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Jan 7, 2022

User hostile design from airlines

Never connect your FlyingBlue frequent flier account to your Air France account — I hate being a person who complains about a bad customer experience, but this frequent flier design loop from hell, courtesy of Air France and Delta is worth documenting. As someone who spends a lot of time talking about the ways that user interfaces get grafted onto analog experiences to…

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User hostile design from airlines
User hostile design from airlines

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May 9, 2021

Fixing Oregon’s broken high school tennis format

A proposal for making tennis more accessible, competitive & fun for Oregon HS athletes. — Talking about a high school tennis format is a pretty niche discussion. Nonetheless, since I began coaching high school tennis in Oregon a few years ago — as a hobby — I’ve made a side quest of activating anyone who cares to fix what’s broken about the issue that makes…

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Fixing Oregon’s broken high school tennis format
Fixing Oregon’s broken high school tennis format

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Sep 10, 2019

Postcards from Vimpeli

I traveled to Vimpeli, Finland for pesäpallo playoff game. Vimpeli, who are two years removed from back-to-back Finnish championships were taking on the defending champs from Joensuu, about 4.5 hours to the east. As this was the third game of the best-of-five series, tensions at Saarikenttä — Vimpeli’s home ballpark…

Baseball

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Postcards from Vimpeli
Postcards from Vimpeli
Baseball

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Dec 30, 2018

My favorite albums of 2018

This has been the weirdest year of albums for me. Normally, I’m consuming as much of the newest music that people release as soon as I can get my hands on it. This year? …

Music

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My favorite albums of 2018
My favorite albums of 2018
Music

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Aug 23, 2017

What your app gets wrong about discovery

News feeds & discovery — Since the demise of Rdio (RIP), there hasn’t been a great place online besides forums and random slack channels to talk about music. The problem with most of these existing places are the difficulties involved in joining conversations, memes, and the cultural mores of networks that you join too late…

Social Media

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What your app gets wrong about discovery
What your app gets wrong about discovery
Social Media

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Jun 29, 2017

Thoughts On Designing The Future

A few times a year, I will binge on simulator computer games. …

Startup

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Thoughts On Designing The Future
Thoughts On Designing The Future
Startup

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Sep 28, 2016

How does a guy from America start following Finnish baseball?

An unlikely story of fandom from afar — I’ve been trying for a while to tell anyone who’d listen about Pesapallo, the sport that’s a close cousin to American baseball. The sport has developed independently in Finland for 100+ years and it’s only now that Americans are slowly discovering it exists at all thanks to a succession of…

Sports

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How does a guy from America start following Finnish baseball?
How does a guy from America start following Finnish baseball?
Sports

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Jan 9, 2016

Taking our (friends) and going home

Social’s newest app — Peach — exposes faulty tech thinking, that we should be talking to only to people we already know. — Networks are nifty. When you do the work to cultivate one, that is. For some of us, that work starts in high school or college. After a few jobs, you cobble together a nice network of folks who you stay in and out of touch with over the years. When…

Peach

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Taking our friends & going home
Taking our friends & going home
Peach

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Jul 30, 2015

The Coach & The Tennis Courts

During my senior year, my high school tennis coach and I were talking about our season and his legacy. I joked that because of our hot start that year (1997) that he might end up with Coach of the Year honors. …

Life Lessons

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The Coach & The Tennis Courts
The Coach & The Tennis Courts
Life Lessons

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Jun 13, 2014

Death to the CMS Pt. 1

An obituary for the content management system — This post is really a more fleshed out reprise of my ‘3am keynote’ from #psuweb and thus is primarily focused on higher education websites. But if anyone is using a CMS, it applies. Most colleges started with a webmaster. One person in a room someplace updating a web…

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Death to the CMS Pt. 1
Death to the CMS Pt. 1

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