Once I had a dream that I was reclining with a very wise man. He told me a story of an all-powerful God. Given the nature of absolute power, the God despaired with boredom and so he devised a game to entertain himself. First, he created a new world in his mind and then he …
Check out this talk I gave at Stanford recently. Unfortunately, the camera died halfway through the Q&A so I cut that portion off. Sound quality isn’t great so I made up for it with some Beethoven. Hope you enjoy! – Andrew
I’ve gotten a lot of cool responses regarding my recent experiences with JetBlue (here and here), but the coolest response I got was: He says you definitely have a knack for getting people involved. I told him that you could make people believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That’s officially the coolest thing anyone …
This is the story of how my tweet cost JetBlue $99,342 but saved them millions. If you want the entire saga of how JetBlue massively screwed up, failed to communicate, and then tried to screw over 150 people, read my post about the JetBlue Flight 278 Fiasco. Instead of re-living a pretty shitty 20-hour ordeal, this …
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It is deeply disturbing to stand at the edges of such extreme wealth, such extreme speculation – even when successful – and peer into the expanses of such unrelenting poverty: poverty of abandoned building and abandoned village and field abandoned to mall, poverty of slum and ghetto, poverty of pollution, poverty of congestion and sprawl, …
Andrew Kim is obsessed with consumer electronics. He was delighted to discover that there was a profession for people for him. I got on the phone with Andrew and we chatted a bit about the very awesome re-design he did on the classic coke bottle. Design Fabulous is Andrew Kim’s design blog. He’s a student …
ATTN: Please don’t read this post if you are unable to think for yourself. 3.5 million gallons of crude (the approximate total amount spilled so far 06/09/2010) is less than 0.5% of our country’s daily oil consumption. The total amount of oil spilled is a tiny amount relative to how much we consume in the US …
You know when you see a really good movie and you get all pumped up about it and can’t stop telling people about it? You say stuff like “No, seriously- you need to watch this” and “It’s really interesting.” I’m not going to do that. I try not to recommend things too often, but this …
In this final post on crude oil I’ll discuss why there’s so much controversy over oil. In short, using fossil fuels like crude has negative effects on the environment, economy, and therefore everyone. The organic material that is found in crude oil sometimes contain sulfur atoms which if combusted turns into SO2 and then into …
I only made it about 3 paragraphs into this NYTimes article about the switch to digital television when I thought of a quick article to write for this blog. Okay, so I hope you know the gist of this whole story. The US government decided to end analogue television signals on June 12, 2009 to …
