Great talk: How to Solve a song
Here’s my favorite talk from last month’s Seattle Ignite 12 – How to Solve a Song, by Karen Cheng.…
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Twitter vs. Deep reading?
Clive Thompson wrote in Wired about how he thinks twitter fuels in-depth analysis. I have doubts about his argument,…
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I posted on twitter yesterday looking for a word. Here’s what I wrote: I need a word for someone…
The Internet changes nothing
Thanks to Ario for this provocative essay on the effect of the web, called The Internet Changes Nothing. There…
New years resolutions that work
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Romans had new years resolutions, and…
Experience is Overrated
Experience is not what happens to you: it’s what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley…
Why It’s OK To Be Obvious
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it” – Dostoyevski, Diary of A…
How to write 1000 words (time-lapsed video)
I spoke at Ignite 12 in Seattle and presented this for the first time. It’s time-lapsed video of me…
NSFW: most used curse words in history?
Ok, this is pure fun. I took George Carlin’s 7 Dirty words (The only words you can’t say on…
Innovation vs. Usability: In numbers
Playing around with the new Google Labs Ngram viewer (which searches for usage of words in the entire google…
#1 on Kindle: Confessions of a Public Speaker
Confessions of a Public Speaker is currently the top book on Public Speaking on Kindle. With 98 reviews and…
Quote of the week
“Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter portion of the nineteenth century is SPEED –…
Truth is found between these posts…
There’s an old George Carlin joke about how between Idaho’s state motto “Famous Potatoes” and New Hampshire’s “Live free…
Willy Wonka in Smell-O-Vision: review
The Seattle Film Festival theater has a special showing this month of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in Smell-O-Vision.…
WikiLeaks Considered
I was working on a piece about WikiLeaks, when I found this cogent comment, related to the recent U.S.…
Seattle Ignite #12: the recap
Last night was the 12th Seattle Ignite and they celebrated their 4 year anniversary. How awesome. I had the…
How to write 1000 words
[Watch a time lapse video of this essay being written]: All writing comprises three things: words, sentences and paragraphs.…
Can high quality be cheap?
Great post about redefining the idea of quality, using some recent music videos and TV ads as examples. The…
2011 Predictions: mind blowing and amazing
My big secret project this year was extensive research into what will happen in 2011 and it hasn’t been…
Why do essay collection books suck?
Looking for some insights. As work is underway for a collected works book of sorts, we’re trying hard to…