Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This is a great story for Independence Day. Frank Buckles is the last surviving American veteran of WWI, having been born in 1901 and enlisted in the Army at the age of 17. Stationed first in England and then in France, Buckles had many roles including serving as a diver on the ship that a [...]
Ross makes a couple of interesting observations about the value of end user support for complex products. As this relates to Apple, Ross’ inspiration for the post, they really nail it when it comes to customer experience. First they create products that minimize the need for support and then they couple that to a retail [...]
This latest post in my continuing series of profiles about artists I like features John Eric Byers, who combines two of my favorite artistic niches, woodworking (carving) and textured finishes. Byers range of work is pretty narrow but it reflects a highly skilled achievement in a specialty field of woodworking that is very difficult, carving. [...]
San Francisco spends $2.3 million to coddle convicted crack dealers, meanwhile the potholes only get worse. If there is a better metaphor for everything that is wrong with SF’s city government I can’t think of it, and Newsom wants to be governor for the entire state. The potholes are so bad in SF that I [...]