A Fond Farewell …. Thank you for Shopping at Borders

reads the subject line of an email I got yesterday! Time to shed a tear for the disappearance of yet another retail icon.

Even as one can argue the underlying factors behind the demise of Borders, ranging from…

What’s in a name?

Never one for too much self-expression or status updates, finally a plunge into blogging. After several years at I-Cube, Razorfish in its many forms, AKQA Part 1, running my own company Core • Continuum, and now back to AKQA, perhaps some expression of ideas and perspectives is good. Sometimes, I…

The Music of Personality

I’m working with a really smart bunch now in my copious spare time to bring to life an idea around the development of a fun, consumer oriented look at your cultural fit with your workplace. The idea is to use some an interesting psychometric framework to figure out your personality…

A 2-year journey to …. self-discovery

After an incredible journey lasting just a little over 2 years with this wonderful idea of connecting people to jobs based on their personality, its now time for the next chapter. The benefits of having built and launched a self-discovery platform, twice, first on…

The death of advertising

Just last week, I had the privilege of acting as a judge for Dealmaker Media’s Under The Radar conference — listening to 6 minute pitches from various start-ups, asking questions and attempting to judge the value proposition of a product or offering — specifically in the Big Data…

An American pastime … in crisis?

One of the original purposes of this blog besides all these wonderful but possibly irrelevant opinions around web sites, and geography was to write some thoughts about baseball. I never actually got around to it until now, being involved with youth baseball for the past…

Little bits of good

A few weeks ago, a second grade teacher at our elementary school who taught both my son and daughter, talked to me about an idea. She was volunteering for a non-profit in the area and in course of her work had come across the inspirational teaching from Bishop Desmond Tutu that little bits of…