Things I like: environmental sustainability, constitutional rights, island nations, cultural heritage protection.
Eslite Books, Taipei’s most famous bookstore, doubles as a design hub and lifestyle outlet. The flagship store in Xinyi…
Tips for friends who are traveling to the Beautiful Island (Ilha Formosa), also known as Taiwan.
Tourism/Atmosphere
1) National Palace Museum — a must-see, this institution has the best collection of Chinese cultural artifacts anywhere in the…
I feel deprived. I’m reading about Japanese float festivals and seasonal migrations in the French and Spanish Pyrenees, but when I think about our own country and ponder what cultural expressions it has to offer the world, I’m stumped. Can it be that America has…
(Note: This is a working draft and may be updated from time to time.)
On multiple occasions, I have been asked, “What is design thinking?” Many of my colleagues at the d.school…
Why we’ve all got a bad feeling about this
As I ponder the geopolitical and human rights challenges materializing around the world, I realize why I’m so disturbed by the Disney-JJ Abrams-Rian Johnson complex and their mishandling of the new Star Wars films…
