Category Archives: General

Speaking Up

Posted on 10/4/2022 by Drummond Reed

Over the past year, I have been so engrossed in building decentralized digital trust infrastructure that I haven’t made a single post on this blog. But this morning, in a newsletter from The Atlantic, I read an editorial by Tom … Continue reading →

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Giving Workona a Second Chance

Posted on 9/24/2021 by Drummond Reed

This is the first post I’ve made in 2 years—for the simple reason that my day job in SSI (the acronym for Self-Sovereign Identity—click the link and read the book if you want to learn more) has been all-consuming (and … Continue reading →

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Am I Completely Missing Something or Did AirBNB Map View Just Go Away?

Posted on 5/30/2019 by Drummond Reed

As heads-down as I have been working on SSI (self-sovereign identity) for the past 18 months (that’s why no posts during that period), once again a broken customer experience has provoked me to break that spell (last time it was … Continue reading →

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United Wifi: How Can It Be So Bad?

Posted on 11/22/2017 by Drummond Reed

I just flew United non-stop from Seattle to Washington D.C. (Dulles) and back. I realized too late after booking the trip that this was the airline on which I had never successfully connected to their in-air wifi. Since it was a five … Continue reading →

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What He Said (about Sovrin)

Posted on 10/30/2016 by Drummond Reed

I joke with Phil Windley that half my blog posts are about his blog posts. But there’s a good reason for that. Phil’s a prolific blogger because he’s a prolific thinker, and there is a very high signal-to-noise ratio in those … Continue reading →

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Even Just Two Days Can Be a Vacation

Posted on 8/21/2016 by Drummond Reed

“Summer vacation” this year consisted of just two days—the only two days my two sons could free up to take off with my wife and I. There wasn’t even enough time to go out of town, so finally we had a … Continue reading →

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Zootopia Is My Happy Place

Posted on 4/22/2016 by Drummond Reed

I don’t think I’ve had such a good time at the movies since Little Miss Sunshine. If you just want to smile—and laugh—and clap—and feel like dancing all over the theatre—don’t miss this. And don’t watch it at home (which you will want to do … Continue reading →

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The Offer Letter of Your Dreams from eShares

Posted on 3/19/2016 by Drummond Reed

Ironically, this post has nothing to do with my company going live with eShares online equity management service yesterday. The only connection is that it may be the reason (in some scary way I haven’t figure out yet) that this Medium story from eShares CEO Henry Ward appeared … Continue reading →

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The Boys in the Boat and the O-Ring Theory of Development

Posted on 3/12/2016 by Drummond Reed

I can’t keep track of the number of times I’ve done a post just to point at one of Phil Windley’s posts. But there’s a good reason: Phil’s a highly discriminating thinker and writer who hits some nails right on the … Continue reading →

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The Google Flight Info Trick

Posted on 12/20/2014 by Drummond Reed

When I first stumbled across this, I thought I was the only one who hadn’t heard about it. Now I find myself telling other travelers about it all the time and am consistently surprised that they don’t know it. If you want … Continue reading →

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Acupuncture for Oso

Posted on 3/31/2014 by Drummond Reed

It’s all but impossible to relate to the scope of the destruction from the mudslide last week outside Oso, only an hour to the north of our house in Seattle. But Bill Wulsin (whose sister Virginia Lee sent me a guest post … Continue reading →

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Her

Posted on 3/31/2014 by Drummond Reed

My wife was reluctant to see Her because she thought it might simply be a quirky story that had garnered favor with the Hollywood in-crowd. I convinced her to go only after Spike Jonze won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. … Continue reading →

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Understanding Ukraine

Posted on 3/20/2014 by Drummond Reed

[At a friend’s 60th birthday party last weekend, I met his sister Virginia Lee who had been in the Peace Corps in Ukraine 5 years ago. I asked her about the unfolding situation there, and her answer so enlightened me … Continue reading →

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The Seattle Seahawks Leave No Doubt

Posted on 2/2/2014 by Drummond Reed

After two weeks of reading about the NFL’s #1 all-time offense playing the #1 defense, my favorite stat from the Super Bowl was: Denver 8 – Seattle Defense 8 It simply leaves no doubt.

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On Time

Posted on 1/5/2014 by Drummond Reed

Although I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, I am a fan of continuous improvement or Kaizen (taught to me by Vince Caluori, who spent 30+ years practicing it at Boeing). So I look at the holidays as a … Continue reading →

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What Was Google Thinking??? (A Rant about the Gmail Editing Toolbar)

Posted on 7/21/2013 by Drummond Reed

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for 6+ months now. Since it’s a sunny Sunday morning in Seattle before I leave on a week’s vacation, I’m finally letting loose. Here’s the bee in my summer bonnet (which has stung … Continue reading →

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This is What a Hole in Your Digital Life Looks Like

Posted on 4/4/2012 by Drummond Reed

10:15PM Tuesday March 27, San Francisco, across the street from Alexander’s Restaurant at 4th & Brennan. I slipped into the driver’s seat of my rental car after dinner with Phil Windley and Doc Searls, took one look in the rear view mirror, and … Continue reading →

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Dan Marovitz Shows his Zeal

Posted on 12/15/2011 by Drummond Reed

The more I get to know Dan, the more I like his zeal. Not just his entrepreneurial zeal — which is fantastic by itself — but his zeal for life. Both are reflected in his new post on the buzzumi … Continue reading →

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Connect.Me: One Month In

Posted on 11/15/2011 by Drummond Reed

Trust is a very delicate matter — especially online, where most if not all of the cues (location, appearance, diction, body language) we use to make trust decisions in the physical world are absent. To make matters worse, the rampant … Continue reading →

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Update on Personal Event Networks: The Evented API Spec

Posted on 10/12/2011 by Drummond Reed

As a follow-on to my post about Personal Event Networks last week, Phil Windley and Sam Curren have published the Evented API Specification. Phil’s blog post about it gives a good summary, but if you’re a developer just go straight to … Continue reading →

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