Having spent some time in the explorer section, what I see is something pretty, but unreadable. After the novelty of the interface choices fades, it's about as engaging as an XML document. There's no story here, no human element. I am seeing some interesting ideas and uses of space wasted displaying useless data. The experience is disjointed, the navigation is not intuitive, the page does weird things on scroll, and it doesn't work in IE11 (which is more offensive to me than it likely is to most of his audience - I switched to chrome to play with this).
If I were looking through this as a portfolio piece, I would be impressed with the technical elements of the design, a bit put-off by the usability problems, and confused (and a little upset) as to why a record of travel to 72 cities is presented in such a dehumanized manner.
But haters gonna hate.
EDIT: Count all the haters above coming out of the woodwork. We can't see the points so we'll never know the real number.
Knowing my own pulse every second is boring and misleading, but knowing someone else's pulse is just plain boring.
People obsessing over statistics is not a new phenomenon, but it used to be that the people who memorized World War II logistics details (or whatever) at least knew that their fixation is ultimately meaningless. Nowadays statistics geeks are convinced that they're contributing something important to the world by analyzing and curating their endless log streams.
Also weird I put in my email and the page just scrolled down and revealed some aviation manuals. No indication if it "worked" or not.
I like at the end of part 1 where his buddy texts him and asks him if he wants to go to Hong Kong and to meet in 5 hours at SFO.
Must be nice. . .
