Is voice a platform, vertical or simply an enabler for whatever is being provided or produced? Yes. It’s all of these. When I began work on Tincup Voice, I had no illusions about creating a general purpose voice-enabled platform like Siri or Alexa. It wasn’t intended as an input or interface for an on-demand task or query system. Not only was I specifically not interested in solving that problem - I was instead narrowly focused on creating an easy to use mobile transcription that generated editable posts - I knew that I’d need a huge amount of capital to realistically compete with existing voice platforms operated by two of the largest (read: deep-pocketed) companies on the planet.

After a long illness, my dad died last week. I wasn’t sure that I’d want to write about this, now or ever. The more I talked about him to my family - who didn’t know him well, primarily due to geographical distance and my mom’s aversion to traveling when they were both still healthy, I realized that I was the only one who could or would tell his story.

On 12-JUL of this year, I committed to writing & completing my book. I’m happy to announce that it’s available for purchase, just two and a half months later. Buy now on amazon 145 MPH - Stories of Risk-taking, Entrepreneurship & Integrity is my exploration of the nexus of those three qualities. I use stories of events in my life to illustrate & explain how I came to be the person I am, and how my character was shaped by my earliest encounters with adrenaline-fueled behavior.

recorded on iPhone using Tincup Voice in the default Safari browser. This post is about investment ethics. Specifically, what are the dynamics of a very large investment into a rapidly growing company that is positioning itself as the market leader in a lucrative market, especially a new market - one that previously has not existed? I’m gonna focus on WeWork in this post. WeWork has been discussed quite a bit.

I just experienced something that should not have happened, at least not today, in 2019 - the 42nd year of general use of personal computers & the software industry that powers them. As part of my routine tasks, I was preparing to do some online banking. I typically use Safari on my iMac for this work as it gives me nominally better control of password handling. I opened the browser + went to the login page, where I was met with the userid & password form as expected.

There are only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling. - Jim Barksdale Anyone paying attention to the hosted source control market1 has surely noticed that Gitlab has been steadily & with increasing success bundling all the previously disparate pieces of the software development life cycle (SDLC). There’s no better current example of this today than Gitlab, though Hashicorp is close. The loosely-coupled nature of Hashicorp’s tools makes what they’re doing a less than 100% true bundling, but every tool is meant to work seamlessly with the rest of the suite… so it’s pretty close.