You never really realize how different, or similar two places can be until you’ve been there. This wasn’t my first time to New York City—nor do I even remotely think that it will be my last; but I doubt this time will be like any other.

You often forget how small the world can actually be when you’re a communications student. After days filled with reading, watching, and absorbing news of all kinds it can be hard to pull yourself away and remember that you’re not average.

As a Comm. student you’re consuming an exhaustive amount of information regularly. Information that most people avoid, or simply do not have the time to consume. This massive influx of data can almost drown out the world around you and make you feel as if you’re on another plane of awareness. Global awareness. You pull yourself out of the world present before your eyes and exist in a state of existentialism that

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.

The specific excerpt from her interview:

“‘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.

Lie

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.