November, 2009
How to deal with nosy neighbors
Wednesday 25 November 2009, 8:19 am
As a kid, I loved Maurice Sendak’s books. It sounds like the man himself is a force to be reckoned with:
One of the neighbours complained about this “eyesore” farmhouse . . . And said he’d personally help remove it, if Maurice so desired, thinking he was being a big guy to help the [...]
Fail better together
Wednesday 25 November 2009, 8:18 am
FailCon sounds as if it was a lot of fun. How could a bunch of people getting together and talking about their failures. The Wired covereage of the conference has this great bit on iterative sketching and failure:
Consulting firm Adaptive Path’s Brandon Schauer counseled companies to avoid failure by going out and finding their [...]
In the beginning were lists
Friday 20 November 2009, 8:46 pm
Umberto Eco has been invited by the Louvre in Paris to curate an exhibition. He has chosen lists as his organising principle.
Making lists is often derided as a cop-out: something that we do instead of actually creating or making something. Lists have recently been called a degenerate case of essay.
It seems that Umberto Eco [...]
