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Design

Best Letter to Employees Ever

June 30, 2010

I had big plans to write something substantial today. Something paradigm-shifting. Earth-moving. Cliche-triggering. But instead I just came across this - the best hey-I-sold-the-company-to-Amazon-letter-to-employees ever, on the occasion of Woot.com selling to, yes Amazon. If I am ever good enough to exit at 110 million, I’d love for my communication to be this…errr…good?
“We think now [...]

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Something about drive and calmness

June 6, 2010

…today makes these links feel appropriate. It’s a near-lazy day in Oxford, hinting at mugginess. I’m calm and partially refreshed after a couple days away. It’s a day for exploration and productivity, but mostly for those intriguing spaces between the two. Here are some of today’s better links.
Pictory’s Profile of NYC. Pictory takes the weekly “sites I [...]

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Aether Apparel - Wicked Aesthetic, One Question

May 19, 2010

I recently noted my love of jackets. Then I stumbled across Aether Apparel. The site prompted a sharp intake of breath as I admired the clean elegant design and beautiful photography. Great name. It extended their clothing aesthetic. If I were to start/join an outerwear company, it would be something like this. (Or Arc’teryx, but [...]

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Google’s Nexus One: Designed for Wear?

May 11, 2010

I’ve been rocking the Google Nexus One since January. I’m not easy on my gear, so I suspect I’m a good case to see how well it’s designed for wear and abuse. (Note: we’re not talking about the os, apps, functionality or broader open source philosophy here. I like all of those. Just the wear [...]

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Doing it Right: Good Examples of Good Tech Solutions

May 9, 2010

Jackie’s been wandering around SS Africa for nearly two years, working with different organizations. This has given her some insight into what is working and what isn’t in world of appropriate tech development (anyone with a better idea for this stale term?).
This week she posted a series on organizations that are doing a good job [...]

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Saturday Projects

May 8, 2010

In my continuing effort to do no work on Saturdays (and due to the fact that my bike was broken), I decided to spend the day sourcing and building a new rear wheel.
I first began building my own bike wheels around 15 or 16, when biking was basically a religion to us. I don’t [...]

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Signaling Identity: Better a Surfer than an MBA?

May 4, 2010

I love jackets. I don’t actually have that many possessions, but I do have a disproportionate collection of technical jackets. So when I saw a friend’s dark blue softshell, I decided it was time for an SBS version and set up a class purchase. The spec was ‘OXFORD’ across the back. What came back was [...]

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Shots of the Day: SF Graf

April 19, 2010

It’s been nice to see some good graf around San Francisco. Oxford is beautiful, but lacks the colour of some of these pieces.

All in Lower Haight.
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Simplified Info Flows

April 15, 2010

I noticed this in our taxi the other day - the cabbie had cut out cardboard to block everything but his spedometer. He was driving a newish Prius, which has some unique instrumentation. It made me think of our trend of increased information flows. When is this overload? When is this for the designer and [...]

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Take a Jump: Starting a Venture in the Bay

April 9, 2010

A few months ago we were putting in work on a concept for a potentially game-changing business in Oxford. I decided that it was time to do it for real, and booked a flight out to the Bay Area. I didn’t know if anyone would come with me, who I could meet with, where we [...]

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