“You changed your website again?” “I know, I can’t help it. Once a year I get bored on some Saturday night so I start tweaking stuff and one thing leads to another and 10 hours later I’ve been up all night changing basically everything.” “Haha — you’re an idiot.” I love her honesty. “I like it! [...]
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Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition. Managers rely on focus groups—a dozen people riffing on something they know little about—to set strategies. And yet, companies won’t experiment to find evidence of the right way forward. Quote from Dan Ariely’s column in the Harvard Business Review, [...]
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When we talk about learning we tend to focus on the middle three stages: comprehension, articulation, and utilization — aka, rudiments & fundamentals, theory, and practice (usually all at once). That kind of education is fine if you’re just looking for a mediocre, good-enough degree of mastery. People who truly excel at something start learning well before their formal lessons, and continue long afterwards.
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Education and architecture may be my two favourite fields to trespass into (after philosophy, economics, journalism, management…) and right now there are a couple of interesting pieces from Metropolis Magazine that combine them. The short one is “IDEO’s Ten Tips for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience.” Anyone familiar with John Dewey’s progressive theories will recognize most of the [...]
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I’ve been watching Macleans.ca gradually evolve for the past few months from a circa-2001 disgrace to something that (at least) signals their commitment to (at least) the idea of good design and social functionality. And it hasn’t escaped my notice that Macleans.ca is “Powered by WordPress” – just like the site you’re reading now. Their present iteration bears [...]
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When I was a kid I wanted to be an architect. It started with a love of building forts — tree forts, snow forts, couch & blanket forts, cardboard box forts – and developed as I started to think about more ambitious fort plans that I didn’t actually have enough time and resources to build. I found the creative [...]
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Tim Brown of IDEO shares my curiosity: I am very interested in what new behaviors might emerge this time around and ultimately what innovations they may inspire. Will it be something to do with people changing their attitude toward saving versus spending? Will the growing uncertainty of the world encourage us to look for lives that [...]
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iPad: Setting the Table for Tablets
by Brian on 01-28-2010
in commentary,media,web
Did anyone really think Apple wants us replace our iPhones or MacBooks? I actually think it hits my sweet spot better than either its bigger or smaller cousins. It won’t replace my other stuff, but I definitely picture this as my primary device. Apart from a couple of hours I spend writing every day, most [...]
Tagged as: apple, change, culture, design, gadgets, innovation, ipad, publishing, strategy, technology
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