August 7, 2016
#firstfifteenjobs
I've really enjoyed the #firstsevenjobs hashtag on Twitter. My friend Jess decided to throw up her first 30 jobs. I haven't had that many. But I've had a few. Starting when…
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February 15, 2016
Product Thinking isn’t the next big thing in UX design. It’s the only thing.
While working through my Pocket List this AM, I came across a compelling and well crafted argument for the rise of product thinking by Nikkel Blaase. In it, he argues…
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June 4, 2014
One single flying message of hope and development and creativity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3W4x-R6OI The medium is the message. Unless it isn't.
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May 2, 2014
A penny for your thoughts.
Back in the late 90s, I was enamored with the promise of micropayments. In fact, I still am. For me, a truly frictionless micropayment based system would allow content creators and consumers…
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April 9, 2014
Read More The Hacienda in 1989. Mecca.
April 7, 2014
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Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
October 21, 2009
EMarketer Gave Me A Shout Out! Guess My Science Degrees Have Come In Handy.
I read an article from eMarketer regarding smartphone usage. They seemed to be drawing conclusions about their data that were subsubstantiated by their raw data. From my science days, it…
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February 18, 2009
The 15 Albums That Changed My Life
This was originally posted as a note my Facebook…inspired by a meme brought to my attention by Al Yukna. It was alot of fun…and thought that it deserved archiving here…
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October 6, 2008
Musicians Think Differently Than Everyone Else
I’ve kinda believed this for a while…but Scientific American has published a quick little article describing a paper in Brain and Cognitionwhich confirms it. The found that musicians were more creative…as defined by…
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June 11, 2008
The Basics Of What I Believe
You shouldn’t need to look externally to find out how to get in touch with your spirituality. You should simply look inward. Anything that becomes institutionalized tends to become bastardized…
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August 13, 2003
Intelligence is Transcendence
There are a lot of smart people in our world. Some people are expert in only an extraordinarily narrow field. Most basic scientists fall into this category. Some people are…
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August 13, 2003
Jackson Pollack Is Much Deeper Than I Am
I was flipping through an old Scientific American (yes, I am a tool)…and came across an article which had piqued my interest. It described work done by Richard Taylor at…
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August 8, 2003
The Debate Over The “Corporatization” Of Our Culture
Andrew Zolli writes an interesting article about the infiltration of corporate brands into our culture. He writes: For starters, brands aren’t invading the culture, for many they are the culture.…
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