Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect

How I learned to embrace the Wabi Sabi…

Places Are Made Of A Thousand Stories

An illustrated guide to Maptia, the new storytelling platform on…

The Age Of Outrospection

Why ‘adventurous empathy’ might be the most essential quality of…

Premature Optimization is the Root of all Evil 

How a software engineering truism teaches us to be…

A New Ideas Machine

Let’s create a $1Bn global crowdfunded innovation prize.

Seven Steps to Becoming a Spontaneous Explorer of the World

Onward!—¡Vamos!—Allons-y!

Engineering an ending

Can you really influence the way someone might respond to you?

Unsui: Adaptive Flow

I’m watching late night TV. A panel of unemployed “youths” is talking about how hard things are: How many CVs they’ve sent…

Broadcasting the continuum of science

I think we need a better tool for communicating ideas.

The problem with journal papers is that they are discrete, static and conservative while science is essentially a continuous, dynamic and unpredictable process. So, we need an…