Congrats, you're the CEO now
Art: Portrait of General Thomas Gage, John Singleton Copley, 1768Reality sucks right now, so let’s play pretend. Let’s make believe that you’re the CEO of a...
The eye of the new norm
I am writing this post sitting on a couch completely surrounded by blocks, teething toys, wipes, pages slapped together with glitter glue, and an iPad that...
Any port in a storm, as long as it has facemasks
Art: Georges Braques, Ships at Le Havre, 1905Last week, a woman posted in my local Nextdoor group, asking people to please, please donate PPE - personal...
Is this a STEM lesson?
Art: Needlepoint in a Russian Village, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1936It seems like, with the situation lately, everyone is trying to homeschool their kids....
We need tests, we're getting geotracking
Art: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880, before he started socially distancing Ok, if we’re at the end of the world, we might as well examine the...
Normcore is coming to you from a social distance
Art: DIN, Vladimir Bonacic, 1969Sorry if this is one of a million coronavirus newsletters you’re getting, but it’s hard to think about anything else given...
All numbers are made up, some are useful
Art: Number 1, Jackson Pollock, 1949There was a fantastic American game show in the 2000s, “Whose Line is it Anyway”, where the participants were given an...
The sound of music
Art: The San Giobbe Altarpiece Detail of Music Making Angels, Giovani Bellini, 1480Stuff is really stressful right now. It’s usually stressful, but with the...
Data centers are the new oil
Art: Desert Journey, Maynard Dixon, 1935A few months ago, a friend sent me a link about Matthew McConaughey coming to Utah to speak at a tech conference,...
Doctor, sponsor thyself
Art: The Patient and the Doctor, Gabriel Metsu, 1660Normcore is all about not reading the news and not panicking, but I have to admit the threat of...
Easy as A, B, Chromebook
Art: The Country School, Winslow Homer, 1871With my daughter quickly approaching school age, I’ve been doing some research on the current state of the...
Don't cry over dropshipped formula
Art: Bottle, Georges Braque, 1914When my son was 4.5 months old, he pulled the ultimate baby power move and decided to stop nursing, so we switched to...
What I know about running a paid newsletter for 9 months
Art: Writing Desk, Olga Rozanova, 1914It’s been about nine months since I started Normcore Tech, and four months since the last time I talked about revenue....
The market for memes
Art: Pope Leo After Raphael, Fernando Botero, 1964On one of my weekly visits to Facebook (which I’ve mostly disengaged from since I wrote this post in 2017...
Why don't we get the news we need?
Art: The Mirror of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones, 1875 Last month, New York Times technology journalist Kashmir Hill wrote a shocking piece about a US-based...
What's ours is not ours
Art: The Aircraft in the Sky, Fernand LegerMany moons ago, I kept all my music on an iPod. The winter of 2005 was not easy. I was a sophomore in college,...
One very bad Apple
Art: Apple Gatherers, Camille Pissaro, 1891My fifth grade teacher, Mr. Stains, had a big energy about him. He imparted two American cultural norms upon me....
Apple's Memoji and the uncanny valley
Art: The Mask, Frida Kahlo, 1945“Our bodies are a big part of the way we communicate,” writes Gretchen McCulloch in “Because Internet”, a book about living...
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Art: Oroubouros, Lucas Jennis, 1625The online media landscape is looking really bleak these days. Countless layoffs, downsizing, and news outlets closing....
Devices that delight
Art: Drunk woman is tired, Pablo Picasso, 1902I can count on one hand the number of recent(ish) tech purchases or experiences that have brought me joy. The...