Archive for December, 2007

This guy is my hero…

28Dec07

… Not because his car is particularly good looking, because it definitely got beat with the ugly stick a few times, but because he adapted an old (1992!) car to enable him to hypermile by changing the body style of the car– No engine mods necessary. This is what Amory Lovins has been campaigning […]

Keep On Rocking in the Free World, [kid who buys my drums].

27Dec07

For the past several days, I’ve been trying to declutter my parents house of old stuff that’s been sitting around forever. Admittedly, a lot of the stuff is mine that they didn’t know they were allowed to throw out because I was away at college, working in KC or Bangalore, or at school in […]

links for 2007-12-27

27Dec07

TIP: The Theories
(tags: learning education theory psychology theories)

links for 2007-12-26

26Dec07

Top 7 Design Trends : Industrial Market Trends
(tags: design trends business Culture theory media)

links for 2007-12-25

25Dec07

Next: Innovation Tools & Trends Social Networking - BusinessWeek
(tags: socialnetworks innovation)

A Rural Health Clinic in a Box
(tags: healthcare india rural)

Radar: Radar Blog - Radar Tag: You’re It!
real world games using web software for facilitation
(tags: fun games internet Mobile)

fring – Make free mobile calls, IM with Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk™, SIP & Twitter, AIM® […]

A Russian Mowgli: Nature or Nurture?

23Dec07

When I showed my brother this, we both immediately (but separately) thought there were some pretty interesting learnings to be had from this kid’s gradual re-introduction into society. If only there were a way to do it without making it too Truman Show-ey or Big Brother-ish.

Simple yet ingenious packaging

23Dec07

When I was growing up, I used to travel back to India on occasion to see the large percentage of my family that still resides there. I distinctly remember going to my uncles house and having to walk a short distance outdoors to get to the shower. (Yeah, I guess that’s kinda like […]

10 Types of Gorillas

22Dec07

Can I just say, that sometimes, I feel like I’m in Pee Wee’s playhouse when I’m reading some random blog entry, design observer, or the latest McK Quarterly and I see the word “innovation“. All the fun creatures and puppets in the playhouse start screaming and yelling around me and I become anxious and […]

links for 2007-12-20

20Dec07

business technology trends - Eight business technology trends to watch - Information Technology - Applications - The McKinsey Quarterly
(tags: trend McKinsey innovation technology business media)

The BiasharaPhone: a hybrid mobile phone and POS terminal
(tags: Africa design development phone)

links for 2007-12-18

18Dec07

The Visual Display of Vampire Information : TreeHugger
(tags: visual display)

links for 2007-12-16

16Dec07

Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then - The New York Times
(tags: multimedia nytimes interactive flash journalism)

Open Flash Chart - Home
(tags: flash chart library opensource graph)

links for 2007-12-15

15Dec07

A textbook example | Free exchange | Economist.com
(tags: text learning books)

links for 2007-12-14

14Dec07

Technology Review: Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do
(tags: research mobile phone PARC)

Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
(tags: usability eyetracking webdesign design)

links for 2007-12-13

13Dec07

Piramal Prize
(tags: healthcare prize innovation)

links for 2007-12-12

12Dec07

The Customer Connection: The Global ­­­Innovation 1000
(tags: innovation customer consulting)



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On the nightstand

  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

    Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

  • Stumbling on Happiness

    Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

  • Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

    Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker

  • Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

  • The Emerging Markets Century: How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World

    The Emerging Markets Century: How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World by Antoine van Agtmael

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