Core Values of the Architect

Architect as Master Builder

Not Everything That Counts Can be Counted.

If you hang around the business world long enough, eventually you become familiar with a few maxims and mantras. Here’s one: “What gets measured gets done.”

10 Things to Do with Your Business Card — including How to Fix a Wobbly Toilet!

(For real.)

My New York is Gone

but I am still here

For Whom the Kale Tolls

Here’s a radical idea: let’s talk about gentrification, without saying the…

The value of being curious in the modern world

When you’re curious every day is rich

Leonardo en Marte

Cómo ser polímatas en un mundo que hipervalora ridículamente la especialización.

Wanted: The slowest search engine ever.

Time shifting search results. Results without the searching.

Comment upon Roy Scranton’s “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene”

See: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?src=xps

Finding Your Creative Confidence

Is there magic to being creative? Are the innovators and entrepreneurs of the world just born with it…

Thought Experiment: Replacing The American Tip With A Real Wage

Before I begin, I want you all to take a deep breath — especially my friends who have worked in the service industry.

Ready? Okay.

It’s time to outgrow the generation gap

Because we’re making progress and you’re going to be left…

Keep Your Vices Off the Page

Write drunk, edit sober. All lies.

EMS Nutrition

It’s Not That Easy

Designing Blocks

aka Why Everything Takes Forever

The Other Health Care Story

How 14 million dollars of debt was abolished. 

There are 3 Million Jobs Available and Nobody in My Generation Wants One

Is advertising to blame for…

Dear Red States: Go Ahead and Secede 

Sometimes Divorce is the Best Option

Searching for the real thing

Why are we so obsessed with authenticity in travel?

The Threat of Reading

Dangerous paperbacks when video games came first

Parachute jump

Return to Winter swimming at Coney Island

The Foursquare of People

An elusive execution

It has become commonplace for people to quickly frame startups and nascent ideas with a short tagline such as, “the Uber of X.” This is helpful in marketing speak, but there is far more that goes into getting an idea off the…

A Crisis of Whether Weather

Canonicalization of simplicity reaps only a cesspool of data, and no…

Les fleurs du mal

Coloring party!

Distraction free reading

A quick help to develop reading experience by avoiding statistics and useless…

Encouraging Meaningful Feedback

A proposal for better creative feedback online

Aire

La pesadilla de Solomon Northup sigue viva entre los descendientes de haitianos en Dominicana

Google will harm your business

& why users’ privacy is important

TLDR; Your interactions with your customers are signals which might already been monetized by Google..

The Wal-Mart Effect

Why “the next Facebook” will never exist.

The Fear of Falling

Without risk, we never go anywhere

Is their something wrong with our culture?

Maybe we’re afraid of DEEP Questions

Facts and Opinions

I was reading an article yesterday about a customer who yelled at this cashier. This cashier had Aspergers and the customer thought he moved too slow. The writer clearly thought the customer behaved inappropriately.

The little things

a rare moment of reflection

Isn’t it funny how we all seem to get caught up in all the little things, that somehow become the big things. We start missing details and messing up menial tasks; and for no reason other than because we keep telling…

Who is Speaking Up for the Insured?

How Progressives are Missing the Boat by Ignoring the Rest of Us

Progressives today seem to care much more about people without medical coverage than those with it. And, on the surface, this makes a…

Flores para el Otoño

Por mucho tiempo nos hemos acostumbrado a los estampados de flores para la temporada de Primavera/Verano. Las vemos en sus colores pastel o muy brillantes, en cambio en la temporada de otoño las hojas secas y colores ocre o tierra acaparan las pasarelas pero la moda ahora ha dado un giro…

Leader of the Free World?

Hey Americans, shut up, you’re wrong…

Yellen. Thursday. 

A few notes pre-hearing.

I am not a spy

I am not a spy. This would be odd to say if one was employed as a spy or not. So in all truth, my situation has been succinctly stated and my course of action is made plain to all who have read this far.

The Stimulus Plan 

Throwing life lines to crooks, enabling them with legislation and sending us the bill is NOT what our forefathers had in mind….

Heath Byers

Author of The Stay-at-Home Dad’s Quotes & Anecdotes

Write stories not guides

Medium is starting to look like life guide

Test Number Two

This is fun!

The web is amazing…