Developing Perspective

This year I’m going to skip my usual soapbox speech about WWDC tips and etiquette. Given the way the ticket distribution played out it seems neither kind nor productive. If you are going to WWDC I …

My thanks to everyone who purchased a t-shirt in the last two weeks. They should be at the printer and then on their way to your door within the next week or so.

Anxiety and Inertia

I’ll be taking…

T-shirts

I am doing another run of t-shirts for the show. After I did the campaign for them last fall I heard from a lot of people that they missed out. This year I’m giving the campaign a nice lo…

T-shirts

I am doing another run of t-shirts for the show. After I did the campaign for them last fall I heard from a lot of people that they missed out. This year I’m giving the campaign a nice lo…

I hope you fared better in the WWDC lottery than I did, though I’m hopeful for a possibility of a second round on Monday (maybe?). The system and process generally went really well and I think this …

A few words of appreciation for the new lottery based WWDC ticket sales. Get your name in the hat by Monday morning.

Then I talk through some of the tradeoffs involved in choosing the level of abst…

After taking credit ;) for Apple’s experiments in search improvements I dive into a few changes to the App Store that could improve doing business in the store.

Make the App Store Refund policy more…

I will be at NSConference next week, if you are a listener of the show please make sure you find me and say hi.

Continuing my series of Towards a Better App Store, trying to find practical suggestio…

Towards a Better App Store: Part 2

Make it up in Volume

This is Part 2 of an ongoing series trying to explore practical ways that the App Store could be better for customers. Today I’m going to ta…

This begins a multi-part series on how I think we could move the App Store forward. I had initially thought this could be a single show but quickly realized that it will take quite a few 15 minute c…

There is something tragic about the Flappy Bird saga. The events and realities of it aren’t necessarily anything new but they showcase some of the darker sides of our industry.

The Hate

Things lik…

I’m trying a new format for show notes. This is half blog post, half podcast. Let me know what you think.

I’m not going to wade into the specifics of the Paper-on-Paper-on-Paper-on-Paper battle bu…

I recently went through the process of localizing Pedometer++. Today I walk through my thought process and experience doing that. Whether you should localize isn’t always a simple question.

• Previ…

I’m renumbering the shows going forward. Early on the show’s history I made a few mistakes where I skipped numbers in the ordering. Now the numbers correctly reflect the number of episodes I’ve cre…

I took two weeks off the internet and work. Here are a few of the things I learned from the experience and the changes I’m making in my own life.

• Invest in fewer but more personal relationships.
• A…

It matters that you can make a living — but it matters more how you make your living.

• Decisions and Tensions

Talking through some of the implications of the Christmas bump in the App Store. How to prepare for it and some mistakes I’d like to avoid making again. Allowing yourself to be a bit creative and e…