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Shot of the Day: The Fear

August 18, 2010

This guys was driving a.. I want to say 69 Mustang… into the auction room in Monterey. A handful of people were looking at the car, taking pictures, etc. Nobody noticed him in it, or cared. It made me imagine a story - that he’s driving his baby in to be sold, and having this [...]

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How to Ensmarten Yourself on the Daily in 2.5 Steps

July 9, 2010

I’ve been slipping this into conversations for months now, but really need to say it here: reading a daily batch of blog posts is a great way to increase your knowledge in a given area. In 2.5 steps:
1) Use an RSS reader (learn about RSS here in a quick video) to collect all blog updates [...]

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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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15 Hip Hop Tracks for Tackling the World (1/3)

May 31, 2010

Music is fuel. I rely on hip hop a lot. It helps me recover, pump myself up, find drive and find meaning. Here’s 5 tracks that do that for me. 5 more tomorrow, and the final five the day after. Today? Context.
A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (ft. Faith Evans)
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The Tyranny of the Numbers

May 20, 2010

“That’s a hard answer to accept, especially for those American policy intellectuals who recoil from the dreary task of reducing deficits and raising the national savings rate. But economics is not a dismal science because the economists like it that way; it is because in the end we must submit to the tyranny not just [...]

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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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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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30: A Birthday Rant

May 2, 2010

(Some profanity below.)
I think everyone has an optimal age. In North America, that age is often between 20 and 24. You don’t want to be older and you don’t want to be younger. It’s the age where you don’t think about your age. For me that was 23. Today I’m 30.
30 seems to be a [...]

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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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