Adam Keys @akk@refactorcamp.org
Walking through the current customer acquisition hypothesis: https://short.therealadam.com/2021/02/21/walking-through-the.html
Notes on the invention of networked video gaming: https://short.therealadam.com/2021/02/20/notes-on-the.html
Darlene Love re: Phil Spector 🔥: https://short.therealadam.com/2021/01/29/darlene-love-re.html
When I first walked past the TV and saw Biden behind the big-fancy desk in the Oval Office, it sunk in for me: competence is back. Bluster and bullying, for the moment, are on the decline.
President Biden begins signing a tall stack of executive orders during his first Oval Office appea... https://short.therealadam.com/2021/01/20/when-i-first.html
On repeat (which I rarely do, lately): Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock. Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, heck yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyrean_Isles
Perspectives on creativity for 2021: https://short.therealadam.com/2021/01/09/perspectives-on-creativity.html
Mike Perham: Redis is a Swiss-army knife: https://short.therealadam.com/2020/12/14/mike-perham-redis.html
Better meetings (but also fewer, mostly): https://short.therealadam.com/2020/11/11/better-meetings-but.html
Annabel Scheme, the New Golden Gate, and the misplaced metropolitan nostalgia: https://short.therealadam.com/2020/10/29/annabel-scheme-the.html
Product Hunt’s async work: everyone in their own swimlane: https://short.therealadam.com/2020/10/28/product-hunts-async.html
How to succeed at blogging by not even trying too hard: https://short.therealadam.com/2020/09/13/how-to-succeed.html
Austin Kleon’s list of perfect albums: #perfect31. Non-compilation albums, no songs worth skipping. Discovering these albums is one of my favorite things about listening to music. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was the first one I found myself, when I was sixteen. Blew my mind. https://austinkleon.com/2020/08/31/perfect31/
Matt Webb on Asimov’s Foundation, and what’s unique about science fiction:
Like any scientific endeavour it starts as a phenomenological exercise: what’s happening? How does this thing behave in various circumstances? Then beginning to probe: what are its limits? How do we break the p... https://short.therealadam.com/2020/08/30/matt-webb-on.html
iOS feature request: write-only interfaces & "smoke-break": https://short.therealadam.com/2020/08/17/ios-feature-request.html
Determined Disney fan recreates the original Disneyland version of the Alice In Wonderland ride-through in 3D. Same, but for Mr. Toad, one of my top 3 Disneyland favorites. https://twitter.com/djcarson/status/1292836604663304200?s=12
In my too-frequent skimming of German sports cars for sale near me, I came across a BMW 135i with a black exterior and interior. It’s a tempting car, but I’m afraid it says “I listen to two kinds of music: Kraftwerk on cassette and Kraftwerk on vinyl”.👴
