Flubber: A 1997 movie with 2013 relationships between humans and technology

How our relationship with…

Is Advertising Inherently Evil?

A insider’s perspective on the industry’s perennial debate

Stepping off the path

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands…

“Are you a technology company or…”

& other false dichotomies

Let’s Talk About Innovation

innovation comes from within…

The Humble Vale Becomes A Mountain

The People of North Carolina Fight for the State They Love

Stay UP FOR IT: Henry Rollins & The Art of Saying “Hell Yes!”

The Artist and Technologist

How tech can help us be more creative together

The other side of complexity

the right kind of simplicity

“For the simplicity on this side of…

Functionalism

‘What’s my destiny, Mama?’

I think a lot about my lot in life and What It All Means.

I am a strong believer in functionalism, or the idea that we all fill a purpose,or function, in society. I ponder this as I got for walks around the…

Yahoo!: Stop buying stuff I use and shutting them down

On management

Reframing great advice from startup managers 

Perfectly Imperfect

Marriage is a favorite pot-shot for stand up comics and situation comedies. According to the tired jokes and recycled…

Si lo Infinito existe…

Llámame loco, no interesa, no por ahora… 

Change is Inevitable

Change happens to everyone. It’s how you view change that shows your true…

I Am Not A Runner

My lungs screamed for oxygen. The sound of blood pounding in my ears was deafening. I stopped running, and breathing heavily, I…

Drive-thrus or Showrooms

What app designers can learn from retail

An Open Letter To The Government Of Dubai 

Dubai’s obesity crisis has prompted a “weight loss for…

Sticker charts

Changing human behaviour through positive rewards. (AKA: Lessons from parenting a four…

Preguiçoso?

Preguiçoso não seria bem a palavra certa para me descrever. Tá certo, eu concordo que às vezes, “às vezes”, eu passo essa impressão. Mas…

On Buildings And Bridges: You Are Already Immortal

A toast to the end of living with the end in mind.

Why I Give

5% of my speaking fees go to a charity

In 2002 our youngest daughter, Kate, was born. Before she turned 6-months-old it was determined that she would need a serious surgery to correct the growth patterns of her skull. She had been diagnosed with a condition…

Older brains. Simpler minds.

I was staring at some math last week, and it hurt my brain.

Dear uni professor, I want my money back!

Why has bogus become the currency marketing professors trade on?

I want to keep this short, as all rants should be.

It’s all of a piece

What you do and what I do are not that far apart. And neither of us probably knows what the other does. It doesn’t matter. In the history of all things we are the tiniest sliver at the end of known time, and have barely begun to figure out anything. Those gulfs that seem to separate anything…

¿Por qué todos quieren Cambiar al Mundo?

Lo hace contigo o sin ti.

¿A qué se debe la necesidad imperiosa de este deseo? Y es que también he escuchado hasta el cansancio la dichosa frase <…Cambiar la Historia de la humanidad…>> ¿Qué fijación tenemos con…

The Beautiful People

The ‘Medium’ Effect

I like to fancy myself something of an early adapter, and hence here I am blogging at Medium. I’m sure Medium will soon go the way of other services such as Blogger, Twitter and even Facebook.

Moto X: Why a US-only launch (unfortunately) makes some sense

And That’s Why You Never Innovate

It is painful to be progressing my career in a world filled with silos and a wide-spread inability…

How to stay the course

Jump right in or plan ahead?

I’m always starting projects, plans, lists, working out, Breaking Bad etc. But it never gets done. I’m easily distracted and just starting this new piece is taking some serious efforts of concentration. I want a…