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I was sitting on a barstool next to my wife in a packed restaurant in Little Italy. We were the lone Kansas City Chiefs supporters in a nest full of hipster Philadelphia Eagles fans. After Jon Batiste finished his fantastic rendition of the national anthem, and the teams took the field for kickoff, I noticed something. The scorebug—the broadcast industry’s term for the lower-third or chyron graphic at the bottom of the screen—was different, and in a good way. (Continued)

I love this essay from Baldur Bjarnason, maybe because his stream of consciousness style is so similar to my own. He compares the rapidly changing economics of web and software development to the film, TV, and publishing industries. Before we get to web dev, let's look at the film industry, as disrupted by streaming…

James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times: > Whether they work in sand or spores, heavy-handed metaphor is the true material of choice for all these opening titles. The series are different in genres and tone. But all of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture of shape-shifting, literal-minded screen-saver art. His point is that a recent trend in "prestige TV" main titles is to use particle effects…

Appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Apple “[hasn’t] really invented anything great in a while.” He said, “Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they’re just kind of sitting on it 20 years later.” Let's take a look at some hard metrics, shall we?

I’ve had Matthew Butterick’s _Practical Typography_ website/ebook bookmarked since I discovered it over ten years ago. It’s making the rounds again, and I think it’s a good reminder that we are all “professional writers” as he describes…

How I spent months convincing my dad to buy me my first Mac, and the hours I logged at Computerland waiting for that day.

Watching the premiere of _Mad Men_ season six, I _loved_ that Peggy Olson blasted her creative team for bringing her three variations on the same idea. These are words to remember.

From playing with MacPaint as a seventh grader to working directly with Steve Jobs at Pixar, my journey with Apple spans decades. While Jobs was demanding and direct, his push for perfection helped shape not just my career, but the entire tech landscape.

While working at Apple, I had the unique experience of presenting the Mac OS X Panther setup animation directly to Steve Jobs. After 14 rounds of revisions, his dedication to perfection taught me an invaluable lesson: Keep going until it's right. Don't settle.

Fellow Razorfisher and social media guru Shiv Singh asks, in the age of social media, do big ideas matter less? Truth be told, I've been thinking about how to craft my reaction to this since I first read a similar tweet from Michael Lebowitz, CEO of Big Spaceship…