by David | Oct 10, 2013 | science!, working
I’ve gone on record as being against individual offices and for working at a standing desk in a common space with colleagues. To this I generally get two different kinds of objections: first, “but I have all sorts of confidential calls to make” to...
by David | Sep 24, 2013 | reading & writing, working
Via BoingBoing, a verb for all seasons: knoll. I drew a blank with knoll in this sense on the usual dictionary sites, but Wikipedia is hep to it, as is Urban Dictionary, admittedly with a few dubious variants. Cory sez, “Knolling is ‘the process of...
by David | May 1, 2013 | eating, urbanism, working
Dangerously close to the office, Cuppacoffee featuring Dub Pies is coming in [?] days to a torn down parking lot on Merrimac Street. Are we allowed to just fill in a number? It’s got to be soon, I can see the LevelUp terminal is already in place....
by David | Apr 19, 2013 | design, working
The usually estimable folks at Apartment Therapy seem to have published their April Fools day item a couple of weeks late with a piece on home offices inside bathrooms. While the reporting is a gently mocking, the fact remains they’re covering bathrooms so...
by David | Mar 18, 2013 | culture, working
You know you’ve been working on a blog post too long when it gets published in The New Yorker written by somebody else. Marissa Mayer of Yahoo has gotten some flak for calling all her working at home employees back into the office, or else. Surowiecki writes in...
by David | Jan 21, 2013 | economics, technology, working
So, it has come to this. I am on the verge of buying a Hello Kitty flash drive and sending it to the cloud, aka Salesforce.com. Why would I so such a thing, you ask? I’ve discovered that Salesforce.com allots you 1,000 MB (that’s one gigabyte in...
