Everything is Everything

A few years ago I was waiting for a glove keyboard. It seemed that with the rise proliferation of devices that don’t sit on a desk — cell phones, wearable devices like Google Glass or Oculus Rift, etc., we will be needing input devices. The coolest one seemed like a glove, or device that wrapped…

I was talking to Nick about what I’ll call The Ikea Problem: cheaper, poorly made products appear to be more cost-effective than more expensive ones. If an expensive product will last many times longer, it’s usually cheaper over time. Ikea furniture is a perfect example: a $250 table will often break after 2-5 years, where…

I move to San Francisco with big promises, and big plans, and announcements. Things are going great. I have a five year plan. Lily promotions take up lots of time. A commercial business is taking off. And yet, when I close my eyes, I dream of nine to fives. It’s lonely pushing that boulder up…

I went to the bathroom once during the screening of Citizenfour. It took about a half hour before I felt comfortable leaving to miss what was onscreen, and when I walked back I noticed the room was 10º warmer than outside and filled with the smell of sweat. We were having a human experience. Citizenfour,…

Cross-posted with Huffington Post. I was at a San Francisco Film Society party last night speaking to someone who had just had to do a festival distribution for a friend’s short film. “It’s hard!” they said, and I found myself commiserating. Putting a film out there through the festival circuit is labyrinthine, and way more…

Cross-posted with The Huffington Post. Why are people excited about Ello? Because they can’t wait to leave Facebook. Why do so many people want off Facebook? That’s the problem: everybody has a different reason. Ello is a new social network that has caught fire with a manifesto telling users that “we believe a social network…

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Apologies to my millions of followers for never updating this blog 🙂 I’ve been working in Paris with Ted Walch, who teaches drama at Harvard-Westlake (you can see this amazing tribute the school paid to him last month here) and Philippe Thimel, who has an encyclopedic understanding of Paris, to do a photo project. We’ve…

Cross-posted with The Huffington Post I watched the fireworks after watching monster trucks and motocross racing in Pomona, surrounded by many people who think differently than I do. In this time, I had occasion to think about ideology. While it is easy to disdain blind nationalism and patriotism, I think it’s important to remember a…

Last June we handed out over 10,000 nametags in an effort to make NYC a friendlier place for a day. It was an incredible day of joy as thousands of new connections were made and a whole swath of the city thought about their neighbors in a slightly different light. (Watch the video! Sign up…