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