Dylan Tweney

Notes

The VR office of the future.

“Oculus Rift headsets are expensive, bulky, and block out the real world completely. But like the early Logitech webcams, they’re just the starting point. Eventually, VR tech will become smaller, lighter, and—especially in the case of mixed-reality—far less intrusive. When that happens, VR is going

Dylan Tweney Jul 20, 2016 1 min read

Rough Drafts

Narrative specificity.

Narrative specificity means avoiding generalizations and using details to make your story come to life. Leave it out, and your words will be hollow and dead, like empty snail shells strewn across the dirt. It’s not surprising that many writers miss this point, particularly in politics and business.

Dylan Tweney Jul 19, 2016 2 min read

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“I have to say, I get a lot of inspiration from just going out and pretending I’ve never been to this planet before. It’s a great way to remember just how absurd, strange, beautiful, and unlikely everything is around you.” Brendan Constantine

Dylan Tweney Jul 15, 2016

Rough Drafts

Alcatraz.

Yesterday I realized a dream I’ve had ever since I started open water swimming around 2010. I swam from Alcatraz back to San Francisco. It’s about 1.25 miles though we covered a bit more water than that due to fighting the current a little. In all, it took me one hour and 13 minutes in pretty […]

Dylan Tweney Jul 14, 2016 4 min read

Notes

You have to take it upon yourself to be an infinitely fantastic person.

Henry Rollins: “Since an upgrade will not occur on a national level via presidential pen stroke or SCOTUS decision, you have to take it upon yourself to be an infinitely fantastic person every single day. There will be times when it will be a bitch to be so awesome, but you’ll handle it. This centur

Dylan Tweney Jul 14, 2016

Notes

‘They’ as a singular pronoun.

If someone wants to use “they” as a singular pronoun, they have every right to do so.

Dylan Tweney Jul 13, 2016

Media Appearances

Life advice with Guy Kawasaki.

Guy Kawasaki is positive, outgoing, easygoing, and full of lots of remarkably concrete, practical advice. Last night I interviewed Guy in front of a crowd of about 100-150 young entrepreneurs at General Assembly San Francisco, in an event cosponsored by Draper University and Young Professionals of S

Dylan Tweney Jul 8, 2016 3 min read

Notes

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. —Muriel Rukeyser

Dylan Tweney Jul 8, 2016

Notes

Who was Vincent Chin?

At last night’s conversation with Guy Kawasaki, someone in the audience asked about the 1982 Vincent Chin case and whether it made a difference to Guy’s perspective on racism or the treatment of Asian-Americans generally. Neither he nor I had heard of the case. The questioner expressed some surprise

Dylan Tweney Jul 8, 2016 1 min read

Notes

Status update.

Somehow all the major kitchen appliances have managed to go on the fritz simultaneously. The oven thermostat died, the fridge warms up to 60 degrees unless you defrost its freezer every 3 days, the dishwasher stopped draining fully and now leaks onto the floor, and the radio died. All just when the

Dylan Tweney Jun 30, 2016

Notes

Salt water.

“Do you know a cure for me?” “Why yes,” he said, “I know a cure for everything. Salt water.” “Salt water?” I asked him. “Yes,” he said, “in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.” –Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen) (image credit)

Dylan Tweney Jun 23, 2016

Notes

Facebook control

I have deliberately avoided logging on to Facebook on the new laptop since I got it, so for the past 2 weeks Facebook has been a mobile only experience for me. I have to say, it is greatly cutting down on the amount of time I spend distracting myself with it when I’m supposed to […]

Dylan Tweney Jun 16, 2016

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