The Lay of the Digital Design Land

Students and junior designers are struggling with the changing design landscape

Students and junior designers have been on my mind a lot lately. It seems many, if not most, are struggling…

The Founder Forge: A business workshop for founders

The Absence of Effect

I saw blues guitarist Jimmy Vaughn play the other night. He’s the slightly older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughn (who died in 1990). In almost comical contrast to his brother’s flare for the dramatic, Jimmy’s style is luddite. He often depends on a single finger on the fret board, the rest of…

We don’t do book clubs. We do chain gangs.

We’re not calling it a book club. No, no. We’re calling it a chain gang. The We Are Mammoth team collectively recalled there was life before Game of Thrones, and it was littered with books. Beautiful, tangible literature one can hold in hand. So we’re…

High-Five: The Best Reads of the Week

This week: Pizza, heroes who email, beer makes you smarter (finally!), and getting out of your comfort zone may make you love life a bit more, you boring goat.

Email a hero. They just might email you back.

High-Five: The Best Reads of the Week

This week: Multiple occurrences of utter and complete lapse of reason.

WTF, not even for the kids?

Gabby Giffords writes on this week’s victory for the gun lobby.

High-Five: The Best Reads of the Week

This week: Don’t be a jackass, your iPhone is Cheetos, Starbucks and same-sex marriage, and never trust a website.

Advice #1: Be on time and don’t be a reckless jackass.

Highfive: The Best Reads of the Week

If we keep this up, you might just learn something about the very small net I cast in search of knowledge. This week: You are not a real man, extreme sitting, teddy bears who should be fired, the laziest people at work have the last laugh, and learning to see.