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Photography has always been about capturing light.
Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.
Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.
I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.
Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.
Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.
For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.
I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed.
Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.
Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.
Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!
Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.
Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.
Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.
Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.
In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.
We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.
I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.
The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.
When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.
Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.
In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.
For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.
Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.
There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.
I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.
Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.
On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.
Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.
Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.
The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.
Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.