The Slow Hunch

Making, 2018.

Tools, hacks, side projects, this site4 posts

  • Dec 10, 2018
    Google Pixel Slate: first impressions

    For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with the Pixel Slate, Google’s new hybrid tablet/laptop. Here is me typing this blog post right now, on the train to NYC.  For a longer,  more technical analysis, this review from The Verge is good. The Pixel Slate is an odd machine, and I am still…...

  • Nov 19, 2018
    Getting hands-on

    One of my favorite things to do is get my hands into something and figure out how it works, whether that’s an app, or a gadget, or a house. For example, over the past few months I have been renovating our basement, turning an unfinished, dank storage area into a playroom for the kids.  Here… Continu...

  • Sep 4, 2018
    Form factor

    Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit.  For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook, and I have also been spending more timing using an iPad Pro for work (vs my default of using a Mac laptop for everything). What I have discovered is that the form… Continue reading

  • Mar 6, 2018
    Running the USV analyst application process using Ziggeo, FormAssembly and Airtable

    We are in the middle of our 2018 Analyst hiring process at USV.  For the last several hiring cycles, USV has had an open process where anyone can apply.  I actually wrote about it back in 2011, right before I joined, remarking at the high quality of applicants that the process produced. That is stil...