Category: Thoughts

Cheeky take on weeknotes, and in light of the fact i’m not really sure about digital bookmarks in their available form. Some people’s PhDs are really cool. “My recently completed PhD thesis focused on the role of women in driving dining change.” I’m interested in how cooking and tech never really seem to work as… Continue reading Week marks

4 year old tradition. 1.What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Missed a flight. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Really didn’t as far as I can remember. I have a lot on next year’s list as a result. 3. Did… Continue reading End of a year review (endings aren’t ever real endings)

As the mass exodus to Pinboard takes place in the wake of the almost announcement of “sun-setting” del.icio.us, I had a real long thought about these bookmarking sites and exported by bookmarks from delicious in order to look at all of it. I found stuff I hadn’t looked at in ages. Some of it made… Continue reading mybookmarks and the death of del.icio.us

Older professional man: “Alex very helpfully said she’s take a look to see if her amazing rolodex might have any opportunities for you” Young graduate: “I would be much obliged if I can find an opportunity at Rolodex in some capacity.” *starts crying*

Collecting things for a near-future project.

“Always be innovatin”. This perversion of “Always be closing” was a joke Mike and I shared as we walked down the streets of New York last January and got me thinking about the topic ever since. As the months trickled by and after working with some pretty big clients, having friends leave some of their… Continue reading Thoughts on corporate innovation

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is… Continue reading Something to keep in mind

A recommendation from David , I’m very grateful to have found this book. Such precise and preciously rich writing. Intellectual truffles. Page 4: “Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic?” Page 36: “His air of failure had nothing desperate about it;… Continue reading Dog-earing Flaubert's Parrot