Thoughts on technology, design, and the craft of building digital products.https://ericbrookfield.com/https://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/28/i-stopped-prompting-ai-and-started-managing-ithttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/28/i-stopped-prompting-ai-and-started-managing-itI'm an engineer and builder juggling multiple software projects at once. Earlier this year, I started using [Paperclip](https://paperclip.ing), an open-source agent orchestration platform, to manage t...Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/25/give-your-agent-a-mailboxhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/25/give-your-agent-a-mailboxI spent a few hours tonight giving my AI assistant an email address. Not so it could write emails for me. Not to pipe newsletters through Claude and get summaries. I gave it an email address so that w...Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/09/a-second-pair-of-eyeshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/03/09/a-second-pair-of-eyesAnthropic [announced Code Review for Claude Code](https://www.threads.com/@claudeai/post/DVrOfogkWbV) this week. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches agents to hunt for bugs. I've been doing this since ...Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/25/inbox-unsulliedhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/25/inbox-unsullied975 emails in the confirm queue. Not spam — the classifier handled spam. Not shipping notifications or LinkedIn job alerts — it handled those too. These were the ambiguous ones, the ones Claude wasn't...Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/24/the-ci-that-fixes-itselfhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/24/the-ci-that-fixes-itselfThe development loop I've landed on for [Picket](https://sellwithpicket.com): I write the spec. Claude turns the spec into tests. Claude turns the tests into code. The code ships to CI. If anything br...Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/20/i-let-claude-read-my-emailhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/20/i-let-claude-read-my-emailI had over seven thousand unread emails in my inbox. Not spam — [Fastmail](https://join.fastmail.com/87aac080) handles spam fine. These were the other kind. The ones that exist only to be ignored. Lin...Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/13/the-easiest-hard-thing-ive-ever-builthttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/13/the-easiest-hard-thing-ive-ever-builtI wrote [a post on Monday](/2026/02/10/a-hundred-commits-and-a-nap.html) about shipping a hundred commits in a week and collapsing into bed. Then I woke up Tuesday and did it again. This isn't part tw...Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/10/a-hundred-commits-and-a-naphttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/10/a-hundred-commits-and-a-napI shipped about a hundred commits last week. Multi-tenant architecture, self-service signup, Stripe billing with tier enforcement, a marketing site with features and pricing pages, product screenshots...Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/04/vaporwave-sunglasses-and-the-polyend-play-plushttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/04/vaporwave-sunglasses-and-the-polyend-play-plusI have 8,597 audio samples. Kicks, snares, synths, weird textures I downloaded once and forgot about. They live in folders named "Drums_Final_v2" and "MISC_GOOD" and "sort_later." The Polyend Play+ is...Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/01/back-to-github-actionshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/02/01/back-to-github-actionsRemember when I was excited about [self-hosted CI on Fly.io](/2026/01/31/self-hosted-ci-flyio.html)? That lasted about 24 hours. The setup worked. The runner registered, jobs ran, tests passed. But th...Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/31/self-hosted-ci-flyiohttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/31/self-hosted-ci-flyioI wanted to use WarpBuild for faster CI, but it only works for organization repos. Mine's personal. So I needed another option. GitHub Actions works fine, but I'm burning through minutes on E2E tests....Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:30:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/25/the-questions-shaped-the-answerhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/25/the-questions-shaped-the-answerI asked an AI to help me reimagine my personal site. Not redesign — reimagine. I didn't describe a vision or list requirements. I just said "reimagine what a personal website can be." The AI didn't ge...Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:30:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/21/the-stack-you-knowhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2026/01/21/the-stack-you-knowI was recently putting together a payment processing flow. The kind of form where you collect user info, maybe some additional details from a third party, process a deposit via Authorize.Net, send con...Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:30:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/07/17/whenever-i-gethttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/07/17/whenever-i-getWhenever I get down on my job, I need to remember I've incorporated command line tools called '[asdf](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf)' and '[thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)' into my regular life, and that I'm using computers the right way to just think less about the things I don't want to think about while getting work done.Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:37:56 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/05/30/html-css-andhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/05/30/html-css-andIf you're in a web development job where you find yourself occasionally writing HTML, CSS and Javascript in the style of what may be disparagingly called *spaghetti code* — code that presumably works ...Thu, 30 May 2024 16:30:46 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/04/04/the-internet-washttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/04/04/the-internet-wasthe internet was good to me todayThu, 04 Apr 2024 20:15:07 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/02/22/everything-is-amazinghttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/02/22/everything-is-amazingDid you never tell your phone, "Hey Siri, scan a document," and then watch it pull up the document scanning UI? You didn't buy an app, you weren't marketed to or tracked, you didn't do anything except...Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:04:26 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/30/we-moved-tohttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/30/we-moved-toWe moved to a JiT model for laundry and it a) is better and b) sure makes it look like I have too many clothes.Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:22:16 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/30/fullstack-engineer-surehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/30/fullstack-engineer-sureFull-stack engineer sure is a fancy way to write “generalist.”Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:10:56 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/23/behold-the-applehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/23/behold-the-appleBehold the Apple Vision Pro. The first new product category from Apple that I haven't immediately bought into on Day One in many, many years. I see the potential. I really do. It may not be for everyo...Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:33:50 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/18/how-to-enjoyhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/18/how-to-enjoyDISCLAIMER: This is not advice. Don't do dumb shit on the internet like I do from time to time. Sometimes I buy things on the internet that need to be discreet. Sending things too. I've done it bot...Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:23:59 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/04/the-internet-ihttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/04/the-internet-iTime was you got to the end of the internet. Not the wholee internet of course, but the blogs, sites, feeds and newsletters you cared about. For white collar workers of a certain age in the beginning...Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:22:48 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/02/how-i-tryhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2024/01/02/how-i-tryMy yearly digital tidy and email hygiene reset * everything in the inbox(es) as of Jan. 2: mark as read * create folder(s) for previous year (2023), if you haven't already made one[^1] * inbox c...Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:37:57 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/24/i-made-musichttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/24/i-made-music[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/62lK9U7R6onp9ALxt7NjTH?si=rM0fYcUrQguPHe1azGMkMA) [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/house-demiurge-phase-ii-feat-abstruze/1722344499)...Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:47:56 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/24/im-the-herhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/24/im-the-herI’m the Her (2013) guy now. ChatGPT and the whole AI thing… there’s some problems. Some real problems. Take it as read. But have you used the voice chat function of the ChatGPT app bluetooth’d to your car while cruising around? Much like the initial chatbot release of version 3, there’s a “holy shit” moment at first. You can do some neat parlor tricks. Use it some more with a critical mind and you’ll find it doesn’t do some things as well as it should. But for some tasks, it’s a very useful tool! Not essential, but useful. Then there’s voice chat. It’s the same chatbot experience, but you’re just asking questions and responding to answers. The voice is obviously generative but I picked the one that sounds the most like Scarlet Johansson because I’m a 38 year old cis white male that’s why You can go back and forth with questions or prompts just like you would with a person. A person who can give you answers to what’s on your mind, or at least generate a string of conversation-sounding-tones, not unlike a musical synthesizer but the music happens to be the answer of a verbal spell you cast. But once you actually establish a conversational cadence, an uncanny valley of voice communication takes hold and, like the typing bot experience, you find the edges of its usefulness.Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:45:15 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/15/my-next-oledhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/15/my-next-oled> Frankly, I think everyone is so focused on comparing Vision Pro to the Quest 3 that they’re missing the point of what the Vision Pro really is: it’s going to disrupt the TV and projection screens in...Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:37:46 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/04/the-puritanical-eyehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/04/the-puritanical-eye[THE PURITANICAL EYE: HYPER-MEDIATION, SEX ON FILM, AND THE DISAVOWAL OF DESIRE](https://specchioscuro.it/the-puritanical-eye-hyper-mediation-sex-on-film-and-the-disavowal-of-desire/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) this is so good. i think i got this from garbage day so thanks ryan.Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:34:55 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/01/duke-libraries-drophttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/12/01/duke-libraries-drop[Duke libraries drop Basecamp. Don’t fuck with librarians: they’re experts at reading between the lines.](https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/)Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:50:20 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/31/selfmerching-selfcarehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/31/selfmerching-selfcareIt started with this deal on stickers last year. $29 / roll of 100, die cut stickers. The kids were 1.5 and 4. I had to: Then there was the $14 t-shirt one off which is perfect timing for getting a se...Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:43:46 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/26/regularly-marking-thehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/26/regularly-marking-theregularly marking the whole inbox as read and moving things into a $currentYear folder is a high recommendation from me, a fully employed professionalThu, 26 Oct 2023 17:40:37 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/24/chatgpt-made-anhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/24/chatgpt-made-anjust because you want to be studio boy with logic pro doesn't mean you take your eye off the ball: batch processing a bunch of stem-based audio projects from a digital mixer (zoom livetrak, tascam mod...Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:54:22 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/23/reading-these-lamentationshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/23/reading-these-lamentationsreading these lamentations of the internet and social media of yore popular in the last month or so. they mostly read like songs of bygone youth, which we've been writing about forever. for a moment, we all got to play in a vast space without edges. then we found the edges.Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:17:24 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/17/the-internet-ishttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/17/the-internet-isif people want to make the internet more like the 90s / 00s, let's do it and let's [do it right this time](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/...Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:12:42 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/16/im-and-justhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/16/im-and-justI’m 38 and just starting to understand that I’m allowed to organize my clothes however my brain wants. This is, indeed, better than a floor pile.Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:34:11 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/08/judah-this-ishttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/08/judah-this-is“Judah this is the heigth of musical accomplishment by Western civilization. It was Beethoven, then it was Robyn’s 2010 album ‘Bodytalk’” — me explaining the current music to my 4.5 year old.Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:35:13 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/06/how-to-rebuildhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/10/06/how-to-rebuildhow to rebuild a read it later habitFri, 06 Oct 2023 17:22:37 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/08/02/i-see-youhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/08/02/i-see-youI see you toast, making Apple Pay less convenient because you want “express checkout with toast” to be more convenient. Way to hose your checkout experience.Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:07:45 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/08/01/its-an-edgehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/08/01/its-an-edge## It’s an edge case until it isn’t: sharing an iCloud link edition. I’m uploading a 4m video to iCloud and of course hotel WiFi chokes upload speed. I don’t know if this video will take 3 more minutes or 30 and I’d like to check out soon. No percentage. Nothing to click. No kbps. This was a decision.Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:25:27 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/26/the-bear-sehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/26/the-bear-seThe Bear s2e6 is a pivotal episode of television. I think it was canonized in the McLuhan days that TV is a close-up medium? "Fishes" exemplifies this. There's a close up on Donna — Jamie Lee Curtis —...Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:14:31 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/12/the-bear-ishttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/12/the-bear-is2 eps into The Bear S2… just a goddamn masterpiece of a piece of media we can't talk about as a collective because of fragmented media viewing habits. it has everything we need to be discussing in ame...Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:35:20 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/11/perpetual-static-machinehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/11/perpetual-static-machineMake it Great Again, but This Time It'll Be Different. It will be better than it used to be, but it used to be a lot better. What didn't work then won't work now, but also what _did work_ then also _i...Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:00:15 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/07/id-love-tohttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/07/07/id-love-toI’d love to see a Tim and Eric style public service announcement with very calm, clinical individuals explaining how “we’re all having a hard time dealing with the death of Twitter, but our team of experts have developed strategies for even the most deranged posters to cope” Like 30 mins long.Sat, 08 Jul 2023 01:25:39 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/06/16/safari-tab-groupshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/06/16/safari-tab-groupsi figured out safari tab groups. their purpose, how they’re supposed to be used. scenario: you open a bunch of tabs loosely tied to the first tab, set A. you’re done with set A and now you do somet...Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:17:51 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/04/05/hypothesis-all-difficultieshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/04/05/hypothesis-all-difficultiesHypothesis: all difficulties in professional relationships stem from a communication imbalance. Not enough questions were asked, or politics prevents a certain kind of communication flow, or someone i...Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:36:47 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/28/sorry-my-phonehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/28/sorry-my-phoneSorry my phone wasn’t normal computer enough.Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:23:26 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/24/jtbd-most-peoplehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/24/jtbd-most-people## JTBD Most people really don't want to use computers at all. They want to get a job done. This has been said before, it's not an original insight. They're hammers for informational nails. Or screwdrivers for informational screws. Again: for most people. Let's assume most people aren't born dying to be digital natives. People have things to do in the real world and deploy tools to do things. Computers only got kind of interesting enough to have around to do more than just jobs since the iPhone. The iPhone (and its imitators) made computers more desirable to have around all the time, to accomplish more than just jobs, because they enabled so much _spontaneous creation_ to occur anywhere, at any moment, whenever the idea strikes. Just take a beat and appreciate the sugar rush of digital joy of taking a selfie at a meaningful moment. The computers got so fun to have around because the best features enabled by hardware and software became increasingly frictionless over time. **Creating images out of thin air is a common everyday activity performed by many grandmas**. We have these incredible creative superpowers for living in the world, but getting work done for a non-creative professional is still just typing. Most work on computers in 2023 is not that much different than work on computers in 2013 or even 2003. Text and image processing. Spreadsheets. Filling in forms and noting the results. Programming. Email. Sure we have slack now, but it's still just touching letters for job things.Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:41:03 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/21/my-bird-feederhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/21/my-bird-feederthe problem is, we don’t need _a lot_ of smart connected things. we each want _one or two_ smart connected things. but we each want _different_ connected things. that makes for a very large ma...Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:10:44 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/17/i-had-tohttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/17/i-had-toI had to wish somebody a “Happy St. Paddy’s Day” today and I have no idea what that means. I’m 38 years old.Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:34:50 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/08/how-to-makehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/08/how-to-makeIf I were to start a new web app in 2023, I'd use whatever full-stack server-side framework I prefer and host it on the service that will get it standing up on a public IP address quickly. That's my s...Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:12:45 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/02/its-okay-tohttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/03/02/its-okay-toLately, when a website gives me guff, I just do not engage with the site. [I'm glad I'm not the only one](https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell). Go fur...Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:07:40 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/01/20/robots-sunflowershttps://ericbrookfield.com//2023/01/20/robots-sunflowersI asked the robot: > I'm seeding a tray of black oil sunflower seeds to grow them as micro greens. Approximately how many seeds by weight will fit on a standard 1020 tray. and it said > The number of ...Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:12:44 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2022/12/05/trying-to-starthttps://ericbrookfield.com//2022/12/05/trying-to-starttrying to start a farm isn't easy, but we took a step today by engaging with our local NRCS agent on getting a site evaluatedMon, 05 Dec 2022 17:34:18 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2022/11/30/might-fuck-aroundhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2022/11/30/might-fuck-aroundmight fuck around and get into microscopyWed, 30 Nov 2022 16:01:23 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/05/29/on-never-beinghttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/05/29/on-never-beingIf you write code for a living, you probably follow fellow code-writers (on your favorite following service of choice) and read what they have to say about the new shiny they are currently working on....Tue, 29 May 2012 22:18:20 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/03/26/more-stylish-contenthttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/03/26/more-stylish-contentWhen [Blog Better Boston](http://blogbetterboston.com) asked me what I was going to speak about, I said "design hacks" off the top of my head. As the day approached and I thought more about my audienc...Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:09:07 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/03/08/the-new-ipadhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/03/08/the-new-ipad> _So Apple updated the iPad the other day?_ > Yes. > _Retina display? Faster? Better camera?_ > Yep. > _The last one was the iPad 2 right?_ > Yes. > _Do you know what they called the new one? The iPa...Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:49:32 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/29/bless-this-csshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/29/bless-this-cssI reached a small, nightmarish victory yesterday while testing some new styles on [HipHost](http://hiphost.com) in IE: two of my CSS files surpassed [Internet Explorer's CSS Selector Limit](http://www...Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:14:29 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/16/messagesapp-gets-crossdevicehttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/16/messagesapp-gets-crossdeviceWord of OS X 10.8 (kitty code name: [Mountain Lion](http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/)) dropped today. The big summary is its a continuation of the iCloud-ification of your data across all de...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:02:59 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/15/above-the-foldhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/15/above-the-fold> Boss: Do we think if we make these changes that this content will now be above the fold? > Me: You know, when I fold my laptop the screen shuts off and I can't use the keyboard. This is going to be ...Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:39:48 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/07/sublime-text-andhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/07/sublime-text-andI've got high hopes for TextMate 2, which we know is happening for sure now. But [Sublime Text 2](http://www.sublimetext.com/) has been my goto editor for the last few weeks now. Plenty to like, plent...Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:20:17 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/01/bash-convert-allhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2012/02/01/bash-convert-allI've been using — nay, depending on — [SaSS](http://sass-lang.com) and [Compass](http://compass-style.org) for at least a year (I'll get around to contributing, I swear). At the time when I picked it ...Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:40:05 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/12/28/jobs-for-nihilistshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/12/28/jobs-for-nihilists  ![...Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/11/30/web-design-deserveshttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/11/30/web-design-deservesAs an industry, we web design-types are torpedoing into the responsively designed future while our design tools are stuck in the mockup-driven past. We now have the know-how to serve dozens of devices...Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/10/05/youll-be-missedhttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/10/05/youll-be-missed## Preface I am not a well-known web developer. I've yet to work on anything that made its way to the front page of any widely read blog or news site. I'm just a humble guy who writes a lot of code an...Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/09/21/creating-digital-mediahttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/09/21/creating-digital-mediaWhen the iPad was initially release, it was touted as the ultimate digital media *consumption* device. Whatever you can see and hear over the Internet or on your hard drive was just going to be more e...Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/09/12/i-started-writinghttps://ericbrookfield.com//2011/09/12/i-started-writingAround July 1, 2011, I left my job at a high-profile consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts to embark, for the second time, on the path of indie web professional. The decision wasn't terribly hard. ...Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT