Designing Experience Design

A tangential take on experience design principles

4 Reasons Billable Hours are like Prostitution

With an assist from George Costanza

Antagonizing the tech worker

An emerging attitude in San Francisco ignores a more complex family of…

Why Black Friday is More Red Than You Think

Marx was the greatest enemy of Capitalism, but he was also…

A Guide To Getting Hurt

It’s not so much about how, but who.

Because You Quit Facebook

Why we’re not better off when we delete Facebook

Make Lulz, Not War

Will meme culture help transform Asia’s authoritarian states on human rights from…

First Blog Post.

Is it going to suck? Probably, but I’m doing it any way.

Femminismo for dummies

Oggi è la giornata mondiale contro la violenza sulle donne, è il momento giusto…

God’s Equation

The mathematical proof that something can come from nothing.

DIY iPhone Repair

Is it really worth taking the risk?

In a Tech Bubble, Nobody Can Hear You Scream

One of the signs of a bubble is that people talk about a…

What’s wrong with QuizUp

Is this another “Path Case”, an app that make our PII available to everyone?

Your Life is a Live Stream

and your viewers are eating you alive.

The Lost Art of Giving Thanks

Pen and Paper Required

“Oh you work in advertising… Are you a designer?”

After several failed attempts to explain my job as a…

Working in a Startup House

I never thought I would agree to move in with 3 strangers who I had never met in person in a city across the world, where I knew almost no one. But when I was given the opportunity to work with a few talented guys in a startup house in Mumbai, India, I said yes, and I’m glad I did…

The Wonderful Unsaying

How Upworthy cheapens everything

“Watch this woman bring a theater full of people to tears with her jaw-dropping revelation.” So beckons the internet lately. Like the swell of a film score, social media calls with cloying, tear-jerky…

Turn Off Your Phone, Will Ya?

“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people…

A Flaming Bag Of Dog Crap

exclusion and casual bigotry 

Licensed to Shill

Does DMCA Have Morally Empowering Kickstarter Phenom Exemption? 

公明党の諸賢に

歴史的教訓という轍を前にして

「私個人としては、とくに犯罪捜査のための通信傍受に関する法律案、いわゆる盗聴法については憲法上大きな問題があり、このまま安易な導入をすることは大変に危険が大きいと危惧するものであります。それは盗聴捜査が通信の自由という憲法上の人権を侵害する可能性が大きいというだけでなく、盗聴という手段には歯止めが利かない。国家権力の都合で政治的に利用されてしまう危険性が大きいという歴史的教訓があるからであります。…

How to Be Happy During The Holidays

Ask and act on these questions for the holiday you truly want

F*ckitty F*cking F*ck

I completely lack sympathy today. Maybe I’m a little too sensitive, but not so sensitive that I believe foul language is…

Pontos fracos

Ou a história curta sobre meu ponto fraco em História

Where did all the culture go in San Francisco?

You can still find (analogue) engineering miracles at the Shelton Theater

I was an Englishman in San Francisco last week and one thing puzzled me: the lack of theatre culture.

The Audience You Seek

and Why They’re Not Paying Attention (yet).

Boom! Headshot

Let’s help them not look so bland…

“THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS OF THE GOP AND WALMART”

"THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS OF THE GOP AND WALMART" Recently in the news were these statistics about our largest domestic company: Wal-Mart has become a symbol — and a major cause — of the nation’s widening gap between the super-rich and the rest. The…

感謝祭休暇入り

私たちアメリカが診断する焦点

残るものは木曜から週末という休暇になりそうだが、帰郷するものは今日明日から休暇を取らせないといけない。今朝は山荘に幹部職員を集めて共同代表ともども今年の感謝を縷々と述べ（まさか蟹に中り損な…

「具体的事実を示せ」は封印される

浦島太郎のおもいにて私たちは勝手に断片を張られた掘建て小屋に連行

How to go about a multi-channel mobile strategy for your enterprise

Playing Into the Wind

Even when the environment dictates, change is hard 

Am I A HiPPO?

The Important Opinion

The highest paid persons opinion (HiPPO) isn’t always right. We’ve all heard it a thousand times; but it starts to hold a different meaning when you start making a lot of money and holding a lot of authority. It’s a different ball game when…

Judging Declaratory Judgments for Laymen

How to decipher this Goldie Blox mess.

Area Man Thankful He Has To Work On Thanksgiving

Filmsfilmsfilms

Sofia Cinemarathon

China ist super, aber in Punkto Kintopp leider totale Durststrecke gewesen. (Was sich — Prost! — anderweitig kompensieren ließ.)

Durst gibt’s in Bulgarien lediglich als Vorwand fürs Saufen, zusätzlich aber geht hier ne…

Connected

The older I get the smaller the world becomes.

Heath Byers