I became aware today of a family that had their lights of their main hallway out for 3+ years. Solution: change the bulbs. Another instance includes a garage door key pad that has been not functioning for many years. Solution: New battery.
So, this leads me to wonder why it is that we leave broken things [...]
So, it is widely known that smokers get their smoke break. Well I want an RSS break. Anyone else? I mean really, I gotta have my RSS! Chain RSS R US (but with the R reversed for sure).
Today, I decided I had had enough. I finally decided that my attempts at simplicity had just got to complex. This thing intended to make reading blogs simple, rss ( really simple syndication) was just a monster in my Safari browser.
Recently, I started following quite-a-few more feeds. Safari shows numbers in the bookmarks bar for [...]
I received a reply to the email I sent my favorite place to stay on the North Shore of Lake Superior. After I read it I could only think that people running companies need to be people first before they are “running the company.” I feel like we need classes or training camps on how [...]
I once herd an administrator at a revered design school talk about the goal of the school being the redefinition of “design.” He said they were intent on changing the role of designers. In the past designers found their place at the end of the process deciding how to make things look good. To this [...]
Einestein was rational… but it was often because of day dreaming and abduction (a best guess). Maybe it could help you too.
Designers are often charged with needing to prove the future they propose before they are given the money and means to move forward. It is as if the worst possible outcome of the change [...]
Seth Godin in his book “Small is the New Big” writes on page 52, “What people are afraid of isn’t Failure. It’s blame. Criticism.” Interesting, I thought. Most people in my experience defiantly default to a Fear of Failure excuse when explaining why they do what they do or don’t do what they know they [...]
With the advent of new communication techniques companies are increasingly likely to cut out the middleman. In the past companies would hire people to get information from and about their clients. Now the company and the client just talk to each other with a very low barrier to entry, say email for instance. But as [...]
Design is Powerful
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Contemplate the landing page for a bit. There are a number of layers of meaning to my mind and it seems as I ponder the images and concepts the layers continue to get more and more poignant… more profound. One take away thought would be that we want to [...]
Smell
I was driving and the notion of smell struck me as odd. I mean of all the senses I don’t think we give smell a whole lot of credit or at least the same quality of credit we do the other senses.
Think of it… it does not come up when you’re asked if you would [...]
Hey does it feel like 7/8 or more of the population is just missing out? Web 2.0 is exploding and something like 1/8 of the population is running with it. 2.0 refers to the social side of the web. Godin says we’re on the cusp of a revolution. Are you going to come along?
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