The South End Rowing Club (review)
The South End (aka SERC) is one of two swimming-rowing clubs that share a building in Aquatic Park, right next […]
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Unfinished or quasi-finished prose that hasn’t been published elsewhere
Swimming, cold water, and a bunch of awesome veterans.
I was a kayaker this morning for a group of veterans swimming from Alcatraz to SF. It was a great
Four takeaways from the bankruptcy auction of Gawker Media
Univision is acquiring Gawker Media for $135 million, news reports confirmed yesterday, beating out Ziff Davis in an auction for the media company’s assets. Here’s what that means for the media industry.
Recapturing the dream of open social media
It’s hard to imagine now, but the web once meant far more than Google and Facebook. In the early days,
What I learned in college
I was one of those students who did very well in high school and college, and then, once I graduated,
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Altamont
Driving down from the Altamont Pass, the highway curves through a long, shallow, descending valley on its way down to
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Motivation and inspiration
It’s been almost exactly a year since I left a salaried job and went independent. This is now the third
Slot machines, magicians, and app designers
Around the turn of the century, people started talking about the “attention economy.” A natural outgrowth of the ad-supported Web,
My brain was begging me for relief from social media
Taking control of your social media use may be the most rewarding life hacking technique I know of, given its ratio of benefit to effort. I