TechpadinPersonal Silicon Valley Is Back and It Got Meaner Silicon Valley's season three premiere hit the office harder than expected, and the Jack Barker storyline is scarier than anything in season one. April 26, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Still Waiting on the Rift My Oculus Rift preorder from January just got pushed back thanks to a component shortage, and it's got me thinking about how little "estimated ship date" actually means. March 25, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Snowed In With a Dead Modem A weekend blizzard knocked out my internet for the better part of a day and exposed just how untested my "backup plan" actually was. January 26, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Snowed In With Surge Pricing Dug out from the East Coast blizzard this weekend and can't stop thinking about the Uber surge-pricing screenshots flooding my Twitter feed instead of the storm coverage itself. January 24, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Billionaires Writing Letters to Babies A cold cup of coffee, Zuckerberg's letter to his newborn daughter, Adele's Spotify holdout, and a coworker's spreadsheet for Star Wars tickets, all colliding in one scroll of the News Feed. December 2, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Finally Saw the Steve Jobs Movie Finally saw the Sorkin/Boyle Steve Jobs movie and have some scattered opinions, plus a tangent about Surface Book unboxings and the new taco emoji. October 27, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Pepsi Perfect and the Future We Actually Got Back to the Future Day came and went this week, and the thing I actually remember isn't the hoverboards. It's watching a $20 soda bottle turn into a $200 eBay listing in about four hours. October 25, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Finally Saw the Jobs Movie (And I Have Feelings) A weekend trip to see the new Steve Jobs movie, some gripes about how Fassbender plays the cruelty, and a stray thought about Twitter's layoffs the same week. October 16, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Steve Jobs Movie Isn't Playing Here Yet The new Sorkin/Danny Boyle Steve Jobs movie is only playing in four theaters this week, which has me thinking about this blog's own origin story and Sorkin's dialogue tics while I wait my turn. October 13, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Steve Jobs Movie, and Why I Couldn't Turn My Brain Off Afterward Caught the new Fassbender/Sorkin Steve Jobs movie on opening weekend and have thoughts on the dialogue, the timeline compression, and an unrelated EU data ruling that ruined my mood between scenes. October 10, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Four Theaters, One Movie I Can't See Yet The Sorkin/Boyle "Steve Jobs" movie opened today in four theaters that aren't near me, which got me thinking about biopic accuracy, my unfinished Isaacson biography, and the accidental echo of Microsoft's own product-launch theater this same week. October 9, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Watch Would Not Stop Buzzing About the Crash A few days of getting stock-market panic buzzed straight to my wrist, plus the Windows 10 tray icon that won't quit nagging me. August 26, 2015·3 min read
