The Blog of Andrew Fear

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:25:09 -0500

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

- J.R.R. Tolkein

Live in the future and see whats missing

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:29:49 -0500

As Paul Graham says if you work in the startup world you should live in the future and see what is missing. I think that is great advice.

Incredibly solid advice. If mobile is the future, you best be living in it so you can uncover opportunity.

The view from my desk today. Not too shabby.

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:18:13 -0500

The view from my desk today. Not too shabby.

History.

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:01:56 -0400

History.

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:30:16 -0400

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”

- Jerry Barber (via cartergibson)

Brilliant commencement address by writer Neil Gaiman -...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:56:57 -0400

Brilliant commencement address by writer Neil Gaiman - “Make Good Art”

brilliant ad for google fiber…starts with dial up and ends...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:48:50 -0400

brilliant ad for google fiber…starts with dial up and ends with the blazing speed of fiber optics

Mind blowing series of animations.

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:02:14 -0400

Mind blowing series of animations.

My new favorite app (design wise) (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:16:22 -0400

My new favorite app (design wise) (Taken with Instagram)

The frightening possibilites of the future

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:41:44 -0400

The frightening possibilites of the future

And they don’t even realize it.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:50:37 -0400

And they don’t even realize it.

Yes.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:39:54 -0400

Yes.

Beautiful animated illustration video for one of my favorite...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:44:29 -0400

Beautiful animated illustration video for one of my favorite Avett Brothers’ songs.

cartergibson: The Expert Enough Manifesto

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:36:18 -0400

cartergibson:

The Expert Enough Manifesto

What if all of us understood the basics of computer programming?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:17 -0400

In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life. It’s not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner. It’s something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should have mastery of to some extent, and that’s how we viewed computation and these computation devices.

-Steve Jobs

What if they started requiring the teaching of basic programming languages in middle school?

What would the world look like if 50% of the population had a basic understanding of a computer programming language instead of 5%?

What would that world look like?

Kids basically live in an app using, internet surfing, computer hacking playground…and yet the vast majority of them will never know anything about the languages and framework that make that virtual world a reality.

Screw French and Latin, start teaching them ROR, or Python, or PHP, or HTML, or SOMETHING RELEVANT.

Ok, I’m done, rant over.

fascinating idea. will it work?

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:43:40 -0400

fascinating idea. will it work?

steampunk USBs to be proud of

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:06 -0500

steampunk USBs to be proud of

I want to go to here.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:45:58 -0500

I want to go to here.

Why I Hate Android

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:51:50 -0500

parislemon:

Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.

I should probably explain.

Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That is to say, I don’t hate the concept of Android — in fact, at one point, I loved it. What I hate is what Android has become. And more specifically, what Google has done with Android.

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hour long documentary on Steve Job by the BBC. awesome.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:00:06 -0500

hour long documentary on Steve Job by the BBC. awesome.