks like Brad Feld and Jerry Colonna and others like Rand Fishkin are going on record with being not only diagnosed with it but who are actively sharing their stories.
I was chatting with my brother who’s gone through the full gamut recently of putting together a new project(s) and I shared with him earlier this morning these three powerful and omnipresent principles that always seem to happen, regardless of how experienced one might be in building new projects and/or companies.
Even for myself and my new-ish project, Pinpoint, our team has experienced these things in spades! And, of course, I’ve experienced it countless times when putting together smaller indie projects and apps as well: