How I stay productive
Fast Company asked me how I manage to be productive, which gave me a chance to explain how I use […]
Field Notes
2013
VentureBeat
Dylan’s Desk: What you need to do to get more women at your conference — or company
Last year, Courtney Stanton organized a conference for game developers whose 12-person speaker roster was half women, and half men. And she
Field Notes
It is a felony to take more than 3 copies of our newspaper
Felony, originally uploaded by dtweney. This is on the box for the Daily News, one of San Mateo’s free newspapers.
VentureBeat
Swipp hopes to make your status updates into collective, global knowledge
Swipp, a new “social intelligence platform,” is trying to bridge the gap between evanescent, useless social data (I ate a
VentureBeat
Once king of enterprise software, Lotus Notes is dragging IBM down
Published on VentureBeat When IBM bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995, it looked as though the venerable computing giant
VentureBeat
We need more people like Aaron Swartz
Here is my latest column on VentureBeat: We need more people like Aaron Swartz. I spent much of the past
Field Notes
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception
“In short, Aaron Swartz was not the super hacker breathlessly described in the Government’s indictment and forensic reports, and his
VentureBeat
Dylan’s Desk: CES still matters, even if you hate it
After a two-week holiday break, my VentureBeat column is back. This week: why CES still matters. Coincidentally, this morning NPR
Poems
Small stones #4-7
My son asks me to time him, then bolts down the sidewalk and out of sight between two strangers. He
Poems
Small stone #3
Jupiter shines, a pale yellow beacon, almost directly overhead. In the distance, the sound of freeway traffic, like surf.