by David | May 21, 2009 | media, transportation, urbanism
I’m not really sure even where to start.
by David | May 20, 2009 | reading & writing, working
People like to beat up on CEOs. I figure it’s part of the job, but recently in a short span of time, I came across one article saying that CEOs don’t matter that much at all, and another suggesting that they should be boring. The Atlantic trotted out some...
by David | May 19, 2009 | culture, design, urbanism
I was searching for the location of a company on Google Maps and happened to notice a link in the sidebar for a map called Boston Street Lab: Underutilized Space. That’s just my kind of thing, so naturally, I clicked on it. It turns out that there’s an...
by David | May 15, 2009 | economics, technology, working
I was mucking out my spam folder (where lots of not-quite-garbage bulk or automated email ends up) and accidentally opened this message which I ordinarily would have deleted on the basis of the subject line alone: Interesting. Some outfit that thinks I’m a...
by David | May 13, 2009 | design, eating
I think everyone has a distinct memory of that “ah-ha” moment when you realized that the deli meat called “tongue” is in fact, exactly that. It’s a little odd that so many of us live so disconnected from the source of our food, but, like...