Portland, Oregon
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Also known as: Portland
- 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 …
- Qualified Endorsements; Happiness; Writing 0.0 Context Setting Monday, 6 November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, and under the dystopian rule of the clocks having gone back one hour. 0.1 Hallway Track …
- AQI But For Brain Fungus 0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, October 11, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. Yesterday I wrote another 877 words for the absurdist satirical tech novel. That makes 7 …
- It's getting hot in here, so … Tuesday, July 26, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. It's 98f/36.6c outside right now and my anemic portable air conditioner unit says it's 78f/25.5c …
- Wait, it's just a guess?! 0.0 Context Setting It's Friday, July 8, 2022 and there's weather in Portland, Oregon. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Wait, it's …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB 0.0 Context Setting It's Monday, June 6, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and despite raining as hard as an oversubscribed newsfeed desperate to incite engagement, it is …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … at W+K London, and then as a Creative Director at W+K Portland. I've seen briefs glittering in the dark off the gate to the planning …
- Do Not Recommend 0.0 Context setting It's Wednesday, April 13 2022 in Portland, Oregon and if you have ADHD and the means through which to pay for it because …
- s11hiatus01/05: Challenge/Response … In Portland, there's a Chinese Garden that I appreciate as an outsider. I take my son to Cantonese story time where, to be frank, I'm learning …
- Wear a mask. It’ll change your life. … It was an expedition from the blue Democrat-voting region marking the Portland metropolitan area into a sea of purple turning to red to red. K is in …
- Three Things … I met a bunch of great ones working near TV in London, and again in Portland when I was at Wieden+Kennedy. Because the schedule and moving parts …
- 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 …
- Flint and Kindling … It is cold here in Portland. We had a powercut yesterday that lasted nearly 12 hours and let me say it was an experience with our young children …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … Thursday 9 January 2020 and it’s very cold in Portland. It’s 37 fahrenheit, which is still a silly system temperature system at the low end but …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … when the Portland FBI office feels like it’s appropriate (or, at least, not stupid) to issue a notice about securing your smart TV around Black Friday, I …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … I’m walking through SeaTac airport connecting through to the Seattle->Portland shuttle on my way home. One aside is that we should not be allowed to call …
- “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 …
- Some things … OK! That was about 40 minutes and a slice and a salad! I do like the pizza here at Sizzle Pie on East Burnside here in Portland, but …
- 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 …
- Snow Crashing … It’s a brisk, sunny Monday in Portland, OR - how are you? Best, Dan
- Do Better … Third, gosh, it’s rained a lot in Portland lately. Definitely autumn now. What’s the weather like where you are? Best, Dan Postscript: Richard Stallman resigned from …
- Very Little Gravitas … 1.1 Conversations with Lyft drivers, 1 The driver on the way home from Portland airport was a gigging musician; we’d been talking about missing the snow …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … The deal here is that there’s some cities - Portland and Los Angeles stand out from what I’ve learned so far - that have taken a very progressive …
- Firebreak Protocol … It is now many, many days later (Wednesday 26 September, writing this while having dinner at Sacramento airport on the way back to Portland), as opposed to when …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … enveloped Seattle (we got some of this down in Portland too; last year it was especially terrible in Portland) with the wonderfully sticky phrase “ flying blind into the …
- Welcome to the Churn … for 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 …
- 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 …
- Netflix Should … Ideas like this came up every so often in my advertising life at Wieden+Kennedy Portland. They fit the brief of a "digital" thing that does something, meets …
- Random Walk; Black Design … Google Fiber in a whole bunch of cities (selfishly, one of those being Portland). This blog post is a fantastic example of making the author look stupid by …
- Something is better than nothing … why are there two Techcrunch hacks here? Are there lots in Portland now? Why this particular coffee shop? Is there something special about this coffee shop? If there …
- It's Difficult … Exactly the kind of day that Portland puts on to impress visitors, which is NOT WHAT WE WANTED today, when we have lots of interesting people coming in …
- Change will continue to accelerate until morale improves 0.0 Station Ident Monday, July 18 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland after an almost freakishly productive morning. If I didn't know any better, I …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … The April Fools’ joke that became a global obsession - The Washington Post 2.0 Miscellanea * After seeing someone passively-aggressively complain on Nextdoor in Portland (could there *be …
- 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 …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … I'm somewhere in the air between Atlanta, Georgia, on the way home to Portland. So, how’ve you been? I’ve been away for a bit, and …
- That Is Interesting, Isn't It? … off to Washington, DC for work (a Child Foster Care hackathon at the White House!), and then a little bit of family holiday before back to Portland for …
- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … It's a grey, overcast day in Portland today, but the weekend promises sun and unseasonable temperatures, so, in the words of some internet meme "we've got …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … But when I left Wieden Portland, one of the issues was that if the agency *really* wanted to figure out what its potential role in "digital" could be …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? 0.0 Station Ident Wednesday, April 27th 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland. Today was one of those toddler days where I'm in awe of how …
- If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right? 0.0 Station Ident 1:33pm on Monday, April 25th, 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland. Disclosure: I haven't seen Lemonade yet, which I should probably …
- OK TO GO 0.0 Station Ident 1:12pm on Tuesday, April 19th 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland on yet another unseasonably warm April day. Today I had the …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet 0.0 Station Ident 1:37pm on Monday, 18 April 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland again. It's 82 degrees fahrenheit, 27.7 degrees celsius outside …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 0.0 Station Ident 2:17pm on Wednesday, 13th April 2016 at the XOXO Outpost in Portland again. I've spent most of the day idly falling around …
- Gigawatt Laser Array 0.0 Station Ident 2:45pm at the XOXO Outpost in Portland on Tuesday, April 12th 2016 on a day that feels like a Wednesday, isn't sunny …
- The Surface Area of Being Consulted … We've had a fantastic weekend in Portland with summery weather. Seeing Zootopia at a drive-in on Friday night was a treat (a super fun movie, but …
- Patterns in the noise … It's sunny outside in Portland again, there's hardly any clouds and I'm floating at a desk at the XOXO Outpost again, as part of an …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … It's sunny again in Portland today, hardly any clouds in the sky and maybe, just maybe, this is the year of Linux on the Desktop[2]. I …
- Peaks and Troughs; Singletasking 0.0 Station Ident 1:33pm on Friday 25th March 2016 at the XOXO Outpost[1] in Portland, which is happily going to be my new work home …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … I get to call it "non-traditional" because at Wieden+Kennedy, when I joined the headquarters office in Portland, I landed in the "Creative" department, but was put …
- Previously 0.0 Sitrep 7:19am PST on a plane on the way down to San Francisco after having amusingly bumped into two other friends at Portland International Airport …
- Brief Notes … And in a dumb way, though, it's easier for me to write this here than to talk to any of the people who were in Portland over …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … 36k feet on the way back to Portland from a couple days in the office in San Francisco. I have a bunch of things in my newsletter notes …
- On Advertising. Again. … My computers are telling me that other computers think it is going to be 102 degrees fahrenheit in Portland today, which in celsius is 38.9 degrees and …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion 0.0 Sitrep Wednesday, July 29, 2015 and it is hot in Portland again. Cut it out, Portland. 1.0 Bob Rife Is Real So in Snow Crash …
- Oh, I Don't Know, Just Everything; A Bit About Brand Advertising Again … One amusing thing about the whole Portland thing was that it was *easy* for the new digital services to provide usage data on things in the public interest …
- Unblocking … News | OPB - Portland let in Lyft and Uber and one of the conditions was that the city got access to data to make decisions about transport as a …
- Any Old Iron … It is, bizarrely, going to be significantly warmer and less rainy in Portland than it's going to be in Chicago and Madison (a difference of a good …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … rain. (Yes, you may make a "ha, when does it *not* rain in Portland" joke, for which I will simply point you in the direction of Seattle). In …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … And now, 4:43pm PST, Wednesday December 10, waiting for a flight back to Portland. Waiting to go back home. Best, Dan
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … there's a Starbucks in Portland that's made out of a SHIPPING CONTAINER which I keep wanting to visit because there are certain people I know who …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … at W+K London, and then as a Creative Director at W+K Portland. I've seen briefs glittering in the dark off the gate to the planning …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … when I started at Wieden in Portland, I had kind of been doing the job as an Advertising Person at their office in London, and had even come …
- Small Pieces, Loosely Joined; The New Slang … Back to Portland tomorrow. 11:08pm. Dan
- Not Every Node Is Equal; Stop Hitting Yourself … a $500 ticket and airfare and airbnb or couchsurfing or a hotel to Portland can also afford ticket prices that allow scholarships or bursaries that will let less …
- Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time … So XOXO is that time of the year in early September when friends come to Portland, when our house becomes a halfway house for those whose souls are …
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community 0.0 Station Ident 12pm on a Sunny Wednesday. Portland is putting on its glad rags for the just-over-a-thousand arriving for annual indie hug-fest …
- Not That Way; Against Empathy; Just Don't … There's a healthcare/doctor franchise in Portland called Zoomcare that's kind of aimed at, for lack of a better term, millennials. Or at least it's …
- 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03 … In our circle of mainly white middle class Portland-dwelling friends, I'm definitely in the minority (if not the only male) when I take our son to …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … my wife and I are much more likely to use public transport in Portland now that there's a way to buy tickets straight from your phone, integrated …
- To Serve; Odds … This is at the same time that Airbnb has announced partnerships with the cities of San Francisco and Portland, OR to help provide disaster response. The company identified …
- The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities 0.0 Station Ident A surprise (and welcome) upgrade on the flight back to Portland and I'm relatively rested and relatively un-jetlagged, at least I am …
- When You're Tired Of Cities … city that I like, and I have the opportunity to make it better. Portland, Oregon is - for the moment - one of those cities that isn't too big …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … At W+K Portland, there was a group called W+K Entertainment - there probably still is - that was effectively a separate production company. I think the idea was …
- Clarity; The Customer … When I moved to Portland, Zoomcare, a local healthcare provider seemed *amazing because you could book an appointment over a desktop web interface. Three years later, there's …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit 0.0 Station Ident It was eighty-ish and sunny today in Portland, which, as I explained to a friend, makes sense because I use fahrenheit when it …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … So one of the hardest things for me to learn when I arrived at W+K Portland was that I was a director now, and that I wasn …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … or doing the usual "ooh, Google" dance. Let me give you personal example. Portland, Oregon, is a step closer to getting Google Fiber now that its council has …
- Structure; The Thing About People … I'm lucky to be working with two good friends on this project, one of whom is based in Portland with me. So we're doing that thing …
- Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry … that particular Portland-ish combination of a {laundrette, laundromat, washateria} that has new shiny machines, eco-detergent that they make themselves, a bar with food and a rotating …
- Health; Smart Cars; Odds … Zipcar's car's are significantly less fun in the Portland area now that they've been acquired by Avis Budget and instead of sporty zoomy things are …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … so, newsletters! Aren't they a bit artisanal 90s! And you live in Portland!" to which I have to say something like, "well, funny you say that, but …
- Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute … 4.0 Wintermute On this, the last day of my old corporate email account working, news came of Portland having to issue a city-wide boil-water notice …
- Day One; Google Everything … I'm lucky enough to know Matt Haughey, Metafilter's founder, and to have spent a fair amount of time with him since I've moved to Portland …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt … And yet, about four years ago, I started on an adventure at W+K London, and then nine months later, moved out to Portland to work at the …
- 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 …
- The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities 0.0 Station Ident I'm back in Portland, but I don't know how long for. But it's 70 and sunny (yes, I've gone native …
- Recall; ATMs; … I say this, because I've been thinking a lot about living in Portland and what it's like: and what it's like is a minimum viable …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … I am on my way back from Missouri to Portland. 1.0 Computer Says No A side-effect of our current family situation (geographically distributed, divided to conquer …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … I'm heading back to Portland tomorrow, while my wife and son stay behind. This is not, by a long stretch, the best of any situation. 1.0 …
- We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh 0.0 Station Ident It's not sunny in Portland anymore, but I'm excited because I get to go to O'Reilly Solid and see a bunch …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … It's 72 and sunny out here in Portland, but the vending machine on this floor has pretty much run out of *all soda ever* so I'm …
- a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field 0.0 Station Ident You know what, it's actually always sunny in Portland. I don't know why I said it wasn't. Also I got to …
- Sharing Heartbleed; A Weakness of the Heart; Zero-Day 0.0 Station Ident Gosh, more sunny Portland. And a super stimulating day. And secrets! And, unfortunately, not enough work on SULACO BLUE. On we go. 1.0 …
- 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 …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … 2.0 Housing Man, finding a place to live in Portland was *hard* three years ago, and it sounds like it's even harder now. You've got …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds 0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this at around 25k feet on the final leg of my trip back home to Portland from Sydney. I have no …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … tonight I've a three hour flight to Melbourne, then a fourteen hour flight to LAX then a two hour flight home to Portland. Hopefully I'll be …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … Bonus points for being based in Portland, of course. And lastly, Dave Eggers' The Circle[6], which as Eggers points out, was researched in no-way at all …
- 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 …
- Challenge / Response … In Portland, there's a Chinese Garden that I appreciate as an outsider. I take my son to Cantonese story time where, to be frank, I'm learning …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … But now their sadness has caught on - and I wouldn't be surprised if it had anything to do with the wet Portland weather outside - and the more …
- Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat … issue with whether it could be called a game in the first place): Portland, OR based Fullbright Company's Gone Home. And last night, watching a friend play …
- 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
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … Cars So, I got this DM on Twitter the other day: "Hey, interested in hitting the Portland Auto Show to mock/laugh/be appalled at new car UIs …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … at Wieden+Kennedy London, and coming up to 3 years at Wieden+Kennedy Portland. In that time, one of the most interesting things I've been exposed to …