Long before Portlandia captured the quirkiness of Portland, there was Austin Stories. It captured the Gen X weirdness of Austin during the ...
At SXSW 2013, Prince threw the party to end all parties, it was 3.5 hours long, had 5 encores, and I WAS THERE....
Time is a cruel beast. A big garage cleanup brought back some memories of a summer job I had 30 years ago....
Visiting the ESPN campus in Bristol were experiences I'll never forget, thanks to Anthony Mormile. When I arrived, we had several highly pro...
SXSW offers more than tech innovations—it brings internet memes to life. Meeting "Success Kid" in person, alongside his parents, is a surrea...
We celebrate May The Fourth, but I wanted to document an Austin urban legend that hasn't been well documented (or documented at all)....
In my continuing series of posts and stories about my Forrest Gump-like life, here is the time I was an extra on the movie Sin City. I defi...
Twitter sometimes amazes with simple access to some of the best minds on the planet....
If you want to know how I got to be so good at shipping world class software and managing teams of people much smarter than me, it all began...
Famous designer Frank Chimero tweeted a few months ago that he was a fan of Commander Mark growing up. I responded to let him know that Com...
What was the best concert you've ever seen? It is a question that I've asked friends for years as I'm curious about their tastes in music a...
About 30 years ago I had an amazing opportunity to spend a few hours talking with Molly Ivins as she came through El Paso to promote her boo...
I am lucky to have a bit of Forrest Gump in me in that I have had a ton of interesting and odd opportunities in my life. One of them was wh...
Today was a day for the books. I got an opportunity to chat with Mike Monteiro about the design biz, getting older and our role as a leader...
The Demi and Ashton Foundation focused on child slavery, human trafficking awareness and legislative change. We built a fully functional con...
There are a handful of movies that never got made and ultimate "what ifs". Stanley Kubrick was supposed to make a Napoleon movie starring J...