Archive - Matt Galligan

(Twenty) Third Time’s the Charm

Where my desire to write went to die, for a long time

Dec 21, 2023 •

March 2021

NFTs are not just the art—they're also the certificate of authenticity

Writing a series on NFTs wasn't really something I set out to do, but here we are—with my own and the global interest hitting something of a fever…

Mar 12, 2021 •

WTF is an NFT? A (relative) beginner's guide to non-fungible tokens and why they matter

First, the fact that three of the last three posts (here's one and two) on this blog should be a good indicator that there are a lot of exciting things…

Mar 3, 2021 •

February 2021

How I accidentally created and sold an NFT for all of $1

Let's start by assuring you that the title isn't false—I quite literally didn't mean to sell an NFT of my creating. So how about we unpack that, yeah…

Feb 27, 2021 •

Not just for kitties, punks, and top shots: NFTs will change everything we know about subscriptions, membership, licensing

NFTs are all the rage right now. Maybe you've been asleep for a few weeks, or perhaps not in some of the corners of the internet I frequent, but at…

Feb 24, 2021 •

My Favorite Products From 2020, Part 2

Here it is! Part two in my series, rounding up all of my favorite products that I discovered in 2020. If you haven’t read it yet, head on over to Part 1…

Feb 4, 2021 •

January 2021

My Favorite Products From 2020, Part 1

We’ll get this out of the way real quick: 2020 sucked for the most part. Beyond all of the obvious bits as to why it was a crap year, without commutes…

Jan 5, 2021 •

Breaking My Phone Addiction, One Sec at a Time

It feels like a pretty safe bet to say that most of us are (at least mildly) addicted to our phones. Oftentimes they're the first thing that we look at…

Jan 1, 2021 •

July 2018

Start a thread: reducing chatter and distraction in Slack

Update: Slack pushed a big update to Threads! Many of the things originally discussed in this post were addressed, which is awesome! More on that below…

Jul 24, 2018 •

November 2016

Reading more, better reading: How I finally fixed my news & reading habits

For my entire life I’ve struggled with reading. In high school doctors and counselors would chalk my painfully slow reading to a hearing deficiency…

Nov 29, 2016 •

October 2016

Game Time Notifications: Solving for last-minute event changes

Here’s a scenario you might be familiar with: You wake up groggy from an all-too-early alarm, hustle to get showered and out the door on time, only to…

Oct 10, 2016 •

May 2016

Blast from the past: Looking back to early 2012 at Circa News 1.0 pre-launch

I was rummaging around in some old files today when I came across the original pitch decks for Circa. One in particular was a trip down memory lane: the…

May 13, 2016 •

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