Maker of best-selling iOS apps: Permanote, Tarot Pro, and the Creative Whack Pack. Author of Dear Hannah, a cautionary tale about self-improvement. Recently published Philosophistry, a collection of 337 micro-essays. Follow me on Twitter here: @philipkd or send emails to .
Essays
- Wobbly Tables and the Problem with Futurism (6/2016)
- How I Finally Reined in My Spending (5/2016)
- What It's Like Publishing My Entire Book on Medium (3/2015)
- How Studying Body Language Changed the Way I Socialize (4/2011)
- What's it like getting DNA test results (2/2011)
- 8 Changes to My Life after Just 4 Weeks of Meditation (2/2011)
- 20 Things I Don't Like About the Droid Phone (12/2009)
- Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own grandchildren by appalled by? (5/2009)
- Read more on Medium
- Permanote, a popular text editor for Dropbox
- The Creative Whack Pack (featured twice by Apple)
- Tarot and Tarot Pro, the best-selling tarot apps on iOS
- Rave Light (see catchy video)
- 3D Porch was the No. 1 3D-Photo sharing site, and was featured by CNN
- Dear Hannah: 70 Methods I Used and Abused to Change Who I Am (2014)
- Character & Chemistry: The Two Most Important Questions in Dating (2012)
- The Perfect Thread: How One Question Tapped into the Soul of MetaFilter (2008)
- Head of HR for Mutual Mobile. Grew company from 20 to 40 employees in 2010. Now it's the largest mobile consulting company in the world.
- Employee #1 at go2 which raised $35.5M over two rounds in 2000.
- Coded, designed, and project-managed 3 six-figure iOS apps for my app studio Nuclear Elements.
- Employee #1 and Head of Product for Everfest. Everfest raised $1.5M in seed funding, then entered Austin's A-List of Hottest Startups in 2015.
- Stanford President's Scholar and Bachelors in Mathematical and Computational Sciences
- Keynote speaker at Hallmark's Trends Week Conference (2012)
- William Shatner's Weird or What? episode on The Bray Road Beast (2012)
- Book Launch for Dear Hannah
- Short film "#Zombies: Followers of the Dead" (2011)
- Panels on education and technology with Sen. John Kerry and Lt. Gov. Gray Davis (1999)
- TechTV host (9 episodes) on San Diego local access TV (1998)
- RealOrFake3D is a handy list for separating the real 3D films that were shot/rendered natively in 3D from the fake ones that weren't.
- How I would re-design Facebook and Twitter (6/2010)
- A Prison Population Graphic that shows how America is NOT the land of the free.
- Anti-Semitism in Europe
- Most cited books on Human Relations from Ask.MetaFilter Q&A
- Most cited books on Work & Money from Ask.MetaFilter Q&A
- A flow chart explaining the Tangled Web of Syriana.
- What is The Perfect Album, according to Plastic, a web community.
- I created some free-form blogs in excel.
- 100 People Who Are Screwing America, Summarized (7/2005)
- go2 flash demo featured on CBS MarketWatch
- Adobe "Design Award" Winner in ThinkQuest '98 for EgyptWorld ($20,000 scholarship)
- Finalist in ThinkQuest '97 for The Sciences Explorer
- Initial selection in the Slashdot re-design Contest
- Web design portfolio from the 1990s and early 2000s
- Bronze Medalist in the "Audio" category for Darwinphony, an entry in Ludum Dare 24
- Design Engineer on The Sims: Life Stories, which received PC Gamer's Editor's Choice
- Painter of abstract acrylics, one of which was on the cover of a political magazine.