“You can’t imagine the wealth of knowledge here. So much so fast! It’s glorious!” – Cortana, Halo There has never been a point in human history where we have had so much data of all kinds. “Big Data” has become a buzz word in the last few years. How does big data become useful and [...]
How do you get more kids to get hooked on reading? Give them banned books. In what is clearly an early favorite for best idea of the year, I just read on the fastcoexist blog about a campaign by Uprise Books to promote literacy among underprivileged youths. How do they plan on doing this? By [...]
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Just when I thought the Steve Jobs articles were fading away, along comes “An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs” on Fast Company’s Co.Design blog. And instead of inspiring the designers or tinkerers among us, this one is for the HR department. The article is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve [...]
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Thanks to ZipCar, there are two little Fiats on my corner that make me smile every morning as I walk to work. One red, one tan, little bursts of fun in an industry that not only helps me forget about those J.Lo commercials, but injects some much needed personality into the category. Which is something [...]
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Like everyone else in the world, I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It’s very readable, if not a little repetitive. And one point I disagree with got repeated the most. “Steve Jobs,” he writes, “managed to see the big picture while still focusing on the littlest details.” True, Jobs would set [...]
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Phaidon publishes the world’s most gorgeous books. Spend a few minutes on their site and tell me you don’t want to own everything they’ve produced, from the Art of French Baking to the Atlas of 21st Century Architecture to Dieter Rams’s “As Little Design As Possible.” Print, thankfully, is alive and kicking. So when I [...]
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To honor one of the best days on the NYC calendar—Marathon Sunday—I’d like to say a few words about the connection to running and creative. I can honestly say half of all ideas that come to me, come outside of my office. My office is where I do research; it’s a place where I keep piles of [...]
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From OXO to Kohler and Herman Miller to Target, good design is at the core of many American businesses. But after a short list of the usual suspects, and a review of the usual products, what is the state of design in America? What exactly is design, where is design’s epicenter, and how do you [...]
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Last night, after reading the news about Steve Jobs (on my iPhone) and then getting the full story (on my iMac), I saw a 2005 clip of Jobs making a speech at Stanford. It seems like a good time to read the whole thing. *************** I am honored to be with you today at your [...]
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Why We Stay In The Game
Recent surveys on stresssful jobs have PR front and center, in usually a negative light. According to a survey conducted by @careercast, PR was the number two most stressful job in the U.S. last year, beaten out only by commercial airplane pilot. An update to that survey this year has PR in the #7 seat among the “top [...]
tags: Career, Jobs, Stress
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