Sometimes the before-and-after shot can be disturbing ( Read more... )

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What does it mean to be "great ( Read more... )

Last week, I had a job interview at a very high profile company in San Francisco. Probably one of the five hottest startups around, and one which will very likely revolutionize the next ten years of tech. I was really excited about the interview, did a bunch of research beforehand, and created a portfolio of some of the projects I've worked on in ( Read more... )

This year at the Congress, I decided to institute a new project. In response to some chatter on the Noisebridge mailing list about degrees and certifications, I thought it would be fun to print up a bunch of degrees for "Being Excellent" and pass them out to random people at the conference. It was well received, and everyone enjoyed it. I got ( Read more... )

Have you ever done, or seen someone else do, the following: after being given a challenge for which there must be a response, stepping back and thinking about how to properly answer it? But then, I ask, is there a way to describe the process by which we sort out and ultimately verbalize the answer ( Read more... )

Save the Last Dance.... on Youtube?

An interesting duality: should we save records of every action we do, every thought we have, or is it more rewarding to let things go by the wayside?

A few thoughts come to mind, including Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits project, where he is trying to record every moment of his life, constantly jotting down notes and ( Read more... )

For context, check out this interesting article on social media written by my mother. I think the thesis of the article is asking two significant questions: if print is dying, then what is replacing it; and do these replacements embody the same kind of meaning and understanding ( Read more... )

Taking a moment now to expand on an interesting mental link I just made ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot about the Harry Harlow monkey experiments lately. Most people know them as follows: take an infant (1 day old) monkey from its mother, and put it into a cage with two "surrogate" mothers, one that is a wire mesh with a feeding tube, and one that is a wire mesh covered in a terry-cloth, with no food. Astoundingly, the monkeys ( Read more... )