[updated schedule: bummer, but we are no longer doing such a major Canadian tour...I'm heading to Montreal for the Jazz Festival with some friends. I may have one night or a couple of hours on the Friday for a lunch and/or meetings. I'll still be in Calgary, though. :)]
[I've gotten loads of use out of [...]
…complicated.
Riya’s Leaves India
Just recently a former coworker of mine from Riya India messaged me to ask me what I thought of Munjal’s recent decision to pull out of India. After I read his post and reflected on the sadness of it (I met most of the India team and really enjoyed hanging out with them [...]
This brilliant presentation was given at the IA Summit by Leisa Reichelt, a brilliant Interaction Design/User Experience expert from the UK. I’ve already heard a bunch of others use her metaphor, which I think works really well in illuminating the fact that design isn’t linear at all…it’s a neverending cycle of design -release - get [...]
And, in follow up to the last post, ask yourself:
Do you want to be the sort of company that delivers artificial happiness or that helps people find real happiness?
Remember:
The latter is difficult, takes time and is less lucrative than the former.
There is no reliable way to ‘measure’ the latter.
The latter is about thinking longer term.
The [...]
…researchers…conclude that the feeling of control — whether real or illusory — is one of the wellsprings of mental health. - p. 24 Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert.
I’m reading a deadly interesting book right now by Dan Gilbert, whose Ted Talk I’ve pointed to before. It’s all about happiness, or, rather, unraveling our conventional [...]
[this has to be quick as I'm running late for the Web2Open, but...]
Currently, many companies are using Twitter for their service updates or company announcements (or, in the case of the news, for headlines)…but they aren’t allowing the users to interact with their sites/apps in the other direction.
Akin to YubNub, I think it’s high time [...]
April 16, 2007 – 11:50 pm
The Community Roundtable today was way cool and, thanks to Kent Bye, we have notes up on the wiki. Soon, we should be posting audio. Stay tuned. We’re also starting a discussion group, which will follow shortly…all of it will be totally open.
We even got a little coverage, thanks to Dan, who stopped by for [...]
…and the people who feed him…
For years, I have struggled with enormous bouts of self-doubt. I think many or most people suffer from the same affliction. You know? That little voice in your head that says, “You don’t deserve this.” “Everyone is going to call you out for the idiot you are.” “You are so [...]
April 12, 2007 – 11:37 pm
Somehow I’ve missed the everyday magic for so many years.
You know, the way life falls into place when you least expect it to? A chain of events that, in retrospect, seem so clearly set out for you, but you could have never predicted. Yet, everything happened like a beautifully choreographed ballet - like it was [...]
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