January 2010
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“Looking back, I have been taught (at least exposed to) the same thing at many...”
– My sound design teacher (David E Smith) and I used to have long conversations (sometimes heated) about the technology we use in theatre. This was one of many topics we covered, but one that I seemed unwilling to let go. While reading Success through Failure I came across two quotes that proved...
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“Noorda’s enduring design work demonstrates the importance of building a...”
– Display | Bob Noorda 1927–2010 | Features
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“the bad news is that time flys. the good news is that you’re the pilot....”
“Work hard, not long. Don’t slog.”
– Paraphrasing Keith Ferrazzzi in Never Eat Alone.
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Design+Story+Food
The last couple weeks I’ve been doing some serious thinking about the future. I’ve always done this to an extent, thought about what’s next, what’s the bigger meaning; my guess is that we all do this.
As I try to figure things out I’ve been reading/thinking about DNA. This caught my attention again after reading about it in Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk. Ultimately...
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book3
book3 is Mark Bittman’s Food Matters. This is one that I’ve been wanting to read since I saw his TED talk. For those of you who don’t know Bittman, he has a great series of cookbooks, How to Cook Everything is one of my favorites, and he writes for The New York Times.
In Food Matters, Bittman explores the damage meat is doing to the environment. He doesn’t throw a ton...
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Cultural Intimacy | Detangle.Us - beautiful... →
Photographer takes photos of people in the shower. Beautiful, intimate, striking.
via notcot
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Don't Fail
I just started listening to Episode 4 of 37signals podcasts. It provides a nice counter point to some of what I talked about in by post on Success Through Failure. Jason Fried talks about how he doesn’t get the saying “Fail early, fail often.” Maybe the fail early part, if your going to fail its might as well be early on in the process. But fail often? Why? At least this is...
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book2
Yay, I’m catching up and my notes. book2 was Seth Godin’s the dip. As I’m considering career changes, this book had perfect timing. Though short, Seth gives some great advice, namely that quitting smartly is good a good business and life strategy. The Dip being that trough that you often find yourself when things start becoming challenging. On the other side of the rise is...
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Pastebot — Command Copy & Paste Review | iPhone... →
Love this app. I installed it a couple weeks ago after recs from various places on the web. Wasn’t really sure what to do with it at first, but that first time I opened it after copying some text was a definite “a-ha” moment.
via daringfireball
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What the future sounded like →
bobulate:
From the documentary, “What the Future Sounded Like,” a documentary about Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who composed music using technology and futuristic experimentation:
Comprising of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who [sic] series) and genius engineer David...
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book1
book1 in my journey of reading was Success through Failure by Henry Petrosky. There were several quotes that I marked as I read through the book that I’ll put at the end of this post. The thing that struck me post about this book - which I discovered as I’ve used it as an elevator pitch of sorts to either describe the book or to discuss design - is Petrosky’s discussion of...
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Seth's Blog: Craftsmanship →
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“[I]f we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask...”
– David Weinberger [via] See also: the opposite of noise, do not disturb, and some free associations. (via bobulate)
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Creativemornings with Michael Bierut
Last Thursday I made a trip to New York for the sole purpose of seeing Michael Bierut give a talk at Tina Roth Eisenburg’s (aka Swissmiss) Creativemornings series. I ran into Michael before the talk and mentioned I had come up from DC for the event, to which he replied he’d try to make it worth my while. As I told him after the event, it was so worth the trip.
Michael discussed...
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Bolt Bus
On the Bolt Bus to New York. Hanging out with little brother today and going to Creative Mornings talk tomorrow.
WatchTouching in its beauty and surprise.
swissmiss | Lost Generation
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Cooking Sanely
Mark Bittman’s book was a nice kick in the butt to start eating more sanely. This post is not as much about the book (that post will come later) as it is about the first meal that I cooked after reading the book.
After work yesterday I went to Trader Joes and front loaded my shopping with veggies; bell peppers, green beans, portabella mushrooms, squash, and carrots. I also bought some...
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...”
– Walden, eerily summarizing a certain “book about email” that will be published 156 years hence. (via merlin)
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3books
I’m about a week and a half into my book reading and I’ve finished three books so far. I’ve had a lot of time on my hands because the show I’m running has very few cues which gives me lots of time to read. That first week was made easier because I cut Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and email on the iPhone out of my life. It kind of amazed me how much time I’ll...
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Andy Ihnatko on the Tablet →
“But philosophically, the RAT will be something more subtle. It won’t serve as the thing you’re reading or the document you’re working on. In time, the user will come to regard the RAT as a window through which they can observe and navigate the modern digital world.”
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Interview with Zappos CEO →
Great interview about the importance of culture in the workplace.
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Steve Jobs and Killing Good Ideas →
Killing good ideas frees up resourcess to for the few most important ideas. Kind of relates to The Dip that Seth Godin talks about. Do you know when to quit? Do you know when to kill an idea.