2026
2025
2024
- The Slow Hunch Podcast: Episode 4 with Jam CEO Dani Grant
- The Slow Hunch Podcast: Episode 3 with Steven Johnson
- Leverage
- Low-Fi Computing
- Doing Less, More
- The System-of-Record Network Effect
- The Slow Hunch Podcast: Episode 2 with Muneeb Ali
- Introducing The Slow Hunch Podcast, and Episode 1 with Fraser Kelton
- Moving Weaknesses into the Strengths Column
- Superpowers
2023
2022
2021
2020
- Two Screens for Teachers
- No Wasted Footsteps
- Hardware-based Identity
- The Beauty of Focus
- Second Chance Studios
- The Slow Hunch
- The 1k Project
- Listening
- Quarantine Creativity
- Post-COVID: Which Behaviors Will Stick?
- The Great Shift to Video
- Simple Systems
- Forcing Change
- Bird by Bird
- Cryptographic Identity
- Data Portability and Privacy
- Proof of Transfer (PoX)
- The Friendly Wake-up Call
- Getting Alignment
- Water
- Regulation and the Tech Industry
- Mutuality
- Digital Bearer Assets
- Broadening Access
- Form, Storm, Norm, Perform
- The Discuss on Twitter WordPress Plugin
- Iterating from Scratch
- Automated Personal Finance
- Write, and Go Outside
- Getting Right for What’s to Come
2019
- Adversarial Interoperability
- Slides: Crypto @ Harvard Kennedy School
- The Butter Thesis
- CoinAlts Chicago: Fireside Chat w Sam McIngvale of Coinbase Custody
- Saying Sorry
- How to Read a Pitch
- Building a culture of success
- The Trust Equation
- Setting up a system
- The power of community
- What decentralization is good for (part 3): growth
- Changing your life
- Leading vs. following
- What decentralization is good for (part 2): Platform Risk
- Unlocking a new skill
- Blockstack Hong Kong: From Agile to Immutable
- What decentralization is good for (part 1): Resilience
- The Octopus Card
2018
- Managing digital addiction
- Paying down debt (financial, technical, and otherwise)
- Google Pixel Slate: first impressions
- A Visual Guide to the Howey Test
- Crypto fundamentals
- Getting hands-on
- The dangers of unstoppable code
- Trusted Brands
- Suffering, self, and service
- Building a meditation routine
- Trauma
- Plans vs. routines
- The adjacent possible
- The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
- Getting the chills
- The utility infielder
- Fear
- Form factor
- A little, and then a little more
- Layers
- Minimum Viable Economy
- The path to decentralization: self-destructing companies
- Trust and fairness
- Compound interest goes in both directions
- just_work = true
- Focus
- Finding your discomfort zone
- Digital scarcity
- Zombies eating kitties
- A bigger container
- Cryptonetworks and why tokens are fundamental
- Running the USV analyst application process using Ziggeo, FormAssembly and Airtable
- Teaching kids to invest
- How to make big problems small and small problems big
- You need a budget
- The weakest link
- From a labor mindset to a capital mindset
2017
- Service
- Changing seasons
- Labor Day: Project Repat
- Optimizing for energy
- On the blockchain: platform first or app first?
- Who should police content on the Internet?
- Learning by doing
- Keeping it simple
- What’s your medium?
- Speaking page
- Getting Help
- The joy of fixing things up
- Getting in over your head
- For web platforms considering a token strategy: cryptocurrency vs. dollars?
- The Next Web Amsterdam: Purpose, Mission & Strategy
- A little better every day
- Entering the world of smart contracts
- Mechanics of the token sale
- Open source leadership vs. corporate leadership
- Regulating source code
- Aligning purpose and strategy: Cloudflare goes nuclear on patent troll
- Cryptocurrenices: the native business model of attention
- The Service Recovery Paradox
- Complicity
- Flexing the platform for good
- Cycles
- The Public Data Layer
- Experience ↔ Design ↔ Policy
- Unintended Consequences
2016
- Going after it
- The new normal
- Getting out the vote
- Alternative Compliance
- Personal Democracy Forum NYC: Regulating with Data
- Cable boxes, ridesharing and the right to be represented by a bot
- Crypto debate: separating Security from Control
- The Freedom to Innovate and the Freedom to Investigate
- Internet meets world: rules go boom
- Big innovation and small innovation
- Beam should have a hardware API
- Learning to skate
- Zero-rating: putting Net Neutrality to the test
- Hello, 2016
2015
- OuiShare Rethink & Remix Barcelona: The Evolution of the Venture
- As Massachusetts ponders ride-sharing regs, where’s the data?
- As Massachusetts ponders ride-sharing regs, where's the data?
- Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack
- Introducing Quackpad - simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack
- Supporting workers in the gig economy
- Pain x Resistance = Suffering (the case for throughput)
- Here’s the solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems — and no one will like it
- Brutal honesty delivered kindly
- Shift Conference Croatia: The Cycles of Domination and Disruption
- The Blockchain as verified public timestamps
- EEC Bilbao: Supporting Workers in the On-Demand Economy
- The more things change…
- Regulation, the Internet way
- Where do web standards come from?
- Wanted: email apology bot
- OuiShareFest Paris: Venture Capital vs. Community Capital
- Anti-workflow: to-dos
- Dick Pics and Cable Company Fuckery
- Failure is the tuition you pay for success
- Financial Planning for the 90%
- The Light Inside, The Fire Inside
2014
- Increasing trust, safety and security using a Regulation 2.0 approach
- Regulation and the peer economy: a 2.0 framework
- Web platforms as regulatory systems
- Technological revolutions and the search for trust
- The magic of making hard things easy
- Everyone is broken and life is hard
- Anti-workflow apps
- Finding Flow: writing vs. coding
- Crowdsourcing patent examinations
- Support services for the Indie Economy
- The Professional Amateur
- Half, not half-assed
- I agree with Ted Cruz: let’s supercharge the Internet marketplace
- This is what an Internet Candidate looks like
- Disgusting
- Becoming a leader of men
- Every once in a while I’m reminded of how awesome the Internet is
- Dropbox and personal data
- The sweetest pitbull
- The open internet and the freedom to innovate
- Joi’s 9 principles of open innovation
- The FCC open internet vote
- FCC’s response to the VC open internet letter
- Defending the open internet
- Turning 35
- I don’t know how to shop anymore
- Total freedom in exchange for total surveillance
- Pond hockey
2013
- Pebble: first impressions
- Yahoo! User First Conference: Winning on Trust
- Momentum on my mind
- The Regulation 2.0 challenge
- Happy Thanksgiving everyone
- Competitors at the time
- The no list (or, do less better)
- Swimming like a shark
- Social Detox
- Wanted: Partychat for Google Hangouts
- Exploding business models
- David and Goliath
- Organized vs. disciplined
- Playing Hardball
- Open311 Data Prediction Challenge
- Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- T-Corps and the Community IPO
- Being an Urban Planner Just Got Awesome
- The Adaptive Metropolis
- Systems to Cover Up Symptoms
- Beyond Civic Apps: Making All Apps More Civic
- Personal Equity
- Uber and Safer Cities
- Chromecast, Net Neutrality and the Rise of New Gatekeepers
- Why It’s Expensive to be Poor (And Why It Shouldn’t Be)
- Happiness = meaningful social connections
- Social Connections: from Something You Inherit to Something You Earn
- My Top 5 Personal Productivity Hacks
- Chromecast: First Impressions
- PDF NYC: Powered By Us: Architecting Policy for a Connected World
- History’s Best Innovation Death-Knell Quotes
- Open Data
- Antifragility
- Riding on Services
- Schumer Taking a Whack at Patent Trolls
- Powered by Us
- The peer economy
- Antilockdown
- Living Scared
- Leading with Policy: Uber’s Ridesharing Strategy
- Google Fiber and Competition
- Fixing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Turning 17 for the Second Time
- The Indie Web, Continued
- Subtle Discontent
- The Indie Web
- The Freedom to Tinker
- Connected Governance
- Coming Back Up for Air
- We Heart WiFi
- Why Casual & Natural Is So Awesome
- FlightCar – a Beachhead for Car Sharing
- Prioritizing Ruthlessly
- Wanted: A Dashboard for Internet Citizenship
- NYC Taxis and Regulation 2.0
- Living in the Fall Line
- WebFWD: Accelerating a Better Internet
- Design, Policy and Infrastructure for Great Experiences
- Grokking Spectrum
- Peer Progress and Regulation 2.0
- Internet Centrism
- Making NYC Awesome
- Backing into your network
- House of Cards, and newsjacking the Blackout Bowl
- Still looking for a smarter inbox
- Superheroes in the Snowpocalypse
- Fighting for change: why and how
- Peer Networks and Health Innovation
- Reflections on two days with no phone
- My Public Folders on Google Reader
- Moving the Ball Forward
2012
- New Years cleaning
- A web-wide moment of silence
- Hacking todos: daily review for Wunderlist
- Networks Under Threat
- Copyright Reform, Peer Progressives, and the New GOP
- Bureaucracy and Trust
- Predictive Analytics and Cities
- Community, and Why Halloween is the Best Holiday
- Striking the Right Balance
- Hurricane Sandy
- The Right to Resell
- Analog + Digital, Revisited
- The Taxi Business & Working for Sellers & Buyers
- Analog + Digital
- Feasting on Good
- Future Perfect, Peer Progressives, and the Continuing Crusade to Debunk
- Defragging your Brain, The Slow Hunch, and Open Commonplace Books
- Getting Closer
- Tennis, Psychadelics, and Entrepreneurship
- The Clothesline Paradox and the Hidden Economies of the Web
- Making the Switch to Android
- Instant Magic
- Le Burger Dog
- Camellia Network
- Reinventing the Home Row
- Smoke Detectors, or, it’s not the Backup; it’s the Restore
- Smoke Detectors, or, it's not the Backup; it's the Restore
- IP Enforcement Strategy
- Arrived
- Creative, Curious, or Passionate
- Stuck on the Bus, or, Civic Engagement in a Networked World
- Why Sliderocket Could Be So Awesome, and Why It Isn’t
- Why Sliderocket Could Be So Awesome, and Why It Isn't
- Jane Jacobs, Inspiration, and the Internet
- Advocacy in the Age of Peak Guilt
- When Paper is Better
- The Internet Defense League
- Hacking Society
- The Kickstarter Protocol
- Waboba!
- digg: Sold for parts, in a good way
- Institutions and Abuse
- Transportation Networks aka Bike Share is Awesome
- Fights for the Future on Many Fronts
- Learning new things
- Highrise Chrome Extension
- Thinking about Freedom
- Open source and open knowledge
- Automating your way out of bad behavior
- Wanted: Highrise Chrome Extension
- Investing vs. getting in debt
- Hacking Patents
- Creativity and Free Culture
- Corruption: Make it your #2 Issue
- Step Number One: Internet Access
- Innovation Under Austerity
- cibi.me
- Netizen Effects
- Connected Learning
- Hacking email: getting things done by bypassing the inbox
- Solving Problems the Internet Way
- Loud power and quiet power
- What we mean when we talk about Networks
- Quick Compose w/ Gmail and Quicksilver
- Cities that Work Like The Web
2011
- Something to aspire to
- Joining MIT
- Next up at Civic Commons
- Open, interoperable cities
- Prescient Markets
- Simple, and fun to use.
- Digital Power Tools
- Web 2.0 Expo: The Opportunity for Civic Startups
- Iteration
- Wanted: The Self-Hiding Alarm Clock
- Hello, Brieza!
- The Enterprise End-Run
- The Wheels on the Bus…
- Big Data
- This is kind of a cop out, but...
- This is kind of a cop out, but…
- Hey there, 2011
2010
- CityScience
- Wanted: An Open Commonplace Book
- Wanted: Strategic Networking Tool
- Ritual and Tradition
- Speaking from the Heart
- The DIY Empire
- Time to Get Singing
- Writing to your future self
- Required Reading
- Tumbling on
- Tool Time
- Elevator pitches, weddings and babies
- Missed Connections
- Wanted: Aggregated Group Playlist
- Unplugging (sort of)
- The optimism of the traveler
- Fitness
- LifePruning
- Talking transit tech @ the MTAdev conf
- Introducing OpenPlans, and the evolution of a brand
- Interview on the Engadget Show is live
- Say hello to Civic Works
- TOPP Labs needs a new name
- Phone Idol: an experiment in web-enabled telephony
- Making cities easier to use
- Knowing the tone of the room
2009
- So much time, so little to do
- Optional scope contracts
- jPlayer sprites SVG
- This makes my heart melt
- Is _____ for you?
- Scribefire is so awesome
- Transit: uniter or divider?
- New theme, and it's slightly less simple
- Melkjug Fluid Icon
- The Perfect Conference Format
- Silenced!
- Help! Can't drop
- Welcome Theo
- Introducing The Board
- Crowdsourcing my schedule
- Map drawing UX is still too hard
- Backpack TOC Greasemonkey Script
- Chandler and Constraints
- 'Do You Know Me?' Authentication
- New App Idea: Dude, Where's My Car?
- Getting My Transparency On
- Too much structure makes for useless data
- TOPP @ Green Desk
- Goldilocks and the RSS Theme
2008
- Happy Halloween
- Goodbye Fresh Direct, Hello Max Delivery
- Buy my car!
- Same Bat Blog, New Bat Look
- Sorry, Chandler
- The power of releasing early and often
- The secret life of the subway
- Eyes on the Street: RUOK?
- Coming soon: Park(ing) Day 2008
- Streetfilm about Bastille Day
- New TOPP Website
- Slip-n-Slide Photo Gallery
- Web App of the Week: SmartyPig
- Sendible: "inspired by" Facebook
- Make Music New York 2008
- Coming soon… Pedestrian Power
- The new power broker?
- T-shirt roundup
- Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Transport
- Real Estate Tours by Bike
- LSN at the Carfree Cities Conference
- Coming soon… The Livable Streets Network
- Taking it to the streets
- Wanted: Awesome web designer
- Changing behavior, one bag at a time
- Streetfilms: Diverter
- Taking the train to work
- Digifesto
- MX Conference
- Welcome to the Undesign