Sunday, December 7th, 2008
A couple themes have been perculating in my head over the past several months: disposability and resiliency. While they may seem related, I don’t intend a connection–they’ve just bubbled to the surface at about the same time. Here is the gist…
1. Designing disposable experiences may create more value than deeply transformative experiences.
2. Large systems are [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
One of my favorite and former professors at CMU is Richard Florida, who has spent many years studying the relationships between creative work and economic productivity. Recently he moved from George Mason University in D.C. to the University of Toronto in… well… Toronto. Apparently Canada offers the kinds of intellectual freedoms and diversity [...]
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