Today I launch another website. http://tristan.cloud. An appropriate name for its purpose, which is to become a singular launch-pad for my ideas and for my many project. .Cloud’s purpose is to be a safe place to explore.
It might break, and probably will go down. It’s a learning tool. Who knows where it’ll be in a years time.
I don’t remember what the day was like. I don’t remember what I was doing. I don’t remember what I ate for lunch, or dinner. I only remember being worried.
It was in the later half of the final year of the Obama presidency when I sent my letter to his administration about Net Neutrality. The FCC was about to make its decision on the matter, and to who better to write to than the man at the head of it all?
Dear Mr. President,
My name’s Tristan Isham, and I’m an 18 year old who’s first time voting will be in this election. I would be lying to you if I said that I felt represented in our current government outside of a few rare circumstances. Though through the past 8 years, I’ve supported you both through your first and second presidential terms, I am more than worried about the general election this year, and the candidates we have to choose from.
The issues that are important to me,...
It was more than two years ago when I bought my last name. I was a lot younger (and a lot less educated). I didn’t spend as much time on the web as I do now. I wasn’t in love with the web in the way that I am now.
I thought I would be a programmer, working my way up towards the leagues of Microsoft and Google. I’m a journalist major, working up towards changing the world through stories. I still love tech in the same way though. I dream about it. I still love communications. I pay an exorbitant fee to study it.
I make things though now. I represent ideas, I make and mend creations and companies. I devise strategy, and I only plan on growing from here. That means centralizing who I am online, and creating a base for which my creations will reside.
It’s time to finally establish my name.
I bought tristanisham.com almost a year ago. I ran a SquareSpace site off of it for a while, not...
You’re probably aware that Snap, Inc., the company behind Snapchat, is filing for an IPO. You might be aware of the volatile time this comes at, with Instagram stories knocking a large portion of the Snapchat’s user growth—despite it being a direct copy of one of the apps core features. You might even be aware of Facebook’s most recent attempt to crush its largest rival.
Obviously, innovation is dead. Evan Spiegel’s, the Founder & current CEO of Snap, Inc., fiancé certainly seems to think so. Miranda Kerr, in an interview with the Sunday Times[Paywall], roasted Facebook and its continued saga against her fiancé’s app.
“‘I cannot STAND Facebook,’ she volunteers. She is not on Facebook itself, but she does have ten million followers on Instagram, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s company. Instagram recently introduced a range of...
Evan Blass, notorious — once retired — phone leaker, is up to it again. Blass reports for VentureBeat about the Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung’s up-and-coming, highly rumored, flagship phone.
Samsung is no stranger to odd phones, with the rumor mill this week alone turning out that Samsung will reportedly be releasing a new device running Tizen 3.0. The S series has always been Samsung’s grounds for appealing to the mass market, with the S6 and S7 both being referred to by multiple reviews as the best Android devices of their respected times. However, if the leaked specs of the S8 turn out to be true, one has to wonder what strain of logic it was designed along.
The phone will reportedly feature both an aux headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port — a welcomed change for many who both enjoy the convenience of two ports, and the future-proofing Type-C provides. However, this simple boon might...
Life is short, but I am strong
I will live & move along
I will not cry, even when you’re gone
Life’s too short, and love’s too long
I will be brave, and carry on.
When faced with dishonesty. Stop. Forget being nice. Forgot being courteous. It should not come down to conversational and cultural niceties. When faced with bullshit alternative facts do not wait. Do not formulate a respectful and weak reply. Do not be brash or brazen either. Stop and call it what it is. Do not back down on your assertions. Teach and be taught. Grow wiser, not dumber. Do not be afraid to be confrontational. Do not let confrontation stop you from doing the right thing. Do not misname untruths and falsehoods. Those terms weaken the crime of dishonesty. We are people who seek, and deserve to know. If you see it call it what it is.
noun
noun: lie; plural noun: lies
1. an intentionally false statement.
synonyms: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, invention, fiction, piece of fiction, falsification, alternative fact; More
antonyms: truth
You wouldn’t believe how much of a battle against procrastination it was to work on this during final’s week.
Dear a certain service provider,
Do not expect complacency when your product does not work, and you fail to repair, or even respond to requests to repair it. Regardless of when I sign up for your product, I still share the same value as any other consumer. As an avid user and public supporter, I would expect that at least some form of support be given when my grievances are aired. Instead. I have to go out of my way to fix an issue myself by reinstating the problem to keep it running. All at my own expense.
I paid you. I shared your work. I follow you on Twitter. Why can’t you respond to a damn email or Direct Message? Are you too busy for a customer?
It makes me consider going somewhere else. That might not matter to you, but I’m especially all of my clients that I recommend your service to would be interested. I don’t mind if you’re busy. I understand that running a company is hard...
There’s a beauty in the way words form on a page. Whether that be digital or print; the flow of lines, dots, and dashes has always captured my interest and fascinated my mind. When, for example, I open the pages of a book I do not just see the messages they carry, but the deeper indents of the words on the page. The flow of ink from nib to paper as thoughts, emotions, and feelings are all inscribed with the intent of lasting. Writing does not have to communicate a direct message through the meaning of the scratches it produces. The color of the ink, the force of the pen, the power of the motions… these are just as palpable as the definitions of the words that you are consuming. As the words you are writing.
The age of writing has never been stronger. Even if the age of print is not. Pull out your phone. A book. Read. You have access to an infinite potluck of information. Falsehoods...