For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for as long as we both shall live. Earlier this week, I watched and listened as my dad and my aunt wrote and rewrote and read aloud drafts of eulogies for their mother. …

When we crouched through the opening in the gate to enter the cemetery, there were children playing. Only a few blocks from my grandparents’ house, my dad and his brothers used to play here too. Later, my dad worked here cutting grass one summer. …

Lessons learned from my year working with IDEO’s CEO Tim Brown — Standing on home base at IDEO San Francisco. I joined IDEO straight from business school. Some differences were immediately obvious, even a bit cliché. Sharpies, not spreadsheets. Post-Its, not PowerPoints. Blue jeans, not blazers. …