Did you hear the one about the five neuroscientists who went on a rafting trip?
I’m really digging this story at the New York Times, about five neuroscientists who went on a rafting trip down the San Juan River, ostensibly to study the effects of disconnecting with the “digital”...
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A Multitasker’s Perspective: Behold, the Lowly Post-it Note
Check out Kord Campbell’s killer rig, complete with four monitors, at least two computers, two keyboards, an iPhone and an iPad. Now, I don’t necessarily believe that multitasking is a bad thing, nor...
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Clean Slate
I’ve been cleaning a lot of the cruft out of my domains lately. Subdomains, development domains, MySQL databases originally setup to stage all sorts of nefarious dealings… they’ve all been pulled up...
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Splitting Subversion into Multiple Git Repositories
For the last three years I’ve been maintaining all my projects and websites, including Daneomatic and Brainside Out, as well as I’ve Been To Duluth and Terra and Rosco and Siskiwit, in a single...
View ArticleMore often than not, my day resembles a modern art exhibit.
Someone applied a taxonomy to the sandwich. The fellow in the turkey hat was not amused. The lifeguard gave me a weird look, before dancing off in a jig. The crazed man sat in the middle of the...
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The Honda Fit EV concept car has a high heels button!
In other news, I cannot recommend the WordPress iPad app.
View ArticleIntroducing Another Website For You To Check On A Regular Basis In Addition...
It’s called thegreatsunra.com. From 2001 to 2006 I maintained a weblog on a fairly regular basis. In those early years it was new and exciting to be “publishing” to the “internet” to “people” who may...
View ArticleOn Consulting
For two and a half years, now, I’ve been working as a design consultant. It wasn’t until the last year, however, that it’s begun to sink in for me what that actually means. Let’s get one thing...
View ArticleMy hypothetical talk for design students, based on a few years working at one...
The other day I got an email from Erik Stolterman, which got me thinking how nice it would be to get back to Bloomington one of these days and check in on the HCI/d program. With life and work and all...
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Ten years ago I asked my manager if we could go on a walk. I was working as a front-end developer for a tiny web development shop in Bend, Oregon. I was young, talented, and a bit of a shit. My manager...
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