February 24, 2008 – 11:33 pm
I may be completely biased, but TransitCampBayArea totally, completely exceeded my own expectations for the event. And the way that I’m biased is that I quite often hate my own events. In fact, I’m disappointed in them about 75% of the time. (I clearly put too much pressure on myself and have too high of [...]
Further to Sir Ken Robinson’s fabulous TED Talk on education, and further to my presentation on Un-managing and the research I included in it by Malone & Lepper regarding intrinsic motivation, creating risk-positive-failure-forward environments are crucial to innovation.
I had a discussion regarding this a while back with Joshua Schachter (I think it was at ETech, [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]
When I was a kid, I would mentally wander off all of the time, missing entire lectures in school. It took all of the energy I could muster up to concentrate long enough to get through a chapter of a book…mid-paragraph a word or a sentence would trigger me off. My eyes would skim the [...]
Our client, Carlos Garcia of Scrapblog proved this week that embracing the chaos can expose exciting opportunities for a startup.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chris and I stopped by the Adobe booth at ETech to chat with Michelle Turner about Apollo. Adrian Ludwig was also there, preparing for the hot Apollo demo they were going to do [...]
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