From the category archives:

Life+Inspiration

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.
B
       

0 comments Keep reading →

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 [...]

5 comments Keep reading →

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 [...]

4 comments Keep reading →

Social Intrapreneurship

March 28, 2010

5 years ago we started thinking about creating an Ambassador Program for EWB Vancouver, where we would help engaged engineers infuse issues of development into their workplaces. Part of the reason we never got it off the ground at that time was that I wasn’t sure where the tools were to do it, or even [...]

0 comments Keep reading →

Triggers of Somewhere Else

March 18, 2010

A few minutes ago I walked out of a crowded operations management review session, into the courtyard at SBS. It was raining lightly, with wind weaving through the trees and a rain fresh scent after days of sun. It was beautiful and calm. Immediately I was back on Vancouver Island, hiking in light rain, face [...]

5 comments Keep reading →

Words, Images and Music

February 22, 2010

For a couple years now, I have been mulling over a project that combines photography and word, collected widely and presented in publishable form (kind of like this). This project has always taken a back seat to current realities, although a few people have heard the concept. At the core, it plays on the power [...]

1 comment Keep reading →

Novogratz on Indespensable People

February 20, 2010

Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a linchpin from Seth Godin on Vimeo.
90 seconds I can agree with.
B
       

7 comments Keep reading →

A Professional Does Not Show Off

February 16, 2010

A professional’s work has style; it is distinctively his own. But he doesn’t let his signature grandstand for him. His style serves the material. He does not impose it as a means of drawing attention to himself.
This doesn’t mean that the professional doesn’t throw down a 360 tomahawk jam from time to time, just to [...]

4 comments Keep reading →

Launch Week: The Olympics

February 12, 2010

I was at a loss at what to showcase today on launch week. Then I pulled my head out of…
Today the 2010 Olympics start in my home town of Vancouver. That’s a big deal.
When we had a referendum many years ago about whether we wanted to have the Olympics, I, along with 30 odd percent, [...]

5 comments Keep reading →

Launch Week: Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto

February 10, 2010

Launch week continues on Cashewman. Yesterday it was Saving Darfur, a new book by Rob Crilly. Monday it was Ethical Ocean, a rad new ethical online store.
Today it’s the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto. Well, here’s the catch: they already exist. And it’s not that they’re launching anything yet, but that they’re trying t:
CSI [...]

0 comments Keep reading →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →