5 Things I Learned From My Amtrak Writer’s Residency
Last month I took a long train ride from Atlanta to Seattle over six days for my Amtrak Writer’s…
Category: Travel
Help me plan my Amtrak Writers Residency
I’m honored to be one of the winners of the Amtrak Writer’s Residency. All 24 winners were announced last…
Live Notes from World Domination Summit 2015
I spoke last year at The World Domination Summit about Saving Your Creative Soul, and had such an excellent…
What I Learned At Hiroshima (In Photos)
I just returned from two weeks vacation in Japan. It was the first true vacation (no email, no lectures,…
Advice on visiting Tokyo for first time?
Later this year I’ll be visiting Tokyo for the first time. I’ve always wanted to go to Japan and…
How to Sleep on a Plane
Sometimes an article is poorly written in a way that makes it hard to tell if it’s satire or…
Munich advice?
I’ll be speaking at OOP 2011 in Munich, Germany late this month. I’ve never been to Munich before, or…
In Athens next week: recommendations?
My team at Automattic is meeting up together in Athens, Greece late next week. Never been to Athens or…
What I learned in Trinidad
Last week I was in Trinidad, just off the coast of South America. I was speaking at the BDC’s…
My favorite living artist: Olafur Eliasson
One of the great coincidences of my life is that my girlfriend in college (now my wife) was a…
Conference materials (and more) done right – Webstock ’08
One highlight of webstock 08 was the fantastic design of their handouts, badges and bags. Most conferences, including design…
Learning from London’s speakers’ corner
On my first trip to London in 1996, on a whim from a blurb in some guidebook, I checked…
Lessons from amazing projects: Russian Ark
We’ve all had tough projects, but this one might just top them all, and it hits on three of…
30 hours in Philly: a speed travelogue
After speaking at MX-East Tuesday, in the quaint retreat at Normandy farms, I hopped in a cab for the…
Upcoming speaking: Philly, Villanova U, Boston
Travel for the year is winding down – here’s what I have left: Philadeliphia, PA, MX-East, Oct 22nd Philadeliphia,…
Why I love Australia
I just returned from speaking on innovation at the Web Directions conference in Sydney, followed by two weeks of vacation…
Top ten die hard travel tips
I take 10-15 trips a year, which puts me in the mid-range of air-travelers. I’m not a platinum club…
Upcoming travel: MX, e-tech, GEL
A few dates over the next few months: Jan 19th, Amazon developers conference, Seattle Feb 12/13 Adaptive Path’s MX…
Speaking at American Society for Interior Designers
One thing I strive for is universal themes: finding points that connect different fields and backgrounds. So I’m psyched…
Back from Australia: quick report
I’m bad at blogging while on vacation – the swich in my head for blogging goes off, which explains…