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Most days, that means encouraging people to talk and get excited about things that matter, like politics, ethics, and pursuing talent. It also includes designing and developing software for Apple and Extendmac, a small startup I founded a few years ago.

I’m an avid public speaker, have obsessively high standards, unreasonably  idealistic expectations, and savour the challenge of motivating myself and those around me to not just meet them, but exceed them.

Why is this tumblelog called “Simplicity is Complicated”?
</description><title>Simplicity is Complicated</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @simplicityiscomplicated)</generator><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/</link><item><title>Copying and Opening URLs in Flow (Screencast)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/Xy7A4uZJycE/"&gt;Copying and Opening URLs in Flow (Screencast)&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/1247903716</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/1247903716</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:06:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Flow 1.3.4 Now Available</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/1sctng_mntY/"&gt;Flow 1.3.4 Now Available&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Hot off of the heels of &lt;a href="http://extendmac.com/blog/2010/08/flow-1-3-3-now-available/"&gt;Flow’s exciting 1.3.3 update earlier this week&lt;/a&gt;, we’re happy to say that the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; update to Flow, 1.3.4, is now available. As usual, you can grab it via in-app software…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/1019370480</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/1019370480</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:44:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Flow 1.3.3 Now Available</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/1oIcbqyx1BY/"&gt;Flow 1.3.3 Now Available&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;We’re &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; excited to announce that Flow 1.3.3, a bug-fix release, is now available via in-app software update and via &lt;a href="http://extendmac.com/flow/download"&gt;direct download&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Why so excited over a bug-fix release? Here’s why: &lt;strong&gt;This…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/997416590</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/997416590</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:26:36 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Flow 1.3.2 Now Available</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/EX_MVcVZ0Qc/"&gt;Flow 1.3.2 Now Available&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Flow 1.3.2, a bug-fix release, is now available via in-app software update and via &lt;a href="http://extendmac.com/flow/download"&gt;direct download&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This update delivers the following enhancements:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;[New] The tab and window title now contains…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/977693065</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/977693065</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:15:28 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Support Status Update</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/qetZTjFX-w0/"&gt;Support Status Update&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;A few notes:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;We’ve got about 150 still-relevant / unread e-mails left to respond to. This is down from a backlog in the thousands.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Since our &lt;a href="http://extendmac.com/blog/2010/08/support-sucks-lets-fix-that/"&gt;last post&lt;/a&gt;, we’ve been responding to new messages…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/953321404</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/953321404</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:26:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Support Sucks. Let’s Fix That.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/Z3rBbfnWzyU/"&gt;Support Sucks. Let’s Fix That.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;So, here’s the thing: we screwed up. I’ll be more specific: &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; screwed up.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This post isn’t like the others before it. This is a personal post (in both authorship and content) from me (Brian)…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/911857734</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/911857734</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:26:17 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>What’s Innovation?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://brianamerige.com/blog/2010/05/05/whats-innovation/"&gt;What’s Innovation?&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/574450239</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/574450239</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:14:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Kicking and Screaming Into The Future</title><description>&lt;a href="http://brianamerige.com/blog/2010/04/22/kicking-and-screaming-into-the-future/"&gt;Kicking and Screaming Into The Future&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/541600611</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/541600611</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:58:13 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Dawkins on Pope Ratzinger</title><description>&lt;a href="http://brianamerige.com/blog/2010/04/12/richard-dawkins-on-pope-ratzinger/"&gt;Richard Dawkins on Pope Ratzinger&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/517112592</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/517112592</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:06:45 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>The Bottom Line and Great Products</title><description>&lt;a href="http://brianamerige.com/blog/2010/03/30/the-bottom-line-and-great-products/"&gt;The Bottom Line and Great Products&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/485332774</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/485332774</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:16:42 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the iPad Will Change Everything - Newsweek.com</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/235565/page/1"&gt;Why the iPad Will Change Everything - Newsweek.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Nails it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/477606628</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/477606628</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:41:28 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Million Dollar NASA Photos Beaten by Budget Balloon</title><description>&lt;a href="http://gnews.com/science/Million-Dollar-NASA-Photos-Beaten-by-Budget-Balloon-632572225751.html"&gt;Million Dollar NASA Photos Beaten by Budget Balloon&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Kind of awesome.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/473076310</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/473076310</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:05:40 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"What we want from our technology, in its most elemental form, is to make our thoughts happen. Sure,..."</title><description>“What we want from our technology, in its most elemental form, is to make our thoughts happen. Sure, it’s still very much sci-fi in 2010, but what every calculating machine and telephone and computer and phonograph and light bulb and hammer and every tool ever invented is about at its core is our desire, our evolutionary imperative to control our environment at our will. And we’re getting closer and closer to that happening. But there are still many layers between our intentions and our environment. As time progresses, we will strip away those layers one by one. And it’s always disruptive to do so. The reason that any manufacturer of technology exists is to ease each step of the process of tearing away the layers of abstraction between our thoughts and our realities. The manufacturer with the greatest ability to ease the process is the winner. Thus far, Apple has been the winner. That could change, but the rest of the industry is pretty far behind.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lonelysandwich.com/post/374473607/adaptation"&gt;lonelysandwich  - Adaptation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He gets it.™&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/472177283</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/472177283</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:02:44 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>“Science can answer moral questions:

Questions of good...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="292"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SamHarris_2010-medium.flv&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SamHarris-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=801&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right;year=2010;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;theme=is_there_a_god;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TED2010;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="292" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SamHarris_2010-medium.flv&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SamHarris-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=801&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right;year=2010;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;theme=is_there_a_god;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TED2010;"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Science can answer moral questions:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sam Harris, on science and morality. Excellent as always.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/466790598</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/466790598</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:01:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>I thought this was worthy of documentation.

Extendmac is...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzo41gGrf51qzioi1o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; A life-size cut out of the iPad.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzo41gGrf51qzioi1o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Simulating typing on the simulator.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;I thought this was worthy of documentation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://extendmac.com"&gt;Extendmac&lt;/a&gt; is working on iPad software, and since we can’t get out hands on one until April 3rd, we’re going to pretty far extremes to try and get a feel for the form factor.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because it changes everything.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/464998760</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/464998760</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:17:40 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>via cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzngfl57I91qzioi1o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c114612/images/2009/victor-stenger-bus.jpg"&gt;cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/463973475</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/463973475</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:47:45 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Flow 1.2.7 Released</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.extendmac.com/~r/extendmacblog/~3/GgYjTsDFcCg/"&gt;Flow 1.2.7 Released&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Hey folks,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We’re coming up quickly for a breath of air to tell you that &lt;a href="http://extendmac.com/flow"&gt;Flow&lt;/a&gt; 1.2.7 has been released. While it may just be a bug-fix release, it does resolve &lt;em&gt;our most widely known crasher&lt;/em&gt;, so…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/462593066</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/462593066</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:41:04 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight."</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.27bslash6.com/easter.html"&gt;"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight."&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;This is fantastic. Funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/456994399</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/456994399</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:19 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Nimble Design - /the/path/of/most/resistance</title><description>&lt;a href="http://nimbledesign.com/post/441423115/the-path-of-most-resistance"&gt;Nimble Design - /the/path/of/most/resistance&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Decent description of why file systems need to die.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/455263496</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/455263496</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:16 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>tmblg:

willw:

William Wilkinson at home in 2010.
(reference)
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://williamwilkinson.com/post/434981345/william-wilkinson-at-home-in-2010-reference"&gt;willw&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;William Wilkinson at home in 2010.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href="http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html"&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/436037083</link><guid>http://simplicityiscomplicated.com/post/436037083</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:47:05 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

