Throwing Heat

Nonfiction essayists and bloggers who bring it

Prose style is typically besides the point in professionally published nonfiction. When people say they want to be writers, in the sense that they want to write for websites and magazines rather than…

How I learned to hate my phone

And why that’s not such a bad thing

How I Broke Up With the Catholic Church

My grandmother was an Olympic movie-theatre-snack-sneaker: king-sized candies from the…

場の設計

理念を状態へ翻訳するということ

場の設計

わたしたちは「場の設計」についての概念とそのプロセスを共有したい。 場とはなんだろうか。 わたしたちは場を空間が立ち上がる前の状態だと捉えている。 人がモノを作るとき例外なくそこには目的がある。 例えば、ある企業の社屋にリラックスできるカフェスペースを作ろうとする。 なぜそこにカフェが必要なのだろうか。 どんな状況で、誰に対して、どんな体験を提供するのか。そしてそれはなぜコストを投じて行わければならないのか。 そのようなことを考えることが場の設計だと考えている。…

LA REVISTA WIRED CONSIDERA A UNA NIÑA MEXICANA “LA SIGUIENTE STEVE JOBS”

¿Y tú, ya conoces la historia?

It’s Totally Okay to Write Stuff for Free to Get Exposure…

… if that’s what you’re actually doing

Yes, Dez Bryant Has Mental Issues

Yesterday’s meltdown shows there is proof in the pudding that fills…

Crazy is as crazy does.

Why you can never plan for a Social Media Crisis.

Too much focus will kill your startup

Wait… What?!

The Dearth of Intelligent Discourse

This Internet.

This great social experience has failed.

This is not the first combination of words to talk about the failing of the internet, nor will it be the last. But I wanted to expound upon a minor…

The Supermarket Is Boring

and 5 ways to fix it

Social Media Gerrymandering

Who you amplify says a lot about you

Tech Bubble 2.0 is Approaching

There, I said it.

SMR Goals

Why goals don’t have to be SMART, they just have to be SMR.

Leveraging the Private Sector to Enhance the Nonprofit

By Jim Hake, Founder and CEO of Spirit of America 

Over a decade ago, as I watched our nation assist the rebuilding of war-torn countries in the wake of September 11, I knew I…

13 Things I Hate About Your Website

The more the Internet is changing, the more things remain the same.

1. Don't make me register just to look around.

If You Sell Your Company, Use a Banker

Because You Can’t Be the Bad Guy Yourself.

It was the dollar, not the greed.

1929 and 2008: Why the use of a national currency as global key currency leads into crisis. Always.

The Triffin Dilemma

How Nonprofits Are Blowing It With Their Future Source of Revenue

Philanthropy & The Millennials

Why the 20-Week Abortion Ban in Albuquerque is a Bad Piece of Legislation

A Burqueña outlines all the reasons we should be voting “no”

Do You Control Your Life

A lot of angry people out there are trying to control you and even kill you.

「Twitter創業者による新たなブログプラットフォームが誕生」というわけで早速書いてみた

「ブログってこんなもんでしょ」という感覚

Fowl Howl

Ginsberg needed to be vulgar

Ah, the World of Nepotism

Just how it is…

How to get a journalism job you don’t technically qualify for

1.Don’t wait for permission. 2. Be…

A Server’s View

On Service, Tipping and Why Being a Waiter is My Favorite Job.

“No gays please, we’re advertising.”

Advertising is a pretty progressive industry. We like to think of…

The story of how we forgot the first generation of free black Americans in Richmond

Alfred Price was born a slave in 1860. It was Hanover County, just outside Richmond. And despite his birth in the capital of the Confederacy just one year before the war, Alfred made a…

To makers and doers

In my younger years, a lot of things in life seemed to be very easy. Life seemed to be willing to share all its secrets and…

Breaking Bad…

Some thoughts on Heisenberg, the legend. 

DESTRUCTION OF LEVIATHAN

There is something bewitchingly magnetic about Leviathan, a fire-breathing sea monster that allegedly ruled the…

Why self help will actually make us worse

Or how it is the right solution for none of our problems

All my life I’ve had the pleasure and misfortune of developing personal vendettas against many different things.

choose a beautiful life

be wise, be truthful … while we speak, envious time will have [already] fled

Win at Big Software Delivery

I lived this

An executive once asked me, “What is your biggest concern with the plan?”

I had just reviewed a multimillion dollar roadmap spanning several years, involving hundreds of resources, multiple concurrent and…

Greece a country of tolerance

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt.– John Adams

Hidden behind the grey shades of the current financial and political situation…

Play on Beggar Man

How we that metro to work in DC, take for granted the street performers that grace us with their notes of beauty and desperation each morning. I wrote this for the poor that give something so sweet when they have nothing.

Play on Beggar Man

The Stores I Don’t Go To

Racial Profiling and Shopping While Black

One of the best decisions I made in my life was to walk everywhere I possibly could. It changed my entire worldview, how I see the city I live in, and has made me healthier and more aware to…

Escrever

Há palavras que não podem apenas ser ditas…

Running Out of Toilet Paper

A case for sweating the small stuff.

Medium Paradigm 

NexGen Social Corcillum

Blogging, Twitting and now Mediuming? The power of distributed social writing (SocialCorcillum) in today’s digital society is “sans une question” a triumph for human expression. The internet has proven to be a formidable highway for…

Stop. Put Your Pencils Down.

The Importance of Turning In Your Unfinished Work. 

Россия — как глупая, богатая девушка.

Рассуждения на тему внешней политики РФ

По-рассуждали на тему Внешней политики России — ну даже не совсем о ней, но как то иначе назвать это не получается . Пришли к выводу что Путин очень боится вести с кем-либо…

Self-Publishing

Who is making the $$$

Counting on good behavior

Why I stopped using counting as a disciplinary measure.

Of course my daughter has her rebellious moments. I don't remember when, or why, I started using counting as a measure to get her to behave; but I know it works…

YOU MIGHT BE WRONG:  

A word on prophetic imagination 

What’s Your Window?

Make people slow down and take notice.

Close encounters with the future

Are we heading to Singularity?

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.—POPULAR MECHANICS…

Sensational U.S.

Polarization in Politics: How We Got Here

Series Synopsis: In recent years we have seen our country become increasingly polarized. Political campaigns turned into a war zone, with propaganda permeating through both sides of the battlefield. This…

Who Let Trust Escape?

Ashton Time, by Nick Ashton

Первый день

Будем тестить

Может когда-то начну здесь активно виснуть

A tale of two IPOs — Facebook’s Hype vs Twitter’s Unhyped Hype

Twitter is going public! And unlike the other big social media giant Facebook, they’re not hyping it up. With a recently released initial share price of $17-$20 — valuing the company at around $11 billion when analysts…

Making the jump

When transitioning from designer to developer, a lot of the soft-skills get missed. 

Wie weit geht das noch?

Gedanken zu Anstand und Moral.

Ein Kommentar zum Anstand. Überall. Und vor allem im Fußball.

Es ist wahrscheinlich von vielen Menschen bereits wahrgenommen worden; die soziale Medienlandschaft ist ja bekanntlich sehr…

Books:-)

#Quote

So many books, so little time.

New Media in the Developing World

What Tessanne and The Voice Reveals about shifting media trends

Use Twitter.

…of late I’m fascinated by the way people on buses & trains, sitting in conferences and…

Sneak snacks

In previous times, here was a castle only for the people who can write something worth reading.

The door finally opened today. It’s time to try and tweet and forget, my friends!

Breaking: Death Sucks

Morbidity abounds as Halloween approaches

Paging through the local paper yesterday I see an ad for the local undertaker (tip to undertaker: Google Ads). I point it out to my son, who says he wants to be Death for Halloween.Not the Grim…

Wandering

Some of the people I meet linger powerfully in my mind long after I’ve met them. They might be people I’ve known for anything from hours to weeks. One of these people was Joel*.

While hiking the Kepler track in New Zealand with my beloved, I met Joel during a game of cards in an…

新しもの好き

目新しいものを見つけるとついつい

手を出していくのが性分なので、ここもとりあえずアカウント登録、作成、と。
具体的に何ができるのかはよくわかっていないですが。

How about starting..

.. on yet another platform form Evan Williams..

Packers Lobby to Play Vikings Every Week

GREEN BAY, WI — Following the Green Bay Packers’ 44-31 win over the Minnesota Vikings on…

The future of currency is here...

Cash vs Bitcoin

Bitcoin will win. The world first ATM went in 2 days ago in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada. Bitcoin FTW.

Médeák

Próba 1

Hát akkor Kerekes Jani, köszi a tippet, megnézem, mi ez itten

Thinking Slow

Exponential is unsustainable

Things move quickly. We have been sold the idea of an exponential trend that can be hard to move past. Moore’s Law taught us that if a computer does not come out next year at double the speed of the current, all life will…

宅麺

美味しい

食べたい

A New Medium

I just read an RSS feed about Medium (yes, Google they are still many of us out here) and decided to take a look around. Good editor — now if only I still wrote a medium. Also, FYI I wrote this on my Nexus 7 2013, so it will work on some mobile machines regardless of the advertising.

ミディアム

Oそらく書き出しを大文字にする様になっているので、日本語IMEでは少々不便なところがある