Over the past few years, I’ve worked on a number of projects exploring the the value of capturing & sharing a fleeting moment in ‘real time’. These projects included; Cullect; which proved to me how infrequently ‘real time’ ever passed into ‘relevant’. RE07.US; which was a URL shortener that self-destructed after 5 minutes iTunes-to-Twitter; where …
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What Does a Successful MN Tech Firm Look Like?
“The region has just a few large tech operations left (Lawson, Digital River, Seagate), and venture capitalists say most local software startups are tiny and will never grow into market leaders or large companies.” – Dan Haugen. Most businesses, local or otherwise, are tiny and will never grow to market leaders or large companies. Minneapolis’ …
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Heavy
“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds…Our minds, no less than our bodies, require periods of fasting.” – Alaine de Botton
A Long March
For the past 10 years (as long as I’ve been noticing) March has been tough month for me. It’s as if my mind and body finally succumb to the winter’s weight. The smallest things start to seem overwhelming and their failure inevitable. Rather than magical place full of opportunity and wonderfulness, the world seems trite, …
Sturgeon’s Law, Now Recursive
Theodore Sturgeon is credited with saying, “90% of everything is crud” In this age of always-on, real-time, democratized media there’s so much more of everything – 90% isn’t what it used to be. Even if we determine the remaining 10% of everything isn’t complete and utter trash. We still need to cull for relevance, importance, …
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It seems to me, that like XML and violence, the world would be a better place with less Javascript.
Returning the Page
Back in art school – I spent some time with a designer-turned-fine-artist name Eric (last name since forgotten). Aside from his crash course in contemporary fine art of the late 1990s the thing I remember most about him was his answer to my question: Why did you switch from design to fine art? He looks …
2005-Present: I Protect
Great talk from Linda Stone on what comes after ‘continuous partial attention’. She argues that it’s filtering, engagement, discernment, and a striving for intimacy and a quality of live. “Understanding Workers” vs. “Knowledge Workers” Conversely, being tuned into the always-on, real-time stream creates a constant sense of crisis. Additionally, this constant fight-or-flight actually prevents innovation …
What’s My Next Telephone?
My mobile phone is starting to show it’s age. More sketchy connections, increased static and general inability to hear the other person on the line. All independent of who I’m talking with or whether I’m on T-Mobile’s GSM network or a WiFi network. All making me more unhappy with a device that increasingly feels like …
Ongoing List of Foods I Shouldn’t Eat
(NOTE: Like many of my other ongoing lists, this post is primarily for my memory – rumor is it’s the first to go with age.) I’ve been fortunate that to date – and been able to maintain a very omnivorous diet. Surpassing 35 has brought with many changes. Most notably – I now have a …