out with the ideas!
so i’m thinking a lot about ideas. my ideas, other people’s ideas, ideas we share, ideas we keep to ourselves… this makes a great deal of sense, i suppose, since in many ways i am in the business of...
View Articlepraising leo and feeling grown up
lynn and i saw blood diamond this evening, and it was a sobering experience. first and quickest, there is the disconcerting feeling that comes from seeing leo play a character that is so firmly an...
View Articlethe BOP, middle america, and me
a couple of nights ago tif and i were out at a restaurant having drinks and snacks after checking out the “first thursday” gallery walk that happens once a month in portland, and we were accompanied by...
View Articlegood night, mr. vonnegut
we read slaughterhouse five in my sophomore english class in highschool, and the day i sat down on the couch to start the book i found myself so transfixed that i read the whole thing then and there. i...
View Articleindustrial design and hci
what i thought this panel was going to be about: what it was about: why the difference matters: interesting snippets: difference between design and engineering – design looks at the whole picture of a...
View Articleplaying the game
sometimes i feel like i spend way too much time thinking about which things in my life are the things i should blog about and not enough time just blogging things as they happen even though i might...
View ArticleArticle 3
i know that i can dominate discussions. be overpowering. ask for feedback without really listening. yes. listening is really the key. i know that i don’t listen deeply enough. actively enough. honestly...
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i get in these moods sometimes where i start thinking about responsibility, and the differences between what we do every day to keep the wheels turning and what we really need to do in order to be good...
View Articlecommitment
the whole reason to deny rituals and acknowledgement to those on the margins is to keep them marginalized. denying those same things from ourselves and our friends in the name of solidarity is playing...
View Articlecity life
i just read a book that closes with the argument that city living is the future of human existence, not simply because overpopulation is cramming us together, but because cities are actually becoming...
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