Jeffrey Veen

Today marks my last day at Google and an end to a truly remarkable period in my life. If feels...

This post was written on   2 May 2008 and has 29 comments

Just a quick note to say that I'll be part of the Great Geek Migration down to Austin, TX this...

This post was written on   8 Mar 2008 and has 1 comments

Congratulations to Indi Young on the publication of her new book, "Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior."...

This post was written on  15 Feb 2008 and has 2 comments

On Monday, 11 Feb 2008 (tonight!), I'll be joining Heather Gold at her show in San Francisco. I've been to...

This post was written on  11 Feb 2008 and has 1 comments

Image by Ryan Carver I said I'd do it, and I did. A very big thank you to Julie...

This post was written on  26 Sep 2007 and has 10 comments

Lane comes bounding into the bar and doesn't even order a drink. He just sits down and starts talking. "So,...

This post was written on  18 Sep 2007 and has 12 comments

It was nearly six years ago, in a bar in the Mission district of San Francisco. I was having a...

This post was written on   8 Aug 2007 and has 27 comments

Reading through the comments on my recent post about our redesign of Google Analytics, two things are pretty clear: For...

This post was written on  13 Jun 2007 and has 8 comments

It's been well over a year since Google bought Measure Map and I left Adaptive Path. And wow, have...

This post was written on   8 May 2007 and has 107 comments

Merlin Mann and I worked together at Adaptive Path a bunch of years ago. We had fun. Lots of...

This post was written on  27 Feb 2007 and has 5 comments

Cindi Li and Dan Rubin went far too long without sleep. They created Mii characters of web designers. They...

This post was written on  20 Jan 2007 and has 9 comments

Did you ever play text adventure games years ago? They were the sort of command-line games where you would type...

This post was written on  11 Jan 2007 and has 16 comments

I've been on vacation for a few weeks, but I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got...

This post was written on   9 Jan 2007 and has 7 comments

I was a little busy with a new job to do a lot of blogging this year, but I still...

This post was written on  21 Dec 2006 and has 3 comments

Vitamin Magazine has published a podcast I recorded backstage at the Web Apps Summit just after giving my talk. They've...

This post was written on   8 Nov 2006 and has 2 comments

There has been a lot made of the value of user generated content (or, as I like to call it,...

This post was written on  19 Jun 2006 and has 4 comments

Despite our many responsibilities at Google, the Measure Map team has managed to find a new obsession: the perfect espresso....

This post was written on   6 Apr 2006 and has 16 comments

I am a very proud uncle. I have two nephews who can do things on a GameCube that make me...

This post was written on  23 Feb 2006 and has 13 comments

Big news today: Measure Map has been acquired by Google, and we're down in Mountain View getting started on everything...

This post was written on  14 Feb 2006 and has 51 comments

The San Francisco Bay Area has been pounded by storm after storm lately, but what's a little rain to stop...

This post was written on   2 Jan 2006 and has 10 comments

Hackerz! Script vulnerabilities! Other terrible things that happen to your domain only while you're traveling... So yeah, veen.com was down...

This post was written on  16 Dec 2005 and has 0 comments

The cycling community lost a true friend this week, suddenly and inexplicably. Clay Mankin, owner of the City Cycle...

This post was written on  18 Nov 2005 and has 11 comments

The other day, Matt Jones and I were chatting about what we haven't written on our blogs. Turns out we...

This post was written on   6 Nov 2005 and has 24 comments

My little sister Amy is bringing her first baby into a very modern world. Her husband Chris (chatting above)...

This post was written on   7 Sep 2005 and has 7 comments

There is a lot going on, for sure, just not much time to write about it. So I'll point you...

This post was written on  17 Aug 2005 and has 2 comments

So this weird thing happened to me on Monday. I needed some blood work done. There is this place not...

This post was written on  27 Jul 2005 and has 5 comments

Out cycling with my friend Kirby, and he he's on his brand new Colnago. What a gorgeous bike. Kirby: Hey,...

This post was written on  10 Jul 2005 and has 4 comments

I wrote The Art and Science of Web Design five years ago. That doesn't seem like all that long...

This post was written on  29 Jun 2005 and has 33 comments

Living in San Francisco means living with the assumption that the ground may start shaking at any moment. I live...

This post was written on   2 Jun 2005 and has 3 comments

After four years of study, an internship, ordination exams, and lots of preaching Leslie has finally been conferred with all...

This post was written on  23 May 2005 and has 3 comments

I graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. It's a small, liberal arts school operated by the church my...

This post was written on  21 May 2005 and has 9 comments

Doug knows me well enough to know that self-propigating creative trends are not something I generally participate in (well, unless...

This post was written on  17 May 2005 and has 0 comments

Please do me a favor: the next time you're about to describe how simple a technology is to understand, think...

This post was written on  15 May 2005 and has 12 comments

I am growing a full beard for the first time in my life. It is in response to some...

This post was written on   4 May 2005 and has 19 comments

My uncle lives in the redwood forests of Fortuna. Last week, after doing some painting in his kitchen, he...

This post was written on   2 May 2005 and has 10 comments

Outside the pub it's -11 degrees and the snow is piling up. I turn to take a sip of my...

This post was written on   8 Mar 2005 and has 13 comments

What did you go through to get the job you have today? Resume? Phone calls? A couple of interviews and...

This post was written on   3 Mar 2005 and has 12 comments

Waiting for my lunch order in a restaurant near South Park. I overhear two people talking in a nearby booth....

This post was written on  22 Feb 2005 and has 7 comments

There have been some very good posts from Merlin over at 43Folders recently on the topic of email management --...

This post was written on  18 Feb 2005 and has 13 comments

Considering the size and density of San Francisco, our public transit is, in a word, deplorable. Despite rising rates, the...

This post was written on  14 Feb 2005 and has 8 comments

I take a spin class at my gym from time to time. As a cyclist, the sessions are a good...

This post was written on  31 Jan 2005 and has 4 comments

While some may consider a Wall Street Journal portrait a measure of success, I personally find it much more of...

This post was written on  21 Jan 2005 and has 5 comments

If you happen to be in San Francisco next week (be it for your annual pilgrimage to Mecca or not),...

This post was written on   6 Jan 2005 and has 3 comments

I've watched the low carb craze mostly from afar. Could be that I'm a regular (some say obsessive) cyclist...

This post was written on  19 Nov 2004 and has 7 comments

I think RSS and blogs and news aggregators had finally gotten the best of me. There were literally hundreds...

This post was written on  19 Nov 2004 and has 13 comments

To my friends and family in other parts of the world, I ask but one favor: ...

This post was written on   3 Nov 2004 and has 17 comments

At the café, we're reading the paper. I see something phenomenal. Me: "Whoa...." Friend: "What?" Me: "Super Stickies!" Friend: "Um,...

This post was written on  20 Oct 2004 and has 6 comments

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,...

This post was written on  11 Oct 2004 and has 7 comments

Peter Hughes plays bass for the Mountain Goats, loves baseball, and grew up not far from where I did in...

This post was written on   2 Oct 2004 and has 0 comments

I have a feeling -- call it a hunch -- that the battery in my Powerbook might be experiencing some...

This post was written on  24 Sep 2004 and has 3 comments

Yes, the residents of the Eastern Seaboard will need building supplies to deal with the destruction from this year's hurricane...

This post was written on  12 Sep 2004 and has 14 comments

I'm back from my trip to Amsterdam physically but my head is up over Greenland still, desperately trying to catch...

This post was written on  30 Jun 2004 and has 8 comments

I'm walking into Zeitgeist to meet friends when a big guy in a leather jacket stops me. "Need to see...

This post was written on  17 Jun 2004 and has 5 comments

If your "body is a temple," then how can you cram a BigMac into it? A small but vocal group...

This post was written on   9 Jun 2004 and has 7 comments

"You have one job," Bryan told me. "Follow the Secret Service van as close as you can all day. But,...

This post was written on   7 Jun 2004 and has 14 comments

I was on a panel discussion about the ethics of online publishing this week at Calvin College's Festival of Faith...

This post was written on  27 Apr 2004 and has 4 comments

I've been consuming more music in the last 18 months than ever before. And not only has there been a...

This post was written on   5 Apr 2004 and has 47 comments

Seven very creative and opinionated partners. Three years of startup stress, immense client projects, and constant growth. Sometimes I can't...

This post was written on  31 Mar 2004 and has 1 comments

From the small print on a health insurance form: I (we) understand that the following occupations are generally unacceptable: asbestos/toxic...

This post was written on  22 Mar 2004 and has 0 comments

Years ago, back in the heydays of HotWired.com, June Cohen stopped by my desk to show me the project she...

This post was written on  27 Feb 2004 and has 22 comments

You're gunna fit me for that orange jumpsuit Please don't fit me for that orange jumpsuit Let me ride Where...

This post was written on  14 Feb 2004 and has 0 comments

I've noticed a lot of talk about Powerpoint lately. About how it's so terrible and how it enables awful presentations....

This post was written on   6 Feb 2004 and has 36 comments

Jeffrey Veen: Es imposible encontrar el tiempo para el tren proximo en tu ciudad sin <table>. Leslie S. Veen: hmmm...

This post was written on  22 Jan 2004 and has 6 comments

I live and work in a number of peer groups; some virtual, some physical, some both. One of the biggest...

This post was written on   6 Jan 2004 and has 17 comments

Last night, at a holiday party, we met a young woman who was home for the holidays from the Eastman...

This post was written on  21 Dec 2003 and has 3 comments

My brother has apparently been moonlighting for Verizon. ...

This post was written on   5 Dec 2003 and has 0 comments

Lou Rosenfeld and Steve Krug in town for their workshop series, and Adaptive Path thought that would be the perfect...

This post was written on  20 Oct 2003 and has 0 comments

First, the Giants lose. Then, the Athletics. Now, the governor. What next for my beleaguered state? (Interestingly, I've always perceived...

This post was written on   8 Oct 2003 and has 2 comments

Recently, several readers notified me of a problem with the rendering of my headlines -- notably the apostrophe's were showing...

This post was written on   7 Oct 2003 and has 1 comments

Every single person you know is about to send you a link to this....

This post was written on  10 Sep 2003 and has 8 comments

I grew up in the vast, faceless suburban spread of Los Angeles -- but at the edge of it. When...

This post was written on  15 Aug 2003 and has 4 comments

I am certainly not so interested in fashion. In fact, my attitudes on clothing and Web design track pretty consistently:...

This post was written on   7 Aug 2003 and has 2 comments

Last week, I did an interview with Craig Saila at Digital Web Magazine. He asked me what things were like...

This post was written on  24 Jul 2003 and has 0 comments

Passed along without comment: http://memeless.org/veen.jpg Actually, that's not entirely true. I do have one comment. From now on, please use...

This post was written on  24 Jun 2003 and has 0 comments

My dear friend and trusted fashion advisor Ms. Margaret Berry gets ink in the New York Times today. Heed her...

This post was written on  10 Apr 2003 and has 0 comments

My wife, Leslie, is in her second year of study at San Francisco Theological Seminary. When she entered the program,...

This post was written on  26 Feb 2003 and has 0 comments

My business partner Lane was married to Courtney last October in a wonderful, multi-tradition ceremony. It was urban and Jewish...

This post was written on  13 Feb 2003 and has 0 comments

My local World-Series-losing baseball team also lost their manager this year. I'd like to offer the perfect candidate for consideration...

This post was written on  16 Dec 2002 and has 0 comments

A very good friend of mine is looking for a new place to live....

This post was written on   4 Dec 2002 and has 0 comments

My multi-talented wife Leslie finished in near record time (well, personal record) last weekend at the Silicon Valley Marathon in...

This post was written on   1 Nov 2002 and has 0 comments