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More time to blog? Just kidding

So, I’ve started making my list of summertime goals and #3 on the list is get back to updating my blog on a regular basis.
I thought I’d have more time, since school is over, but that time is rapidly becoming filled with work.   This summer, I am working on a research project here in [...]

Designed by who?

Dwayne Wade designed T-Mobile Sidekick

Originally uploaded by quami77.

Why on earth would I want a phone designed by Dwayne Wade??
Unless, of course, in his spare time outside of playing in the NBA, he is an interaction and usability expert.. and he graduated from the Institute of [...]

A harrowing travel experience and thoughts on brand experience

On Sunday, after an exhausting but fun trip to New York to visit my friend in his final year of law school (and go to the Indian Business conference at Columbia), I hopped on a bus to take me back to La Guardia airport. Thus began one of the worst little travel escapades I [...]

If you’re wondering what Design school is like..

Check out my ugly mug on our school newsletter, The New Idiom.
Boy, am I glad that our cardboard chair is (almost) done.  That was a multi-late-nightish project that was tough but fun.   The last thing we have left to do is create a posterboard and turn it in.
I’m excited for the next design contest that [...]

This site is not about animal husbandry.

…Just to allay any fears out there for potential employers, and, apparently my Intro to Design 2 instructor might have. The reason its called YakShaving is posted on the about section to the right.
Great. Now my site is going to show up when people Google “animal husbandry”. Dang-it.

The War on Terror vs The War on Poverty

It’s nice to put things into perspective sometimes, as this NY times article did for me last week.
The war on terror has been estimated to cost the United States $1.2 million.  Just kidding.  It’s $1.2 billion.   Nope, gotcha again.  $1.2 trillion.  Right.   Its kind of hard to even fathom, huh?
I’m not going to turn [...]

Now live on WordPress… Just have to clean up a bit.

Dang. That was easier than I thought. Everything works, now I just have to spruce up the place a little bit. It’s a little bit like moving, when you change blog management systems. Once you come to the new one, you just have to make sure that everything is clean and in order.. and you [...]

links for 2007-01-16

Green.view | Dr Strangelove saves the earth | Economist.com

(tags: green environment technology)

WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist - Download Squad

(tags: wordpress howto blog)

links for 2007-01-14

India: Emerging as Eastern or Western Power?
(tags: global india research)

links for 2007-01-13

Dr. John Rutledge - Rutledge Capital
(tags: china entrepreneurship)

links for 2007-01-11

Video: Hands-on with OLPC - Engadget
(tags: olpc education technology)

Foonz - Free Conference Calls and Group Calls
(tags: phone free collaboration conference lifehacks)

Net Business Blog » Blog Archive » Building a Niche Minisite (Part 1)
(tags: business howto niche reference)

links for 2007-01-09

MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management
(tags: Business management MIT education mba Courses Learning)

links for 2007-01-08

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance? — HBS Working Knowledge
(tags: longtail business)

Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way
(tags: innovation)

Technology Review: Shaping Babies
(tags: futurism bioethics)

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
(tags: visualization design reference information graphs)

links for 2007-01-07

Coding Horror: The Sugar UI
(tags: ux UI OLPC)

7 Rules for Maximizing Your Creative Output
(tags: creativity)

links for 2007-01-05

Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit
(tags: cupcakes)

MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.352 Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends, Spring 2005 | Home
(tags: innovation course Sloan MIT reference)



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