15 Minutes in the Morning

Half-baked short essays by Matt Haughey, usually tapped out quickly on most weekday mornings.

A quick parable about the Apple touchbar

A quick parable about the Apple touchbar

My workplace recently gave me a new touchbar Macbook Pro, and I’ve enjoyed it since I got it (ignoring the ridiculous USB-C dongle…
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Matt Haughey
May 3
A slow-burn joke for my coworkers

A slow-burn joke for my coworkers

I work remotely and do several meetings a week over video conference with a team distributed across multiple office locations. Sometimes I…
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Matt Haughey
May 1
The Flickr Explore page is still really amazing

The Flickr Explore page is still really amazing

Tim Carmody is guest hosting Kottke.org this week and asked for the best of the best, to produce a mixtape of the Internet. And here’s my…
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Matt Haughey
Apr 17

What’s the origin of the phrase 420?

I never smoked pot until I was in my 40s, but I was aware of it all around me growing up in Southern California. “420” was a codeword, or a…
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Matt Haughey
Apr 12
Motor Trend magazine is doing something interesting on the Internet

Motor Trend magazine is doing something interesting on the Internet

Taking a long look at Motor Trend On Demand
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Matt Haughey
Mar 20
Going to prison with Defy Ventures

Going to prison with Defy Ventures

How a day changed the way I look at prisons
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Matt Haughey
Mar 13
A Google Docs template for Medium writers

A Google Docs template for Medium writers

Getting more what you see is what you get
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Matt Haughey
Feb 2

News that makes me ask myself if I’m in the band Sugar Ray and I just don’t know it yet

Seriously, am I that guy Mark from that band?
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Matt Haughey
Dec 8, 2016
The one thing I know about DJ Spooky

The one thing I know about DJ Spooky

IN FEBRUARY 2002, I joined Creative Commons, and helped launch their first website. We had a party for our public launch in December of…
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Matt Haughey
Oct 29, 2016
The NYT buying Wirecutter and Sweethome is so much more amazing than you think

The NYT buying Wirecutter and Sweethome is so much more amazing than you think

I was happy to read that the New York Times bought Brian Lam’s Wirecutter and Sweethome sites for $30 million today.
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Matt Haughey
Oct 24, 2016
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