by David | Apr 2, 2009 | reading & writing
Just a joke, you thought, but here’s another haiku. Who’s April fooled now?
by David | Apr 1, 2009 | reading & writing
Inspired by twits reducing carbon footprint all posts now haiku.
by David | Mar 31, 2009 | design, economics
Last week somebody who should have been working tipped me off to the story of Douglas Bowman, a lead designer at Google, quitting at least in part because his design decisions were being second-guessed and subjected to minute quantitative analysis. Quantitative...
by David | Mar 30, 2009 | media, technology, working
I’ve been doing webinars for a while as marketing vehicles and occasionally just for meetings. You can see some of them on Vimeo. As telepresence goes, a screen-sharing session with audio and sometimes video is pretty good. I’ve used a few different...
by David | Mar 27, 2009 | working
Almost two years ago, I engaged in – indeed was one of the planners of – the Great Cube Shuffle, in which nearly 100 employees moved their workspaces around in an effort to support the company’s latest reorganization, spanning two floors and several...
by David | Mar 23, 2009 | culture, reading & writing
I’ts been a while since I’ve done Word of the Day. Today’s word is dissent. I think dissent is pretty important. It’s baked into the democratic system, sure, but I think it’s just as important as a business concept. In business school...
by David | Mar 22, 2009 | economics, photo
The Photographic Resource Center is an organization that’s very important to me, and one that serves fans and practitioners of photography around town and around the world. If you haven’t been, I urge you to visit. There’s a lot going on. I had...
by David | Mar 19, 2009 | eating, economics, urbanism
Not that long ago, I used to travel a lot for work, it seemed I was never home. Occasionally I would join newoligarch for “neighborhood patrol” wherein we would walk around our neighborhoods, taking conscious note of stores opening and closing,...
by David | Mar 18, 2009 | technology
Perhaps you read my earlier post about applying for API use with LinkedIn’s developer program, or the followup post, or Ed’s erudite comment on that second post. In any case, I decided to try it again, just in case something got lost in translation the...
by David | Mar 16, 2009 | eating, urbanism
I met up with L after work one day last week and we dropped in to Wrapro, a newish Lebanese falafel and wrap place on Mass ave between Porter and Harvard. I’d been meaning to check it out for a while. The place is modern (IKEA furnished if I don’t miss...
by David | Mar 13, 2009 | culture, technology
Recently, one of my instant messaging accounts was compromised. Exactly how and by whom doesn’t really matter, but the upshot was that some of my friends received unpleasant messages that appeared to be from me. Upsetting, to be sure, but something interesting...
by David | Mar 11, 2009 | eating
There’s something oddly satisfying about the soft splat of leftovers into the bowl, still holding the shape of the box.
