Dare I say that I am going to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year? I find my inner procrastinator does not like grand plans.

The iPhone 7 gets quite hot (not Note 7 hot, but still) when I’m actively working on it for over 15 minutes. It is reminiscent of my old 17" PowerBook leg-warmer. Better out than in, I suppose.

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” —Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

Typora is a slick, minimal, multi-platform, Markdown editor. Quite nice.

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.” —Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

It looks like you could win a pair of Marty’s Nike MAGs from Back to the Future Part II. Enter to win for $10. All proceeds go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

I love watches. Consequently, I really like this subscription service – only $29 monthly – for a new watch each month from Wrist Society.

Open Whisper Systems’ Signal protocol and its implementation in their Signal app is exactly how an encrypted messaging platform should work if you truly want privacy and security. When a subpoena is issued, there’s not much to share.

Dave Winer continues to pump out slick, little apps like screen2.io. He is having a debate party on there tonight for the vice presidential debate. Check it out.

The reason Microsoft’s attempts in the hardware space fail is their constant discontinuation of products. Consumers are not going to buy hardware from a company when they know the products won’t last more than a year or two. Ergo, new hardware products will not be purchased dooming them to the cycle of failure.