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December, 2015

San Francisco, enough is enough. It's time to look further afield.

This afternoon, Greg Wester tweeted this screen grab: Your eyes are not deceiving you. That's a 420 square foot studio apartment - not even a one bedroom - for $3,050 a month. That's a base cost: your bills, and most likely parking, are extra. There are only two kinds of people who ...
December 30, 2015

My 2016 year in review

Rather than taking a retrospective look back at 2015, I think it's interesting to look ahead think about what I want my themes for the next year to be, both personally and professional. Here's mine; I'd love to see yours. Be more social. I want to spend more time around more people. Humans are ...
December 28, 2015

How to shorten a tweet

It can be hard to keep status messages to 140 characters or less (or a 116 character message if you've included a link). I realized recently that I follow the same algorithm to bring it down to size every time, so I thought I'd write down my steps. Maybe the ...
December 21, 2015

The complicated, liberating metadata of my future children

My future children, should I have any, will come from a tapestry of places. From my side of their lineage alone, they will come from three continents. They will have multiple passports. They'll share my sense of both coming from a specific place but also no place at all. I ...
December 19, 2015

Why we built Known

Known has become the easiest way to create an online community to support your class or group. We've built an easy-to-use platform that lets people publish in a group with a variety of media, from blog posts and photographs to files and points on a map. Each post can be private ...
December 8, 2015