I’ll give an example from my law school days. Every first-year law student takes a tort law class, and every tort law class spends a lot of time…
“I used to be a light bulb, but now I’m a laser.”
I love this quote (spoken by Nicholas Negroponte, regarding his intense focus on the $100 laptop project). It helped inspire the development of Clara, a brain-sensing, environment-augmenting, focus-enhancing smart…
I’ve been working on a bunch of mapping projects lately, mostly designed for pedestrians.
Thither is a navigation concept that reimagines efficiency. You give it a destination and an arrival time within the next hour, and it will route you to optimize for that precise…
amplifIR
I love my Yamaha A-760 Natural Sound Stereo Amplifier (circa 1981). I came across it on craigslist six…
If you are playing around with Yosemite’s SMS relay feature and pissing off all your Android-using buddies with your cropped text messages, boy have I got the fix for you.
So, in late August, my girlfriend and I moved into a lovely new apartment in the Slope, and everything was right with the world.
…until October. That’s when we were faced with our first true cohabitation challenge — the ginkgo tree outside our front door.
I gave a presentation on contracts of adhesion last night, as the final project for my Introduction…
Fall’s vogue flavor seems to be the pumpkin spice latte. This limited-edition Starbucks concoction comes around every year, but things have finally gone viral. As a result, about a third of all pumpkin spice latte tweets are nice and earnest, and the rest are mostly trolling misogynistic comments about…
I recently gave a mini PechaKucha-style talk at SVA IxD about habits and cowpaths and such, which I’ve reproduced here:
Today, I helped bury my dear friend Chloe Weil.
