Author: Joe Lencioni

  • Mister Rogers on How to Talk to Kids About Distressing News Events

    link: kottke.org/25/02/mister-rogers-on-how-to-talk-to-kids-about-distressing-news-events Mr. Rogers was a treasure, and his voice is just what I needed right now. This feels especially pertinent:

  • My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword

    link: www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/world-war-ii-japanese-sword/ This was a pleasant Sunday morning read. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I decided it was time to find the heirloom’s rightful owner.

  • How Lego builds a new Lego set

    Link: www.theverge.com/c/23991049/lego-ideas-polaroid-onestep-behind-the-scenes-price I love everything about this. This Polaroid camera set looks so cool, and it is awesome to get a behind-the-scenes look at how it went down.

  • Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit

    Link: arun.is/blog/art-of-noise/ This looks really nice. Though I haven’t used anything Teenage Engineering has made, it all looks to cool and fun. If I was in San Francisco, I’d definitely be planning a visit to SFMOMA to check out this exhibit in person.

  • Farewell Airbnb, Hello Happo

    I have worked at Airbnb for over eight incredible years. It has been an extraordinary ride and a tremendous privilege to be able to work at this company, at this time, with these people, building this product that has impacted so many lives. When I reflect about my journey, I often land on the thought…

  • Manifesto for a Humane Web

    link: humanewebmanifesto.com The web is becoming hostile to humans. Users are tracked and their privacy is routinely violated. Search results are populated with ads. We are constantly spammed by bots. Generative AI threatens to turn previously useful public forums into soulless marketing soup, while sacrificing the livelihoods of the creators that unwittingly power them. Power-hungry…

  • Invisible Success

    link: ericwbailey.website/published/invisible-success/ The kind of work that I am often drawn to results in what Eric Bailey here calls “invisible success”, and I agree that it is difficult to make that visible. How do you prove that the work you did prevented a bunch of problems from ever happening? It is easier to get recognized…

  • When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis

    link: www.statsignificant.com/p/when-do-we-stop-finding-new-music I found this dive into music acquisition trends to be really interesting. It’s strange how much your 13-year-old self defines your lifelong artistic tastes. At this age, we’re unable to drive, vote, drink alcohol, or pay taxes, yet we’re old enough to cultivate enduring musical preferences. … Every cohort believes that music was…

  • Ghost is federating over ActivityPub

    link: activitypub.ghost.org When I started this blog, I thought that Ghost looked really great but I chose WordPress largely because there was an official ActivityPub plugin being developed. So I find the news that Ghost is adopting ActivityPub this year to become part of the Fediverse. Email gave us private messaging technology that isn’t owned…

  • Laufey, dodie, and Jacob Collier perform ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ with NSO

    link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1LEYxFQ5Q What a delightful moment of zen to have these people together on stage with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

  • Crokinole!

    A few weeks ago, we attended a Northfield Swedish Club fika event, and I played a little game called Couronne. It is similar to billiards, but instead of using a large pool table and pool balls, it uses a little wooden board that sits on a table, and wooden disks. You use a cue to…

  • This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

    link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk I enjoyed this dive into an impressive movie technique used in Mary Poppins, similar to green screen but better. History, tech, science, mystique, intrigue–this video has it all.