Last week I was declared underrated….again. I was declared underrated and I loved it….again. I’ve gone through my life considered underrated and I have always revelled in the designation. The reason I revel in it is because for whatever reason people don’t think I’m capable of doing what I am capable of and yet I [...]
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Electric Vehicles are everybody's darling right now. The problem with EVs is that there are still some huge infrastructure issues to overcome. I put some thoughts to this after seeing my first up close EV charging station out in the wild.
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
I had my first up close and personal confrontation with an electric vehicle charging station this past weekend. Having lived in Vancouver and having Ballard Power Systems be the darling little tech company that could change the world….and hasn’t…yet….leaves me with a wee bit less optimism than I would have otherwise had when it comes [...]
Bring The Woo!
The Woo is the moment during a sporting event when the fingertip grab is made or the big open ice hit is laid on someone and the crowd goes “Wooooooo”. It is a moment every athlete strives for. Those moments are very easy to come by in the day to day. They’re usually more subtle and far [...]
Design Thinking: How it Applies to Business
Design Thinking…..it is cropping up everywhere. I have accounting firms asking me about it. The Standford d.school and IDEO have harnessed the term into something of a cliche. I had an experience recently as to what it is that has always rubbed me the wrong way about the hubbub over Design Thinking. If you’re not [...]
Phil Collins
I had a bunch of stuff I should have done tonight but instead of doing it, I turned on Netflix. It was the first time in quite a while that I sat in front of the TV and just aimlessly sought something to distract my mind. I bumbled my way through the Netflix documentary list [...]
Roger Ebert
There’s not much to say other than cancer sucks. It takes people from us way sooner than we ever want or they ever deserve. Roger Ebert is an interesting story for me. Being that I grew up in Chicago, Ebert was part of my childhood. He was always there in the kind of way you [...]
Chain Sketch Video
I put in another quick entry to the Core77 Discussion Forum’s chain sketching thread (found here). I drew an “Alligator eating ice creaM” I also did up a quick video of me drawing it:
Design and Policy Management
I’ve been considering the thoughts around the curation of the design industry for a couple years now. It started about 2 years ago when I got involved in the International Council for the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). I’ve been using the word “curator” because it seems that the design industry requires someone that can [...]
Plant Some Shit
Ron Finley provides, hands down, the most inspiring presentation I’ve seen that speaks to how we can contribute to “unfucking the world”. This topic of “unfucking the world” is huge in my mind right now. I’ve said to many people lately that I’m a doer. I am the kind of personality that needs a mission. [...]
- I had a Shit Day
- Our Zero Sum World
- I have ADD! You have ADD! WE ALL HAVE ADD!!!
- Life’s Too Short
- Refuse To Allow ADHD to be a Disorder
- I’m Underrated
- Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
- Bring The Woo!
- Design Thinking: How it Applies to Business
- Phil Collins
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