Dan Bulwinkle

Version 0.90 The Bad During the pandemic I kept my phone in airplane mode, for no particular reason other than I was mostly in a place where there was wifi, and my phone worked with wifi calling as many modern cell providers operate.

Version 0.96 Noah Wyle in Pirates of Silicon Valley, the only Steve Jobs movie worth watching A couple years ago I was in Healdsburg, CA with a mission to find some art to decorate my house.

Version 0.91 Two Computer Science Departments In high school, I participated in a summer program at a university that is consistently tied for the best computer science department in the world.

Version 0.96 Several years ago Chris Beiser asked people on Twitter what books no one else would recommend that give you “alpha.”

Version 0.95 This evening, Travis Kalanik put out a call for tips to find the right “re-founding” CEO for a company he purchasedcalled eXtremeGammon.

Version 0.95 A few weeks ago I eliminated my Amazon account.

Version 0.88 Double stud walls provide a thermal break between studs.

Version 0.96 Stanley, winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Version 0.91 Just Looking to Buy Some Low Voltage Wire In February of last year, I went to Home Depot to get some low voltage wire.

Version 0.9 A few years ago there was a lot of hype around Mullvad VPN, particularly on Hacker News.

Version 0.97 The CEO of Mom's Organic asking for feedback The CEO of a company is responsible for 3 things: the vision of the company, the talent, and cash flow.

One UX issue that I run into more often than I’d like: when you type in a text box and a list or drop down appears and you tap on it immediately, only to learn that between the milliseconds that your brain executed the tap and your fingers touched the scr…

A Hotel Lobby1 Version 0.95 The Problem I’ll quickly review some issues with the hotel experience, though I imagine they are evident to most people.

Passive House in Brooklyn.

Version 1.0 Some years ago I saw a well-known1 investor on Twitter say, in effect, thatif he decided not to invest in you, don’t ask for referrals.

Version 0.9 When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than usinga phone.

One of the challenges for blogging consistently is finding the time to do itand make good posts.

The mystery surrounding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin,has been entertaining and somewhat frustrating to observe.

I frequent the /new page of Hacker News, usually to find interesting articlesthat were missed by the masses1.

In February 2000, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk met at a cafe on University Avenue in Palo Alto to discuss merging Confinity and X.com, their respective companies.

In spring of 2017 I was about to move from San Francisco down the peninsula.

Participating in the transition from Blockbuster through Netflix online streaming service was an interesting lesson in change of market dynamics.

I consider myself a crypto altruist; I don’t subscribe to any sort of maximalism of any cryptocurrency.

I still go to the grocery store in part for the experience and the discovery process.

Hyperloop concept from the original SpaceX white paper.