VideoSync: A Hackbright Project

Automatically Synchronizing Crowd-Sourced Concert Videos

Someday Millennials will Hate John Lennon

Maybe not yet, but it’s only a matter of time

Every generation has its heroes, and American pop culture has created some big ones for the last two generations. For Baby Boomers, that hero was John…

The Revival of the Manual Typewriter

A personal essay

George Lois and the elusive art of creativity

By Lawrence Orleck, Group Creative Director at Liquid…

Generation ‘Y’ Can’t We Sleep?

Life Hacks for Insomniacs.

Tinder’s Big Scaling Problem

An artificial handicap leads to capped network effects

What’s up with “affect” and “effect”?

RAVEN knows.

Big Data and Data Science Used to Uncover Truths about President Obama.

5 facts you didn’t know about…

Let’s Bring Etiquette to User Testing

Because it’s the right thing to do

It’s a Bumblebee’s World

Spring has nearly sprung, and the bumblebee is its harbinger, explains…

Economic Prepositions

Mine, Yours, Ours, Theirs are words that matter

What Money Can’t Buy — 1: Economic Prepositions

I recently read Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets. The book stirred up ideas…

A Virtuous Circle of Improvement

Sustained Effort Creates a Virtuous Circle of Deliberate Improvement

Kitchen Talk — Diversity in Food Culture

Last weekend, a chef friend from Chicago visited specifically to hear Mother Jones’ panel…

Two Approaches to Watch in Remedial Education Innovation 

By: Phil Hill

How social media is turning people into personas 

and why you’re more lonely than B.F. [before…

Don’t Try This At Home

The Tonx subscriber letter from 2/24/2014

Realization

There are days where I draw a blank and don’t know what to write about. Then there are days where I don’t know if I’m supposed to do something else with my life.

We all doubt ourselves at one point or another and some of us, do it often. I don’t think it’s preventable, it just how…

my little daughter’s scrapbook and digital content.

It’s probably the most valuable thing we will…

BLACK AND WHITE

the true respect…

Achieve More By Doing Less

THE PARETO PRINCIPLE

Your language makes you who you are

Everyone has a right to speak their mother tongue

Why Sketch? Why Do You Think!

A short ramble on the art we lost as we grew older

( Way) Too Many Mediums

Most modern media is a whore-war of overload disease.

The Hour

What happened to the hour you lost this weekend?

The More Deceived

How the Internet Got Us Thinking That There Was More To True Detective Than There…

Monthly Sales Report: Leaside & Bennington Heights Sales Statistics for February 2014

How is home for sales record in Leaside, Toronto going in February 2014?

Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight

A few words on Charles Bradley and Neko Case

Y U PROCRASTINATE?

Here’s why.

It never occurred to me where procrastination comes from. Why do all my close friends procrastinate? Better yet, why do all my peers procrastinate?

Assume they know nothing. 

Insider language, ground beef and your audience. 

The Guide to a USA World Cup Victory

Or Can It Really Happen in my Lifetime?

Scenes from a bonfire

What burning 134 Christmas trees looks like

the quest for happiness

the trek one discovers alone

Does one’s mind ever stop racing or is it a continuos cycle? When does the movement end so that the happiness can begin? We have just moments of happiness before our minds wander to when the next arrival of…

Finding the Narrative

Snowden isn’t entirely a traitor or the world’s biggest patriot, and it’s…

Wander

The thoughts that encapture my mind are overwhleming and vast. Tid bits of information pertaining to various to do lists swarm in my membrane, buzzing together, huddled into a small group; growing by the nano second and just as fast, they disperse with the quickness to every crevice of my inner brain.

Republic

A poem

Humble beginnings

Immigrants from a far off land

Seek a place to make their own

To find a place where they belong

You settle