TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
2012
- Apr Why I Built Basil
- Apr Design For Purpose
- Mar Say Hello to Basil
- Mar The iPad Mini and the Future of the iPad
- Mar iPad
- Mar It’s Up To Us
- Mar After-Birth Abortions and Euphemisms
- Feb No, Apple’s Manufacturing Is Not Unethical
- Feb Attacking
- Feb Apple Changes the Rules
- Feb The New Interface Is There Is No interface
- Feb Facebook’s Philosophy
- Jan The Autonomous Car
- Jan Apple’s Education Event
- Jan Thank You, He Said
- Jan Tim Ricchuiti’s Reply
- Jan The Textbook Project
- Dec Google’s Not-So-Profitable Android Venture
- Nov Design is Symphony
- Nov The Ephemeral Company Culture
- Oct Siri
- Oct The Syndicate
- Oct Thank You, Steve
- Sep The Age of Insight
- Sep One Platform to Rule Them All
- Sep Why I’m Quitting Tobacco
- Sep Little Green Wristband
- Aug His Greatest Contribution
- Aug Google Buys Motorola Mobility
- Aug Misunderstanding Why Apple Is Successful
- Jul The iPad and Google+
- Jul The Debt Negotiations
- Jul A RIM Employee’s Letter to Management
- Jun Obama’s Puzzling Afghan Policy
- Jun Project Spartan and Commoditizing iOS
- Jun 2007 and 2011
- Jun Windows 8 and Mac OS X Lion’s Very Different Approaches to the Future of Computing
- May 3 Years of TightWind Giveaway
- Apr Just Following Orders
- Apr Apple’s Mobile Strategy is to Make the Technology Irrelevant
- Apr Ryan’s Budget
- Mar No Strategy, No Future
- Mar iPad 2 Event
- Feb Kessler’s Stretch Should Worry Democrats
- Feb Stupid, or Brilliantly Stupid
- Feb iOS Subscriptions Aren’t a Fair Deal
- Feb Recommended Books
- Jan Thanks for 2 Years, Fusion Ads
- Jan “Chinese Mothers Are Superior”
- Jan Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform
- Jan Toward a New Kind of Education
- Dec In Response to “Cash Cow Disease”
- Dec A Study of the Financial Crisis
- Dec WikiLeaks Is Waging War on Government, Not Fighting Injustice
- Nov Developers, Developers, Developers
- Nov The Bowles-Simpson Deficit Proposal
- Oct Converging Operating Systems, the MacBook Air and Appliances
- Sep The Facebook World: A Better Option
- Sep Thoughts on Apple’s iPod Event
- Aug iTV Is a Frame
- Aug Targeted Algorithms and Complete Openness
- Aug Paul Krugman, Jackass
- Jul Apple’s Mistake
- Jul With Tax Comes (Arbitrary) Power
- Jun Apple’s Mobile Future: Corporate and Business Strategy
- Jun TightWind in Print, 2009: No Paper in Sight
- Jun Thoughts on iPhone 4
- May Apple’s Mobile Future
- Apr iAd and Advertising As a Service
- Apr Thoughts on iPhone OS 4
- Apr What the iPad Means
- Mar Ian Hines’ Unfinished Interview With Me
- Mar Health Care Reform Is Fiscally Irresponsible
- Mar The iPad’s New Strategy
- Feb iPad and Paying for Writing
- Jan Moving China Toward Democracy: A Confucian Framework
- Jan Replacing the Notebook, and Other Thoughts
- Jan Frank Rich Thinks He’s Exposing the Real Enemies, But He Just Exposes Himself
- Jan Alone With Our Triumphs
- Dec Iran’s Theocracy Will Fall
- Dec Designing a Tablet Newspaper Application
- Nov Lengthy Books
- Nov Shakedown Politics
- Oct The Nobel Prize and Love for Country
- Oct Without a Word
- Sep The Notepad Beside Your Bed
- Sep TightWind’s Incredible Amazing Survey
- Sep Replacing the Newspaper
- Aug Rationing
- Aug Positioning the Tablet
- Jul Funny People
- Jul Fever: Revealing Communities
- Jul Patronage
- Jun A New Design
- Jun Miscellaneous Writing
- Apr A Series of Niches
- Apr Addendum to TightWind in Print
- Apr TightWind in Print
- Mar The Creator’s Culture
- Mar Learning From the Pre
- Mar Apple’s Excellent Service
- Feb It is About being Genuine
- Jan Nothing Happened
- Jan Palm Pre Video Tours and a Few Thoughts
- Jan What iWork.com Doesn’t Do, and What that Means
- Dec App Store Economics
- Nov The Problem with Video
- Nov Xbox 360?s Netflix Integration
- Nov Free Markets, Dismissive and Control
- Nov Advertisement
- Oct Powell on McCain’s Campaign and on taxes
- Oct Thoughts on Apple’s MacBook Event
- Oct Made in China
- Oct Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama
- Oct The iPhone Platform
- Sep Gruber’s Political Tweets
- Sep Microsoft’s Seinfeld Ads
- Sep New Faces
- Sep On Capitalism
- Sep My School Organization and Productivity — Tasks and Work
- Aug My School Organization and Productivity — Papers and Emails
- Aug Things iPhone Sync
- Aug Things in Review
- Jul The Evolving Mac
- Jul Re-Design
- Jul The Brent Simmons Interview
- Jul Dark Knight
- Jul iPhone 3G: First Thoughts
- Jul 4th of July
- Jun Without iPhone
- Jun The Strange Tale of MobileMe and Apple’s Post-PC
- Jun NetNewsWire
- Jun MBA Battery, and Apple Service
- Jun Announcing Dawning Valley
- Jun iPhone and MobileMe: First Thoughts
- Jun Advertisements and 37Signals
- Jun A Cloudy .Mac
- May No Hands
- May 10.5.3 fixes MBA Ambient Light Sensor
- May My Setup
- May Indiana Jones, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- May 3G iPhone 2.0
- May Summer Lovin’
- May Trey Parker, Life Lessons, and the Mac Community
- May Sprint’s 100 Million Dollar Lesson in Stupidity
- Apr Thoughts: MacBook Air the Month Later
- Apr Mesh Networks, Relationships and Poverty: Non-Profit becomes For-Profit
- Apr Ripping on Rob Enderle
- Apr Interview with Guy King on CushyCMS
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