Oregon
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- A Model for the People Monday, 11 August 2025 in Portland, Oregon where I am sitting in my basement office. In here, it’s a comfortable 71f/21.7c. Outside, it’s apparently …
- Kill Your Gods … It’s Monday October 14 in Portland, Oregon, where it continues to be unseasonably warm. Tomorrow is bin day! 0.1 Events: Hallway Track, and Pulling the Cord …
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet 0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, 12 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I didn't write an episode yesterday and you know what? I would normally feel …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes 0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 26 September 2023 in Portland, Oregon. We are under an atmospheric river. Sunday night I had the exciting experience of spending …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled 0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, October 13, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I have a headache and am grumpy, but I'm going to write anyway …
- There Was No User Need 0.0 Context Setting (This episode was supposed to be sent yesterday.) It's Wednesday, 13 July, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it's only going to hit …
- There is a light cone of politics 0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, July 7, 2022 in Portland, Oregon, and while it was a warm day, it was not an overly hot day. That …
- The Right To Viable Strategies 0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 28 June, 2022 in Portland, Oregon, and it is nowhere near as hot today as it was yesterday. 1.0 Some …
- Concerts, and The Job To Be Done 0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, 21 June, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it has stopped raining. Today I also accidentally some bullet points, The Ones Who …
- AI but, you know, not bad; Liminal 0.0 Context Setting It's a sunny and cloud Friday, May 20 in Portland, Oregon and you did not experience a time skip: I did not send …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … a real RFO, which means, in this case, checking out the State of Oregon's procurement website, ORPIN , and because I happen to work with them occasionally, the …
- Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper … And why did I pick Prineville, Oregon? Datacenter locations are as much real estate deals as they are tax incentives but they are also about the cost of …
- Wear a mask. It’ll change your life. … distributed, K had gone on a family trip to a town in central Oregon. It was an expedition from the blue Democrat-voting region marking the Portland metropolitan …
- Aren't we all just so tired … 0.2 The setup for this particular episode It's Sunday May 24, 2020 in Portland, Oregon, USA. This means it's a holiday weekend, which is to …
- Take your time reading this one … I’m based in Portland, Oregon, but am open to relocating (not like that’s really happening right now, right?) I love talking to everyone, so if you …
- “With the word POLICE on it” 0.0 Sitrep It’s Wednesday 23rd October, on a Southwest 737 heading back to Portland, Oregon from Sacramento, California. You can’t stop me from listening to …
- Tireless five year olds … We live in Portland, Oregon, in a historically black neighborhood that is being gradually gentrified. It was being gentrified before we got here nearly 10 years ago, it …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … the Oregon Trail generation if you’re American, or the, I dunno, BBC Micro and Amiga generation if you’re British), I look at something like WebEx and …
- Welcome to the Churn … my on-demand, pay-per-minute, Internet-connected car sharing service in Portland, Oregon, is having service difficulties because part of its customer service operation is situated in …
- So, What'd I Miss? 0.0 Station Ident 8:34pm, West Coast Time, in Portland, Oregon and listening to Oasis, of all things. I blame an ill-advised jaunt into 6Music earlier …
- Change will continue to accelerate until morale improves … Normal Head, a special psychiatric in-patient treatment center in the middle of Oregon and "tight, provocative techno-thriller" ensues). Robin Sloan (humblebrag: reader of this newsletter) and …
- It Looks Like You're Trying To Write A Newsletter … 10:51am at the XOXO Outpost in Portland, Oregon. In an exercise in radical transparency, I will admit to you that the music playing on my headphones at …
- First Rule In Government Spending … Apparently, if I want to register my Oregon LLC in California (again, a concept that is unfamiliar to me because shouldn't I be able to conduct interstate …
- Of Course I Still Love You … I'm pretty sure I highlighted something on *every single page*. [0] In Oregon, for example, licensing for social workers and massage therapists amongst others [1] Deb Chachra …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … Star Trek's 24th Century seems to exist in some weird state of Oregon where it's illegal for you to pump your own gas (yes, I've …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … 1.0 Car! Tuesday was the return leg of a short family vacation - roughly six hours of driving through California and Oregon and time to check out some …
- Solving The Problem … 1.0 Numbers It strikes me, as I'm looking at all of these 100+ providers that I could potentially choose from at the Cover Oregon website, that …
- When You're Tired Of Cities … Portland, Oregon is - for the moment - one of those cities that isn't too big, isn't too small (just, nearly) and has, as I've described it …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … Portland, Oregon, is a step closer to getting Google Fiber now that its council has voted through granting a local broadband franchise to our favourite mathematically inspired conglomerate …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … It is headquartered not on Madison Avenue, New York, but in Portland, Oregon. Why Portland, Oregon? Because its founders didn't want to make the kind of advertising …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh 0.0 Station Ident It's a sunny Monday in Portland, Oregon - looking out the window I can see at least two mountains and to top that off …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … where, exactly, is Portland, Oregon?) to try to understand: what kind of people are they? The mythology around Pixar is fantastic, and there's a book about Pixar …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … We've had a solid long weekend worth of Snow in Portland, Oregon, so everyone is freaking out. Let's see what tomorrow brings. Dan