These days, it wouldn’t be Berlin if I didn’t say that I was joining a startup. The city is buzzing with activity and awash with investment. So, I’ll be joining a startup.
After three years at Nokia, I have decided to move on and join a brand new Berlin-based startup. More on that later. The last three years at Nokia have been packed, and filled with change.
I bet that if you were like me you’d drink your coffee as strong as you can make it with milk. You’d drink two cups, because one wasn’t enough. Three cups maybe but that might be pushing it over the edge, just. Like me, you add milk to reduce the temperature to somewhere just below scalding. You brew the coffee so strong that it wasn’t coffee anymore but more of a kind of particulate slurry.
If someone was to say stop using milk you’d balk: coffee without milk is like drinking battery acid.
Creating a new service is intoxicating: the opportunity to brainstorm with your peers for a few hours, draw up some features and then use them to create the service.
The problem with ideas is that they are easy to have.
Oslo Kaffebar has been a side project of mine for the last few months and I’m happy to announce that the espresso bar will be opening its doors publicly this Friday, July 13th. Oslo Kaffebar is…
An indulgent, personal look at some of the things I use often that I love to use.
Have you ever been surprised by what seems like striking, out of this world, coincidence. I have, today.
I spent some time on 750words late last year and then got out of the habit. I’m not sure why I lost interest. Probably I went on a business trip and didn’t have the time to dive back in and then lost the urge to keep the writing streak going. For some reason, I hadn’t saved the URL. A couple of weeks go by, then months. I don’t write 750 words a day for a long, long time.
Until this morning.
Five years ago the future to mobile computing to me was a stone. I wanted a small pebble that I would carry with me between work and home, as well as on the road. Keyboards, displays, mice: these were all replicable and easily obtained. The stone would carry everything required to access your local and cloud-stored files as well as the OS. Everything would just work: it was a dream of interoperability. Are we there yet?
By touching my phone and accepting a dialog box, I hailed a cab. The cab knew where to pick me up and was there in minutes. What’s the big deal?
Mail. It’s still the number one app that I use day in and day out. An upgrade to Mac OS X Lion caused a little corruption to Mail and this is the story of little trust lost.
