by David | Mar 31, 2009 | design, economics
Last week somebody who should have been working tipped me off to the story of Douglas Bowman, a lead designer at Google, quitting at least in part because his design decisions were being second-guessed and subjected to minute quantitative analysis. Quantitative...
by David | Mar 30, 2009 | media, technology, working
I’ve been doing webinars for a while as marketing vehicles and occasionally just for meetings. You can see some of them on Vimeo. As telepresence goes, a screen-sharing session with audio and sometimes video is pretty good. I’ve used a few different...
by David | Mar 27, 2009 | working
Almost two years ago, I engaged in – indeed was one of the planners of – the Great Cube Shuffle, in which nearly 100 employees moved their workspaces around in an effort to support the company’s latest reorganization, spanning two floors and several...
by David | Mar 23, 2009 | culture, reading & writing
I’ts been a while since I’ve done Word of the Day. Today’s word is dissent. I think dissent is pretty important. It’s baked into the democratic system, sure, but I think it’s just as important as a business concept. In business school...
by David | Mar 22, 2009 | economics, photo
The Photographic Resource Center is an organization that’s very important to me, and one that serves fans and practitioners of photography around town and around the world. If you haven’t been, I urge you to visit. There’s a lot going on. I had...
