Some people ask me why I call my blog yakshaving. Well, I fell in love with the word since I learned about it in 2005. Often times, I blame myself to the point of melancholy that I am unable to focus on something for any period of time without being distracted by something else. [...]
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Sometimes I sit through lonnnng classes at ID. I, like most design students, routinely get inspired by mentioned of authors and articles, ideas outside the four walls of the academic institution.
Sometimes, these extra connections are extremely useful and welcome. Other times, they are just noise and are unabashed yakshaving. I was [...]
Last week, we sat down with senior professors at the Institute of Design the other day, we got some great feedback about Bettr@ and its current business model and interface.
In particular, Tom MacTavish (adjunct Professor and former Motorola executive) had some good ideas about goal setting and referred me to Csikszentmihalyi’s flow model. [...]
In creating Bettr@, sometimes I talk to people who aren’t exactly motivated to improve themselves. They just don’t get it. Maybe their kids need to learn new things, but they don’t have the time to with everything else going on in their busy lives.
Here’s the rub. People are living longer than [...]
Working in groups on new “stuff” yields people to create concept documents that often are impregnated with the terms “portal”, or “kiosk”, or “handheld” or “consumer electronic device”. I believe that this is because of people’s obsession with high-technology. In reality, using extraneous technology is like using a nuclear bomb to get rid [...]
Apparently, 1 in 10 high schools is a ‘dropout factory’. Say what? from the article:
WASHINGTON - It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That description fits more [...]
