A breakdown of my favorite podcasts in production.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman’s podcast is simply put, amazing. I’ve listened to her for years, and she is a pioneer in the podcast space. My only gripe is that Design Matters is not available on Spotify. She has conversations…
A 48-hour transdisciplinary design sprint focused on design activism
I’ve written an introduction to the introduction as a retrospective open letter. This is how myself and members of the Design Caucus committee were feeling prior to the inception of DC. …
Advice from the committee on forming successful cabals
Our collective experience working on long term design projects, startup weekends, hackathons, design firms, competitions, and other contexts has given way to the following team considerations. Each suggested persona is not on their own enough to succeed, nor do we believe one…
Lessons from an intensive strategic design studio
Today (5/27/20), NASA reaches a major milestone in the pursuit of commercial space. SpaceX will be launching NASA astronauts in their Falcon 9 rocket. It seemed like the right time to reflect on my experience of the past semester consulting for NASA on…
Algorithmic Impact on our Cultures
We often think of culture as a sum of parts. Those parts being the people, actions, and outputs of some system. Information is woven in and out of the system at various points, and influences the people, actions, and outputs. …
A cocktail party perspective on resilient strategy design.
Strategic Designer: For example, what’s your grocery carrying strategy? Both of you?
Goldman Sachs Exec: What do you mean?
Strategic Designer: I mean everyone has a general strategy for carrying the groceries inside from the store. Do you use both hands and…
So Listen Up Hiring Department
Disclaimer: the people and events in this article are fictional, although the arguments and statistics are real, and this article is meant to function as a whole as a kind of fictional cover letter.
Design. Such a buzzword. I’m sure you’re sick of hearing it…
The behavioral economics of lopping our locks.
Most of us at some point, some of us at many points, have allowed a complete stranger to take up sharp objects in their hands and attempt to shape the hair on our heads to a length, shape, and color of our desire…
The Future of China, its communist party, and republic.
Xi Jingping assumed control of China in 2012. He is at once a reformer and a nationalist. How and why can this be true? The answer is simple and complicated like many of the answers regarding China. …
Reflecting on ‘Learning to Die in the Anthropocene’ through the 4th Industrial Revolution looking glass.
Roy Scranton predicted the end of civilization, and the need for new ways of thinking about and telling the story of humanity in 2015. By the spring of 2016 I was in an English Lit…
