Month: July 2012

What we should have said to PG. Refreshingly honest post about pitching your startup and telling a story.

Amsterdam to Portland

Flew home from Amsterdam today after a fantastic week in Amsterdam with my team at Automattic. Snapped this off the coast while flying out.

Breakfast in Amsterdam

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Courtesy of Stu West. Best CFO ever.

Chris’ stats smiley

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Creating happiness with every impression. 🙂

Status

Distributed companies, where you can conduct an interview with someone in England while you’re in Amsterdam for the week. I love my job. 🙂

Status

First full day in Amsterdam and it is absolutely pouring rain. We went to see the Anne Frank house this morning and came back drenched. Of course it’s 80 degrees and sunny in Portland.

Lamb for dinner

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A delicious welcome to Amsterdam.

Near the coast of Greenland

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I should have been sleeping but this terrain was too amazing to miss. You could see where the ice met water.

Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality:

I am proposing an alternative view that states that our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once.

The IRL Fetish:

But this idea that we are trading the offline for the online, though it dominates how we think of the digital and the physical, is myopic. It fails to capture the plain fact that our lived reality is the result of the constant interpenetration of the online and offline. That is, we live in an augmented reality that exists at the intersection of materiality and information, physicality and digitality, bodies and technology, atoms and bits, the off and the online. It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life.

Really great article about our connected lives. Via Daniel.