On  June 20th, 2008 I began this crazy creative journey. I was suffering through a bought of the post-project blues and upon encouragement from friends, I started a “creative recovery” treatment plan modeled after the structure and mantra of AA’s 90 meetings in 90 days. For 90 days, I committed to thinking about, sketching, drawing, [...]

Today is the day… the last day. I am tired and a little tipsy from the celebration. I’ll post more tomorrow. Until then, I leave you with photos. Thanks to everybody for coming out for a fun celebration!

Today I’ve been trying to distill behaviors around information their essence. What are the basic, fundamental activities we see around information usage.
Create, disseminate, and consume.
It all comes down to those three things….

My morning journey on the Geary Street bus is always an experience in uncensored humanity. Unlike the California Express Bus, full of a wash of similar folk who work in the financial district, the Geary Street bus is an odd net that catches a wide spectrum of passengers. Today, while trying to avoid two guys [...]

My mom was a high-school teacher for 40 years. For the longest time she taught business education and economics. Business education curriculum used to involve things like shorthand and keyboarding/typing skills and as a freshman in high school, my mom was my typing teacher. She began the first class by stating her philosophy about keyboarding [...]

Today I was rocking out to Asia’s Heat of the Moment and the lyric “… how many nights you sit beside the phone” got me thinking. I wonder how many songs from the last 50-60 years reference that old but very human experience of waiting at home by the phone, hoping somebody would call? Sure, [...]

I’m slightly mystified there’s are only 5 days remaining for this project. There have been days I thought I had hit my creative wall… but at this point I feel like I’m in the home stretch. That it’s gone quickly. It’s a weird feeling.
Today’s post isn’t so much about an idea, as a reflection. With [...]

Sarah Marquis’ tales of her adventures to the far reaches of the earth inspired me not only to travel, but to think about the freedom of being disconnected. Sarah shared that she travels with a GPS device, but no mobile phone or laptop. I started to ponder what that must be like… how lonely, yet [...]

I grew up a little this week. The company I work for and love, Adaptive Path, gave me a promotion. I was surprised… and honored. I’m a director now. An amazing opportunity. While I don’t exactly know how this will change my life, I am looking forward to figuring out how I can use my [...]

My dear friend, Mirjana Spasojevic, shared with me recently a message from her yoga instructor. The teacher suggested they practice pausing. Take a moment, breathe in, pause, breathe out and pause. Take the time to stop and think of that simple moment of stillness.
Mirjana brought up a good point in that the lion’s share of [...]

In the next year, I predict most handset manufacturer and carriers will release operating systems whose central organizing principle will be some rendition of a social address book. Some may argue it will be an attempt to simply replicate the success of web-based social media services like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. That may be part [...]

Traveling to a foreign country invariably heightens your awareness of boundaries. As you pantomime your way through experiences in a country where you don’t speak the language, you learn to read the subtle cues of where you can go, what you can do - the implicit social and physical boundaries become vaguely apparent. The very [...]

I’m heading home today but leave South Korea wiser and inspired. LIFT | Asia was a fantastic event that did for me what all good conferences should do: connect people with their tribe, provide interesting and thought-provoking content, and leave attendees with a sense of hope and inspiration that we can carry with us out [...]

Since I’ve been in Korea, all my Google searches look like this:

Yesterday, while attending one of the breakout sessions at LIFT | Asia, an interesting discussion around assumptions emerged - a discussion that has had my mind a buzz since. Scott Boone, a law professor, gave a talk entitle Control issues in highly computer-mediated environments. [...]

Wednesday, September 17th will mark the 90th day of this project. If you’re in the SF area, I’d be please as punch if you’d join me at Adaptive Path to celebrate the end of my journey.
Here’s the info:
Wednesday, September 17th
6:30 - 8:30pm
Address:
363 Brannan Street
San Francisco, California 94107
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